EMT Practice Test

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Question1: 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?

Question2: In a business activity model, which of the following type of activities respond to deviations between actual and planned performance?

Question3: Who should be defined as the owner of a risk?

Question4: Which stage in the waterfall model is considered as several separate stages in the V model?

Question5: Which of the following BEST describes an ethnographic study?

Question6: What is the final stage of the waterfall systems devebpment lifecycle?

Question7: A convenience food manufacturer has undertaken a strategic analysis study and has identified a threat from groups lobbying against the use of packaging for food products.
Which of the PESTLE categories would have helped highlight this threat?

Question8: Which of the following would be an appropriate name for a use case that allows a project manager to allocate resources to a project?

Question9: A well formed requirement is said to comply with which of the following acronyms?

Question10: A company provides a help desk facility to support users of their computer software.
How would the provision of this facility be classified on their value chain?

Question11: What are subsequent changes subject to once a requirements document has been signed off?

Question12: 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?

Question13: What occurs at handoffs when two actors do not synchronise their work?

Question14: When should benefits realisation be carried out?

Question15: It is unclear to a project sponsor why a particular requirement has been included in a recently released version of a system.
Which of the following will allow him to identify who originally asked for the requirement?

Question16: One of the claimed advantages of buying a software package is that it is possible to predict future maintenance costs with some certainty.
How would these costs be classified in a cost-benefit analysis?

Question17: 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?

Question18: On a class diagram, what do the multiplicities represent?

Question19: Which of the following is likely to be an input into the Analysing the Needs' stage of the business analysis process model?

Question20: Which of the following represents the total cash flows of an investment, over a period of time, adjusted to reflect the time value of money?

Question21: Which of the following techniques is used to focus solely on the external influences on an organisation?

Question22: 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?

Question23: Which of the following options only includes workshop discovery techniques?

Question24: Every night at midnight a batch process is invoked to invoice all orders received that day.
How will the time midnight be represented on a use case diagram?

Question25: In which of the following business analysis areas does the traditional systems analyst role primarily operate?

Question26: Which of the following is a primary activity in the value chain?

Question27: Which of the following requirements elicitation techniques is ineffective at defining the future requirements of a system?

Question28: 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?

Question29: A software house is developing a software package specifically for hotel management. A business analyst has been employed because of her familiarity with the hotel industry.
Which of the following competencies has she been employed to bring to the project?

Question30: The following is a list of statements about stakeholders and stakeholder management.
a. A customer can be considered as a stakeholder in a project.
b. A supplier can be considered as a stakeholder in a project.
c. Stakeholders' positions do not remain static during the life of the project.
d. Communication must not be tailored to each stakeholder in the project.
Which of the following is correct?

Question31: Which of the following actions could sustain business change?

Question32: It is claimed that a new system will bring improved job satisfaction to employees.
How should this improved job satisfaction be classified?

Question33: What stage of the V model provides the test criteria for user acceptance testing?

Question34: Which of the following may be used as a basis for scripting acceptance tests?

Question35: Which of the following is explicitly considered as a force in Porter's five forces model?

Question36: Which of the following models shows the driving and resisting forces of change?

Question37: The required competencies of a business analyst are classified into three categories.
Which of the following is one of these three categories?

Question38: Which of the following BEST describes the cause of a bottleneck in a business process?

Question39: Business analysis bridges the gap between which two disciplines?

Question40: What stage immediately precedes testing in the waterfall lifecycle?

Question41: As part of an investigation, a business analyst has asked a business user to keep track of the actual tasks they carry out over a period of time.
What is this investigation technique called?

Question42: Business rules define how actions are to be performed. Under which of the following headings are business rules considered?

Question43: Which of the following stages is immediately after problem-finding in Isaksen and Treffinger's creative problem-solving model?

Question44: An analyst has asked a user to describe each step in a task as they perform it.
Which of the following investigation techniques is the analyst using?

Question45: 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?

Question46: Which of the following are steps in the Isaksen and Treffinger's creative problem solving model?
a. Mess Finding.
b. Data Modelling.
c. Process Finding.
d. Problem Finding.
e. Solution Finding.
a. Mess Finding.

Question47: Description, impact assessment, probability and countermeasures are usually recorded for which of the following?

Question48: 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?

Question49: Which of the following BEST describes the term value proposition?

Question50: In which of the following categories would return on investment be considered when assessing the feasibility of a project?

Question51: Which of the following may be used to document the outcomes of a workshop?

Question52: Which of the following is considered by the Boston Box?

Question53: 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?

Question54: What does the O' stand for in the CATVVOE analysis?

Question55: A process model has been produced which includes diamond-shaped symbols.
What does this diamond-shaped symbol represent in the model?

Question56: Which of the following models might include the documentation of scenarios?

Question57: When running workshops it is useful to have someone with a role that includes specific responsibility for keeping attendees focused on achieving the objective of the workshop.
Which of the following terms describes this role?