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Which conduct stakeholder analysis technique identifies stakeholder roles that may serve as a useful starting point for identifying actors and roles?
What two factors must the business analyst consider when conducting stakeholder analysis?
You are the business analyst for your organization. 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?
A financial institution engaged in mortgage lending has embarked on a business process improvement initiative to eliminate the activities that hinder growth to ultimately improve the success rate of its mortgage business. As a benchmark for identification, the institution is keen on improving any business process that has less than a 75% success rate. The institution has appointed a business analyst (BA) to review the business transactions for the processes of origination, payments, and closures, as well as identify opportunities for improvements and recommend solutions.
The BA has collected the following information over the last three months pertaining to these business processes:
•All the business processes are at their maximum capacity in terms of the current number of transactions.
•Each business process has a certain number of rejects and the reasons for rejection include documentation, verification, collateral, and funding. Funding rejects occur when the bank's customers have failed to make payment of their mortgage processing fee or mortgage closure payment.
The BA has also recommended the use of documentation checklists as a solution to eliminate the documentation rejects.
If the financial institution always works at full capacity month to month and the new success rate continues to remain the same after implementing the BA's recommendation, what is the average number of successes per month for the mortgage closure process, if the current process capability were increased by 50%?
Management has asked you, a business analyst for your organization, to create the solution scope for an identified problem. In order to complete this task, you'll need three elements.
All of the following are elements you'll need in order to write the solution scope except for which one?
You are the business analyst for your organization and are coaching Roberta on how business analysis works.
Roberta is confused about what a business analysis methodology is during the business analysis planning and monitoring phase of the business analysis duties.
What is a methodology?
Which of the following is concerned with determining whether the information used for risk analysis is probable, of high class, or accurate?
Your organization is trying to determine which one of two opportunities they will pursue. The Project A is worth
$235,987 and Project B is worth $567,000 but carries significant risk. The organization elects to purse Project B and not Project A.
What is the opportunity cost in this scenario?
Company A is a nation-wide leader in commercial demolition. Having just celebrated its 100th year of operations, the company decided to begin doing work internationally. The current system used for reporting company finances is unable to keep pace with the potential demands of doing work in geographically dispersed locations. Therefore, the company decided to replace its client-based Profit & Loss (P&L) reporting system with a more robust, web-based system. This will ensure transparency across the organization and enable better decision making.
The business analyst (BA) at Company A has recently completed several rounds of elicitation to determine the requirements for the new, web-based system. Over 1250 requirements were elicited. An initial Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) has been drafted, and a subset of the RTM can be seen below:
The BA is working on identifying additional improvement opportunities based on these requirements. Which of the following improvement opportunities is reflected in Requirement ID NFP0002?
A national branch of a global company is struggling to improve business processes of its Public and Government Affairs (PGA) department. To work with external stakeholders effectively, PGA employees need to collect, manage, and exchange a vast amount of information. Complex cases involve collaboration of many employees from different departments. The ability to share information and to coordinate corresponding activities is crucial for the company's growth plans. Their current tools and practices do not serve the purpose well. The existing system, which was deployed a couple of years ago, has only a few active users. The majority of PGA employees avoid using it because the system is hard to use and lacks needed functionality. Consequently, available information is mostly unstructured and stored either locally or on a shared network drive. Some of the information exists only in a paper form.
The branch's PGA head, who sponsors the project, wants to implement a configurable solution that two other branches successfully deployed several months ago. Both deployments were done by three solution consultants, who will be available to assist in the project. They will be responsible for tailoring the solution to PGA needs, as well as for training the PGA staff. With their help, the sponsor plans to complete the project in approximately three months.
The solution consultants reside in another country 7 hours ahead of the rest of the project team. They will be available part-time, but are planning two one-week long trips to the PGA central office to conduct initial training and to participate in the final deployment of the system into production. The consultants, in turn, expect a business analyst (BA) to assist in collecting necessary data and defining customization requirements.
The solution consultants have composed a spreadsheet with all requirements that are already implemented in the solution. The requirements in the catalog are organized partially by user tasks and partially by system features. The branch has distinct definitions of PGA user roles and uses a different approach to structuring requirements specifications.
How should the BA organize the customization requirements?
The business analyst (BA) is preparing to determine the impact of various risks associated with the business analysis effort currently underway.
Which of the following would the BA use as an input into the assessment of risk?
A very large insurer of General Liability and Property Damage insurance has an upward trend of increased claims over the past 5 years.
The Risk Control Area for that company has just completed a 12 month Pilot of a new improved Risk Control Site.
The purpose of the site is to help their customers manage their exposures and ideally prevent them from having claims There were 100 customers that were part of the Pilot that represented 25 different industries. The business goals were to increase use of the site and provide tools to help customer awareness of their exposures, so that they may reduce existing exposures and ultimately reduce claims.
The sites Features were as follows:
* Improvements to the search engine to all customers to search for articles, tools and services on the site
* A checklist function that allow customer to create their own unique Checklists or utilize a sample provided by ABC company to use daily, weekly etc. for an area of their facility.
* A promotion feature - where Risk preventing Articles, and tools on the site are marketed toward a customer.
* A profile section allowing for Customer Name, Address and contact Phone number.
Alter the 12 month pilot the business sponsor received an assessment of what was working and what was not. The Assessment of the pilot revealed overall site activity had significantly increased, however only 5% of the time the promotions were viewed. And the most shocking was that total claims increased by nearly 20% for these 100 customers during the pilot period. The business sponsor was perplexed as he had an expectation of reduced claims and at least for 30% viewing of promotions since the project team had spent a lot of careful time and effort on this feature. A BA was assigned to do further analysis regarding the low use of the promotions and why claims were not being reduced.
