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Strategy System Analysis and Design
Name:________________________________________________________
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1. You are eliciting business requirements for an information technology project using statistical methods and mockups to identify user needs. Which method are you applying in your elicitation efforts?
A- Interviews with the key stakeholders
B- User stories
C- Functional decomposition
D- Scope modelling
2. For each blueprint you have created on your project, you are defining the current state, the future state, and one or more transition states that are used to transition to the future state. This provides insight and an understanding of how well the organization aligns to its strategy and is a ____________ for change.
A- request
B- trigger
C- baseline
D- proposal
3. You are investigating how a solution affects a particular stakeholder group after that solution has been deployed. What Solution Evaluation task are you performing?
A- Assessing enterprise limitations
B- Measuring solution performance
C- Assessing solution limitations
D- Analyzing performance measures
4. What project role focuses on understanding business problems and opportunities?
A- Business architect
B- Business analyst
C- Project sponsor
D- Project manager
5. Which of the following helps in assessing the costs and benefits of a proposed project?
A- Stakeholder List, Roles, and Responsibilities
B- Business case
C- Business need
D- Solution scope
6. You are eliciting business requirements for an information technology project using statistical methods and mockups to identify user needs. Which method are you applying in your elicitation efforts?
A- Collaboration
B- Investigation
C- Simulation
D- Experimentation
7. You are the business analyst for a solution that has 435 stakeholders. How many communication channels exist in this project?
A- 189,225
B- 188,790
C- 94,395
D- 435
8. Which of the following traceability relationships should be used while including requirement that is necessary only if another requirement is implemented?
A- Necessity
B- Value
C- Effort
D- Cover
9. In the Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring knowledge area, the business intelligence technical specialists need some requirements for decision support outputs in the context of business intelligence, which are difficult to explain to the inexperienced business analysts. What are these requirements?
A- Solution and stakeholder
B- Transition
C- Business
D- Information and communication
10. What is the purpose of nonfunctional requirements?
A- Protecting and preventing access to data that the solution uses or creates
B- Defining quality attributes and design constraints of the solution
C- Addressing educational needs of users interacting with the solution
D- Describing the likely growth of use of the deployed and maintained solution over time
11. A capability needed by a stakeholder to achieve an objective is also called a:
A- requirement.
B- solution.
C- process.
D- strategy.
12. Which of the following is the function of the nonfunctional requirements?
A- Defining quality attributes and design constraints of the solution
B- Describing the likely growth of use of the deployed and maintained solution over time
C- Addressing educational needs of users who interact with the solution
D- Preventing unauthorized access to data that the solution uses or creates
13. Which knowledge area is a set of processes, templates, and activities used to perform business analysis in a specific context?
A- Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring
B- Strategy Analysis
C- Requirements Life Cycle Management
D- Elicitation and Collaboration
14. You are developing a vision of a desired future state toward which people can be motivated to work. After it is developed, you will encourage people to work toward that future state. What business analysis competency are you exhibiting?
A- Leadership
B- Influencing
C- Trustworthiness
D- Interaction
15. What requirements analysis task ensures that solution requirements align to the business requirements?
A- Specify requirements.
B- Validate requirements.
C- Verify requirements.
D- Prioritize requirements.
16. Which of the following is a task performed as part of requirements analysis?
A- Prepare requirements package.
B- Manage requirements traceability.
C- Specify and model requirements.
D- Manage solution scope and approach.
17. Which of the following are the items of a solution component?
Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.
A- Business rules
B- Release plan
C- Organization structure
D- Software applications
18. You are the business analyst for your organization and need a method to requirements elicitation from nearly 12,000 stakeholders. You want a method to quickly capture this group's feelings and thoughts to identify what the majority of this group needs and wants in a new solution your organization may create. What requirements elicitation technique can be used in this scenario?
A- Focus groups
B- Surveys
C- Interviews
D- Trend analysis
19. Which of the following is formal acceptance of the project?
A- Inspection trend analysis
B- Project review
C- Sign-off
D- Risk assessment
20. Knowledge about which area is based on understanding the existing business models, structure, business unit relationships, and people?
