EMT Practice Test

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Question1: Which requirements allocation technique is best described as the breaking down of the solution scope into smaller units for allocation?

Question2: Sam is the project manager of the NHT Project. His project has stakeholders from the end users, server administrators, functional managers, external customers, technicians, and executive managers. In this high-profile project, which group of stakeholders is the most important?

Question3: A business analyst must consider the business value a solution brings in relation to the cost of implementing the desired solution. Suppliers will often be limited in the amount of requirements they can implement based on the allocated resources. If there are not enough resources to implement all of the solutions, what can the business analyst create to justify the additional funds for the implementation?

Question4: You need to identify assumptions as part of the assessment of capability gaps. Which of the following is an example of an assumption?

Question5: Nancy has asked you to trace a particular requirement for her. What does 'to trace a requirement' mean?

Question6: As a business analyst, you'll need to recognize the methods that are appropriate for recording and documenting the results of elicitation activities. Which one of the following cannot be considered as a valid method for documenting elicitation?

Question7: Which of the following is a business management strategy originally developed by Motorola, USA in 1986?

Question8: Which stakeholder map shows the relative influence, impact, and relation of stakeholders by plotting them closer to or farther away from the solution?

Question9: What do business goals and objectives of enterprise analysis actually describe?

Question10: You are the business analyst for your organization and you're working with the project manager to complete some business analysis activities. The project manager has the authority to approve the requirements based on the short iterations of business analysis activities.
What approach of business analysis are you using in this scenario?

Question11: What should an organization do if the business analyst has determined that the existing capabilities are inadequate to seize an opportunity?

Question12: There are five tasks and six inputs to requirements management and communication. As a business analyst, you'll need to gather all of the following inputs for this knowledge area except for which one?

Question13: 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?

Question14: You are the business analyst for your organization and you're working with your team to define the business problem. As part of this analysis, you've identified the adverse impacts of the problem, the benefits from a potential solution, and how quickly the problem could be solved. What other element should you consider?

Question15: The initial high-level listing of requirements in a change-driven approach is also known as what?

Question16: Which one of the following statements best describes the purpose of allocating requirements?

Question17: John and Hanna are business analysts in their organization and they are completing the verification activities to check for completeness of the requirements. When should John and Hanna perform these verification activities?

Question18: You are a business analyst for your organization. Your current business analysis endeavor includes working with stakeholders located in offices around the world. Because these stakeholders are dispersed, what is likely to increase in this endeavor as opposed to a collocated group of stakeholders?

Question19: There are three inputs in the plan business analysis approach. Which one of the following is not one of the three inputs?

Question20: Which approach to business analysis activities deals with rapid delivery of the business value?

Question21: You are the business analyst for your organization and you're training Marcy, a new business analyst, on how requirements are formed. Which one of the following best describes how requirements are formed?

Question22: Which elicitation activity is best described to ensure that the needed resources are organized and available for the elicitation?

Question23: Enterprise analysis provides many things for an organization. All of the following are tasks included in enterprise analysis except for which one?

Question24: When can changes to requirements occur in a business analysis planning and monitoring assignment?

Question25: You are the business analyst for your organization and you're reviewing a change to your requirements.
During this impact analysis, what tool can best help you assess the total impact of a requirement change?

Question26: As a business analyst, you'll need to communicate with the stakeholders of the solution you propose. Why is it important for the business analyst to review the stakeholder concerns as part of the assessment of the organization for the readiness of the solution?

Question27: Which technique consists of review meetings to determine if the stakeholders agree that their needs are being met with the identified requirements?

Question28: Which one of the following business analysis techniques for analyzing business goals converts the business goals into achievable objectives and measures?

Question29: Which stakeholder analysis technique shows stakeholders that fall outside the scope of the solution but still interact with it in some way?

Question30: 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?

Question31: Martha is the business analyst for her organization and she's been asked to help create a SMART goal for her company. Which one of the following organizational goals could be considered SMART?

Question32: When a business analyst performs requirements tracing, he may need to trace the requirements backward through their lineage and may need to trace the requirements forward through their relationship to other requirements. What is the forward tracing activity called in requirements traceability?

Question33: Which of the following is the prime purpose of the Manage Stakeholders Expectations process?

Question34: 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?

