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You are completing the prepare for elicitation process for an identified problem in your organization. The prepare for elicitation process requires three inputs for this process.
Which one of the following is not an input that will help you prepare for the elicitation activities?
You are the business analyst for your organization. You are currently writing the business goals and objectives as part of the elements for the define business process.
Which one of the following statements best describes the business goals and objectives element?
An organization implements a solution to increase the efficiency of its internal processes. The business analyst (BA) felt that the success of the solution is tied to the organizational structure and confirmed that the solution conforms to the organizational hierarchy. After the solution rolled out, the solution was not widely adopted among stakeholders and some features were not being utilized.
Which aspect of the organizational structure did the BA fail to consider?
Several risks were identified for an upcoming change initiative. One risk is related to a slippage concern because of loose gravel at the local site of the change initiative. The business analyst (BA) has recommended that all on-site stakeholders must wear durable, slip-resistant boots while the change initiative is being executed.
This is an example of which type of risk treatment?
You are the business analyst for your organization and are working with Sally, a project manager, for your organization. You and Sally are determining the cost of the labor, materials, equipment, and facilities in order to achieve the different solutions that have been proposed for an identified problem.
What is this process called?
Gina has been asked to provide decision analysis for her solution scope.
Which one of the following best describes the decision analysis technique?
You are the business analyst for your organization and preparing to complete the requirements elicitation activities. Your manager wants to know when the requirements elicitation process will be completed.
Which of the following responses best describes the nature of the requirements elicitation process?
Which of the following is a quality control chart to track trends in project execution?
You are the business analyst for your organization and are training Tracy on business analysis duties. You are explaining to Tracy how it's important for a business analyst to generate new ideas to approaching problems, solving problems, and to generate alternative solutions. You stress that it's important for the business analyst to generate new ideas and innovative concepts.
What type of analytical thinking are you describing for Tracy?
Mark is the business analyst for his organization. He is working with the solution development team and he believes that the team does not want to implement a certain portion of the requirements. The team is expressing the difficulty of the requirements and how it will be extremely challenging to complete. When Mark asks about a similar project that the team completed, they insist that this is a different type of requirements though Mark believes that it is not.
What is the solution development team appearing to do to the requirements?
Herb is the business analyst for the HYY Organization. As Herb is completing the organize requirements process, he recognizes that requirements typically need to answer one QUESTION NO: for identification.
What is the one interrogative that requirements should answer?
Robert is the business analyst for his organization and he's working with several stakeholders to identify the business need for an opportunity. Robert needs to identify the stakeholder that will be responsible for authorizing the actions needed in order to meet the identified business need.
Which stakeholder does Robert need to identify?
Which of the following techniques involves determining and documenting the variance between business requirements and current capabilities?
A business analyst is helping management determine which solution they should choose. As it happens that the organization can only choose one of the two solutions due to time and resource restrictions. Solution A
worths $456,000 to the organization while solution B worths $565,000 to the organization. While solution A costs less, it is less risky and takes less time to complete so management elects to seize Solution A.
What is the opportunity cost?
A popular department store chain wants to make computer upgrades as well as conduct a major remodeling effort to increase revenue to all their 100 stores over the next 2 years. The remodeling will occur in two phases. The two phases are required at each store and can be completed in any order, but each phase must be fully completed before the next phase can begin. Phase 1 will take approximately 32 weeks and will not require a store to be temporarily closed. Phase 2 will take approximately 20 weeks and will require a store to be temporarily closed.
In order to keep inventory level and total revenue for the department store chain at an operational level, 75% of the stores must remain open to the public at all times. Against the board of director's advice, the Chief
Executive Officer (CEO) made a decision to start and complete the top 25 revenue-producing stores in the first year to get those stores remodeled and fully operational.
A business analyst (BA) has been brought in to help with planning the project and gathering requirements. What tool will help the BA understand the changes needed to keep the majority of the stores open?
A national branch of a global company is struggling to improve business processes of its Public and Government Affairs (PGA) department. To work with external stakeholders effectively, PGA employees need to collect, manage, and exchange a vast amount of information. Complex cases involve collaboration of many employees from different departments. The ability to share information and to coordinate corresponding activities is crucial for the company's growth plans. Their current tools and practices do not serve the purpose well. The existing system, which was deployed a couple of years ago, has only a few active users. The majority of PGA employees avoid using it because the system is hard to use and lacks needed functionality. Consequently, available information is mostly unstructured and stored either locally or on a shared network drive. Some of the information exists only in a paper form.
The branch's PGA head, who sponsors the project, wants to implement a configurable solution that two other branches successfully deployed several months ago. Both deployments were done by three solution
consultants, who will be available to assist in the project. They will be responsible for tailoring the solution to PGA needs, as well as for training the PGA staff. With their help, the sponsor plans to complete the project in approximately three months.
The solution consultants reside in another country 7 hours ahead of the rest of the project team. They will be available part-time, but are planning two one-week long trips to the PGA central office to conduct initial training and to participate in the final deployment of the system into production. The consultants, in turn, expect a business analyst (BA) to assist in collecting necessary data and defining customization requirements.
What should define the timing of business analysis work in this project?
