BIT 475 - Quiz 2

A business analyst is currently defining a set of changes to the current state of an organization that allows the organization to take advantage of a business opportunity. What is the most likely being defined?

Solution scope

48. Who may participate in requirements elicitation activities

a. Any stakeholder

8. Which statement about business analysis performance assessments is NOT true?

a. Assessments should contain standardized performance measurements.

32. What key input is used to plan the business analysis approach for a project?

a. Business need

26. What are the six core concepts in the Business Analysis Core Concept Model (BACCM)?

a. Change, need, solution, stakeholder, value, and context.

3. In Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring, the business analyst chooses an approach that provides adequate analysis for the change. This application describes which core concept of the BACCM?

a. Need

2. Plan for Requirements Reuse is an element of which of the following tasks?

a. Plan Business Analysis Information Management

10. As the business analysis activity advances, due to budgetary constraints, the sponsor asks the team to focus their effort only on the most critical requirements. What must the Business Analyst do?

a. Prioritize requirements.

17. You are a business analyst measuring alternatives against objective and identifying trade-offs to determine which possible solution is best. You are most likely engaged in what activity?

a. Problem solving

50. The requirements elicitation technique that uncovers and visualizes the interface requirements before an application is designed or developed is called:

a. Prototyping

46. All of the following tasks are performed during elicitation except:

a. Select elicitation techniques.

In what knowledge area is the business analyst most likely to be scoping and defining new business opportunities?

a. Strategy analysis

1. An architect is invited to a meeting to share their knowledge as input into the decision-making process. What role was the architect asked to play in the decision-making process?

a. Subject Matter Expert (SME)

24. Which is NOT a true statement regarding the role of a business analyst?

a. The business analyst selects the change initiative that best meet the organization's strategic initiatives after performing analysis activities.

9. Which of the following Tasks are included in the Requirements Life cycle Management knowledge area?

a. Trace requirements, approve requirements, assess requirement changes, maintain requirements, and prioritize requirements.

13. Traceability is best described by the following statement:

a. Traceability identifies and documents the lineage of each requirement, including its backward traceability, its forward traceability, and it relationship to the requirements.

14. When Requirements require change, what are the key impacts that must be considered during the analysis of the requested changes?

b. Benefit, cost, impact, schedule and urgency

11. What knowledge area contains the next most logical steps after the BA has built a business case and gained management approval for a project?

b. Business analysis planning and monitoring

31. 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?

b. Business analysis planning and monitoring

36. What knowledge area allows the business analyst to define their approach for tracing project requirements?

b. Business analysis planning and monitoring

34. Which statement about conducting stakeholder analysis for the business analysis activities on a project is false?

b. Conducted during the project phase to which it applies

44. Requirements that are intended for reuse reflect what view of the organization?

b. Current state

30. Rafa is a BA facilitating a workshop to understand the current order fulfillment process. Sandra is the current process owner and is the key contributor to the workshop. What type of stakeholder is Sandra?

b. Domain subjective matter expert (Domain SME)

19. When does the business analyst ensure the feasibility of the proposed requirements to support the business and user needs?

b. During requirements analysis and design definition

16. What represents the information and preconditions necessary for a business analysis task to begin?

b. Input

5. Which of the following statements is NOT true regarding the element of Planning Approach associated with the Plan Business Analysis Approach task?

b. It is best if the BA approach is standardized across initiatives to facilitate governance and minimize variance.

39. What performance measures will the business analyst define for business analysis activities and deliverables on a project?

b. Metrics

49. What is the proper sequence for conducting any type of elicitation technique?

b. Prepare, conduct and wrap up.

40. Who is responsible for ensuring that the business analysis plan is compatible with the project plan?

b. Project manager

6. Who is primarily responsible for achieving the project objectives?

b. Project manager

4. A capability needed by a stakeholder to achieve an objective is also called a:

b. Requirement

25. What are the three types of initiatives that business analysts are typically involved in?

b. Strategic, operational, tactical

Which of the following statements best describes the purpose of the Plan Business Analysis Governance task?

b. The purpose is to define how decisions are made about requirements and designs, including reviews, change control, approvals, and prioritization.

