EMT Practice Test

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Question1: Which of the following statements is TRUE?

Question2: When analysing stakeholders, it is useful to produce a stakeholder analysis grid. What is depicted on the axes of this grid?

Question3: Every night, at midnight, a system automatically raises invoices for customers that have placed orders that day.
The invoice is sent electronically by email to customers. What is the event that triggers the production of invoices?

Question4: Which of the following statements about business activity models (BAM) is correct?

Question5: The table below shows the costs and savings associated with a project. In which of the following years does the project break even?

Question6: A process model has been produced which includes diamond-shaped symbols. What does this diamond-shaped symbol represent in the model?

Question7: Which ONE model is used for planning the training the support that people need as they adapt to change?

Question8: A batch program runs every night to raise invoices. The next day these invoices are posted out to customers by a clerk. Customers pay the invoices with cheques. The cheques are then banked by a clerk. In this scenario, which of the following represents a business event?

Question9: The term CATWOE provides a framework for defining and analysing business perspectives. In a project, which letter of CATWOE should be first understood by the business analyst?

Question10: Which of the following statements is TRUE?

Question11: A requirement has been identified as beneficial. It will be included in the system if it does not take too long to deliver or cost too much. How would this requirement be prioritised in the MoSCoW classification?

Question12: What do the arrow headed lines between activities represent on a business activity model?

Question13: Business Analysis competencies are divided into three groups. Which of the following are the groups of competencies for a Business Analyst?
a. IT skills.
b. Behavioural skills and personal qualities.
c. Techniques.
d. Project Management Support.
e. Business Knowledge.

Question14: One of Porter's five forces explicitly considers industry competitors. Which of the following is the Key Focus' of this force?

Question15: As part of an investigation a Business Analyst has devised a form for users of an existing system to use to keep track of the tasks they undertake during their working day. Which of the following describes this investigation technique?

Question16: Different reactions may be observed when a change to working methods is proposed. These reactions include:
a. Enthusiasm for the change.
b. Fear of the change.
c. Reduced performance on the job.
d. Reluctant acceptance of the change.
Which of the following represents the typical sequence of these four reactions?

Question17: In which of the following circumstances do buyers have high bargaining power?

Question18: Style guides, manuals and job descriptions are examples of what type of knowledge?

Question19: The change curve shows the range of emotions experienced by people when facing change. One of the axes on the graph is Time; what is the other axis?

Question20: A system holds information about an employee; Mike Berry. Which of the following is Mike Berry an example of?

Question21: An analyst has discovered that a company wishes to hold information about departments and employees. A department may have many employees in it, but each employee can, at any one time, only work in one department. There is no requirement to store historical information. However, there are currently eight departments and over one hundred employees. How would this relationship be shown on an Entity Relationship diagram?

Question22: What does the M stand for in MoSCoW?

Question23: In a particular organisation it is common practice to call all managers by their first name. It is part of the culture of the organisation. Newcomers are quickly corrected if they do not follow this informal approach.
What would knowing about this convention be classified as in Requirements Engineering?

Question24: In which of the following circumstances is supplier power high?

Question25: Which of the following investigation techniques is the MOST time consuming?

Question26: Who should be defined as the owner of a risk?

Question27: Which of the following may be used as a basis for scripting acceptance tests?

Question28: When undertaking business system modelling how many Business Activity Models' (BAM's) are initially produced?

Question29: Which of the following terms may be used to describe the attitude of a stakeholder who is NOT in favour of the project but is probably not actively opposed to it?

Question30: Cars, trucks and motorbikes are all types of vehicle. What structure could be used on a class model to model this?

Question31: An entity type is a template for its entity occurrences. Which of the following is a template for objects?

Question32: When are workshops especially valuable?

Question33: Which of the following statements about change and change management is correct?

Question34: Which of the following statements is true?

Question35: Which of the following models might include the documentation of scenarios?

Question36: Which of the following is NOT one of the perspectives considered by the 'Balanced Business Scorecard'?

Question37: A business analyst wishes to show that a company wants to store information about different types of product.
Some attributes are common to every product (for example; product name) but other attributes only apply to certain product types. For example, product material only applies to accessory products. Which of the following constructs could the business analyst use to represent this on a class model?

Question38: Why should requirements be SMART?

Question39: Which of the following approaches is the variation of the Waterfall lifecycle that shows explicitly the link between the analysis stages and the testing stages?

Question40: What type of model is a 'Business Activity Model' (BAM)?

Question41: Which of the following techniques can be used to pull together the results of an analysis of the external and internal business environment of an organisation?

Question42: Which of the following would you describe about each stakeholder?

Question43: Which of the following diagrams helps the business analyst to document a range of issues that have been uncovered about a business situation?

Question44: An analyst is defining the requirements for an online booking system and wishes to show the business managers the look and feel of the system in order to elicit usability requirements. What investigation technique should the analyst use?

Question45: Which of the following lists includes only activities that are defined as support activities in the value chain?

Question46: An analyst investigating a sales system wishes to ask questions about how a customer order form is completed in the current system. What investigation technique is the analyst using?

Question47: Which stage of Isaksen and Treffinger's creative problem-solving model is concerned with analysing the opinions and concerns to identify how information can be quantified?

Question48: What stage immediately precedes testing in the waterfall lifecycle?

Question49: An organisation called Quality Signs' makes display signs for commercial customers. Which of the following are MOST likely to be the Actors in a CATWOE analysis?

Question50: The following requirement has been identified; The system must be able to record customer payments'. What type of requirement is this?