Exam 2: Certification of Competency in Business Analysis

A business analyst (BA) has completed documenting requirements and to save time, recommends sharing the requirements document with the development team to fast-track development immediately. What issue may arise by doing so?

You are the business analyst for your organization. You're considering if you should make a solution or purchase it from a vendor. If your team creates the solution, it will cost $286,000 and will cost $2,400 per month to support. The vendor's solution, however, will cost $239,000 and will cost $2,850 per month to support. How long will you need to use your in-house solution to be more cost effective than the vendor's proposed solution?

All of the following are examples of elicitation techniques that are used as part of the business analyst elicitation task except for which one?  

A business analyst has determined that a project should be worth $2,750,000 in four years if her company decides to pursue the project. Assuming the rate of return on the investment is six percent, what is the minimum amount of funds the organization should invest in this project?

A business analyst (BA) is measuring solution performance of a new system. What should the BA consider to avoid skewed results and an inaccurate conclusion?

You are the business analyst for a new project. Part of this project is for the project team to manually install new workstations through the company's campus. Based on your research you have determined that the project team can install 25 new workstations per hour. Since there is a fixed amount of time that these workstations need to be installed you are considering adding additional labor for the implementation. You are also considering to adjust the prioritization of the project requirements based on the amount of workstations the project team can install per hour. What does the 25 workstations per hour represent in this scenario?

A business analyst (BA) needs to make sure that the business analysis information is securely stored and accessible to stakeholders. Which element helps in achieving that goal?

Stakeholders need a financial report that can be published and distributed to multiple end users. They would also like the report to be developed within a specific time frame and within cost. What must the business analyst (BA) do to achieve this goal?

Why is it important to have a requirements signoff process for approved requirements?

Which stakeholder map shows the relative influence, impact, and relation of stakeholders by plotting them closer to or farther away from the solution?

A business analyst (BA) is working on a project that has a number of stakeholder conflicts and issues. The BA is finding it difficult to resolve the conflicts and issues effectively. What should the BA do to prevent a similar situation in the future?

What can be considered the only input to the task of defining assumptions and constraints?

As a business analyst, you must identify activities in your business analysis approach. Which one of the following is useful for identifying activities?

There are three inputs for stakeholder analysis. Which input describes the organizational units that exist and their interactions with one another?

You are the business analyst in your organization and you're working to organize the requirements for the business units in your company. Which technique is best suited for structuring requirements around the needs of each stakeholder group?

A recent survey shows that a newly implemented system has features that the users have never used. Upon reviewing the survey report, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) highlighted that the company must avoid future implementations with functionality that does not provide any business value. What must the business analyst (BA) do to ensure future requirements meet a business need?

You are documenting the requirements attribute for your requirements management plan. Which attribute would you use if you want to identify the person who created the requirements?

Which stakeholder analysis technique shows stakeholders that fall outside the scope of the solution but still interact with it in some way?  

Which one of the following statements best describes the purpose of allocating requirements?

Which one of the following statements best describes a business analysis methodology?