NEW QUESTION 1

Henry is the business analyst for his organization. Management has created a pre-determined budget of $450,000 for his solution. Henry has identified the project requirements but now wants to prioritize them based on timeboxing and budgeting. Henry examines the cost of the requirements and begins removing the requirements from the allowed list in order to meet the $450,000 budget. What timeboxing or budgeting approach is Henry using?

• A. Parametric
• B. All in
• C. Selective
• D. All out

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 2

Which of the following is the formal acceptance of the project?

• A. A project review
• B. A sign-off
• C. Risk assessment
• D. Inspection trend analysis

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 3

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 4

Bob and Susan are business analysts for their organization. They are examining two materials that could be used in an upcoming project. They are testing the materials and measuring the results of each test to compare the materials to each other. This process will help Bob and Susan determine which material is best for their upcoming project. What type of process are Bob and Susan completing with these materials?

• A. Feasibility study
• B. Stress test
• C. Alternative identification
• D. Benchmarking

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 5

Which of the following represents the duration of activities against a calendar?

• A. Scatter chart
• B. Gantt chart
• C. Pie chart
• D. Pareto chart

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 6

As a program manager, you decided to overlap two phases of your program. Which of the following terms best describe your act?

• A. Lead time
• B. Rolling
• C. Fast tracking
• D. Crashing

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 7

What document defines the business needs, identifies key stakeholders, and describes the positive impact the solution will provide on the key stakeholders?

• A. Project charter
• B. Project scope statement
• C. Solution scope
• D. Vision statement

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 8

Which of the following terms is used to describe a major deliverable or key even in the project used to measure project progress?

• A. Project life cycle
• B. Phase
• C. Achievement
• D. Milestone

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 9

Ned is the business analyst for the NHQ Company. He is working with Stan on completing therequirements prioritization of all the identified requirements. Why would Stan and Ned complete requirements prioritization?

• A. To determine which requirements should be completed first
• B. To determine which requirements should not be completed at all
• C. To determine which requirements carry the most risk
• D. To determine who created what requirement based on their position in the organization

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 10

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 thefollowing is NOT an input you'll use for the conduct stakeholder analysis task?

• A. Enterprise architecture
• B. Enterprise environmental factors
• C. Organizational process assets
• D. Business need

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 11

Holly is the business analyst for her organization. Holly encourages teamwork and open communications among the business analysis team and the stakeholders. She wants stakeholders to drop by her office and freely discuss the requirements, the solution scope, and other concerns about the solution she's working on. Holly definitely prefers informal communications. What is the danger Holly may experience with informal communications?

• A. There is no danger; informal communications is a preferred business analysis techniqu
• B. The stakeholders may address the business analysis team and the project team directly rather than communicate through Holl
• C. Stakeholders may miss information and the requirements could become ambiguou
• D. The stakeholders may not know who's in charge of the solutio

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 12

Which of the following compares two or more systems, states, services, products, or things to
determine the best viable choice?

• A. Benchmarking
• B. Risk Identification
• C. Risk analysis
• D. Cost-benefit analysis

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 13

Which of the following component of the communication model is responsible for transferring the message between two or more entities?

• A. Sender
• B. Medium
• C. Decoder
• D. Receiver

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 14

The business analysis approach generally defines all of the following attributes except for which one?

• A. Deliverables
• B. Requirements for solutions acceptance
• C. Analysis technique
• D. Team roles

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 15

Yolanda is the web designer for your company and you are the business analyst. You are working with Yolanda on a new website that your company will host. You'd like for her to create a mock-up of the website without spending much time on the actual workings behind the web interface. You'd like for her to show the customer how the website will look, some idea of the functionality of the website, and some basic graphics and colors so the customer can see the direction of the project.
What type of prototype are you asking Yolanda to create?

• A. Mock-up prototype
• B. Vertical prototype
• C. Storyboard prototype
• D. Horizontal prototype

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 16

You are the business analyst for a smaller project where there are few requirements. Management would still like you to create a method to trace the few requirements for this project. What type of matrix would be best in this instance?

• A. Roles and responsibility matrix
• B. RACI matrix
• C. Coverage matrix
• D. Requirements trace matrix

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 17

Which of the following establishes organizational checks and balances with a proper segregation of front, back, and middle office functions for effective risk management?

• A. Risk response plan
• B. Risk analysis
• C. Risk management plan
• D. Risk governance

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 18

You are the business analyst for your organization and are with another business analyst, Steve, on the requirements elicitation for a new solution. You warn Steve that you'll need to be tracing the requirements in an effort to prevent scope creep. What is scope creep?

• A. The scope grows slightly larger as more requirements, often unneeded, are added to the scope
• B. The scope slips on the schedule which in turn delays the project delivery date
• C. Gold plating
• D. The scope shifts from the original intent of the business case

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 19

You are the business analyst for your organization and preparing to complete the requirements elicitation activities. Your manager wants to know when the requirements elicitation process will be completed. Which of the following responses best describes the nature of the requirements elicitation process?

• A. The schedule of the project determines the duration of the requirements elicitation process .
• B. The duration of the requirements elicitation activities is determined by the willingness of the project stakeholders to contribute to the requirements informatio
• C. The size of the project determines the duration of the requirements elicitation proces
• D. Eliciting requirements is not a compartmentalized activit

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 20

Which of the following requirement attributes lacks any ambiguous characteristics?

• A. Understandable
• B. User Requirements Document (URD)
• C. Unambiguous
• D. Urgency

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 21

You are the business analyst for your organization and are working with Virginia on the allocation of requirements for a new solution. You have assigned Virginia the task of breaking down the solution scope into smaller components for allocation. What technique have you asked Virginia to complete in this scenario?

• A. Decision analysis
• B. Business rules analysis
• C. Process modeling
• D. Functional decomposition

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 22

You are the business analyst for the TGH Organization and are determining if you should buy or build a solution for your company. You have determined that you can create the in-house solution for $78,000 with a monthly support cost of $8,765. A vendor can create the solution for $61,000 with a monthly support costs of $7,990. How long will it take your company to break even if you choose the internal solution versus the vendor's solution?

• A. 36 months
• B. 12 months
• C. 6 months
• D. 22 months

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 23

Marcy is the business analyst for her organization. She is completing the business analysis task of defining the business needs. She has the business goals and objectives and the requirements stated documentation. What must she confirm about the requirements stated documentation before defining the business need based on her analysis?

• A. The requirements must reflect actual business requirements, not a description of the solution
• B. The requirements must contain no or little risk
• C. The requirements must reflect proposed solutions as part of alternative identificatio
• D. The requirements must be compatible with the refinement of the business goals and object ive

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 24

Which of the following defines how the project will be estimated, budgeted, and how changes to cost will be managed?

• A. Cost management plan
• B. Cost variance reports
• C. Control chart
• D. Coercive power

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 25

You are the business analyst for your organization and are planning the business analysis approach. One of the techniques you are considering for this undertaking is to rate the available methodologies against the organizational needs and objectives. Which of the following terms describes the business analysis technique that you are currently considering in this scenario?

• A. Structured walkthrough
• B. Decision analysis
• C. Cause-and-effect analysis
• D. Process modeling

Answer: B

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