21) You are preparing to interview prospective business analysts for your company. Which of the below are skills that a business analyst may not need?
a. Analytical Thinking and Problem Solving
b. Behavioral Characteristics, Communication Skills, Interaction Skills
c. Business Knowledge
d. Software Applications
22) Which of the below is an output of Business analysis planning and monitoring?
a. Business analysis plan
b. BA process assets
c. Requirements management plan
d. Stakeholder list, roles, and responsibilities
23) Which of the below are examples of organizational process assets?
a. Methodologies for process change
b. Tools or techniques that are in use or understood by stakeholders
c. Corporate governance standards
d. Templates for deliverables
24) Which of the below are examples of corporate governance standards
a. COBIT™
b. Sarbanes-Oxley
c. Basel II
d. Deming’s cycle
25) Which of the below are inputs to ‘Plan Business analysis approach’?
a. Plan BA activities
b. Plan requirements management process
c. Business need
d. Expert judgment
26) Your management wants to use the plan-driven approach to define its business process. Which of the below is not true about plan-driven approach?
a. Minimizes up-front uncertainty to ensure that the solution is fully defined before implementation begins
b. Standard documents and approvals are needed
c. Change management can be informal
d. Control is maximized and risk is minimized
27) Which of the below are examples of plan-driven approach?
a. Waterfall methods of software development
b. Business process re-engineering initiatives
c. Exploratory development
d. Agile software development
28) Your management suggests that you use the approach that focuses on rapid delivery of business value in short iterations in return for acceptance of a higher degree of uncertainty regarding the overall delivery of the solution. Which approach are they suggesting?
a. Plan-driven approach
b. Change-driven approach
c. Agile software development
d. Waterfall method of software development
29) Which of the below is ‘requirements envisioning’?
a. Business analysis effort conducted early to produce an initial list of high-level requirements
b. Setting the vision for the organization by developing requirements for organizational changes
c. Visualizing requirements using techniques such as prototyping and wireframes
d. Sharing the vision for the organization by setting expectations with the staff
30) You have used the change-driven approach for your project. Formal documentation is produced after the solution is implemented to:
a. Formalize sign-off
b. Facilitate change management
c. Standardize documents used
d. Facilitate knowledge transfer
31) The complexity of business analysis efforts ____________ with the number of stakeholders (Choose the correct option from below to fill the blank):
a. Increases
b. Decreases
c. Stays the same
d. None of the above
32) Which of the below increases the complexity of business analysis efforts?
1. Number of business areas affected
2. Number of business systems affected
3. Amount and nature of risk
4. Uniqueness of requirements
a. 1
b. 1, 2
c. 1, 2, 3
d. All of the above
33) You are preparing the business analysis approach. Which of the following may the approach include?
a. Team roles
b. Deliverables
c. Analysis techniques
d. Timing and frequency of stakeholder interactions
34) One of your colleagues has a question on the methodology followed in his project. What is a methodology?
a. A formalized and repeatable business analysis approach
b. A formalized and random business analysis approach
c. An informal and repeatable business analysis approach
d. An informal and random business analysis approach
35) Which of the below tasks use stakeholder list, roles, and responsibilities?
a. Prepare for elicitation
b. Plan BA communication
c. Plan resource management
d. Plan BA activities
36) Stakeholder A works with direct end users in the five different departments. He represents 10 end users.
Stakeholder B works with direct end users in four different departments. He represents 9 end users.
Which of the below statements could be true?
a. Stakeholder B will be able to represent his end users more easily than Stakeholder A can
b. Stakeholder A will be able to represent his end users more easily than Stakeholder B can
c. It could take more effort from Stakeholder A to represent his end users
d. It could take more effort from Stakeholder B to represent his end users
37) Which of the below could affect the complexity of interactions with a stakeholder group?
a. Number of direct end users
b. Variety of direct end users
c. Number of interfacing business processes
d. Number of automated systems
38) Which of the below is true of a stakeholder map?
a. They are visual diagrams that depict the relationship of stakeholders to the solution and to one another
b. One example of stakeholder map is impact vs influence matrix
c. Stakeholder maps don’t include lines of communication between stakeholders
d. One form of stakeholder map is an onion diagram
39) Which of the below is not true about a stakeholder onion diagram?
a. Customers, suppliers, and regulators form the outermost layer of the onion
b. Solution delivery forms the inner most core of the stakeholder onion
c. The affected organizational unit involves sponsors, help desk, and others whose work changes when the solution is delivered
d. The enterprise layer involves sponsors and executives
40) Which of the below are inputs to ‘Plan BA activities’?
