Exam 2: Certification of Competency in Business Analysis

A business analyst (BA) must model information characteristics across multiple information systems for a project. What type of model captures this information?

In order to define the business need for an organization, there are two inputs. What are the two inputs a business analyst will need to define the business need?

When you, a Business Analyst, work with your stakeholders, team, and experts to define the business analysis activities, what thing do you actually define?

The business analysis (BA) team is evaluating a new commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) application that will be implemented in the coming months. The company has over 20 legacy systems deployed. The Chief Information Officer (CIO) is worried about the need for integration and that some key linkages are missing. What is the BA team evaluating?

As a candidate for CCBA, you should be able to recognize the activities associated with each knowledge area. Which of the following is an elicitation process that is a part of job observation?

In order to have high quality in requirements, all of the following characteristics should exist in the requirements except for which one?  

You are currently working on creating the activity list for an initiative in your organization. What characteristic must be assigned to each task in your task list?

A business analyst (BA) is modelling requirements to assist the stakeholders in visualizing the appearance and capabilities of a planned solution. What technique is the BA using?

Mark is the business analyst for his organization. He is working with the solution development team and he believes that the team does not want to implement a certain portion of the requirements. The team is expressing the difficulty of the requirements and how it will be extremely challenging to complete. When Mark asks about a similar project that the team completed, they insist that this is a different type of requirements though Mark believes that it is not. What is the solution development team appearing to do to the requirements?  

Management comes to you and asks you to complete some specifications and models about the current state of the organization. Management wants you to complete this business analysis activity as soon as possible and report back to them with your findings. What is the primary purpose of the specify and model requirements process?

You are working with several business analysts to determine the solution approach for an identified problem. All of the following techniques are acceptable for identifying the solution approach except for which one?

Bob and Susan are business analysts for their organization. They are examining two materials that could be used in an upcoming project. They are testing the materials and measuring the results of each test to compare the materials to each other. This process will help Bob and Susan determine which material is best for their upcoming project. What type of process are Bob and Susan completing with these materials?

As a business analyst, you'll often have to coach stakeholders on the processes, knowledge areas, and tasks you'll complete for an organization. One of the knowledge areas is enterprise analysis. This knowledge area completes all of the following activities except for which one?

You're organizing the business analysis approach for your organization. Jane wants to know when changes to requirements are most likely to happen in business analysis processes. Which one of the following statements best describes when changes to requirements may happen?  

What is problem tracking?

A business analyst (BA) has discovered an old checklist prepared for another initiative, which includes the following characteristics: Complete, Feasible, Unambiguous, Testable. What is the purpose of this checklist?

You are the business analyst for your organization and you're creating a data flow diagram to show how information is input, processed, stored, and output from a system. Which element of a data flow diagram represents a process that transforms data by combining it with other data?

Tracy is a business analyst for her organization and she's gathered and identified the needed requirements for the solution scope. What must Tracy do before she can begin managing the requirements? Choose the best answer.

Which of the following describes the organizational policies, procedures, forms, and methodologies the business analyst is to follow?  

A business analyst (BA) is eliciting requirements for a pharmaceutical distribution company with an expansion plan across many states, each with their own tools and methods. To make the requirements as re-usable as possible, what should the BA do?