Question35: As a business analyst, you should work to identify opportunities to improve the operations of your organization. Which one of the following improvement opportunities aims to improve the experience of the customer?

Question36: When a business analyst prepares for elicitation, he must define the scope of the selected elicitation technique, notify the stakeholders of the elicitation plan and technique to be used, and what other preparation activity?

Question37: Fred is the business analyst for his organization. His current initiative is quite large, so Fred decides to create a high-level plan for the business analysis approach, and then to create a detailed plan for the most imminent activities. What type of business analysis planning is Fred using in this scenario?

Question38: What type of analysis can a business analyst perform to understand the functions of stakeholders, the location of stakeholders, the tasks stakeholders complete, and the stakeholders' concerns about the solution?

Question39: Audrey is the business analyst for her organization and she's doing an assessment of the organization's readiness to implement the solution. In her assessment, she's finding that there are conflicting stakeholder groups for and against the proposed solution. Some of the stakeholders have more power over the solution than others. What diagram can Audrey create to visualize the people that are for and against the solution?

Question40: You are the business analyst for your organization and you're working with your manager to discuss the constraints and assumptions that may affect the requirements. Your manager wants to know from where you've derived the list of constraints and assumptions. What's the best answer as to where assumptions and constraints are identified?

Question41: 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?

Question42: You are the business analyst for your organization and you're creating a business analysis communications management plan. In your plan, you want to address the different locales and culture and the communication needs that may affect the business analysis approach. Which one of the following elements should not be included in the cultural analysis of the plan?

Question43: 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?

Question44: Which task in the requirements analysis knowledge area is best described as ensuring that the requirements specifications and models meet the necessary standard of quality to allow them to be used effectively to guide further work?

Question45: You are the business analyst for your organization and you've identified a business need. In order to satisfy this business need, you believe that your organization will need to hire three electrical engineers, purchase equipment, and likely provide training to existing resources. What process is being described in this scenario?

Question46: Karen is the business analyst for her organization and she's reviewing the tasks within her endeavor.
Several of the tasks have the characteristic that the activity will be completed with the project stakeholders, consultants, and business analyst, though this hasn't yet been approved. What is this condition of believing some things to be true about an activity without proving the validity of the belief called?

Question47: When a business analyst is using alternative generation, what should she always include as an output?

Question48: A business analyst has been assigned the task of developing a model of the current state of an organization. The business analyst doesn't understand why a current state may be needed. All of the following are good reasons to create a current state model of an organization except for which one?

Question49: As a business analyst, you should be able to identify the characteristics of each business analysis task and domain area. Which one of the following statements best describes the characteristics of the business analysis knowledge area of requirements analysis?

Question50: You are a Business Analyst for your organization, and you're working with Mary. Mary wants to know what you need to complete the process of planning the business analysis approach if you're already the business analyst for your organization. Why is it important to complete the plan business analysis approach?

Question51: Robert is the business analyst for his organization and is preparing to host a workshop for twenty stakeholders. The goal of this workshop is to comprehensively identify the requirements for new software that will be created for Robert's organization. What must first be established in the workshop to ensure that the elicitation process moves smoothly?

Question52: High quality requirements have certain characteristics which distinguish them from low-quality requirements. Which characteristic of requirements demands that all requirements in a set or model support its overall purpose and scope?

Question53: You are a business analyst for your organization and you're working with the stakeholders to identify the primary inputs to the business analysis approach. Which of the following are primary inputs of planning the business analysis approach?
Each correct answer represents a complete solution.

Question54: When a business analyst performs requirements tracing, he may need to trace the requirements backward through their lineage and may need to trace the requirements forward through their relationship to other requirements. What is the backwards tracing activity called in requirements traceability?

Question55: If a requirement has been satisfied, why is it still considered a requirement?

Question56: There are four methods to generate a business need in an organization. Which approach would an organization use when there's recognized competition in the marketplace?

Question57: When an organization implements a new solution, the organization will often have to provide dual-support for the new solution and the solution that's being replaced. Which one of the following is not an input to the transitional requirements definition?

Question58: You are the business analyst for your organization. You're creating a document that states the business need, identifies the key stakeholders, and defines the positive impact the solution will bring to the organization and stakeholders. What document are you creating?

