EMT Practice Test

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Question1: What business analysis element tries to identify as many potential options as possible to meet the business objectives and fill identified gaps in capabilities?

Question2: Which of the following statements best describes the purpose of the confirm elicitation results process?

Question3: Which of the following defines the deliverable the customer is expecting?

Question4: You are the business analyst for a solution that has 435 stakeholders. How many communication channels exist in this project?

Question5: Which one of the following is the most accurate definition of the solution scope?

Question6: What type of a business analysis approach focuses on the rapid delivery of business value in short iterations?

Question7: You are the business analyst for your organization. Management realizes that a proposed solution has risks that may cause the entire project to fail. They would like you to prioritize the requirements with maximum risks first so that if the project fails, there is little loss of capital in the project implementation.
What requirements prioritization approach is management asking you to create in this instance?

Question8: You are the business analyst for your organization and are planning the business analysis approach. One of the techniques you are considering for this undertaking is to rate the available methodologies against the organizational needs and objectives. Which of the following terms describes the business analysis technique that you are currently considering in this scenario?

Question9: Which of the following can be an effective tool during quality control to help determine the how the problem occurred?

Question10: You are the business analyst for your organization. Management has asked that in the business case you're creating that you also include the projected costs and benefits to be realized and how those and benefits will be assessed and evaluated. What term matches management's request?

Question11: You are the business analyst for your organization and have many solutions available to an identified problem. You would like a way to quickly and fairly determine which solution is the best choice for your organization. Which of the following approaches would allow you to determine the top-rated solutions for your organization?

Question12: You are the business analyst for the NGQ Company. Management is concerned that their company is not able to meet an identified business need with their current existing structure, people, processes and technology. They've asked you to complete an analysis of their organization's ability to meet the identified business need. What business analysis process are you completing for your organization?

Question13: You are creating the solution scope for a proposed solution in your organization. You need to understand the scope of work that needs to be completed. You elect to identify the solution scope and then break the solution scope into smaller work products or deliverables. What technique are you using in this instance?

Question14: You are the business analyst for your organization and are working on prioritizing the project requirements.
Management has asked you to prioritize the requirements based on the cost-benefit analysis for the requirements' value to the organization. What basis for prioritization are you using in this instance?

Question15: You are the business analyst for your organization. You are coaching Tom about the different approaches to business analysis. Which type of business analysis approach has the most business analysis work at the beginning of the project or during the start of a project phase?

Question16: Which of the following processes measures the maturity level of the security program?

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Question19: Holly is the business analyst for her organization. Management has asked Holly to create a document that will define solution alternatives and how each identified solution may provide an expected business benefit to meet the identified business need. Management has asked Holly to provide data and statistics in this document to support her claims and findings. What type of document is management asking Holly to create?

Question20: Which one of the following terms is not a business analysis planning and monitoring approach?

Question21: There are four inputs to writing the business case as part of enterprise analysis. Which one of the following is not an input to writing the business case process?

Question22: Ben is the business analyst for his organization. Ben is currently working on a solution to improve a laser printer. He has taken the laser printer apart, identified each component, and documented each component's purpose. What type of requirements organization is Ben doing in this scenario?

Question23: Zoe is the business analyst for her organization. She is currently prioritizing the requirements based on the implementation difficulty of the requirements to help with the solution planning.
Which of the following best describes the approach Zoe is taking with requirements prioritization?

Question24: You are the business analyst for your organization. Gary and Janet, two key stakeholders in the project, are in disagreement over a requirement for the type of software to be installed on the server your solution calls for. What must happen in this instance before formal approval can be offered?

Question25: Mark is the business analyst for his organization. He is working with the solution development team and he believes that the team does not want to implement a certain portion of the requirements. The team is expressing the difficulty of the requirements and how it will be extremely challenging to complete. When Mark asks about a similar project that the team completed, they insist that this is a different type of requirements though Mark believes that it is not. What is the solution development team appearing to do to the requirements?

Question26: You are the business analyst for your organization and are preparing for the conduct elicitation activities.
You'll have six inputs as you prepare for this activity. Which one of the following is not a valid input for the requirements elicitation activity?

Question27: Which of the following qualitative techniques involves a disciplined analysis of the event sequences that could transform a potential hazard into an accident?

Question28: You are the business analyst for your organization and are preparing for the conduct elicitation activity.
You'll need several stakeholders' roles as you prepare for this activity in your organization. Which one of the following stakeholders may be responsible to dictate that a specific process or technique be followed during your requirements elicitation activities?

Question29: You are creating the solution scope for an identified problem in your organization. You are working with several stakeholders during this process including the domain subject matter expert, the implementation subject matter expert, the project manager, and the sponsor. Which of these stakeholders will be responsible for writing the project scope?

Question30: You are the business analyst for your organization. Management has asked that you create a method to store the project requirements including those under development, under review, and the requirements which have been approved. What is management asking you to create?

Question31: You are the business analyst for your organization. You are currently identifying opportunities for a customer to improve their business processes. The customer wants to streamline their business efforts either through new technologies, better processes, or a combination of both. The customer demands, however, that the solution should not cost more than $300,000 to implement and support for one year.
What does the $300,000 represent?

Question32: You are the business analyst for your organization and are coaching Roberta on how business analysis works. Roberta is confused about what a business analysis methodology is during the business analysis planning and monitoring phase of the business analysis duties. What is a methodology?