Your organization completes software development for other companies as its core business. Management would like to streamline the requirements gathering processes as many of the projects your company do are similar in nature.
What approach could you as a business analyst do to help streamline the requirements gathering process for your organization?
You are the business analyst for a large project in your organization. You are working with Ben to create requirements packages to present to the stakeholders, the business analyst team, and to the project manager. Ben wants to know why you're creating requirements packages.
What's the primary goal of developing a requirements package?
Martha is observing Gary complete several activities as part of her requirements elicitation process. Martha is simply observing the steps Gary takes to complete his work and she is taking notes. In this instance Martha does not ask Gary any questions.
What type of observation technique is Martha completing?
Which of the following models defines the name of the data, data aliases, and description of system data?
You are the business analyst for THY Organization and you have gathered the requirements. You have presented the requirements to the stakeholders and they have approved your requirements.
You are now working with Francie on recording the dependencies and relationships for each of the requirements.
Why would you want to record the dependencies and relationships for the requirements?
You are the business analyst for the NHQ Organization. Management has asked that you examine the workflow and internal processes for order fulfillment. Specifically, they'd like you to complete an in-depth analysis and documentation of the business problems and opportunities that may be exist for the organization.
What business analysis knowledge area does this activity map to?
The requirements elicitation process requires that the business analyst and team prepare for the requirements elicitation activities. There are three specific inputs that the business analyst will need in preparing for the requirements elicitation.
Which of the following is NOT one of the three inputs the business analyst will use as he prepares for requirements elicitation?
Which of the following statements best describes the purpose of the confirm elicitation results process?
Marcy is the business analyst for her organization. She is completing the business analysis task of defining the business needs. She has the business goals and objectives and the requirements stated documentation.
What must she confirm about the requirements stated documentation before defining the business need based on her analysis?
What is the term used to describe the cost of the solution after the solution has been implemented in production by a vendor?
You are preparing a business case for your organization to determine the justification of the costs of the solution in relation to benefits the solutions will bring the organization. You need four inputs to complete this process.
Which one of the following is not an input that will help you write the business case?
Gary is the business analyst for his organization. He has realized that he has overlooked a key group of stakeholders during the conduct stakeholder analysis process.
What is the danger in overlooking a key set of stakeholders?
What technique used during the manage business analysis performance process can help identify the underlying causes of failures or difficulties in accomplishing business analysis work?
You are the business analyst for a large project for your organization. Your project has 65 stakeholders and this will greatly increase the complexity of the communication in this project. To demonstrate how complex this project and its communication will be, you show the management the number of communication channels in this project.
How many channels exist in this project based on the number of stakeholders?
You are the business analyst for your organization. A customer has approached your organization and is requesting that your company create new software for them that will help them collect customer information.
In regard to enterprise analysis this business needs stems from which one of the following need generation approaches?
You are currently working on creating the activity list for an initiative in your organization.
What characteristic must be assigned to each task in your task list?
A health insurance provider undertakes enhancements to its mobile application platform and finalizes the following capabilities as part of the scope of the next release:
I.Ability to integrate online maps and global positioning system (GPS) technology with the mobile application in real time to display location of service providers in the subscriber's vicinity that participate in the subscriber's plan network.
II.Ability for the subscriber to lookup the service providers by specifying either a postal code or a search area radius in miles.
III.Ability for the subscriber to initiate the download of fee information for one or more service providers in a single request.
Through requirements workshops the business analyst elicits the following detailed business requirements:
1.The company's mobile application platform must support real time integration with the following third-party systems:
A ) GPS System
B ) Postal Code Validation
2.The service providers available for selection must participate in the subscriber's medical plan network as of the current system date.
3.The map display shall highlight the boundary of the search area with a dotted yellow line.
4.The extent and shape of the search area shall be determined based on one of the following user choices:
A ) Postal code – Subscriber location acquired from GPS shall be used to determine and populate the related postal code as the default postal code with options for the user to change the postal code.
B ) Radius for the search area around the subscriber's location, that will have default value of 5 miles. The radius can be changed by the subscriber with a maximum range of 50 miles.
5.Subscriber shall be able to select one of the options above and supply corresponding input.
6.System shall validate the user input and display appropriate error messages if invalid.
7.Based on the inputs and the plan of the subscriber, the system shall retrieve information for the participating service providers that are located within the designated search area.
8.System shall display a map including visual markers to indicate locations of the service providers in the top half of the device screen and a list of the same service providers in the bottom half of the device screen.
9.The list of service providers shall include the Name, Phone Number and Street Address.
10.If the subscriber specified the radius or retained the default postal code for the search area, the list shall additionally include the approximate driving distance in miles from the subscriber's last registered location and the list shall be sorted in the ascending order of the driving distance.
11.The subscriber shall be able to select a service provider either from the list or from the map and download a document that contains the name, contact telephone, email address, fax number and the fee schedule for the covered services applicable to the subscriber's plan.
Which primary subscriber business need is addressed with the enhancements?
After the new report "Customer Sales by Date" was deployed last week, the sales team is now unable to generate the previously existing report "Consolidated Sales by Customer, " which is causing customer dissatisfaction.
What could the business analyst (BA) have assessed to prevent this situation?
