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ECBA Entry Certificate in Business Analysis (ECBA) Questions and Answers

Questions 4

In prioritizing requirements, which of the following factors include difficulty of implementing a requirement, or the likelihood that a requirement cannot deliver its potential value?

Options:

A.

Cost

B.

Dependency

C.

Penalty

D.

Risk

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Questions 5

What type of knowledge equips a business analyst (BA) with understanding market forces, customer segments, services, products, and regulations?

Options:

A.

Organizational

B.

Industry

C.

Solution

D.

Methodological

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Questions 6

If a business analyst (BA) does not properly identify stakeholders, then the long-term implications are:

Options:

A.

increased costs.

B.

reduced requirements.

C.

higher satisfaction.

D.

decreased risk.

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Questions 7

What task is performed to ensure that all requirements align to the business need?

Options:

A.

Model Requirements

B.

Prioritize Requirements

C.

Validate Requirements

D.

Define Requirements

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Questions 8

Which business analysis activity ensures that a set of requirements or designs delivers business value and supports the organization’s goal and objectives?

Options:

A.

Define solution options

B.

Verify requirements

C.

Validate requirements

D.

Define requirements architecture

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Questions 9

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

Options:

A.

governance approach.

B.

approach to identifying business analysis improvements.

C.

information management approach.

D.

business analysis approach.

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Questions 10

Which task is performed when the business analyst (BA) ensures that stakeholders have a shared understanding of the outcomes of elicitation?

Options:

A.

Conduct elicitation

B.

Manage stakeholder collaboration

C.

Communicate business analysis information

D.

Confirm elicitation results

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Questions 11

The task that uses the elicitation activity plan to draw out, explore and identify information relevant to the change is:

Options:

A.

conduct elicitation.

B.

prepare for elicitation.

C.

plan business analysis information.

D.

confirm elicitation results.

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Questions 12

What is the foundation for guiding the elicitation effort?

Options:

A.

Surveys

B.

Concept model

C.

Supporting material

D.

Potential value

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Questions 13

Establishing the design option that is appropriate to meet the enterprise’s requirements is the purpose of which task?

Options:

A.

Define requirements architecture

B.

Analyze potential value and recommend solution

C.

Define design options

D.

Specify and model requirements

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Questions 14

What is the primary purpose of the interview technique?

Options:

A.

To identify the functional role of the stakeholder

B.

To establish stakeholder relationships and trust

C.

To elicit business analysis information

D.

To view and understand activities and their context

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Questions 15

The likelihood that the requirement will change because it requires further analysis is termed as:

Options:

A.

stability.

B.

benefit.

C.

dependency.

D.

penalty.

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Questions 16

Which of the following is a common change that can be made to a process in order to improve it?

Options:

A.

Analyze the potential impact of the change

B.

Generate and evaluate options

C.

Automate steps that are more routine and predictable

D.

Understand the relationship between gaps and improvement areas

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Questions 17

To ensure that "all requirements and designs align to business requirements" is the purpose of which task?

Options:

A.

Assess risks

B.

Conduct elicitation

C.

Validate requirements

D.

Verify requirements

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Questions 18

When should prioritization of requirements take place?

Options:

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

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Questions 19

The requirements elicitation technique used to iteratively validate the needs of stakeholders that interact with the application is:

Options:

A.

interface analysis

B.

observation.

C.

prototyping

D.

reverse engineering.

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Questions 20

Video conferencing, electronic calendars, and electronic voting are examples of:

Options:

A.

knowledge management tools.

B.

mapping tools.

C.

collaboration tools.

D.

word processing tools.

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Questions 21

Which technique is used by business analysts (BAs) to measure the quality of requirements?

Options:

A.

Acceptance and Evaluation Criteria

B.

Key Performance Indicators

C.

Risk Analysis and Management

D.

Entity Relationship Modelling

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Questions 22

What is the approach in which solution components are assembled, constructed, or developed by experts as a direct response to a set of requirements?

Options:

A.

Create

B.

Design

C.

Purchase

D.

Scope

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Questions 23

Why would a business analyst (BA) want to define stakeholder assumptions?

Options:

A.

To manage risk

B.

To clarify requirements

C.

To assess model completeness

D.

To determine needed organizational changes

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Questions 24

What is the main purpose of the “Approve Requirements” task?

Options:

A.

Obtain agreement

B.

Establish requirements baseline

C.

Select appropriate techniques

D.

Assess alternative approaches

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Questions 25

Which of the following techniques is used to elicit business analysis information by examining available materials that describe either the business environment or existing organizational assets?

Options:

A.

Use cases and scenarios

B.

Process analysis

C.

Observation

D.

Document analysis

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Questions 26

Which of the following are criteria used to determine quality requirements relationships?

Options:

A.

Necessity, validate, derive

B.

Complexity, stability, status

C.

Necessary, consistent, correct

D.

Penalty, benefit, cost

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Questions 27

What observation approach involves the observer asking questions as the work is being performed?

