(ECBA) Flashcards
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Which BABOK v3 knowledge area focuses on identifying and defining the needs of stakeholders before a solution is recommended?
Answer: Strategy Analysis
Strategy Analysis focuses on identifying business needs and recommending solutions that enable an enterprise to achieve its goals.
A business analyst is eliciting requirements and notices stakeholders from different departments give conflicting information. What is the BEST next step?
Answer: Facilitate a session to resolve the conflict collaboratively
Facilitating collaborative sessions helps surface root causes of conflict and produces requirements that all stakeholders can support.
In the context of the ECBA, what does 'elicitation' primarily refer to?
Answer: Gathering information from stakeholders and other sources
Elicitation is the activity of drawing out, discovering, and capturing information from stakeholders and other relevant sources.
Which technique involves creating a visual model that shows the boundary of a system and its interactions with external entities?
Answer: Context Diagram
A Context Diagram shows the system under study as a single process and depicts its interfaces with external entities.
A stakeholder map is MOST useful for helping a business analyst to:
Answer: Identify who to involve in elicitation and at what level
Stakeholder maps help BAs understand stakeholder influence, interest, and the appropriate level of engagement for each.
Which of the following BEST describes a 'functional requirement'?
Answer: A behavior the system must perform
Functional requirements describe what a system must do — its behaviors and functions.
The BABOK v3 defines 'business analysis information' as:
Answer: Any information of any kind that is used as an input or produced as an output of BA work
Business analysis information encompasses all inputs and outputs produced during BA activities, not just formal requirements.
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