Which of the following requirement attributes lacks any ambiguous characteristics?

User Requirements Document (URD)

A business analyst (BA) is facilitating a meeting between process owners to capture the business rules for a workflow solution. One of the attendees expresses a strong opinion that the solution will not deliver the expected value.How will the BA ensure the process owner remains engaged and will support the change?

Record the feedback and continue

A project's change in scope is assessed and a newly assigned business analyst (BA) is unsure how to communicate the findings and final decision to the wider stakeholder group.In which of the following can the BA find this information?

Stakeholder Communications Plan

A local manufacturer that serves about 1000 retail stores is experiencing a slow yet steady decrease of its customer base over the last couple of years. Attributing the situation to increased competition, management has hired a team of sales representatives to attract new clients and promote the manufacturer's products.However, after four months there is still no progress. Management has engaged a business analyst (BA) to investigate this issue.What should the BA do first?

Review historic sales and related data to understand what is happening to the customer base

Perform market research to identify on which competitive advantages the sales team should focus

Create a training program to close potential skill gaps for the sales team

Review historic sales and related data to understand what is happening to the customer base

Identify appropriate training providers and send out a request for proposal

A new project has to implement a cyber security release in China, Italy, Germany, the United States, and Canada. The project is a $5 million initiative and must 'go live' in production in all countries on the same day and time to be effective.Which of the approaches mentioned is suitable for this project based on the size and complexity?

An agile and iterative approach

A waterfall and dynamic approach

A kanban and predictive approach

A proven and tailored analysis approach

While defining what necessary conditions are required to achieve the business need for a highly regulated government client, a business analyst (BA) discovers that some legacy policies will either constrain or are insufficient to achieve value desired by the future state.How should the BA proceed?

Model two future states, one with and another without these policies

Modify the solution to comply with the policies

Identify an assumption about future state value

Model two future states, one with and another without these policies

Obtain approval to change the policies

A business analyst (BA) at a regional bank has recently been assigned to assist on a project to expand into new markets. The chief executive officer (CEO) envisions the bank as a national brand and has asked the chief financial officer (CFO) to monitor project progress closely. The project manager (PM) has asked the BAs on the team to recommend an appropriate business analysis approach.Based on the nature of the project and the industry, which approach should they recommend?

An agile approach with frequent team interaction, adaptive documentation standards, and iterative requirements development

An unstructured approach utilizing informal team interaction, model-driven documentation standards, and iterative requirements development

An agile approach with frequent team interaction, adaptive documentation standards, and iterative requirements development

A moderate approach utilizing the bank's existing waterfall project lifecycle and documentation deliverables not requiring formal approval

A formal approach with planned team interaction, agreed upon documentation deliverables requiring formal approval, and front-loaded requirements development

A business analyst (BA) in a large financial institution, responsible for the management of requirements, has completed all the activities related to tracing requirements and is now pursuing to maintain them. The BA has identified a large number of requirements which have long term reuse and is now looking for guidance to manage these requirements.Which of the following will indicate how requirements will be managed for reuse?

Information Management Approach

A business analyst (BA) is in the process of allocating requirements to various releases of a solution.On what should the BA base requirements to maximize the value of the solution?

Components in scope for that release

Timing of the release and its impact on business

Components in scope for that release

A business analyst (BA) works for a financial institution that wants to acquire new systems and migrate all future business operations to the new systems. The BA is responsible for performing a gap analysis and has reviewed the current state of systems.What is the next task that the BA needs to do to complete the gap analysis?

Define the future state capabilities

Select the stakeholder engagement approach

A business analyst (BA) has completed the prioritization of requirements with various risk-averse stakeholder groups. Several requirements conflict with a regulatory requirement that, if not implemented, will result in a fine from a regulatory body.What should the BA do?

Determine a means to work around the regulatory requirement

Measure the value of the other requirements against the penalty of not meeting the regulatory requirement

Compare the regulatory requirement to the recommended solution

Determine a means to work around the regulatory requirement

Inform the stakeholders that the regulatory requirement takes precedence over other requirements

A multi-domain project has stakeholders with different technical backgrounds. The presentation prepared by the business analyst (BA) for domain 1 was also used for domain 2 but the presentation was not clear and caused concerns for stakeholders in domain 2.What can the BA do to alleviate the concerns of the stakeholders in domain 2?

Present a model applicable for the stakeholders in domain 2.

Create a survey applicable for the stakeholders in domain 2.

Produce an estimation applicable for the stakeholders in domain 2.

Present a model applicable for the stakeholders in domain 2.

Develop a backlog applicable for the stakeholders in domain 2.

The objective of a solution implemented was to increase the number of customer calls resolved per hour.When using basic statistical sampling concepts, what does the business analyst (BA) need to consider?

Metrics and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

Benchmarking and Market Analysis

A sports wristwatch product manufacturer wants to add a blood sugar monitoring toolkit to the watch. Market research has confirmed that the most profitable segment of the manufacturer's target customer is looking for this feature. The business analyst (BA) worked with the product owner to finalize the set of requirements and design options and then defined multiple approaches for implementing the feature. At this point, the solutions' team agreed that they were unable to accurately assess the merits of each of the proposed solutions.What is the possible reason?

Business needs are unclear to the team

Requirements are not allocated to solution components

Too many approaches are dividing the team

Business needs are unclear to the team

Requirements and design options are not detailed enough

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 __________.

benefits, penalties, and costs.

impacts, problems, and dependencies.

performance, trends, and variances.

A business analyst (BA) is working on a stakeholder collaboration plan. The main goal is to select the approaches that work best to meet the needs of external and internal stakeholders.Which aspects should be taken into account?

Timing and frequency of collaboration

While validating requirements for a software implementation project, the business analyst (BA) needs to identify scenarios that would alter the benefit delivered by a requirement.Which of the following techniques should the BA use to identify such scenarios?

Metrics and Key Performance Indicators

In a software implementation project, the designated business analyst (BA) has conducted all the elicitation activities and now needs to confirm the elicitation results.What is used by the BA Professional to guide which sources of information and which results are to be compared?

Information management approach

A big construction company has grown into a group of 17 companies spread across the country. The rationale behind forming the group was to become more competitive in bidding for federal and regional government contracts. Another reason was to increase consolidated profitability by lowering the cost of materials and using combined assets more efficiently. Disjointed technological capabilities of the individual companies impede gathering the data needed to make decisions on both handling materials and allocating the resources.What improvement opportunity does this represent?

Enhance access to the relevant information

Create a business model canvas to outline business needs

Deploy a new system across the companies

Enhance access to the relevant information

Develop a repository of information from each company

Contracts are currently managed by more than 20 contract owners across the organization, each happily managing in their own way. A business analyst (BA) is tasked to elicit requirements for centrally managing software maintenance and license contracts.Which of the following does the BA need to carry out first?

Identify future state conditions

Recommend an off the shelf product

Complete an enterprise readiness assessment

An online stock trading system is under implementation.Which of the following events can be considered as a trigger for re-prioritization?

Further dependencies among solution components are uncovered

A team member has left the project and is being replaced

A new initial public offering in the stock market is introduced

Further dependencies among solution components are uncovered

Number of reported quality defects is growing through phases

The business sponsor of a project to automate a high risk, high profile process has expressed concerns that some activities people perform will be missed. The business analyst (BA) has already created a process flow with associated user stories.Which of the following actions will address the sponsor's concerns?

Schedule a formal review with the stakeholders

Record the concerns in the risk register

Schedule a formal review with the stakeholders

Demonstrate traceability to the business case

Review the final approved elicitation results

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