Question 1

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.

Accepted Answer

A)  The solution must cost less than $450,000. 
B)  The solution should be implemented during the summer months. 
C)  The solution must be done by December 31. 
D)  The solution won't need external resources.

Question 2

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?

Accepted Answer

A)  Stakeholder list 
B)  Risk assessment 
C)  Business need 
D)  Roles and responsibility

Question 3

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?

Accepted Answer

A)  Re-using requirements is useful if the organization wants to sell the set of requirements to its customers. 
B)  Re-using requirements is useful if the current solution fails. 
C)  Re-using requirements is useful when the requirements are something the organization must do on an ongoing basis. 
D)  Re-using requirements doesn't mean re-using the requirements over and over, but tracing the requirements to actual deliverables.

Question 4

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?

Accepted Answer

A)  Focus on the life cycle costs of the solutions. 
B)  Focus on the commonalities of the solutions. 
C)  Focus on the differences of the solutions. 
D)  Focus on the implementation cost of the solutions.

Question 5

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

Accepted Answer

A)  Structured walkthrough 
B)  Progressive elaboration 
C)  Process modeling 
D)  Decision analysis

Question 6

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?

Accepted Answer

A)  Work with the appropriate stakeholders to determine how the business analysis work should be completed. 
B)  Define the organizational standard first. 
C)  Create a business case for the need of organizational standards for business analysis. 
D)  Take charge and begin the business analysis activities, but document your approach to serve as a template for future business analysis initiatives.

Question 7

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?

Accepted Answer

A)  Requirements architecture 
B)  Requirements traceability matrix 
C)  Business knowledge model 
D)  Solution design

Question 8

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?

Accepted Answer

A)  Communicate requirements. 
B)  Prepare the requirements package. 
C)  Manage requirements traceability. 
D)  Document requirements for review.

Question 9

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?

Accepted Answer

A)  Business analyst 
B)  Project manager 
C)  Domain subject matter expert 
D)  Sponsor

Question 10

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?

Accepted Answer

A)  It describes the activities and considerations for managing and expressing requirements to a broad and diverse audience. 
B)  It describes the business analysis activities necessary to identify a business need, problem, or opportunity, define the nature of a solution that meets that need, and justify the investment necessary to deliver that solution. 
C)  It describes the tasks and techniques used by a business analyst to analyze stated requirements in order to define the required capabilities of a potential solution that will fulfill stakeholder needs. 
D)  It is the act of eliciting business, stakeholder, solution, or transition requirements.

Question 11

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?

Accepted Answer

A)  Surveys or Questionnaires for the current initiative 
B)  Functional Decomposition for the current initiative 
C)  Lessons learned from previous initiatives 
D)  Process modelling from previous initiatives

Question 12

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?

Accepted Answer

A)  A goal for the number of ideas to be generated should be created. 
B)  A goal for the number of ideas puts too much pressure on the group. 
C)  A goal for the number of ideas may be too large to reach. 
D)  A goal for the number of ideas actually limits the ideas that can be generated.

Question 13

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?

Accepted Answer

A)  Stakeholders' objectives are described to identify the requirements that the solution will need to support. 
B)  Stakeholders are interviewed and their stories are recorded as part of the requirements. 
C)  Stakeholders are interviewed and their experiences are recorded to help identify the requirements. 
D)  Stakeholders' experiences equate to the stakeholder requirements.

Question 14

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:

Accepted Answer

A)  template architectures. 
B)  business rules document. 
C)  functional specification. 
D)  work breakdown structure.

Question 15

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?

Accepted Answer

A)  Alternative generation 
B)  Brainstorming 
C)  Prototyping 
D)  Lateral thinking

Question 16

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

Accepted Answer

A)  These are the things that may restrict the options for the endeavor. 
B)  The weather will always be hot in the summer and cool in the winter. 
C)  The project must be completed by December 18. 
D)  These are things that are believed to be true, but they have not yet been confirmed.

Question 17

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

Accepted Answer

A)  Recommend that the organization launch a project to create the capabilities needed. 
B)  Recommend that the organization not pursue the opportunity. 
C)  Recommend that the organization hire contractors with the needed capabilities. 
D)  Recommend that the organization share the opportunity with other organizations.

Question 18

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?

Accepted Answer

A)  For defining the specifications for the desired future state based on the solution 
B)  For gaining approval of chartering the project 
C)  For defining the information to allow additional work to be performed 
D)  For gaining approval of cost and schedule

Question 19

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

Accepted Answer

A)  Objectives that apply to the initiative 
B)  Stakeholders' threats and perceived threats 
C)  Consideration of risk and reward 
D)  Purpose of the proposed solution

Question 20

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?

Accepted Answer

A)  A business requirements document 
B)  An alternate stakeholder plan 
C)  A stakeholder matrix 
D)  A future state description

Exam 2: Certification of Competency in Business Analysis