CBAP Practice Exam Questions and Answers

Which of the following involves defining the various threats, determining the extent of vulnerabilities, and devising countermeasures against a possible attack?

Which of the following defines the deliverable the customer is expecting?

Mark is the business analyst for his organization. Mark and his business analysis team have used the whiteboard to record the documentation as the result of requirements elicitation.

What must be done with this information if Mark uses a whiteboard?

In a software implementation project, the designated business analyst (BA) has conducted all the elicitation activities and now needs to confirm the elicitation results.

What is used by the BA Professional to guide which sources of information and which results are to be compared?

What type of a business analysis approach focuses on the rapid delivery of business value in short iterations?

A corporation is experiencing poor financial performance and needs to change many aspects of its business strategy in coder to become solvent again. A business analyst (BA) is conducting a feasibility analysis and analyzing resources required. The BA has identified the existing resources, the resources that need to be increased, and the required additional capabilities. What is the other dimension this analysis should indicate?

You are the business analyst for your organization and are planning the business analysis approach. One of the techniques you are considering for this undertaking is to rate the available methodologies against the organizational needs and objectives.

Which of the following terms describes the business analysis technique that you are currently considering in this scenario?

Robert is the business analyst for his organization and he's working with several stakeholders to identify the business need for an opportunity. Robert needs to identify the stakeholder that will be responsible for authorizing the actions needed in order to meet the identified business need.

Which stakeholder does Robert need to identify?

You are the business analyst for your organization. You are working with several IT professionals to determine all of the connected systems in your organization. You are creating a mapping of the servers, workstations, printers, and other connected devices and their purposes for an analysis of how information is input, processed, stored, and output from each system.

What business analysis process are you completing?

A national branch of a global company is struggling to improve business processes of its Public and Government Affairs (PGA) department. To work with external stakeholders effectively, PGA employees need to collect, manage, and exchange a vast amount of information. Complex cases involve collaboration of many employees from different departments. The ability to share information and to coordinate corresponding activities is crucial for the company's growth plans. Their current tools and practices do not serve the purpose well. The existing system, which was deployed a couple of years ago, has only a few active users. The majority of PGA employees avoid using it because the system is hard to use and lacks needed functionality. Consequently, available information is mostly unstructured and stored either locally or on a shared network drive. Some of the information exists only in a paper form.

The branch's PGA head, who sponsors the project, wants to implement a configurable solution that two other branches successfully deployed several months ago. Both deployments were done by three solution consultants, who will be available to assist in the project. They will be responsible for tailoring the solution to PGA needs, as well as for training the PGA staff. With their help, the sponsor plans to complete the project in approximately three months.

The solution consultants reside in another country 7 hours ahead of the rest of the project team. They will be available part-time, but are planning two one-week long trips to the PGA central office to conduct initial training and to participate in the final deployment of the system into production. The consultants, in turn, expect a business analyst (BA) to assist in collecting necessary data and defining customization requirements.

A BA suggests interviewing employees to elicit user requirements and then performing a gap analysis to identify solution customization requirements. However, the sponsor believes that it will be a waste of time because the employees do not know how the process should work in the future. The sponsor expects the solution to help shape their process and wants to start with the solution as is, amending it as necessary based on the user feedback.

What should the BA do?

The table illustrate the statement of cash flower for a courier company for the last fiscal year:

Due to aggressive market competition the management of the company performed a strategy review and based on their0-findings and the current market conditions, they came up with strategic and tactical changes in order to keep a competitive market position.

In order to strength customer retention strategies through a new competitive advantage, the company is considering implementing a live parcel tracking system. The added value will be that the customers may determine the exact location on of the parcel whether it is in a warehouse, crossing the ocean through an overseas the exact location of th parcel whether it is in a warehouse, crossing the ocean through an overseas the ship, or travelling in a delivery truck at any time. The system tracks the location of the parcel by tracking the vehicle in which it is contained. However, for a group of old delivery trucks, it was noticed that the engine sound and vibration disturbed the tracking signal and caused of management would like to sell these vehicles and replace them with newer ones, the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) was strongly against that approach. The CFO argoad that instead of hanging tracking devices on the trucks body they can have the truck drivers manually send the truck send the truck location from a hand held mobile device every 20 minutes.

