FREE Certified Business Analysis Professional Sample Questions and Answers

Question 1

What phrase is used to indicate the cost of the solution once a vendor has put it into use in a real-world setting?

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Total cost of ownership

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Sustainability fees

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Lifecycle maintenance fees

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Ownership costing

Question 2

Which stakeholder is the exception to the rule when it comes to requirement prioritization?

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Project team

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Implementation subject matter expert

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Domain subject matter expert

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Project manager

Question 3

What plan will outline the stakeholder groups, the requirements for communication, and the proper level of formality?

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Business analysis communication plan

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Requirements management plan

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Project management plan

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Scope management plan

Question 4

You represent your company as the business analyst. To help the stakeholders understand the requirements and the project as a whole, management has requested that you develop a model of the needs. Which of the following statements about a model is true?

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Models abstract and simplify reality.

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Models simplify the requirements for common stakeholders.

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Models are slices of the project solution.

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Models are statistics for the return on investment, time saved, and other mathematics.

Question 5

You represent your company as the business analyst. Your creation of a way to store project requirements, including those in development, review, and approval, has been requested by management. What is management requesting you to produce?

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A repository

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A requirements register

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A change management system

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A project scope statement

Question 6

Bob works for his company as a business analyst. Bob is currently developing a way to make a laser printer better. He disassembled the laser printer, identified every part, and listed each part's function. What kind of requirements management is Bob conducting in this instance?

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Functional decomposition

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Data modeling

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Process modeling

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Scope modeling

Question 7

You recognized an activity in your task list that must wait until the project inspector has approved the initial deliverables before being finished. What is the initial deliverables inspector's approval known as?

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Dependency

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Constraint

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Milestone

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Assumption

Question 8

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 9

Business analyst Jen has compiled the specifications needed to put in place a new system. Pete is her main stakeholder. She could tell Pete wasn't happy with the requirements as they were going over them with him. Some of the standards, he said, won't be in line with what his department needs. Pete's manager was the source of their demands. How should Jen proceed?

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Jen must find a way to resolve this conflict either by facilitating a formal meeting, through research or other methods

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Jen must escalate this conflict to other higher level manager

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Jen should ask Pete to talk to his boss in order to agree on what the requirement should be

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Jen's hands are tied. After all, Pete will understand that his boss's requirements come before his

Question 10

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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Identify additional potential capabilities and determine the best solution by ranking those capabilities

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Ask the end users to select the solution they prefer most

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Ask the sponsor to select the best solution that they believe would be best for their organization

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You've done all you can do, escalate this to the PM who would determine the best solution based on other project criteria