Company A is a nation-wide leader in commercial demolition. Having just celebrated its 100th year of operations, the company decided to begin doing work internationally. The current system used for reporting company finances is unable to keep pace with the potential demands of doing work in geographically dispersed locations. Therefore, the company decided to replace its client-based Profit & Loss (P&L) reporting system with a more robust, web-based system. This will ensure transparency across the organization and enable better decision making.
The business analyst (BA) at Company A has recently completed several rounds of elicitation to determine the requirements for the new, web-based system. Over 1250 requirements were elicited. An initial Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) has been drafted, and a subset of the RTM can be seen below:
The risk associated with Requirement ID F-P0001 is HIGH. The BA has gone back to the Crew Chief to determine why this requirement's risk is HIGH. The Crew Chief stated that it was based on an assumption.
Which of the following assumptions would make this requirement's risk high?
A business analyst (BA) works for an organization that is moving from a waterfall methodology to an agile approach. This causes new challenges and opportunities for the BA.
Which business analysis planning and monitoring element is most impacted by the organization's change?
A business analyst (BA) is working on a payment system (PS) implementation. A set of systems which should interact with a new system has been identified. The business analyst defined that a user with role of "Supervisor" in the PS must pass a two-factor authentication before an execution of the functions: "Change system parameters" and "Set up new supervisor." A user must have the role of "Supervisor" to use the standard functions "Send mail notification" or "Send SMS notification".
The BA defined the following use cases:
•"Change system parameters"
•"Setup new supervisor"
•"Send mail notification"
•"Send SMS notification"
•"Send notification"
•"Pass a two-factor authentication"
The BA wants to create a Use Case diagram.
Which standard relationship should be defined between "Setup new supervisor" and "Send notification?
A major manufacturer of popular beverages has appointed a local distributor to serve a specific territory. The demand for the beverages has a pronounced seasonal pattern. The distributor performs well overall, but is repeatedly unable to keep up with fulfilling many customer orders during peak demand periods. The distributor's current delivery capability is stretched to deliver 60 tons of merchandise per day whereas the season's peak demand periods need a daily delivery capability of up to 100 tons.
The distributor is under pressure to fully meet the year-round market demand in order to stay in business. The distributor's management wants to identify and consider more cost-effective options as resorting to adding more trucks and drivers would not be economically feasible.
A business analyst (BA) has spent several days observing and measuring the warehouse activities to understand the situation and to gain insights into possible solutions. The delivery workflow is a four-step process: (1) picking the orders and assembling them on trays, (2) bringing the trays to the loading bay, (3) loading the orders into trucks, and (4) delivering the orders to customers. As the following table illustrates, overall performance depends is dependent on five major resources: (1) the workers who pick the orders and load them into trucks, (2) the tallyers who check the orders, (3) the drivers, (4) the trucks, and (5) eight loading bays (LBs).
Preparing a customer order for loading takes about one hour. Upon the BA's observation, only 30% of trips have their orders available for loading when a truck arrives. This causes a waste of both the truck's and the driver's time.
What should the BA recommend to eliminate such waste?
Company A is a nation-wide leader in commercial demolition. Having just celebrated its 100th year of operations, the company decided to begin doing work internationally. The current system used for reporting company finances is unable to keep pace with the potential demands of doing work in geographically dispersed locations. Therefore, the company decided to replace its client-based Profit & Loss (P&L) reporting system with a more robust, web-based system. This will ensure transparency across the organization and enable better decision making.
The business analyst (BA) at Company A has recently completed several rounds of elicitation to determine the requirements for the new, web-based system. Over 1250 requirements were elicited. An initial Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) has been drafted, and a subset of the RTM can be seen below:
The BA is working on identifying additional improvement opportunities based on these requirements. Which of the following improvement opportunities is reflected in Requirement ID NFP0002?
As part of identifying an enterprise's capability to adopt a potential solution, a business analyst (BA) is reviewing existing processes and tools within the enterprise for their ability to adapt to a new solution.
Which of the following assessments is the BA performing?
You are the business analyst for your organization and you are completing the verify requirements process. There are eight characteristics each requirement should have: cohesive, complete, consistent, correct, and feasible.
Which one of the following four is not a characteristic of a requirement?
What plan includes the description of the scope of work, the deliverable Work Breakdown Structure, the activity list, and estimates for the business analysis activities?
You are the business analyst for your organization and have many solutions available to an identified problem. You would like a way to quickly and fairly determine which solution is the best choice for your organization.
Which of the following approaches would allow you to determine the top-rated solutions for your organization?
You are the business analyst for your organization. Gary and Janet, two key stakeholders in the project, are in disagreement over a requirement for the type of software to be installed on the server your solution calls for.
What must happen in this instance before formal approval can be offered?
You are the business analyst for your organization. You are currently identifying opportunities for a customer to improve their business processes. The customer wants to streamline their business efforts either through new technologies, better processes, or a combination of both. The customer demands, however, that the solution should not cost more than $300,000 to implement and support for one year.
What does the $300,000 represent?
Which one of the following is an example of a non-negotiable demand by a stakeholder during the requirements prioritization session?
Management has asked you, a business analyst for your organization, to create the solution scope for an identified problem. In order to complete this task, you'll need three elements.
All of the following are elements you'll need in order to write the solution scope except for which one?
