IIBA CBAP Free Practice Questions

NEW QUESTION 1

There are four inputs to the plan business analysis activities. Which one of the following is not an input to the plan business analysis activities process?

• A. List of identified risks
• B. Organizational process assets
• C. Business analysis approach
• D. Stakeholder list, roles, and responsibilities

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 2

You are the business analyst for your organization. Management has asked that you create a method to store the project requirements including those under development, under review, and the requirements which have been approved. What is management asking you to create?

• A. A change management system
• B. A repository
• C. A project scope statement
• D. A requirements register

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 3

You are hosting a collection of stakeholders from across the organization to identify the ideas and attitudes about your company's help desk. You want the stakeholders to honestly share their opinions about the help desk service so you can identify problems, solutions, and take actions to improve the service. What type of requirements elicitation activity is this?

• A. Stakeholder analysis
• B. Focus groups
• C. Workshop
• D. Root cause analysis

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 4

You are creating a model that shows how data moves through a system. Each function that modifies the data in any manner is identified, decomposed to smaller levels, and the system is completely described from start to storage. What type of a modeling technique are you using in this scenario?

• A. Functional decomposition
• B. Data flow diagramming
• C. Organization modeling
• D. Work decomposition

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 5

Which of the following techniques is used to test customer acceptance of the solution and to measure marketplace demand?

• A. Interviews
• B. Market Survey
• C. Technology Assessment
• D. Prototyping

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 6

Which of the following defines how the project scope should be created, executed, monitored and controlled, and then validated?

• A. Scope variance plan
• B. Scope management plan
• C. Staffing management plan
• D. Schedule management plan

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 7

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 can be a problem as customers could become confused or frustrated because of the different approaches to the wor
• B. It is not a problem unless there is a drop in sales so it should be left alon
• C. It can be a problem as the enterprise environmental factors always call for consistency in all processe
• D. It is not a problem unless the customer complain
• E. If Jane has not noticed the customers complaining then the process should be left alon

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 8

You are the business analyst for the YGT Organization. You have just completed a capabilities gap assessment and have determined that your organization does not have the necessary resources and technology to seize a business opportunity. What is the most likely course of action for the organization?

• A. Hire additional resource
• B. Launch a new projec
• C. Hire contractors to complete the project wor
• D. Move onto the next opportunit

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 9

Which of the following models defines the name of the data, data aliases, and description of system data?

• A. Class model
• B. Entity relationship
• C. Data dictionary
• D. CRUD matrix

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 10

Martha is observing Gary complete several activities as part of her requirements elicitation process. Martha is simply observing the steps Gary takes to complete his work and she is taking notes. In this instance Martha does not ask Gary any questions. What type of observation technique is Martha completing?

• A. Shadowing
• B. Active
• C. Passive
• D. Usage consideration

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 11

You are the business analyst for your organization and are coaching Roberta on how business analysis works. Roberta is confused about what a business analysis methodology is during the business analysis planning and monitoring phase of the business analysis duties. What is a methodology?

• A. A methodology is an approach that the business analyst believes will work but it has not been proven to work yet in the business analysis domai
• B. A methodology is a short term endeavor to create a unique product or servic
• C. A methodology is a formalized plan that describes how the business analyst will complete the elicitation of requirement
• D. A methodology is a formalized and repeatable business analysis approac

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 12

Which of the following is a visual decomposition of the project scope?

• A. Budgeted Cost of Work Scheduled (BCWS)
• B. Resource Breakdown Structure (RBS)
• C. product breakdown structure (PBS)
• D. Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 13

Zoe is the business analyst for her organization. She is currently prioritizing the requirements based on the implementation difficulty of the requirements to help with the solution planning.
Which of the following best describes the approach Zoe is taking with requirements prioritization?

• A. The requirements are categorized by type of work, and then ranked within each category of ease of implementation to difficulty of implementatio
• B. The requirements are ranked most difficult to easiest to implemen
• C. The requirements are ranked from easiest to hardest to implemen
• D. The requirements are categorized by the likelihood of management approving the requirem ent

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 14

Which of the following are directed conversations for gathering ideas, opinions about a product, service, problem, or opportunity?