Regarding the use of promotions the BA looked into other similar companies to see what they did differently to get their customer to look at their promotions. The BA found that similar companies had promotions that targeted the industry the customer was in so it was more relevant to them and they were more interested to view the promotion. In addition the BA sent out a survey to all 100 pilot customers asking probing questions about what they thought of the site and if they felt it had decreased their exposure to risk sufficiently. The Survey responses came back with raving positive comments and providing examples of how the site had been helping in the reduction of claims from the customer's perspective. In addition the survey also revealed insight that the customers found the promotion often irrelevant to their industry.
The BA asked for a dump of all documentation of the 1000 claims that were filed over the 12 month pilot period. The BA found the nearly 90% of the claim filed were all in one region of the country and were all for property damage related to several severe winter storms in the region and the claims were nearly all unavoidable by the customers. The BA brought all this analysis back to the business sponsor and made the recommendation to the business sponsor to require the customer to select 1 of 25 industries in their profile. This would in turn allow for the ability to show industry specific promotions and promote search results relative to a customer's industry to be sorted at the top giving the customer a more personalized experience.
What technique was the BA using to understand why the promotions were not being viewed?
A company with a big information technology (IT) department has hired a lead business analyst (BA) to enhance its business analysis practices. The lead BA discovers that sponsors are not satisfied with project outcomes. Developers complain about incomplete, ambiguous, and changing requirements. All stakeholders, including project managers, are blaming long cycles of analysis for the delays. The business analysts, in turn, feel overwhelmed with the number of projects and frustrated by the lack of collaboration from reviewers of their deliverables. All of the evidence is anecdotal and none of the groups could strongly substantiate their opinions.
The lead BA wants the BAs to report anticipated and actual completion dates for their deliverables, as well as the time spent on planned and unplanned activities. What is the lead BA trying to do by analyzing the results of such measurements?
A business analyst (BA) works for an organization that is moving from a waterfall methodology to an agile approach. This causes new challenges and opportunities for the BA.
Which business analysis planning and monitoring element is most impacted by the organization's change?
A company that specialized in manufacturing vending machines for books has been in business for 10 years. As the e-book and online retailing grow, the company perceived that a change is required to respond to the new emerging market forces. However, the change should focus on reusability as much as possible to reduce expenses. After analyzing the current state with the business subject matter experts, the business analyst
(BA) proposed investing in a new business line of vending machines that sell pay per use mobile device phone fast charging stations.
Due to the urgency of this change, the BA was asked to finalize requirements elicitation in the shortest possible time.
By proposing this change, what type of view did the BA use to analyze the current manufacturer's state?
An organization Is trying to streamline its current processes to improve performance and reduce costs. A business analyst (BA) conducted a process improvement workshop and identified the following issues as the top three items to be addressed:
1: There are multiple teams to define systems, functionality, and content in many instances, multiple teams are defining the same functionalities while other functionalities are not being defined at all leading to unclear understanding of business requirements
2: Product specification forms are published each year. A comparison tool is used to evaluate specification differences between yearly releases, but does not adequately identify changes between versions and needs to be improved.
3: Training consists of a new team member shadowing a seasoned team member. There are no written training materials or formal training sources therefore training is inconsistent and not meeting the needs of the organization.
Which stakeholders would the BA interview to determine the changes needed to the comparison tool?
A company that specialized in manufacturing vending machines for books has been in business for 10 years. As the e-book and online retailing grow, the company perceived that a change is required to respond to the new emerging market forces. However, the change should focus on reusability as much as possible to reduce expenses. After analyzing the current state with the business subject matter experts, the business analyst
(BA) proposed investing in a new business line of vending machines that sell pay per use mobile device phone fast charging stations.
Due to the urgency of this change, the BA was asked to finalize requirements elicitation in the shortest possible time.
The BA was able to complete requirements elicitation activities in a short period of time. Which type of elicitation approach did the BA use?
The seminar administrator reviewed these three diagrams and asked the BA to create a fourth diagram to model the various levels that a trainee goes through (e.g., white belt to yellow belt yellow belt to green belt etc). What modeling technique will the BA use to create this diagram?
A very large insurer of General Liability and Property Damage insurance has an upward trend of increased claims over the past 5 years.
The Risk Control Area for that company has just completed a 12 month Pilot of a new improved Risk Control Site.
The purpose of the site is to help their customers manage their exposures and ideally prevent them from having claims There were 100 customers that were part of the Pilot that represented 25 different industries. The business goals were to increase use of the site and provide tools to help customer awareness of their exposures, so that they may reduce existing exposures and ultimately reduce claims.
The sites Features were as follows:
* Improvements to the search engine to all customers to search for articles, tools and services on the site
* A checklist function that allow customer to create their own unique Checklists or utilize a sample provided by ABC company to use daily, weekly etc for an area of their facility.
* A promotion feature - where Risk preventing Articles, and tools on the site are marketed toward a customer.
* A profile section allowing for Customer Name, Address and contact Phone number.
