Certified-Business-Analyst Practice Questions

Universal Containers is about to kick off a new Salesforce implementation, bringing both sales and service teams onto the platform. Each team has been managing Accounts and Contacts in their own way even though the Accounts and Contacts are shared between the teams. This has resulted in disagreements about what should be built in Salesforce.

Which groups should the business analyst work with to gain full alignment on a common program vision and strategy?

A business analyst (BA) is working on a request from a sales leader at Universal Containers. The sales leader has noticed the quality of information on new leads has declined recently. After completing their initial research, the BA concludes that the Salesforce lead intake form needs to be updated to include only essential information. Since several sales teams use the intake form, the BA must get alignment from all of the groups.

How does whiteboarding help the BA collaborate with multiple stakeholders?

The VP of sales at Cloud Kicks wants to streamline the lead qualification process to improve the team’s productivity and help them reach their target goals. A business analyst (BA) has been assigned to the project to identify the disconnect between the sales and marketing teams’ definitions of a qualified lead.

What should the BA focus on?

Cloud Kicks wants to assess the efficiency of its Sales Cloud solution to eliminate unnecessary steps and cut costs. A business analyst (BA) will give a presentation to executives to help them understand the current state and define the future state.

Which document should the BA use for the presentation?

Which of the salesforce app providers will be able to unlock a locked user with their phones?

Cloud Kicks needs to revamp its support process to improve the customer experience and has asked the Service Cloud team to collaborate with the business analyst (BA). The BA has scheduled an initial live process mapping session with all stakeholders and received the following calendar responses:

What should the BA do?

The business analyst (BA) on the Salesforce development team at Northern Trail Outfitters is leading a requirements elicitation workshop about the process for onboarding new wholesale partners. While whiteboarding the process, one stakeholder continuously interrupts and points out inefficiencies with invoicing and delivery processes.

What should the BA do to prevent the session from being derailed?

Cloud Kicks is planning to create a new Service Cloud console app for its services team to resolve issues with delayed shipments to customers. The business analyst (BA) wrote the user stories based on a written list of requirements provided by the manager of the services team. Upon stakeholder review with the entire services team, many of the user stories were rejected and the BA had to revise them.

When the BA wrote the initial user stories, what was the likely cause of the issue?

The business analysis (BA) at Northern Trail Outfitters is assigned to a project to help revamp its Experience Cloud implementation.

When assessing the existing process, which type of diagram should the BA use to identify waste within and between processes?

The business analyst at Universal Containers is helping the team transition from workflow rules to flows. The work has been built and it is time to kick off user acceptance testing (UAT).

What is the goal of UAT?