ECBA Practice
A Business Model Canvas consist of:
9 blocks
What is an Enterprise?
A system of one or more organizations and the solutions they use to pursue a shared set of common goals.
___________ are typically used when only one possible solution is being evaluated, and are generally expressed as a pass or fail.
Acceptance Criteria
What is an Organization?
An autonomous group of people under the management of a single individual or board, that works towards common goals and objectives.
Requirements sign-off may happen in which one of the following formats:
As decided during planning
A Business Analyst should start analyzing stakeholders:
As soon as the stakeholders are identified
Business Analysis can be performed at:
At any level
Requirements can be linked with Business Need using
Backward traceability
The concept of freezing requirements is known as:
Base lining
Being able to well organize their work and manage time effectively is which type of skill for a Business Analyst?
Behavioral
Trustworthiness is a ___________ category of skill needed by a Business Analyst.
Behavioral
Which type of observation is not suitable for observing knowledge-based activities?
Both Active and Passive Observation
A survey may contain which type of questions:
Both open ended and close ended
Communicating requirements helps to:
Bring stakeholders to a common understanding
How, when, and why business analysts will communicate with stakeholders is captured in:
Business Analysis Communication Plan
The business analysis team has decided the business analysis approach for a new project. They have identified the activities, estimated the efforts, and planned the resource needed for those activities. Which deliverable might be the most appropriate to document this info:
Business Analysis Plan
A __________ is a directive concerned with broadly controlling, influencing, or regulating the actions of an enterprise and the people in it.
Business Policy
Increase repeat orders from customers by 10% is a
Business Requirement
A _____________ is a specific, testable directive that serves as a criterion for guiding behavior, shaping judgments, or making decisions.
Business Rule
Along with identification of the right sources,________ with stakeholders is necessary to ensure that correct and complete requirements are gathered successfully.
Collaboration
Which Elicitation categories involves extracting requirements from Stakeholders?
Collaborative
Final stage of requirements communication is:
Communicate the requirements
Requirements must be _________ to be approved, since stakeholders cannot consent to requirements that they are not aware of.
Communicated
Degree to which the solution operates effectively with other components in its environment, such as one process with another is called
Compatibility
___________ thinking is about understanding the linkage between contexts, solutions, needs, changes, stakeholders, and value abstractly and in the big picture.
Conceptual
The highest level of Data Flow Diagram is called:
Context Diagram
Enterprise Limitations can be related to factors such as:
Culture of the organization
Present Value and Net Present Value are both expressed in terms of
Currency
The stakeholder who uses the products or services or solutions is called a:
Customer
Decision Matrix and Weighted Decision Matrix are examples of
Decision Analysis
Decision Table and Decision Tree are examples of
Decision Modelling
Danger associated with informal approval of requirements is:
Defects may be overlooked
Determine factors internal to the solution that restrict the full realization of its value. This statement refers to which type of factors?
Defects, architectural Issues, hardware configuration and tuning
If requirement A has no value without requirement B, then the relationship of requirement A with requirement B is of the type:
Depend
Stakeholder requirements have which type of relationship with business requirements?
Derive
When the BA focuses on solution, the output is__________.
Designs
Change strategy is used to:
Develop and assess alternative approaches to the change, and then select an approach
In terms of Requirements Architecture, views are _________________.
Documents with actual project requirements
Knowledge of and expertise in a business area is known as
Domain Knowledge
__________ is the practice of collecting requirements from stakeholders or other sources.
Elicitation
Validating the solution involves:
Ensuring solution meets business need
Validating requirements means_____________
Ensuring that requirements and designs align with business requirements
Verifying requirements is about________________
Ensuring that requirements, design specifications, and models meet quality standards
_____________ define a set of measurements which allow for ranking of solutions and alternative designs according to their value for stakeholders.
Evaluation Criteria
Which one of the Elicitation categories involves extracting requirements using prototypes?
Experimentation
Which one of the following is pre-defined role during requirements workshop?
Facilitator, Scribe, Timekeeper
BAs will perform requirements Validation during BA Planning and Monitoring. This statement is:
False
Balancing is a requirements prioritization method. This statement is:
False
In requirements prioritization, Business Analyst should prioritize the requirements and inform the Stakeholders. This statement is:
False
Predictable is used in the PERT estimation technique. This statement is:
False
Project Manager is a key stakeholder who helps in maintaining the requirements. This statement is:
False
Reviews can be conducted using Group Walkthrough. This statement is:
False
The balanced scorecard is composed of the technology dimension. This statement is:
False
To Validate the requirements, they should be first verified and only then proceed for validation. This statement is:
False
What is considered for monitoring Business Analysis performance?
Feedback received from the stakeholders
Personas are:
Fictional characters developed to give the team an idea about the user for whom they are building the application
Which one of the following works as a guideline for assessing requirements change?
