After several meetings with different groups of users, a business analyst has gathered the requirements for a large IT project. Now, the business analyst needs to document those requirements in a way that is clearly understood by the development team and provides
enough information to check if the requirement has been met.
Which of the following would work best in this case?
A business analyst assigned to review test output for a project realizes that an approved requirement has been missed. Which technique could the business analyst have used to ensure that requirements were delivered as stated?
What should the business analyst do to ensure that all requirements meet a quality checklist before the development and testing phase?
After conducting a brainstorming session with a group of project participants, the business analyst feels that the elicited requirements are biased. Which tool or technique could be used to gain an objective, first-hand insight into tasks and activities that are difficult to describe?
The client produced a specification for a new product to be developed by Company A. Company A designed and successfully tested the new product against the test plan, yet the client does not agree that it meets the specification.
What could have caused this?
The business analyst has been assigned to a project which delivers functionality for a much larger solution. The project has many requirements but has not received adequate funding. In addition, the stakeholders’ views conflict.
Which tools and techniques should the business analyst use to maximize business value while establishing the requirements baseline?
Which statement accurately depicts what changes can be made to requirements after they are baselined?
When modeling processes or analyzing tasks, business rules can be uncovered by asking about:
A business analyst is attempting to elicit requirements on a current project. The business subject matter experts (SMEs) from various departments in the company question how the solution will work with their various systems. Which modeling technique should the business analyst use to depict how the solution will work with all of the company's systems?
A business analyst is assigned to the lead analyst role for a project. This project is one of the largest in the history of the company and includes several components and complex interfaces. The system in development will be used by a wide variety of stakeholders.
Which tool should the business analyst use to trace the large number of requirements that will be generated by this project?
The business analyst has been assigned to a project involving a low number of stakeholders. Which technique should be used to elicit requirements?
A business analyst has been assigned to a project team that is redesigning the company's website. The business analyst has been documenting the relationships between requirements and has found requirements that do not trace to a business need.
Which type of requirements are these?
A project team has completed the system use cases along with accompanying screen mockups. The business analyst schedules a review meeting with the client team to walk through the artifacts.
What is the purpose of this meeting?
A company’s management team has decided to deploy a new product. However, there is concern that users may not accept a new product that forces them to change existing practices.
The business analyst should:
The sales team of a company has won a time-and-material project. The business analyst discovers that the sales team has underestimated the required budget and schedule.
Which course of action should the business analyst take?
The technology department identified a defect in the company's software, which leads to an increase in human resource requirements to perform manual transactions as a workaround for tasks that should have been automated. The company begins losing money, so it hires a business analyst to produce a business case that outlines the problem/opportunity, potential options, and a recommendation for how to proceed.
Which of the following analyses must the business analyst perform in order to complete the business case and arrive at a solid
recommendation?
A startup company sells organic vegetable and fruit smoothies. Management is tracking a rapid decrease in sales of their best-selling juice, so they contract a business analyst to identify solutions in order to increase sales by comparing similar products offered by competitors.
Which technique or tool should be used?
In order to reduce product and project risk for a large, complex project, a business analyst is asked to help develop a change process that includes formal authorization and tracking throughout the life cycle of the project. The business analyst needs a capability that will help ensure that the product conforms to approved requirements, changes can be documented, and the status of each change can be
reported.
What should the business analyst use?
A company has developed a new product for a customer. The customer provided a specification, but the company did not produce the system requirements in the verification matrix.
The customer is having difficulty determining if the product is meeting the requirements during the test event because the:
How can a SWOT analysis help when deciding between several possible options to address a business problem?
The project team is early in the development phase of a new product. The project will need to be completed on a tight timeline and with a lean budget.
What should the team do to reduce the risk of rework?
A new project's goal is to replace an existing system. What is an input into solution evaluation and decision making in this context?
A business analyst is developing a traceability matrix to determine whether or not any gaps exist and to identify any discrepancies.
Which critical field is needed to ensure that the traceability matrix is usable?
Which technique allows the collection of the maximum number of ideas on a subject from a group without considering the validity or practicality of the ideas?
A few months into a project, the business analyst determines that the costs are exceeding the perceived benefits. The business analyst wants to address the possible risks of having to cancel the product.
Which of the following documents should be used?
A company is developing a new e-commerce platform to enter a new market segment. Development is well under way when the government issues a new set of regulations.
Which course of action should the business analyst take?
