Business Analysis Cheat Sheet 2026

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1. When taken from: the total of the absolute deviations is at its minimum. → Median
2. With the exception of..., business analysts normally assume the primary role in all of the following. → Planning and monitoring
3. In which of the following BA tasks should the BA look for possibilities to improve the bus's operation? → Specify and model reqs
4. Which elicitation technique involves observing stakeholders performing their tasks in their natural work environment? → Ethnographic observation
5. What results come from making sure a solution is offered consistently satisfies the needs of the business? → Identified defects and mitigating actions
6. The intercept is in the regression equation Y = 75.65 + 0.50X. → 76.65
7. The process used to determine the average or central value of the data obtained is referred to as → measures of central tendency
8. What procedure makes certain that problems discovered during an organizational readiness assessment are addressed and fixed? → Problem-tracking
9. The mean and median in a highly skewed distribution are 20 and 24, respectively. Determine the mean value. → 26
10. When should transition needs be established? → After the solution has been designed
11. Find the set's mode (8, 5, 7, 10, 15, 21, 5, 7, 2, 5) → 5
12. Which statistic from a validation sample can be used to choose the model to employ for a binary target variable's prediction? → Average Squared Error
13. A daily stand-up meeting is a typical Agile project activity. What does the daily stand-up meeting serve to accomplish? → To bring out issues that may be causing problems
14. A sequence of values scattered around the average are referred to as: → Dispersion
15. Which of the following three describe the difficulties in gathering requirements? choose 3 → Implicit Requirements
16. If a series' maximum value is 25, and its range is 15, then the series' maximum value is: → 10
17. The Y in the regression equation Y = a+bX is referred to as: → Dependent variable
18. An existing multiple linear regression model is modified by removing a non-contributing predictor variable (Pr > |t| =0.658). What will happen as a result? → A decrease in R-Square
19. RUP is part of what corporation? → IBM
20. You are looking into how a solution is used after it has been put into use. What Solution Validation and Assessment task are you carrying out? → Evaluating solution performance
21. Which element of the business case should include information about how a plan would affect interdepartmental relations? → Impact assessment
22. Which elicitation technique is most suitable when stakeholders have difficulty articulating their needs verbally? → Prototyping
23. What documents are associated with the use case? → FRD and SSD
24. Which of the following about your project's transition requirements is FALSE? → Relevant after the existing solution is eliminated
25. A unique kind of index number is —————. → Average
26. Which diagram is typically used in the preliminary phases of analysis to describe the relevant components? → Activity
27. What stakeholders should the BA start looking at to find out who might be able to impact the project's deliverables? Pick the best response. → A description of the approach that will be taken to implement a new set of capabilities
28. The results of a feasibility analysis do not include any of the following, except → Overview of the strategy that will be used to implement a new set of capabilities
29. Which stakeholder analysis technique identifies stakeholder roles that could be a good place to start when figuring out actors and roles? → Scenario and uses cases and user stories
30. Which of the following does not provide an effective test of decision-making? → Stakeholders concur that analytical models accurately and fully describe the domain.