CBAP: Certified Business Analysis Professional

Question #: 121
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You are the business analyst for your organization and are working with Ralph who is also a business analyst at your company. You have moved one of the requirements higher in the prioritization of the requirements because it is needed to be implemented before some of the more important requirements are done.
Ralph disagrees with your placement of the requirement because you are to rank the requirements based on their level of difficulty.
Who is correct and why?

A. Ralph is correct because the requirements are always to be ranked by importance or business value.
B. You are correct because the lower priority requirements must be completed before the higher priority requirements can be done.
C. You are correct because you are the senior business analyst.
D. Ralph is correct because the sequence of requirements is actually done with the project activity list.

Question #: 122
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There are four inputs to writing the business case as part of enterprise analysis.
Which one of the following is not an input to writing the business case process?

A. Business need
B. Assumptions and constraints
C. Requirements verification
D. Stakeholder concerns

Question #: 123
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Martha is observing Sarah complete several complex steps as part of her business analysis requirements elicitation process. In this instance Martha working alongside Sarah is actually helping Sarah complete the work so that Martha can understand all of the steps Sarah must complete.
What type of requirements elicitation technique is Martha using?

A. Progressive elaboration
B. Shadowing
C. Cross training requirements elicitation
D. Active observation

Question #: 124
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You are the business analyst for THY Organization 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?

A. To help determine the sequence in which requirements are to be addressed.
B. To help determine which requirements carry the most risk.
C. To help determine the total cost for the solution to be implemented.
D. To help determine the total time for the solution to be implemented.

Question #: 125
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As part of the requirements analysis a business analyst can use the same tools and techniques to model the current state of an organization.
All of the following are valid reasons why would a business analyst want to create a current state domain model except for which one?

A. The current state model can help identify opportunities for improvement.
B. The current state model can help validate the solution scope with business and technical stakeholders.
C. The current state model can help the business analyst create Pareto charts for process improvement.
D. The current state model can help assist stakeholders in understanding the current state

Question #: 126
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You are completing the requirements for vendor selection and need to create a procurement form that will ask the vendor to provide only a price for commercial- off-the-shelf solution.
What type of procurement form will you need to provide to the vendor?

A. Request for proposal
B. Purchase order
C. Request for information
D. Request for quote

Question #: 127
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You are the business analyst for your organization. Management has asked you to create a plan that will define the proposed structure and schedule for communicating the business analysis activities to the appropriate stakeholders.
What plan does management want you to create?

A. Business Analysis Plan
B. Business Analysis Communications Plan
C. Communications management plan
D. Stakeholder Management Plan

Question #: 128
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The RGQ Organization utilizes a change log.
What is a change log?

A. It is a document that records all change requests for the project.
B. It is a document that tracks all unauthorized changes to the project solution.
C. It is a document that tracks all characteristics and status of changes that have been received.
D. It is a document that tracks the changes that have been received, including their implementation to the project solution.

Question #: 129
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Zoe is the business analyst for her organization. She is currently prioritizing the requirements based on the implementation difficulty of the requirements to help with the solution planning.
Which of the following best describes the approach Zoe is taking with requirements prioritization?

A. The requirements are categorized by type of work, and then ranked within each category of ease of implementation to difficulty of implementation.
B. The requirements are ranked most difficult to easiest to implement.
C. The requirements are ranked from easiest to hardest to implement.
D. The requirements are categorized by the likelihood of management approving the requirements.

Question #: 130
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Which one of the following is the most accurate definition of the solution scope?

A. Defines what must be delivered in order to meet the business need.
B. Determines the things that are believed to be true in the solution but they have not yet been proven to be true.
C. Determines if an organization can justify the investment required to deliver the proposed solution.
D. Defines the business need, identified key stakeholders, describes the positive impact of the solution.

Question #: 131
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You are the business analyst for your organization and you are preparing to elicit the requirements for a new business opportunity.
Which one of the following statements best describes the prepare for elicitation process?

A. You need authority granted to you from the sponsor to utilize resources for the elicit requirements process.
B. You need to determine which elicitation techniques are needed for the requirements gathering technique.
C. You need to ensure all needed resources are organized and scheduled for conducting the elicitation activities.
D. You need to receive permission from functional management to interview and elicit requirements for the stakeholders.

Question #: 132
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Robert is the business analyst for his organization and he’s working with several stakeholders to identify the business need for an opportunity. Robert 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 Robert need to identify?

