NEW QUESTION 1

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?

• A. Feasibility study
• B. Stress test
• C. Alternative identification
• D. Benchmarking

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 2

Your organization is using a plan-driven approach to business analysis. What must you do with all of the communication documents created as part of this high-priority project that you areserving as the business analyst for?

• A. All formal communication must be destroyed once the project is complete
• B. All communications must be documented and passed onto the solution's project manager for analysis and to serve as supporting detai
• C. The communications management plan will dictate what will happen to the business analysis communication
• D. All communications must be archived and will become part of the organizational process as set

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 3

Which of the following represents the duration of activities against a calendar?

• A. Scatter chart
• B. Gantt chart
• C. Pie chart
• D. Pareto chart

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 4

You are the business analyst for your organization and you are completing the verify requirements process. There are eight characteristics each requirements should have: cohesive, complete, consistent, correct, and feasible. Which one of the following four is not a characteristic of a requirement?

• A. Functional
• B. Modifiable
• C. Unambiguous
• D. Testable

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 5

What portion of the communications model could be defined as the translator?

• A. Receiver
• B. Medium
• C. Translator
• D. Sender

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 6

Gina has been asked to provide decision analysis for her solution scope. Which one of the following best describes the decision analysis technique?

• A. Assessed to support benefit management, measurement, and reportin
• B. Used to assess potential risks that may impact the solution and the cost and benefits associated with i
• C. Forecasts the size of the investment required to deploy and operate the proposed solutio
• D. Cost-benefit analysis compares the cost of implementing a solution against the benefits gaine
• E. Financial analysis includes the use of financial models that estimate the market value of an organizational asse

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 7

You are the business analyst for a solution that has 435 stakeholders. How many communication channels exist in this project?

• A. 188,790
• B. 189,225
• C. 94,395
• D. 435

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 8

You are the business analyst for your organization. Gary and Janet, two key stakeholders in the project, are in disagreement over a requirement for the type of software to be installed on the server your solution calls for. What must happen in this instance before formal approvalcan be offered?

• A. The conflict will need to be resolved through research, resolution, or through a third-party mediation.
• B. Gary and Janet will need to determine who has seniority in the company to determine which requirement takes precedence.
• C. The conflict will need to be removed from the solution scope until Gary and Janet come to a solution.
• D. The business analyst will need to make a decision on which requirement is most appropriate.

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 9

Which of the following diagrams is known as Ishikawa diagram?

• A. Activity
• B. Data-flow
• C. Cost-Benefit
• D. Cause-and Effect

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 10

You are the business analyst for your organization and are in the process of creating the solution approach for a technology problem. Which one of the following definitions best describes the solution approach?

• A. It is the documentation and control of changes to the product scope as approved by the project stakeholder
• B. Defines the general approach that will be taken to create or acquire new capabilities required to meet the business nee
• C. It is an uncertain event or condition that may have a positive or negative impact on the abilities of the chartered projec
• D. Decomposes the project scope into smaller deliverables; each deliverable is subdivided repeatedly until the deliverable cannot or should not be broken down any furthe

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 11

The requirements elicitation process requires that the business analyst and team prepare forthe requirements elicitation activities. There are three specific inputs that the business analyst will need in preparing for the requirements elicitation. Which of the following is NOT one of the three inputs the business analyst will use as he prepares for requirements elicitation?

• A. Solution scope
• B. Change request
• C. Business need
• D. Stakeholder list

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 12

Which of the following document is created first after project is awarded and statement of work is handed over to the project manager?

• A. Work breakdown structure (WBS)
• B. WBS dictionary
• C. Project scope statement
• D. Project charter

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 13

Which one of the following business analysis planning and monitoring techniques can be used to define and document the business analysis approach?

• A. Process modeling
• B. Structured walkthrough
• C. Decision analysis
• D. Control charts

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 14

Which of the following is not a hygiene agent according to Frederick Herzberg theory?

• A. The chance to excel
• B. Job security
• C. A paycheck
• D. Clean and safe working conditions

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 15

You are the business analyst for a solution that has 435 stakeholders. How many communication channels exist in this project?

• A. 188,790
• B. 189,225
• C. 94,395
• D. 435

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 16

Which one of the following is an example of a non-negotiable demand by a stakeholder during the requirements prioritization session?

• A. All requirements are ranked as high
• B. Communication
• C. All requirements are prioritized by cost-benefits ratio
• D. Cost

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 17

You are the business analyst for a large, complex solution and you are working with the stakeholders to determine the prioritization of the requirements. You would like to use the decision analysis to determine the best decision for the requirements outcome. You must know four things as part of decision analysis. Which one of the following will not help you with this approach to the requirements prioritization process?

• A. The values, goals, and objectives that are relevant to the requirements
• B. The consequences of each possible decision
• C. The nature of the decision that must be made
• D. The future value of the requirements

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 18

Which of the following statements best describes the purpose of the confirm elicitation results process?