Alter the 12 month pilot the business sponsor received an assessment of what was working and what was not. The Assessment of the pilot revealed overall site activity had significantly increased, however only 5% of the time the promotions were viewed. And the most shocking was that total claims increased by nearly 20% for these 100 customers during the pilot period. The business sponsor was perplexed as he had an expectation of reduced claims and at least for 30% viewing of promotions since the project team had spent a lot of careful time and effort on this feature. A BA was assigned to do further analysis regarding the low use of the promotions and why claims were not being reduced.
Regarding the use of promotions the BA looked into other similar companies to see what they did differently to get their customer to look at their promotions. The BA found that similar companies had promotions that targeted the industry the customer was in so it was more relevant to them and they were more interested to view the promotion. In addition the BA sent out a survey to all 100 pilot customers asking probing questions about what they thought of the site and if they felt it had decreased their exposure to risk sufficiently. The Survey responses came back with raving positive comments and providing examples of how the site had been helping in the reduction of claims from the customer's perspective. In addition the survey also revealed insight that the customers found the promotion often irrelevant to their industry.
The BA asked for a dump of all documentation of the 1000 claims that were filed over the 12 month pilot period. The BA found the nearly 90% of the claim filed were all in one region of the country and were all for property damage related to several severe winter storms in the region and the claims were nearly all unavoidable by the customers. The BA brought all this analysis back to the business sponsor and made the recommendation to the business sponsor to require the customer to select 1 of 25 industries in their profile. This would in turn allow for the ability to show industry specific promotions and promote search results relative to a customer's industry to be sorted at the top giving the customer a more personalized experience.
What was the business sponsor looking to validate about the use of promotions?
A business analyst (BA) is running a workshop with a group of stakeholders to understand the requirements for a change that the company is planning to implement.
What important factor does the BA need to understand to ensure the workshop remains focused on the topic in question?
Sally is the business analyst for her organization. Sally and her business analysis team is currently using a business analysis approach to determine what the competition of her organization is offering prospective clients. She is trying to identify solutions to increase revenue by remaining competitive with the competition.
What business analysis approach is Sally and her business analysis team using?
You are the business analyst for your organization and working with Tim to identify the assumptions within the business solution.
Which one of the following is an assumption?
Your organization is using a plan-driven approach to business analysis.
What characteristic must be true of changes in the approach that your organization is using?
You are the business analyst for your organization and are working on prioritizing the project requirements. Management has asked you to prioritize the requirements based on the cost-benefit analysis for the requirements' value to the organization.
What basis for prioritization are you using in this instance?
You are the business analyst for your organization and are working with Virginia on the allocation of requirements for a new solution. You have assigned Virginia the task of breaking down the solution scope into smaller components for allocation.
What technique have you asked Virginia to complete in this scenario?
You are the business analyst for your organization. You are preparing the business needs documentation for a new solution to an identified problem. Parts of your input for this process are the business goals and
objectives set by your organization.
What approach can you use to assess the business goal and their validity and longevity?
Which one of the following terms is not a business analysis planning and monitoring approach?
You are the business analyst for the NGQ Company. Management is concerned that their company is not able to meet an identified business need with their current existing structure, people, processes and technology. They've asked you to complete an analysis of their organization's ability to meet the identified business need.
What business analysis process are you completing for your organization?
Paul is the business analyst for his organization. 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 Paul performing in this scenario?
You are the business analyst for your organization. Management wants you to prioritize the identified requirements by the requirements that have the highest likelihood of success.
Why would management want you to prioritize the requirements with this factor even though some of the requirements may be difficult to implement?
Donna is leading a brainstorming session for her organization. She has asked the participants in this group to come up with at least ten ideas for possible solutions to an identified problem.
What is the problem with setting the goal as ten ideas for possible solutions in this session?
You are the business analyst for your organization. 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?
You are hosting a collection of stakeholders from across the organization to identify the ideas and attitudes about your company's help desk. You want the stakeholders to honestly share their opinions about the help desk service so you can identify problems, solutions, and take actions to improve the service.
What type of requirements elicitation activity is this?
You are working with Terry on the conduct stakeholder analysis task as part of the business analysis duties in your company. Terry 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 identify the stakeholders early on in the business analysis duties?
You are the business analyst for your organization. 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 organization?
You are the business analyst for your organization and are in the process of creating the solution approach for a technology problem.
Which one of the following definitions best describes the solution approach?
What plan includes the description of the scope of work, the deliverable Work Breakdown Structure, the activity list, and estimates for the business analysis activities?
A financial institution engaged in mortgage lending has embarked on a business process improvement initiative to eliminate the activities that hinder growth to ultimately improve the success rate of its mortgage business. As a benchmark for identification, the institution is keen on improving any business process that has less than a 75% success rate. The institution has appointed a business analyst (BA) to review the business transactions for the processes of origination, payments, and closures, as well as identify opportunities for improvements and recommend solutions.
The BA has collected the following information over the last three months pertaining to these business processes:
•All the business processes are at their maximum capacity in terms of the current number of transactions.
•Each business process has a certain number of rejects and the reasons for rejection include documentation, verification, collateral, and funding. Funding rejects occur when the bank's customers have failed to make payment of their mortgage processing fee or mortgage closure payment.
The BA has also recommended the use of documentation checklists as a solution to eliminate the documentation rejects.
If an additional recommendation to reduce Verification Rejects by 50% were to be introduced into the mortgage origination process, what is the potential success rate of the mortgage origination process?
