Exam 1: Certified Business Analysis Professional

You are the business analyst for your organization and working with the stakeholders to prioritize the requirements. The stakeholders are concerned about the financial impact of the requirements should some of them fail during the implementation. You would like to rank the risk tolerance of the stakeholders based on their comments about the solution and the requirements. The following are the three categories of risk tolerance associated with the stakeholders except for which one?

A company is about to embark upon a large organizational change initiative that involves restructuring its service offerings. A senior business analyst (BA) is assigned the work of establishing performance measures for the business analysis work to be performed by the BA team. Which of the following performance measures is appropriate to assess the value delivered by the work products against the cost, time, and resource investments expended to create them?

You are the business analyst for your organization and are working on a solution that will connect several databases to a web application. You are concerned that the databases may not be operable with the software solution a programmer is recommending. What requirements elicitation technique can help you determine the interoperability of the software, the databases, and the web application?

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?

Which one of the following is an example of a non-negotiable demand by a stakeholder during the requirements prioritization session?

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?

A health insurance provider undertakes enhancements to its mobile application platform and finalizes the following capabilities as part of the scope of the next release:

Which of the following is a flowchart that shows all the processes and the interfaces that interact with the project processes?

Which of the following processes measures the maturity level of the security program?

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 conduct stakeholder analysis technique is useful for identifying shared characteristics of a stakeholder group?

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 software company has won a contract to implement its product for a client. As part of the implementation work, a business analyst (BA) is asked to elicit information about the other client applications that will integrate with the new system and provide the information graphically. The technical staff needs to understand the message interaction within the systems for key business transactions. Which type of diagram should the BA use?

In risk analysis, which of the following can be identified as a consequence of a disaster?

Which of the following process models needs to complete each set of tasks in one phase before moving into the next phase in a project development life cycle?

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?

Jenni is the business analyst for the UHQ Organization. She is preparing to complete the conduct elicitation activity for her organization. Jenni can use all of the following techniques as part of this activity except for which one?

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?

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?

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?