• A. Validate that the stated requirements expressed by the stakeholders match the solution the organization has propose
• B. Validate that the stated requirements expressed by the stakeholders match the stakeholders' understanding of the problem and the stakeholders' need
• C. Validate that the stated requirements expressed by the stakeholders match the documented requirements of the project sponso
• D. Validate that the stated requirements expressed by the stakeholders match the project scop

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 19

You are the business analyst for your organization. You are currently identifying opportunities for a customer to improve their business processes. The customer wants to streamline their business efforts either through new technologies, better processes, or a combination of both. The customer demands, however, that the solution should not cost more than $300,000 to implement and support for one year. What does the $300,000 represent? A. Solution cost

• A. Budget
• B. Requirements
• C. Constraint

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 20

Which of the following is responsible for preparing the business architecture, feasibility studies, and business cases?

• A. Security Administrator
• B. Developer
• C. Business analyst
• D. Project leader

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 21

Marcy is the business analyst for her organization. She is completing the business analysis task of defining the business needs. She has the business goals and objectives and the requirements stated documentation. What must she confirm about the requirements stated documentation before defining the business need based on her analysis?

• A. The requirements must reflect actual business requirements, not a description of the solution
• B. The requirements must contain no or little risk
• C. The requirements must reflect proposed solutions as part of alternative identificatio
• D. The requirements must be compatible with the refinement of the business goals and object ive

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 22

What requirements elicitation technique examines the available information, documentation, records, and history of a solution, organization, or cause to identify relevant information to the current business analysis duties?

• A. Benchmarking
• B. Dataflow diagrams
• C. Document analysis
• D. Requirements elicitation

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 23

Which of the following charts is described in the statement below?
"It shows the causes of a certain event. A common use of this diagram is to identify potential factors causing an overall effect. It helps identify causal factors and contributing causes."

• A. Ishikawa
• B. Flowchart
• C. Process configuration chart
• D. Control chart

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 24

You are the business analyst for your organization and you are preparing to elicit the requirements for a new business opportunity. Which one of the following statements best describes the prepare for elicitation process?

• A. You need authority granted to you from the sponsor to utilize resources for the elicit requirements proces
• B. You need to determine which elicitation techniques are needed for the requirements gathering techniqu
• C. You need to ensure all needed resources are organized and scheduled for conducting the elicitation activitie
• D. You need to receive permission from functional management to interview and elicit requirements for the stakeholder

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 25

Which conduct stakeholder analysis technique is useful for identifying shared characteristics of a stakeholder group?

• A. Surveys
• B. Scope modeling
• C. Brainstorming
• D. Interviews

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 26

Zoe is the business analyst for her organization. She is currently prioritizing the requirements based on the implementation difficulty of the requirements to help with the solution planning.
Which of the following best describes the approach Zoe is taking with requirements prioritization?

• A. The requirements are categorized by type of work, and then ranked within each category of ease of implementation to difficulty of implementatio
• B. The requirements are ranked most difficult to easiest to implemen
• C. The requirements are ranked from easiest to hardest to implemen
• D. The requirements are categorized by the likelihood of management approving the requirem ent

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 27

You are the business analyst for your organization. On your current project you'll be using the change-driven approach for defining requirements and gathering feedback. Which of the following statements best describes the change-driven approach?

• A. The change-driven approach favors defining requirements through experimentatio
• B. The change-driven approach does not define the requirements until after a solution for the problem has been identifie
• C. The change-driven approach favors defining requirements standardized template
• D. The change-driven approach favors defining requirements through team interactio

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 28

Which of the following authorizes the project to exist within the organization?

• A. Project charter
• B. Project network diagram
• C. Project integration management
• D. Project boundaries

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 29

Nancy has asked you to trace a particular requirement for her. What does 'to trace a requirement' mean? A. Tracing a requirement means to look at a requirement and the others to which it is related. It links risk, cost, quality, and scope elements to stakeholder and solution requirements to other artifacts created by the team and to solution components.

• A. Tracing a requirement means to look at a requirement and the others to which it is relate
• B. It links business requirements to stakeholder and solution requirements to other artifacts created by the team and to solution component
• C. Tracing a requirement means to look at a requirement and the others to which it is relate
• D. It links business requirements to components in the project's work breakdown structur
• E. Tracing a requirement means to track a requirements from its first identification all the way to its completion to see what issues, risks, costs, quality, and defects have surrounded the requirement

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 30

You are the business analyst for your organization. Management has asked that you create a model of the requirements so the stakeholders can better understand the requirements and the project as a whole. Which of the following statements best describes a model?

• A. Models are slices of the project solutio
• B. Models simplify the requirements for common stakeholder
• C. Models are statistics for the return on investment, time saved, and other mathematic
• D. Models abstract and simplify realit

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 31
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