Question59: Which approach is best to take when a business analyst is assessing the solution options for a business need when there are relatively few criteria involved?

Question60: You are the business analyst for your organization and you're using a plan-driven approach to business analysis processes. In this environment, what types of communications are most likely required to be used in regard to requirements?

Question61: Which basis for prioritization allows the project team to work initially with lower-risk requirements first?

Question62: You are the business analyst for your organization and your requirements for the endeavor have recently been approved. Your organization creates a baseline for the requirements based on the approval of the requirements. What must happen in your business analysis activities if the requirements for your endeavor need to be changed?

Question63: Mark is a business analyst for his organization. A business need has been identified; therefore, Mark immediately sets out to identify the stakeholders. How long will stakeholder analysis need to continue?

Question64: In order to have high quality in requirements, all of the following characteristics should exist in the requirements except for which one?

Question65: Management in your organization wants you to create a graphical model to show the business logic of the requirements. What other term are graphical models known as?

Question66: Linda works as a project manager for an IT project. She is getting new developers for completing her project. Which of the following processes is she involved in?

Question67: In order to plan business analysis activities, you will need four inputs. Which one of the following inputs is not valid for this task?

Question68: You are the business analyst for your organization and you're notifying the key stakeholders of a need to gather requirements for an endeavor. One of the stakeholders that you'll need to attend your requirements workshop is the project manager. What role will the project manager have in this workshop?

Question69: As a candidate for CCBA, you should be able to recognize the activities associated with each knowledge area. Which of the following are business analysis planning and monitoring activities? Each correct answer represents a complete solution.

Question70: You are the business analyst for your organization. You've believed that your solution can actually be purchased from outside vendor rather than trying to create the solution internally. You decide to ask the vendor to provide a fee for their services based on the statement of work. What document will you give the vendor along with the statement of work?

Question71: You are a business analyst for your organization and you're working with the stakeholders to identify the primary inputs to the business analysis approach. Which one of the following is a primary input to the business analysis approach?

Question72: Which of the following approaches describes the project management approach of refining requirements and project scope?

Question73: A business analyst needs to prepare the requirements package for her endeavor in a predefined template for her company. What term can be assigned to this standardized template for packaging the requirements?

Question74: Mary is the business analyst for your organization. She asks you what the purpose of the assess capability gaps task is. Which of the following is the best response to give Mary?

Question75: Sam is preparing for the task of prioritizing requirements and he'll need five inputs to accomplish the task.
Which one of the following is not an input that Sam will use to prioritize requirements?

Question76: Which one of the following statements best describes what an assumption is?

Question77: There are three inputs to the business analysis planning approach process. Which one of the following is not one of the three inputs?

Question78: 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?

Question79: 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?

Question80: In a change-driven environment, what's more important than formal communications in regard to effective requirements management?

Question81: Project Communication Management includes the processes required to ____.

Question82: Linda is the business analyst for her organization and she's working with Joe, a new business analyst, to prioritize requirements. Joe doesn't understand why requirements need to be prioritized; as all requirements are required, they should carry equal weight in the analysis. What should Linda tell Joe as to why requirements must be prioritized?

Question83: The task of prioritizing requirements creates just one output. What is it?

Question84: A business analyst wants to elicit requirements from a large group of stakeholders. One of her primary goals of this event is to produce a broad set of options for solutions. Which elicitation technique would you recommend for this business analyst?

Question85: Which of the following defines all of the features and functions of the thing, solution, or service the project or organization will create?

Question86: When a business analyst wants to present requirements for review, she must consider the requirements, audience, and what other factor to determine the level of formality in the presentation?

Question87: 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?

Question88: Business needs do not always originate from the business analyst or from business owners. There are several stakeholders which may identify or contribute to the identification of a business need. Which one of the following stakeholders are most likely to have the most direct awareness of problems that could lead to a business need?

Question89: All of the following statements are true regarding a brainstorming session during requirements elicitation except for which one?

Question90: Which stakeholder(s) will be involved to determine if the requirements can be implemented?

Question91: You have 83 project stakeholders from all across your organization. Some of the stakeholders, such as functional management, require weekly communication from you, while other stakeholders, such as the end users, only need quarterly progress updates. Where can you record these communication requirements based on your stakeholder analysis?

