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.