A business analyst has started a project for a system enhancement. In order to determine how the requirements will be approved, the business analyst schedules a meeting with the stakeholders to discuss the proposed approval process.
Which measure of effective decision making allows the business analyst to finalize the process for requirement approval?
A business analyst is conducting a cost-benefit analysis of potential solution options. The stakeholders have indicated that the estimated growth rate is very important to them.
Which technique will allow the business analyst to determine this information?
How should a business analyst determine whether a solution satisfies business requirements?
An organization is in the process of replacing its current system. The business analyst is charged with ensuring that all current connections to other systems remain functional after the upgrade.
What analysis should the business analyst conduct to facilitate a successful migration?
Which tool can be used to analyze how the system responds to various combinations of input conditions with the probability of each outcome?
The project team is working on test scripts to test a solution. Which source can be used for building tests of end-to-end business processes across business functions and systems?
The project sponsor needs to know which requirements will be implemented. Which of the following would be the most valuable for a business analyst to provide?
A type of requirements document that would be the most valuable to a database administrator would be:
In order to reduce product and project risk for a large, complex project, a business analyst is asked to help develop a change process that includes formal authorization and tracking throughout the life cycle of the project. The business analyst needs a capability that will help ensure that the product conforms to approved requirements, changes can be documented, and the status of each change can be
reported.
What should the business analyst use?
The customer and the business analyst are collaborating in the development of a solution scope. It is important for the customer to:
What should a business analyst do after discovering that two solution requirements conflict?
The client produced a specification for a new product to be developed by Company A. Company A designed and successfully tested the new product against the test plan, yet the client does not agree that it meets the specification.
What could have caused this?
A company is developing a new product for a customer and is required to verify and validate the product against the customer's acceptance test plan and requirements. The product was successfully verified against the acceptance test criteria, but the customer
does not believe that the product meets the requirements.
This occurred because the customer's acceptance test plan:
When determining the value of a business case, which tool or technique should be used?
A business analyst has been assigned to a project team that is redesigning the company's website. The business analyst has been documenting the relationships between requirements and has found requirements that do not trace to a business need.
Which type of requirements are these?
The business analysts have concluded a requirements elicitation workshop. They now need to define rationale for each requirement.
Which of the following pairs of items would be important to include in the rationale?
When managing a product backlog, which statement best describes how to determine the value of backlog items?
During the initial phase of a project, which technique could assist in identifying and categorizing the stakeholders?
After completing the requirements, the project manager and business analyst realize that the project scope is not feasible in the projected schedule. The business analyst needs to review the amount of work the team is capable of delivering based on the approved project schedule.
Which prioritization technique should the business analyst use?
During validation of a project solution, the business analyst discovers that a requirement has been altered. Instead of placing the company logo in the upper-left corner of the window, it is displayed in the upper-right corner. When the business analyst asks the developer about the change, the developer says that one of the stakeholders asked directly for the change.
Which corrective action should the business analyst take?
What should be done to ensure that the product design meets the stated requirements?
Projects have been managed well and completed on schedule and on budget. However, successful completion of the projects has not improved the company’s performance and profitability.
Which of the following should have been implemented to ensure that the projects would improve the company’s performance and profitability?
What is a standardized, effective, and efficient way to manage changes to project documentation?
A company’s management team has decided to deploy a new product. However, there is concern that users may not accept a new product that forces them to change existing practices.
The business analyst should:
After several meetings with different groups of users, a business analyst has gathered the requirements for a large IT project. Now, the business analyst needs to document those requirements in a way that is clearly understood by the development team and provides
enough information to check if the requirement has been met.
Which of the following would work best in this case?
A business analyst is discussing the acceptance criteria for a new measurement system with the operations manager. The operations manager is particularly concerned about the accuracy of the new system because mistakes in data measurements could be extremely costly to fix.
Which of the following is the best strategy to define the appropriate acceptance criteria?
When faced with a tight timeline, the project sponsor suggests that the project team start development without creating traceability artifacts. What should the business analyst do?
After reviewing a business case, project goals, and objectives, a business analyst determines that the organization prefers taking an exploratory approach to finding the solution that best meets the business need. Which approach best aligns with the business need for this organization?
The document that defines the process for managing requirements revisions is the:
A business analyst is documenting the acceptance criteria to support a minor modification in a user portal. The analyst submits the criteria for review, but it is deemed incomplete and returned.
What could have caused the documentation to be returned?
A new business analyst has taken over on a project that is in the development phase. The project manager is looking for an update on requirements status.
