CCBA Business & Leadership 4

Question 1

A BA is asked to lead a business analysis planning session. Which input is most essential before the session begins?

Accepted Answer

An understanding of the project scope, stakeholders, and organizational methodology

Answer

Knowing the project scope, stakeholders, and organizational methodology provides the context needed to plan appropriate BA activities and deliverables.

Question 2

Which activity best supports building a shared understanding of business goals among diverse stakeholders?

Accepted Answer

Facilitating structured workshops that enable collaborative exploration of goals

Answer

Structured workshops create an interactive environment where diverse stakeholders can collectively explore, challenge, and align on business goals.

Question 3

Under the BABOK Guide, 'elicitation' is best described as:

Accepted Answer

The process of drawing out information from stakeholders and other sources to understand needs

Answer

Elicitation is the practice of actively drawing out information from stakeholders, documents, and other sources to surface needs, constraints, and assumptions.

Question 4

A BA is working in an organization with a strong command-and-control culture. Which challenge is most likely?

Accepted Answer

Stakeholders may withhold information or defer entirely to authority figures, limiting elicitation effectiveness

Answer

In hierarchical cultures, employees often defer to authority rather than openly sharing needs or concerns, which constrains effective elicitation.

Question 5

Which of the following is an example of a non-functional requirement in a business analysis context?

Accepted Answer

The system must process 1,000 transactions per second with 99.9% uptime

Answer

Non-functional requirements define quality attributes like performance, availability, and scalability rather than specific system behaviors or functions.

(CCBA) Certification of Capability in Business Analysis Practice Test

(CCBA) Certification of Capability in Business Analysis Practice Test

CCBA Business & Leadership 4