A project team has been assembled to reduce production costs. The business analyst is working with the project team to review and approve requirements. A stakeholder from the assembly line area has an issue with one of the requirements since it is dependent on using existing equipment that is set to be retired within the next six months.
Which of these techniques would the business analyst use to manage issues identified by stakeholders with requirements to ensure that
those issues are resolved?
A major stakeholder wants to know how the implementation of new features in the development of a product is progressing. Which of the following should be reported to the stakeholder?
The project manager is beginning to prepare for a test readiness review with the customer. The project manager knows that the customer will want a summary of requirements that have been rejected or deferred. The project manager has requested that the business analyst provide a list of rejected and deferred requirements.
What should the business analyst have done to complete this request?
The business analyst is planning an approach to formally manage updates to requirements that may be requested by stakeholders.
What should the business analyst do?
The project sponsor needs to know which requirements will be implemented. Which of the following would be the most valuable for a business analyst to provide?
A new product was designed and delivered to the customer. The product exceeded customer expectations but did not meet the baseline budget for the product. What could be the issue?
Which tool provides combined functionality for business analysis and quality assurance activities?
How should a business analyst determine whether a solution satisfies business requirements?
A company wants to procure a tool to improve customer satisfaction and loyalty. Which of the following documents would provide basis for analyzing vendor products?
Company A would like to enter into a new market. The business analyst has been assigned to a project for which nobody in Company A has any prior experience. The project manager has asked the business analyst to assist in resource planning.
What should the business analyst recommend to the project manager?
A business analyst is attempting to elicit requirements on a current project. The business subject matter experts (SMEs) from various departments in the company question how the solution will work with their various systems. Which modeling technique should the business analyst use to depict how the solution will work with all of the company's systems?
Company A has initiated a project to update their online ordering system. The business analyst has noticed that the purchasing department, a primary stakeholder, is excluded from the list of stakeholders.
In which reference material can the business analyst find information about the missing project stakeholders?
A business analyst is working on a system enhancement project and has completed the requirements according to the requirements management plan. The business analyst is now ready to request approval from the stakeholders.
How should the business analyst obtain approval?
A business analyst is discussing the acceptance criteria for a new measurement system with the operations manager. The operations manager is particularly concerned about the accuracy of the new system because mistakes in data measurements could be extremely costly to fix.
Which of the following is the best strategy to define the appropriate acceptance criteria?
In the first few weeks after a large implementation of a new web-based application, a critical report failed. Further Investigation determined that a worker had been using a field that was not supposed to be used. This issue was not identified in testing.
Which technique could have prevented this problem from occurring?
A business analyst is conducting a cost-benefit analysis of potential solution options. The stakeholders have indicated that the estimated growth rate is very important to them.
Which technique will allow the business analyst to determine this information?
Requirements for a project have already been approved and finalized when a stakeholder approaches the project team with a change to one of their requirements. Which method of document control should the business analyst use to document changes in requirement(s)
versioning?
A business analyst has captured all of the requirements from the various stakeholders within the organization and has compiled them into a complete list. After reviewing the list of requirements with the stakeholders, it is determined that the list of requirements is too large and will exceed the allotted budget.
Which tool or technique should the business analyst use with the stakeholders to prioritize the requirements to determine which requirements are approved, deferred, or rejected?
Through user acceptance testing, a software flaw was identified. What should the business analyst do next as part of the root cause analysis in order to analyze and resolve the discrepancy?
A project team has 120 days to deliver a solution, but the stakeholders have too many requirements for the delivery window. What requirements prioritization technique should be used to determine which requirements will be delivered?
The document that defines the process for managing requirements revisions is the:
The client produced a specification for a new product to be developed by Company A. Company A designed and successfully tested the new product against the test plan, yet the client does not agree that it meets the specification.
What could have caused this?
The following requirement was included in a business requirements document: “An API shall be built to send data back and forth from the accounting system to the customer relationship system so that name and address data can be synchronized.” What should be done with this business requirement?
The business analyst has worked with the stakeholders to capture their views of organizational improvement for the company. It would be best to align these with the:
A company uses a prioritization range of 1-10, in which 10 represents the highest or best. According to the information from the table, which option should the business analyst recommend?
