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Achieve Business Analysis Certification: A Concise Guide To PMI-PBA®, CBAP® And CPRE Exam Successo The Channel City And Its Environs Pap/Psc Edition Klaus Nielsen (Author) - Solutions
You have assessed stakeholders using the power/interest grid analysis. Which stakeholders can you more or less ignore?a) High power/low interestb) High power/high interestc) Low power/low interestd) Low power/high interest
You have created a decision table analysis for business rules. What content is in it?a) Requirements and user storiesb) Requirements and conditionsc) Requirements and test casesd) Requirements and dependencies
Decision trees are used when working on business rules, however, where else would you use them?a) Quality managementb) Quantitative risk assessmentc) Scope managementd) Project time management
In a Scrum team, who enforces the rules and processes?a) The Scrum Masterb) The development teamc) The stakeholdersd) The product owner
If the power is medium in the extended power/interest grid, what is the likely level of interest?a) Very lowb) Anywhere from low to highc) Mediumd) Very high
You are part of an agile Scrum team and are identifying risk. Which process are you working on?a) Sprint reviewb) Sprint planningc) Daily Scrumd) Sprint retrospective
You are working through your project’s risk and are analyzing probability and impact. What kind of analysis are you most likely conducting?a) Qualitative risk assessmentb) Quantitative risk assessmentc) Risk register updated) Risk assessment
You have identified stakeholders with a technique where the team imagines that a project or organization has failed or succeeded. Which technique did you use?a) SWOT analysisb) Delphic) Pre-mortemd) De Bono
You are planning the work and work schedule. The preceding activity must be finished before the next activity can start. Which of the following relationships best describes this?a) Finish-to-Startb) Finish-to-Finishc) Start-to-Startd) Start-to-Finish
What is the most common reason requirement management plans fail?a) Lack of management supportb) Lack of timec) Risks are not identifiedd) Lack of maturity
Which of the following is not a benefit of system thinking?a) Maximizing the outcomes achievedb) Analyzing risk and opportunityc) Contingency managementd) Aligning specialism and interest groups
How many PMBOK knowledge areas are involved in the Needs Assessment domain?a) 1b) 2c) 3d) 4
Why would you use personas?a) To better understand requirementsb) For building test casesc) To derive new requirementsd) For user stories development
In your project documentation, where would the reporting methods and frequency most likely be outlined?a) Communications management planb) Communications requirement strategyc) Stakeholder management pland) Stakeholder requirement strategy
Additional elements of validating requirements do not involve:a) Checking assumptionsb) Checking the business case with sunk costsc) Determining dependencies of solution benefitsd) Defining measurable evaluation criteria
What is the return on investment if benefits are $120,000 and costs are $150,000a) 10%b) 20%c) −10%d) −20%
When working with the spiral model, which constraints would most likely vary?a) Timeb) Resourcec) Scoped) Risk
A business analyst work plan, requirements work plan, or business analyst work division strategy are other names for:a) The requirements management planb) The requirements traceability matrixc) Requirements documentationd) None of the above
What factor(s) would you consider when applying communication methods to your project?a) Familiarityb) Urgencyc) Both of the aboved) Availability of technology
You are assessing the stakeholders and want to measure their value. How would you do that?a) Ask themb) Conduct a surveyc) Observe themd) Use benchmarking techniques
Which constraints are fixed when working with agile?a) Timeb) Resourcesc) Both of the aboved) Scope
Requirement traceability needs to be conducted:a) Early on and cover it allb) As an ongoing effortc) When time and resources are availabled) Once every month
Interactive communication involves:a) Face-to-face meetingsb) Website informationc) E-mailsd) Formal letter
What is the use of a customer journey map?a) Root cause analysisb) Problem solving and opportunity identificationc) Risk analysisd) Map of the product vision
What is the first of the six principles of validation?a) Validating from different viewsb) Involving the right stakeholdersc) Separating the identification and the correction of errorsd) Construction of development artifacts
What is an alternative to the requirement traceability matrix?a) User storiesb) Textual referencec) Impact analysisd) RAM
Communication channels are increased from 5 external stakeholders and 4 team members to 7 external stakeholders and 5 team members. What is the new amount of communication channels in total?a) 44b) 55c) 66d) 77
What are some of the advantages to using interview techniques?a) Requires access to committed stakeholdersb) Requires training and skills to work wellc) Documentation is subject to interpretationd) None of the above
When using agile, political awareness is handled by which role?a) The Scrum Masterb) The product ownerc) The development teamd) The stakeholders
You have conducted the brainstorming session. However, in need of a supplement in writing, which technique would you use?a) Onion modelb) Extended brainstormingc) Brainwritingd) Cost-benefit analysis
Decisions made at the strategic level would have the following complexity:a) Highb) Middlec) Lowd) All of the above depending on the situation
Which of the following identifies the greatest benefit that requirements traceability offers?a) Supports the ability to trace a requirement through the development life cycleb) Allows the business analyst to understand the interest of all parties that are affected by a change to project
Requirements documentation includes:a) The business and project objective for traceabilityb) Requirements identifiedc) Roles and assignmentsd) Input for the business case