What could the business analyst (BA) do to gain consensus between the CFO and other Management?

Which of the following are directed conversations for gathering ideas, opinions about a product, service, problem, or opportunity?

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?

What two factors must the business analyst consider when conducting stakeholder analysis?

You are currently working on creating the activity list for an initiative in your organization.

What characteristic must be assigned to each task in your task list?

What business analysis process ensures that requirements specifications and models meet the necessary standard of quality to allow them to be used effectively to guide further work?

Which of the following roles works with the project team to understand the deliverables and then teaches the users of the deliverables how to utilize the project's product?

A very large insurer of General Liability and Property Damage insurance has an upward trend of increased claims over the past 5 years.

The Risk Control Area for that company has just completed a 12 month Pilot of a new improved Risk Control Site.

The purpose of the site is to help their customers manage their exposures and ideally prevent them from having claims There were 100 customers that were part of the Pilot that represented 25 different industries. The business goals were to increase use of the site and provide tools to help customer awareness of their exposures, so that they may reduce existing exposures and ultimately reduce claims.

The sites Features were as follows:

* Improvements to the search engine to all customers to search for articles, tools and services on the site

* A checklist function that allow customer to create their own unique Checklists or utilize a sample provided by ABC company to use daily, weekly etc for an area of their facility.

* A promotion feature - where Risk preventing Articles, and tools on the site are marketed toward a customer.

* A profile section allowing for Customer Name, Address and contact Phone number.

Alter the 12 month pilot the business sponsor received an assessment of what was working and what was not. The Assessment of the pilot revealed overall site activity had significantly increased, however only 5% of the time the promotions were viewed. And the most shocking was that total claims increased by nearly 20% for these 100 customers during the pilot period. The business sponsor was perplexed as he had an expectation of reduced claims and at least for 30% viewing of promotions since the project team had spent a lot of careful time and effort on this feature. A BA was assigned to do further analysis regarding the low use of the promotions and why claims were not being reduced.

Regarding the use of promotions the BA looked into other similar companies to see what they did differently to get their customer to look at their promotions. The BA found that similar companies had promotions that targeted the industry the customer was in so it was more relevant to them and they were more interested to view the promotion. In addition the BA sent out a survey to all 100 pilot customers asking probing questions about what they thought of the site and if they felt it had decreased their exposure to risk sufficiently. The Survey responses came back with raving positive comments and providing examples of how the site had been helping in the reduction of claims from the customer's perspective. In addition the survey also revealed insight that the customers found the promotion often irrelevant to their industry.

The BA asked for a dump of all documentation of the 1000 claims that were filed over the 12 month pilot period. The BA found the nearly 90% of the claim filed were all in one region of the country and were all for property damage related to several severe winter storms in the region and the claims were nearly all unavoidable by the customers. The BA brought all this analysis back to the business sponsor and made the recommendation to the business sponsor to require the customer to select 1 of 25 industries in their profile. This would in turn allow for the ability to show industry specific promotions and promote search results relative to a customer's industry to be sorted at the top giving the customer a more personalized experience.

What technique led the BA to the source of the increase in claims?

An automobile manufacturer is undertaking a project intended to modify or replace the company's current timekeeping system. Negative employee reaction to change follows as word of the proposed solution spreads throughout the company. What could a business analyst (BA) do to prevent or reduce employee discontent?

Wanda is the business analyst for her organization and she is currently working on the specify and model requirements process. One of the elements of this process is the documentation of the textual requirements.

Wanda must describe the capabilities of the solution, any conditions that must exist for the requirements to operate, and what third component of the textual requirement?