Question33: In risk analysis, which of the following can be identified as a consequence of a disaster?

Question34: Jenni is the business analyst for the UHQ Organization. She is preparing to complete the conduct elicitation activity for her organization. Jenni can use all of the following techniques as part of this activity except for which one?

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Question36: Jane is the business analyst for her organization and she is completing passive observation to identify improvement opportunities in the workflow. She notices that some of the employees perform certain customer-facing activities in a different format than the other workers. Is this a problem that can be addressed as part of an improvement opportunity?

Question37: What requirements elicitation involves carefully selected stakeholders and subject matter experts for a short, intensive period (usually for one to a few days) to define and document the requirements for a solution?

Question38: Fred's organization is using a plan-driven approach for the business analysis deliverables. In this approach how will the requirements be captured?

Question39: Wanda is the business analyst for her organization and she is currently working on the specify and model requirements process. One of the elements of this process is the documentation of the textual requirements. Wanda must describe the capabilities of the solution, any conditions that must exist for the requirements to operate, and what third component of the textual requirement?

Question40: You are the business analyst for your organization and working with Tim to identify the assumptions within the business solution. Which one of the following is an assumption?

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Question42: Your organization is using a plan-driven approach to business analysis. What must you do with all of the communication documents created as part of this high-priority project that you are serving as the business analyst for?

Question43: You are the business analyst for your organization. As part of the requirements prioritization you have given each key stakeholder $10,000 in play money to distribute among the identified requirements. Each stakeholder can assign their play money to any of the requirements, but the requirements will be prioritized based on the value of the play money assigned to each requirement. What type of requirements prioritization is happening in this scenario?

Question44: Which of the following tasks does not rely on other activities, and no other activities rely on this task completing?

Question45: Which of the following are directed conversations for gathering ideas, opinions about a product, service, problem, or opportunity?

Question46: Which of the following communicates from the program-level perspective - a clear understanding and statement of the technical objectives and the end products, services, or results of the work to be performed?

Question47: Which of the following is NOT a component of an entity relationship diagram?

Question48: You are the business analyst for your organization. You have identified the costs and level of effort needed for each of the solution components. Management has asked that you also assess the most effective tradeoffs between delivery options. You consider the available resources and the constraints on the solution to determine if an additional investment is justified to realize a higher value for the solution. What other consideration could you include in your assessment of the solution?

Question49: Management would like you to front-load the requirements with the most risk requirements. Why would management prefer the risky requirements first in the prioritization?

Question50: You are the business analyst for your organization. You are currently writing the business goals and objectives as part of the elements for the define business process. Which one of the following statements best describes the business goals and objectives element?

Question51: You are the business analyst for your organization and are about to conduct requirements elicitation for a process to streamline the customer fulfillment system your organization uses. You need to understand how the people, processes, and technology within the customer fulfillment system operates before you begin the elicitation process. What type of analytical thinking are you participating in this scenario?

Question52: What element of the conduct elicitation activity is tracked to provide a basis for future planning?

Question53: You have identified a task in your task list that cannot be completed until the inspector for the project signs off on the initial deliverables. The inspector's signoff on the initial deliverables is called what?

Question54: Which of the following is a graphical representation of roles and responsibilities of different project team members?

Question55: Henry is the business analyst for the UUH Organization. Currently Henry is working on several work products as part of the requirements development process. He may need to share these work products with the stakeholders. Which of the following is not an example of a work product?

Question56: Nancy has asked you to trace a particular requirement for her. What does 'to trace a requirement' mean?

Question57: Which of the following models defines the name of the data, data aliases, and description of system data?

Question58: Which one of the following statements best describes requirements prioritization?

Question59: What business analysis process ensures that requirements specifications and models meet the necessary standard of quality to allow them to be used effectively to guide further work?

Question60: What is the term used to describe the cost of the solution after the solution has been implemented in production by a vendor?

Question61: Which of the following is described in the statement below?
"It shows the history and pattern of variation. It is a line graph that shows data points plotted in the order in which they occur. They show trends in a process over time, variation over time, or declines or improvements in a process over time. Trend analysis is performed using them."

Question62: Enterprise analysis creates just five outputs. Which one of the following is an output of the enterprise analysis tasks?

Question63: You are the business analyst for your organization and are coaching Roberta on how business analysis works. Roberta is confused about what a business analysis methodology is during the business analysis planning and monitoring phase of the business analysis duties. What is a methodology?

Question64: Which of the following document is created first after project is awarded and statement of work is handed over to the project manager?

Question65: Which of the following represents the duration of activities against a calendar?

Question66: Which of the following processes is used by organizations to set the risk tolerance, identify the potential risks, and prioritize the tolerance for risk?

Question67: Which of the following is a flowchart that shows all the processes and the interfaces that interact with the project processes?

Question68: Which of the following charts is important to ensure that the roles and responsibilities of those involved in a task are tracked?

Question69: Which of the following chart shows the correlation between project team members and the work they've been assigned to complete?

Question70: You are the business analyst for your organization. You are identifying new opportunities to improve upon your existing web services. Management is open to new opportunities as long as the changes do not take more than 60 days to implement. What type of a factor does the 60 day implementation represent?