Effective and efficient communication of the status of requirements would not require the use of which of the following techniques?a) Presentation techniquesb) Facilitation techniquesc) Management techniquesd) Listening techniques
Hofstedes dimension of power distance deals with:a) The use of powerb) The need for powerc) Inequalities in powerd) Types of power available
The business case is most important because it:a) Justifies IT investmentsb) Contains a cost-benefit analysisc) Justifies costsd) Includes financial measurements
Risk is one factor when considering elicitation techniques, what are others?a) The desired level of detail of the requirementsb) Training with the elicitation techniquesc) Attitude towards the elicitation techniquesd) Loyalty
Sometimes the business analyst may encounter a violation of the quality aspects of the documentation of the requirements, which may cause problems for the acceptance criteria or not reflect the business metrics. What is an example of a violation?a) Contradictionsb) Ambiguityc) Lack of
What process outputs are needed to establish the level of traceability necessary to validate and monitor the requirements?a) The project management planb) Requirements documentationc) Requirements traceability matrixd) Requirements documentation and the requirements traceability matrix
Effectively communicating the status of requirements involves:a) Right timingb) Right formatc) Right mediumd) All of the above
During which activities would the business analyst use negotiation techniques?a) Requirements developmentb) Team activitiesc) During procurementd) All of the above
You have identified the stakeholders and applied stakeholder salience in order to analyze them.Some stakeholders are identified as dominant, meaning they hold:a) Power and legitimacyb) Legitimacy and urgencyc) Power and urgencyd) Power, urgency, and legitimacy
The main goal of elicitation techniques is in supporting the business analyst to:a) Reduce costb) Reduce timec) Support the business cased) Gain knowledge of stakeholder requirements
At what time during the project is it most common for the retrospective to occur?a) At any given timeb) At the beginning of every iteration or sprintc) At the end of every iteration or sprintd) At the end of a release
Stakeholders are “an individual, group, or organization who may affect, be affected by, or perceive itself to be affected by a decision, activity, or outcome of a project.”a) Trueb) False—not a groupc) False—not an organizationd) False—not individuals
In most agile methodologies, who has the responsibility of evaluating the deployed solution using valuation techniques in order to determine how well the solution meets the business case and value proposition?a) The stakeholdersb) The Scrum Masterc) The product ownerd) The development team
As a business analyst, where would you document the appropriate stakeholder requirements in regard to status?a) Communication management planb) The project planc) The stakeholders’ management strategyd) It is not documented, but only discussed
You have examined the quality aspects of the content of the requirements and are looking at correctness/adequacy. What question would be good to ask?a) Have all relevant traceability relations been defined?b) Does each requirement contain all necessary information?c) Do the requirements accurately
What is one of the key challenges with requirements elicitation?a) Geographical location of the stakeholdersb) Possible access to key resourcesc) Both of the aboved) The sheer amount of elicitation techniques
What is the name of the traceability process that occurs just before realization of requirements?a) Prerequirement specificationb) Postrequirement specificationc) Forward traceabilityd) Backward traceability
When the business analyst updates a requirement status, what information would he/she likely update?a) Benefitsb) Risksc) Auctioneerd) Documentation
Which leadership style should Scrum Masters use?a) None, as they are not leadersb) Adaptive leadershipc) Servant leadershipd) Autocratic
You are identifying stakeholder relationships. Which of the following is not a typical stakeholder relationship?a) Alliedb) Alliancec) Competitived) Threatening
Continuous integration, continuous deployment, and continuous improvements can:a) Deliver high quality at low costsb) Deliver high quality at high costsc) Deliver fixed scope at low costd) Deliver user stories at low risk
You have conducted breakeven and value chain analysis, however, you need to assess the value of an IT investment further. What other tools and techniques should be used?a) Risk analysisb) Sensitivity analysisc) Present valued) Return on investment
What should the business analyst do when a requirement status is updated?a) Communicate with the appropriate stakeholdersb) Record changes in the backlogc) Both of the aboved) None of the above
Examining requirements may uncover errors. The most common are:a) Contradictionsb) Ambiguityc) Incompletenessd) All of the above
What are the advantages of traceable requirements?a) Certificationb) Maintenancec) Both of the aboved) Transparency
The normative valuation techniques would include?a) Development of a prototypeb) Surveysc) Focus groupsd) Interviews
How are requirements monitored in Scrum?a) Through managing featuresb) Traceability matrixc) In the product backlog and sprint backlogd) Through managing epics
Requirements in Scrum are called:a) Use casesb) Requirementsc) Featuresd) User stories
What is the net present value (NPV) if the present value is $100,000 and the costs are $100,000?a) −$100,000b) 0c) $100,000d) $200,000
Which of the following is a step in benefits management?a) Analyzing benefitsb) Measuring benefitsc) Validating benefitsd) Identification of benefits
According to Hersey and Blanchard, which style is useful for team members who are motivated but not highly skilled?a) S1b) S2c) S3d) S4
How do you avoid the developers missing a requirement?a) With Scrum, no requirements can be missedb) You can’t, however, with requirements traceability you can document whether or not it is the casec) With requirement traceability, it will never happend) Better train the developers
