CBAP Practice Questions

A business analyst (BA) is working on improving solution performance and increasing value. The BA discovers that a set of interfaces and activities do not contribute to the final product either directly or indirectly What should the BA recommend?

When determining the success criteria for an initiative a business analyst (BA) engages end users in order to understand what they would define is an effective solution. What two types of data will the end men need to perform the evaluation?

A business analyst (BA) asks participants in a workshop to write down their ideas about the feature being built on sticky notes place them on the wan and then group the ideas into similar themes. The BA is using, this technique to:

A business analyst (BA) is compiling a communication plan by reviewing stakeholders and identifying the needs of the stakeholders. The BA organizes the stakeholders based on their needs and decides that all communication Mil be handled through e-mail so that information can be disseminated quickly and easily while maintaining a record. What has the BA missed in the stakeholder analysts?

A business analyst (BA) is capturing the requirements for an application which displays information on a mobile device. The information will be extracted from a database owned by another department within the organization. Which of the following will identify the stakeholder who can approve access to the database?

A business analyst (BA) has just finished verifying requirements for a new application that impacts various business processes for product setup, sales, and support. Which of the following methods should be used to validate the requirements with key stakeholders?

A large insurance company wants to buy a new claims processing system or upgrade one of its two existing system. Each year the claims department is given a $3.5 million budget to spend. Time is of the essence since there are tome regulatory charges that will be coming the following year that will require several features that currently neither one of the two claims System currently support.

There are eight stakeholders involved in this initiative. There are local to where the claim system are managed, while five are located across the country. The business analyst (BA) struggled to get all stakeholders to agree on the desired features but ultimately got agreement on ten identified key features for the new claims system. The BA was able to build a current state and future state process model which included all ten key features.

System a process 75% of the company's claims. It is 5 years old and the claim processors love it because it is easy to use. However, it must go offline for two hours each day. The code is very module so it does have flexibility to be modified. To upgrade system A to have all ten features it would cost $5 million. System A would be at capacity if it were to process all of the company's claims.

System B process 25% of the company's claims. It is an older mainframe system, but rarely goes offline. It could easily handle double the number of claims that system A processes. However, it has a lot of legacy code and would cost $6 million to upgrade.

Both systems have some of the desired key features. But neither system has all ten. The cost to buy a new system would be $7 million.

Below is the estimated cost for each feature in priority order.

If System A is unanimously selected to be the system for upgrade but the technical lead says that System A will have to be taken offline for 3 months, what kind of strategy should the project team develop while system A is offline?

A business analyst (BA) is tasked with developing a business analysis plan and must decide the best approach to use. Which of the following factors would drive the decision towards an adaptive approach?

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?

After the implementation of a new financial solution the business analyst (BA) observes that the performance of a solution does not meet the anticipated benefits detailed in the original business case. What is a technique the BA can use to understand the reason for that?