Last year, a company registered a high number of complaints about its customer service. Which of the following tools or techniques can help to identify the high-priority changes needed to improve that service?
An insurance company embarks on a project to replace its current enrollment and billing software application, which will no longer be supported by the end of the calendar year. The new enrollment and billing application must be implemented before the current vendor contract ends. The business analyst gathers the initial requirements for the new enrollment and billing application. Based on the large
volume of requirements, the business analyst realizes that the requirements will need to be prioritized.
Which requirements prioritization method should the business analyst use for this project?
How can a business analyst show progressive iterations of product development to stakeholders after the requirements baseline has been approved?
Once the requirements are compared to internal and external quality standards, what should the business analyst do next?
A company is pleased with its delivered solution and reports that it has heard only minimal complaints for the first three months of use.
How can the business analyst determine how well the solution meets the business case?
What should the business analyst do to ensure that all requirements meet a quality checklist before the development and testing phase?
Which tool can be used to analyze how the system responds to various combinations of input conditions with the probability of each outcome?
A new project is in the planning phase. The business owner believes that, since the timeline is aggressive, requirements elicitation should begin as soon as possible.
Which activity should the business analyst initiate before beginning requirements elicitation?
A business analyst is preparing a requirements management plan and needs to define a method to deal with a complex project with stakeholders who find it difficult to articulate their needs. Which method would best minimize requirements risk?
A business analyst is trying to determine which analysis technique will be best suited to elicit information from a large number of users in a short period of time. Which elicitation technique is best suited for this purpose?
A key component of the business analyst's role during acceptance testing is to:
The project team has all the document control process and versioning in place to capture the requirements changes. The team ensures that the change is documented in the scope document, resulting in the changed work breakdown schedule (WBS) and schedule. However, a key requirement was not implemented in the release.
Which is a possible reason why the requirement was not implemented?
To reduce the amount of time and effort needed to create a product specification for a project, the business analyst plans to reuse:
In the middle of a project, a new requirement was added to the scope. The business analyst must determine if any impacts, dependencies, or risks are associated with the addition to the scope.
What task should the business analyst perform in order to identify these impacts?
A project team has been assembled to streamline accounts payable processes in all divisions of the company. As part of the planning activities, the business analyst is working to identify stakeholders.
Which of the following techniques would the business analyst use to identify stakeholders?
An organization is evaluating the possibility of conducting business internationally. Which factors should be investigated at the onset of the initiative?
The business analyst wishes to clarify the project's key business drivers and ensure that requirements can be prioritized to provide maximum business value. Which question should the business analyst ask of stakeholders to help obtain this clarification?
A business analyst has started a project for a system enhancement. In order to determine how the requirements will be approved, the business analyst schedules a meeting with the stakeholders to discuss the proposed approval process.
Which measure of effective decision making allows the business analyst to finalize the process for requirement approval?
A business analyst is ready to begin requirements elicitation; however, stakeholders are not available to participate for another two weeks. Which elicitation technique should the business analyst use during this time?
A business analyst captures an application's current limitations and consults with end users to identify new features for the next version.
What can be used to analyze this information and determine project scope?
After several meetings with different groups of users, a business analyst has gathered the requirements for a large IT project. Now, the business analyst needs to document those requirements in a way that is clearly understood by the development team and provides
enough information to check if the requirement has been met.
Which of the following would work best in this case?
A company has developed a new product for a customer. The customer provided a specification, but the company did not produce the system requirements in the verification matrix.
The customer is having difficulty determining if the product is meeting the requirements during the test event because the:
The project team is working on test scripts to test a solution. Which source can be used for building tests of end-to-end business processes across business functions and systems?
Which of the following techniques is used to identify ambiguous or unverifiable requirements?
A business analyst is developing a traceability matrix to determine whether or not any gaps exist and to identify any discrepancies.
Which critical field is needed to ensure that the traceability matrix is usable?
A business analyst and stakeholders have completed documentation of the acceptance criteria for the requirements of a new vehicle leasing database. A concern is raised that some of the key performance indicators may not validate the desired benefits of the implementation.
What should the business analyst do to ensure that the business need can be validated?
The software developers have delivered a completed solution. The quality assurance team has passed the solution. What should the business analyst do next?