Question71: Which of the following defines how the project scope should be created, executed, monitored and controlled, and then validated?

Question72: The ____, an output of the define scope process, does document the process and criteria for accepting completed products.

Question73: Which of the following requirement attributes lacks any ambiguous characteristics?

Question74: You are the business analyst for your organization and are to conduct stakeholder analysis. Which of the following statements best describes the conduct stakeholder analysis task?

Question75: When do change requests generally increase in a project?

Question76: You organization needs to adapt to the change economy, new technologies, and an increase in competition in order to survive. They've asked you to complete a business analysis approach that will help them change their organizational policies in order to achieve their goals and objectives.
What business analysis technique has this organization asked you to complete?

Question77: Which of the following is the comparison of planned project results with actual project results?

Question78: Nancy has asked you to trace a particular requirement for her. What does 'to trace a requirement' mean?

Question79: Which of the following is responsible for preparing the business architecture, feasibility studies, and business cases?

Question80: Which one of the following diagrams visualize the result of the root cause analysis study?

Question81: Holly's organization uses a plan-driven approach to business analysis. When it comes to communication in Holly's organization what type of communication will likely be required?

Question82: Which of the following involves defining the various threats, determining the extent of vulnerabilities, and devising countermeasures against a possible attack?

Question83: You have identified several stakeholders that you believe are kinesthetic learners. Which statement best describes the kinesthetic learning approach?

Question84: Which of the following is the formal acceptance of the project?

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Question86: You are the business analyst for your organization. You are currently working with Steve on the organize requirements process. You and Steve have elected to use the user stories approach for this process. What is the user stories approach for requirements organization?

Question87: Which of the following processes is must at the end of each project phase to determine the completeness of the project work and to gain the customer's acceptance to move the project forward?

Question88: Which of the following is a method of displaying the timelines of all the various subtasks that are involved in any project?

Question89: Which of the following process groups occurs at the beginning of the project?

Question90: You are the business analyst for a new project. Part of this project is for the project team to manually install new workstations through the company's campus. Based on your research you have determined that the project team can install 25 new workstations per hour. Since there is a fixed amount of time that these workstations need to be installed you are considering adding additional labor for the implementation. You are also considering to adjust the prioritization of the project requirements based on the amount of workstations the project team can install per hour.
What does the 25 workstations per hour represent in this scenario?

Question91: The RGQ Organization utilizes a change log. What is a change log?

Question92: Which of the following describes the actual users who interact with one another, a system, or data moved between two users?

Question93: You are currently working on creating the activity list for an initiative in your organization. What characteristic must be assigned to each task in your task list?

Question94: Which of the following meeting brings all of the potential vendors together to discuss the statement of work and the request for proposal?

Question95: Herb is the business analyst for the HYY Organization. As Herb is completing the organize requirements process he recognizes that requirements typically need to answer one question for identification. What is the one interrogative that requirements should answer?

Question96: Martha is observing Gary complete several activities as part of her requirements elicitation process. Martha is simply observing the steps Gary takes to complete his work and she is taking notes. In this instance Martha does not ask Gary any questions. What type of observation technique is Martha completing?

Question97: Which of the following meeting brings all of the potential vendors together to discuss the statement of work and the request for proposal?

Question98: The creative thinking process has three values to determine the effectiveness of the process.
Which one of the following is not a measurement of effective creative thinking?

Question99: Your organization is using a plan-driven approach to business analysis. What characteristic must be true of changes in the approach that your organization is using?

Question100: You and Tom are writing the solution scope for a new project in your organization. You need to create a method to define what solution will and will not provide for the organization. What technique can you and Tom use to establish appropriate boundaries for the solution?

Question101: You are creating a model that shows how data moves through a system. Each function that modifies the data in any manner is identified, decomposed to smaller levels, and the system is completely described from start to storage. What type of a modeling technique are you using in this scenario?

Question102: You are the business analyst for your organization and are preparing to complete the allocate requirements process. This process assigns stakeholder and solution requirements to solution components and to releases. One of the elements of this process is solution components. All of the following are solution components except for which one?

Question103: You are the business analyst for your organization and working with the stakeholders to prioritize the requirements. The stakeholders are concerned about the financial impact of the requirements should some of them fail during the implementation. You would like to rank the risk tolerance of the stakeholders based on their comments about the solution and the requirements. The following are the three categories of risk tolerance associated with the stakeholders except for which one?

Question104: What type of interview is the most common as part of requirements elicitation?

Question105: You are the business analyst for your organization and are working with Ralph who is also a business analyst at your company. You have moved one of the requirements higher in the prioritization of the requirements because it is needed to be implemented before some of the more important requirements are done. Ralph disagrees with your placement of the requirement because you are to rank the requirements based on their level of difficulty. Who is correct and why?

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Question107: Your organization completes software development for other companies as its core business.
Management would like to streamline the requirements gathering processes as many of the projects your company do are similar in nature. What approach could you as a business analyst do to help streamline the requirements gathering process for your organization?

Question108: You are the business analyst for your organization. You are preparing the business needs documentation for a new solution to an identified problem. Parts of your input for this process are the business goals and objectives set by your organization. What approach can you use to assess the business goal and their validity and longevity?

Question109: You are working with Tom, a key stakeholder, in your business analysis duties. Tom is asking you about the desired outcome for current business opportunity. Which one of the following is NOT an example of a desired outcome?

