Exam 2: Certification of Competency in Business Analysis

As a business analyst, you'll often need to analyze business needs, requirements, and solutions for assumptions and constraints. Which one of the following is a constraint? Choose the best answer.

You are the business analyst for your organization and you're preparing to elicit requirements from the stakeholders. You've gathered several inputs to help with the elicitation process. Which input(s) will be used to ensure that you understand the type of information that should be elicited from the stakeholders?

You are the business analyst for your organization. Management has asked you to define and document the requirements of an endeavor so that the requirements may be reused again in the organization. Why would an organization want to re-use requirements?  

Which approach is best to take when a business analyst is assessing the solution options for a business need when there are relatively few criteria involved?

Which of the following is used to define and document the business analysis approach?

You are a business analyst in an organization that has recently embraced business analysis as part of its initiative for new projects. In this organization, there is not an organizational standard for tailoring business analysis duties and expectations. Which one of the following best describes the action you should take to begin business analysis?

A business analyst (BA) is assessing the completeness and coherence of the requirements. The BA has considered a variety of viewpoints and has a collection of views. What has the BA constructed?

Which business analysis task in the requirements management and communication domain is best described as creating and maintaining relationships among business objectives, requirements, team deliverables, and solution components to support business analysis activities?  

You are creating the solution scope for an identified problem in your organization. You are working with several stakeholders during this process including the domain subject matter expert, the implementation subject matter expert, the project manager, and the sponsor. Which of these stakeholders will be responsible for writing the project scope?

As a business analyst, you should be able to identify the characteristics of each business analysis task and domain area. Which one of the following statements best describes the characteristics of the business analysis knowledge area of requirements analysis?  

A business analyst (BA) has been asked to develop a plan to complete the associated business analysis activities for a project in which an organization is switching from a manual to an automated process for receiving payments. As the final step in developing the plan, which technique will the BA use?

Brian is the business analyst for his organization and he's hosting a brainstorming session. He is facilitating the session with eight stakeholders. Why is it important for Brian to not set a goal for the number of ideas the group should generate in the session?  

You are the business analyst for your organization. You are currently working with Steve on the organize requirements process. You and Steve have elected to use the user stories approach for this process. What is the user stories approach for requirements organization?  

The business analyst (BA) has scheduled an informal review of audit requirements with the compliance officer. The BA wants to demonstrate that the requirements collectively support one another so begins with reviewing the:

You are the business analyst for your organization and you and your staff are creating as many solutions as possible to an identified problem in the solution approach process. What is this activity element called?

Which one of the following statements best describes what an assumption is?

What should an organization do if the business analyst has determined that the existing capabilities are inadequate to seize an opportunity?  

The task of verifying requirements is used to ensure that the requirements are ready for formal review and validation by the customers and for what other purpose?

In order to plan the business analysis approach, the business analyst must understand the organizational process needs and what other thing?

A business analyst (BA) is working on a complex project involving many stakeholders for which the business case has been previously completed and signed off. After an organizational restructure, new stakeholders have been assigned to the project working group, but do not see the value in the project outcomes and refuse to collaborate. What is a guideline or tool the BA can use to focus stakeholders on a common goal?