IIBA CBAP Practice Test - Questions Answers, Page 32

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?

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?

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?

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?

A software company has won a contract to implement its product for a client. As part of the implementation work, a business analyst (BA) is asked to compile information about the other client applications that will integrate with the new system and provide the information graphically. To establish the boundaries of the new system, the business leaders need to know the interfacing client applications and the type of information that will be exchanged between the existing and new systems.

Which type of diagram should the BA use?

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?

An online stock trading system is under implementation.

Which of the following events can be considered as a trigger for re-prioritization?

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?

Whilst working on business requirements to improve a process, a business analyst (BA) has created flowcharts from the viewpoint of several different users. The stakeholders have expressed some confusion because the flows seem inconsistent.

What ensures that the process models relate to each other?