IIBA CCBA Practice Test - Questions Answers, Page 3
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Question 21
A business analyst (BA) is examining the relationships between elicited requirements on a project.
What quality criteria must be satisfied when the BA is defining requirements relationships?
Question 22
A business analyst (BA) develops a template to document the product feature requirements for an enterprise software solution. Within the template, the BA includes the following additional information: source, priority level, level of complexity, and last modified date. What does the additional information describe?
Question 23
According to the book 'A Guide to the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge', effective business analysis practices can do what to the amount of change to requirements in a stable business environment?
Explanation:
Effective business analysis practices can reduce the amount of change in a project, but it cannot eliminate the amount of changes entirely.
Answer D is incorrect. This isn't a valid statement as business analysis practices cannot eliminate the need for change in requirements.
Answer C is incorrect. While this may be true in some instances, it's not true for all areas of requirements change.
Answer B is incorrect. This isn't a valid statement to the Question. All changes and requirements must be documented.
Question 24
You are the business analyst for your organization. Your current project is using a plan-driven approach for the requirements, business analysis, and monitoring. Which one of the following statements best describes the plan-driven approach to business analysis planning and monitoring?
Explanation:
The plan-driven approach has the most business analysis work at the beginning of the project or during the start of a project phase. This approach has a high amount of formality and detail for all areas of the business analysis duties, requirements gathering, and monitoring.
Answer D is incorrect. This statement is not true about the plan-driven approach. Answer C is incorrect. This statement describes requirements prioritization.
Answer A is incorrect. Plan-driven approaches typically discourage change and they work to refine the requirements over time to prevent errors and omissions.
Question 25
Mark is the business analyst for his organization. He is working with the solution development team and he believes that the team does not want to implement a certain portion of the requirements.
The team is expressing the difficulty of the requirements and how it will be extremely challenging to complete. When Mark asks about a similar project that the team completed, they insist that this is a different type of requirements though Mark believes that it is not. What is the solution development team appearing to do to the requirements?
Explanation:
In this instance it appears that the solution development team is attempting to change the prioritization of the requirements to their benefit by overestimating the complexity of the project work.
Question 26
As a business analyst, you must identify activities in your business analysis approach. Which one of the following is useful for identifying activities?
Explanation:
One of the best elements available for identifying project activities is a list of deliverables. By understanding what the endeavor is to create, the business analyst can better understand what activities are needed.
Answer B is incorrect. BABOK, A Guide to the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge, isn't a valid selection for this Question.
Answer A is incorrect. You won't use project management input, other than expert judgment in some instances, to help identify activities.
Answer D is incorrect. The work breakdown structure (WBS) isn't a valid input for identifying activities.
Question 27
You are currently working on creating the activity list for an initiative in your organization. What characteristic must be assigned to each task in your task list?
Explanation:
Each task in the task list should have a unique number to identify the specific task and it should have a description of what the task is.
Answer B is incorrect. The risk level is not associated with the task list.
Answer D is incorrect. Roles and responsibilities are not included directly in the task list.
Answer A is incorrect. Procurement needs are not included in the task list.
Question 28
Shelly is the business analyst for her organization and she's working with Thomas to review the business requirements. They are discussing the identified requirements, how the requirements will transition to the operations, and the longevity of the solution. Thomas is concerned that the identified requirements may not map to the desired future state of the organization. What business analysis task is Shelly facilitating in this scenario?
Explanation:
Shelly and Thomas are performing the validate requirements task. This task helps to ensure that the requirements map to the business goals and objectives, resolve the issue, and predict the longevity of the requirements to satisfy business needs.
Answer B is incorrect. There is not a business analysis task called requirements quality assurance. Answer A is incorrect. Acceptance evaluation criteria definition is a task to ensure that the requirements are clear and precise enough to create tests and inspect to know that the work has been completed.
Answer D is incorrect. Stakeholder management is the management of stakeholders' issues, conflicts, queries, concerns, threats, and perceived threats about the requirements.
Question 29
Which of the following are documented approaches to the business analysis work? Each correct answer represents a complete solution.
Explanation:
The waterfall approach, lean, and Six Sigma are the valid answer for business analysis approaches.
Answer A is incorrect. Deming's Quality Circle describes the quality management approach of plan, do, check, and act. This isn't a business analysis approach.
Question 30
You are the business analyst for your organization and working with the stakeholders to prioritize the requirements. The stakeholders are concerned about the financial impact of the requirements should some of them fail during the implementation. You would like to rank the risk tolerance of the stakeholders based on their comments about the solution and the requirements. The following are the three categories of risk tolerance associated with the stakeholders except for which one?
Explanation:
Mitigation is a risk response that seeks to lower the risk's probability and/or impact. It is not one of the three categories of risk tolerance.
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