1. You are the business analyst for your organization.

You are currently with several key

stakeholders as part of the determination of which business analysis approach is most
appropriate for the current project. Which stakeholder is not considered when completing the
business analysis planning and monitoring task to determine a business analysis approach?
Project manager

Tester

Regulator

Functional management

2. You are the business analyst for your organization and are preparing to conduct stakeholder
analysis. As part of this process you realize that you'll need several inputs. Which one of the
following is NOT an input you'll use for the conduct stakeholder analysis task?
Business need

Enterprise architecture

Organizational process assets

Enterprise environmental factors

Explanation:
Answer: (d)There are just three inputs to the conduct stakeholder analysis process: the
business need, enterprise architecture, and organizational process assets. Enterprise
environmental factors describe the rules and policies of an organization.
3. Martha is the business analyst for organization and she's coaching Linda, a new business
analyst, on the importance of recording key dependencies between requirements. Which one
of the following is the primary reason why key dependencies should be recorded?
To identify the necessities of the requirement

To identify the value of the requirement

To trace the requirement across the project life cycle

To determine who owns the requirement in the project life cycle

4. Elizabeth is a project stakeholder in your project and she is asking for a change in one of the
project requirements. Before this change can be approved, you'll need to determine the effect
of the change on all other project requirements. What term best describes the examination of
the relationships that may be affected by the change in requirement?
 Traceability

Decomposition

Integration management

Change control process

5. There are six tasks that comprise the business analysis planning and monitoring and that
must be completed by the business analyst. Which one of the following items is not one of the
six tasks that you should complete as a business analyst following the traditional business
analyst planning and monitoring approach to a project?
Planning the business analysis approach

Conducting quality assurance processes

Planning business analysis communication

Managing business analysis performance

6. You are the business analyst for your organization and you're gathering project requirements
for a small project to create a simple website for a client. Management requires that you use a
tool to trace all requirements throughout the project life cycle even for smaller projects. Based
on this smaller project, what type of requirements tracing would you recommend?
Coverage matrix

System matrix

Roles and Responsibilities matrix

RACI matrix

7. One of the most important activities you'll do as a business analyst is stakeholder analysis.
This process helps you, the project team, and the project manager understand who the
stakeholders are, and what their roles in the project will be, their priorities for their
requirements and communication demands. When does stakeholder analysis typically occur?
During the controlled start phase of the project

During project initiation

 Before the project begins

As often as needed

8. Juan is the business analyst for his organization and he's performing stakeholder analysis.
During this process, Juan wants to create a method to capture the roles and responsibilities for
each of the stakeholders. Some of the stakeholders, for example, will be responsible for specific
tasks while other stakeholders just need to be kept informed of the progress of the work.
Which tool should Juan use to best facilitate this approach?
Stakeholder register

Stakeholder management plan

Stakeholder RACI Chart

Roles and Responsibilities matrix

9. Which one of the following best describes the tool and technique of user stories as part of
stakeholder analysis to be performed by a business analyst?
Scope models can show the business analysis team the set of stakeholders external to the
solution scope who interact with the solution in some way.

Stakeholder roles can be used as the basis for actors and roles if the business analysis team
has selected the scenarios and use cases modeling technique.

Analysts may use this technique to identify shared characteristics of a particular business
analysis stakeholder group.

Stakeholders involved with your efforts can be the source of possible risks, and they can
also help the team identify additional risks that may be important downstream.

10. Beth is the business analyst for her organization and she's working with her team to identify
the activities list for the business analysis duties. In order to properly and completely create the
activities list, what document should Beth creates first based on the scope of the business
analysis work?
Work breakdown structure

RACI

RAM
 Risk management plan

11. Which one of the following statements best describes the role of a business analyst?
A person who performs the set of tasks and techniques used to work as a project manager
among stakeholders in order to understand the structure, policies, and operations of an
organization and to recommend solutions that enable the organization to achieve its goals.

A person who performs the set of tasks and techniques used to work as a liaison among
project managers in order to understand the structure, policies, and operations of an
organization and to recommend solutions that enable the organization to achieve its goals.