A- Organization
B- Business
C- Industry
D- Solution
21. What is the business analyst's primary role on a business intelligence initiative?
A- Designing ad hoc queries
B- Liaison between stakeholders and solution providers
C- Enterprise data or decision modelling
D- Designing specialized presentations
22. You are the business analyst for your organization. A customer has approached your organization and is requesting that your company create new software for them that will help them collect customer information. In regard to enterprise analysis, this business needs stems from which one of the following need generation approaches?
A- External drivers
B- Top-down
C- Bottom-up
D- Middle management
23. When is stakeholder analysis performed?
A- As soon as a business solution is identified
B- As soon as the project charter is created
C- As soon as the project sponsor is named
D- As soon as a business need is identified
24. Which one of the following diagrams visualizes the result of the root cause analysis study?
A- Activity diagrams
B- Cause and effect diagrams
C- Tornado diagrams
D- State diagrams
25. What stakeholder is responsible and accountable for the project scope?
A- Process owner
B- Project sponsor
C- Business analyst
D- Project manager
26. What measures will the business analyst define for the business analysis activities and deliverables on a project?
A- Oscillators
B- Metrics
C- Indicators
D- Forecasts
27. Which of the following include the elements of existing business analysis approaches in use by the organization?
A- Requirements structures
B- Business analysis plans
C- Key performance indicators
D- Organizational Process Assets
28. What component of an entity-relationship diagram is contained in the labeled rectangle and represents a source or destination of data?
A- Relationship
B- Entity
C- Constraint
D- Attribute
29. Which task has solution performance measures as an input?
A- Assess solution limitations.
B- Analyze performance measures.
C- Assess enterprise limitations.
D- Measure solution performance.
30. 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?
A- Surveys
B- Brainstorming
C- Interviews
D- Focus groups
31. Which two techniques are best for confirming the stated requirements and stakeholder concerns?
A- Observation or focus groups
B- Interviews or observation
C- Interviews or focus groups
D- Workshops or interviews
32. Your organization completes software development for other companies as its core business. Management would like to streamline the requirements gathering processes as many of the projects your company do are similar in nature. What approach could you as a business analyst do to help streamline the requirements gathering process for your organization?
A- Implement a requirements gathering form
B- Implement a requirements re-use repository
C- Implement scope solution models
D- Implement project template
33. All of the following are elements that are involved in analyzing solution performance except:
A- risks.
B- accuracy.
C- complexity.
D- trends.
34. What prototype allows you to learn about user interface needs and then to evolve the requirements into a fully functioning system?
A- Vertical
B- Evolutionary
C- Horizontal
D- Throw-away
35. Holly is a business analyst for her organization. She encourages teamwork and open communication among her business analysis team and stakeholders. She invites stakeholders to drop by her office and freely discuss project requirements, a solution scope, and other issues regarding the solution she's working on. Although Holly prefers informal communication, what is its potential risk?
A- Stakeholders may address the business analysis team and the project team directly rather than communicate through Holly.
B- Stakeholders can prefer informal communications as a business analysis technique.
C- Stakeholders may miss information and requirements could become ambiguous.
D- Stakeholders may not know who's in charge of the solution.
36. What is the formula for calculating the number of lines of communication in a network?
A- (n × (n-1))/2
B- (n × (n-1))/4
C- (n × (2n))/2
D- (n × (n-2))/2
37. Which stakeholder is responsible for solution operations from a business point of view?
A- Business analyst
B- Project sponsor
C- Domain SME
D- Project manager
38. Which of the following is a good way of studying people while they are performing their jobs?
A- Interface analysis
B- Interview
C- Observation
D- Prototyping
39. Which of the following charts is described in the given statement?
"It shows the causes of a certain event. A common use of this diagram is to identify potential factors causing an overall effect. It helps identify causal factors and contributing causes."
A- Control chart
B- Process configuration chart
C- Ishikawa
D- Flowchart
40. During an elicitation interview, you find yourself paraphrasing statements to the speaker to reinforce that you understand what is being said. What skill are you applying?