Question110: You are the business analyst for your organization and are coaching Roberta on how business analysis works. Roberta is confused about what a business analysis methodology is during the business analysis planning and monitoring phase of the business analysis duties. What is a methodology?

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Question112: You are the business analyst for your organization. Management has asked you to create a plan that will define the proposed structure and schedule for communicating the business analysis activities to the appropriate stakeholders. What plan does management want you to create?

Question113: Ned is the business analyst for the NHQ Company. He is working with Stan on completing the requirements prioritization of all the identified requirements. Why would Stan and Ned complete requirements prioritization?

Question114: Holly is the business analyst for her organization. Holly encourages teamwork and open communications among the business analysis team and the stakeholders. She wants stakeholders to drop by her office and freely discuss the requirements, the solution scope, and other concerns about the solution she's working on. Holly definitely prefers informal communications. What is the danger Holly may experience with informal communications?

Question115: Nancy has asked you to trace a particular requirement for her. What does 'to trace a requirement' mean?

Question116: You are completing enterprise analysis. Management has asked you to create a document that will help them create a go/no go decision to invest and more forward with a proposed project. What document does management want you to create?

Question117: Which of the following reports is generated whenever the project is slipping off the project schedule and includes an explanation of the problem?

Question118: You are the business analyst for your organization and management has asked that you identify opportunities to improve the operations of the business. You notice that some of the stakeholders use several pieces of software and several duplicate activities within each software package to generate data reports for customers. What type of recommendation can you make in regard to this observation?

Question119: Which of the following roles helps assess the data requirements of a project, identifies data assets, and helps the project team complete data modeling requirements?

Question120: Which of the following diagrams is known as Ishikawa diagram?

Question121: What part of defining the business needs process will evaluate the ends that the organization is seeking to achieve?

Question122: You are the business analyst for the NHQ Project. You have identified several stakeholders that need different types of information related to the requirements. Which stakeholder would need detailed technical interface requirements?

Question123: Which of the following graphical presentations of a project plan is most appropriate for presenting to upper management?

Question124: You are completing the requirements for vendor selection and need to create a procurement form that will ask the vendor to provide only a price for commercial-off-the-shelf solution. What type of procurement form will you need to provide to the vendor?

Question125: You are the business analyst for your organization and need a method to requirements elicitation from nearly 12,000 stakeholders. You want a method to quickly capture this group's feelings and thoughts to identify what the majority of this group needs and wants in a new solution your organization may create.
What requirements elicitation technique can be used in this scenario?

Question126: Which of the following software development life cycles is a methodology that divides the project into phases, and the project manager focuses on control of time, cost, and scope?

Question127: You are the business analyst for a large project in your organization. While your company prefers face-to- face communications there are many stakeholders located in different geographical locations. How can you still effectively serve as a business analyst when the stakeholders are not collocated?

Question128: Martha is observing Sarah complete several complex steps as part of her business analysis requirements elicitation process. In this instance Martha working alongside Sarah is actually helping Sarah complete the work so that Martha can understand all of the steps Sarah must complete. What type of requirements elicitation technique is Martha using?

Question129: You are the business analyst for your organization. Management has asked that you create a model of the requirements so the stakeholders can better understand the requirements and the project as a whole.
Which of the following statements best describes a model?

Question130: Which of the following quantitative risk analysis techniques relies on experience and past data to compute the probability and impact of risks on project objectives?

Question131: You are the business analyst for your organization and are working with Jennifer to conduct stakeholder analysis. You would like to create a RACI chart to help with the roles of the people involved in the stakeholder analysis process. Jennifer is not familiar with this chart and asks what does RACI mean.
Which one of the following best describes the RACI chart in the conduct stakeholder analysis process?

Question132: Which of the following techniques is used to test customer acceptance of the solution and to measure marketplace demand?

Question133: Which of the following is a visual decomposition of the program scope and the resources needed in order to create the things defined within the program scope?

Question134: What element of the plan business analysis process affects the business analysis duties that need to be performed?

Question135: One of the processes within requirements analysis is to prioritize requirements. As a business analyst why would you ever want to prioritize requirements?

Question136: You are the business analyst for your organization and are working on prioritizing requirements.
What plan should guide you through this process?

Question137: Which of the following is the best definition of the business rules analysis?

Question138: There are 50 stakeholders in the current project. How many communication channels exist in this project?

Question139: You are the business analyst for a large project that will create new software for the entire organization.
This new software will affect all of the administrative assistants in the organization schedule meetings, reserve facilities, and share calendars. There are approximately 2,400 administrative assistants in your organization and not all of these people can attend requirements gathering workshops. What approach can you use to manage and gather requirements from these 2,400 administrative assistants?

Question140: Which of the following charts is a quality control tool to show categories of defects?

Question141: What two factors must the business analyst consider when conducting stakeholder analysis?

Question142: There are four inputs to the plan business analysis activities. Which one of the following is not an input to the plan business analysis activities process?

Question143: When an organization is using a change-driven approach to business analysis, how are communications managed?

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Question145: Bob and Susan are business analysts for their organization. They are examining two materials that could be used in an upcoming project. They are testing the materials and measuring the results of each test to compare the materials to each other. This process will help Bob and Susan determine which material is best for their upcoming project. What type of process are Bob and Susan completing with these materials?

