Which is NOT a true statement regarding the role of a business Analyst?
A. The business analyst works as a liaison among stakeholders in order to elicit, analyze, communicate and validate requirements for change to business processes, policies and information systems.
B. The business analyst understands the business problems and opportunities in the context of the requirements.
C. The business analyst selects the projects that meet the organization’s strategic initiatives.
D. The business analyst recommends solutions that enable the organization to achieve its goals.
2. Business analysis is a
A. Documented representation of condition or capability.
B. Set of tasks, knowledge, and techniques required to identify business needs and determine solutions to business problems.
C. Collection of pre-project or early project activities and approaches for capturing the necessary view of the business to provide context to requirements and functional design work for a given initiative and/or for long term planning.
D. A set of stakeholder needs that are analyzed, structured and specific for use in the design or implementation of a solution.
Carrie is documenting the way data will be transformed from an existing system in order to become more compatible with the new system. What type of requirement is she documenting?
A. Non-Functional Requirements
B. Transition Requirements
C. Functional Requirements
D. Solution Requirements
In her last job, Debbie knew how everything worked. Her organizations had formal and informal standards in place regarding how business analysis should be performed. But after leaving her last job, she just landed a Sr. Business Analyst job with RWZ company and to her surprise, there are no defined standards in place. Debbie knows that she needs to define a business analysis approach for the initiative she has been assigned to. What should Debbie do? (select the best answer)
A. Debbie must work with the appropriate stakeholders to determine how the work will be completed
B. Debbie must implement the same standards from her previous organization to complete her initiative
C. Debbie should introduce the CMMI model to her manager in order to define the business analysis standards
D. Debbie should look to the project manager to make the decision on how business analysis will be accomplished
You are preparing for elicitation. You have just selected the individuals to participate in the elicitation events. While selecting the elecitation events, one of the consideration you need to make is whether you would have open-ended or closed ended questions. You also need to determine the best method for distributing those questions. What technique have you selected for the elicitation events?
A. Survey/Questionnaire
B. Prototyping
C. Interviews
D. Requirement Workshop
Jenny is a business analyst who has gathered requirement for a new system to be implemented. Her key stakeholder is Roger. When she reviewed the requirements with him, she sensed that Roger was not satisfied with the current requirements. He expressed that some of the requirements will not meet the needs of his department. The source of those requirements came from Roger’s manager. What should Jenny do? (choose the best answer)
A. Jenny must find a way to resolve this conflict either by facilitating a formal meeting, through research or other methods
B. Jenny must escalate this conflict to other higher level manager
C. Jenny should ask Roger to talk to his boss in order to agree on what the requirement should be
D. Jenny’s hands are tied. After all, Roger will understand that his boss’ requirements come before his
5)When you gather as much enterprise architecture information about the current state of the area of the enterprise affected by the business need, you are…
A. Uncovering the current capability analysis in order to assess the capability gaps of an organization
B. Generating the business need from the bottom up approach in order to define the business need
C. Gathering information in order to define the business case
D. Analyzing requirement in order to specify and model the requirements
Q.6) As the business analysis activity advances, due to budgetary constraints, the sponsors ask that the team should focus their effort of the subsequent work only on the most critical requirements. What must the business analyst do?
A. Prioritize Requirements
B. Organize Requirements
C. Verify Requirements
D. Validate Requirements
Q.7) After organizing the requirements, Amanda provides the following sakeholder with a list of those organized requirements. The stakeholder uses this set of requirements to verify the scope of the solution and assess the work that needs to be done in the project. Who is this stakeholder?
A. Team leader
B. Release Manager
C. Process Owner
D. Configuration Manager
Q.8)
You’ve determine based on your assessment of the proposed solutions that two solutions provide comparative business value and do not any substantive differences in their core features. Which is would be your next best course of action to select the best solution?
A. Identify additional potential capabilities and determine the best solution by ranking those capabilities
B. Ask the end users to select the solution they prefer most
C. Ask the sponsor to select the best solution that they believe would be best for their organization
D. You’ve done all you can do, escalate this to the PM who would determine the best solution based on other project criteria
When she assembles these components to form a whole address (made up of all the fields), which type of data element is she using?