Which of the following is an estimate based on past projects to predict the current cost and/or duration of the current project?
You are the business analyst for your organization. Management realizes that a proposed solution has risks that may cause the entire project to fail. They would like you to prioritize the requirements with maximum risks first so that if the project fails, there is little loss of capital in the project implementation.
What requirements prioritization approach is management asking you to create in this instance?
You are the business analyst for your organization. On your current project you'll be using the change-driven approach for defining requirements and gathering feedback.
Which of the following statements best describes the change-driven approach?
Rachel is writing the business case for her organization. As she's completing this process Rachel is concerned that she's including all the correct information for management.
Which one of the following should Rachel not include in her business case?
You are the business analyst for a large project in your organization. While your company prefers face-to-face communications there are many stakeholders located in different geographical locations.
How can you still effectively serve as a business analyst when the stakeholders are not collocated?
You are the business analyst for your organization. Management has asked that you create a stakeholder map as part of the conduct stakeholder analysis process.
What is a stakeholder map?
You are coaching Marcy, a new business analyst for your organization, on business analysis processes. Marcy is concerned about the define solution scope process, especially the implementation approach element.
Which of the following statements best defines the implementation approach element for Marcy?
Henry is the business analyst for his organization. Management has created a pre-determined budget of
$450,000 for his solution. Henry has identified the project requirements but now wants to prioritize them based on timeboxing and budgeting. Henry examines the cost of the requirements and begins removing the requirements from the allowed list in order to meet the $450,000 budget.
What timeboxing or budgeting approach is Henry using?
Which of the following is a visual decomposition of the program scope and the resources needed in order to create the things defined within the program scope?
A business analyst (BA) works for a financial institution that wants to acquire new systems and migrate all future business operations to the new systems. The BA is responsible for performing a gap analysis and has reviewed the current state of systems.
What is the next task that the BA needs to do to complete the gap analysis?
Whatare timeless events that show progress in the project.
These are typically achieved at the end of phase in the project lifecycle.
Which of the following establishes organizational checks and balances with a proper segregation of front, back, and middle office functions for effective risk management?
A software company has won a contract to implement its product for a client. As part of the implementation work, a business analyst (BA) is asked to elicit information about the other client applications that will interface with the new system and provide the information graphically. The technical staff needs to understand the message interaction within the systems for key business transactions.
Which type of diagram should the BA use?
A business analyst (BA) wants to create a high-level Overview of a business process as a part of an exploratory analysis. The sponsor has asked for a model that demonstrates the movement and transformation of data between entities and processes. What technique should the BA use?
Due to the complexity of a project the project board a concerned that the business analyst (BA) will not be able to ensure all requirements are verified. What toed can the BA present to the project board to mitigate their concern?
A bank moves currency from the mam office to the tranches daily for operational use. To avoid paying overnight interest, the branch** return the currency at the end of the business day. The Bank requires a new inventory management system to account for the whereabouts of the cash at all times A software provider has proposed a heavily customized version of their standard inventory management software. As the project progresses, the business analyst (BA) identifies a number of subtleties that would suggest a fully made to order solution may be a better option for the bank. What inputs does the BA need to perform the analysis?
A business analyst (BA) is tasked with developing a business analysis plan and must decide the best approach to use. Which of the following factors would drive the decision towards an adaptive approach?
In a risk assessment exercise of a software implementation program, the business analyst (BA) has successfully computed the probability of occurrence (POC) and the cost of impact for each of the identified risks as follows:
Which of the following will have the highest negative impact to value?
What kind of analysis must the BA do to determine if one of the systems is better suited to be modified and upgraded?
A business analyst (BA) is preparing for observation. A passive approach has been selected for establishing performance metrics. What should be identic for the next step?
A large insurance company wants to buy a new claims processing system or upgrade one of its two existing system. Each year the claims department is given a $3.5 million budget to spend. Time is of the essence since there are tome regulatory charges that will be coming the following year that will require several features that currently neither one of the two claims System currently support.
There are eight stakeholders involved in this initiative. There are local to where the claim system is managed, while five are located across the country. The business analyst (BA) struggled to get all stakeholders to agree on the desired features but ultimately got agreement on ten identified key features for the new claims system. The BA was able to build a current state and future state process model which included all ten key features.
System a process 75% of the company's claims. It is 5 years old and the claim processors love it because it is easy to use. However, it must go offline for two hours each day. The code is very module so it does have flexibility to be modified. To upgrade system A to have all ten features it would cost $5 million. System A would be at capacity if it were to process all of the company's claims.
System B process 25% of the company's claims. It is an older mainframe system, but rarely goes offline. It could easily handle double the number of claims that system A processes. However, it has a lot of legacy code and would cost $6 million to upgrade.
Both systems have some of the desired key features. But neither system has all ten. The cost to buy a new system would be $7 million.
Below is the estimated cost for each feature in priority order.
If the budget for the initiative was firm, what is a feasible solution to make sure the project stays within budget?
A company is reconfiguring its business processes to improve the quality of its products and lower operational costs. This includes defining metrics that will be used to evaluate the effectiveness of future change strategy. Which of the following techniques achieves this goal?