A company with a big information technology (IT) department has hired a lead business analyst (BA) to enhance its business analysis practices. The lead BA discovers that sponsors are not satisfied with project outcomes. Developers complain about incomplete, ambiguous, and changing requirements. All stakeholders, including project managers, are blaming long cycles of analysis for the delays. The business analysts, in turn, feel overwhelmed with the number of projects and frustrated by the lack of collaboration from reviewers of their deliverables. All of the evidence is anecdotal and none of the groups could strongly substantiate their opinions.
Even after dozens of reviews, some stakeholders refuse to sign off on the requirements specification documents because of a few questionable requirements. This puts the projects at risk and creates tension between the participants. What should the lead BA do first?
A business analyst (BA) is preparing to specify requirements. Various attributes can be specified for each requirement or set of requirements.
Which approach contains a suitable set of attributes?
A very large insurer of General Liability and Property Damage insurance has an upward trend of increased claims over the past 5 years.
The Risk Control Area for that company has just completed a 12 month Pilot of a new improved Risk Control Site.
The purpose of the site is to help their customers manage their exposures and ideally prevent them from having claims There were 100 customers that were part of the Pilot that represented 25 different industries. The business goals were to increase use of the site and provide tools to help customer awareness of their exposures, so that they may reduce existing exposures and ultimately reduce claims.
The sites Features were as follows:
* Improvements to the search engine to all customers to search for articles, tools and services on the site
* A checklist function that allow customer to create their own unique Checklists or utilize a sample provided by ABC company to use daily, weekly etc for an area of their facility.
* A promotion feature - where Risk preventing Articles, and tools on the site are marketed toward a customer.
* A profile section allowing for Customer Name, Address and contact Phone number.
Alter the 12 month pilot the business sponsor received an assessment of what was working and what was not. The Assessment of the pilot revealed overall site activity had significantly increased, however only 5% of the time the promotions were viewed. And the most shocking was that total claims increased by nearly 20% for these 100 customers during the pilot period. The business sponsor was perplexed as he had an expectation of reduced claims and at least for 30% viewing of promotions since the project team had spent a lot of careful time and effort on this feature. A BA was assigned to do further analysis regarding the low use of the promotions and why claims were not being reduced.
Regarding the use of promotions the BA looked into other similar companies to see what they did differently to get their customer to look at their promotions. The BA found that similar companies had promotions that targeted the industry the customer was in so it was more relevant to them and they were more interested to view the promotion. In addition the BA sent out a survey to all 100 pilot customers asking probing questions about what they thought of the site and if they felt it had decreased their exposure to risk sufficiently. The Survey responses came back with raving positive comments and providing examples of how the site had been helping in the reduction of claims from the customer's perspective. In addition the survey also revealed insight that the customers found the promotion often irrelevant to their industry.
The BA asked for a dump of all documentation of the 1000 claims that were filed over the 12 month pilot period. The BA found the nearly 90% of the claim filed were all in one region of the country and were all for property damage related to several severe winter storms in the region and the claims were nearly all unavoidable by the customers. The BA brought all this analysis back to the business sponsor and made the recommendation to the business sponsor to require the customer to select 1 of 25 industries in their profile. This would in turn allow for the ability to show industry specific promotions and promote search results relative to a customer's industry to be sorted at the top giving the customer a more personalized experience.
What technique led the BA to the source of the increase in claims?
A non-profit utility company has 900 employees, a majority of whom are hourly employees and must track their time using a paper based process. A few years ago, the Director of Human Resources purchased a software system to eliminate the current paper-based time reporting process. No requirements specific to the utility company were defined prior to the purchase. A team was formed to implement the software During implementation process, the team discovered the software lacked functionality and was not robust enough to support the general ledger requirements The company stopped the effort and incurred a $500,000 USD loss on the cost of the software.
This year, the Director of Finance requested that a team investigate the current paper-based time reporting process and recommend solutions. The Director of Finance feels that the Director of Human Resources must be involved as a critical stakeholder. The Director of Human Resources is still bitter about the last effort because the process stopped'.
Which of the following is included in performing a stakeholder analysis?
An insurance company wants to increase sales by 15% and customer retention by 10% within 1 calendar year.
Various strategies to achieve this were considered and a restructure to the existing pricing model is selected to help achieve these goals.
A business analyst (BA) works with stakeholders such as actuaries, product specialists, sales staff, risk managers, and underwriters who agree to applying varying levels of discounts to customers based on:
•Total annual premium the customer has with the company (Financial worth)
•Time with the insurance company (Loyalty)
Various financial models are considered but the stakeholders agree that an initial applicable discount is determined based on the customer's overall premium:
The percentage of the maximum possible discount available to the customer is adjusted based on time with the company:
If within the first six months, customer retention increased by 5 % and sales increased by 6%, then when will the desired sales and retention goals be achieved assuming the trend continues at the same pace?
A national branch of a global company is struggling to improve business processes of its Public and Government Affairs (PGA) department. To work with external stakeholders effectively, PGA employees need to collect, manage, and exchange a vast amount of information. Complex cases involve collaboration of many employees from different departments. The ability to share information and to coordinate corresponding activities is crucial for the company's growth plans. Their current tools and practices do not serve the purpose well. The existing system, which was deployed a couple of years ago, has only a few active users. The majority of PGA employees avoid using it because the system is hard to use and lacks needed functionality. Consequently, available information is mostly unstructured and stored either locally or on a shared network drive. Some of the information exists only in a paper form.
The branch's PGA head, who sponsors the project, wants to implement a configurable solution that two other branches successfully deployed several months ago. Both deployments were done by three solution consultants, who will be available to assist in the project. They will be responsible for tailoring the solution to PGA needs, as well as for training the PGA staff. With their help, the sponsor plans to complete the project in approximately three months.
