Exam 2: Certification of Competency in Business Analysis

You are the business analyst for your organization and you're working with the key stakeholders to validate the requirements. In your review, you have determined the business value of each requirement and you've discovered three requirements that do not deliver direct or indirect value to the stakeholders. What should you do with these requirements?

A business analyst (BA) is preparing the elicitation activity plan for a project. How will understanding the elicitation scope assist the BA with the elicitation activity?

The business analyst (BA) has prepared a requirements package and it is now ready to present to the stakeholders. What is the purpose of presenting the package?

Which of the following is the prime purpose of the Manage Stakeholders Expectations process?

In order to plan business analysis activities, you will need four inputs. Which one of the following inputs is not valid for this task?  

You are a business analyst for your organization and you're working with the stakeholders to identify the primary inputs to the business analysis approach. Which of the following are primary inputs of planning the business analysis approach? Each correct answer represents a complete solution.

A business analyst has just completed an elicitation event. What stakeholder(s) is/are involved in the documentation of the elicitation results?

Enterprise analysis creates just five outputs. Which one of the following is an output of the enterprise analysis tasks?  

Which tool will allow a business analyst (BA) to determine how information is input, processed, stored, and extracted from a collection of systems?

You are the business analyst for your organization and you're preparing the solution for your organization's review and implementation. Some of the requirements of the solution, however, must be inspected by compliance officers before the project and implementation can move forward. The requirements of the inspection can be best described as what?

John and Hanna are business analysts in their organization and they are completing the verification activities to check for completeness of the requirements. When should John and Hanna perform these verification activities?

You are the business analyst for your organization. You are coaching Tom about the different approaches to business analysis. Which type of business analysis approach has the most business analysis work at the beginning of the project or during the start of a project phase?  

A business analyst has identified four different solutions for a business need. In the light of solution assessment, how many solution assessment iterations should he do?

What term is given to the collection of notes and diagrams used by the business analyst to develop the requirements during the requirements development process?

There are three inputs in the plan business analysis approach. Which one of the following is not one of the three inputs?  

What element of the plan business analysis process affects the business analysis duties that need to be performed?  

Robert is the business analyst for his organization and he gathered and documented the requirements for a new solution. The stakeholders agree through informal communications that Robert has successfully captured the needed requirements for the solution. The stakeholders signoff on the requirements. What does the signoff represent to Robert?

When a business analyst completes the task of organizing requirements, he is completing two key objectives. What are the two objectives?  

Nancy has asked you to trace a particular requirement for her. What does 'to trace a requirement' mean?  

You are the business analyst for your organization. You are identifying new opportunities to improve upon your existing web services. Management is open to new opportunities as long as the changes do not take more than 60 days to implement. What type of a factor does the 60-day implementation represent?