You are the business analyst for your organization and you're preparing the solution for your organization's review and implementation. Some of the requirements of the solution, however, must be inspected by compliance officers before the project and implementation can move forward. The requirements of the inspection can be best described as what?
A. Bottleneck
B. Requirements
C. Cost-negativity
D. Constraint
You are the business analyst for your organization and you're notifying the key stakeholders of a need to gather requirements for an endeavor. One of the stakeholders that you'll need to attend your requirements workshop is the project manager. What role will the project manager have in this workshop?
A. The project manager will facilitate the requirements workshop.
B. The project manager will ensure that the needed resources are available.
C. None, the project manager should not be involved until all of the requirements have been identified.
D. The project manager will help elicit requirements from the stakeholders.
Audrey is the business analyst for her organization and she's doing an assessment of the organization's readiness to implement the solution. In her assessment, she's finding that there are conflicting stakeholder groups for and against the proposed solution. Some of the stakeholders have more power over the solution than others. What diagram can Audrey create to visualize the people that are for and against the solution?
A. Force field analysis diagram
B. Tornado diagram
C. Stakeholder matrix
D. Pareto chart
Which one of the following business analysis techniques for analyzing business goals converts the business goals into achievable objectives and measures?
A. Benchmarking
B. Root cause analysis
C. Functional decomposition
D. Business rules analysis
You are the business analyst for your organization and you're creating the requirements package. In this documentation, to what level should you document the requirements for your stakeholders?
A. All requirements should be clearly defined with technical, business, functional, and non-functional attributes.
B. All requirements should be defined only to the extent needed to assure understanding by the team.
C. All requirements should be defined to the extent the organizational process assets demand.
D. All requirements should be defined in detail to the work package level of WBS.
Jason is creating a business case for his organization and management has asked him to assess the appropriate risks in the business case regarding the solution. Which one of the following risks is not a concern for Jason when defining the business case and associated risks?
A. Financial risk
B. Positive risk
C. Organizational risk
D. Technical risk
In order to plan business analysis activities, you will need four inputs. Which one of the following inputs is not valid for this task?
A. Business analysis approach
B. Stakeholder tolerance for risk
C. Stakeholder list, roles, and responsibilities
D. Business analysis performance assessment
According to the book 'A Guide to the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge', effective business analysis practices can do what to the amount of change to requirements in a stable business environment?
A. Reduce the amount of change, but not eliminate entirely.
B. Document the changes to requirements.
C. Control the frequency of the change.
D. Eliminate the change entirely.
Which one of the following statements best describes requirements prioritization?
A. It is only used with the plan-driven approach to business analysis.
B. It is only used with the change-driven approach to business analysis.
C. It determines how requirements will be prioritized based on the most important stakeholders to the least important stakeholders.
D. It determines how requirements will be prioritized and how those priorities will be used to define the solution scope.
A survey on a new system was conducted after the chief executive officer (CEO), who is also the project sponsor, expressed concerns about the uptake of the new system. The CEO is neither sure that the concerns are valid nor whether the survey was conclusive about the success of the project. The business analyst (BA) has been tasked to address the concerns expressed by the CEO and evaluate the results of the survey. What must the BA do to determine that the system is performing as intended and address the concerns of the CEO?
A. Evaluate the new system against competitor applications
B. Confirm the satisfaction of business requirements
C. Conduct another survey to validate the original results
D. Validate performance measures and alignment with KPIs