Question92: A business analyst has identified four different solutions for a business need. In the light of solution assessment, how many solution assessment iterations should he do?

Question93: 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?

Question94: When do change requests generally increase in a project?

Question95: You work as a business analyst for u Certify Inc. You have been assigned the task to implement the job shadowing process. Which of the following statements are true regarding the job shadowing process?
Each correct answer represents a complete solution.

Question96: You are a Business Analyst for your organization, and you're preparing to elicit requirements from stakeholders. You've gathered several inputs to help with the elicitation process. Which input will you use to ensure that you understand the type of information that should be elicited from stakeholders?

Question97: As a business analyst, you'll often need to analyze business needs, requirements, and solutions for assumptions and constraints. Which one of the following is a constraint? Choose the best answer.

Question98: What is the purpose of managing the solution scope and requirements from a business analyst's objective?

Question99: In order to begin defining the solution scope, you'll need four inputs. Which one of the following is actually a task that will use the solution scope and is not an input?

Question100: Which one of the following is not an event-based elicitation technique?

Question101: Jon is a business analyst for his organization and he's preparing for the process of elicitation. How many inputs are available for Jon to use in the elicitation process?

Question102: An organization has selected a solution for a business need and the business analyst has elected to use the time boxing/budgeting technique for requirements prioritization. What is the time boxing/budgeting technique?

Question103: You are the business analyst for your organization and you're preparing to elicit requirements from the stakeholders. You've gathered several inputs to help with the elicitation process. Which input(s) will be used to ensure that you understand the type of information that should be elicited from the stakeholders?

Question104: In order to assess proposed solutions, business analysts will need three inputs. Which one of the following is not an input to the task of assessing proposed solutions?

Question105: What term is given to the collection of notes and diagrams used by the business analyst to develop the requirements during the requirements development process?

Question106: Which of the following describes the organizational policies, procedures, forms, and methodologies the business analyst is to follow?

Question107: Before requirements can actually be approved to be managed, what must be true about the requirements?

Question108: According to 'A Guide to the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge', when should the business analyst and an organization actually start requirements allocation?

Question109: 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?

Question110: Brian is the business analyst for his organization and he's hosting a brainstorming session. He is facilitating the session with eight stakeholders. Why is it important for Brian to not set a goal for the number of ideas the group should generate in the session?

Question111: Which of the following is an output of the Identify Stakeholders process?

Question112: Why is it important to have a requirements signoff process for approved requirements?

Question113: You are the business analyst for your organization. You're considering if you should make a solution or purchase it from a vendor. If your team creates the solution, it will cost $286,000 and will cost $2,400 per month to support. The vendor's solution, however, will cost $239,000 and will cost $2,850 per month to support. How long will you need to use your in-house solution to be more cost effective than the vendor's proposed solution?

Question114: What element of the plan business analysis process affects the business analysis duties that need to be performed?

Question115: 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?

Question116: You are the business analyst for your organization and you're working with several stakeholders to identify, manage, and approve requirements. Your organization requires using a plan-driven approach to business analysis and changing management. In this approach, who is most likely to approve changes to requirements?

Question117: Consider a business analyst who is completing the business analysis tasks of specifying and modeling requirements for an organization. This task can help an organization achieve all of the following objectives except for which one?

Question118: 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?

Question119: You are the business analyst for your organization and you're preparing the solution for your organization's review and implementation. Some of the requirements of the solution, however, must be inspected by compliance officers before the project and implementation can move forward. The requirements of the inspection can be best described as what?

Question120: In order to define the business need for an organization, there are two inputs. What are the two inputs a business analyst will need to define the business need?

Question121: You are a business analyst for your organization and you're working with Mary. Mary wants to know what you need to complete the process of planning the business analysis approach if you're already the business analyst for your organization. This approach helps to find out the following except for which one?

Question122: You are working with the project stakeholders to analyze and prioritize their requirements for the project.
One of the project requirements is to achieve a high-level of customer satisfaction for the project deliverable. What is the danger in this project requirement?

Question123: What condition of the requirements must be fulfilled in order to use the matrix documentation approach to specify and model requirements?

Question124: You are a business analyst in an organization that has recently embraced business analysis as part of its initiative for new projects. In this organization, there is not an organizational standard for tailoring business analysis duties and expectations. Which one of the following best describes the action you should take to begin business analysis?