The solution consultants reside in another country 7 hours ahead of the rest of the project team. They will be available part-time, but are planning two one-week long trips to the PGA central office to conduct initial training and to participate in the final deployment of the system into production. The consultants, in turn, expect a business analyst (BA) to assist in collecting necessary data and defining customization requirements.
A BA suggests interviewing employees to elicit user requirements and then performing a gap analysis to identify solution customization requirements. However, the sponsor believes that it will be a waste of time because the employees do not know how the process should work in the future. The sponsor expects the solution to help shape their process and wants to start with the solution as is, amending it as necessary based on the user feedback.
What should the BA do?
A national branch of a global company is struggling to improve business processes of its Public and Government Affairs (PGA) department. To work with external stakeholders effectively, PGA employees need to collect, manage, and exchange a vast amount of information. Complex cases involve collaboration of many employees from different departments. The ability to share information and to coordinate corresponding activities is crucial for the company's growth plans. Their current tools and practices do not serve the purpose well. The existing system, which was deployed a couple of years ago, has only a few active users. The majority of PGA employees avoid using it because the system is hard to use and lacks needed functionality. Consequently, available information is mostly unstructured and stored either locally or on a shared network drive. Some of the information exists only in a paper form.
The branch's PGA head, who sponsors the project, wants to implement a configurable solution that two other branches successfully deployed several months ago. Both deployments were done by three solution
consultants, who will be available to assist in the project. They will be responsible for tailoring the solution to PGA needs, as well as for training the PGA staff. With their help, the sponsor plans to complete the project in approximately three months.
The solution consultants reside in another country 7 hours ahead of the rest of the project team. They will be available part-time, but are planning two one-week long trips to the PGA central office to conduct initial training and to participate in the final deployment of the system into production. The consultants, in turn, expect a business analyst (BA) to assist in collecting necessary data and defining customization requirements.
What should define the timing of business analysis work in this project?
A business unit of a transnational manufacturer wants to implement a robust process for addressing integrity- critical equipment deterioration incidents. Timely and complete resolution of such incidents is vital for the business unit’s continuous safe and profitable operation. Treating each incident involves many employees from different departments extensively collaborating and exchanging information. That information is spread across multiple systems having their access limited to particular user groups. With the current manual process, some incidents get forgotten and remain unresolved for years.
The project’s Sponsor is an Equipment Integrity and Reliability Advisor, who moved into this position from
another business unit. That business unit implemented a proprietary application to integrate the information and to assist in tracking and managing the incidents. Having a positive experience with the application, the Sponsor is suggesting to customize it and reuse in the new business unit.
The business unit’s Enterprise Architect (EA), who is responsible for assessing solution options and presenting them to executive decision makers, has a few concerns with adopting the existing application. The application uses point-to-point interfaces with other data sources whereas the business unit’s target architecture relies on a data warehouse-based integration. Moreover, the two business units use different legacy systems, as well as different front-end implementation technologies. Additionally, the existing application is monolingual, while the business unit needs user interfaces and some data to be presented in two languages. With all of this, it may be easier to build a new application from scratch than to customize the existing one. To understand which option is better, the EA asks a business analyst (BA) to define business requirements.
With the team ready to consider design options, they are reviewing the following requirement: "Appropriate stakeholders shall be timely and reliably notified on incident-related events."
What quality criteria does this requirement fail to satisfy?
A popular department store chain wants to make computer upgrades as well as conduct a major remodeling effort to increase revenue to all their 100 stores over the next 2 years. The remodeling will occur in two phases. The two phases are required at each store and can be completed in any order, but each phase must be fully completed before the next phase can begin. Phase 1 will take approximately 32 weeks and will not require a store to be temporarily closed. Phase 2 will take approximately 20 weeks and will require a store to be temporarily closed.
In order to keep inventory level and total revenue for the department store chain at an operational level, 75% of the stores must remain open to the public at all times. Against the board of director's advice, the Chief
Executive Officer (CEO) made a decision to start and complete the top 25 revenue-producing stores in the first year to get those stores remodeled and fully operational.
A business analyst (BA) has been brought in to help with planning the project and gathering requirements. Based on the CEO's executive decision, which risk tolerance attitude is the CEO exhibiting?
The BA is analyzing the requirements that are represented in the Class Diagram. In addition to the diagram, the BA would like to include a separate document that has the information about the data elements to ensure a common understanding of the classes' attributes. What technique is used to define the data elements?
A company with a big information technology (lT) department has hired a lead business analyst (BA) to enhance its business analysis practices The lead BA discovers that sponsors are not satisfied with project outcomes. Developers complain about incomplete, ambiguous, and changing requirements. All stakeholders including project managers, are blaming long cycles of analysis for the delays The business analysts, in turn feel overwhelmed with the number of projects and frustrated by the lack of collaboration from reviewers of their deliverables All of the evidence is anecdotal and none of the groups could strongly substantiate their opinions.
What should the lead BA implement to identify areas of improvement?
A business analyst (BA) wants to estimate the potential value delivered by a set of requirements and design options by targeting a small group of stakeholders to understand their perceived value and expectations. The BA is going to organize a discussion during which feedback is collected.
Which technique will be used?