Question146: You are the business analyst for a new project. Part of this project is for the project team to manually install new workstations through the company's campus. Based on your research you have determined that the project team can install 25 new workstations per hour. Since there is a fixed amount of time that these workstations need to be installed you are considering adding additional labor for the implementation. You are also considering to adjust the prioritization of the project requirements based on the amount of workstations the project team can install per hour.
What does the 25 workstations per hour represent in this scenario?

Question147: As part of the requirements analysis a business analyst can use the same tools and techniques to model the current state of an organization. All of the following are valid reasons why would a business analyst want to create a current state domain model except for which one?

Question148: Paul has been asked to complete SWOT analysis for his solution scope. What does SWOT analysis mean?

Question149: You are the business analyst for your organization and are with another business analyst, Steve, on the requirements elicitation for a new solution. You warn Steve that you'll need to be tracing the requirements in an effort to prevent scope creep. What is scope creep?

Question150: When is stakeholder analysis performed?

Question151: Which of the following can be used in root cause analysis?

Question152: Henry is the business analyst for his organization and is completing the conduct elicitation activity.
Part of this activity is to record the results of the requirements elicitation process. All of the following are acceptable elements for requirements documentation except for which one?

Question153: What does the T in SWOT analysis mean?

Question154: When can changes to requirements occur in a business analysis planning and monitoring assignment?

Question155: You are the business analyst for the YGT Organization. You have just completed a capabilities gap assessment and have determined that your organization does not have the necessary resources and technology to seize a business opportunity. What is the most likely course of action for the organization?

Question156: You are the business analyst for your organization. Your current project is using a plan-driven approach for the requirements, business analysis, and monitoring. Which one of the following statements best describes the plan-driven approach to business analysis planning and monitoring?

Question157: Which of the following meeting brings all of the potential vendors together to discuss the statement of work and the request for proposal?

Question158: You are currently working on creating the activity list for an initiative in your organization. What characteristic must be assigned to each task in your task list?

Question159: You are the business analyst for a solution that has 435 stakeholders. How many communication channels exist in this project?

Question160: You are coaching Marcy, a new business analyst for your organization, on business analysis processes.
Marcy is concerned about the define solution scope process, especially the implementation approach element. Which of the following statements best defines the implementation approach element for Marcy?

Question161: Paul is the business analyst for his organization. He is examining a single solution to determine if the solution he and his team have identified carries enough business value to justify its implementation. What business analysis process is Paul performing in this scenario?

Question162: Which of the following types of elicitation allows each stakeholder to freely discuss their role in a particular process?

Question163: You are the business analyst for your organization and are creating the solution scope definition.
Which of the following should be included in the solution scope definition?

Question164: Paul is the business analyst for his organization. He is examining a single solution to determine if the solution he and his team have identified carries enough business value to justify its implementation. What business analysis process is Paul performing in this scenario?

Question165: Sally is the business analyst for her organization. Sally and her business analysis team is currently using a business analysis approach to determine what the competition of her organization is offering prospective clients. She is trying to identify solutions to increase revenue by remaining competitive with the competition. What business analysis approach is Sally and her business analysis team using?

Question166: The business analysis approach generally defines all of the following attributes except for which one?

Question167: You are the business analyst for your organization and you are completing the manage requirements traceability process. You are tracking the requirements to determine how the requirements are interrelated with one another and with the actual delivery of the project scope.
There are actually three reasons why the business analyst should trace requirements. Which one of the following is not one of the three reasons why trace requirements is useful?

Question168: You are the business analyst for your organization and are training Tracy on business analysis duties. You are explaining to Tracy how it's important for a business analyst to generate new ideas to approaching problems, solving problems, and to generate alternative solutions. You stress that it's important for the business analyst to generate new ideas and innovative concepts. What type of analytical thinking are you describing for Tracy?

Question169: Which conduct stakeholder analysis technique identifies stakeholder roles that may serve as a useful starting point for identifying actors and roles?

Question170: Which of the following meeting brings all of the potential vendors together to discuss the statement of work and the request for proposal?

Question171: You are the business analyst for your organization. You are working with several IT professionals to determine all of the connected systems in your organization. You are creating a mapping of the servers, workstations, printers, and other connected devices and their purposes for an analysis of how information is input, processed, stored, and output from each system. What business analysis process are you completing?

Question172: The requirements elicitation process requires that the business analyst and team prepare for the requirements elicitation activities. There are three specific inputs that the business analyst will need in preparing for the requirements elicitation. Which of the following is NOT one of the three inputs the business analyst will use as he prepares for requirements elicitation?

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Question174: Nancy has asked you to trace a particular requirement for her. What does 'to trace a requirement' mean?

Question175: You are the business analyst for a large project for your organization. Your project has 65 stakeholders and this will greatly increase the complexity of the communication in this project. To demonstrate how complex this project and its communication will be, you show the management the number of communication channels in this project. How many channels exist in this project based on the number of stakeholders?

Question176: Robert is the business analyst for his organization and he's working with several stakeholders to identify the business need for an opportunity. Robert needs to identify the stakeholder that will be responsible for authorizing the actions needed in order to meet the identified business need.
Which stakeholder does Robert need to identify?

