CBAP Practice exam 2

Question 1

You are currently evaluating the existing solution to see what will be done about the ongoing work during implementation. You discover that your users will be actively using the old solution at the time that the new solution is implemented. What option would you NOT consider to manage this ongoing work?
Selecione uma ou mais opções de resposta:
a. Hold processing of new work for a period of time.
b. Run both systems concurrently and indefinitely.
c. Convert all work from old to new at implementation.
d. Start new work using the newly implemented solution.

Answer 1

b. Run both systems concurrently and indefinitely.

Question 2

The two types of message control flow modeled in sequence diagrams are:
Selecione uma ou mais opções de resposta:
a. Logical and physical
b. Active and passive
c. Triggers and signals
d. Asynchronous and procedural

Answer 2

d. Asynchronous and procedural

Question 3

You want to make sure that your stakeholders have a common understanding of your project requirements. Which knowledge area tasks will help you achieve this goal?
Selecione uma ou mais opções de resposta:
a. Solution Assessment and Validation
b. Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring
c. Requirements Analysis
d. Requirements Management and Communication

Answer 3

d. Requirements Management and Communication

Question 4

You are using reliable data and market research to create a preliminary analysis of potential solution options. Which analysis technique are you applying?
Selecione uma ou mais opções de resposta:
a. SWOT
b. Impact
c. Decision
d. Feasibility

Answer 4

d. Feasibility

Question 5

It is challenging (at best) to be a liaison between the business and the technology stakeholders on your projects if you have no understanding of your business. Your business knowledge is decomposed into all of the following areas EXCEPT:
Selecione uma ou mais opções de resposta:
a. Business principles and practices
b. Competitive intelligence
c. Organization knowledge
d. Solution knowledge

Answer 5

b. Competitive intelligence

Question 6

Which of the following stakeholders is NOT typically outside the boundaries of a given organization or organizational role?
Selecione uma ou mais opções de resposta:
a. Tester
b. Supplier
c. Customer
d. Consultant

Answer 6

a. Tester

Question 7

Which requirements represent the business analyst’s documented understanding of the stakeholder’s intentions?
Selecione uma ou mais opções de resposta:
a. Documented and stated
b. Stated and unconfirmed
c. Elicited and reviewed
d. Stated and confirmed

Answer 7

b. Stated and unconfirmed

Question 8

What technique is often used by business analysts to support their data modeling efforts?
Selecione uma ou mais opções de resposta:
a. Scenarios and use cases
b. Business rules analysis
c. Organization modeling
d. Functional decomposition

Answer 8

b. Business rules analysis

Question 9

Which elements should you focus on when analyzing the impacts of a new solution on a particular stakeholder group?
Selecione uma ou mais opções de resposta:
a. Functions, locations, tasks, and concerns
b. Necessity, effort, locations, and business value
c. Culture, operations, functions, and technology
d. Activities, tasks, concerns, and deliverables

Answer 9

a. Functions, locations, tasks, and concerns

Question 10

You and your team are currently completing your enterprise analysis work for a proposed project. You are evaluating issues with the current solution. Which task are you performing?
Selecione uma ou mais opções de resposta:
a. Define business case
b. Assess capability gaps
c. Determine solution approach
d. Define solution scope

Answer 10

b. Assess capability gaps

Question 11

Which business analysis stakeholder role is often filled by knowledgeable end users or indirect users of a new solution?
Selecione uma ou mais opções de resposta:
a. Domain SME
b. End user
c. Business analyst
d. Implementation SME

Answer 11

a. Domain SME

Question 12

Which factors guide your selection of elicitation techniques?
Selecione uma ou mais opções de resposta:
a. Deliverables, planned activities, and resource constraints
b. Requirement type, project approach, and corporate culture
c. Corporate culture, analyst skills, and sponsor preferences
d. Business domain, corporate culture, and analyst skills

Answer 12

d. Business domain, corporate culture, and analyst skills

Question 13

Which Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring knowledge area deliverable is an implicit input to all other knowledge area tasks?
Selecione uma ou mais opções de resposta:
a. Business analysis process assets
b. Business analysis approach
c. Business analysis plan
d. Requirements management plan

Answer 13

c. Business analysis plan

Question 14

Requirements should be expressed in the form of __________ criteria to make them most useful when assessing proposed solutions.
Selecione uma ou mais opções de resposta:
a. Quantitative
b. Functional
c. Acceptance
d. Qualitative

Answer 14

c. Acceptance

Question 15

What is the name for a conceptual view of all or part of an enterprise focusing on products, deliverables, and events that are important to the mission of the organization?
Selecione uma ou mais opções de resposta:
a. Analytical system view
b. Business architecture
c. Business management system
d. Business domain model

Answer 15

d. Business domain model

Question 16

Consider the following scenario: Hattie is preparing to elicit requirements for a new inventory management system. Previously, the inventory management capabilities in the organization have been outsourced, but this project will bring the application and the process in-house.

