Once a new project has been identified, the business analyst works with project team members to define what will be included in and excluded from the new system. Which of the following has the business analyst defined?
A project that was going well for the last few months has encountered a situation—regulatory authorities have deemed that the project does not meet their requirements. Although regulatory requirements were identified during an earlier phase of the project, there is no substantial evidence to prove that the requirements were formally rejected.
This could have been avoided if:
When a business analyst uses subject matter experts to define roles and identify influencers, which project artifact is created or updated?
Which tool provides combined functionality for business analysis and quality assurance activities?
A project affects the marketing unit and procurement unit. The project manager gives the business analyst an overview of the project for the first time.
What should the business analyst do immediately after the discussion?
Requirements elicitation for a project is occurring. The marketing, acquisition, and production departments want to include specific requirements. The CEO has a requirement to deploy in three months.
Which of the following actions will have a greater influence on the project success?
A business analyst has been assigned to a project to implement a new phone system for a customer call center. The business analyst will need to create a business case.
Which of the following components will the business analyst use as input to the business case?
A business analyst from Company A has been assigned a project to document and identify requirements for a new commercial software implementation. The first step is to break down the business analysis deliverables into activities and tasks. Then, the business analyst
will add an estimate of the time needed to complete the work.
Which type of estimation technique is the business analyst using?
The business analyst has been assigned to a project involving a low number of stakeholders. Which technique should be used to elicit requirements?
An insurance company embarks on a project to replace its current enrollment and billing software application, which will no longer be supported by the end of the calendar year. The new enrollment and billing application must be implemented before the current vendor contract ends. The business analyst gathers the initial requirements for the new enrollment and billing application. Based on the large
volume of requirements, the business analyst realizes that the requirements will need to be prioritized.
Which requirements prioritization method should the business analyst use for this project?
A startup company sells organic vegetable and fruit smoothies. Management is tracking a rapid decrease in sales of their best-selling juice, so they contract a business analyst to identify solutions in order to increase sales by comparing similar products offered by competitors.
Which technique or tool should be used?
A major stakeholder of a project is surprised to learn that a particular requirement was not implemented during the latest launch.
The business analyst tells the stakeholder that the requirement status was changed to "deferred ”
What could have prevented the stakeholder from being surprised about the status change?
One of the main purposes for creating a requirements traceability matrix is to:
A business analyst in organization Y is assigned to elicit requirements in a project within a defined timeline. The business analyst has identified and invited key stakeholders to a requirements workshop. However, the stakeholders are not giving clear and concise requirements; their opinions about requirements are changing and conflicting with each other in the meeting. In the end, the business analyst could not elicit and define the requirements and therefore adjourned the meeting.
Which tool or technique could have been used by business analyst to avoid this situation?
A major stakeholder wants to know how the implementation of new features in the development of a product is progressing. Which of the following should be reported to the stakeholder?
A new project is in the planning phase. What should the business analyst consider with regard to planning the requirements change process?
A project team delivers a solution based on the approved requirements and is confident that it meets the defined acceptance criteria.
What should the business analyst do to obtain signoff?
Which technique or tool is used to obtain acceptance of the delivered product?
The business analyst has been assigned to a project which delivers functionality for a much larger solution. The project has many requirements but has not received adequate funding. In addition, the stakeholders’ views conflict.
Which tools and techniques should the business analyst use to maximize business value while establishing the requirements baseline?
Change control systems include provisions to implement changes without formal review in the event of an emergency. When this provision is utilized:
The technology department identified a defect in the company's software, which leads to an increase in human resource requirements to perform manual transactions as a workaround for tasks that should have been automated. The company begins losing money, so it hires a business analyst to produce a business case that outlines the problem/opportunity, potential options, and a recommendation for how to proceed.
Which of the following analyses must the business analyst perform in order to complete the business case and arrive at a solid
recommendation?
Company A is working on implementing a new platform with multiple stakeholders. The business analyst has gathered the requirements and established a baseline. However, scope creep is a persistent problem.
What could the business analyst have established to help manage this situation?
A business analyst is discussing the acceptance criteria for a new measurement system with the operations manager. The operations manager is particularly concerned about the accuracy of the new system because mistakes in data measurements could be extremely costly to fix.
Which of the following is the best strategy to define the appropriate acceptance criteria?
A system enhancement project has been initiated to address the concerns of an external group of stakeholders not included in the first release. What should be done to ensure stakeholder satisfaction with the enhancement?