Question177: You are the business analyst for your organization. On your current project you'll be using the change- driven approach for defining requirements and gathering feedback. Which of the following statements best describes the change-driven approach?

Question178: Yolanda is the web designer for your company and you are the business analyst. You are working with Yolanda on a new website that your company will host. You'd like for her to create a mock-up of the website without spending much time on the actual workings behind the web interface. You'd like for her to show the customer how the website will look, some idea of the functionality of the website, and some basic graphics and colors so the customer can see the direction of the project.
What type of prototype are you asking Yolanda to create?

Question179: Which of the following establishes organizational checks and balances with a proper segregation of front, back, and middle office functions for effective risk management?

Question180: You are the business analyst for a new project. Part of this project is for the project team to manually install new workstations through the company's campus. Based on your research you have determined that the project team can install 25 new workstations per hour. Since there is a fixed amount of time that these workstations need to be installed you are considering adding additional labor for the implementation. You are also considering to adjust the prioritization of the project requirements based on the amount of workstations the project team can install per hour.
What does the 25 workstations per hour represent in this scenario?

Question181: Which of the following compares two or more systems, states, services, products, or things to determine the best viable choice?

Question182: You are the business analyst for your organization and preparing to complete the requirements elicitation activities. Your manager wants to know when the requirements elicitation process will be completed.
Which of the following responses best describes the nature of the requirements elicitation process?

Question183: Which of the following is the process of defining and analyzing the dangers to individuals, businesses, and government agencies posed by potential natural and human-caused adverse events?

Question184: Which of the following techniques involves attempting to make and numerically determine the probability of various adverse events and measuring the likely extent of the losses?

Question185: Which of the following phases is the first step towards creating a business continuity plan?

Question186: You are the business analyst for your organization and are working on a solution that will connect several databases to a web application. You are concerned that the databases may not be operable with the software solution a programmer is recommending. What requirements elicitation technique can help you determine the interoperability of the software, the databases, and the web application?

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Question188: Wanda is the business analyst for her organization and she is currently working on the specify and model requirements process. One of the elements of this process is the documentation of the textual requirements. Wanda must describe the capabilities of the solution, any conditions that must exist for the requirements to operate, and what third component of the textual requirement?

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Question190: Which one of the following is an example of a non-negotiable demand by a stakeholder during the requirements prioritization session?

Question191: Which of the following inputs of Monitor and Control Risks acquires information from performance measurements and evaluates it to provide variance analysis and forecasting?

Question192: Which of the following is the process of identifying and assessing factors that may jeopardize the success of a project or the achievement of a goal?

Question193: You are preparing a business case for your organization to determine the justification of the costs of the solution in relation to benefits the solutions will bring the organization. You need four inputs to complete this process. Which one of the following is not an input that will help you write the business case?

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Question195: Which of the following participants have to keep the minutes and details of the conversation during Interviews?

Question196: Which of the following directs the improvement efforts to those areas that will have the biggest impact?

Question197: Which of the following stages of a project defines the number of risks and opportunities, including intense planning and anticipation of risk events?

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Question199: What type of requirements elicitation technique is the Delphi Technique?

Question200: Nancy has asked you to trace a particular requirement for her. What does 'to trace a requirement' mean?

Question201: Rachel is writing the business case for her organization. As she's completing this process Rachel is concerned that she's including all the correct information for management. Which one of the following should Rachel not include in her business case?

Question202: When does the lessons learned document is updated?

Question203: ____ is the degree to which a set of inherent characteristics fulfills requirements.

Question204: The business analysis approach generally defines all of the following attributes except for which one?

Question205: Donna is leading a brainstorming session for her organization. She has asked the participants in this group to come up with at least ten ideas for possible solutions to an identified problem. What is the problem with setting the goal as ten ideas for possible solutions in this session?

Question206: What plan will describe the stakeholder groups, communication needs, and the level of formality that is appropriate for the requirements?

Question207: You are the business analyst for your organization and are preparing to conduct stakeholder analysis. As part of this process you realize that you'll need several inputs. Which one of the following is NOT an input you'll use for the conduct stakeholder analysis task?

Question208: You are working with several business analysts to determine the solution approach for an identified problem. All of the following techniques are acceptable for identifying the solution approach except for which one?

Question209: Management comes to you and asks you to complete some specifications and models about the current state of the organization. Management wants you to complete this business analysis activity as soon as possible and report back to them with your findings. What is the primary purpose of the specify and model requirements process?

Question210: Some of the requirements in the solution must be completed because of laws and regulations in your industry. Management would like you, the business analyst, to rank the requirements according to the relevant laws. What type of requirements prioritization is management having you complete?

Question211: Which of the following requires that all parties in the conflict must give up something?

Question212: You are the business analyst for your organization and are working with Virginia on the allocation of requirements for a new solution. You have assigned Virginia the task of breaking down the solution scope into smaller components for allocation. What technique have you asked Virginia to complete in this scenario?

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Question214: Which of the following meeting brings all of the potential vendors together to discuss the statement of work and the request for proposal?

Question215: You are the business analyst for a new project. Part of this project is for the project team to manually install new workstations through the company's campus. Based on your research you have determined that the project team can install 25 new workstations per hour. Since there is a fixed amount of time that these workstations need to be installed you are considering adding additional labor for the implementation. You are also considering to adjust the prioritization of the project requirements based on the amount of workstations the project team can install per hour.
What does the 25 workstations per hour represent in this scenario?