A person who performs the set of tasks and techniques used to work as a liaison among
project manager, project team members, and other business analysts in order to understand
the structure, policies, and operations of an organization and to recommend solutions that
enable the organization to achieve its goals.

A person who performs the set of tasks and techniques used to work as a liaison among
stakeholders in order to understand the structure, policies, and operations of an organization
and to recommend solutions that enable the organization to achieve its goals.

12. Marcy is a business analyst for her organization and she's planning the approach she'll take
in the business analyst effort. She wants to define how she'll do the business analysis activities,
perform stakeholder analysis, and report on her efforts. Based on this information which
knowledge is Marcy likely working within?
Enterprise analysis

Business analysis planning and monitoring

Elicitation

Requirement management and communication

13. Which of the following statements are true about plan-driven approach? Each correct
answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.
It describes the business analysis activities and focuses on reducing up-front uncertainty.
It ensures that the solution is fully defined before implementation begins in order to maximize
control and minimize risk.
It is preferred while taking an exploratory approach for incremental improvement of an existing
solution.
It approaches to business analysis deal with rapid delivery of the business value.

14. You are the business analyst for your organization and are working through the six tasks in
the business analysis planning and monitoring checklist. As a business analyst when should you
complete the six tasks of the business analysis planning and monitoring?
Throughout the entire project life cycle

During the project prestart phase

During the project initiation

As needed during the project management processes

15. Which task input for project stakeholders is best described as Looking at the organization
and how it is sliced and diced, and assists the business analyst in stakeholder analysis activities?
Business need

Organizational process assets

Enterprise environmental factor

Enterprise architecture
Explanation:
Answer: (d) Enterprise architecture stakeholders is best described as Looking at the
organization and how it is sliced and diced, and assists the business analyst in stakeholder
analysis activities.
16. What plan will describe the stakeholder groups, communication needs, and the level of
formality that is appropriate for the requirements?
Business analysis communication plan

Requirements management plan

Scope management plan

Project management plan

17. Who among the following is responsible for mapping the quality assurance requirements of
the company and the stakeholders to the project?
Quality assurance analyst
 Project manager

Subject matter expert

Business analyst

18. Which of the following team roles evaluates, reviews, and manages database resources and
services in the organization?
Database analyst

Business analyst

Quality assurance analyst

Solution owner

19. Risk identification is an important part of the planning phase. What are the common
approaches for identifying risks? Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose
all that apply.
Documentation reviews
Brainstorming
Interviewing
Root cause analysis
Interface analysis
Enterprise analysis

20. Which of the following describes the process for identifying and quantifying project risks
and outlines how risks will be addressed or controlled?
Risk management plan

Requirements management plan

Scope management plan

Project management plan

21. Which of the following is a plan for an exceptional risk that is impractical or impossible to
avoid?
Scope management plan

Action plan

Contingency plan

Requirements management plan

22. Once the requirements risk is determined by the business analyst, a structured approach is
followed to manage the risks. Which of the following are determined by the business analysis
team for each risk? Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.
Likelihood
Impact
Intervention difficulty
Precision of risk assessment
Mitigation strategy
Documentation reviews
Interviewing

23. The RGQ Organization utilizes a change log. What is a change log?
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.
24. Mark is the business analyst for his company and he is working with the stakeholders to
elaborate on the requirements for a new software design the customers have requested. Mark
is working to determine the connection between the proposed solution and how it may (or may
not) satisfy the requirements of the customer. What knowledge area is Mark utilizing in this
elicitation process?
Enterprise analysis

Requirements analysis

25. According to the BABOK there are just four tasks in the elicitation knowledge area. Which
one of the following is not one of the four tasks of the elicitation knowledge area?
Preparing for requirements elicitation

Conducting the elicitation activity

Documenting the elicitation results

Verifying the outcomes of the solution

26. Martha is preparing for a requirements workshop as part of her elicitation process. In her
preparation, she wants to review all of the details surrounding the problem and opportunities
faced by the business to better interview and ask questions in the workshop. What document
should Martha review?
Business case