A company is working on implementing a software application. They are converting their complex, in-house processes into the new system. The business analyst has been asked to analyze the processes.
Which technique should be followed?
Which of the following is the best approach to enable developers and product owners to be in constant communication so that changes or issues that occur during development are exposed and discussed as they develop?
The stakeholders for a newly approved project are subject matter experts who are very knowledgeable in the client's business and will provide the project requirements. The project team scheduled separate sessions with each subject matter expert to identify and prioritize the requirements.
Which technique is being used?
After several meetings with different groups of users, a business analyst has gathered the requirements for a large IT project. Now, the business analyst needs to document those requirements in a way that is clearly understood by the development team and provides
enough information to check if the requirement has been met.
Which of the following would work best in this case?
A business analyst has incorporated all the relevant feedback from stakeholders in the business analysis plan.
Which next step should the business analyst take?
The software developers have delivered a completed solution. The quality assurance team has passed the solution. What should the business analyst do next?
Which tool should be used to improve the communication of product needs with the stakeholders and to improve their understanding?
The sales team of a company has won a time-and-material project. The business analyst discovers that the sales team has underestimated the required budget and schedule.
Which course of action should the business analyst take?
Through user acceptance testing, a software flaw was identified. What should the business analyst do next as part of the root cause analysis in order to analyze and resolve the discrepancy?
A company wants to procure a tool to improve customer satisfaction and loyalty. Which of the following documents would provide basis for analyzing vendor products?
A business analyst is assigned to a business process re-engineering project. In addition to planning a workshop to elicit requirements, the business analyst wants to send out a survey to gather data to use in a statistical analysis on user satisfaction with the current business process.
Which of the following types of surveys would be most appropriate to create and why?
The business analyst is in the process of implementing a solution for a customer. The team is having difficulty confirming if certain requirements have been met.
What could have caused this issue?
A business analyst has elicited, documented, and verified the requirements, discovering that there are not enough resources to deliver all the requirements. Which technique should the business analyst employ to rectify the issue?
A business analyst is ready to begin requirements elicitation; however, stakeholders are not available to participate for another two weeks. Which elicitation technique should the business analyst use during this time?
The business analyst is conducting a feasibility study to understand how well a potential solution fits into the organization. What kind of feasibility assessment is the business analyst undertaking?
A project team has 120 days to deliver a solution, but the stakeholders have too many requirements for the delivery window. What requirements prioritization technique should be used to determine which requirements will be delivered?
Which of the following techniques is used to identify ambiguous or unverifiable requirements?
What should the business analyst do to ensure that all requirements meet a quality checklist before the development and testing phase?
In the middle of a project, a new requirement was added to the scope. The business analyst must determine if any impacts, dependencies, or risks are associated with the addition to the scope.
What task should the business analyst perform in order to identify these impacts?
A business analyst is working on a project to implement a new call management system for a help desk. They expected the average time interval to answer a call to decrease over time, but the interval has increased instead.
Which technique should the business analyst use to investigate the problem?
A business analyst has been assigned to a project team that is redesigning the company's website. The business analyst has been documenting the relationships between requirements and has found requirements that do not trace to a business need.
Which type of requirements are these?
The business analyst is planning an approach to formally manage updates to requirements that may be requested by stakeholders.
What should the business analyst do?
What should be done to ensure that the product design meets the stated requirements?
A stakeholder requests to add new critical requirements the day before the scheduled baseline requirements approval meeting. The stakeholder insists that these requirements must be taken into account despite time and budget constraints.
What is the most effective way to manage this situation?
A company has just finished the development work for a new software sales tracking application and is in the process of validating that the new application meets all of the acceptance criteria defined for the business requirements. During the validation
process, a stakeholder discovers that the application does not provide the selection criteria needed to produce the sales volume
reporting required by the company's financial department. The business analyst for the project determines that the selection criteria
needed was not specified in the system requirements or design specifications.
Which of the following tools and/or techniques might be used by the business analyst to determine how the selection criteria requirement
was missed?
Several interviews with stakeholders to develop an inventory management system in a new architectural environment have revealed a significant concern about system and architectural stability. In which tool should the business analyst include this attribute to ensure that the requirement meets the acceptance criteria?
A company uses a prioritization range of 1-10, in which 10 represents the highest or best. According to the information from the table, which option should the business analyst recommend?
How can a SWOT analysis help when deciding between several possible options to address a business problem?