CBAP Online Practice Questions and Answers

You are the business analyst for your organization and are working with Jennifer to conduct stakeholder analysis. You would like to create a RACI chart to help with the roles of the people involved in the stakeholder analysis process. Jennifer is not familiar with this chart and asks what does RACI mean.

Which one of the following best describes the RACI chart in the conduct stakeholder analysis process?

A. It's a matrix that uses the Responsible, Accountable, Consult, and Inform tasks as part of the stakeholder analysis process.

B. It's a role and responsibility chart that identifies when stakeholders are needed in the business analyst duties.

C. It's a matrix that uses Role, Action, Consult, and Inform as part of the conduct stakeholder analysis process.

D. It's a rule that the business analyst can use to identify all of the needed stakeholders: roles, actions, communications, and interest.

A business unit of a transnational manufacturer wants to implement a robust process for addressing integrity-critical equipment deterioration incidents. Timely and complete resolution of such incidents is vital for the business unit's continuous safe and profitable operation. Treating each incident involves many employees from different departments extensively collaborating and exchanging information. That information is spread across multiple systems having their access limited to particular user groups. With the current manual process, some incidents get forgotten and remain unresolved for years.

The project's Sponsor is an Equipment Integrity and Reliability Advisor, who moved into this position from another business unit. That business unit implemented a proprietary application to integrate the information and to assist in tracking

and managing the incidents. Having a positive experience with the application, the Sponsor is suggesting to customize it and reuse in the new business unit.

The business unit's Enterprise Architect (EA), who is responsible for assessing solution options and presenting them to executive decision makers, has a few concerns with adopting the existing application. The application uses point-to-point interfaces with other data sources whereas the business unit's target architecture relies on a data warehouse-based integration. Moreover, the two business units use different legacy systems, as well as different front-end implementation technologies. Additionally, the existing application is monolingual, while the business unit needs user interfaces and some data to be presented in two languages. With all of this, it may be easier to build a new application from scratch than to customize the existing one. To understand which option is better, the EA asks a business analyst (BA) to define business requirements.

With the team ready to consider design options, they are reviewing the following requirement: "Appropriate stakeholders shall be timely and reliably notified on incident-related events."

What quality criteria does this requirement fail to satisfy?

A. Consistent

B. Complete

C. Atomic

D. Understandable

During the testing phase, a new requirement surfaced and the stakeholder asked the developer to modify the code without informing the business analyst (BA). The BA became aware of the new functionality after a defect was raised against another component of the design. The BA can keep this situation from occurring in the future by creating a:

A. stakeholder engagement plan

B. change control process

C. risk strategy

D. prioritization approach

The project manager wants to have the requirements analysis phase approved and asks the business analyst (BA) if this is possible. The BA wants to ensure that the requirements package is complete prior to closing the analysis phase. What would help the BA expedite the approval process for the analysis phase?

A. Solution performance measures

B. Business analysis information architecture

C. Solution functional capabilities

D. Business analysis approach

After having created several prototypes of a new web-based application, a business analyst (BA) would like to meet with the organization's stakeholders to elicit their perception, ideas, and attitudes about the prototypes. Which of the following techniques should the BA use?

A. Focus Groups

B. Prioritization

C. Decision Analysis

D. Brainstorming

A sports wristwatch product manufacturer wants to add a blood sugar monitoring toolkit to the watch. Market research has confirmed that the most profitable segment of the manufacturer's target customer is looking for this feature. The business analyst (BA) worked with the product owner to finalize the set of requirements and design options and then defined multiple approaches for implementing the feature. At this point, the solutions' team agreed that they were unable to accurately assess the merits of each of the proposed solutions.

What is the possible reason?

A. Requirements are not allocated to solution components

B. Too many approaches are dividing the team

C. Business needs are unclear to the team

D. Requirements and design options are not detailed enough

You are the business analyst for a large, complex solution and you are working with the stakeholders to determine the prioritization of the requirements. You would like to use the decision analysis to determine the best decision for the requirements outcome. You must know four things as part of decision analysis.

Which one of the following will not help you with this approach to the requirements prioritization process?

A. The values, goals, and objectives that are relevant to the requirements

B. The consequences of each possible decision

C. The nature of the decision that must be made

D. The future value of the requirements

Which of the following models defines the name of the data, data aliases, and description of system data?

A. Class model

B. Entity relationship

C. Data dictionary

D. CRUD matrix

Yolanda is the web designer for your company and you are the business analyst. You are working with Yolanda on a new website that your company will host. You'd like for her to create a mock-up of the website without spending much time on the actual workings behind the web interface. You'd like for her to show the customer how the website will look, some idea of the functionality of the website, and some basic graphics and colors so the customer can see the direction of the project.

What type of prototype are you asking Yolanda to create?

A. Mock-up prototype

B. Vertical prototype

C. Storyboard prototype

D. Horizontal prototype

Which of the following terms is used to describe a major deliverable or key even in the project used to measure project progress?

A. Project life cycle

B. Phase

C. Achievement

D. Milestone