Exam 2: Certification of Competency in Business Analysis

In order to begin defining the solution scope, you'll need four inputs. Which one of the following is actually a task that will use the solution scope and is not an input?

A business analyst needs to prepare the requirements package for her endeavor in a predefined template for her company. What term can be assigned to this standardized template for packaging the requirements?

A business analyst (BA) is tasked with developing requirements that can be implemented by the development team iteratively. Which characteristic should the requirements exhibit?

You are the business analyst for your organization. You are currently writing the business goals and objectives as part of the elements for the define business process. Which one of the following statements best describes the business goals and objectives element?

A business analyst (BA) is currently verifying the accuracy and consistency of information obtained from the stakeholders. The BA needs to identify additional information. What should the BA do next?

You are the business analyst in your organization. Management comes to you with a customer complaint that they'd like you to analyze. What's the common task associated with customer complaints or loss of revenue?

What elicitation technique is best described as a study to compare the strengths and weaknesses of an organization against its peers and competitors?

As a business analyst, you need to define when the activities of the business analysis approach will take place. This includes all of the following business analysis approach activities except for which one?

What tool is best described as a spreadsheet to use when there's a relatively low amount of requirements that need to be traced?  

A business analyst (BA) is compiling information about different approaches that will meet solution requirements in order to make a recommendation for solution design. To evaluate whether externally available solutions meet the requirements, which of the following will the BA create and distribute?

You are the business analyst for your organization and management has asked you to select a model for your solution. Management wants you to describe the people within and without of your organization who will interact with the solution. What type of model has management asked you to create?

The project plan called for deliverables to be handed over at the end of the project. Although the client's business team was satisfied, the client's technical team was extremely resistant to this approach. What could the business analyst (BA) do to mitigate the technical team's resistance?

Ralph is a business analyst for his organization and he's using the plan-driven approach for business analysis. Ralph has captured the requirements of the project, but what must happen before he can begin capturing and defining the requirements at a deeper level of detail?  

You are the business analyst for your organization. On your current project you'll be using the change-driven approach for defining requirements and gathering feedback. Which of the following statements best describes the change-driven approach?  

A stakeholder would like to add requirements to an IT project which is in flight. The project manager wants to revisit the traceability repository prior to committing to the addition of any new requests, because it is used for which of the following activities?

You are the business analyst for a large project that will create new software for the entire organization. This new software will affect all of the administrative assistants in the organization schedule meetings, reserve facilities, and share calendars. There are approximately 2,400administrative assistants in your organization and not all of these people can attend requirements gathering workshops. What approach can you use to manage and gather requirements from these 2,400 administrative assistants?

What type of requirements elicitation technique is the Delphi Technique?

What condition of the requirements must be fulfilled in order to use the matrix documentation approach to specify and model requirements?  

You are the business analyst for your organization. Your current project is using a plan-driven approach for the requirements, business analysis, and monitoring. Which one of the following statements best describes the plan-driven approach to business analysis planning and monitoring?

Which basis for prioritization allows the project team to work initially with lower-risk requirements first?