Bonny is the business analyst for her organization and she's making a determination from which vendor the solution should be purchased. She has identified several categories to measure each vendor's overall performance and solution. cost, schedule, experience, certification, references, and years in business. For each category, she has identified scores the vendor may earn; for example, cost is worth 25 points, schedule is worth up to 20 points, and years in business is worth up to ten points.The vendor who gets the most points in the assessment will win the contract. What is Bonny using in this scenario?

Vendor profile assessment scale

What tool is best described as a spreadsheet to use when there's a relatively low amount of requirements that need to be traced?

Roles and responsibilities chart

In order to plan the business analysis approach, the business analyst must understand the organizational process needs and what other thing?

Operation of organizations and the objectives of business analysis

Consideration of risk and reward

Purpose of the proposed solution

Stakeholders' threats and perceived threats

Which one of the following statements best describes requirements prioritization?

It determines how requirements will be prioritized and how those priorities will be used to define the solution scope.

It is only used with the plan-driven approach to business analysis.

It is only used with the change-driven approach to business analysis.

It determines how requirements will be prioritized based on the most important stakeholders to the least important stakeholders.

It determines how requirements will be prioritized and how those priorities will be used to define the solution scope.

Enterprise analysis creates just five outputs. Which one of the following is an output of the enterprise analysis tasks?

Solution performance assessment

A business analyst (BA) is assessing the completeness and coherence of the requirements. The BA has considered a variety of viewpoints and has a collection of views. What has the BA constructed?

Requirements traceability matrix

A business analyst (BA) has completed an impact analysis of a proposed change, gained approval for the change, and has updated the requirements. The project sponsor wants to be updated with an overview of the results. How should the BA communicate the results?

Schedule a requirements workshop

Present the requirements at a high-level

A business analyst (BA) has determined that "Product Box", a collaboration game, will provide a fun way to engage the stakeholders when working on prioritizing the list of features. What should the BA do?

Ensure buy-in from key stakeholders

Research ideas for the new product

A project to implement shared registration procedures across multiple jurisdictions has stalled several times. The new business analyst (BA) assigned to the project used a collaborative game to elicit requirements. What effect was the BA attempting to achieve?

Minimal variance from planned effort

Close alignment with corporate values

Stimulate teamwork in a fun situation

A business analyst (BA) has been hired to validate a project's requirements. A series of meetings with stakeholders have been scheduled to walk through each requirement as it relates to the desired future state of the organization. The desired outcome of this exercise is to ensure that all requirements:

support the delivery of needed value.

are funded by the business sponsors.

support the delivery of needed value.

The project plan called for deliverables to be handed over at the end of the project. Although the client's business team was satisfied, the client's technical team was extremely resistant to this approach. What could the business analyst (BA) do to mitigate the technical team's resistance?

Reassess the project objectives

The business analyst (BA) has documented the requirements for a new system and is preparing the requirements for approval. Which of the following helps ensure that requirements are fully understood and traceable?

Requirements are properly classified

Requirements are extracted for review

Requirements are properly classified

Requirements meet regulatory standards

A business analyst (BA) is conducting a workshop with the purpose of analyzing a business process.Stakeholders of different business units are in attendance. Each stakeholder is able to explain their unit's contribution to the process, however, there is no end to end process owner who can provide a consolidated view. Which technique should the BA use to compare the stakeholder's inputs against each other in order to check for consistency and omissions?

Create a use case scenario that describes the process step by step

Schedule a follow-up workshop to give more time for additional input

Create a use case scenario that describes the process step by step

Develop a process model with swimlanes to highlight the handoff points

Create a logical data model with the information elicited

A client wants to rehire a business analysis consulting firm for another project. The assigned business analyst (BA) developed a good rapport with the stakeholders, but delivered documents that contained lots of technical jargon that the client could not fully understand. Based on the feedback, the consulting company should:

discuss the feedback during the brainstorming sessions after project completion.

recommend a new methodology which is the latest trend in the industry.

assign a different BA to the project.

discuss the feedback during the brainstorming sessions after project completion.

identify performance metrics before commencing work.

The Business Requirements Document (BRD) prepared by the business analyst (BA) was circulated to stakeholders for approval. Some stakeholders objected to the Use Case diagrams and could not understand them. Why would these be included in the document?

The models are used for analysis and refining requirements and design.

The models were included as a mistake because Use Case diagrams are technical.

The models are part of the technical documents and not part of BRD documents.

The models are used for analysis and refining requirements and design.

The models did not change the value compared to text based requirements

A one-location restaurant has been a huge success and the owner wants to expand into more markets. The owner wants to ensure that the quality of the food and pleasing atmosphere is maintained without introducing new variables. Working with the key members of the organization, the owner determines that training and standard processes must be defined. The owner engages a business analyst (BA) to create training materials and operating procedures based on the existing processes at the original restaurant. During this documentation, the BA identifies some opportunities for improvement. How must the BA proceed?

Provide documentation of improved procedures based on the observed opportunities for then new location

Schedule time with the owner to review any opportunities to improve existing processes and obtain permission to include changes before documenting

Create documentation based on the observed processes because improvements are outside of the scope of the project

Provide documentation of improved procedures based on the observed opportunities for then new location

Perform benchmarking and market analysis to determine whether there are standard procedures in the restaurant industry that support the opportunities identified

During the analysis, synthesis, and refinement of elicitation results the business analyst (BA) has discovered that some information is missing. Which course of action would resolve the situation?

Verify the requirements results

A company wants to increase its market share in the industry and its Board has prioritized capabilities that need to be implemented to achieve the goal. The business requirements for the top priority were signed off and the solution design has been completed. Due to technical constraints, it is not feasible to implement all the requirements at the same time. What must the business analyst (BA) do to deal with this situation?

Ensure all requirements are traceable using a matrix

Redefine the business requirements associated with each implementation

Recommend a reduction in the project scope

Allocate requirements to different releases

Ensure all requirements are traceable using a matrix

A stakeholder would like to add requirements to an IT project which is in flight. The project manager wants to revisit the traceability repository prior to committing to the addition of any new requests, because it is used for which of the following activities?

Approving requirement relationships

Creating test plans and test cases

Approving requirement relationships

Developing documentation for technical support

Supporting change and scope management

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You are the business analyst for an organization and you're managing your stakeholders through the requirements validation activities. Your stakeholders are categorized by executives, functional managers, directors, end users, and customers. Which of these stakeholders are involved in the requirements validation activities?

All of the stakeholders

Functional management

Executives

Customers

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