A. Sponsor
B. Customer
C. Implementation Subject Matter Expert
D. Regulator

Question #: 134
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It’s often impossible or difficult to prove that the implementation of a solution will change the current state of an organization to the desired future state. The business analyst must document the characteristics and risk of the implementation of a solution in case the belief that the solution will achieve the desired results will prove invalid.
What is the belief that the solution will create the desired effect for the organization called?

A. Project
B. Risk
C. Assumption
D. Model

Question #: 135
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You are preparing the business case for a proposed solution in your organization. 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?

A. Risk is an uncertain event or condition that may have both positive and negative affects on the solution.
B. Risk is an uncertain event that can cause the organization to lose more monies than it invests in the solution.
C. Risk is a potential event that can cause the solution to fail.
D. Risks are threats to the organization’s success.

Question #: 136
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Which of the following inputs of Monitor and Control Risks acquires information from performance measurements and evaluates it to provide variance analysis and forecasting?

A. Risk register
B. Work performance information
C. Performance report
D. Project management plan

Question #: 137
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You are the business analyst for your organization and are trying to determine the best solution for an identified problem. You have determined that you could create a software solution using inhouse 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?

A. Create the software if you’ll keep the solution less than 32 months.
B. Create the software if you’ll use the solution longer than 32 months.
C. There is not enough information to determine which solution is financially better.
D. Buy from the vendor if you’ll keep the solution longer than 32 months.

Question #: 138
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All of the following are techniques that can be used to specify or model requirements except for which one?

A. Organization modeling
B. Data modeling
C. Work breakdown structure creation
D. State diagrams

Question #: 139
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You are the business analyst for a large project in your organization. You are working with Ben to create requirements packages to present to the stakeholders, the business analyst team, and to the project manager. Ben wants to know why you’re creating requirements packages.
What’s the primary goal of developing a requirements package?

A. To convey the cost, schedule, and risk information clearly
B. To convey information clearly and in an understandable fashion
C. To present the requirements in packages that are easy for the project team to accomplish in their project execution
D. To help the project manager create the work breakdown structure

Question #: 140
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You are creating a model that shows how data moves through a system. Each function that modifies the data in any manner is identified, decomposed to smaller levels, and the system is completely described from start to storage.
What type of a modeling technique are you using in this scenario?

A. Functional decomposition
B. Data flow diagramming
C. Work decomposition
D. Organization modeling

Question #: 142
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A business analyst is helping management determine which solution they should choose. As it happens that the organization can only choose one of the two solutions due to time and resource restrictions. Solution A worths $456,000 to the organization while solution B worths $565,000 to the organization. While solution A costs less, it is less risky and takes less time to complete so management elects to seize Solution A.
What is the opportunity cost?

A. $565,000
B. There is not enough information to know how much the solution will cost the organization.
C. $109,000
D. $456,000

Question #: 143
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You are the business analyst for your organization. Your current project is using a plan-driven approach for the requirements, business analysis, and monitoring.
Which one of the following statements best describes the plan-driven approach to business analysis planning and monitoring?

A. Plan-driven approaches determine how priorities will be diagnosed for the project solution.
B. Plan-driven approaches encourage changes that prevent errors and omissions.
C. Plan-driven approaches typically have meetings daily to discuss the business analysis requirements process.
D. Plan-driven approaches typically call for a significant amount of formality and detail.

Question #: 144
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There are just three inputs to the assess proposed solution process.
Which of the following is NOT one of the inputs for the assess proposed solution process?

A. Requirements
B. Decision analysis
C. Assumptions and constraints
D. Solution options

Question #: 145
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Holly is the business analyst for her organization. Management has asked Holly to create a document that will define solution alternatives and how each identified solution may provide an expected business benefit to meet the identified business need. Management has asked Holly to provide data and statistics in this document to support her claims and findings.
What type of document is management asking Holly to create?

A. Feasibility study
B. Vision statement
C. Project scope statement
D. Current state assessment

Question #: 147
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You are the business analyst for the NHQ Project. You have identified several stakeholders that need different types of information related to the requirements.
Which stakeholder would need detailed technical interface requirements?

A. Project manager
B. Regulators
C. Testers
D. Implementation subject matter experts

Question #: 147
Topic #: 1
You are the business analyst for the NHQ Project. You have identified several stakeholders that need different types of information related to the requirements.
Which stakeholder would need detailed technical interface requirements?

A. Project manager
B. Regulators
C. Testers
D. Implementation subject matter experts

Question #: 148
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Management comes to you and asks you to complete some specifications and models about the current state of the organization. Management wants you to complete this business analysis activity as soon as possible and report back to them with your findings.
What is the primary purpose of the specify and model requirements process?

