Certified Business Analysis Professional Test #4

Question 1

Which item on the list below best describes the elements of a data flow diagram?

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External entities, processes, data stores, data flow

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Concept, attributes, relationships, metadata

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Entities, attributes, processes, data stores, data flow

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Name, aliases, entities, process flow, sequences

Question 2

Amara groups the requirements and then gives a list of those groups of criteria to the next stakeholder. This set of specifications is used by the stakeholder to confirm the solution's scope and evaluate the work that needs to be done on the project. This stakeholder's name.

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Team leader

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Process Owner

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Configuration Manager

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Release Manager

Question 3

When you gather as much data as you can about the state of the enterprise area that is being impacted by the business need, you are

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locating the present capability analysis to determine an organization's capability gaps

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Specifying and modeling the requirements by analyzing the requirements

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using a bottom-up method to create the business requirement to describe the business need

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the process of gathering data to define the business case

Question 4

Due to financial limitations, the sponsors urge that as the business analysis activity moves forward, the team concentrate their efforts on the most important criteria exclusively. What is expected of the business analyst?

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Prioritize Requirements

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Verify Requirements

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Validate Requirements

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Organize Requirements

Question 5

Based on your evaluation of the suggested solutions, you've come to the conclusion that only two of them offer significantly different fundamental characteristics and comparable commercial value. Which would be the best line of action to choose the greatest option as your next step?

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Finding extra possible capabilities and ranking them can help you choose the best option.

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Request the choice of the most preferred option from the end users.

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After exhausting your options, report this to the project manager (PM), who will decide the best course of action based on other project parameters.

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Request the sponsor to choose the one they feel will work best for their business.

Question 6

You are getting ready for the elicitation. You've just chosen the people who will take part in the elicitation activities. One of the decisions you must make when choosing the elicitation events is whether to use open-ended or closed-ended questions. You must also choose the most effective way to distribute those questions. What method do you intend to use for the elicitation events?

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Survey/Questionnaire

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Requirement Workshop

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Interviews

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Prototyping

Question 7

The client asked Tommy, a business analyst working on the project, to gather data regarding the organization's current state. Tom intends to use models and specifications to present the organization's AS-IS situation. What do the processes of defining and modeling requirements serve to accomplish?

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Analyze the information gathered from stakeholders and translate them into requirements and designs.

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Analyze the risks and new opportunities

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Analyze the processes of an organization to determine what processes can be improved

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Analyze the roles and responsibilities of users within the organization and determine process improvements

Question 8

In order to illustrate the components of a system's data and the way that data flows within it, Raymond is building a model. Who or what is Raymond modeling?

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Data Flow diagram

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Functional Decomposition

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WBS

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Data Model

Question 9

Business analyst Rhea is analyzing the potential solutions. Rhea now intends to develop a document that will outline various solution options and explain how each one satisfies business requirements and provides an anticipated business value. Which activity is Rhea engaged in?

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Feasibility Study

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Product Roadmap

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Vision Statement

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Solution Scope statement

Question 10

Business analyst Robin works for the ABC company. Robin is engaged in a project to enhance the performance of web services. Management advised Robin that the implementation of these improvement initiatives shouldn't take more than 90 days. Implementation over a 90-day period represents what kind of factor?

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Business Constraint

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Assumption

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Technical Constraint

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Schedule Constraint