Governance Approach
Which one of the following building blocks is not present in the Business Model Canvas?
Government Rules and Regulations
Operational support:
Helps to keep the solution functioning by providing end user support or day-to-day operational support.
Most of the stakeholders will by default prioritize their requirements as_______ priority
High
Gap analysis is used for:
Identify capabilities that the company does not have and need to be added to reach the future state
What is carried out to assess or evaluate effect of a change?
Impact Analysis
Organizational change management professionals are categorized as:
Implementation SME
Conceptual thinking and visual thinking are one and the same. This statement is:
Incorrect
In the predictive approach, once requirements are prioritized there can be no change in the situation under any circumstances. This statement is:
Incorrect
Which of the following techniques is used to track issues raised by stakeholders during prioritization?
Item tracking
A business analyst has multiple choices regarding how he wants to learn new concepts. Their learning style can be:
Learning by watching others do their work, by reading and researching about a topic, by doing that task on their own
When tracing requirements, business analysts consider the value that each link is supposed to deliver. This is a part of:
Level of formality
Entity Relationship Diagram and Class Diagrams are an example of
Logical Data Model
In terms of Requirements Architecture, viewpoints are ______________.
Models
MoSCoW stands for:
Must Have, Should Have, Could Have, Won't Have
Requirements are focused on _________.
Need
Which one of the following is a commonly used method to maintain stakeholder map?
Onion Diagram
"What is the process of processing a delayed insurance claim?" is which type of question:
Open Ended
Prioritization calls for the involvement of various stakeholders. Which of the following stakeholder is not necessary during this process:
Operational Support
Stakeholder responsible for maintaining IT systems is
Operational Support
The formality and level of details of BA deliverable's are based on:
Organizational standards
A concept model is used for
Organizing business vocabulary
What is considered a consequence resulting from not implementing a requirement?
Penalty
Requirements Traceability Matrix can be used to:
Perform impact analysis in case of change in requirements, Identifications of missing requirements or designs, Understanding requirements coverage
Which of the following is useful to measure effectiveness of the BA activities?
Performance objectives
____________ includes effectively planning business analysis work to achieve targets and goals, and ensuring that value delivered is aligned with business needs.
Personal accountability
Stakeholder Analysis is performed as part of:
Plan stakeholder engagement
Ease with which a solution or component can be transferred from one environment to another is called
Portability
__________ provides information about how the enterprise can benefit from the project.
Potential Value
Business Case must contain:
Problem faced by the organization / enterprise, solution options, cost for each option, benefits of each option, risks/assumptions/constraints for each option, final recommendation
The purpose of collaborative games is to collaborate in building a joint understanding of:
Problem or the solution
SIPOC and VSM are models used for
Process Analysis
In agile environments, requirements are maintained as:
Product Backlog
Who is responsible for ensuring that the business analysis plan is compatible with the project plan?
Project Manager
Which one of the following roles provides funding for the project?
Project Sponsor
__________ will give stakeholders an idea about their time and effort commitment needed for a project.
RACI Matrix
Business Analysts should focus on
Real needs of the stakeholders
Reputation loss and retribution are most likely if which one of the following is missed?
Regulatory Requirement
_____________ cannot be overlooked
Regulatory requirements
An agile project has Product Vision, Product Roadmap, ______________, Sprint Plan, Daily Stand Up
Release Plan
Ability of a solution or component to perform its required functions under stated conditions for a specified period of time is called
Reliability
When a Business Analyst focuses on need, the output of analysis is__________
Requirements
BA information can be stored and managed in
Requirements Management tool
Which one among the following can help guard against scope creep?
Requirements Traceability
Predictive approach can be used when:
Requirements can be realistically defined before start of the project
Which of the following can be treated as important information needed by a Business Analyst for a project?
Requirements, stakeholder concerns, assumptions
Which of the below statements is true about predictive approach as compared to adaptive approach?
Requires more formal assessment
Which Elicitation categories involves extracting requirements from a wide range of users or customers?
Research
To conduct requirements elicitation successfully, apart from stakeholders, Business Analysts may need to think about:
Resources needed to conduct elicitation
A ceremony in which Product Owner should not be included is:
Retrospective
In a project while testing if a tester found a bug and he tries to identify which requirement gave rise to the test case he was testing, then which type of traceability is the tester using?
Reverse Traceability
Alphabet Inc. is known to invest in high-tech ideas and exploratory ventures that will bring huge value for the investors in the future. Alphabet Inc. can be characterized in which one of the following categories?
Risk Seeking
Which one of the following factors has a strong influence on whether a project should follow predictive approach or adaptive approach?
