2 Controlled Start: Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring Lab
At the beginning of Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring activities, the BABOK® Guide recommends that the business analyst create which two planning deliverables?
Business Analysis Approach and Stakeholder Engagement Approach
What knowledge area allows the business analyst to define their approach for tracing project requirements?
Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring
You are a business analyst addressing who will receive weekly business analysis status reports containing performance against actuals for your current project. You are performing tasks from which knowledge area?
Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring
What business analysis deliverable is a guideline or direct input to all tasks found in the Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring knowledge area?
Business analysis governance approach
Which business analysis stakeholder role is involved with all business analysis activities on a project?
Business analyst
What key input is used to plan the business analysis approach for a project?
Business need
Which statement about conducting stakeholder analysis for the business analysis activities on a project is false?
Conducted during the project phase to which it applies
You are currently planning the business analysis information management approach for your project. What activities will you be performing as part of this task?
Define requirements attributes, plan traceability, and plan reuse.
All of the following tasks are performed when planning and monitoring business analysis activities except:
Determine solution approach.
When planning business analysis activities, the business analyst may break down the project tasks and then estimate the amount of work each task will require. What technique are they using?
Functional decomposition
What performance measures will the business analyst define for business analysis activities and deliverables on a project?
Metrics
When identifying business analysis performance improvements, what technique allows you to determine the metrics used for measuring performance and determining how those metrics may be tracked?
Metrics and KPIs
You are a business analyst working on a project where the timing of the business analysis work is early in the project life cycle. What type of business analysis approach best fits this project?
Predictive
Who is responsible for ensuring that the business analysis plan is compatible with the project plan?
Project manager
A RACI matrix describes the roles of stakeholders involved in business analysis activities. What does RACI stand for?
Responsible, Accountable, Consulted, Informed
What technique might be used when determining the business analysis approach on a project?
Scope modelling
The business analyst has defined how, when, and why the business analysis team will work directly with project stakeholders to develop requirements. What deliverable contains this information?
Stakeholder engagement approach
All of the following types of requirements may be candidates for reuse on your project, except:
Transition requirements.
You have an implementation deadline for meeting a specific requirement on your current project. What requirements attribute indicates how soon a requirement is needed?
Urgency
When planning how to address requests for change, the business analyst should consider the cost and time estimates of the requested change, its associated benefits and risks, and the:
recommended course of action.