A major manufacturer of popular beverages has appointed a local distributor to serve a specific territory. The demand for the beverages has a pronounced seasonal pattern. The distributor performs well overall, but is repeatedly unable to keep up with fulfilling many customer orders during peak demand periods. The distributor's current delivery capability is stretched to deliver 60 tons of merchandise per day whereas the season's peak demand periods need a daily delivery capability of up to 100 tons.
The distributor is under pressure to fully meet the year-round market demand in order to stay in business. The distributor's management wants to identify and consider more cost-effective options as resorting to adding more trucks and drivers would not be economically feasible.
A business analyst (BA) has spent several days observing and measuring the warehouse activities to understand the situation and to gain insights into possible solutions. The delivery workflow is a four-step process: (1) picking the orders and assembling them on trays, (2) bringing the trays to the loading bay, (3) loading the orders into trucks, and (4) delivering the orders to customers. As the following table illustrates, overall performance depends is dependent on five major resources: (1) the workers who pick the orders and load them into trucks, (2) the tallyers who check the orders, (3) the drivers, (4) the trucks, and (5) eight loading bays (LBs).
If the driver's average throughput is 0.6 tons/hour, how many hours per day would 15 drivers have to work to deliver 100 tons of merchandise?
A team of business analysts (BAs) were assigned to review an enhancement request that would involve changes in a stockroom and the inventory of products. The changes will impact several groups of people and the amount of savings is in excess of $1 million dollars. The recommended process improvement will be presented to management for approval.
What should the team do first?
A floral company wants to gather information about each of its 30 international facilities to determine whether employees are satisfied with their jobs.
Which of the following elicitation techniques should the business analyst (BA) use?
A software development company is in the process of creating a new product for their customer base. It has been several years since such a project has been initiated and the organization has created a new team to own and develop the product. The project team will be evaluated by the successful adoption of the product, which will be developed over the next 12 months.
The team's business analyst (BA) has analyzed the current state in partnership with the product owner and has been meeting with senior management to identify the goals that need to be attained. A broad view of the business has been analyzed in order to have an understanding of how the company is currently providing value to its customer base.
What has the BA evaluated to help determine value of the project?
Which of the following graphical presentations of a project plan is most appropriate for presenting to upper management?
A business analyst (BA) works for a financial institution that wants to acquire new systems and migrate all future business operations to the new systems. The BA is responsible for performing a gap analysis and has reviewed the current state of systems.
What is the next task that the BA needs to do to complete the gap analysis?
The business analyst (BA) presented a concept model during a requirements walk through to the project sponsor, implementation subject matter expert and operational support start. While the presentation was clear to the project sponsor the other stakeholders were unsure about the impacts to their respective daily tasks. What should the BA include in the next walk through, so that all stakeholders have a better understanding of the requirements?
A business analyst (BA) is assigned to a project which has two main stakeholders: a highly regulated government agency and a less formal private company. To select the business analysis approach, the BA mi! conduct a meeting with representatives from each entity to decide on the level of formally needed for requirements and design specifications. During the meeting, what should the BA’s strategy be?
A large insurance company wants to buy a new claims processing system or upgrade one of its two existing system. Each year the claims department is given a $3.5 million budget to spend. Time is of the essence since there are tome regulatory charges that will be coming the following year that will require several features that currently neither one of the two claims System currently support.
There are eight stakeholders involved in this initiative. There are local to where the claim system is managed, while five are located across the country. The business analyst (BA) struggled to get all stakeholders to agree on the desired features but ultimately got agreement on ten identified key features for the new claims system. The BA was able to build a current state and future state process model which included all ten key features.
System a process 75% of the company's claims. It is 5 years old and the claim processors love it because it is easy to use. However, it must go offline for two hours each day. The code is very module so it does have flexibility to be modified. To upgrade system A to have all ten features it would cost $5 million. System A would be at capacity if it were to process all of the company's claims.
System B process 25% of the company's claims. It is an older mainframe system, but rarely goes offline. It could easily handle double the number of claims that system A processes. However, it has a lot of legacy code and would cost $6 million to upgrade.
Both systems have some of the desired key features. But neither system has all ten. The cost to buy a new system would be $7 million.
Below is the estimated cost for each feature in priority order.
If the budget for the initiative was firm, what is a feasible solution to make sure the project stays within budget?
A business analyst (BA) has completed requirements elicitation and modeling on a project to implement a new case management system. During analysis of the requirements, the BA notices that one of the requirements appears to be in conflict with the company's case management policies. What should the BA do?
A business analyst (BA) has recently completed a comprehensive stakeholder analysis. Next the BA would like to consider ways in which to ensure that the stakeholders remain engaged throughout the change strategy. Some of the considerations include timing and frequency, location, available tools, delivery methods and the stakeholders' preferences. In which of the following plans would the BA document these considerations?
A business analyst (BA) assigned to a project has been asked to implement regulatory requirements based on priority. What type of traceability relationship can the BA use to find an the solution components that need to be implemented?
A busmen analyst (BA) is assigned a new project to improve a delivery process. Which of the following does the BA create as an output of the initial meeting with experts?
After determining mat the enterprise culture was the driving force behind recent solution change decisions a business analyst (BA) has decided to conduct an enterprise-wide cultural assessment. What information can the 8A expect to learn from the results?
A conservative company with rigorous risk control plans and internal audit rules has a recurrent problem with a core Business application. As a result access to this application must be restricted and controlled and maintenance must be on-site. However, the company feels that the application must have an emergency service team. The routine maintenance of this solution is provided by an external vendor and the vendor requested 24 hours remote access to quality and production data. In this context what is the company's response to the vendor's request?
