ECBA: Entry Certificate in Business Analysis

Question #: 61
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What are the participant roles in reviews?

A. Domain SME, regulator, sponsor, project manager
B. Customer, supplier, end user, business analyst
C. Author, reviewer, facilitator, scribe
D. Approver, administrator, reviewer, tester

Question #: 62
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What technique is used to elicit business analysis information, including contextual understanding and requirements, by examining available materials that describe either the business environment or existing organizational assets?

A. Organizational modeling
B. Document analysis
C. Functional decomposition
D. Data flow diagrams

Question #: 63
Topic #: 1
Establishing the design option that is appropriate to meet the enterprise’s requirements is the purpose of which task?

A. Define requirements architecture
B. Analyze potential value and recommend solution
C. Define design options
D. Specify and model requirements

Question #: 64
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Which of the following is an example of a requirements viewpoint?

A. Use case
B. Mind map
C. Expert judgement
D. Item tracking

Question #: 65
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Which of the following techniques would a business analyst (BA) use to conduct elicitation?

A. Prioritization
B. Reviews
C. Observation
D. Estimation

Question #: 66
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Which core concept defines a specific way of satisfying one or more needs in a context?

A. Value
B. Change
C. Solution
D. Priority

Question #: 67
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Which technique represents a small, concise statement of functionality or quality needed to deliver value to a specific stakeholder?

A. User stories
B. Lessons learned
C. Business case
D. Scope modelling

Question #: 68
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What requirements are good candidates for reuse?

A. Requirements without direct ties to a particular tool
B. Requirements expressed in more detail
C. Requirements at low levels of abstraction
D. Requirements with specific references to departments

Question #: 69
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When approving requirements, conflict and issue management is an element used to assist in:

A. measuring performance indicators.
B. identifying activities.
C. obtaining consensus among stakeholders.
D. performing quality control.

Question #: 70
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When should prioritization of requirements take place?

A. At the very beginning of an initiative only
B. After the maintain requirements and trace requirements tasks have been completed
C. Continually throughout the initiative
D. After the maintain requirements task has been completed

Question #: 71
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Conducting elicitation by asking questions and documenting responses from relevant stakeholders has the following strength:

A. prioritization setting.
B. analytical thinking.
C. sharing of information.
D. encouraging participation.

Question #: 72
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Which of the following business analysis activities might be undertaken to verify requirements?

A. Identifying a previously documented business need
B. Comparing a model with another relevant model
C. Organizing requirements into structures
D. Evaluating alignment with solution scope

Question #: 73
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Requirements allocation is an element of which task?

A. Specify and model requirements
B. Verify requirements
C. Define requirements architecture
D. Define design options

Question #: 74
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In the define design options task, which of the following relates to the identify improvement opportunities element?

A. Assess issues, define risks, confirm elicitation results
B. Create flow diagrams, purchase solutions components, secure resources
C. Increase efficiencies, identify additional capabilities, improve access to information
D. Define change strategy, analyze current state, prioritize requirements

Question #: 75
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Which behavioural characteristic enables the business analyst (BA) to establish credibility by ensuring that business analysis efforts meet the needs of the business?

A. Ethics
B. Trustworthiness
C. Personal Accountability
D. Adaptability

Question #: 76
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Which of the following are criteria used to determine quality requirements relationships?

A. Necessity, validate, derive
B. Complexity, stability, status
C. Necessary, consistent, correct
D. Penalty, benefit, cost

Question #: 77
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The approach that defines how requirements will be re-used is the:

A. governance approach.
B. approach to identifying business analysis improvements.
C. information management approach.
D. business analysis approach.

Question #: 78
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In a use case, which is one of the two commonly used relationships?

A. Inherit
B. Identify
C. Distribute
D. Extend

Question #: 79
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Which stakeholder group is involved in regularly maintaining requirements and ensuring that the requirements list accurately reflects stated needs?

A. Implementation subject matter expert
B. Domain subject matter expert
C. Operational support
D. Business analyst

Question #: 80
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What skill is required by a business analyst (BA) to understand how the people, processes, and technology within an organization interact, to understand the enterprise from a holistic point of view?

A. Creative thinking
B. Conceptual thinking
C. Problem solving
D. Systems thinking