A busmen analyst (BA) is assigned a new project to improve a delivery process. Which of the following does the BA create as an output of the initial meeting with experts?
A business analyst (BA) assigned to a project has been asked to implement regulatory requirements based on priority. What type of traceability relationship can the BA use to find an the solution components that need to be implemented?
A business analyst (BA) is assigned to a project which has two main stakeholders: a highly regulated government agency and a less formal private company. To select the business analysis approach, the BA mi! conduct a meeting with representatives from each entity to decide on the level of formally needed for requirements and design specifications. During the meeting, what should the BA’s strategy be?
A business analyst (BA) has completed requirements elicitation and modeling on a project to implement a new case management system. During analysis of the requirements, the BA notices that one of the requirements appears to be in conflict with the company's case management policies. What should the BA do?
The project manager wants to have the requirements analysis phase approved and asks the business analyst (BA) if this is possible The BA wants to ensure that the requirements package
A business analyst (BA) is working on an initiative to decommission a legacy system and has discovered the requirement ‘’Ability to view policies created m the legacy system for a period of 6 months. ’’How should the BA classify the requirement based on the requirements classification schema?
Company A has been engaged to provided solution software to Company B as part of a combined service offering to Company C.
The initiative requires a sub project for Companies A and B learn Company Cs statutory requirements, a sub project for Company A to write custom functionality for the solution, and a sub project for Company B to develop infrastructure and support for the solution as well as the main project of implementation and cutover from Company Cs current data processing solution to the service from Company B, How does the business analyst (BA) assign requirements to the various solution components to ensure all objectives are met?
Before investing further in the project, a customer and the key stakeholders of the project want to be able to visualize the final product. Which elicitation technique should the business analyst (BA) select?
A business analyst (BA) has just finished verifying requirements for a new application that impacts various business processes for product setup, sales, and support. Which of the following methods should be used to validate the requirements with key stakeholders?
A business analyst (BA) was tasked with eliciting requirements for a new product scheduling system. The BA interviewed and discussed the requirements with the manager and Supervisor. The requirements were written and approved by both the supervise and manager. Which stakeholders were missed in the requirements?
A utility company found mat its current billing system charges customers 'or tie r usage, but does so incorrectly when the system estimates reads on meters rather than performs actual reads. Company stakeholders would i*e to improve this aspect of the system but are hesitant to make changes because they are otherwise pleased with the system A business analyst (BA) has completed a current state diagram and would like to start discussions on what the future state may look like. What information can the BA determine by having a current slate diagram?
A business analyst (BA) asks participants in a workshop to write down their ideas about the feature being built on sticky notes place them on the wan and then group the ideas into similar themes. The BA is using, this technique to:
After determining mat the enterprise culture was the driving force behind recent solution change decisions a business analyst (BA) has decided to conduct an enterprise-wide cultural assessment. What information can the 8A expect to learn from the results?
Before investing further in the project, a customer and the stakeholder of the project wants to be able to visualize the final product. Which elicitation technique should the business analyst (BA) select?
A customer has provided a business analyst (BA) with many business requirements and some have inter-dependencies with other requirements. To ensure the requirements are delivered according to customer expectations which requirements attribute should the BA consider including in the project requirements document?
While reviewing the data feeds on a project the business analyst (BA) realizes there is a feed that contains complex relationships. In order to help understand the data and accurately reflect a set of requirements the BA decides to prioritize the requirements. What modeling format could the BA use?
A business analyst (BA) is responsible for analyzing the effectiveness of a railway ticket booting system. The BA prepared a report based on observations of the booking clerk over two days (Monday and Wednesday). According to the information gathered, the booking clerk is underutilized and spends a lot of die time waiting for customers. What should the BA do next?
A business analyst (BA) working on a recently implemented project is approached by the sponsor to provide artifacts that can be used organization wide for the long -term. Which of the following should the BA provide?
A financial institution engaged in mortgage lending has embarked on a business process improvement initiative to eliminate the activities that hinder growth to ultimately improve the success rate of its mortgage business. As a benchmark for identification, the institution is keen on improving any business process that has less than a 75% success rate. The institution has appointed a business analyst (BA) to review the business transactions for the processes of origination, payments, and closures, as well as identify opportunities for improvements and recommend solutions.
The BA has collected the following information over the last three months pertaining to these business processes:
•All the business processes are at their maximum capacity in terms of the current number of transactions.
•Each business process has a certain number of rejects and the reasons for rejection include documentation, verification, collateral, and funding. Funding rejects occur when the bank's customers have failed to make payment of their mortgage processing fee or mortgage closure payment.
The BA has also recommended the use of documentation checklists as a solution to eliminate the documentation rejects.
If the financial institution always works at full capacity month to month and the new success rate continues to remain the same after implementing the BA's recommendation, what is the average number of successes per month for the mortgage closure process, if the current process capability were increased by 50%?
A business analyst (BA) was presenting requirements to all stakeholders, after having reviewed, structured and organized the requirements. The requirements were being presented in the form of multi layered business process models, using standard notations with proper sequencing of tasks. During the presentation, the project manager points out a few of the missing, inconsistent, and contradictory requirements.
What did the BA fail to perform?
Which of the following charts is a quality control tool to show categories of defects?