A. To analyze the processes of an organization to determine what processes can be improved, removed, or added.
B. To analyze the utility function within the organization to determine how risk tolerance may allow for new opportunities.
C. To analyze the roles and responsibilities of users within the organization to determine how the processes may be improved.
D. To analyze the functioning of an organization and to provide an insight into opportunities for improvement.

Question #: 149
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Which one of the following statements best describes requirements prioritization?

A. It determines how requirements will be prioritized based on the most important stakeholders to the least important stakeholders.
B. It is only used with the change-driven approach to business analysis.
C. It is only used with the plan-driven approach to business analysis.
D. It determines how requirements will be prioritized and how those priorities will be used to define the solution scope.

Question #: 150
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Which of the following is a process of adding labor to a project to reduce the project duration?

A. Forming
B. Storming
C. Rolling wave planning
D. Crashing

Question #: 151
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You are the business analyst for your organization and you are working with Bill on creating a model. Bill is a little confused about all the different things a model can do for the stakeholders.
You explain to Bill that a model can do all of the following except for which one?

A. Define the risk and reward for the requirements
B. Categorize and create hierarchies of items
C. Define boundaries for business domains
D. Show business logic

Question #: 152
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You are the business analyst for a new project. Part of this project is for the project team to manually install new workstations through the company’s campus.
Based on your research you have determined that the project team can install 25 new workstations per hour. Since there is a fixed amount of time that these workstations need to be installed you are considering adding additional labor for the implementation. You are also considering to adjust the prioritization of the project requirements based on the amount of workstations the project team can install per hour.
What does the 25 workstations per hour represent in this scenario?

A. Timeboxing
B. Planning
C. Parametric estimate
D. Report project

Question #: 152
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You are the business analyst for a new project. Part of this project is for the project team to manually install new workstations through the company’s campus.
Based on your research you have determined that the project team can install 25 new workstations per hour. Since there is a fixed amount of time that these workstations need to be installed you are considering adding additional labor for the implementation. You are also considering to adjust the prioritization of the project requirements based on the amount of workstations the project team can install per hour.
What does the 25 workstations per hour represent in this scenario?

A. Timeboxing
B. Planning
C. Parametric estimate
D. Report project

Question #: 153
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You are the business analyst for your organization. As part of the requirements prioritization you have given each key stakeholder $10,000 in play money to distribute among the identified requirements. Each stakeholder can assign their play money to any of the requirements, but the requirements will be prioritized based on the value of the play money assigned to each requirement.
What type of requirements prioritization is happening in this scenario?

A. Resource leveling
B. Confirmation management
C. Utility function
D. Voting

Question #: 154
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You are the business analyst for your organization. You have identified the costs and level of effort needed for each of the solution components. Management has asked that you also assess the most effective tradeoffs between delivery options. You consider the available resources and the constraints on the solution to determine if an additional investment is justified to realize a higher value for the solution.
What other consideration could you include in your assessment of the solution?

A. Historical information
B. Dependencies between requirements
C. Experience of the implementation team
D. Enterprise environmental factors

Question #: 155
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You are the business analyst for your organization and are preparing to conduct stakeholder analysis. As part of this process you realize that you’ll need several inputs.
Which one of the following is NOT an input you’ll use for the conduct stakeholder analysis task?

A. Enterprise architecture
B. Enterprise environmental factors
C. Organizational process assets
D. Business need

Question #: 157
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You are the business analyst for your organization and are planning the business analysis approach. One of the techniques you are considering for this undertaking is to rate the available methodologies against the organizational needs and objectives.
Which of the following terms describes the business analysis technique that you are currently considering in this scenario?

A. Structured walkthrough
B. Decision analysis
C. Cause-and-effect analysis
D. Process modeling

Question #: 158
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Which conduct stakeholder analysis technique is useful for identifying shared characteristics of a stakeholder group?

A. Surveys
B. Scope modeling
C. Brainstorming
D. Interviews

Question #: 159
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You are the business analyst for the NHQ Organization. Management has asked that you examine the workflow and internal processes for order fulfillment.
Specifically, they’d like you to complete an in-depth analysis and documentation of the business problems and opportunities that may be exist for the organization.
What business analysis knowledge area does this activity map to?

A. Requirements elicitation
B. Solution assessment and validation
C. Enterprise analysis
D. Requirements management and communication

Question #: 160
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You are the business analyst for a large, complex solution and you are working with the stakeholders to determine the prioritization of the requirements. You would like to use the decision analysis to determine the best decision for the requirements outcome. You must know four things as part of decision analysis.
Which one of the following will not help you with this approach to the requirements prioritization process?

