An automobile manufacturer is undertaking a project intended to modify or replace the company's current timekeeping system. Negative employee reaction to change follows as word of the proposed solution spreads throughout the company. What could a business analyst (BA) do to prevent or reduce employee discontent?

Report potential sources of dissent to management

Relay upper management support to stakeholders

Record negative employee reaction as a project risk

Propose cultural changes for the organization

Report potential sources of dissent to management

A business analyst (BA) is working on improving solution performance and increasing value. The BA discovers that a set of interfaces and activities do not contribute to the final product either directly or indirectly. What should the BA recommend?

Remove or minimize interfaces and activities that do not provide value to the final product

Provide a single solution for stakeholders thus reducing the cost of implementation

Remove or minimize interfaces and activities that do not provide value to the final product

Retire the current solution as it is not fulfilling the need for which it was created

Propose an organizational change to automate the work people perform

A conservative company with rigorous risk control plans and internal audit rules has a recurrent problem with a core business application. As a result, access to this application must be restricted and controlled and maintenance must be onsite. However, the company feels that the application must have an emergency service team. The routine maintenance of this solution is provided by an external vendor and the vendor requested 24 hours remote access to quality and production data. In this context, what is the company's response to the vendor's request?

Accepted, because the company has an urgent problem to solve

Denied, because the vendor requested it

Denied, because of the company's risk aversion

Accepted, because the company has an urgent problem to solve

Accepted, because immediate remote access will resolve any issue

A business analyst (BA) is assigned to a project which has two main stakeholders: a highly regulated government agency and a less formal private company. To select the business analysis approach, the BA will conduct a meeting with representatives from each entity to decide on the level of formality needed for requirements and design specifications. During the meeting, what should the BA's strategy be?

Employ the standard business analysis level of formality

Develop consensus on a tailored approach for formality

Use a formal approach to appeal to the government entity's higher authority

Ask the government entity to accept a flexible collaborative approach

Employ the standard business analysis level of formality

A business analyst (BA) has defined a business analysis approach and presented the documents to the sponsors, the senior executives, the domain experts, the project manager, and the head of technology, to obtain agreement from all. At this juncture, the project manager objected to some of the estimates determined in the budget and refused to agree with the estimates. Which guideline or tool, if followed by the BA, would have helped in avoiding such disagreements?

Stakeholder Engagement Approach

Business Analysis Performance Assessment

Requirements Classification Schema

Stakeholder Engagement Approach

A business analyst (BA) has a meeting next week with the project sponsor to ensure that the requirements align with the objective of the project. Prior to the meeting, the BA must ensure that the requirements are:

predictive, diagnostic and descriptive

correct, capable, and strategic

parametric, analogous, and decomposed

predictive, diagnostic and descriptive

A business analyst (BA) asks participants in a workshop to write down their ideas about the feature being built on sticky notes, place them on the wall, and then group the ideas into similar themes. The BA is using this technique to:

manage stakeholder collaboration

prepare for requirements elicitation

manage stakeholder collaboration

identify organizational capabilities

A business analyst (BA) has completed requirements elicitation and modelling on a project to implement a new case management system. During analysis of the requirements, the BA notices that one of the requirements appears to be in conflict with the company's case management policies. What should the BA do?

Identify the policies as a potential constraint and review with management

Request modification to the policies and identify the changes as an assumption and a dependency

Modify the requirements to adhere to the existing policies and note the change in the models.

Identify the policies as a potential constraint and review with management

Create a requirement to indicate the change to the current policies and update the information in the models

A bank moves currency from the main office to the branches daily for operational use. To avoid paying overnight interest, the branches return the currency at the end of the business day. The bank requires a new inventory management system to account for the whereabouts of the cash at all times. A software provider has proposed a heavily customized version of their standard inventory management software. As the project progresses, the business analyst (BA) identifies a number of subtleties that would suggest a fully made to order solution may be a better option for the bank. What inputs does the BA need to perform the analysis?

Potential value and design options

Change strategy and performance objectives

Requirements and business policies

Potential value and design options

Needs and business analysis approach

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Following a recent, successful deployment, a business analyst (BA) has noticed that several of the requirements are candidates for reuse in multiple upcoming change initiatives. Which type of requirement is a potential candidate for re-use?

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