PBA Quiz 2 – 50q

The project manager is beginning to prepare for a test readiness review with the customer. The project manager knows that the customer will want a summary of requirements that have been rejected or deferred. The project manager has requested that the business analyst provide a list of rejected and deferred requirements.
What should the business analyst have done to complete this request?

A new project’s goal is to replace an existing system. What is an input into solution evaluation and decision making in this context?

Which technique allows the collection of the maximum number of ideas on a subject from a group without considering the validity or practicality of the ideas?

A major stakeholder wants to know how the implementation of new features in the development of a product is progressing. Which of the following should be reported to the stakeholder?

A business analyst has started a project for a system enhancement. In order to determine how the requirements will be approved, the business analyst schedules a meeting with the stakeholders to discuss the proposed approval process.
Which measure of effective decision making allows the business analyst to finalize the process for requirement approval?

The business analyst is conducting a feasibility study to understand how well a potential solution fits into the organization. What kind of feasibility assessment is the business analyst undertaking?

A business analyst has incorporated all the relevant feedback from stakeholders in the business analysis plan.
Which next step should the business analyst take?

Which tool should be used to improve the communication of product needs with the stakeholders and to improve their understanding?

A project’s requirements baseline is established and approved. A stakeholder then submits a new requirement through the change control process.
How can the business analyst determine the impact on existing requirements?

A business analyst is working with the project manager, company auditors, and project stakeholders to determine whether formal signoff should be required for the project. For which reason would the business analyst recommend formal signoff to the group?

After reviewing a business case, project goals, and objectives, a business analyst determines that the organization prefers taking an exploratory approach to finding the solution that best meets the business need. Which approach best aligns with the business need for this organization?

Which of the following techniques is used to identify ambiguous or unverifiable requirements?

Once the requirements are compared to internal and external quality standards, what should the business analyst do next?

For a large, highly complex project with significant risk, which elicitation technique should be used to analyze input to and output from the product?

What is one benefit of documenting the change control process?

What can a business analyst use to track requirements documentation?

To reduce the amount of time and effort needed to create a product specification for a project, the business analyst plans to reuse:

When a business analyst uses subject matter experts to define roles and identify influencers, which project artifact is created or updated?

Which of the following can be used to determine if requirements align to the product’s objectives?

Which of the following would be the best practice in product validation?

A document is being created that will detail the customer’s needs for a product and will include a functional model, a data model, and a glossary of terms. This document is called a:

Which of the following techniques contrasts the current and desired business views to analyze possible business changes?

Which of the following is the best approach to enable developers and product owners to be in constant communication so that changes or issues that occur during development are exposed and discussed as they develop?

The best way to ensure the integrity of requirements is to:

A business analyst is developing a traceability matrix to determine whether or not any gaps exist and to identify any discrepancies.

Which critical field is needed to ensure that the traceability matrix is usable?

The following requirement was included in a business requirements document: “An API shall be built to send data back and forth from the accounting system to the customer relationship system so that name and address data can be synchronized.” What should be done with this business requirement?

A business analyst has been asked to investigate a problem. This investigation will provide input towards developing a business case. The business analyst wants to first understand the company’s current business processes.
Which technique should the business analyst use?

A business analyst is working on a project’s acceptance criteria. In an early collaboration with the company’s stakeholders, the business analyst identified several user groups within the company:
“Purchaser,” “Shipper,” “Customer,” and “Agent.” These user groups categorize stakeholders with similar needs and create a detailed narrative.
Which technique did the business analyst use for evaluating the solution’s acceptance criteria?

A business analyst is preparing a requirements management plan and needs to define a method to deal with a complex project with stakeholders who find it difficult to articulate their needs. Which method would best minimize requirements risk?

A business analyst needs to estimate the effort associated with project requirements. However, the lack of detail is concerning.
What technique could the business analyst use to help alleviate this concern?

A business analyst has been assigned to a project that will design and build two new bridges and, at the same time, redesign a failing bridge for a local structural engineering company. All three bridges must be constructed and meet all safety requirements before flood season next spring.
How would the business analyst define the scope of this project?

While preparing a business case, an experienced business analyst faces difficulty in deciding which of three different solution options to recommend. The senior vice president (SVP) who requested the business case favors an outsourced solution; however, an analysis favors a custom-developed solution, either built internally or using contract labor.
To prepare the recommendation, what should the business analyst do?

After a project was delivered, the business analyst learns of a project objective with no associated requirement. What would have helped determine this issue before delivery?

During the project execution phase, the client requests the addition of a new feature. Which of the following would allow the business analyst to determine the impact for the specific requirement change?

A business analyst captures an application’s current limitations and consults with end users to identify new features for the next version.
What can be used to analyze this information and determine project scope?

In the middle of a project, a new requirement was added to the scope. The business analyst must determine if any impacts, dependencies, or risks are associated with the addition to the scope.
What task should the business analyst perform in order to identify these impacts?

When managing a product backlog, which statement best describes how to determine the value of backlog items?

The quality function deployment is best suited to assist in the process of:

After several meetings with different groups of users, a business analyst has gathered the requirements for a large IT project. Now, the business analyst needs to document those requirements in a way that is clearly understood by the development team and provides enough information to check if the requirement has been met.
Which of the following would work best in this case?

During the initial phase of a project, which technique could assist in identifying and categorizing the stakeholders?

After completing the requirements, the project manager and business analyst realize that the project scope is not feasible in the projected schedule. The business analyst needs to review the amount of work the team is capable of delivering based on the approved project schedule.
Which prioritization technique should the business analyst use?

What should the business analyst do to ensure that all requirements meet a quality checklist before the development and testing phase?

Which statement accurately depicts what changes can be made to requirements after they are baselined?

A business analyst is leading a project to implement automated order entry software at a local pizza restaurant. The business analyst has very little information about the project: the ordering process takes too long and often ends in incorrect orders.
What step should the business analyst take next?

The business analyst has been assigned to a project which delivers functionality for a much larger solution. The project has many requirements but has not received adequate funding. In addition, the stakeholders’ views conflict.
Which tools and techniques should the business analyst use to maximize business value while establishing the requirements baseline?

A business analyst is conducting a cost-benefit analysis of potential solution options. The stakeholders have indicated that the estimated growth rate is very important to them.
Which technique will allow the business analyst to determine this information?

A company is developing a new product for a customer and is required to verify and validate the product against the customer’s acceptance test plan and requirements. The product was successfully verified against the acceptance test criteria, but the customer does not believe that the product meets the requirements.
This occurred because the customer’s acceptance test plan:

A company is working on implementing a software application. They are converting their complex, inhouse processes into the new system. The business analyst has been asked to analyze the processes.
Which technique should be followed?

What should a business analyst do after discovering that two solution requirements conflict?

The sales team of a company has won a time-and-material project. The business analyst discovers that the sales team has underestimated the required budget and schedule.
Which course of action should the business analyst take?