Options:

A.

Passive/Unnoticeable

B.

Active/Unnoticeable

C.

Passive/Noticeable

D.

Active/Noticeable

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Questions 28

When can a change to requirements occur?

Options:

A.

As soon as the testing process has begun

B.

At any time during the project lifecycle

C.

Only after requirements have been approved

D.

Only after the solution has been designed

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Questions 29

What type of requirements describes the needs of those participating in or impacted by business analysis activities?

Options:

A.

Solution

B.

Business

C.

Stakeholder

D.

Technical

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Questions 30

A technique that is used to elicit information by viewing and understanding activities and their context is known as:

Options:

A.

workshop.

B.

observation.

C.

brainstorming.

D.

review.

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Questions 31

What type of analytical thinking competency involves clearly validating assumptions and measuring alternatives?

Options:

A.

Decision making

B.

Systems thinking

C.

Problem solving

D.

Creative thinking

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Questions 32

What analysis needs to be performed in order to evaluate the effect of change?

Options:

A.

Competitive

B.

Decision

C.

Modeling

D.

Impact

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Questions 33

What prescribes how information may be derived, inferred or calculated based on information available to the business?

Options:

A.

Behavioural business rule

B.

Business policy

C.

Definitional business rule

D.

Business case

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Questions 34

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

Options:

A.

Ethics

B.

Trustworthiness

C.

Personal Accountability

D.

Adaptability

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Questions 35

Which approach aligns to approval of requirements at the end of a phase?

Options:

A.

Adaptive

B.

Modelling

C.

Predictive

D.

Prioritization

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Questions 36

Which of the following is a characteristic of predictive planning approach?

Options:

A.

Tasks are performed recurrently

B.

Requirements are gathered through team interaction and feedback

C.

Activities are divided into iterations

D.

Information is captured in standardized templates

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Questions 37

What is used for quality control when verifying requirements and designs?

Options:

A.

Item tracking

B.

Checklist

C.

Review

D.

Test case

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Questions 38

Which business analysis technique draws on frameworks and methodologies such as Six Sigma and Lean?

Options:

A.

Document analysis

B.

Business rules analysis

C.

Data flow diagrams

D.

Process analysis

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Questions 39

A business analyst (BA) will regularly perform stakeholder analysis to understand which of the following?

Options:

A.

Attitudes and influence

B.

Goals and objectives

C.

Changes in business needs

D.

Communication channels

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Questions 40

Which stakeholder has responsibility to review and approve requirements?

Options:

A.

Project manager

B.

Business analyst

C.

End user

D.

Sponsor

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Questions 41

What is the optimum group size for brainstorming?

Options:

A.

It doesn’t matter how many individuals as long as the project manager is included

B.

The more individuals the better

C.

Six to eight individuals who represent a range of backgrounds

D.

A maximum of three individuals with a deep knowledge of the subject

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Questions 42

Which of the following tasks is included in the requirements analysis and design definition knowledge area?

Options:

A.

Assess requirements changes

B.

Recommend actions to increase solution value

C.

Analyze potential value and recommend solution

D.

Define change strategy

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Questions 43

Which of the following tasks is used to ensure that requirements and designs at different levels are aligned to one another?

Options:

A.

Verify requirements

B.

Trace requirements

C.

Gather requirements

D.

Analyze requirements

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Questions 44

What is a logical data model used for?

Options:

A.

Abstracting a ‘conceptual data model’ to incorporate the rules of normalization to manage data integrity and relationships.

B.

Abstracting a ‘physical data model’ to describe the physical organization of data and its relationships within a database.

C.

Defining the logical rules that govern decisions in an organization and that define, constrain, or enable organizational operations.

D.

Defining a solution independent view of how a business perceives its information without applying any constraints.

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Questions 45

Which of the following is a guideline or tool, often provided by third parties, used for defining design options?

Options:

A.

Traced requirements

B.

Existing solutions

C.

Future state description

D.

Solution scope

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Questions 46

Which of the following accurately describes a stakeholder’s role during future state analysis?

Options:

A.

A regulator would ensure an envisioned future state can be sufficiently tested and can help set an appropriate level of quality to target.

B.

An end user would help determine which business needs to address and sets the business objective that a future state will achieve.

C.

A project manager would be directly involved in supporting the operations of the enterprise.

D.

A domain subject matter expert would provide insight into current state and potential states.

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Questions 47

If a stakeholder is looking to understand the logistics and scope of each of the elicitation activities, a business analyst (BA) would share the:

Options:

A.

elicitation activity plan.

B.

stakeholder engagement approach.

C.

elicitation results (unconfirmed).

D.

elicitation results (confirmed).

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Questions 48

When the focus of the specifying and modelling activity is on a solution, the output is referred to as:

Options:

A.

design.

B.

requirement.

C.

value.

D.

need.

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Exam Code: ECBA
Exam Name: Entry Certificate in Business Analysis (ECBA)
Last Update: Jun 26, 2025
Questions: 160

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