A business analyst (BA) finds that the proposed solution has features used by a small group of stakeholders for business scenarios which may occur up to three times a year Out require a high effort to implement. What should the BA recommend in this cast?
Several commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) software packages exist that would enable the business analyst (BA) to meet the needs of the business. For the potential deign options, the Ba included one of the COTS packages as a solution approach What kind of solution approach is this?
The project manager wants to have the requirements analysis phase approved and asks the business analyst (BA) if this is possible The BA wants to ensure that the requirements package
While working on a major project to replace the billing mechanism at a bank, a major change in scope is discussed. Which approach does the business analyst (BA) use to help determine the formality of the assessment process to be followed to understand the impacts of the scope change?
A business analyst (BA) is assessing tie different solution proposals. What type of financial calculation would the BA use to determine which solution is worth investing in based on its breakeven point?
The solutes presented by a business analyst (BA) to the stakeholders eliminated the need to maintain different variations of ship-to-country and location-to-rout* for various freight carriers. Instead, the routing would use a standard carrier code, giving the business me flexibility to just ship to new countries without raising a change request to IT. which was the current road-block to business. What opportunity did the BA present to the stakeholders?
Due to the complexity of a project the project board a concerned that the business analyst (BA) will not be able to ensure all requirements are verified. What toed can the BA present to the project board to mitigate their concern?
A business analyst (BA) is working on improving solution performance and increasing value. The BA discovers that a set of interfaces and activities do not contribute to the final product either directly or indirectly What should the BA recommend?
The business analyst (BA) works in a global company and the majority of stakeholders are located in different countries The BA already explained the core requirements during the initial meetings. However due to the time zone differences it has been cumbersome to organize further meetings. What method should the BA use so the stakeholders can review the document before final approval?
What is the time difference in days between the shortest and longest implementation?
A business analyst (BA) is preparing a governance approach. The BA is trying to define the approval process. Which factors should the BA consider?
A bank moves currency from the mam office to the tranches daily for operational use. To avoid paying overnight interest, the branch** return the currency at the end of the business day. The Bank requires a new inventory management system to account for the whereabouts of the cash at all times A software provider has proposed a heavily customized version of their standard inventory management software. As the project progresses, the business analyst (BA) identifies a number of subtleties that would suggest a fully made to order solution may be a better option for the bank. What inputs does the BA need to perform the analysis?
A business analyst (BA) conducts a process analysis on the business analysis practices that were used on the previous major implementation. From this the BA identifies and documents that there are three improvement areas which would make the business analysis process more efficient In which business analysis artifact does the BA document these measures of improvement for the next piece of analysis work?
A utility company found mat its current billing system charges customers 'or tie r usage, but does so incorrectly when the system estimates reads on meters rather than performs actual reads. Company stakeholders would i*e to improve this aspect of the system but are hesitant to make changes because they are otherwise pleased with the system A business analyst (BA) has completed a current state diagram and would like to start discussions on what the future state may look like. What information can the BA determine by having a current slate diagram?
The stakeholder of a new product that is in early adaptive development has requested a change to an approved feature. How should the business analyst (BA) handle this change?
An automobile manufacturer is undertaking a project intended to modify or replace the company's current timekeeping system. Negative employee reaction to change follows as word of the proposed solution spreads throughout the company. What could a business analyst (BA) do to prevent or reduce employee discontent?
A company wants to develop a product roadmap to guide future development efforts. The product owner asks a business analyst IBA) to lead the analysis effort. Feature suggestions have been compiled from customer support calls. Which of the following should the BA do first?
A business analyst (BA) is preparing for observation. A passive approach has been selected for establishing performance metrics. What should be identic for the next step?
A company is reconfiguring its business processes to improve the quality of its products and lower operational costs. This includes defining metrics that will be used to evaluate the effectiveness of future change strategy. Which of the following techniques achieves this goal?
A business analyst (BA) wants to create a high-level Overview of a business process as a part of an exploratory analysis. The sponsor has asked for a model that demonstrates the movement and transformation of data between entities and processes. What technique should the BA use?
Yolanda is the web designer for your company and you are the business analyst. You are working with Yolanda on a new website that your company will host. You'd like for her to create a mock-up of the website without spending much time on the actual workings behind the web interface. You'd like for her to show the customer how the website will look, some idea of the functionality of the website, and some basic graphics and colors so the customer can see the direction of the project.
What type of prototype are you asking Yolanda to create?
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?
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 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?
You have completed the requirements documentation and the stakeholders have signed off on the requirements. Now the requirements are advancing into a project as your organization has chartered a project based on the identified requirements.
What stakeholder is now responsible for assessing the solution scope to determine the project scope?
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?
What requirements elicitation technique examines the available information, documentation, records, and history of a solution, organization, or cause to identify relevant information to the current business analysis duties?
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?
Mark is the business analyst for his organization. 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?
Which of the following models demonstrates the attributes, operations, and relationship to entities within the solution?
You are the business analyst for a large software development project. There are several issues that must be resolved by certain dates or the problem will prevent the project from advancing.
What technique can you use to track problems with the requirements?
Which of the following tasks does not rely on other activities, and no other activities rely on this task completing?
You are currently working on creating the activity list for an initiative in your organization.
What characteristic must be assigned to each task in your task list?
You are completing the prepare for elicitation process for an identified problem in your organization. The prepare for elicitation process requires three inputs for this process.
Which one of the following is not an input that will help you prepare for the elicitation activities?
