You are the business analyst for the NHQ Project. You have identified several stakeholders that need different types of information related to the requirements. Which stakeholder would need detailed technical interface requirements?

Implementation subject matter experts

As a business analyst, you should be able to identify the characteristics of each business analysis task and domain are a. Which one of the following statements best describes the characteristics of the business analysis knowledge area of requirements analysis?

It describes the tasks and techniques used by a business analyst to analyze stated requirements in order to define the required capabilities of a potential solution that will fulfill stakeholder needs.

It describes the activities and considerations for managing and expressing requirements to a broad and diverse audience.

It describes the business analysis activities necessary to identify a business need, problem, or opportunity, define the nature of a solution that meets that need, and justify the investment necessary to deliver that solution.

It describes the tasks and techniques used by a business analyst to analyze stated requirements in order to define the required capabilities of a potential solution that will fulfill stakeholder needs.

It is the act of eliciting business, stakeholder, solution, or transition requirements.

Which of the following is the best definition of the business rules analysis?

To define the rules that govern decisions in and organization and that define, constrain, or enable organizational policies.

To define the historical information that is available for the business analyst to rely on for his research.

To define the rules that govern decisions in and organization and that define, constrain, or enable organizational policies.

To define the people that govern decisions in and organization and that define, constrain, or enable organizational policies.

To define the job functions, roles and responsibilities, and the designation of power among the project stakeholders.

You are the business analyst for your organization. You are currently working with Susan on creating a model as part of the specify and model requirements process. Susan doesn't understand why you need a model. You explain to Susan that a model is just a simplified representation of a complex reality that is useful for understanding that reality and making decisions regarding it. In fact, you tell Susan, model can do all of the following except one option. Choose the option that model cannot do?

Define the resources that will be needed on the project team

Define boundaries for the business domain

Describe a situation or problem

Describe thought processes and action flows

You are the business analyst for a large project that will create new software for the entire organization. This new software will affect all of the administrative assistants in the organization schedule meetings, reserve facilities, and share calendars. There are approximately 2,400administrative assistants in your organization and not all of these people can attend requirements gathering workshops. What approach can you use to manage and gather requirements from these 2,400 administrative assistants?

You can meet with a small group of administrative assistants that will serve as representatives for the remaining administrative assistants.

You will need to meet with all of the administrative assistants as part requirements elicitation.

You can meet with a small group of administrative assistants and assume their requirements are reflective of the remaining group of administrative assistants.

You can meet with the administrative assistants' managers.

Enterprise analysis provides many things for an organization. All of the following are tasks included in enterprise analysis except for which one?

Solution performance assessment

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?

You will need to implement videoconferences.

You will need the stakeholders to periodically gather in one locale.

You will need to travel on a regular rotation to each of the geographical locations to complete the business analyst duties.

Add more business analysts in each of the geographical location.

You will need to implement videoconferences.

You are the business analyst in your organization and you've just completed the assessment on three different proposed solutions. In your judgment, you don't think any of the solutions provide enough value to justify being implemented. What should you tell the stakeholders?

Choose the least costly solution.

Ask for more time to find justification for the solutions.

Present each solution and allow the stakeholders to decide.

Which stakeholder(s) will be involved to determine if the requirements can be implemented?

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You are the business analyst for your organization and you're working to identify all of the stakeholders within your organization and outside your organization to ensure that you've captured the correct requirements for a project. Which one of the following techniques can be best suited for identifying stakeholders?

Acceptance and Evaluation Criteria

When an organization implements a new solution, the organization will often have to provide dualsupport for the new solution and the solution that's being replaced. Which one of the following is not an input to the transitional requirements definition?

Stakeholder management strategy

Organizational readiness assessment

Martha is the business analyst for her organization and she's been asked to help create a SMART goal for her company. Which one of the following organizational goals could be considered SMART?

Increase revenue by ten percent by January 15.

No errors in production of customer products.