As part of her preparations for requirements elicitation, which types of resources should Hattie be scheduling?
Selecione uma ou mais opções de resposta:
a. Business, user, and customer
b. Strategic, tactical, and operational
c. People, facilities, and equipment
d. Materials, team, and stakeholders

Answer 16

c. People, facilities, and equipment

Question 17

Consider the following scenario: Hattie is preparing to elicit requirements for a new inventory management system. Previously, the inventory management capabilities in the organization have been outsourced, but this project will bring the application and the process in-house.

Hattie is explaining to the project sponsor that she will need to conduct interviews prior to sending surveys to 500 key users of the system worldwide. Her justification for doing these pre-survey interviews should state that she needs to:
Selecione uma ou mais opções de resposta:
a. Have more ideas and data for her survey questions.
b. Build relationship with her key project stakeholders.
c. Interview her stakeholders anyway so why not now.
d. Define very detailed questions as part of her survey.

Answer 17

a. Have more ideas and data for her survey questions

Question 18

Consider the following scenario: Hattie is preparing to elicit requirements for a new inventory management system. Previously, the inventory management capabilities in the organization have been outsourced, but this project will bring the application and the process in-house.

Hattie has sent out her initial surveys and received responses back from less than 10 percent of her key stakeholders and end users. She is very disappointed in this response rate. What should Hattie do to resolve this issue on future surveys?
Selecione uma ou mais opções de resposta:
a. Use the data she received to draft the requirements.
b. Offer an incentive to raise the survey response rate.
c. Ask the project sponsor to tell stakeholders to respond.
d. Contact the stakeholders and ask them to respond.

Answer 18

b. Offer an incentive to raise the survey response rate.

Question 19

Consider the following scenario: Hattie is preparing to elicit requirements for a new inventory management system. Previously, the inventory management capabilities in the organization have been outsourced, but this project will bring the application and the process in-house.

Hattie offers an incentive with her next stakeholder survey for the inventory project. Although her response rate is up, she notices that many questions are left unanswered or answered incompletely or inappropriately. What step should Hattie take to remedy this situation?
Selecione uma ou mais opções de resposta:
a. Schedule follow-on interviews for response clarification.
b. Ignore the missing and incomplete responses and move on.
c. Offer an additional incentive for accurate responses.
d. Review her questions and possibly rewrite some of them.

Answer 19

d. Review her questions and possibly rewrite some of them.

Question 20

A requirements presentation may be ________ or __________.
Selecione uma ou mais opções de resposta:
a. Passive, active
b. Verbal, nonverbal
c. Formal, informal
d. Sender, receiver

Answer 20

c. Formal, informal

Question 21

Which of the following is NOT part of the written communications attributes possessed by effective business analysts?
Selecione uma ou mais opções de resposta:
a. Clear understanding of audience, purpose, and form
b. Broad vocabulary and strong communication skills
c. Strong grasp of grammar, diction, and style
d. Understanding of idioms, synonyms, and terms

Answer 21

a. Clear understanding of audience, purpose, and form

Question 22

Storyboards portray the navigation paths across the interface components, including abstractions of each screen along with directional arrows that indicate the allowable navigation flows. Which of the following is NOT a synonym for storyboard?
Selecione uma ou mais opções de resposta:
a. Navigation flow
b. Prototype
c. Dialog hierarchy
d. Dialog map

Answer 22

b. Prototype

Question 23

“Increase high-revenue customers” is BEST described as a ____________.
Selecione uma ou mais opções de resposta:
a. Strategic goal
b. Business objective
c. Business goal
d. Business requirement

Answer 23

c. Business goal

Question 24

You begin defining the business need by looking at the current state of an existing software system. What is your approach to generating the business need?
Selecione uma ou mais opções de resposta:
a. From external drivers
b. From the bottom up
c. From the top down
d. From middle management