a. Business analysis approach
b. Business analysis plan
c. Business analysis performance assessment
d. Enterprise analysis
a. Analytical Thinking and Problem Solving
b. Behavioral Characteristics, Communication Skills, Interaction Skills
c. Business Knowledge
d. Software Applications
22) Which of the below is an output of Business analysis planning and monitoring?
a. Business analysis plan
b. BA process assets
c. Requirements management plan
d. Stakeholder list, roles, and responsibilities
23) Which of the below are examples of organizational process assets?
a. Methodologies for process change
b. Tools or techniques that are in use or understood by stakeholders
c. Corporate governance standards
d. Templates for deliverables
24) Which of the below are examples of corporate governance standards
a. COBIT™
b. Sarbanes-Oxley
c. Basel II
d. Deming’s cycle
25) Which of the below are inputs to ‘Plan Business analysis approach’?
a. Plan BA activities
b. Plan requirements management process
c. Business need
d. Expert judgment
26) Your management wants to use the plan-driven approach to define its business process. Which of the below is not true about plan-driven approach?
a. Minimizes up-front uncertainty to ensure that the solution is fully defined before implementation begins
b. Standard documents and approvals are needed
c. Change management can be informal
d. Control is maximized and risk is minimized
27) Which of the below are examples of plan-driven approach?
a. Waterfall methods of software development
b. Business process re-engineering initiatives
c. Exploratory development
d. Agile software development
28) Your management suggests that you use the approach that focuses on rapid delivery of business value in short iterations in return for acceptance of a higher degree of uncertainty regarding the overall delivery of the solution. Which approach are they suggesting?
a. Plan-driven approach
b. Change-driven approach
c. Agile software development
d. Waterfall method of software development
29) Which of the below is ‘requirements envisioning’?
a. Business analysis effort conducted early to produce an initial list of high-level requirements
b. Setting the vision for the organization by developing requirements for organizational changes
c. Visualizing requirements using techniques such as prototyping and wireframes
d. Sharing the vision for the organization by setting expectations with the staff
30) You have used the change-driven approach for your project. Formal documentation is produced after the solution is implemented to:
a. Formalize sign-off
b. Facilitate change management
c. Standardize documents used
d. Facilitate knowledge transfer
31) The complexity of business analysis efforts ____________ with the number of stakeholders (Choose the correct option from below to fill the blank):
a. Increases
b. Decreases
c. Stays the same
d. None of the above
32) Which of the below increases the complexity of business analysis efforts?
1. Number of business areas affected
2. Number of business systems affected
3. Amount and nature of risk
4. Uniqueness of requirements
a. 1
b. 1, 2
c. 1, 2, 3
d. All of the above
33) You are preparing the business analysis approach. Which of the following may the approach include?
a. Team roles
b. Deliverables
c. Analysis techniques
d. Timing and frequency of stakeholder interactions
34) One of your colleagues has a question on the methodology followed in his project. What is a methodology?
a. A formalized and repeatable business analysis approach
b. A formalized and random business analysis approach
c. An informal and repeatable business analysis approach
d. An informal and random business analysis approach
35) Which of the below tasks use stakeholder list, roles, and responsibilities?
a. Prepare for elicitation
b. Plan BA communication
c. Plan resource management
d. Plan BA activities
36) Stakeholder A works with direct end users in the five different departments. He represents 10 end users.
Stakeholder B works with direct end users in four different departments. He represents 9 end users.
Which of the below statements could be true?
a. Stakeholder B will be able to represent his end users more easily than Stakeholder A can
b. Stakeholder A will be able to represent his end users more easily than Stakeholder B can
c. It could take more effort from Stakeholder A to represent his end users
d. It could take more effort from Stakeholder B to represent his end users
37) Which of the below could affect the complexity of interactions with a stakeholder group?
a. Number of direct end users
b. Variety of direct end users
c. Number of interfacing business processes
d. Number of automated systems
38) Which of the below is true of a stakeholder map?
a. They are visual diagrams that depict the relationship of stakeholders to the solution and to one another
b. One example of stakeholder map is impact vs influence matrix
c. Stakeholder maps don’t include lines of communication between stakeholders
d. One form of stakeholder map is an onion diagram
39) Which of the below is not true about a stakeholder onion diagram?
a. Customers, suppliers, and regulators form the outermost layer of the onion
b. Solution delivery forms the inner most core of the stakeholder onion
c. The affected organizational unit involves sponsors, help desk, and others whose work changes when the solution is delivered
d. The enterprise layer involves sponsors and executives
40) Which of the below are inputs to ‘Plan BA activities’?
a. Business analysis approach
b. Business analysis plan
c. Business analysis performance assessment
d. Enterprise analysis
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