A business analyst for Company A has been assigned to a three-year project to assist health insurance Company B with implementing and testing a new set of medical codes. The business analyst has identified many stakeholders who will participate in the project. For example, Company A will designate technical staff to write and code the requirements and provide a testing team to test the new
functionality. The senior director of Company B will require weekly progress updates. The project manager from Company A will create
project plans, schedule meetings, and provide meeting minutes.
In the scenario above, what is the role of the technical staff and testing team from Company A?
Which of the following tools will help facilitate the decision-making process when stakeholders do not agree on the value of an initiative?
Once a new project has been identified, the business analyst works with project team members to define what will be included in and excluded from the new system. Which of the following has the business analyst defined?
The project manager is beginning to prepare for a test readiness review with the customer. The project manager knows that the customer will want a summary of requirements that have been rejected or deferred. The project manager has requested that the business analyst provide a list of rejected and deferred requirements.
What should the business analyst have done to complete this request?
A business analyst and stakeholders have completed documentation of the acceptance criteria for the requirements of a new vehicle leasing database. A concern is raised that some of the key performance indicators may not validate the desired benefits of the implementation.
What should the business analyst do to ensure that the business need can be validated?
After implementation of the product, the customer reports defects. What is the best course of action to take?
When faced with a tight timeline, the project sponsor suggests that the project team start development without creating traceability artifacts. What should the business analyst do?
A business analyst anticipates receiving requirements changes. What should the business analyst do to avoid scope creep?
A business analyst conducts an initial review to define scope. The analysis includes the review of the business case, project goals, and objectives to obtain the necessary and required context. Based on that information, the business analyst determines that this is a large project with multiple interfaces which could cost the company money that was not initially included in the budget.
What characteristics of the project are needed to determine the approach so that the business analyst can validate whether they will
need to have a discussion about the budget?
A company has completed a major project within time, cost, and scope and satisfied high-level quality standards and marketing requests. However, the product was considered a complete failure by shareholders and the market due to low return on investment.
From the business analysis perspective, the main reason for this business failure was a failure to:
A company is pleased with its delivered solution and reports that it has heard only minimal complaints for the first three months of use.
How can the business analyst determine how well the solution meets the business case?
A business analyst in organization Y is assigned to elicit requirements in a project within a defined timeline. The business analyst has identified and invited key stakeholders to a requirements workshop. However, the stakeholders are not giving clear and concise requirements; their opinions about requirements are changing and conflicting with each other in the meeting. In the end, the business analyst could not elicit and define the requirements and therefore adjourned the meeting.
Which tool or technique could have been used by business analyst to avoid this situation?
A business analyst is trying to determine which analysis technique will be best suited to elicit information from a large number of users in a short period of time. Which elicitation technique is best suited for this purpose?
A business analyst has received a test result report that shows evidence of defective functionality. The business analyst checks the test result again and verifies that the functionality behaves according to the requirements.
At this point, the business analyst should first:
A business analyst is assigned to a business process re-engineering project. In addition to planning a workshop to elicit requirements, the business analyst wants to send out a survey to gather data to use in a statistical analysis on user satisfaction with the current business process.
Which of the following types of surveys would be most appropriate to create and why?
During validation of a project solution, the business analyst discovers that a requirement has been altered. Instead of placing the company logo in the upper-left corner of the window, it is displayed in the upper-right corner. When the business analyst asks the developer about the change, the developer says that one of the stakeholders asked directly for the change.
Which corrective action should the business analyst take?
How can a business analyst show progressive iterations of product development to stakeholders after the requirements baseline has been approved?
During the project execution phase, the client requests the addition of a new feature. Which of the following would allow the business analyst to determine the impact for the specific requirement change?
A company is developing a new risk management system. The company expects the system to evolve in the near future due to changing government regulations.
Which approach will better cope with the requirements’ volatility?
While preparing a business case, an experienced business analyst faces difficulty in deciding which of three different solution options to recommend. The senior vice president (SVP) who requested the business case favors an outsourced solution; however, an analysis
favors a custom-developed solution, either built internally or using contract labor.
To prepare the recommendation, what should the business analyst do?
The software developers have delivered a completed solution. The quality assurance team has passed the solution. What should the business analyst do next?
A company uses a prioritization range of 1-10, in which 10 represents the highest or best. According to the information from the table, which option should the business analyst recommend?
When managing a product backlog, which statement best describes how to determine the value of backlog items?