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 requirementswill be prioritized based on the value of the play money assigned to each requirement.
What type of requirements prioritization is happening in this scenario?
The requirements elicitation process requires that the business analyst and team prepare for the requirements elicitation activities. There are three specific inputs that the business analyst will need in preparing for the requirements elicitation.
Which of the following is NOT one of the three inputs the business analyst will use as he prepares for requirements elicitation?
is a process to determine the completeness of the project work and to gain the customer's acceptance to move the project forward.
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?
Holly is the business analyst for her organization. Holly 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. Holly definitely prefers informal communications.
What is the danger Holly may experience with informal communications?
You are the business analyst for your organization. You are currently working with Susan on creating a model as part of the specify and model requirements process. Susan doesn't understand why you need a model. You explain to Susan that a model is just a simplified representation of a complex reality that is useful for understanding that reality and making decisions regarding it. In fact, you tell Susan, model can do all of the following except one option.
Choose the option that model cannot do?
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?
Which of the following documents is described in the statement below?
"It is a type of procurement document used to request proposals from prospective sellers of products or services."
Which of the following is a process of adding labor to a project to reduce the project duration?
Which of the following inputs of Monitor and Control Risks acquires information from performance measurements and evaluates it to provide variance analysis and forecasting?
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?
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?
Which solution scope technique can help the business analyst understand the scope of the work by breaking down the scope into smaller work products?
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?
You are working with Tom, a key stakeholder, in your business analysis duties. Tom is asking you about the desired outcome for current business opportunity.
Which one of the following is NOT an example of a desired outcome?
Which of the following participants have to keep the minutes and details of the conversation during Interviews?
A project's change in scope is assessed and a newly assigned business analyst (BA) is unsure how to communicate the findings and final decision to the wider stakeholder group.
In which of the following can the BA find this information?
Which of the following component of the communication model is responsible for transferring the message between two or more entities?
Which of the following captures all of the activities within a business, the inputs and outputs of each activity, and the required resources to complete each activity?
A business analyst (BA) is facilitating a meeting between process owners to capture the business rules for a workflow solution. One of the attendees expresses a strong opinion that the solution will not deliver the expected value.
How will the BA ensure the process owner remains engaged and will support the change?
Which of the following requires that all parties in the conflict must give up something?
In a software implementation project, the designated business analyst (BA) has conducted all the elicitation activities and now needs to confirm the elicitation results.
What is used by the BA Professional to guide which sources of information and which results are to be compared?
Which of the following involves defining the various threats, determining the extent of vulnerabilities, and devising countermeasures against a possible attack?
Which of the following charts is a quality control tool to show categories of defects?
A company that specialized in manufacturing vending machines for books has been in business for 10 years. As the e-book and online retailing grow, the company perceived that a change is required to respond to the new emerging market forces. However, the change should focus on reusability as much as possible to reduce expenses. After analyzing the current state with the business subject matter experts, the business analyst
(BA) proposed investing in a new business line of vending machines that sell pay per use mobile device phone fast charging stations.
Due to the urgency of this change, the BA was asked to finalize requirements elicitation in the shortest possible time.
Customers who want to utilize the pay per use mobile device fast charging stations may choose one of two features: fully charged (F1) or partially charged (F2). If partially charged is selected, the customer needs to specify their charging needs.
What is the relationship between F1 and F2?
Which of the following is the process of developing a document that formally authorizes a project or a phase?
A multi-domain project has stakeholders with different technical backgrounds. The presentation prepared by the business analyst (BA) for domain 1 was also used for domain 2 but the presentation was not clear and caused concerns for stakeholders in domain 2.
What can the BA do to alleviate the concerns of the stakeholders in domain 2?
A business analyst (BA) in a large financial institution, responsible for the management of requirements, has completed all the activities related to tracing requirements and is now pursuing to maintain them. The BA has identified a large number of requirements which have long term reuse and is now looking for guidance to manage these requirements.
Which of the following will indicate how requirements will be managed for reuse?
Which of the following qualitative techniques involves a disciplined analysis of the event sequences that could transform a potential hazard into an accident?
Which of the following quantitative risk analysis techniques relies on experience and past data to compute the probability and impact of risks on project objectives?
Which of the following document is created first after project is awarded and statement of work is handed over to the project manager?
A business analyst (BA) plans to hold a workshop next week to elicit requirements for a project. In an informal conversation, another employee mentioned that one of the attendees is likely to be unhappy about the project's impact on their work.
Which of the following techniques will the BA use to avoid disrupting the workshop?
In performing the task of planning for business analysis governance for a software implementation project, the business analyst (BA) recommends that prioritization of requirements be done based on the amount of work that the project team is capable of delivering in a given period of time.
Which of the following techniques is the BA recommending?
Which of the following is the comparison of planned project results with actual project results?
Which of the following stages of a project defines the number of risks and opportunities, including intense planning and anticipation of risk events?
Which of the following requirement attributes lacks any ambiguous characteristics?
Which of the following processes measures the maturity level of the security program?
Which of the following is responsible for preparing the business architecture, feasibility studies, and business cases?
Which of the following communicates from the program-level perspective – a clear understanding and statement of the technical objectives and the end products, services, or results of the work to be performed?
While reviewing a subset of requirements with stakeholders, a business analyst (BA) finds a requirement that does not deliver benefit to any of the stakeholders. After much discussion, the stakeholders decide that the requirement does not align with the solution scope.
What recommendation will the BA make?
TESTED 02 May 2024