Exam 2: Certification of Competency in Business Analysis

Kendra is the business analyst for her organization. She's working with the project manager and the project sponsor to discuss the current requirements. Kendra believes it's important for the project manager to first implement the requirements with the highest amount of risks. Is this a good idea?

Which elicitation activity is best described to ensure that the needed resources are organized and available for the elicitation?  

Which of the following documents graphically depicts the project team members and displays their interrelationship for a specific project?  

You are the business analyst for your organization and your manager has asked you to prepare an analysis of each proposed solution. Your manager wants you to determine whether and how each option can provide an expected business benefit to meet the stated business need. What is your manager asking you to create?

You are the business analyst for a large software development project. There are several issues that must be resolved by certain dates or the problem will prevent the project from advancing. What technique can you use to track problems with the requirements?

Wanda is the business analyst for her organization and she is currently working on the specify and model requirements process. One of the elements of this process is the documentation of the textual requirements. Wanda must describe the capabilities of the solution, any conditions that must exist for the requirements to operate, and what third component of the textual requirement?

In the life of a project, when do the number and impact of change requests often increase?

A business analyst wants to host a brainstorming session with eight key stakeholders. In preparation for this event, the business analyst should designate which one of the following rules for the session?

A business analyst (BA) is reviewing the elicitation results of several workshops in order to decide which technique to use to model the requirements. The elicitation identified user roles needed in a future solution, the functionality needed by each of these roles, and how the desired interaction with the solution should look. Which technique allows the BA to model this type of information?

Beth is the business analyst for her organization and she wants to be certain that she and her team follow the correct procedures for enterprise analysis. What document can provide the governances for enterprise analysis efforts?

According to 'A Guide to the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge', the two most common data models are the entity-relationship diagram and what other model?

Kelly is the business analyst for her organization and she's identifying roles and responsibilities of the people involved in business analysis activities. Her manager has asked Kelly to create the RACI matrix to accomplish this task. What is the RACI matrix?

Due to a change in regulation, a solution being implemented has a new compliance requirement that must be evaluated. The requirements change strategy focuses on total cost of change as the primary driver for decisions. The business analyst (BA) compiled the following impact assessment of the proposed change based on the new compliance requirement. What recommendation should the BA make to the stakeholders based on the above information?

Which of the following is a business management strategy originally developed by Motorola, USA in 1986?  

A business analyst has determined that there are five possible solutions to a business need. If the business analyst completes the solution assessment on multiple solutions, what is the goal of the assessment?

You are the business analyst for your organization and preparing to plan the business analysis approach. There are three inputs to the business analysis approach. Which one of the following is not an input to this approach?

When do change requests generally increase in a project?

Linda works as a project manager for an IT project. She is getting new developers for completing her project. Which of the following processes is she involved in?

Fred is the business analyst for his organization. His current initiative is quite large, so Fred decides to create a high-level plan for the business analysis approach, and then to create a detailed plan for the most imminent activities. What type of business analysis planning is Fred using in this scenario?

You are a business analyst for your organization. Your current business analysis endeavor includes working with stakeholders located in offices around the world. Because these stakeholders are dispersed, what is likely to increase in this endeavor as opposed to a collocated group of stakeholders?