A company that specialized in manufacturing vending machines for books has been in business for 10 years. As the e-book and online retailing grow, the company perceived that a change is required to respond to the new emerging market forces. However, the change should focus on reusability as much as possible to reduce expenses. After analyzing the current state with the business subject matter experts, the business analyst
(BA) proposed investing in a new business line of vending machines that sell pay per use mobile device phone fast charging stations.
Due to the urgency of this change, the BA was asked to finalize requirements elicitation in the shortest possible time.
By proposing this change, what type of view did the BA use to analyze the current manufacturer's state?
When can changes to requirements occur in a business analysis planning and monitoring assignment?
A big construction company has grown into a group of 17 companies spread across the country. The rationale behind forming the group was to become more competitive in bidding for federal and regional government contracts. Another reason was to increase consolidated profitability by lowering the cost of materials and using combined assets more efficiently. Disjointed technological capabilities of the individual companies impede gathering the data needed to make decisions on both handling materials and allocating the resources.
What improvement opportunity does this represent?
A business analyst (BA) has been writing requirements for a project that has several stakeholders with varying levels of product expertise.
What must the BA take into consideration to meet stakeholder perspectives?
is a process to determine the completeness of the project work and to gain the customer's acceptance to move the project forward.
Which of the following process models needs to complete each set of tasks in one phase before moving into the next phase in a project development life cycle?
The objective of a solution implemented was to increase the number of customer calls resolved per hour.
When using basic statistical sampling concepts, what does the business analyst (BA) need to consider?
The business sponsor of a project to automate a high risk, high profile process has expressed concerns that some activities people perform will be missed. The business analyst (BA) has already created a process flow with associated user stories.
Which of the following actions will address the sponsor’s concerns?
You are creating a model that shows how data moves through a system. Each function that modifies the data in any manner is identified, decomposed to smaller levels, and the system is completely described from start to storage.
What type of a modeling technique are you using in this scenario?
What part of defining the business needs process will evaluate the ends that the organization is seeking to achieve?
The, an output of the define scope process, does document the process and criteria for accepting completed products.
Which of the following participants have to keep the minutes and details of the conversation during Interviews?
Which of the following defines how the project will be estimated, budgeted, and how changes to cost will be managed?
Which of the following is a table of all stakeholders showing the mapping of which stakeholders will contribute information to other stakeholders?
A business analyst (BA) in a large financial institution, responsible for the management of requirements, has completed all the activities related to tracing requirements and is now pursuing to maintain them. The BA has identified a large number of requirements which have long term reuse and is now looking for guidance to manage these requirements.
Which of the following will indicate how requirements will be managed for reuse?
Which of the following authorizes the project to exist within the organization?
A business analyst (BA) plans to hold a workshop next week to elicit requirements for a project. In an informal conversation, another employee mentioned that one of the attendees is likely to be unhappy about the project's impact on their work.
Which of the following techniques will the BA use to avoid disrupting the workshop?
The business analyst (BA) has been tasked with assessing and recommending the best solution that fits an organization's need for a new third-party sales tool.
What technique would be used for identifying suitable options?
Which of the following types of elicitation allows each stakeholder to freely discuss their role in a particular process?
As part of defining the business analysis approach for a project, the business analyst (BA) identifies the key stakeholders responsible for upcoming activities for the initial phase. The BA emails each of these stakeholders and asks when they can be finished. One stakeholder does not reply, one angrily comments that it is not their job and is too busy, and two respond saying that they do not understand what is being asked of them.
What competencies can the BA draw on that would best assist with getting agreement from all these stakeholders?
A business analyst (BA) has just completed a number of elicitation activities and is preparing to review the stated requirements. As part of this, the BA is checking the compliance of the stated requirements with organizational standards for business analysis.
What state is the BA attempting to move the requirements into?
A project is implemented using a predictive approach. Unfortunately, a lot of change requests (CR) have been raised. A project manager (PM), who should approve each change request, is overworked.
What could the business analyst (BA) propose to make things better?
The BA is working on the design options for the future state at the martial arts organization. There are several design elements that need to be considered for the future state. Which of the following design elements does the Activity Diagram address?
A financial institution engaged in mortgage lending has embarked on a business process improvement initiative to eliminate the activities that hinder growth to ultimately improve the success rate of its mortgage business. As a benchmark for identification, the institution is keen on improving any business process that has less than a 75% success rate. The institution has appointed a business analyst (BA) to review the business transactions for the processes of origination, payments, and closures, as well as identify opportunities for improvements and recommend solutions.
The BA has collected the following information over the last three months pertaining to these business processes:
•All the business processes are at their maximum capacity in terms of the current number of transactions.
•Each business process has a certain number of rejects and the reasons for rejection include documentation, verification, collateral, and funding. Funding rejects occur when the bank's customers have failed to make payment of their mortgage processing fee or mortgage closure payment.
The BA has also recommended the use of documentation checklists as a solution to eliminate the documentation rejects.
If an additional recommendation to reduce Verification Rejects by 50% were to be introduced into the mortgage origination process, what is the potential success rate of the mortgage origination process?
A business analyst (BA) is reviewing the performance results from a recent change initiative. One of the results stated, "The planned schedule expected 50% of the project to be done at milestone 6. The schedule performance index (SPI) was .87. Three project team members worked overtime to ensure that the actual schedule would align with the planned schedule."