Answer 24

b. From the bottom up

Question 25

You are refining your evaluation of a project’s feasibility. What is the LEAST desirable knowledge area that might trigger this work?
Selecione uma ou mais opções de resposta:
a. Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring
b. Requirements Analysis
c. Solution Assessment and Validation
d. Requirements Management and Communication

Answer 25

c. Solution Assessment and Validation

Question 26

Tracing requirements can be done at what levels?
Selecione uma ou mais opções de resposta:
a. Individual requirement, model/package, or feature
b. Strategic, solution, or solution component
c. Business, stakeholder, or solution requirement
d. Business need, goals, or requirements

Answer 26

a. Individual requirement, model/package, or feature

Question 27

You are visually depicting the relationship of stakeholders to the solution and to one another. Which technique BEST depicts this information for you?
Selecione uma ou mais opções de resposta:
a. Stakeholder map
b. RACI matrix
c. Organization modeling
d. Process Modeling

Answer 27

a. Stakeholder map

Question 28

Where would you document your understanding of the organization’s current capabilities and the new capabilities required to meet a business need?
Selecione uma ou mais opções de resposta:
a. Solution scope
b. Project approach
c. Solution approach
d. Required capabilities

Answer 28

d. Required capabilities

Question 29

You have decided to apply a graphical method to depict support and opposition to the organizational changes associated with implementing a new solution. Which technique are you applying?
Selecione uma ou mais opções de resposta:
a. SWOT analysis
b. Force field analysis
c. Decision analysis
d. Risk analysis

Answer 29

b. Force field analysis

Question 30

The rules an organization chooses to enforce as a matter of policy that guide the actions of people working in the business are referred to as ______________.They are intended to guide the actions of people working within the business. They may oblige people to take certain actions prevent people from taking actions, or prescribe the conditions under which an action may be taken.
Selecione uma ou mais opções de resposta:
a. Business rules
b. Enterprise rules
c. Business policies
d. Operative rules

Answer 30

d. Operative rules

Question 31

The business analysis plan is NOT used as an input to which task?
Selecione uma ou mais opções de resposta:
a. Plan requirements management process
b. Plan business analysis communication
c. Manage business analysis performance
d. Plan business analysis approach

Answer 31

b. Plan business analysis communication

Question 32

Peter is conducting stakeholder analysis for a new project. What is his first step?
Selecione uma ou mais opções de resposta:
a. Categorizing stakeholders
b. Assigning stakeholder roles
c. Identifying stakeholders
d. Analyzing stakeholders

Answer 32

c. Identifying stakeholders

Question 33

Your initial risk assessment focuses on solution feasibility risks and should be revisited throughout the project. What three areas of risk should this initial assessment consider?
Selecione uma ou mais opções de resposta:
a. Technical, financial, and business
b. Strategic, tactical, and operational
c. People, process, and organizational
d. Solution, component, and interface

Answer 33

a. Technical, financial, and business

Question 34

_________ requirements are specified and modeled.
Selecione uma ou mais opções de resposta:
a. Prioritized
b. Analyzed
c. Validated
d. Approved

Answer 34

b. Analyzed

Question 35

When assessing whether your stakeholders see any value in determining what their requirements are, you are focusing on the stakeholder’s attitude toward ___________.
Selecione uma ou mais opções de resposta:
a. Business goals
b. Business analysis
c. Collaboration
d. Team members

Answer 35

b. Business analysis

Question 36

You are determining the underlying source of a business problem in order to derive the correct business need. What are the two common methods you might apply?
Selecione uma ou mais opções de resposta:
a. You are determining the underlying source of a business problem in order to derive the correct business need. What are the two common methods you might apply?
b. Focus groups and feasibility studies
c. Fishbone diagram and the five whys
d. Fishbone diagrams and feasibility studies

Answer 36

c. Fishbone diagram and the five whys

Question 37

Fishbone diagrams and feasibility studies
Selecione uma ou mais opções de resposta:
a. Skills
b. Resources
c. Inputs
d. Domains

Answer 37

c. Inputs

Question 38

Which type of constraint might create a situation where a requirement cannot be met using the current solution approach?
Selecione uma ou mais opções de resposta:
a. Strategic
b. Business
c. Technical
d. Operational

Answer 38

c. Technical

Question 39

To relate test cases to the specific requirements defining the capabilities being tested, a business analyst should use what technique?
Selecione uma ou mais opções de resposta:
a. Testing procedures
b. Traceability list
c. Test case matrix
d. Traceability matrix