Question125: You are the business analyst for your organization and you're working to identify all of the stakeholders within your organization and outside
your organization to ensure that you've captured the correct requirements for a project. Which one of the following techniques can be best suited for identifying stakeholders?

Question126: 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?

Question127: You are the business analyst for your organization and you're working with Nancy, the Sales Director.
You've been identifying requirements for Nancy about the sales force and her desire to add a customer management solution to the sales process. Nancy believes that the software can help automate the sales process, keep things better organized than the current approach, and ultimately create more sales for the organization. As a business analyst, which one of the following should you advise Nancy about her need?

Question128: The RGQ Organization utilizes a change log. What is a change log?

Question129: 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?

Question130: Holly is the business analyst for her organization and she's leading a requirements workshop for a proposed solution. In this workshop, Holly is using a requirements tracing matrix to help prevent against scope creep. What is scope creep?

Question131: You are the business analyst for your organization. You are currently working with Susan on creating a model as part of the specify and model requirements process. Susan doesn't understand why you need a model. You explain to Susan that a model is just a simplified representation of a complex reality that is useful for understanding that reality and making decisions regarding it. In fact, you tell Susan, model can do all of the following except one option. Choose the option that model cannot do?

Question132: Which stakeholder in the solution assessment task will provide information on technical constraints that could limit the solutions that may be implemented?

Question133: You are the business analyst for your organization and you're working with the key stakeholders to validate the requirements. In your review, you have determined the business value of each requirement and you've discovered three requirements that do not deliver direct or indirect value to the stakeholders. What should you do with these requirements?

Question134: What type of requirements elicitation technique is the Delphi Technique?

Question135: You are documenting the requirements attribute for your requirements management plan. Which attribute would you use if you want to identify the person who created the requirements?

Question136: 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?

Question137: There are three inputs for stakeholder analysis. Which input describes the existing organizational units and their interactions with one another?

Question138: Robert is the business analyst for his organization and he gathered and documented the requirements for a new solution. The stakeholders agree through informal communications that Robert has successfully captured the needed requirements for the solution. The stakeholders signoff on the requirements. What does the signoff represent to Robert?

Question139: All of the following are documented approaches to business analysis work except for which one?

Question140: Which of the following is the best definition of the business rules analysis?

Question141: 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?

Question142: 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?

Question143: Ralph is a business analyst for his organization and he's using the plan-driven approach for business analysis. Ralph has captured the requirements of the project, but what must happen before he can begin capturing and defining the requirements at a deeper level of detail?

Question144: When a business analyst hosts a structured walkthrough of the requirements, what should the walkthrough always include at the beginning of the process?

Question145: What can be considered the only input to the task of defining assumptions and constraints?

Question146: Barry is a project stakeholder that is excited about the deliverable your project wants to create for the organization. He's helpful, provides information, and offers support whenever your project needs it. How would you classify Barry based on this information?

Question147: A business analyst has determined that a project should be worth $2,750,000 in four years if her company decides to pursue the project. Assuming the rate of return on the investment is six percent, what is the minimum amount of funds the organization should invest in this project?

Question148: 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?

Question149: What type of a business analysis approach focuses on the rapid delivery of business value in short iterations?

Question150: Which solution scope creation technique can be best described as the depiction of the scope of work required to integrate the new solution into the business and technical environments?

Question151: You are the business analyst in your organization and you've just completed the assessment on three different proposed solutions. In your judgment, you don't think any of the solutions provide enough value to justify being implemented. What should you tell the stakeholders?

Question152: You are the business analyst for a smaller project where there are few requirements. Management would still like you to create a method to trace the few requirements for this project. What type of matrix would be best in this instance?

Question153: What elicitation technique is best described as a study to compare the strengths and weaknesses of an organization against its peers and competitors?

Question154: Which one of the following statements best describes a business analysis methodology?

Question155: Henry is a business analyst in his organization and he's asked an expert to help him determine the best business analysis duties to implement. Why would Henry ask an expert to help him define the business analysis duties?

Question156: 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?

Question157: 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?

Question158: Which business analysis task in the requirements management and communication domain is best described as creating and maintaining relationships among business objectives, requirements, team deliverables, and solution components to support business analysis activities?