CCBA Practice Questions

The Chief Information Officer (CIO) of a large financial services firm with many technology applications was formally reviewing all ongoing projects and noticed that the requirements were complex and difficult to follow. The CIO asks the business analyst (6A) what would improve the stakeholder's ability to understand the requirements. Which of the following will improve the requirements quality?

A business analyst (BA) is examining the relationships between elicited requirements on a project. What quality criteria must be satisfied when the BA is defining requirements relationships?

A business analyst (BA) is proposing design options and a number of opportunities are occurring that need to be understood further. One particular opportunity will prevent different stakeholders from performing the same function in distinctly different ways. What type of opportunity is this?

Stakeholders must be able to determine the audit and approval history of requirements and designs. Which of the following provides a means to document traceability and change?

System designers are working with a business analyst (BA) during the initial stages of a project to implement a new transaction-based system. The system designers would like to have a visual that illustrates the type of information that will be input in the system, the processes it will support, and the location where it will be stored. What type of diagram meets the designers' needs?

Stakeholder requirements were approved for a business process reengineering initiative along with the creation of a roadmap.

Due to market conditions, the product roadmap is modified to move the default process to the next iteration. What should the business analyst (BA) modify in the stakeholder requirements?

Requirement attribute values

Requirement description

Requirement performance measures

A business analyst (BA) is preparing for elicitation activities and needs to determine who should be consulted, who should participate, and what roles each should fill. Which elicitation technique should the BA use?

An organization's board of directors has funded a new mobile application to support external customers. The business case was developed with emphasis on objectives to broaden the organization's brand and increase customer engagement. The business analyst (BA) is reviewing a group of user stories with the product owner. One of these user stories is: "As a customer service representative, I need to enter my time on the mobile application so that I can leave work to pick up my sick daughter from school". The product owner wants to take advantage of this opportunity to provide the staff a way to enter their time away from the office and create an interface to the Payroll application. How must the BA evaluate alignment with the existing scope?

A business analyst (BA) is developing requirements for a project with a limited budget. The business owner will be prioritizing requirements so that low value requirements can be de-scoped and the project remain within budget. Which of the following should the BA take into account to facilitate prioritization and ensure business objectives are met?

A new regulation results in organizations needing to change online contractual wording. A business analyst (BA) has elicited the requirements and documented them in a change control request Where will the BA find out which stakeholder has the authority to approve, deny, or defer the change request?

A business analyst (BA) elicits requirements from end users for a new application, and then completes a set of use cases and use case scenarios. What should the BA do next?

After an initial project kick-off meeting, the business analyst (BA) determined that the project has a short deadline and a regulatory mandate with stiff penalties for non-compliance. The stakeholders do not want to risk missing the deadline, and management is willing to commit any amount of resources to meet the deadline. Which kind of approach is suitable for the initiative?

A project team needs to maintain the traceability of requirements for a software system. Due to the large number of requirements, which of the following methods should the team use?

A stakeholder has requested an extremely detailed resolution to an issue during current state analysis that may consume about 20% of the estimated project effort. How should the business analyst (BA) handle the situation?

A Chief Information Officer (CIO) was discussing a solution approach for a technology project in a meeting where a business analyst (BA) was also present. Stakeholders were discussing advantages and disadvantages of each solution approach. What should be the top priority for the BA in assessing the solution approach?