BCS Foundation Exam
BCS Foundation Exam Quiz
Test your knowledge and skills with our comprehensive BCS Foundation Exam quiz! Designed for aspiring business analysts, this quiz covers essential concepts, techniques, and models relevant to the field.
- 35 multiple choice questions
- Check your understanding of business analysis competencies
- Engage with practical scenarios and analyses
Which of these are competencies of a business analyst?
Professional Techniques
Space
Biology
Love
What is POPIT concerned with?
Organisation
Doing the splits
Hate
Peace of mind
Which of these is an exclusively investigated item on Porters 5 forces model?
Bargaining power of suppliers
Doing the hokey cokey
Investing in rare coins
Only buying music on vinyl
A purchase order must contain at least one purchase and there can be up to 20 purchases per order, what is this shown as on the purchase side of the order-purchase entity diagram?
1...*
1...1
0...20
1...20
A CATWOE analysis has been done on the company quality signs, which of these would be considered as the Actor role?
The CEO of Quality signs
The sign maker
The customer of quality signs
The creepy clown outside the building
What does a MOST analysis give you?
Love is a Battelfield
A defined method to achieve the companies objectives
A good heart is hard to find
How to achieve the companies mission
What measures the negative and positive factors on a change?
Force Field Analysis
A Barometer
Whether the seaweed is wet or not
Cows in the field
What order do these items go in to the acceptance (SARAH) model for change? Acceptance, Anger, Shock, Rejection
Shock, Anger, Rejection, Acceptance
Liberty. Justice. Equality.
Space and Time
E = mc2
Why is iterative development more expensive than a single phase delivery?
Need to ensure each iteration has no impact on the system
Need to have requirements analysed every iteration,
Initial iteration will likely be flawed as it is made under time constraints
business likely to not request requirements until later iterations
What would a gap analysis be used on?
How your jeans fit
The difference between an off the shelf software package and the project requirements
Whether Pulp Fiction is better than The English Patient
When to ask a girl out
What is also included in a requirements document?
Risk Register
Stakeholder Scan
Data Model
Drinks Order
What is the next step after requirements elicitation?
Requirements gatherin
Requirements analysis
Requirements documentation
Requirements of war
Who validates that the requirements are following the correct business processes?
Snoop Dogg
The doorman
SME
Billy the Fish
Which 2 of these does an organisation view include? External environment, competition, legal, economic
External environment, competition
Legal, economic
External environment, legal
Competition, economic
When in the Business Analysis Process Model is the business case produced?
Analyse Needs
Investigate Situation
Evaluate Options
Blame it on the boogie
Which of these requirements are not included in the first iteration of a development?
S
C
W
None
What shows the system (or technical) requirements?
Use case diagram
Entity Relationship
Class
Country Music Hall of Fame
What investigation technique uses the happy day?
Scenarios
Protocol analysis
Deduction
Blood splatter
What is the technique used for step by step description of the process?
Protocol Analysis
Shadowing
Scenarios
Deduction
You shadow a worker in a warehouse, and find that he is making intuitive decisions to fulfil orders, what type of knowledge has the business analysis uncovered?
Tacit Corporate
Individual Explicit
Individual tacit
Explicit Corporate
What best describes the Initial Rate of Return?
When you hit the skids
NPV goes to zero
-4 million
45%
What animal is used to describe low market share and low growth in the Boston box What action should be taken for someone who has some interest and some power in the stakeholder management grid?
Goat
Cow
Dog
Cat
What is a stakeholder who is not in favour of a project but will probably not actively oppose it?
Opponent
Blocker
Critic
Neutral
A project manager may have many projects and each project is assigned to either an internal department or an external contractor, what type or relationship is this on an entity diagram?
Platonic
Exclusive
Amour Fu
Toxic
What analysis would have given an understanding of shared values?
Porters 5 Forces
Gap
McKinsey 7-S
It takes a nation of millions
What is a technique for documenting the outcome of workshops?
Mind Map
Brainwriting
Round Robin
Stepwise Refinement
What is a rich picture?
Sunflowers
A free-format drawing of a business situation under investigation
Rothko's No 5
Just What Is It That Makes Today's Homes So Different, So Appealing
Why would you need to customise an off the shelf system?
To change the colours
To provide a competitive advantage
To change the font
Because you want to! Because you want to!
What comes after problem finding in the problem solving model?
Mess
Data
Idea
Solution
A batch process runs at midnight and produces invoices. In this process, what does ‘midnight’ represent?
A business event
Withing Hour
A time
A space
Which of the following is true about the process view of the organisation?
Focuses on the customer of the organisation
It can never tell a lie
You can't feed it after midnight
Do doo doo doo do
Suggested that a change will improve work satisfaction. Which of the following does this fall into?
Intangible Benefit
Workplace benefit
A pit
Empty void of space
Unclear to a project sponsor why a particular requirements has been included. Which identifies who originally asked for the requirement?
Validation
Source
Resolution
Justification
In which of the following business analysis areas for the traditional system analyst role primarily operate?
Specifying IT system Requirements
Rubbing PM's shoulders
Bunking off at 3.30pm
Having too much coffee
What action should be taken for someone who has some interest and some power in the stakeholder management grid?
Find pictures of them with European prostitutes
Keep Onside
Emotional Blackmail
General Stalking
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