You are the business analyst for your organization and you're notifying the key stakeholders of a need to gather requirements for an endeavor. One of the stakeholders that you'll need to attend your requirements workshop is the project manager. What role will the project manager have in this workshop?

The project manager will ensure that the needed resources are available.

The project manager will facilitate the requirements workshop.

The project manager will ensure that the needed resources are available.

None, the project manager should not be involved until all of the requirements have been identified.

The project manager will help elicit requirements from the stakeholders.

Nancy has asked you to trace a particular requirement for her. What does 'to trace a requirement' mean?

Tracing a requirement means to look at a requirement and the others to which it is related. It links business requirements to stakeholder and solution requirements to other artifacts created by the team and to solution components.

Tracing a requirement means to look at a requirement and the others to which it is related. It links business requirements to components in the project's work breakdown structure.

Tracing a requirement means to track a requirement from its first identification all the way to its completion to see what issues, risks, costs, quality, and defects have surrounded the requirement.

Tracing a requirement means to look at a requirement and the others to which it is related. It links risk, cost, quality, and scope elements to stakeholder and solution requirements to other artifacts created by the team and to solution components.

Tracing a requirement means to look at a requirement and the others to which it is related. It links business requirements to stakeholder and solution requirements to other artifacts created by the team and to solution components.

Which elicitation activity is best described to ensure that the needed resources are organized and available for the elicitation?

Managing stakeholder requirements

You are the business analyst for your organization. Management has asked you to create a plan that will define the proposed structure and schedule for communicating the business analysis activities to the appropriate stakeholders. What plan does management want you to create?

Business Analysis Communications Plan

Sam is the project manager of the NHT Project. His project has stakeholders from the end users, server administrators, functional managers, external customers, technicians, and executive managers. In this high- profile project, which group of stakeholders is the most important?

No stakeholders are more important than other stakeholders.

When a business analyst completes the task of organizing requirements, he is completing two key objectives. What are the two objectives?

The business analyst should aim to understand which models are appropriate for the business domain and solution scope and to identify model interrelationships and dependencies.

The business analyst should categorize the requirements first by functional or non-functional decomposition and then structure the categories by identified prioritization elements.

The business analyst should strive to find logic in the organizational structure and to establish a prioritization approach on key elements.

The business analyst should aim to understand which models are appropriate for the business domain and solution scope and to identify model interrelationships and dependencies.

The business analyst should work with stakeholders to organize defined categories and then to structure each category by a key performance indicator.

As a business analyst, you'll often need to analyze business needs, requirements, and solutions for assumptions and constraints. Which one of the following is a constraint? Choose the best answer.

The solution must be done by December 31.

The solution must cost less than $450,000.

The solution should be implemented during the summer months.

The solution must be done by December 31.

The solution won't need external resources.

You work as a business analyst for u Certify Inc. You have been assigned the task to implement the job shadowing process. Which of the following statements are true regarding the job shadowing process? Each correct answer represents a complete solution.

In this process, the observer is required to keep an eye on those workers whose work routine is down and who are unable to explain their work.

In this process, the observer has to understand their work process for better assessment of the modifications of the work required.

Job shadowing is an elicitation process that is a part of job observation.

The job shadowing process is a part of business analysis planning and monitoring activities.

In this process, the observer is required to keep an eye on those workers whose work routine is down and who are unable to explain their work.

In this process, the observer has to understand their work process for better assessment of the modifications of the work required.

Job shadowing is an elicitation process that is a part of job observation.

When a business analyst hosts a structured walkthrough of the requirements, what should the walkthrough always include at the beginning of the process?

Review of the requirements to be discussed

Review of the business case for the analysis

Review of the requirements to be discussed

Identification of the objectives and goals

What should an organization do if the business analyst has determined that the existing capabilities are inadequate to seize an opportunity?

Recommend that the organization launch a project to create the capabilities needed.

Recommend that the organization not pursue the opportunity.

Recommend that the organization hire contractors with the needed capabilities.

Recommend that the organization share the opportunity with other organizations.

Why is it important to have a requirements signoff process for approved requirements?

It formalizes the agreement by the stakeholders that the requirements are complete and accurate.

It confirms that the project sponsor and the project manager are in agreement with the business analyst about the accuracy and completeness of the requirements.

It holds stakeholders accountable for the cost and schedule of the requirements.

It allows the project manager to begin the project.

Which one of the following statements best describes what an assumption is?

These are things that are believed to be true, but they have not yet been confirmed.

These are the things that may restrict the options for the endeavor.

The weather will always be hot in the summer and cool in the winter.

