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 is complete prior to closing the analysis phase. What would help the BA expedite the approval process for the analysis phase?

Solution functional capabilities

Business analysis information architecture

Solution functional capabilities

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 but require a high effort to implement. What should the BA recommend in this case?

Assign it a lower priority for future release

Deliver as part of the initial release

Change the related business process

Manufacturer O has received a merger proposal from ManufacturerK. There is concern among the senior management of Manufacturer O that regulations could shift in the future, prompting Manufacturer K to move headquarters elsewhere and close operations at the current Manufacturer O site. In assessing the proposal limitations and as part of identifying enterprise limitations, a culture assessment is completed. As part of this work, what else would the BA perform?

Stakeholder impact and operational analysis

Organization and functional modelling

Scope and requirements prioritization

Stakeholder impact and operational analysis

A business analyst (BA) is preparing a governance approach. The BA is trying to define the approval process. Which factors should the BA consider?

The associated risks of foregoing or delaying an approval

The organizational culture and type of information being approved

The solution performance measures

The formality and rigor of the prioritization process

The associated risks of foregoing or delaying an approval

The stakeholders are interested in ensuring that expected value is assessed prior to acceptance. To determine if the solution is providing expected value and ensure the accuracy of the measurements, the stakeholders and the business analyst (BA) determine that they need to measure:

performance, trends, and variances

impacts, problems, and dependencies

A business analyst (BA) is tasked with developing a business analysis plan and must decide the best approach to use. Which of the following factors would drive the decision towards an adaptive approach?

Requirements can effectively be defined ahead of implementation.

The risk of an incorrect implementation is unacceptably high.

Engaging stakeholders presents significant challenges.

The organization's tolerance for uncertainty is high.

A service provider has seen significant erosion of its profit margin so engages an external consultancy firm to assess its business operations and recommend options to improve profitability. What is the first step that the business analyst (BA) will perform as part of this engagement?

Conduct activities to understand the reasons behind the erosion of profitability in the current state

Hold a strategy session to understand how best to achieve increased profitability

Organize a requirements elicitation meeting to determine the desired increase in the profit margin

Perform a brainstorming session to determine the desired profit margins for the future state of operations

Conduct activities to understand the reasons behind the erosion of profitability in the current state

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?

Obtain formal approval through change request process

Change the business analysis approach to predictive

Obtain formal approval through change request process

Add the feature to the product backlog for future prioritization

Include the requirement in the next iteration

A business 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?

Information management approach

After determining that 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 BA expect to learn from the results?

Whether there will be an organizational impact as a result of the change.

Whether the stakeholders view the solution as something beneficial

Whether there will be an organizational impact as a result of the change.

That changes to the enterprise culture will better drive its actions

That internal dependencies limit the performance of the entire solution

Company A has been engaged to provide solution software to Company B as part of a combined service offering to CompanyC. This initiative requires a sub-project for Companies A and B to learn Company C's statutory requirements, a sub-project for Company A to write custom functionality for the solution, and a sub-project for Company B to develop infrastructure and support for the solution as well as the main project of implementation and cutover from Company C's current data processing solution to the service from CompanyB. How does the business analyst (BA) assign requirements to the various solution components to ensure all objectives are met?

Identify Improvement Opportunities

A utility company found that its current billing system charges customers for their usage, but does so incorrectly when the system estimates reads on meters rather than performs actual reads. Company stakeholders would like 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 state diagram?

The needs for the future state solution

The strengths and weaknesses of the current system

The cost/benefit measures for the new system

The change management plan for implementation

The needs for the future state solution

A business analyst (BA) finds that the solution service level agreement (SLA) cannot be met in one out of five identified scenarios, as there is a dependency on a requirement which is a part of a future release. How should the BA approach the solution limitation?

Increase the scope and include the dependent requirement

Assess the impact on the business operations

A business analyst (BA) is eliciting requirements to automate existing manual processes for fulfilling end users service requests. There is pressure from management to automate the process quickly using a commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) tool. The COTS solution has various modules including one for service request automation that has yet to be implemented in the organization. What is the BA's first step?

Implement the COTS tool's modules

Perform a gap analysis to understand missing capabilities

Modify the COTS tools to fit the existing process

During a retrospective, the project team agrees the way they organized the user stories during the first sprint could be improved. The business analyst (BA) plans to make the stories more accessible going forward. Which of the following will the BA update?

Information management approach

Organizational performance standards

Information management approach

Business analysis performance assessment

Project lessons learned register

A company wants to develop a product roadmap to guide future development efforts. The product owner asks a business analyst (BA) to lead the analysis effort.Feature suggestions have been compiled from customer support calls. Which of the following should the BA do first?

Determine the value of each feature

Compare the implementation costs of each feature

Prioritize the features in the backlog

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The solution presented by a business analyst (BA) to the stakeholders eliminated the need to maintain different variations of ship-to-country and location-to-route for various freight carriers. Instead, the routing would use a standard carrier code, giving the business the 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?

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