Business Analyst Assessment

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1. You are working with Tom on the conduct stakeholder analysis task as part of the business analysis duties in your company. Tom wants to know why it's so Important to identify stakeholders so early in the business analysis duties. Which one of the following statements best addresses the need to Identity the stakeholders early on in the business analysis duties?

2. When do change requests generally increase in a project?

3. What part of defining the business needs process will evaluate the ends that the organisation is seeking to achieve?

4. What type of a business analysis approach focuses on the rapid delivery of business value in short iterations?

5. Peter is the business analyst for his organisation. He is examining a single solution to determine if the solution he and his team have identified carries enough business value to justify its implementation. What business analysis process is Peter performing in this scenario?

6. You are the business analyst for your organisation. David and Jane, 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?

7. One of the processes within requirements analysis is to prioritize requirements. As a business analyst why would you ever want to prioritize requirements?

8. You are creating the solution scope for an identified problem in your organisation. You are working with several stakeholders during this process including the domain subject matter expert, the implementation subject matter expert, the project manager, and the sponsor. Which of these stakeholders will be responsible for writing the project scope?

9. You have identified a task in your task list that cannot be completed until the inspector for the project signs off on the initial deliverables. The inspector's signoff on the initial deliverables is called what?

10. You are the business analyst for your organisation and are to conduct stakeholder analysis. Which of the following statements best describes the conduct stakeholder analysis task?

11. What two factors must the business analyst consider when conducting stakeholder analysis?

12. Which one of the following is an example of a non-negotiable demand by a stakeholder during the requirements prioritization session?

13. You are the business analyst for the TGH Organisation and are determining if you should buy or build a solution for your company. You have determined that you can create the in-house solution for £78,000 with a monthly support cost of £8,765. A vendor can create the solution for £61,000 with a monthly support costs of £7,990. How long will it take your company to break even if you choose the internal solution versus the vendor's solution?

14. You are the business analyst for your organisation. You are currently working with Steve on the organize requirements process. You and Steve have elected to use the user stories approach for this process. What is the user stories approach for requirements organisation?

15. Will is the business analyst for the NH Company. He is working with Stan on completing the requirements prioritization of all the identiיִed requirements. Why would Stan and Ned complete requirements prioritization?

16. You are the business analyst for your organisation. You are coaching Tom about the different approaches to business analysis. Which type of business analysis approach has the most business analysis work at the beginning of the project or during the start of a project phase?

17. You are the business analyst for your organisation. 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?

18. You are the business analyst for your organisation and are with another business analyst, Steve, on the requirements elicitation for a new solution. You warn Steve that you'll need to be tracing the requirements in an effort to prevent scope creep. What is scope creep?

19. Harry's organisation uses a plan-driven approach to business analysis. When it comes to communication in Holly's organisation what type of communication will likely be required?

20. You are the business analyst for your organisation. 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?

21. Your organisation uses the MoSCoW approach to requirements prioritization. What does MoSCoW mean?

22. Mark is the business analyst for his organisation. 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?

23. Management would like you to front-load the requirements with the most risk requirements. Why would management prefer the risky requirements first in the prioritization?

24. Your organisation needs to adapt to the change economy, new technologies, and an increase in competition in order to survive. They've asked you to complete a business analysis approach that will help them change their organisational policies in order to achieve their goals and objectives. What business analysis technique has this organisation asked you to complete?

25. You are currently working on creating the activity list for an initiative in your organisation. What characteristic must be assigned to each task in your task list?

26. You are the business analyst for your organisation. You are identifying new opportunities to improve upon your existing web services. Management is open to new opportunities as long as the changes do not take more than 60 days to implement. What type of a factor does the 60-day implementation represent?

27. You are the business analyst for your organisation and are working on a solution that will connect several databases to a web application. You are concerned that the databases may not be operable with the software solution a programmer is recommending. What requirements elicitation technique can help you determine the interoperability of the software, the databases and the web application?

28. You are the business analyst for T H. Organisation 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?

29. Which one of the following is the most accurate definition of the solution scope?

30. Rob is the business analyst for his organisation and he's working with several stakeholders to identify the business need for an opportunity. Rob 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 Rob need to identify?

31. You are preparing the business case for a proposed solution in your organisation. You need to identify several components for the business case including an assessment of the risks the solution may contain. Which one of the following is the best definition of a risk as it pertains to the business case?

32. You are the business analyst for your organisation and are trying to determine the best solution for an identiיִed problem. You have determined that you could create a software solution using in-house resources for £65,000 and with an ongoing support of £5,600 per month. A vendor offers you a quote that they can create the software for £49,000 with an ongoing support of £6,100 per month. Which solution should you choose?

33. You are the business analyst for the NH. Project. You have identified several stakeholders that need different types of information related to the requirements. Which stakeholder would need detailed technical interface requirements?

34. Which one of the following statements best describes requirements prioritization?

35. What is the purpose of the business case?

36. You are the business analyst for your organisation 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?

37. You are the business analyst for your organisation. You are working with several IT professionals to determine all of the connected systems in your organisation. You are creating a mapping of the servers, workstations, printers and other connected devices and their purposes for an analysis of how information is input, processed, stored and output from each system. What business analysis process are you completing?

38. Which conduct stakeholder analysis technique identifies stakeholder roles that may serve as a useful starting point for identifying actors and roles?

39. You are the business analyst for your organisation. For the past several months you have been completing the business analysis duties for the solution stakeholders. You now have, you believe. The solution requirements identified and documented. What must you now do with the requirements before proceeding?

40. What requirements elicitation technique examines the available information, documentation, records and history of a solution, organisation or cause to identify relevant information to the current business analysis duties?

41. Dan is the business analyst for her organisation. Dan encourages teamwork and open communications among the business analysis team and the stakeholders. She wants stakeholders to drop by her office and freely discuss the requirements, the solution scope and other concerns about the solution she's working on. Dan definitely prefers informal communications. What is the danger Dan may experience with informal communications?

42. You are the business analyst for your organisation. You want to use a requirements elicitation technique to produce a broad set of options for an identiיִed problem. You want the stakeholders to help you identify options, factors that affect the solution, any possible delays in the solution implementation, and ideas for creating a solution. Which of the following requirements elicitation activities would best satisfy these requirements?

43. Dan is the business analyst for her organisation. Management has asked Dan to create a document that will define solution alternatives and how each identiיִed solution may provide an expected business benefit to meet the identified business need. Management has asked Dan to provide data and statistics in this document to support her claims and findings. What type of document is management asking Dan to create?

44. All of the following stakeholders participate in the prioritization of requirements except for which one?

45. Which of the following stages of a project defines the number of risks and opportunities, including intense planning and anticipation of risk events?

46. Which of the following software development life cycles is a methodology that divides the project into phases and the project manager focuses on control of time, cost and scope?

47. Which of the following is the process of identifying and assessing factors that may jeopardize the success of a project or the achievement of a goal?

48. Which of the following defines the deliverable the customer is expecting?

49. Which of the following is responsible for preparing the business architecture, feasibility studies and business cases?

50. 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?