A. The values, goals, and objectives that are relevant to the requirements
B. The consequences of each possible decision
C. The nature of the decision that must be made
D. The future value of the requirements

Question #: 161
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Herb is the business analyst for the HYY Organization. As Herb is completing the organize requirements process he recognizes that requirements typically need to answer one question for identification.
What is the one interrogative that requirements should answer?

A. What
B. When
C. Why
D. How

Question #: 162
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Your organization is using a plan-driven approach to business analysis.
What must you do with all of the communication documents created as part of this high-priority project that you are serving as the business analyst for?

A. All formal communication must be destroyed once the project is completed.
B. All communications must be documented and passed onto the solution’s project manager for analysis and to serve as supporting detail.
C. The communications management plan will dictate what will happen to the business analysis communications.
D. All communications must be archived and will become part of the organizational process as sets.

Question #: 163
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You are the business analyst for your organization 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?

A. Tester
B. Project manager
C. Regulator
D. Functional management

Question #: 166
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Bob and Susan are business analysts for their organization. They are examining two materials that could be used in an upcoming project. They are testing the materials and measuring the results of each test to compare the materials to each other. This process will help Bob and Susan determine which material is best for their upcoming project.
What type of process are Bob and Susan completing with these materials?

A. Feasibility study
B. Stress test
C. Alternative identification
D. Benchmarking

Question #: 166
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Bob and Susan are business analysts for their organization. They are examining two materials that could be used in an upcoming project. They are testing the materials and measuring the results of each test to compare the materials to each other. This process will help Bob and Susan determine which material is best for their upcoming project.
What type of process are Bob and Susan completing with these materials?

A. Feasibility study
B. Stress test
C. Alternative identification
D. Benchmarking

Question #: 167
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You are the business analyst for your organization. You are working with several IT professionals to determine all of the connected systems in your organization.
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?

A. Networking topology mapping
B. Data dictionary and glossary creation
C. Data flow diagram
D. Prototype

Question #: 168
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Which of the following is a quality control chart to track trends in project execution?

A. Control chart
B. RACI chart
C. PERT chart
D. Pareto chart

Question #: 169
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You are the business analyst for your organization and are about to conduct requirements elicitation for a process to streamline the customer fulfillment system your organization uses. You need to understand how the people, processes, and technology within the customer fulfillment system operates before you begin the elicitation process.
What type of analytical thinking are you participating in this scenario?

A. Problem solving
B. Creative thinking
C. Brainstorming
D. System thinking

Question #: 170
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Which of the following is NOT a component of an entity relationship diagram?

A. Attributes
B. Relationships
C. Forks
D. Entities

Question #: 171
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What type of interview is the most common as part of requirements elicitation?

A. Many-to-one
B. Many-to-many
C. One-to-one
D. One-to-many

Question #: 172
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Which of the following meeting brings all of the potential vendors together to discuss the statement of work and the request for proposal?

A. Contract bidding meeting
B. Status meeting
C. Qualified vendors meeting
D. Bidders conference

Question #: 174
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Which of the following is NOT a component of flowchart?

A. Forks
B. Attributes
C. Activities
D. Joins

Question #: 177
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You are the business analyst for your organization and preparing to complete the requirements elicitation activities. Your manager wants to know when the requirements elicitation process will be completed.
Which of the following responses best describes the nature of the requirements elicitation process?

A. The schedule of the project determines the duration of the requirements elicitation process .
B. The duration of the requirements elicitation activities is determined by the willingness of the project stakeholders to contribute to the requirements information.
C. The size of the project determines the duration of the requirements elicitation process.
D. Eliciting requirements is not a compartmentalized activity.

Question #: 178
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Which of the following is mandatory in most software development projects?

A. Communication Management plan
B. Disaster recovery plan
C. Test plan
D. Procurement plan

Question #: 179
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You are the business analyst for your organization and are preparing for the conduct elicitation activity. You’ll need several stakeholders’ roles as you prepare for this activity in your organization.
Which one of the following stakeholders may be responsible to dictate that a specific process or technique be followed during your requirements elicitation activities?

A. Project manager
B. Regulator
C. Functional management
D. Project sponsor

Question #: 180
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What element of the conduct elicitation activity is tracked to provide a basis for future planning?

A. Time actually spent eliciting the requirements
B. Number of stakeholders that did not participate in the requirements elicitation
C. Cost of actually eliciting the requirements
D. Changes that entered the scope throughout the requirements elicitation activities