Increase revenue by ten percent by January 15.

Increase revenue by ten percent.

Add 25 new customers to the sales base.

You are the business analyst for your organization. You are currently writing the business goals and objectives as part of the elements for the define business process. Which one of the following statements best describes the business goals and objectives element?

They describe the ends that the organization is seeking to achieve.

They describe all of the required work the project will need to complete in order to reach its objectives.

They describe the ends that the organization is seeking to achieve.

They describe the processes the solution will need to improve for the project to be successful.

They describe all of the positive benefits in ratio to the risk and costs of the project.

All of the following stakeholders participate in the prioritization of requirements except for which one?

Implementation subject matter expert

In order to define the business need for an organization, there are two inputs. What are the two inputs a business analyst will need to define the business need?

Stakeholder identification and stakeholder analysis

Requirements and Business analysis approach

Elicitation approach and Solution approach

You are the business analyst for your organization and you're working with Nancy, the Sales Director.You've been identifying requirements for Nancy about the sales force and her desire to add a customer management solution to the sales process. Nancy believes that the software can help automate the sales process, keep things better organized than the current approach, and ultimately create more sales for the organization. As a business analyst, which one of the following should you advise Nancy about her need?

There's an assumption that the perceived solution will create the desired benefit.

There are no constraints in the analysis process.

There is a cost, time, and quality constraint that must be satisfied to create the solution.

There will be a cost and time element to create the solution.

If a requirement has been satisfied, why is it still considered a requirement?

A requirement is considered valid as long as the business stakeholders need it.

A requirement is considered a requirement as long as the requirement may be able to be changed.

Requirements are considered requirements even if the requirements have been satisfied.

A requirement is considered valid as long as the business stakeholders need it.

If a requirement has been satisfied, it is no longer a requirement and should be purged from the requirements set.

You need to identify assumptions as part of the assessment of capability gaps. Which of the following is an example of an assumption?

The project manager believes that her project team members can program in COBOL.

The software must be compatible with the current operating system.

The risk in the project must be quantified.

All vendors must have security clearance.

You are the business analyst for a smaller project where there are few requirements. Management would still like you to create a method to trace the few requirements for this project. What type of matrix would be best in this instance?

Roles and responsibility matrix

A business analyst has determined that there are five possible solutions to a business need. If the business analyst completes the solution assessment on multiple solutions, what is the goal of the assessment?

The business analyst should determine which solution has the greatest business value.

The business analyst should determine the opportunity cost of each assessment.

The business analyst should only have one solution, not five.

The business analyst should determine which solution is quickest to implement.

As a business analyst, you'll need to communicate with the stakeholders of the solution you propose.Why is it important for the business analyst to review the stakeholder concerns as part of the assessment of the organization for the readiness of the solution?

To address potential problems or issues

To gain confidence and synergy among the stakeholders

To confirm stakeholder prioritization

To confirm the stakeholders' commitment of the solution

To address potential problems or issues

As a business analyst, you should work to identify opportunities to improve the operations of your organization. Which one of the following improvement opportunities aims to improve the experience of the customer?

Increase consistency of behavior.

Automate or simplify the work people perform.

Increase consistency of behavior.

Improve the purchasing process.

You are the business analyst for your organization and your requirements for the endeavor have recently been approved. Your organization creates a baseline for the requirements based on the approval of the requirements. What must happen in your business analysis activities if the requirements for your endeavor need to be changed?

You'll need to use a change control system.

You'll need to create new baselines.

You'll need to implement configuration management.

You'll need to use a change control system.

You'll need to create requirements versioning.

When can changes to requirements occur in a business analysis planning and monitoring assignment?

Changes to requirements can occur at any time.

Changes to requirements can occur any time after the project's change control system has been enacted.

Changes to requirements can occur at any time.

Change to requirements can occur any time before the project scope statement is created.

Change to requirements can occur at any time before the key stakeholders approve the identified requirements.

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