Business need

Solution scope

Feasibility study

27. According to the BABOK, elicitation is performed for all types of requirements a business
analyst may utilize as part of their roles and responsibilities. As a business analyst, you must
know that the four types of requirements to elicit are which one of the following?
Business, stakeholder, solution, and transition

Project, Product, solution, and transition

Business, stakeholder, solution, and implementation

 Business, Project, solution, and Implementation

28. There are four types of elicitation activities that business analysts must complete as part of
their roles and responsibilities. Which one of the following is not an elicitation task that the
business analyst may complete as part of their roles and responsibilities?
Preparing for requirements elicitation

Conducting the elicitation activity

Documenting the elicitation results

Writing the project scope statement

29. Beth is the business analyst for her organization and she's working with Mark, a data
analyst, for a new initiative. Mark wants to know when elicitation for the requirements takes
place and when Beth will be done with the process. Which one of the following statements best
describes when elicitation takes place in the project?
The tasks in the Elicitation knowledge area begin before the project life cycle and typically
end during the more detailed requirements development phase of the project.

The tasks in the Elicitation knowledge area begin early in the project life cycle and typically
peak during the more detailed requirements development phase of the project.

The tasks in the Elicitation knowledge area begin and end before the project initiation
phase.

The tasks in the Elicitation knowledge area must end before project execution.

30. You are the business analyst for your organization and have identified a new initiative for a
software development project. Based on the set of stakeholders, you and the management
team have identified that you need to begin defining the need, set of requirements, and other
information for the project work. Which one of the following tasks is the first task you should
do as the business analyst?
Organize the stakeholder resources

Define the project solution

Write the product scope statement as a baseline

Interview the stakeholders one-on-one

31. You are the business analyst for your organization and you've identified the stakeholders in
your organization. As part of this identification, you've identified the stakeholder list, roles and
responsibilities, the business case, the solution scope, and what other element is needed for
the input to the prepare for elicitation process?
Business need

Project charter

Executive sponsor

Supporting documentation

32. What document should you reference to define the costs and benefits of the proposed
project as part of the preparation for elicitation?
Business need

Business case

Solution scope

Project management plan

33. Harry is the business analyst for his organization and he's working with you and other
stakeholders to begin the elicitation process. Harry recommends that you begin the process by
starting with some lateral thinking. What is lateral thinking?
Focus groups

Interviews

Brainstorming

Surveys
34. Gary is a business analyst for his organization and he's discovering that the technicians,
information technology specialist, the customer, and other stakeholders use many acronyms
and terms that are not synonymous across the list of stakeholders. For consistency sake, what
tool can Gary use to ensure proper communications of the elicitation terms?
Data dictionary and glossary

Defined lexicon

Organizational process assets

Style guide

35. You are the business analyst for your organization and you've been tasked with creating a
prototype. You are to create a mock-up of the new software system that will show stakeholders
how the software will look and feel, though it will provide no real capabilities for requirements
other than a shallow look at what the software may look like. What type of prototype are you
to create?
Horizontal

Vertical

Evolutionary

Temporary

36. Which of the following helps in assessing the costs and benefits of a proposed project?
Business case

Business need

Solution scope

Stakeholder List, Roles, and Responsibilities

Explanation:
Answer: (a) The business case helps in assessing the costs and benefits of a proposed project.
This business framework is used along with the solution scope for determining the information
to be elicited when developing stakeholder, solution, and transition requirements.
37. Which of the following is the practice of obtaining the requirements of a system from users,
customers, and other stakeholders?
Elicitation
 Enterprise analysis

Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring

Requirements Management and Communication

38. Which of the following is especially useful in clarifying roles and responsibilities in cross-
functional/departmental projects and processes?
Responsibility assignment matrix

Coverage matrix

Requirements trace matrix

Project metric

39. Which of the following techniques promotes creative thinking about the capabilities of a
new solution and enables out-of-the box thinking in a nonjudgmental environment?
Brainstorming

Document analysis

Focus groups

Interface analysis

40. You are the business analyst for your organization. Marcy is your supervisor and she has just
informed you that a key stakeholder has demanded a requirement be added to your solution.
You agree and allow the requirement to be added to the solution scope. You document the
change. What activity must you do because of the added requirement?
Charge the stakeholder for the additional requirements.