This is an example of what type of action?
A very large insurer of General Liability and Property Damage insurance has an upward trend of increased claims over the past 5 years.
The Risk Control Area for that company has just completed a 12 month Pilot of a new improved Risk Control Site.
The purpose of the site is to help their customers manage their exposures and ideally prevent them from having claims There were 100 customers that were part of the Pilot that represented 25 different industries. The business goals were to increase use of the site and provide tools to help customer awareness of their exposures, so that they may reduce existing exposures and ultimately reduce claims.
The sites Features were as follows:
* Improvements to the search engine to all customers to search for articles, tools and services on the site
* A checklist function that allow customer to create their own unique Checklists or utilize a sample provided by ABC company to use daily, weekly etc for an area of their facility.
* A promotion feature - where Risk preventing Articles, and tools on the site are marketed toward a customer.
* A profile section allowing for Customer Name, Address and contact Phone number.
Alter the 12 month pilot the business sponsor received an assessment of what was working and what was not. The Assessment of the pilot revealed overall site activity had significantly increased, however only 5% of the time the promotions were viewed. And the most shocking was that total claims increased by nearly 20% for these 100 customers during the pilot period. The business sponsor was perplexed as he had an expectation of reduced claims and at least for 30% viewing of promotions since the project team had spent a lot of careful time and effort on this feature. A BA was assigned to do further analysis regarding the low use of the promotions and why claims were not being reduced.
Regarding the use of promotions the BA looked into other similar companies to see what they did differently to get their customer to look at their promotions. The BA found that similar companies had promotions that targeted the industry the customer was in so it was more relevant to them and they were more interested to view the promotion. In addition the BA sent out a survey to all 100 pilot customers asking probing questions about what they thought of the site and if they felt it had decreased their exposure to risk sufficiently. The Survey responses came back with raving positive comments and providing examples of how the site had been helping in the reduction of claims from the customer's perspective. In addition the survey also revealed insight that the customers found the promotion often irrelevant to their industry.
The BA asked for a dump of all documentation of the 1000 claims that were filed over the 12 month pilot period. The BA found the nearly 90% of the claim filed were all in one region of the country and were all for property damage related to several severe winter storms in the region and the claims were nearly all unavoidable by the customers. The BA brought all this analysis back to the business sponsor and made the recommendation to the business sponsor to require the customer to select 1 of 25 industries in their profile. This would in turn allow for the ability to show industry specific promotions and promote search results relative to a customer's industry to be sorted at the top giving the customer a more personalized experience.
What type of recommendation has the BA made to the business sponsor?
A business analyst (BA) is working on a payment system (PS) implementation. A set of systems which should interact with a new system has been identified. The business analyst defined that a user with role of "Supervisor" in the PS must pass a two-factor authentication before an execution of the functions: "Change system parameters" and "Set up new supervisor." A user must have the role of "Supervisor" to use the standard functions "Send mail notification" or "Send SMS notification".
The BA defined the following use cases:
•"Change system parameters"
•"Setup new supervisor"
•"Send mail notification"
•"Send SMS notification"
•"Send notification"
•"Pass a two-factor authentication"
The BA wants to create a Use Case diagram.
Which technique should be used to define a communications protocol between the PS and other systems?
A business analyst (BA) has been assigned to manage the ongoing stakeholder collaboration after completing a project. The BA needs to understand the stakeholders' level of satisfaction and wants to offer stakeholders an opportunity to help improve the working relationships based on this information.
Which technique should the BA use?
A financial institution engaged in mortgage lending has embarked on a business process improvement initiative to eliminate the activities that hinder growth to ultimately improve the success rate of its mortgage business. As a benchmark for identification, the institution is keen on improving any business process that has less than a 75% success rate. The institution has appointed a business analyst (BA) to review the business transactions for the processes of origination, payments, and closures, as well as identify opportunities for improvements and recommend solutions.
The BA has collected the following information over the last three months pertaining to these business processes:
•All the business processes are at their maximum capacity in terms of the current number of transactions.
•Each business process has a certain number of rejects and the reasons for rejection include documentation, verification, collateral, and funding. Funding rejects occur when the bank's customers have failed to make payment of their mortgage processing fee or mortgage closure payment.
The BA has also recommended the use of documentation checklists as a solution to eliminate the documentation rejects.
Assuming the BA's recommendation to be true, what will be the new success rate of the mortgage closure process?
A software development company is in the process of creating a new product for their customer base. It has been several years since such a project has been initiated and the organization has created a new team to own and develop the product. The project team will be evaluated by the successful adoption of the product, which will be developed over the next 12 months.
The team's business analyst (BA) has analyzed the current state in partnership with the product owner and
has been meeting with senior management to identify the goals that need to be attained. A broad view of the business has been analyzed in order to have an understanding of how the company is currently providing value to its customer base.
What has the BA been identifying that will be used to evaluate the solution?
The BA is analyzing the requirements that are represented in the Class Diagram. In addition to the diagram, the BA would like to include a separate document that has the information about the data elements to ensure a common understanding of the classes' attributes. What technique is used to define the data elements?
