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NEW QUESTION 1

You are the business analyst for your organization and you are preparing the business case for a proposed solution. You need to include the management horizon in your business case. What is the management horizon?

• A. It is the expected deliverables that will be beneficial for the organizatio
• B. It is the point in time when the solution will be complete
• C. It is the duration of each phase of the project until the solution earns a profi
• D. It is the point in time for the solution to break even on cost and begin earning a profi

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 2

You are the business analyst for your organization. Management has asked that you create a method to store the project requirements including those under development, under review, and the requirements which have been approved. What is management asking you to create?

• A. A change management system
• B. A repository
• C. A project scope statement
• D. A requirements register

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 3

What does the T in SWOT analysis mean?

• A. Trial
• B. Threats
• C. Test
• D. Time

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 4

The business analysis approach generally defines all of the following attributes except for which one?

• A. Deliverables
• B. Requirements for solutions acceptance
• C. Analysis technique
• D. Team roles

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 5

Some of the requirements in the solution must be completed because of laws and regulations in your industry. Management would like you, the business analyst, to rank the requirements according to the relevant laws. What type of requirements prioritization is management having you complete?

• A. Regulatory ranking
• B. Business value ranking
• C. Constraint ranking
• D. Risk ranking

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 6

What element of the conduct elicitation activity is tracked to provide a basis for future planning?

• A. Time actually spent eliciting the requirements
• B. Number of stakeholders that did not participate in the requirements elicitation
• C. Cost of actually eliciting the requirements
• D. Changes that entered the scope throughout the requirements elicitation activities

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 7

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?

• A. Change the prioritization of the requirements based on the past projec
• B. Change the prioritization of the requirements based on overstated complexity of the project wor
• C. Get the requirements removed from the project scop
• D. Have the business analyst report the difficulty of the project work to the project custome

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 8

You are the business analyst for your organization and you are completing the verify requirements process. There are eight characteristics each requirements should have: cohesive, complete, consistent, correct, and feasible. Which one of the following four is not a characteristic of a requirement?

• A. Functional
• B. Modifiable
• C. Unambiguous
• D. Testable

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 9

Which of the following directs the improvement efforts to those areas that will have the biggest impact?

• A. Flowchart
• B. Gantt chart
• C. Pareto diagram
• D. User Documentation

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 10

You are the business analyst for the YGT Organization. You have just completed a capabilities gap assessment and have determined that your organization does not have the necessary resources and technology to seize a business opportunity. What is the most likely course of action for the organization?

• A. Hire additional resource
• B. Launch a new projec
• C. Hire contractors to complete the project wor
• D. Move onto the next opportunit

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 11

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?

• A. Decision analysis
• B. Business rules analysis
• C. Process modeling
• D. Functional decomposition

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 12

You are the business analyst for a large project in your organization. While your company prefers face-to-face communications there are many stakeholders located in different geographical locations. How can you still effectively serve as a business analyst when the stakeholders are not collocated?

• A. You will need to travel on a regular rotation to each of the geographical locations to complete the business analyst dutie
• B. You will need to implement videoconference
• C. Add more business analysts in each of the geographical locatio
• D. You will need the stakeholders to periodically gather in one local

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 13

You have identified several stakeholders that you believe are kinesthetic learners. Which statement best describes the kinesthetic learning approach?

• A. The learners learn best by reading and ponderin
• B. The learners learn best be experiencing the topi
• C. The learners learn best by seeing the topic in a model or through storyboard
• D. The learners are not interested in the topic unless they can immediately apply it to their lives or job

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 14

Fred's organization is using a plan-driven approach for the business analysis deliverables. In this approach how will the requirements be captured?

• A. Fred will use the appropriate documentation at the discretion of the business analysis team .
• B. Fred will use the project management information syste
• C. Fred will use whatever business analysis forms are most appropriat
• D. Fred will use standardized template

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 15

What part of defining the business needs process will evaluate the ends that the organization is seeking to achieve?