You are preparing the business case for a proposed solution in your organization. You need to identify several components for the business case including an assessment of the risks the solution may contain.

Which one of the following is the best definition of a risk as it pertains to the business case?

A business analyst (BA) plans to hold a workshop next week to elicit requirements for a project. In an informal conversation, another employee mentioned that one of the attendees is likely to be unhappy about the project's impact on their work.

Which of the following techniques will the BA use to avoid disrupting the workshop?

The business sponsor of a project to automate a high risk, high profile process has expressed concerns that some activities people perform will be missed. The business analyst (BA) has already created a process flow with associated user stories.

Which of the following actions will address the sponsor’s concerns?

Company A is a nation-wide leader in commercial demolition. Having just celebrated its 100th year of operations, the company decided to begin doing work internationally. The current system used for reporting company finances is unable to keep pace with the potential demands of doing work in geographically dispersed locations. Therefore, the company decided to replace its client-based Profit & Loss (P&L) reporting system with a more robust, web-based system. This will ensure transparency across the organization and enable better decision making.

The business analyst (BA) at Company A has recently completed several rounds of elicitation to determine the requirements for the new, web-based system. Over 1250 requirements were elicited. An initial Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) has been drafted, and a subset of the RTM can be seen below:

The BA is working on identifying additional improvement opportunities based on these requirements. Which of the following improvement opportunities is reflected in Requirement ID NFP0002?

Which one of the following is an example of a non-negotiable demand by a stakeholder during the requirements prioritization session?

Which of the following processes is used by organizations to set the risk tolerance, identify the potential risks, and prioritize the tolerance for risk?

You are the business analyst for your organization and are training Tracy on business analysis duties. You are explaining to Tracy how it's important for a business analyst to generate new ideas to approaching problems, solving problems, and to generate alternative solutions. You stress that it's important for the business analyst to generate new ideas and innovative concepts.

What type of analytical thinking are you describing for Tracy?

You are the business analyst for the NHQ Organization. Management has asked that you examine the workflow and internal processes for order fulfillment. Specifically, they'd like you to complete an in-depth analysis and documentation of the business problems and opportunities that may be exist for the organization.

What business analysis knowledge area does this activity map to?

Which one of the following diagrams visualize the result of the root cause analysis study?

You are the business analyst for your organization. For the past several months you have been completing the business analysis duties for the solution stakeholders. You now have, you believe, the solution requirements

identified and documented.

What must you now do with the requirements before proceeding?

You are the business analyst for your organization. You are currently identifying opportunities for a customer to improve their business processes. The customer wants to streamline their business efforts either through new technologies, better processes, or a combination of both. The customer demands, however, that the solution should not cost more than $300,000 to implement and support for one year.

What does the $300,000 represent?

You are the business analyst for your organization. You are coaching Tom about the different approaches to business analysis.

Which type of business analysis approach has the most business analysis work at the beginning of the project or during the start of a project phase?

You are the business analyst for your organization and are working on a solution that will connect several databases to a web application. You are concerned that the databases may not be operable with the software solution a programmer is recommending.

What requirements elicitation technique can help you determine the interoperability of the software, the databases, and the web application?

Sally is the business analyst for her organization. Sally and her business analysis team is currently using a business analysis approach to determine what the competition of her organization is offering prospective clients. She is trying to identify solutions to increase revenue by remaining competitive with the competition.

What business analysis approach is Sally and her business analysis team using?

You are creating the solution scope for an identified problem in your organization. You are working with several stakeholders during this process including the domain subject matter expert, the implementation subject matter expert, the project manager, and the sponsor.

Which of these stakeholders will be responsible for writing the project scope?

A business analyst (BA) conducts a process analysis on the business analysis practices that were used on the previous major implementation. From this the BA identifies and documents that there are three improvement areas which would make the business analysis process more efficient In which business analysis artifact does the BA document these measures of improvement for the next piece of analysis work?