Question216: Which of the following process models needs to complete each set of tasks in one phase before moving into the next phase in a project development life cycle?

Question217: Which of the following is a table of all stakeholders showing the mapping of which stakeholders will contribute information to other stakeholders?

Question218: Which of the following processes can start with the source of problems or with the problem itself?

Question219: Which of the following techniques involves coordinating and collaborating with other credible sources in risk?

Question220: Which of the following is the process of developing a document that formally authorizes a project or a phase?

Question221: Which of the following is mandatory in most software development projects?

Question222: You need to identify assumptions as part of the assessment of capability gaps. Which of the following is an example of an assumption?

Question223: You are the business analyst for your organization and are trying to determine the best solution for an identified problem. You have determined that you could create a software solution using inhouse resources for $65,000 and with an ongoing support of $5,600 per month. A vendor offers you a quote that they can create the software for $49,000 with an ongoing support of $6,100 per month. Which solution should you choose?

Question224: You are the business analyst for your organization and are working on organizing the identified requirements for a new solution. Nancy, your assistant in this process, says that these requirements aren't very complex. You agree but add that it's this thing that makes the overall solution complex. What thing adds to the level of complexity among requirements?

Question225: Marcy is the business analyst for her organization. She is completing the business analysis task of defining the business needs. She has the business goals and objectives and the requirements stated documentation. What must she confirm about the requirements stated documentation before defining the business need based on her analysis?

Question226: You are creating a model for your requirements. Which model type categorizes and describes the people who directly interact with a solution?

Question227: You are the business analyst for a large software development project. There are several issues that must be resolved by certain dates or the problem will prevent the project from advancing.
What technique can you use to track problems with the requirements?

Question228: Which of the following processes is used to make certain that the project team members are completing the project work according to the project plan?

Question229: You are the business analyst for THY Organization and you have gathered the requirements. You have presented the requirements to the stakeholders and they have approved your requirements.
You are now working with Francie on recording the dependencies and relationships for each of the requirements. Why would you want to record the dependencies and relationships for the requirements?

Question230: Which of the following techniques is used to divide a project into controllable parts?

Question231: Which of the following tasks cannot start until other tasks are completed?

Question232: Nancy has asked you to trace a particular requirement for her. What does 'to trace a requirement' mean?

Question233: Which conduct stakeholder analysis technique is useful for identifying shared characteristics of a stakeholder group?

Question234: You are the business analyst for a new project. Part of this project is for the project team to manually install new workstations through the company's campus. Based on your research you have determined that the project team can install 25 new workstations per hour. Since there is a fixed amount of time that these workstations need to be installed you are considering adding additional labor for the implementation. You are also considering to adjust the prioritization of the project requirements based on the amount of workstations the project team can install per hour.
What does the 25 workstations per hour represent in this scenario?

Question235: As a program manager, you decided to overlap two phases of your program. Which of the following terms best describe your act?

Question236: Enterprise analysis provides many things for an organization. All of the following are tasks included in enterprise analysis except for which one?

Question237: It's often impossible or difficult to prove that the implementation of a solution will change the current state of an organization to the desired future state. The business analyst must document the characteristics and risk of the implementation of a solution in case the belief that the solution will achieve the desired results will prove invalid. What is the belief that the solution will create the desired effect for the organization called?

Question238: Which of the following is a process of adding labor to a project to reduce the project duration?

Question239: Gary is the business analyst for his organization. He has realized that he has overlooked a key group of stakeholders during the conduct stakeholder analysis process. What is the danger in overlooking a key set of stakeholders?

Question240: Henry is the business analyst for his organization. Management has created a pre-determined budget of
$450,000 for his solution. Henry has identified the project requirements but now wants to prioritize them based on timeboxing and budgeting. Henry examines the cost of the requirements and begins removing the requirements from the allowed list in order to meet the $450,000 budget. What timeboxing or budgeting approach is Henry using?

Question241: What business analysis plan defines the process to be followed in managing the solution scope and requirements?

Question242: Which of the following techniques involves determining and documenting the variance between business requirements and current capabilities?

Question243: Which of the following types of charts shows which resources are needed in the project and allows you to group the resources by project phase or other attributes?

Question244: ____ is a process to determine the completeness of the project work and to gain the customer's acceptance to move the project forward.

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Question246: Which of the following is not a hygiene agent according to Frederick Herzberg theory?

Question247: You are working with Terry on the conduct stakeholder analysis task as part of the business analysis duties in your company. Terry wants to know why it's so important to identify stakeholders so early in the business analysis duties. Which one of the following statements best addresses the need to identify the stakeholders early on in the business analysis duties?

Question248: Which of the following is a narrative description of the work required for the project?

Question249: Management has asked you, a business analyst for your organization, to create the solution scope for an identified problem. In order to complete this task you'll need three elements. All of the following are elements you'll need in order to write the solution scope except for which one?

Question250: All of the following are techniques that can be used to specify or model requirements except for which one?

Question251: What does the T in SWOT analysis mean?

Question252: You are the business analyst for your organization and are leading a presentation about an identified problem. This presentation will help the stakeholders to understand the problem and it will help you when you begin to elicit requirements from the stakeholders. Which type of learner learns best through the presentation of models?

