PMI-PBA Practice Exam Questions and Answers

The business analyst is planning an approach to formally manage updates to requirements that may be requested by stakeholders. What should the business analyst do?

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

A business analyst is ready lo begin requirements elicitation; however, stakeholders are not available to participate for another two weeks. Which elicitation technique should the business analyst use during

this time?

The requirements traceability matrix should primarily be used to:

The human resources, engineering, and marketing departments have provided feedback on the business needs for a new product. After analyzing the feedback from the three departments, it would be best to:

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?

A new project is in the planning phase. The business owner believes that, since the timeline is aggressive, requirements elicitation should begin as soon as possible. Which activity should the business analyst initiate before beginning requirements elicitation?

Prior to the design phase, the project team needs to conduct a requirements review with the customer. To prepare for the review, it would be best for the team to:

Through user acceptance testing, a software flaw was identified. What should the business analyst do next as part of the root cause analysis in order to analyze and resolve the discrepancy?

A business analyst from Company A has been assigned a project to document and identify requirements for a new commercial software implementation. The first step is to break down the business analysis deliverables into activities and tasks. Then, the business analyst will add an estimate of the time needed to complete the work.

Which type of estimation technique is the business analyst using?

Requirements elicitation for a project is occurring. The marketing, acquisition, and production departments want to include specific requirements. The CEO has a requirement to deploy in three months.

Which of the following actions will have a greater influence on the project success?

Which function involves auditing both the quality requirements to resolve discrepancies and the results of quality control measurements to ensure that appropriate quality standards and operational definitions are being used?

A major stakeholder of a project is surprised to learn that a particular requirement was not implemented during the latest launch. The business analyst tells the stakeholder that the requirement status was changed to "deferred."

What could have prevented the stakeholder from being surpnsed about the status change?

In order to reduce product and project risk for a large, complex project, a business analyst is asked to help develop a change process that includes formal authorization and tracking throughout the life cycle

of the project. The business analyst needs a capability that will help ensure that the product conforms to approved requirements, changes can be documented, and the status of each change can be reported.

What should the business analyst use?

Company A would like to enter into a new market. The business analyst has been assigned lo a project for which nobody in Company A has any prior experience. The project manager has asked the business analyst to assist in resource planning.

What should the business analyst recommend to the project manager?

A business analyst has captured all of the requirements from the various stakeholders within the organization and has compiled them into a complete list. After reviewing the list of requirements with the stakeholders, it is determined that the list of requirements is too large and will exceed the allotted budget.

Which tool or technique should the business analyst use with the stakeholders to prioritize the requirements to determine which requirements are approved, deferred, or rejected?

A business analyst created requirements for production of a product extract file for several systems. After reviewing the complex systems and dividing the processes into manageable tasks, the business

analyst is able to identify the tasks required to implement the deliverable.

Which analysis technique has the business analyst used?

The project team is working on test scripts to test a solution. Which source can be used for building tests of end-to-end business processes across business functions and systems?

A project team delivers a solution based on the approved requirements and is confident that it meets the defined acceptance criteria. What should the business analyst do to obtain signoff?

The software developers have delivered a completed solution. The quality assurance team has passed the solution. What should the business analyst do next?

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 system enhancement project has been initiated to address the concerns of an external group of stakeholders not included in the first release. What should be done to ensure stakeholder satisfaction with

the enhancement?

Which of the following is a method for requirements change control?

A company uses a prioritization range of 1-10. in which 10 represents the highest or best. According to the information from the table, which option should the business • analyst recommend?

A startup company sells organic vegetable and fruit smoothies. Management is tracking a rapid decrease in sales of their best-selling juice, so they contract a business analyst to identify solutions in order to increase sales by comparing similar products offered by competitors.

Which technique or tool should be used?

A business analyst is trying to determine which analysis technique will be best suited to elicit information from a large number of users in a short period of time. Which elicitation technique is best suited for this purpose?

Once a new project has been identified, the business analyst works with project team members to define what will be included in and excluded from the new system. Which of the following has the business analyst defined?

The project team has all the document control process and versioning in place to capture the requirements changes. The team ensures that the change is documented in the scope document, resulting in the changed work breakdown schedule (WBS) and schedule. However, a key requirement was not implemented in the release

Which is a possible reason why the requirement was not implemented?

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

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?