A business analyst (BA) has been given a defect during user acceptance testing. After analyzing the defect, the BA determines it is a change in the requirement.

What does the BA need to do to assess the change?

It's often impossible or difficult to prove that the implementation of a solution will change the current state of an organization to the desired future state. The business analyst must document the characteristics and risk of

the implementation of a solution in case the belief that the solution will achieve the desired results will prove invalid.

What is the belief that the solution will create the desired effect for the organization called?

Herb is the business analyst for the HYY Organization. As Herb is completing the organize requirements process he recognizes that requirements typically need to answer one QUESTION NO: for identification.

What is the one interrogative that requirements should answer?

Which of the following is a method of displaying the timelines of all the various subtasks that are involved in any project?

A non-profit utility company has 900 employees, a majority of whom are hourly employees and must track their time using a paper based process. A few years ago, the Director of Human Resources purchased a software system to eliminate the current paper-based time reporting process. No requirements specific to the utility company were defined prior to the purchase. A team was formed to implement the software During implementation process, the team discovered the software lacked functionality and was not robust enough to support the general ledger requirements The company stopped the effort and incurred a $500,000 USD loss on the cost of the software.

This year, the Director of Finance requested that a team investigate the current paper based time reporting process and recommend solutions. The Director of Finance feels that the Director of Human Resources must be involved as a critical stakeholder. The Director of Human Resources is still bitter about the last effort because the process stopped'.

Which of the following is included in performing a stakeholder analysis?

Which of the following is responsible for preparing the business architecture, feasibility studies, and business cases?

The business analyst (BA) is facilitating a requirements workshop with a large group of diverse stakeholders, some of whom are not entirely familiar with the goals and objectives of the project.

The BA must understand the business domain, corporate culture, group dynamics, and expected outputs to adequately communicate the:

You are the business analyst for a large project for your organization. Your project has 65 stakeholders and this will greatly increase the complexity of the communication in this project. To demonstrate how complex this project and its communication will be, you show the management the number of communication channels in this project.

How many channels exist in this project based on the number of stakeholders?

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Martha is observing Gary complete several activities as part of her requirements elicitation process. Martha is simply observing the steps Gary takes to complete his work and she is taking notes. In this instance Martha does not ask Gary any questions.

What type of observation technique is Martha completing?

What is the purpose of the business case?

You are the business analyst for your organization. Management realizes that a proposed solution has risks that may cause the entire project to fail. They would like you to prioritize the requirements with maximum risks first so that if the project fails, there is little loss of capital in the project implementation.

What requirements prioritization approach is management asking you to create in this instance?

A utility company found mat its current billing system charges customers 'or tie r usage, but does so incorrectly when the system estimates reads on meters rather than performs actual reads. Company stakeholders would i*e to improve this aspect of the system but are hesitant to make changes because they are otherwise pleased with the system A business analyst (BA) has completed a current state diagram and would like to start discussions on what the future state may look like. What information can the BA determine by having a current slate diagram?

A company is in the middle of a large-scale project. Safety concerns have been brought up by several stakeholders, and this has led to numerous proposed changes. The business analyst (BA) must now assess the impact that making these changes will have on the project. When assessing the impact of safety concerns, which of the following should be considered?

Your organization is trying to determine which one of two opportunities they will pursue. The Project A is worth

$235,987 and Project B is worth $567,000 but carries significant risk. The organization elects to purse Project B and not Project

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A very large insurer of General Liability and Property Damage insurance has an upward trend of increased claims over the past 5 years.

The Risk Control Area for that company has just completed a 12 month Pilot of a new improved Risk Control Site.

The purpose of the site is to help their customers manage their exposures and ideally prevent them from having claims There were 100 customers that were part of the Pilot that represented 25 different industries. The business goals were to increase use of the site and provide tools to help customer awareness of their exposures, so that they may reduce existing exposures and ultimately reduce claims.