Question253: You are creating a model that shows how data moves through a system. Each function that modifies the data in any manner is identified, decomposed to smaller levels, and the system is completely described from start to storage. What type of a modeling technique are you using in this scenario?

Question254: You are the business analyst for your organization and you are preparing the business case for a proposed solution. You need to include the management horizon in your business case. What is the management horizon?

Question255: You are the business analyst for a large, complex solution and you are working with the stakeholders to determine the prioritization of the requirements. You would like to use the decision analysis to determine the best decision for the requirements outcome. You must know four things as part of decision analysis.
Which one of the following will not help you with this approach to the requirements prioritization process?

Question256: You are completing the prepare for elicitation process for an identified problem in your organization. The prepare for elicitation process requires three inputs for this process. Which one of the following is not an input that will help you prepare for the elicitation activities?

Question257: The business process model is also known as _________.

Question258: Which of the following is a procurement document?

Question259: You are the business analyst for a large project in your organization. You are working with Ben to create requirements packages to present to the stakeholders, the business analyst team, and to the project manager. Ben wants to know why you're creating requirements packages. What's the primary goal of developing a requirements package?

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Question261: Which stakeholder must approve the business analysis approach to ensure that the business analysis approach is compatible with the other project activities?

Question262: Your organization uses the MoSCoW approach to requirements prioritization. What does MoSCoW mean?

Question263: Which of the following defines how the project will be estimated, budgeted, and how changes to cost will be managed?

Question264: You are the business analyst for your organization. Management has asked that you create a stakeholder map as part of the conduct stakeholder analysis process. What is a stakeholder map?

Question265: What is the purpose of the business case?

Question266: You are the business analyst for your organization and are in the process of creating the solution approach for a technology problem. Which one of the following definitions best describes the solution approach?

Question267: What requirements elicitation technique examines the available information, documentation, records, and history of a solution, organization, or cause to identify relevant information to the current business analysis duties?

Question268: Nancy has asked you to trace a particular requirement for her. What does 'to trace a requirement' mean?

Question269: Which of the following roles works with the project team to understand the deliverables and then teaches the users of the deliverables how to utilize the project's product?

Question270: All of the following are examples of transference risk response except for which one?

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Question272: You are the business analyst for your organization and are working with Sally, a project manager, for your organization. You and Sally are determining the cost of the labor, materials, equipment, and facilities in order to achieve the different solutions that have been proposed for an identified problem. What is this process called?

Question273: Which of the following is a conversation between one or more speakers centering on one specific topic?

Question274: Mark is the business analyst for his organization. Mark and his business analysis team have used the whiteboard to record the documentation as the result of requirements elicitation. What must be done with this information if Mark uses a whiteboard?

Question275: You are coaching Marcy, a new business analyst for your organization, on business analysis processes.
Marcy is concerned about the define solution scope process, especially the implementation approach element. Which of the following statements best defines the implementation approach element for Marcy?

Question276: Which one of the following diagrams when properly laid out is always laid in a left to right display to properly reflect the chronology of all project work?

Question277: You are the business analyst for your organization and are beginning the requirements analysis processes. Which one of the following statements best describes the requirements analysis processes?

Question278: Which of the following is derived from a schedule model to meet the project execution plan and achieve management approval for use as a baseline?

Question279: You are hosting a collection of stakeholders from across the organization to identify the ideas and attitudes about your company's help desk. You want the stakeholders to honestly share their opinions about the help desk service so you can identify problems, solutions, and take actions to improve the service. What type of requirements elicitation activity is this?

Question280: You have identified several problems that you need to track as the business analysis duties progress. You want to make certain that the identified activities are resolved. What document elicitation technique can help in this scenario?

Question281: Which of the following diagrams is used to display sensitivity analysis data?

Question282: As a milestone is reached, the project is funded for enough capital to reach the next milestone.
This approach is called _________.

Question283: What is the purpose of the business case?

Question284: You are the business analyst for a large project for your organization. Your project has 65 stakeholders and this will greatly increase the complexity of the communication in this project. To demonstrate how complex this project and its communication will be, you show the management the number of communication channels in this project. How many channels exist in this project based on the number of stakeholders?

Question285: You are the business analyst for your organization and you are preparing to elicit the requirements for a new business opportunity. Which one of the following statements best describes the prepare for elicitation process?

Question286: Which of the following describes the actual users who interact with one another, a system, or data moved between two users?

Question287: Which of the following roles approves the project scope statement, phase gate reviews, solution validations, scope changes, and project success criteria?

Question288: Which conduct stakeholder analysis technique identifies stakeholder roles that may serve as a useful starting point for identifying actors and roles?

Question289: Nancy has asked you to trace a particular requirement for her. What does 'to trace a requirement' mean?

Question290: You are the business analyst for your organization and you are working with Bill on creating a model. Bill is a little confused about all the different things a model can do for the stakeholders.
You explain to Bill that a model can do all of the following except for which one?

Question291: You are the business analyst for your organization. Management wants you to prioritize the identified requirements by the requirements that have the highest likelihood of success. Why would management want you to prioritize the requirements with this factor even though some of the requirements may be difficult to implement?

Question292: Which solution scope technique can help the business analyst understand the scope of the work by breaking down the scope into smaller work products?