Risks associated
Solution components have which type of relationship with stakeholders
Satisfy
The boundary of a solution is defined by
Scope
Business Case is presented to the management in order to:
Showcase our analysis about the problem and the solutions options that we have come up with
Designs are focused on __________.
Solution
This stakeholder authorizes the solution development work to be performed and controls the budget.
Sponsor
A BA is performing stakeholder analysis for a new project. Which one of the following is necessary to analyse the stakeholders and document useful info about them?
Stakeholder Attitude towards the project
How can you represent Analysis of stakeholder's attitude and influence?
Stakeholder Map
Which one of the below can be used to manage stakeholder engagement?
Stakeholder Map and RACI
A ____________ diagram shows the life cycle of one entity, beginning when the entity first comes into existence and moving through all of the different states that the entity may have until it is discarded and no longer of use.
State
While thinking of replacing a solution, Business Analyst should not think about
Sunk Cost
Understanding how people, process, and technology within an organization interact to produce business outcomes is...
Systems Thinking
The job of a creative business analyst is:
The BA has to think creatively on his own and also enable others to think creatively in order to come up with innovative ideas and solutions
Risk is:
The effect of uncertainty on the value of a change, a solution, or the enterprise
The tasks a Business Analyst will work on in the new project is depended on:
The methodology chosen for the project and the organization's standards
During a sprint review session, the Product Owner asked the team to make few changes in a feature that was just demonstrated. What should the team do?
The team should ask the Product Owner to put the change in the product backlog, then understand the problem, and ask the Product Owner about when he expects the change to be implemented
What is the aim of brainstorming?
To generate numerous ideas within available time and identify themes for further analysis
What is the main purpose of "maintain requirement for re-use task"?
To manage knowledge of requirements once they are implemented
In Financial Analysis, TCO stands for
Total Cost of Ownership
Requirements Management Plan contains:
Traceability approach to be used for requirements management
Which requirements are not needed once the organization successfully completes a project?
Transition Requirements
Attitudes towards risk do not include reverse. This statement is:
True
BA Information may consist of requirements, business needs, business rules. This statement is:
True
BA's competencies does not include performance evaluation and management. This statement is:
True
Holistic is not a data mining technique. This statement is:
True
In order to decide future course of action for the solution, Business Analyst will have to consider both Enterprise Limitation and Solution Limitations
True
In the document analysis technique, document(s) can be analyzed by the BA on his own and he can come up with his/her own activity plan. This statement is:
True
Performance Measure can be of two types: Qualitative and Quantitative. This statement is:
True
Regarding requirements modelling, problems in requirements such contradictory requirements, missing requirements, or inconsistent requirements are found because of Requirements Modelling. This statement is:
True
Regarding stakeholder identification, new stakeholders can be added anytime during the course of the project. The BA has to bring it to the notice of the Project Manager and Sponsor. This statement is:
True
Regional Model is not a commonly used type of organization model. This statement is:
True
Requirements for a product can exist beyond current project. This statement is:
True
System theory and systems thinking suggest that a system as a whole has properties, behaviors, and characteristics that emerge from the interaction of the components of that system. This statement is:
True
To analyze the current state, Needs and elicitation results is needed. This statement is:
True
To define future state for an enterprise, you need a Business Requirements. This statement is:
True
Traceability may not be very useful in defining requirements attributes. This statement is:
True
While decision making is an important skill for the business analyst, it can consist of gathering the information about various options and more details about the problem faced by the stakeholders and the enterprise so that right decision can be made. This statement is:
True
When Business Analyst conducts requirements elicitation, which type of requirements does he end up with:
Unconfirmed Elicited Requirements and Information
While conducting requirements elicitation, Business Analyst should be focused on:
Understand the requirements as well as differentiating between needs and wants of stakeholders
What is the use of Business Need in the Business Analysis planning?
Used as input to decide Business Analysis Approach
Mobile applications, browser-based applications, tablet applications are all examples of
User Interfaces
Test cases have which type of relationship with solution requirements
Validate
Which technique can be used to measure business analysis performance on a project:
Variance analysis
A Business Analyst has gained consensus on the new requirements and now he wants to get them approved. What input does he need?
Verified Requirements
Who approves requirements for a project?
Whoever is indicated in the project plan
Although Benchmarking and Market Analysis is a single technique, benchmarking is associated with ______________
comparing organizational practices against the best-in-class practices
Who is a Business Analyst?
is a person responsible for eliciting actual needs of stakeholders; discovering, synthesizing, and analyzing information from a variety of sources and defining & designing solutions to meet the needs of the stakeholders.
Although Benchmarking and Market Analysis is a single technique, Market Analysis focuses on ____________.
researching customers
What is Business Analysis?
the practice of enabling change in an enterprise by defining needs and recommending solutions that deliver value to stakeholders.