A- Facilitation
B- Learning
C- Active listening
D- Influencing
41. You are the business analyst for your organization and are working with Jennifer to conduct stakeholder analysis. You would like to create a RACI chart to help with the roles of the people involved in the stakeholder analysis process. Jennifer is not familiar with this chart and wants to know the meaning of RACI. Which one of the following best describes the RACI chart in the conduct stakeholder analysis process?
A- It's a matrix that uses the Responsible, Accountable, Consulted, and Informed tasks as part of the stakeholder analysis process.
B- t's a rule that the business analyst can use to identify all of the needed stakeholders: roles, actions, communications, and interest.
C- It's a role and responsibility chart that identifies when stakeholders are needed in the business analyst duties.
D- It's a matrix that uses Role, Action, Consult, and Inform as part of the conduct stakeholder analysis process.
42. You are defining the traceability approach for your requirements. You want to make sure that the business analysis team traces the relationship between functional requirements and the solution components that implement those requirements. This is an example of which traceability relationship?
A- Depends
B- Validate
C- Derive
D- Satisfy
43. Henry is the business analyst for his organization and is completing the conduct elicitation activity. Part of this activity is to record the results of the requirements elicitation process. All of the following are acceptable elements for requirements documentation except for which one?
A- Whiteboards
B- Text message sent via a secured mobile phone
C- Written documents describing the outcomes
D- Visual or audio recordings
44. You are a business analyst capturing and documenting as-is and to-be business processes for your business process management project. What role are you performing?
A- Process architect
B- Process modeler
C- Process analyst
D- Process designer
45. What are the three types of interfaces typically looked at during interface analysis?
A- Input, output, and process
B- User, system, and software
C- People, process, and project
D- User, application, and device
46. As a business analyst for your organization, you are completing the verify requirements process. Which one of the following is not a characteristic of a requirement?
A- Functional
B- Testable
C- Atomic
D- Unambiguous
47. There are 50 stakeholders in the current project. How many communication channels exist in this project?
A- 1500
B- 1225
C- 1200
D- 500
48. Jack, a business analyst under business architecture perspective, is working on a project and need to identify internal and external environmental trend, requirements, and developing models of the business to provide balanced perception. Which element of the business architecture perspective should he refer?
A- Business analysis outcomes
B- Change sponsor
C- Change targets
D- Business analyst position
49. Ned is the business analyst for his organization and he is reviewing documentation for a current set of requirements and proposed solutions. Gina, another business analyst, tells Ned that she completed a similar set of requirements for a project last month. She recommends that Ned review her requirements and project documentation to help with the current project. What type of data is Gina referring to?
A- Analogous
B- Relevant data
C- Secondary data
D- Primary data
50. What are the things you believe to be true on your project but that you have not actually verified?
A- Assumptions
B- Constraints
C- Dependencies
D- Capabilities
51. You work as a business analyst in an organization. For the benefit of the organization, you recommend a change to the solution or the enterprise. What is the outcome of this change?
A- To realize a solution's potential value
B- To assess solution performance
C- To elicit information from stakeholders
D- To measure performance
52. Which knowledge area within business analysis is best described as where the business analyst plans how to approach the business analysis effort?
A- Planning
B- Planning and monitoring
C- Elicitation
D- Requirements Life Cycle Management
53- Jane is the business analyst for her organization and she is completing passive observation to identify improvement opportunities in the workflow. She notices that some of the employees perform certain customer-facing activities in a different format than the other workers. Is this a problem that can be addressed as part of an improvement opportunity?
A- It is not a problem unless the customer complains. If Jane has not noticed the customers complaining, then the process should be left along.
B- It can be a problem as customers could become confused or frustrated because of the different approaches to the work.
C- It can be a problem as the enterprise environmental factors always call for consistency in all processes.
D- It is not a problem unless there is a drop in sales, so it should be left alone.
54- Which deliverable defines how requirements will be managed for reuse in an organization?
A- Business analysis approach
B- Governance approach
C- Requirements architecture
D- Information management approach