• A. Interviews
• B. Group discussions
• C. Feedback loops
• D. Focus groups

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 15

Mary is the business analyst for your organization. She asks you what the purpose of the assess capability gaps task is. Which of the following is the best response to give Mary?

• A. It identifies new capabilities required by the organization to meet the business nee
• B. It identifies the causal factors that are contributing to an effect the solution will solv
• C. It describes the ends that the organization wants to improv
• D. It identifies the skill gaps in the existing resource

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 16

One of the processes within requirements analysis is to prioritize requirements. As a business analyst why would you ever want to prioritize requirements?

• A. You may need to determine the cost of each requiremen
• B. You may need to determine the schedule for each requiremen
• C. You may need to determine which requirements are most critical so the analysis and implementation efforts focus on the most critical requirement
• D. You may need to determine which requirements are most critical so additional risk analysis can be completed on those requirement

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 17

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. Interviews
• B. Trend analysis
• C. Focus groups
• D. Surveys

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 18

Which conduct stakeholder analysis technique is useful for identifying shared characteristics of a stakeholder group?

• A. Surveys
• B. Scope modeling
• C. Brainstorming
• D. Interviews

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 19

Which of the following is the process of analyzing the areas of a project that are most affected by risk?

• A. Risk Identification
• B. Risk Urgency Assessment
• C. Risk Categorization
• D. Risk Analysis

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 20

Which of the following is NOT a component of flowchart?

• A. Forks
• B. Attributes
• C. Activities
• D. Joins

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 21

Which of the following meeting brings all of the potential vendors together to discuss the statement of work and the request for proposal?

• A. Contract bidding meeting
• B. Status meeting
• C. Qualified vendors meeting
• D. Bidders conference

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 22

You are working with several business analysts to determine the solution approach for an identified problem. All of the following techniques are acceptable for identifying the solution approach except for which one?

• A. Benchmarking
• B. Decision analysis
• C. Risk analysis
• D. Brainstorming

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 23

What is the purpose of the business case?

• A. The business case helps the organization determine if they can justify the investment for the solutio
• B. The business case helps the organization determine the duration and cost of the solutio
• C. The business case helps the organization determine the cost of the solutio
• D. The business case helps the organization determine if the solution is feasibl

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 24

What two factors must the business analyst consider when conducting stakeholder analysis?

• A. Influence and attitude
• B. Position and politics
• C. Politics and influence
• D. Attitude and position

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 25

You are the business analyst for a large project for your organization. Your project has 65 stakeholders and this will greatly increase the complexity of the communication in this project. To demonstrate how complex this project and its communication will be, you show the management the number of communication channels in this project. How many channels exist in this project based on the number of stakeholders?

• A. 2080
• B. 4160
• C. 4225
• D. 65

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 26

There are four inputs to writing the business case as part of enterprise analysis. Which one of the following is not an input to writing the business case process?

• A. Business need
• B. Assumptions and constraints
• C. Requirements verification
• D. Stakeholder concerns

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 27

Which of the following is the process of defining and analyzing the dangers to individuals, businesses, and government agencies posed by potential natural and human-caused adverse events?

• A. Risk analysis
• B. Risk identification
• C. Risk management
• D. Risk communication

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 28

____ is the degree to which a set of inherent characteristics fulfills requirements.

• A. Quality
• B. Regulation
• C. Project phase
• D. Scope

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 29

Which of the following process groups occurs at the beginning of the project?

• A. Executing
• B. Planning
• C. Initiating
• D. Controlling and Monitoring
• E. Closing

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 30

You are the business analyst for your organization and working with the stakeholders to prioritize the requirements. The stakeholders are concerned about the financial impact of the requirements should some of them fail during the implementation. You would like to rank the risk tolerance of the stakeholders based on their comments about the solution and the requirements. The following are the three categories of risk tolerance associated with the stakeholders except for which one?

• A. Mitigation
• B. Risk-aversion
• C. Risk-seeking
• D. Neutrality

Answer: A

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