A conservative company with rigorous risk control plans and internal audit rules has a recurrent problem with a core Business application. As a result access to this application must be restricted and controlled and maintenance must be on-site. However, the company feels that the application must have an emergency service team. The routine maintenance of this solution is provided by an external vendor and the vendor requested 24 hours remote access to quality and production data. In this context what is the company's response to the vendor's request?
A Business Analyst (BA) is tasked with presenting the requirements for an auto insurance product to domain and implementation subject matter experts (SMEs). What requirements viewpoints should be used by the BA?
You are the business analyst for your organization. Management wants you to prioritize the identified requirements by the requirements that have the highest likelihood of success.
Why would management want you to prioritize the requirements with this factor even though some of the requirements may be difficult to implement?
What type of a business analysis approach focuses on the rapid delivery of business value in short iterations?
Wanda is the business analyst for her organization and she is currently working on the specify and model requirements process. One of the elements of this process is the documentation of the textual requirements.
Wanda must describe the capabilities of the solution, any conditions that must exist for the requirements to operate, and what third component of the textual requirement?
You are the business analyst for your organization and are in the process of creating the solution approach for a technology problem.
Which one of the following definitions best describes the solution approach?
A leading software manufacturing company has appointed a business analyst (BA) to ensure that requirements are managed effectively and efficiently. The BA discovered some missing functionality as well as some implemented functionality which are not supported by requirements.
Which of the following tasks did the BA use to discover the issues?
A business unit of a transnational manufacturer wants to implement a robust process for addressing integrity- critical equipment deterioration incidents. Timely and complete resolution of such incidents is vital for the business unit’s continuous safe and profitable operation. Treating each incident involves many employees from different departments extensively collaborating and exchanging information. That information is spread across multiple systems having their access limited to particular user groups. With the current manual process, some incidents get forgotten and remain unresolved for years.
The project’s Sponsor is an Equipment Integrity and Reliability Advisor, who moved into this position from another business unit. That business unit implemented a proprietary application to integrate the information and to assist in tracking and managing the incidents. Having a positive experience with the application, the Sponsor is suggesting to customize it and reuse in the new business unit.
The business unit’s Enterprise Architect (EA), who is responsible for assessing solution options and presenting them to executive decision makers, has a few concerns with adopting the existing application. The application uses point-to-point interfaces with other data sources whereas the business unit’s target architecture relies on a data warehouse-based integration. Moreover, the two business units use different legacy systems, as well as different front-end implementation technologies. Additionally, the existing application is monolingual, while the business unit needs user interfaces and some data to be presented in two languages. With all of this, it may be easier to build a new application from scratch than to customize the existing one. To understand which option is better, the EA asks a business analyst (BA) to define business requirements.
Through the elicitation process, the BA identifies the following requirement: "Particular incident-related activities require approval by authorized personnel before beginning them, as well as confirmation of acceptance of their completion."
What kind of asset should the BA provide to fully specify the approval requirement?
A local manufacturer that serves about 1000 retail stores is experiencing a slow yet steady decrease of its customer base over the last couple of years. Attributing the situation to increased competition, management has hired a team of sales representatives to attract new clients and promote the manufacturer's products. However, after four months there is still no progress. Management has engaged a business analyst (BA) to investigate this issue.
What should the BA do first?
There are 50 stakeholders in the current project. How many communication channels exist in this project?
Which of the following document is created first after project is awarded and statement of work is handed over to the project manager?
A business analyst (BA) is working on a stakeholder collaboration plan. The main goal is to select the approaches that work best to meet the needs of external and internal stakeholders.
Which aspects should be taken into account?
Which of the following chart shows the correlation between project team members and the work they've been assigned to complete?
A business analyst (BA) has completed the prioritization of requirements with various risk-averse stakeholder groups. Several requirements conflict with a regulatory requirement that, if not implemented, will result in a fine from a regulatory body.
What should the BA do?
Which of the following compares two or more systems, states, services, products, or things to determine the best viable choice?
In performing the task of planning for business analysis governance for a software implementation project, the business analyst (BA) recommends that prioritization of requirements be done based on the amount of work that the project team is capable of delivering in a given period of time.
Which of the following techniques is the BA recommending?
A business analyst (BA) at a regional bank has recently been assigned to assist on a project to expand into new markets. The chief executive officer (CEO) envisions the bank as a national brand and has asked the chief financial officer (CFO) to monitor project progress closely. The project manager (PM) has asked the BAs on the team to recommend an appropriate business analysis approach.
Based on the nature of the project and the industry, which approach should they recommend?
Which of the following is a flowchart that shows all the processes and the interfaces that interact with the project processes?
You are the business analyst for your organization and are currently with several key stakeholders as part of the determination of which business analysis approach is most appropriate for the current project.
Which one of the following is not a stakeholder that is considered when completing the business analysis planning and monitoring task to determine a business analysis approach?
You are the business analyst for a large project that will create new software for the entire organization. This new software will affect all of the administrative assistants in the organization schedule meetings, reserve facilities, and share calendars. There are approximately 2,400 administrative assistants in your organization and not all of these people can attend requirements gathering workshops.
What approach can you use to manage and gather requirements from these 2,400 administrative assistants?
TESTED 02 Apr 2025