Interface analysis demonstrates the interaction between the:a) Requirement and solutionb) System and environmentc) Scope and business cased) Software and stakeholders
Which group decision-making style would the product owner most likely apply?a) Unanimityb) Majorityc) Pluralityd) Dictatorship
Requirement baselines are:a) Requirements committed to be testedb) Requirements committed to be implementedc) Requirements within scoped) Requirements out of scope
You have developed a RASCI chart. Who is most likely responsible for identifying stakeholders?a) The business analystb) The development teamc) The sponsord) The Scrum Master
Which status is not included in requirement eleven?a) Statedb) Trackedc) Confirmedd) Communicated
When facilitating, which tools and techniques would be effective?a) Presentation skillsb) Idea gathering skillsc) Document techniquesd) Communication management
What are the typical consequences of requirement traceability on costs?a) No change in costb) Costs would decreasec) Costs would increased) Costs would increase by a factor of four
When using agile, when is stakeholder signoff conducted?a) At the end of the sprintb) After a releasec) Dailyd) As often as possible
Which of the following statements best describes the purpose of workflow models?a) Used to document the interaction of a user with a solutionb) Used to document a graphical presentation of the problem domainc) Used to facilitate the discovery of processes of a system or businessd) Used to document
If you are estimating with an agile team, which technique would you most likely use?a) Parametric estimatingb) Delphic) Program evaluation and review technique (PERT)d) Planning poker
Which activities are you not likely to find during requirements definition?a) Specification checkerb) Authoringc) Traceabilityd) Visual modeling
What are the three broad types of solution development methodologies that business analysts use?a) Structured analysis, object-oriented analysis, and agileb) Business process analysis, object-oriented analysis, and structured analysisc) Data flow diagramming, business process analysis, and
Version control involves:a) Version identification schemesb) Updates of the requirement traceability matrixc) Requirement document updatesd) CCB meetings
What are the ideas involved with tracing?a) Trace components to the business caseb) Trace costs with the business casec) Trace components to their objectivesd) Trace goals with the stakeholder requirements
Which development model is the oldest?a) The spiral modelb) The waterfall modelc) The B modeld) The ABC model
Quality is an inherent aspect of true agile software development. In agile, quality focus is on:a) Internal qualityb) External qualityc) Preventiond) Inspections
The CATWOE analysis involves which of the following factors?a) Client, actor, transformation, world view, owner, and environmentb) Client, actor, transformation, world view, owner, and enterprisec) Customer, actor, transformation, world actor, organization, and environmentd) Customer, actor,
The requirements life cycle would include how many phases?a) Always oneb) One or two phasesc) Can include a number of phases
Which decision-making techniques do you use when everyone has to agree upon the decision?a) Unanimityb) Majorityc) Pluralityd) Dictatorship
You have version 0.1 of the software on the shelf and have just developed some major changes.What version number would be suitable for the changed software?a) 0.1b) 0.2c) 1.0d) 1.1
Which of these qualitative techniques would be suitable for needs assessment?a) Observationb) Special-purpose recordsc) Mind mapsd) Context diagrams
What tool are we working with if we are using Dotmocracy for decision making?a) Checklistsb) Paretoc) Delphid) Plurality
You have just documented the system context with use case diagrams. What would you confirm it with?a) The software requirement specificationb) The business casec) The cost benefit analystd) Some of the stakeholders
In addition to quality management and statistical quality control tools, which technique is helpful in analyzing solution gaps?a) Value stream mappingb) Histogramsc) Impact analysisd) Business case updates
Business needs may arise from:a) Market demandsb) Social needc) Legal requirementsd) All of the above
To monitor requirements throughout their life cycle depends very much on the project life cycle and related requirements management life cycle. Which of the following models are not related to the waterfall approach for monitoring requirements?a) B Modelb) V Modelc) Spiral modeld) Incremental model
What is a common data analysis tool, data model, or technique?a) Cause effect analysisb) UML activity diagramc) User storiesd) Feature map
Which dedicated role would you expect to find at an inspection?a) Project managerb) The business analystc) Minute-takerd) The PMO
Configuration management is:a) A subsystem of the overall project management systemb) A configuration management systemc) Both of the aboved) A subsystem of change management
What is an example of a contingency plan?a) A plan in case of time delaysb) An emergency plan in case of a fire in the server roomc) A plan to raise funds for the business cased) None of the above
Which statistical quality control techniques are used for analysis?a) Cause and effect diagramb) Pareto chartc) Statistical samplingd) Scatter diagram
Early on, why should the business analyst identify the context boundary?a) The context boundary separates the tasks divided between the project manager and business analystb) The context boundary separates the relevant and irrelevant parts of a system to be developedc) The context boundary is what
Which of these common techniques are not used for conceptual modeling and requirement analysis?a) Impact analysisb) Business rules analysisc) Scope modelingd) Functional decomposition
How would the business analyst monitor requirements throughout their life cycle?a) Traceability artifacts or toolsb) Use models, documentation, and test casesc) All of the aboved) None of the above
The vision document defines:a) High-level scopeb) The risk management planc) All needed inputs to the project charterd) All of the above
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