• A. Business goals and objectives
• B. Alternative identification
• C. Solution assessment
• D. Requirements

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 16

You are the business analyst for a large project for your organization. Your project has 65 stakeholders and this will greatly increase the complexity of the communication in this project. To demonstrate how complex this project and its communication will be, you show the management the number of communication channels in this project. How many channels exist in this project based on the number of stakeholders?

• A. 2080
• B. 4160
• C. 4225
• D. 65

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 17

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 requirements will be prioritized based on the value of the play money assigned to each requirement. What type of requirements prioritization is happening in this scenario?

• A. Resource leveling
• B. Confirmation management
• C. Utility function
• D. Voting

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 18

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?

• A. Probability distribution
• B. Sensitivity analysis
• C. Modeling and simulation
• D. Interviewing

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 19

Holly is the business analyst for her organization. Management has asked Holly to create a document that will define solution alternatives and how each identified solution may provide an expected business benefit to meet the identified business need. Management has asked Holly to provide data and statistics in this document to support her claims and findings. What type of document is management asking Holly to create?

• A. Vision statement
• B. Project scope statement
• C. Feasibility study
• D. Current state assessment

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 20

Which of the following types of charts shows which resources are needed in the project and allows you to group the resources by project phase or other attributes?

• A. Pareto chart
• B. Organizational Breakdown Structure
• C. Gantt chart
• D. Resource Breakdown Structure

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 21

You are the business analyst for your organization and are training Tracy on business analysis duties. You are explaining to Tracy how it's important for a business analyst to generate new ideas to approaching problems, solving problems, and to generate alternative solutions. You stress that it's important for the business analyst to generate new ideas and innovative concepts. What type of analytical thinking are you describing for Tracy?

• A. Lateral thinking
• B. Brainstorming
• C. Creative thinking
• D. Decision making

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 22

Which one of the following diagrams when properly laid out is always laid in a left to right display to properly reflect the chronology of all project work?

• A. Influence diagram
• B. Project schedule network diagram
• C. Arrow diagramming method
• D. Time-scaled schedule network diagram

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 23

You are the business analyst for your organization. Management realizes that a proposed solution has risks that may cause the entire project to fail. They would like you to prioritize the requirements with maximum risks first so that if the project fails, there is little loss of capital in the project implementation. What requirements prioritization approach is management asking you to create in this instance?

• A. Implementation difficulty
• B. Business or technical risk
• C. Likelihood of success
• D. Relationship to other requirements

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 24

What element of the plan business analysis process affects the business analysis duties that need to be performed?

• A. The experience of the business analyst
• B. The experience of the project manager
• C. The expected completion date of the business analysis duties
• D. The type of project or initiative

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 25

Which of the following is the process of analyzing the areas of a project that are most affected by risk?

• A. Risk Identification
• B. Risk Urgency Assessment
• C. Risk Categorization
• D. Risk Analysis

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 26

Which of the following software development life cycles is a methodology that divides the project into phases, and the project manager focuses on control of time, cost, and scope?

• A. Spiral
• B. Agile
• C. Waterfall
• D. Incremental

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 27

Which one of the following business analysis planning and monitoring techniques can be used to define and document the business analysis approach?

• A. Process modeling
• B. Structured walkthrough
• C. Decision analysis
• D. Control charts

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 28

Which of the following diagrams is known as Ishikawa diagram?

• A. Activity
• B. Data-flow
• C. Cost-Benefit
• D. Cause-and Effect

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 29

You are creating the solution scope for an identified problem in your organization. You are working with several stakeholders during this process including the domain subject matter expert, the implementation subject matter expert, the project manager, and the sponsor. Which of these stakeholders will be responsible for writing the project scope?

• A. Domain subject matter expert
• B. Business analyst
• C. Project manager
• D. Sponsor

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 30

Rachel is writing the business case for her organization. As she's completing this process Rachel is concerned that she's including all the correct information for management. Which one of the following should Rachel not include in her business case?

• A. Time to break even
• B. Opportunities to prioritize requirements
• C. Follow-on opportunities
• D. Qualitative and quantitative benefits

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 31
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