IIBA CCBA Practice Test - Questions Answers, Page 6
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Question 51
In order to plan the business analysis approach, the business analyst must understand the organizational process needs and what other thing?
Explanation:
The business analyst must understand how the organization operates and the objectives of business analysis duties. Without a clear understanding of what the expected outcomes are to be of the business analysis duties, the business analyst cannot adequately plan for the business analysis duties.
Answer B is incorrect. It's important for the business analyst to identify and categorize stakeholders, but this isn't the best answer for this Question.
Answer D is incorrect. The purpose of the proposed solution is valid only if the initiative is to solve a problem. Business analysis can also occur to detail an opportunity, not just to create solutions to identified problems.
Answer C is incorrect. This isn't the best answer for this Question.
Question 52
You are the business analyst for your organization. Management has asked you to define and document the requirements of an endeavor so that the requirements may be reused again in the organization. Why would an organization want to re-use requirements?
Explanation:
When an organization identifies a set of requirements for an ongoing set of activities, it's useful to craft the requirements so that the requirements may be used over and over. This saves time, effort, and cost.
Answer B is incorrect. This is not a valid statement about re-using requirements in an organization. Answer A is incorrect. This is not a valid statement about re-using requirements in an organization. Answer D is incorrect. This is not a valid statement about re-using requirements in an organization.
Question 53
In the life of a project, when do the number and impact of change requests often increase?
Explanation:
As the life of the project draws towards its end, there's often an increase in the number of change requests. When change requests are made towards the end of a project, however, the cost and impact of the change increases significantly.
Answer D is incorrect. It's ideal for change requests, if they must happen, to happen at the launch of the project, not just at the end.
Answer A is incorrect. The best answer is that change requests must happen towards the end of project execution, not just project planning. Planning spans the entire life of the project.
Answer B is incorrect. Scope review happens early in the project and changes early in the project are easier to incorporate and manage than changes at the end of the project.
Question 54
You are the business analyst for your organization and preparing to plan the business analysis approach. There are three inputs to the business analysis approach. Which one of the following is not an input to this approach?
Explanation:
Enterprise environmental factors are the rules, policies, and procedures that the business analyst must adhere to. These are already established and therefore are not considered to be inputs to this process. The three inputs to the plan business analysis approach are business needs, expert judgment, and organizational process assets.
Question 55
Bradley is working with the business analyst Marsha to prioritize requirements for their organization.
Marsha insists that the requirements be ranked on the cost-benefits analysis of the relative value to the organization. What type of prioritization approach does Marsha want to use in this scenario?
Explanation:
Marsha wants to utilize the business value of the requirements using a cost-benefit analysis of each requirement. The requirements with the higher value are most important.
Answer A is incorrect. This is not a valid approach to be used in this scenario.
Answer D is incorrect. There is not a basis for prioritization called the CBR ratio; this is not a valid choice. Answer C is incorrect. Urgency prioritizes requirements based on time sensitivity.
Question 56
Billy is the business analyst for her organization and she's working with a team to select a model.
Richard doesn't understand why a model is needed for the requirements. Which one of the following statements best describes the reason to use a model?
Explanation:
According to 'A Guide to the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge', models are ideal because they abstract and simplify reality. They help simplify reality in a way that's useful for understanding the requirements and their impact on the organization.
Answer C is incorrect. This isn't a valid statement about why it's important to use a model.
Answer D is incorrect. Models do not show the solution in a non-functional portion of the organization. Answer B is incorrect. Models do not restrict the attributes of the solution.
Question 57
What business analysis process is needed to define the solution scope and prepare the business plan for the endeavor?
Question 58
You are the business analyst for your organization. Your stakeholders have recently reviewed and approved the set of requirements that you've presented to them. You have now baselined the requirements. What does it mean to baseline the requirements in the light of this scenario? Choose the best answer.
Explanation:
Of all the choices, this is the best answer, as it acknowledges that although the current set of requirements is approved, any future changes to the requirements must pass through a change control system.
Answer B is incorrect. This statement is moderately true, but current requirements don't always equate to complete future deliverables.
Answer A is incorrect. This statement is moderately true, but current requirements don't always equate to complete future deliverables.
Answer C is incorrect. This statement is not valid, as changes can enter the set of requirements through the change control process.
Question 59
When you, a Business Analyst, work with your stakeholders, team, and experts to define the business analysis activities, what thing do you actually define?
Explanation:
The purpose of the plan business analysis approach is to define the business analysis approach.
Answer A is incorrect. The plan business analysis approach does not define the requirements.
Answer B is incorrect. The plan business analysis approach does not define the roles and responsibilities.
Answer C is incorrect. The plan business analysis approach does not define the communication needs.
Question 60
A business analyst has just hosted a brainstorming session that has generated 57 ideas for a solution.
What should the business analyst do with the ideas now?
Explanation:
Once the ideas have been recorded, then the business analyst should rate the ideas and distribute the list to the appropriate stakeholders.
Answer C is incorrect. The business analyst doesn't record the ideas as requirements.
Answer B is incorrect. This isn't a valid statement as time and cost estimates aren't needed for each idea generated in the session.
Answer A is incorrect. The project manager doesn't need, necessarily, to discuss the brainstorming ideas.
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