Certified-Business-Analyst Practice Questions

Northern Trail Outfitters has a large Salesforce org with sales, marketing, and billing teams pushing for the development of a large number of items in the backlog.

Which management process should the business analyst suggest to help the teams align on their competing priorities?

As part of the digital transformation at Cloud Kicks, company leaders have decided to adopt Service Cloud as its CRM platform for customer service and support. Executive directors are supportive of the initiative, but end users are unconvinced and prefer to remain on the current platform.

What should the business analyst do to gain the end users' cooperation?

The delivery team at Cloud Kicks has Just conducted a successful sprint demo showcasing a new sales dashboard. However, the marketing team Is unhappy because the new lead automation they requested was missing from the deliverables and an Important new marketing campaign is starting the next day.

What did the business analyst fall to do during sprint planning'?

The business analyst (BA) is preparing for the initial requirements gathering workshops with Cloud Kicks on a new Sales Cloud project. The BA has identified the stakeholders, reviewed the project scope, and scheduled each workshop.

Which key steps should the BA take next?

During a Service Cloud implementation at Cloud Kicks, the business analyst (BA) reviewed the user acceptance testing and identified results that conflict with the functionality that was requested, While the testing was error-free, business stakeholders indicted that values in reports and the layout of screens were unexpected.

What should the BA do next?

At the start of a new Agile development project, the Universal Containers' product owner asked the business analyst (BA) to clearly define the intended results of the work based on stakeholder needs. The development and implementation teams will use the intended results to plan product decisions. The definition should avoid assumptions and focus on stakeholder value.

Which element should the BA choose to define the intended results?

Universal Containers (UC) has several teams working on a new application in Salesforce. Unfortunately, during the release process, it was discovered that the teams had overwritten each other’s changes.

What should JC use to prevent this from happening in the future?

The sales team at Universal Containers (UC) has been using multiple tools to track opportunities, leading to inaccurate forecasting and an unclear picture of UC's sales pipeline. UC has appointed a project team to implement Sales Cloud to help resolve these issues. TTie sales team doubts the new tool will meet their needs and is concerned it will be difficult to use. The business analyst (BA) assigned to the project knows the stakes are high to get the right solution in place.

Using their influence, what should the BA do to gain the necessary buy-in and support from the sales team to ensure a solution meets the requirements?

Northern Trail Outfitter is eliciting feedback from a small number of key stakeholders within the organization for improvements to the current opportunity pipeline process. One of the stakeholders has a tendency to dominate the conversation which takes the group off topic and interfaces with meeting the objective.

How should the business analyst collaborate with the key stakeholder's?

Cloud Kicks is preparing for User Acceptance testing (UAT) related to an upcoming major release.

To which environment should a business analyst recommend that users log in to complete their assigned testing?