CBAP Practice Questions

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:

While reviewing the data feeds on a project the business analyst (BA) realizes there is a feed that contains complex relationships. In order to help understand the data and accurately reflect a set of requirements the BA decides to prioritize the requirements. What modeling format could the BA use?

A bank moves currency from the mam office to the tranches daily for operational use. To avoid paying overnight interest, the branch** return the currency at the end of the business day. The Bank requires a new inventory management system to account for the whereabouts of the cash at all times A software provider has proposed a heavily customized version of their standard inventory management software. As the project progresses, the business analyst (BA) identifies a number of subtleties that would suggest a fully made to order solution may be a better option for the bank. What inputs does the BA need to perform the analysis?

An insurance company wants to implement a business intelligence solution to consolidate data from various different internal system to provide a better understanding of their customer base.

A business analysis (BA) is engaged to put together a tender (bid) to be sent to various business intelligence providers and implementation partners. Among other information the business analysis requests the following:

* Licensing costs for year 0 based on needing 1 Central processing Unit (CPU) license

* Licensing costs for specific user types such as Report Creators Online Analytical Process (OLAO) user and Power users

* Predicted licensing costs for renewing in Years 1 and 2

* Full implementation costs

After reviewing the received vendor responses the project team shortlists the candidates to 3 and the BA structures the received information as follows:

The Insurance company has a maximum bucket of $310,000 for the entire to implementation and operation over the first three years. Which vendor or vendors meet that criterion?

Which of the following defines how the project will be estimated, budgeted, and how changes to cost will be managed?

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?

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.

An organization implements a solution to increase the efficiency of its internal processes. The business analyst (BA) felt that the success of the solution is tied to the organizational structure and confirmed that the solution conforms to the organizational hierarchy. After the solution rolled out, the solution was not widely adopted among stakeholders and some features were not being utilized.

Which aspect of the organizational structure did the BA fail to consider?

A major manufacturer of popular beverages has appointed a local distributor to serve a specific territory. The demand for the beverages has a pronounced seasonal pattern. The distributor performs well overall, but is repeatedly unable to keep up with fulfilling many customer orders during peak demand periods. The distributor's current delivery capability is stretched to deliver 60 tons of merchandise per day whereas the season's peak demand periods need a daily delivery capability of up to 100 tons.

The distributor is under pressure to fully meet the year-round market demand in order to stay in business. The distributor's management wants to identify and consider more cost-effective options as resorting to adding more trucks and drivers would not be economically feasible.

A business analyst (BA) has spent several days observing and measuring the warehouse activities to understand the situation and to gain insights into possible solutions. The delivery workflow is a four-step process: (1) picking the orders and assembling them on trays, (2) bringing the trays to the loading bay, (3) loading the orders into trucks, and (4) delivering the orders to customers. As the following table illustrates, overall performance depends is dependent on five major resources: (1) the workers who pick the orders and load them into trucks, (2) the tallyers who check the orders, (3) the drivers, (4) the trucks, and (5) eight loading bays (LBs).

Each truck can only make two trips a day. The BA has noticed that only 30% of trips have their orders available for loading when a truck arrives. Otherwise the truck has to wait one extra hour until the orders are picked and brought to the loading bay.

If trucks are the only constraint, approximately how many hours are lost due to this downtime?

The performance of a newly implemented document management system is falling significantly short of the measures defined as part of the project. However, the business is recognizing some level of value from the system. The business analyst (BA) considers the only option available to the company to increase performance and determines that the cost of implementing the option is ten times higher than the expected benefits. What should the BA recommend?