A. Primitive Data Elements
B. Composite Data Elements
C. Mix Data Elements
D. Sequential Data Elements
Identify which of the following list represent the components of a data flow diagram?
A. External entities, processes, data stores, data flow
B. Name, aliases, entities, process flow, sequences
C. Concept, attributes, relationships, metadata
D. Entities, attributes, processes, data stores, data flow
You’ve determine based on your assessment of the proposed solutions that two solutions provide comparative business value and do not any substantive differences in their core features. Which is would be your next best course of action to select the best solution?
A. Identify additional potential capabilities and determine the best solution by ranking those capabilities
B. Ask the end users to select the solution they prefer most
C. Ask the sponsor to select the best solution that they believe would be best for their organization
D. You’ve done all you can do, escalate this to the PM who would determine the best solution based on other project criteria
As the business analysis activity advances, due to budgetary constraints, the sponsors ask that the team should focus their effort of the subsequent work only on the most critical requirements. What must the business analyst do?
A. Prioritize Requirements
B. Organize Requirements
C. Verify Requirements
D. Validate Requirements
You are preparing for elicitation. You have just selected the individuals to participate in the elicitation events. While selecting the elecitation events, one of the consideration you need to make is whether you would have open-ended or closed ended questions. You also need to determine the best method for distributing those questions. What technique have you selected for the elicitation events?
A. Survey/Questionnaire
B. Prototyping
C. Interviews
D. Requirement Workshop
Carrie is documenting the way data will be transformed from an existing system in order to become more compatible with the new system. What type of requirement is she documenting?
A. Non-Functional Requirements
B. Transition Requirements
C. Functional Requirements
D. Solution Requirements
After organizing the requirements, Amanda provides the following sakeholder with a list of those organized requirements. The stakeholder uses this set of requirements to verify the scope of the solution and assess the work that needs to be done in the project. Who is this stakeholder?
A. Team leader
B. Release Manager
C. Process Owner
D. Configuration Manager
In her last job, Debbie knew how everything worked. Her organizations had formal and informal standards in place regarding how business analysis should be performed. But after leaving her last job, she just landed a Sr. Business Analyst job with RWZ company and to her surprise, there are no defined standards in place. Debbie knows that she needs to define a business analysis approach for the initiative she has been assigned to. What should Debbie do? (select the best answer)
A. Debbie must work with the appropriate stakeholders to determine how the work will be completed
B. Debbie must implement the same standards from her previous organization to complete her initiative
C. Debbie should introduce the CMMI model to her manager in order to define the business analysis standards
D. Debbie should look to the project manager to make the decision on how business analysis will be accomplished
When you gather as much enterprise architecture information about the current state of the area of the enterprise affected by the business need, you are…
A. Uncovering the current capability analysis in order to assess the capability gaps of an organization
B. Generating the business need from the bottom up approach in order to define the business need
C. Gathering information in order to define the business case
D. Analyzing requirement in order to specify and model the requirements
Jenny is a business analyst who has gathered requirement for a new system to be implemented. Her key stakeholder is Roger. When she reviewed the requirements with him, she sensed that Roger was not satisfied with the current requirements. He expressed that some of the requirements will not meet the needs of his department. The source of those requirements came from Roger’s manager. What should Jenny do? (choose the best answer)
A. Jenny must find a way to resolve this conflict either by facilitating a formal meeting, through research or other methods
B. Jenny must escalate this conflict to other higher level manager
C. Jenny should ask Roger to talk to his boss in order to agree on what the requirement should be
D. Jenny’s hands are tied. After all, Roger will understand that his boss’ requirements come before his
Identify which of the following list represent the components of a data flow diagram?
A. External entities, processes, data stores, data flow
B. Name, aliases, entities, process flow, sequences
C. Concept, attributes, relationships, metadata
D. Entities, attributes, processes, data stores, data flow
Alice is using data dictionary to document meanings of some identified data elements during her ERD session. She decides to divide customer’s addresses into each part as the following:
Address
City
State
Zip
Country
When she assembles these components to form a whole address (made up of all the fields), which type of data element is she using?
A. Primitive Data Elements
B. Composite Data Elements
C. Mix Data Elements
D. Sequential Data Elements