Answer 39

d. Traceability matrix

Question 40

You are using quantitative metrics to evaluate the performance of a solution six months into its operational use. As you look at the performance data, you find that you are concerned about whether or not the data is actually measuring the solution performance you intended to measure.Which factor are you questioning?
Selecione uma ou mais opções de resposta:
a. Timeliness
b. Reliability
c. Validity
d. Accuracy

Answer 40

c. Validity

Question 41

Consider the following scenario: Peggy has just completed a major section of the solution requirements for her current project. She has scheduled a working session to review and discuss these completed requirements. Peggy is concerned about planning and conducting an effective requirements review with her group of key stakeholders. The stakeholders involved with these particular requirements do not always get along well with one another, and their meeting behavior in the past has been quite unpleasant.Which of the following is NOT a prerequisite for Peggy’s working session?
Selecione uma ou mais opções de resposta:
a. Walkthrough purpose communicated
b. A complete requirements package
c. Appropriate reviewers identified
d. Meeting vehicle decided upon

Answer 41

a. Walkthrough purpose communicated

Question 42

Refer to the scenario in Question 41. Peggy has enlisted a more senior business analyst from another project to facilitate this working session. Bob is known for his ability to keep participants focused on the document that is being discussed. What is another key skill required from Bob in this meeting?
Selecione uma ou mais opções de resposta:
a. Ability to take meeting notes and revise the document later
b. Ability to answer questions on the requirements document
c. Ability to organize and schedule the requirements review
d. Ability to ensure everyone participates in the review

Answer 42

d. Ability to ensure everyone participates in the review

Question 43

Refer to the scenario in Question 41. Peggy has also asked Bob to review the document prior to the meeting and provide feedback on its adherence to the corporate requirements documentation standards. What role is Bob playing when he performs this work?
Selecione uma ou mais opções de resposta:
a. Scribe
b. Moderator
c. Peer
d. Reviewer

Answer 43

c. Peer

Question 44

Refer to the scenario in Question 41. Peggy was worried about the outcome of her working session if her contentious stakeholders could not come to agreement and accept the contents of the requirements package. Bob told her to be sure to set strong rules for the session and share them with her stakeholders ahead of time. His recommendations did NOT include telling Peggy that:
Selecione uma ou mais opções de resposta:
a. Supervisors and managers may not need to attend.
b. Reviewers comment on the document, not the author.
c. Participants must review the document ahead of time.
d. The sponsor can override any session decisions.

Answer 44

d. The sponsor can override any session decisions

Question 45

You are about six months into a new work assignment. Your supervisor noticed that you prefer to jump in to try the tasks yourself. If you get into trouble, you might read the company Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs). You could be described as which type of learner?
Selecione uma ou mais opções de resposta:
a. Auditory
b. Kinesthetic
c. Visual
d. Multitasking

Answer 45

b. Kinesthetic

Question 46

In response to a problem identified by system users, you are currently defining steps to be taken to add new manual processes to an operational solution. Which term best describes what you are defining?
Selecione uma ou mais opções de resposta:
a. Mitigating action
b. Identified defect
c. Solution option
d. Preventive action

Answer 46

a. Mitigating action

Question 47

What term defines a set of requirements or features that have been identified as candidates for potential implementation, prioritized, and estimated?
Selecione uma ou mais opções de resposta:
a. Release list
b. Components
c. Product backlog
d. User stories

Answer 47

c. Product backlog

Question 48

Once you have prioritized the requirements, what will those priorities help you to determine?
Selecione uma ou mais opções de resposta:
a. The requirements you think are most important
b. The requirements that need further analysis
c. The requirements that should be omitted
d. The requirements that are out of scope

Answer 48

b. The requirements that need further analysis

Question 49

You want to make certain that the system programmer understands the customer’s expectations for upgraded system capabilities. You write a brief statement providing the minimum information necessary to allow the programmer to estimate the work required to implement this solution. What did you just produce?
Selecione uma ou mais opções de resposta:
a. Use case
b. Scenario
c. Class diagram
d. User story

Answer 49

d. User story

Question 50

There are many notations in use to depict process models, such as flowcharts or activity diagrams. You have been asked to create a process model to facilitate decision-making with your project’s governance team. The team will look at suggested improvements to increase productivity in the organization. You create detailed process models to illustrate both the current and suggested future states. Which notational elements would not be found in your process model, regardless of the modeling approach you selected?
Selecione uma ou mais opções de resposta:
a. Swimlanes
b. Pools
c. Terminal points
d. Dive points

Answer 50

d. Dive points