What should the business analyst use to help communicate the status?
A business analyst has been assigned to a project that will design and build two new bridges and, at the same time, redesign a failing bridge for a local structural engineering company. All three bridges must be constructed and meet all safety requirements before flood season next spring.
How would the business analyst define the scope of this project?
A project that was going well for the last few months has encountered a situation—regulatory authorities have deemed that the project does not meet their requirements. Although regulatory requirements were identified during an earlier phase of the project, there is no substantial evidence to prove that the requirements were formally rejected.
This could have been avoided if:
To reduce the amount of time and effort needed to create a product specification for a project, the business analyst plans to reuse:
A document is being created that will detail the customer's needs for a product and will include a functional model, a data model, and a glossary of terms. This document is called a:
Which of the following is the best approach to enable developers and product owners to be in constant communication so that changes or issues that occur during development are exposed and discussed as they develop?
A business analyst created requirements for production of a product extract file for several systems. After reviewing the complex systems and dividing the processes into manageable tasks, the business analyst is able to identify the tasks required to implement the deliverable.
Which analysis technique has the business analyst used?
A business analyst captures an application's current limitations and consults with end users to identify new features for the next version.
What can be used to analyze this information and determine project scope?
A business analyst is ready to begin requirements elicitation; however, stakeholders are not available to participate for another two weeks. Which elicitation technique should the business analyst use during this time?
The following requirement was included in a business requirements document: “An API shall be built to send data back and forth from the accounting system to the customer relationship system so that name and address data can be synchronized.†What should be done with this business requirement?
The quality function deployment is best suited to assist in the process of:
Company A has set aside capital to invest in an upgrade to their scheduling system. Documentation of the current structure was presented to the business analyst. However, the description of certain steps is not documented clearly, and the business analyst has not been allowed to inspect the existing system. During elicitation, the business analyst asked questions of the schedulers as they performed functions in order to gain an understanding of the process.
Which type of elicitation technique did the business analyst use in this instance?
A business analyst in organization Y is assigned to elicit requirements in a project within a defined timeline. The business analyst has identified and invited key stakeholders to a requirements workshop. However, the stakeholders are not giving clear and concise requirements; their opinions about requirements are changing and conflicting with each other in the meeting. In the end, the business analyst could not elicit and define the requirements and therefore adjourned the meeting.
Which tool or technique could have been used by business analyst to avoid this situation?
The business analyst generated a design specification for a new product. What is the best type of formal review to conduct with the customer to establish an approved requirements baseline?
A business analyst is preparing a requirements management plan and needs to define a method to deal with a complex project with stakeholders who find it difficult to articulate their needs. Which method would best minimize requirements risk?
A new product was designed and delivered to the customer. The product exceeded customer expectations but did not meet the baseline budget for the product. What could be the issue?
The business analyst has completed the requirements gathering and documentation processes in developing a baseline document. Several signoffs are needed. During the joint review process with the key stakeholders, the stakeholders announce that they are still not ready to sign off due to a communication gap.
Which technique should the business analyst have followed to ensure consensus?
A business analyst conducts an initial review to define scope. The analysis includes the review of the business case, project goals, and objectives to obtain the necessary and required context. Based on that information, the business analyst determines that this is a large project with multiple interfaces which could cost the company money that was not initially included in the budget.
What characteristics of the project are needed to determine the approach so that the business analyst can validate whether they will
need to have a discussion about the budget?
Requirements for a project have already been approved and finalized when a stakeholder approaches the project team with a change to one of their requirements. Which method of document control should the business analyst use to document changes in requirement(s)
versioning?
A company is developing a new risk management system. The company expects the system to evolve in the near future due to changing government regulations.
Which approach will better cope with the requirements’ volatility?
A business analyst is working on a system enhancement project and has completed the requirements according to the requirements management plan. The business analyst is now ready to request approval from the stakeholders.
How should the business analyst obtain approval?
After a project was delivered, the business analyst learns of a project objective with no associated requirement. What would have helped determine this issue before delivery?
During the project execution phase, the client requests the addition of a new feature. Which of the following would allow the business analyst to determine the impact for the specific requirement change?
A project team has completed the system use cases along with accompanying screen mockups. The business analyst schedules a review meeting with the client team to walk through the artifacts.
What is the purpose of this meeting?
A business analyst from Company A has been assigned a project to document and identify requirements for a new commercial software implementation. The first step is to break down the business analysis deliverables into activities and tasks. Then, the business analyst
will add an estimate of the time needed to complete the work.
Which type of estimation technique is the business analyst using?