The project must be completed by December 18.

These are things that are believed to be true, but they have not yet been confirmed.

Project Communication Management includes the processes required to .

Ensure timely and appropriate generation, collection, distribution, storage, retrieval, and ultimate disposition of project information.

Identify, define, combine, unify, and coordinate the various processes and project management activities with the Project Management Process Groups.

Manage timely completion of the project.

Organize, manage, and lead the project team.

What is problem tracking?

It's the identification and management of any issues for resolution.

It's the identification of missing requirements.

It's the assumption that there will be defects in the requirements that must be resolved.

It's the documentation of known defects in the requirements.

It's the identification and management of any issues for resolution.

Mary is the business analyst for your organization. She asks you what the purpose of the assess capability gaps task is. Which of the following is the best response to give Mary?

It identifies new capabilities required by the organization to meet the business need.

It identifies the skill gaps in the existing resources.

It identifies the causal factors that are contributing to an effect the solution will solve.

It identifies new capabilities required by the organization to meet the business need.

It describes the ends that the organization wants to improve.

You have 83 project stakeholders from all across your organization. Some of the stakeholders, such as functional management, require weekly communication from you, while other stakeholders, such as the end users, only need quarterly progress updates. Where can you record these communication requirements based on your stakeholder analysis?

Project communications management plan

Mark is a business analyst for his organization. A business need has been identified; therefore, Mark immediately sets out to identify the stakeholders. How long will stakeholder analysis need to continue?

It will continue as long as business analysis continues.

It will continue until all of the stakeholders have been identified.

It will continue until the requirements have been approved.

It will continue as long as business analysis continues.

It will continue until the project charter is signed.

The RGQ Organization utilizes a change log. What is a change log?

It is a document that tracks all characteristics and status of changes that have been received.

It is a document that tracks all unauthorized changes to the project solution.

It is a document that records all change requests for the project.

It is a document that tracks the changes that have been received, including their implementation to the project solution.

It is a document that tracks all characteristics and status of changes that have been received.

You are a business analyst for your organization and you're working with Mary. Mary wants to know what you need to complete the process of planning the business analysis approach if you're already the business analyst for your organization. This approach helps to find out the following except for which one?

Who will be observed in job shadowing?

Which stakeholders need to be involved in the decision?

Who will be consulted regarding and informed of the approach?

Who will be observed in job shadowing?

What is the rationale for using it?

Holly is the business analyst for her organization and she's leading a requirements workshop for a proposed solution. In this workshop, Holly is using a requirements tracing matrix to help prevent against scope creep. What is scope creep?

It's the addition of the deliverables that don't trace back to the original business goals to the project scope.

It's the removal of the things that don't conform to the quality of the requirements.

It's the addition of the things that aren't needed to consume the project budget.

It's the addition of the things that don't trace back to the original project scope.

It's the addition of the deliverables that don't trace back to the original business goals to the project scope.

As a business analyst, you'll need to recognize the methods that are appropriate for recording and documenting the results of elicitation activities. Which one of the following cannot be considered as a valid method for documenting elicitation?

Written documentation describing the outcome of the event

You are a business analyst in an organization that has recently embraced business analysis as part of its initiative for new projects. In this organization, there is not an organizational standard for tailoring business analysis duties and expectations. Which one of the following best describes the action that you should take to begin business analysis?

Work with the appropriate stakeholders to determine how the business analysis work should be completed.

Take charge and begin the business analysis activities, but document your approach to serve as a template for future business analysis initiatives.

Create a business case for the need for organizational standards for business analysis.

Define the organizational standard first.

Work with the appropriate stakeholders to determine how the business analysis work should be completed.

An organization has selected a solution for a business need and the business analyst has elected to use the time boxing/budgeting technique for requirements prioritization. What is the time boxing/budgeting technique?

It's a method to prioritize requirements based on a pre-determined budget and/or a predetermined deadline.

It's used when there are conflicting requirements that must be resolved quickly and cost efficiently.

It's a method to rank requirements in different boxes based on time, cost, risk, and need.

It's used to determine which requirements can be implemented fastest and for the least amount of cost.

You are the business analyst for your organization. You are currently working with Steve on the organize requirements process. You and Steve have elected to use the user stories approach for this process. What is the user stories approach for requirements organization?

Stakeholders' objectives are described to identify the requirements that the solution will need to support.

Stakeholders are interviewed and their stories are recorded as part of the requirements.

Stakeholders are interviewed and their experiences are recorded to help identify the requirements.

Stakeholders' experiences equate to the stakeholder requirements.

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