EMT Practice Test

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Question1: 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?

Question2: Which of the following models shows the driving and resisting forces of change?

Question3: In a business activity model, which of the following type of activities respond to deviations between actual and planned performance?

Question4: An airline wishes to assess the punctuality of its flights. What type of business activity would do this?

Question5: Which of the following investigation techniques involves following a user for one or two days in order to find out what a particular job entails?

Question6: Which of the following statements is TRUE?

Question7: What is the MoSCoW principle used for?

Question8: It is claimed that a new system will bring improved job satisfaction to employees. How should this improved job satisfaction be classified?

Question9: 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.

Question10: 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?

Question11: The following requirement has been identified; The system must be able to record customer payments.
What type of requirement is this?

Question12: Which of the following is an input to the 'Investigate the Situation' stage of the business analysis process model?

Question13: 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.

Question14: Which ONE model is used for planning the training the support that people need as they adapt to change?

Question15: The term 'happy day' is often used in the context of which of the following investigation techniques?

Question16: 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?

Question17: The V model is an example of which of the following?

Question18: What occurs at handoffs when two actors do not synchronize their work?

Question19: Which stage of the Requirements Engineering process is concerned with tracking requirements from inception to implementation?

Question20: Style guides, manuals and job descriptions are examples of what type of knowledge?

Question21: When undertaking business system modelling how many Business Activity Models' (BAM's) are initially produced?

Question22: 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?

Question23: Business analysis bridges the gap between which two disciplines?

Question24: How would usability and performance requirements be classified?

Question25: What stage of the V model provides the test criteria for user acceptance testing?

Question26: 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?

Question27: What do the arrow headed lines between activities represent on a business activity model?

Question28: Which of the following types of activity help identify the KPI's of an organization?

Question29: One of the stages of the Business Activity Process Model is 'Consider the perspectives'. Which of the following would be particularly relevant in this stage?

Question30: Which of the following stages is immediately after problem-finding in lsaksen and Treffinger's creative problem-solving model?

Question31: Which category of activities should be identified first when developing a 'Business Activity Model' (BAM)?

Question32: 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?

Question33: 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 organization?

Question34: 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?

Question35: Which of the following requirements elicitation techniques is ineffective at defining the future requirements of a system?

Question36: When are workshops especially valuable?

Question37: 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?

Question38: A system must hold the price of every product sold by the company. Which of the following is the price likely to be?

Question39: Which of the following is a primary activity in the value chain?

Question40: Which of the following is a primary activity in the value chain?

Question41: Which of the following is NOT one of the perspectives considered by the 'Balanced Business Scorecard'?

Question42: In which of the following circumstances do buyers have high bargaining power?

Question43: Which of the following is a perceived advantage of using workshops to investigate requirements?

Question44: Who is the target of the value proposition?

Question45: A project reporting system stores information about Employees. How would an Employee be represented in an entity-relationship diagram?

Question46: Cars, trucks and motorbikes are all types of vehicle. What structure could be used on a class model to model this?

Question47: When undertaking a CATWOE' analysis, which sequence should the first four letters be considered in?

Question48: 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?

Question49: "The system should allow a user to enter customer details and select appropriate customers for a mailshot". What is wrong with this requirement?

Question50: A business analyst has identified that one of the use cases on a use case diagram contains a large amount of optional processing. This optional processing is so large that he has decided to remove it to a separate use case which can be called by the original use case if required. How should the original use case be linked to the new use case?

Question51: What stage immediately precedes testing in the waterfall lifecycle?

Question52: Which investigation technique is supported by use case' descriptions?

Question53: Which of the following describes the objectives in a MOST analysis?

Question54: Which of the following investigation techniques is MOST appropriate for collecting quantitative information?

Question55: Which of the following techniques is used to focus solely on the external influences on an organization?

Question56: Which of the following statements is TRUE?

Question57: 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?

Question58: What is stage 0 (zero) of the concerns-based adoption model?

Question59: Which of the following is NOT an example of a generic stakeholder group?

Question60: Which of the following models might include the documentation of scenarios?

Question61: One of Porter's five forces explicitly considers industry competitors. Which of the following is the Key Focus' of this force?

Question62: The table below shows the costs and savings associated with a project. In which of the following years does the project break even?

Question63: Which of the following statements about outsourcing of systems development is correct?

Question64: The entity relationship model below shows the relationship between Product and Order. Which of the following business rules is correct and is reflected in the diagram?

Question65: A system holds information about an employee; Mike Berry. Which of the following is Mike Berry an example of?

Question66: There is a requirement for an employee to enter time worked details into a computerised project reporting system. lf this requirement was drawn on a use case diagram, which of the following would be correct?

Question67: Which of the following BEST describes an ethnographic study?

Question68: Who should be defined as the owner of a risk?

Question69: A process model has been produced which includes diamond-shaped symbols. What does this diamond- shaped symbol represent in the model?

Question70: The Internal Rate of Return has been calculated for an option in a Business Case. Which ONE of the following statements is true?

Question71: The Boston Box may be used to analyse the portfolio of businesses owned by an organization. Which of the following animals does it use in its term for businesses that have low market share in a market with low growth?

Question72: Which of the following may be used to document the outcomes of a workshop?

Question73: What type of model is a 'Business Activity Model' (BAM)?

Question74: Which of the following describes a 'rich picture'?

Question75: In which stage of the requirements engineering process are requirements checked to see whether they are well formed and SMART?

Question76: 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?

Question77: Which of the following investigation techniques is the MOST time consuming?

Question78: An analyst investigating a finance system wishes to build rapport with individual stakeholders and investigate in detail each stakeholder's views. Which of the following techniques should the analyst use?

Question79: A stakeholder in a project has been classified as having no interest but high power/influence on the power/ interest grid. Which of the following would be an appropriate way of managing this stakeholder?

Question80: An organization called Quality Signs' makes display signs for commercial customers. Which of the following are MOST likely to be the Actors in a CATWOE analysis?

Question81: Which of the following is an example of 'Individual Tacit Knowledge'?