A business analyst (BA) was asked to send the requirement details to the project manager (PM), director, vice president (VP), and Chief Information Officer (CIO). The BA shares the complete set of requirements to the PM and director, while creating a summarized version for the VP and CIO. Which aspect of requirement specification and modeling was the BA performing?

Implement appropriate level of abstraction

Organize requirements categories

Implement appropriate level of abstraction

A business analyst (BA) is validating requirements and has found that the design cannot be validated to support the requirements. Which of the following is creating this situation?

Lack of requirements traceability.

A business analyst (BA) is planning to elicit requirements. The BA understands the scope of the elicitation and has selected interviewing as an appropriate technique. Which of the following is part of the logistics for these interviews?

Relationships between elicited requirements

A business analyst (BA) has discovered an old checklist prepared for another initiative, which includes the following characteristics: Complete, Feasible, Unambiguous, Testable. What is the purpose of this checklist?

To measure solution performance

A business analyst (BA) needs approval for the requirements which were elicited, collated, and verified by a peer. The BA needs to understand the approval process and appropriate stakeholders who have the authority to approve the requirements. Which of the following artifacts contains this information?

Stakeholder engagement approach

Information management approach

Stakeholder engagement approach

A business analyst (BA) is working on a complex project involving many stakeholders for which the business case has been previously completed and signed off. After an organizational restructure, new stakeholders have been assigned to the project working group, but do not see the value in the project outcomes and refuse to collaborate. What is a guideline or tool the BA can use to focus stakeholders on a common goal?

A business requirements document

A business analyst (BA) has decided to use a passive/unnoticeable job shadowing elicitation approach. What is an advantage of using this technique?

Obtaining the opinions of the performers without management interfering

Experiencing the performance of the task in a hands-on approach

Obtaining the opinions of the performers without management interfering

Gaining clarity in the process by asking Questions of the performer as it is being performed

Identifying instances of informally performed tasks as well as any workarounds

A business analyst (BA) has elicited requirements for a new system. A subset of these requirements refers to judging the performance of the system, such as efficiency, capacity, security, and scalability.What technique is used to examine and group these requirements?

Non-functional requirements analysis

A lead business analyst (BA) analyzed the performance of all BA's within the organization. How should the BA approach communicating the results to stakeholders?

Compare a solution used at another company

Identify the performance objectives

Determine the reporting requirements

A company wants to increase transaction service offerings using its on-line channels. The existing application already has some of the required functionality. A new project has been initiated to implement the additional capabilities but the company management is unsure of the complexity of the project. What exercise must be carried out to determine the changes needed in the new application?

Perform gap analysis of current and future states

Identify internal solution component dependencies

Evaluate competitor applications

The business analyst (BA) has traced the requirements for the interaction between a customer and the new online ordering system. Besides enabling the BA to ensure quality of the requirements to stakeholders, tracing the requirements will also enable the BA to:

illustrate the relationships between relevant requirements.

show all of the decision points in the business process.

illustrate the relationships between relevant requirements.

capture all users that will be impacted by the project.

detail the inner workings of the system being changed.

A project's business requirements require that the new solution reduce the labor costs currently attributed to performing end of month accounting procedures. Currently the company routinely must pay overtime to meet the deadline. The business analyst (BA) has been documenting the process and wants to ensure that the approach to the process design is feasible for the staff who perform the end of month procedures. Which of the following stakeholders will provide this verification?

Implementation subject matter expert

A business analyst (BA) is working on a set of tasks to establish a governance process for the project.The BA intends to identify who has authority and responsibility to propose changes, who should be involved in the change discussions, and how changes will be documented and communicated. Which of the following are the inputs that would help the BA complete the task?

Business analysis approach and stakeholder engagement approach

Governance approach and stakeholder engagement approach

Governance approach and business analysis approach

Stakeholder engagement approach and information management approach

The business analyst (BA) assigned to support a legacy system has developed a customer survey to assess its usability. Before distributing the survey, what should the BA do?

Validate the survey with the project sponsor

Observe customer interaction with the system

Review the risk register with the project sponsor

Update the project plan to include the survey

A large online retailer is introducing new technology to upgrade its aging ordering process. The business analyst (BA) has drawn a stakeholder matrix showing information on how to engage with the stakeholders throughout the project. Using the stakeholder matrix as a guide, how should the BA engage the suppliers?

Meet with the suppliers to discuss their needs

Ensure the suppliers are kept informed by showing interest in their needs

Communicate changes to the suppliers by general communication

Focus efforts to engage with the suppliers regularly

A business analyst (BA) is creating a business process model (BPM) showing how the organization will handle errors reported on its website. The BA held a workshop with stakeholders about how the process might work. The BA was also given an instruction manual about a similar error-handling situation, but was advised that some minor aspects are not applicable to the new process. How can the BA use the manual?

Identify the discrepancies in process between the manual and the workshop results and resolve these with stakeholders

Ignore the manual's information when creating the BPM since it is about a different situation

Identify the discrepancies in process between the manual and the workshop results and resolve these with stakeholders

Create a new version of the manual based on the original

Rely on the manual to create the BPM and ignore the interview results because no single stakeholder has the whole picture of the process

The business analyst (BA) is assigned a small project, requiring minor enhancements to an existing system. The BA will meet with the business sponsor and developer next week to gather information about the change. What should the BA review before the meeting?

Minutes from the last steering committee meeting

Organizational structure of the impacted department

Functional design specification of the existing system

Current list of funded initiatives for the current year

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