Complete a change request form.

Baseline the requirements.

Approve the solution scope.

41. Tom is the business analyst for his organization and is about to complete the manage
solution scope and requirements as part of his business analysis duties. His assistant, Jennifer, is
helping Tom and is collecting the required inputs for this process. Jennifer needs to collect four
inputs. Which one of the following is not one of the three inputs Jennifer will need to gather for
Tom?
Requirements management plan

Solution scope

Stakeholder list, role, and responsibilities

Requirements trace matrix

42. Which of the following steps should the business analyst perform to sequence project work
activities for designing and deploying the capabilities that are found in the requirements?
Producing the traced requirements

Creating and maintaining key dependencies and relationships

Producing maintained and reusable requirements

Preparing a Requirements Package

43. Which of the following permits the business analyst to identify and document the lineage of
each requirement that includes its relationship to other project requirements, to work
products, and to the solution components?
Requirements workshop

Requirements traceability

Structured walkthrough

Requirements package

44. Which of the following knowledge areas has the set of requirements communication and
management tasks that helps in ensuring that the right people are involved in developing,
understanding, and approving the project requirements?
Enterprise Analysis

Solution Assessment and Validation

 Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring

Requirements Management and Communication

45. You are the business analyst for a large software development project. There are several
issues that must be resolved by certain dates or the problem will prevent the project from
advancing. What technique can you use to track problems with the requirements?
Problem tracking

Baselining

Issue tracking

RTM

46. Which of the following Requirements Management and Communication tasks can look for
review and approval on the communicated project requirements?
Communicate requirements

Prepare requirements package

Maintain requirements for reuse

Manage requirements traceability

47. Which of the following is another name for an organized peer-level review of a
requirements document?
Focus group

Brainstorming

Structured walkthrough

Requirements workshop
48. Which of the following is a specific business analysis process output that the team plans to
deliver?
Requirements trace matrix

Requirements package

Work product

Deliverable

49. Robert is the business analyst for his organization and he's working with several
stakeholders to identify the business need for an opportunity. Robert needs to identify the
stakeholder that will be responsible for authorizing the actions needed in order to meet the
identified business need. Which stakeholder does Robert need to identify?
Customer

Regulator

Sponsor

Implementation Subject Matter Expert

50. What does the T in SWOT analysis mean?

Threats

Time

Test

Trial
Explanation:
Answer: (a) SWOT is a business analysis technique to measure several facets of a solution,
component, or resource. SWOT means strengths, weakness, opportunities, and threats.
51. Enterprise analysis provides many things for an organization. All of the following are tasks
included in enterprise analysis except for which one?
Define business need

Assess capability gaps

Determine solution approach

 Solution performance assessment

52. The tasks included in the Enterprise Analysis knowledge area produce various key business
analysis deliverables, which are the building blocks of the project's business requirements.
Which of the following do these deliverables include? Each correct answer represents a
complete solution. Choose three.
Business need
Required capabilities
Coverage matrix
Business case

53. Which of the following will be produced when the business analyst assesses the capability
gaps between current and new capabilities of the organization?
Solution approach

Business need

Required capabilities

Business case

54. Which of the following steps the business analyst should perform to determine the solution
approach for achieving a business need and deliver the required new capabilities? Each correct
answer represents a part of the solution. Choose three.
Document the assumptions
Identify alternative solution options
Generate assumptions and constraints
Rank and select the solution approach
Analyze current capabilities
55. Which of the following inputs are used to determine the solution approach for achieving a
business need and deliver the required new capabilities? Each correct answer represents a part
of the solution. Choose three.
Business case
Business need
Organizational Process Assets (OPAs)
Required capabilities

56. You are a business analyst for your organization. Management has asked you to create the
solution scope for an identified problem. In order to complete this task, you'll need three
elements. All of the following are elements you'll need in order to write the solution scope
except for which one?
Solution scope definition

Implementation approach

Dependencies

Work breakdown structure

57. Which one of the following is the most accurate definition of the solution scope?
It determines if an organization can justify the investment required to deliver the proposed
solution.