The sites Features were as follows:

* Improvements to the search engine to all customers to search for articles, tools and services on the site

* A checklist function that allow customer to create their own unique Checklists or utilize a sample provided by ABC company to use daily, weekly etc for an area of their facility.

* A promotion feature - where Risk preventing Articles, and tools on the site are marketed toward a customer.

* A profile section allowing for Customer Name, Address and contact Phone number.

Alter the 12 month pilot the business sponsor received an assessment of what was working and what was not. The Assessment of the pilot revealed overall site activity had significantly increased, however only 5% of the time the promotions were viewed. And the most shocking was that total claims increased by nearly 20% for these 100 customers during the pilot period. The business sponsor was perplexed as he had an expectation of reduced claims and at least for 30% viewing of promotions since the project team had spent a lot of careful time and effort on this feature. A BA was assigned to do further analysis regarding the low use of the promotions and why claims were not being reduced.

Regarding the use of promotions the BA looked into other similar companies to see what they did differently to get their customer to look at their promotions. The BA found that similar companies had promotions that targeted the industry the customer was in so it was more relevant to them and they were more interested to view the promotion. In addition the BA sent out a survey to all 100 pilot customers asking probing questions about what they thought of the site and if they felt it had decreased their exposure to risk sufficiently. The Survey responses came back with raving positive comments and providing examples of how the site had been helping in the reduction of claims from the customer's perspective. In addition the survey also revealed insight that the customers found the promotion often irrelevant to their industry.

The BA asked for a dump of all documentation of the 1000 claims that were filed over the 12 month pilot period. The BA found the nearly 90% of the claim filed were all in one region of the country and were all for property damage related to several severe winter storms in the region and the claims were nearly all unavoidable by the customers. The BA brought all this analysis back to the business sponsor and made the recommendation to the business sponsor to require the customer to select 1 of 25 industries in their profile. This would in turn allow for the ability to show industry specific promotions and promote search results relative to a customer's industry to be sorted at the top giving the customer a more personalized experience.

What was the business sponsor looking to validate about the use of promotions?

The business analyst (BA) is preparing to determine the impact of various risks associated with the business analysis effort currently underway.

Which of the following would the BA use as an input into the assessment of risk?

A business analyst (BA) is working on a payment system (PS) implementation. A set of systems which should interact with a new system has been identified. The business analyst defined that a user with role of "Supervisor" in the PS must pass a two-factor authentication before an execution of the functions: "Change system parameters" and "Set up new supervisor." A user must have the role of "Supervisor" to use the standard functions "Send mail notification" or "Send SMS notification".

The BA defined the following use cases:

•"Change system parameters"

•"Setup new supervisor"

•"Send mail notification"

•"Send SMS notification"

•"Send notification"

•"Pass a two-factor authentication"

The BA wants to create a Use Case diagram.

Which technique should be used to define a communications protocol between the PS and other systems?

A company with a big information technology (lT) department has hired a lead business analyst (BA) to enhance its business analysis practices The lead BA discovers that sponsors are not satisfied with project outcomes. Developers complain about incomplete, ambiguous, and changing requirements. All stakeholders including project managers, are blaming long cycles of analysis for the delays The business analysts, in turn feel overwhelmed with the number of projects and frustrated by the lack of collaboration from reviewers of their deliverables All of the evidence is anecdotal and none of the groups could strongly substantiate their opinions.

What should the lead BA implement to identify areas of improvement?

The business analyst (BA) is not having great success scheduling stakeholder meetings. Stakeholders say they are too busy or there are higher priority meetings on their calendars. The BA is concerned, knowing that stakeholder availability, attitude, and willingness to engage will impact the timeliness of project delivery as well as the.

You are the business analyst for your organization and you are preparing to elicit the requirements for a new business opportunity.

Which one of the following statements best describes the prepare for elicitation process?