38. 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?

b. metrics and KPIs

29. How does BABOK define a "requirement"?

c. A usable representation of a need.

15. You are the business analyst for an initiative. You have completed requirements elicitation along with the associated documentation, and you are now in the process of reviewing the requirements in order to obtain signoff. Which of the following techniques would be used to define approval criteria?

c. Acceptance and evaluation criteria.

41. Which Requirements life cycle management task seeks approval and sign-off on requirements and designs?

c. Approve requirements.

12. Which of the following are the techniques used to trace requirements?

c. Business Rules analysis, Scope modelling, process modeling, functional decomposition.

14. Identifying key stakeholder roles and selecting requirements activities is done pas part of which knowledge area?

c. Business analysis planning and monitoring

35. Which business analysis stakeholder role is involved with all business analysis activities on a project:

c. Business analyst

11. Which of the following is NOT a guideline and tool for Traceability?

c. Business rule repository

43. Which of the following techniques can be applied when tracing requirements?

c. Functional decomposition

9. Knowledge areas define what a BA needs to understand. They do not define the project ____.

c. Phases

6. Many planning methods fit somewhere along a continuum between ______ and _______ approaches. Which of the following best completes the statement above?

c. Predictive; Adaptive.

12. All of the following are knowledge areas except:

c. Requirements planning and monitoring

45. When prioritizing requirements, which prioritization factor takes into account the likelihood that a requirement will change?

c. Stability

8. To determine solutions to business problems, the business analyst applies a set of:

c. Tasks and techniques

22. Which of the following is true regarding the six knowledge areas contained within the BABAOK?

c. The knowledge areas support the delivery of business value before, during, and after the life cycle of an initiative.

21. What does the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK) contain?

c. The sum of knowledge within the profession of business analysis and what is considered currently accepted practice

28. Andre is focusing on documenting the needs of the enterprise related to data conversion. What type of requirement is Andre documenting?

c. Transition

37. All of the following types of requirements may be candidates for reuse on your project, except:

c. Transition requirements

33. You have an implementation deadline for meeting a specific requirement on your current project. What requirements attribute indicates how soon a requirement is needed?

c. Urgency

7. Inputs to a specific business analyst task may be externally produced by:

d. A single task

13. The stakeholders have indicated to the business analysis team that the documented requirements are ready for use in subsequent business analysis or implementation efforts. What type of requirements has been developed at this point in time?

d. Approved

47. You are reviewing documents for the current system in order to confirm the existing requirements. Document analysis is an effective technique for doing this work as long as the documents being reviewed are _______.

d. Both current and valid

18. What defines the business analysis team roles, deliverables to be produced, and tasks to be performed?

d. Business analysis approach

3. What project role focuses on understanding business problems and opportunities

d. Business analyst

10. All of the following are part of the business requirements, except:

d. Business goals

7. What is an output of the Plan Stakeholder Engagement task in business Analysis Planning and Monitoring?

d. Collaboration and communication approaches the business analyst will use in the change initiative.

15. Requirements gathering activities are also known as requirements ________.

d. Elicitation

20. The system users have stated their needs for revised online order entry system capabilities. The users need the ability to perform online, remote order entry when they are traveling worldwide. What type of requirements best describe this need?

d. Functional requirements

42. Which document determines how the business analyst obtains approval of business analysis information with their stakeholders?

d. Governance approach

27. Susan is a BA developing a screen mock-up for a key stakeholder. Which of the following is true?

d. Susan is defining the design of some aspect of the solution based upon eliciting requirements.

23. According to BABOK, what is business analysis?

d. The practice of enabling change in an enterprise by defining needs and recommending solutions that deliver value to stakeholders.

4. Which of the following is an output of Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring?

d. The timing and the sequence of the business analysis work.

5. Your project implementation plan defines 12 capabilities of the planned systems solution that will not be needed once the new solution is operation. What type of requirements are these?

d. Transition