It determines the things that are believed to be true in the solution but they have not yet
been proven to be true.

It defines what must be delivered in order to meet the business need.

It defines the business need, identified key stakeholders, describes the positive impact of
the solution.

58. Which solution scope technique can help the business analyst understand the scope of the
work by breaking down the scope into smaller work products?
Functional decomposition

Interface analysis

Scope modeling
 User stories

59. Which of the following stakeholder roles provides assistance in allocating capabilities to
solution components while defining solution scope?
Project manager

Implementation SME

Sponsor

Business analyst

60. You are the business analyst for your organization and management wants to know when
they can expect to reach management horizon based on current project performance. What
term is also known as management horizon?
Present value

Payback period

Net present value

Breakeven point in time

61. Over time technology will be superseded by more advanced solutions. When you are
considering replacing technology there are four primary approaches to considering the
replacement of the technology in regard to the investment that's already been spent on the
outdated or fading technology. Which one of the following is not an issue to consider when
replacing technology?
Ongoing cost versus initial investment

Opportunity cost

Necessity

Future value of investment

62. You are working as a senior business analyst in an organization. Ralph is also working with
you. You decide to move a low priority requirement above a high priority requirement because
it is needed to be implemented before some of the more important requirements. Ralph
disagrees with your decision because ranking of the requirements is always done based on their
level of difficulty. Who is correct and why?
You are correct because you are the senior business analyst.

You are correct because a low priority requirement is placed above a higher priority
requirement if it is needed to be implemented first.

Ralph is correct because the requirements are always ranked according to their
importance and business value.

Ralph is correct because the sequencing of requirements is done according to the project
activity list.

63. You are the business analyst for a new project. Part of this project is for the project team to
manually install new workstations through the company's campus. Based on your research you
have determined that the project team can install 25 new workstations per hour. Since there is
a fixed amount of time that these workstations need to be installed you are considering adding
additional labor for the implementation. You are also considering to adjust the prioritization of
the project requirements based on the amount of workstations the project team can install per
hour. What does the 25 workstations per hour represent in this scenario?
Planning

Timeboxing

Report project

Parametric estimate

64. Which of the following describes the amount of work that the project team is capable of
completing in a set time period?
Decision analysis

MOSCOW analysis

Timeboxing

Voting
65. What is the term used to describe the cost of the solution after the solution has been
implemented in production by a vendor?
Total ownership costing

Total cost of ownership

Lifecycle maintenance fees

Sustainability fees

66. Which of the following information should the business analyst maintain in order to
maintain the baselined requirements? Each correct answer represents a part of the solution.
Choose three.
Description of the requirements change
Name of the person making the change
Reason why the changes were made
Higher-level capabilities or features

67. Which of the following tasks is performed by business analyst in the Requirements Analysis
knowledge area? Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.
Prioritize requirements
Organize requirements
Verify requirements
Confirming elicitation results

68. What are the key inputs required to validate requirements? Each correct answer represents
a complete solution. Choose all that apply.
Business Case
Stakeholder, Solution, or Transition Requirements (Verified)
Stakeholder Concerns
Requirements Structure

69. As a business analyst you must understand the difference and effect assumptions and
constraints may have on a business solution and the assumption is:
The solution must work with existing software.
 The solution should be completed by December 2.

The solution will cost less than $250,000.

The solution must satisfy the entire requirement as defined in the project scope.
70. You are the business analyst for your organization. Management realizes that a proposed
solution has risks that may cause the entire project to fail. They would like you to prioritize the
requirements with maximum risk first so that if the project fails, there is little loss of capital in
the project implementation. What requirements prioritization approach is management asking
you to create in this instance?
Business or technical risk

Implementation difficulty

Relationship to other requirements

Likelihood of success