In a requirements management effort the business analyst (BA) has reviewed all the requirements and has completed assessing the various impacts of changes to some of the requirements. The BA is planning to share the impact of the changes to an the stakeholders and obtain a consensus in resolution of some of the changes. Which technique will help the Ba obtain a resolution on the impact of the requirement changes?

You are the business analyst for your organization and preparing to complete the requirements elicitation activities. Your manager wants to know when the requirements elicitation process will be completed.

Which of the following responses best describes the nature of the requirements elicitation process?

Which of the following is a table of all stakeholders showing the mapping of which stakeholders will contribute information to other stakeholders?

A popular department store chain wants to make computer upgrades as well as conduct a major remodeling effort to increase revenue to all their 100 stores over the next 2 years. The remodeling will occur in two phases. The two phases are required at each store and can be completed in any order, but each phase must be fully completed before the next phase can begin. Phase 1 will take approximately 32 weeks and will not require a store to be temporarily closed. Phase 2 will take approximately 20 weeks and will require a store to be temporarily closed.

In order to keep inventory level and total revenue for the department store chain at an operational level, 75% of the stores must remain open to the public at all times. Against the board of director's advice, the Chief

Executive Officer (CEO) made a decision to start and complete the top 25 revenue-producing stores in the first year to get those stores remodeled and fully operational.

A business analyst (BA) has been brought in to help with planning the project and gathering requirements. What tool will help the BA understand the changes needed to keep the majority of the stores open?

A business analyst (BA) has engaged various groups from across the organization to define the business opportunity a potential project will address. The BA must consolidate the information collected from the groups.

The BA should ensure the business needs.

Your organization is using a plan-driven approach to business analysis.

What must you do with all of the communication documents created as part of this high-priority project that you are serving as the business analyst for?

What business analysis plan defines the process to be followed in managing the solution scope and requirements?

Which of the following processes includes tasks and roles, risk categories, schedules for risk management activities, definitions of probability and impact, and the stakeholders' tolerances?

What requirements elicitation involves carefully selected stakeholders and subject matter experts for a short, intensive period (usually for one to a few days) to define and document the requirements for a solution?

The business analysis approach generally defines all of the following attributes except for which one?

A financial institution engaged in mortgage lending has embarked on a business process improvement initiative to eliminate the activities that hinder growth to ultimately improve the success rate of its mortgage business. As a benchmark for identification, the institution is keen on improving any business process that has less than a 75% success rate. The institution has appointed a business analyst (BA) to review the business transactions for the processes of origination, payments, and closures, as well as identify opportunities for improvements and recommend solutions.

The BA has collected the following information over the last three months pertaining to these business processes:

•All the business processes are at their maximum capacity in terms of the current number of transactions.

•Each business process has a certain number of rejects and the reasons for rejection include documentation, verification, collateral, and funding. Funding rejects occur when the bank's customers have failed to make payment of their mortgage processing fee or mortgage closure payment.

The BA has also recommended the use of documentation checklists as a solution to eliminate the documentation rejects.

Assuming the BA's recommendation to be true, what will be the new success rate of the mortgage closure process?

Management comes to you and asks you to complete some specifications and models about the current state of the organization. Management wants you to complete this business analysis activity as soon as possible and report back to them with your findings.

What is the primary purpose of the specify and model requirements process?

You are the business analyst for the NGQ Company. Management is concerned that their company is not able to meet an identified business need with their current existing structure, people, processes and technology. They've asked you to complete an analysis of their organization's ability to meet the identified business need.

What business analysis process are you completing for your organization?

You are working with several business analysts to determine the solution approach for an identified problem.

All of the following techniques are acceptable for identifying the solution approach except for which one?

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:

You are completing enterprise analysis. Management has asked you to create a document that will help them create a go/no go decision to invest and more forward with a proposed project.

What document does management want you to create?

Which of the following describes the actual users who interact with one another, a system, or data moved between two users?

Your organization uses the MoSCoW approach to requirements prioritization.

What does MoSCoW mean?