EMT Practice Test

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Question1: Which stakeholder in the solution assessment task will provide information on technical constraints that could limit the solutions that may be implemented?

Question2: A business analyst is studying the cost of the endeavor in relation to the projected income the endeavor will bring once the project is completed. What financial valuation technique can the business analyst use to determine the breakeven point for the project?

Question3: 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?

Question4: 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?

Question5: 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?

Question6: 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?

Question7: 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?

Question8: There are four methods to generate the business need in an organization. Which approach is described as the need to achieve a strategic goal?

Question9: What is the purpose of managing the solution scope and requirements from a business analyst's objective?

Question10: Which of the following is the prime purpose of the Manage Stakeholders Expectations process?

Question11: 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?

Question12: The RGQ Organization utilizes a change log. What is a change log?

Question13: In order to plan business analysis activities, you will need four inputs. Which one of the following inputs is not valid for this task?

Question14: 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?

Question15: 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?

Question16: Which requirements allocation technique is best described as the breaking down of the solution scope into smaller units for allocation?

Question17: What condition of the requirements must be fulfilled in order to use the matrix documentation approach to specify and model requirements?

Question18: When a business analyst completes the elicitation process, she will create four outputs. Which one of the following is an output of the elicitation process?

Question19: There are three inputs for stakeholder analysis. Which input describes the existing organizational units and their interactions with one another?

Question20: Which elicitation activity is best described to ensure that the needed resources are organized and available for the elicitation?

Question21: In order to plan the business analysis approach, the business analyst must understand the organizational process needs and what other thing?

Question22: A business analyst has just completed an elicitation event. What stakeholder(s) is/are involved in the documentation of the elicitation results?

Question23: 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?

Question24: 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?

Question25: You work as a project manager for SoftTech Inc. You are working with the project stakeholders to begin the qualitative risk analysis process. You will need all of the following as inputs to the qualitative risk analysis process except for which one?

Question26: As a business analyst, you may be called upon to define the scope of work and to develop the estimates for the endeavor. Which one of the following is an important tool for this activity?

Question27: What does the decomposition of activities and tasks based on the work breakdown structure create for the business analyst?

Question28: 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?

Question29: A business analyst wants to use benchmarking, but the project manager recommends against the approach.
There are, as the project manager points out, several disadvantages to benchmarking. Which one of the following is not a disadvantage to benchmarking?

Question30: 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?

Question31: In preparation for your business analysis examinations, you should be familiar with the tasks to complete requirements management and communication activities. How many tasks are there in the knowledge area of requirements management and communication?

Question32: In order to assess the capability gaps of an organization, you'll need all of the following inputs except for which one?

Question33: 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?

Question34: Which of the following is used as a means of validating a created, selected, or tailored business analysis approach?

Question35: A business analyst wants to host a brainstorming session with eight key stakeholders. In preparation for this event, the business analyst should designate which one of the following rules for the session?

Question36: 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?

Question37: 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?

Question38: As a candidate for the CCBA exam, you should be able to recognize the activities associated with each knowledge area. All of the following are the business analysis planning & monitoring activities except for which one?

Question39: 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?

Question40: 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?

Question41: 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?

Question42: When you, a Business Analyst, work with your stakeholders, team, and experts to define the business analysis activities, what thing do you actually define?

Question43: 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?

Question44: Which elicitation activity is best described to ensure that the needed resources are organized and available for the elicitation?

Question45: When a business analyst assists in the planning of the solution implementation, she must always consider the constraints for implementation. Which one of the following cannot be considered as an implementation constraint?

Question46: Which stakeholder in the solution assessment task will provide information on technical constraints that could limit the solutions that may be implemented?

Question47: 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?

Question48: 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 are useful?

Question49: A business analyst has determined that there are five possible solutions to a business need. If the business analyst completes the solution assessment on multiple solutions, what is the goal of the assessment?

Question50: You're organizing the business analysis approach for your organization. Jane wants to know when changes to requirements are most likely to happen in business analysis processes. Which one of the following statements best describes when changes to requirements may happen?

Question51: 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?

Question52: Tracy is a business analyst for her organization and she's gathered and identified the needed requirements for the solution scope. What must Tracy do before she can begin managing the requirements? Choose the best answer.

Question53: You are a business analyst for your organization. Your current business analysis endeavor includes working with stakeholders who are located in offices around the world. Because these stakeholders are dispersed, what are likely to increase in this endeavor as opposed to a collocated group of stakeholders?

Question54: 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?

Question55: Kelly is the business analyst for her organization and she's identifying roles and responsibilities of the people involved in business analysis activities. Her manager has asked Kelly to create the RACI matrix to accomplish this task. What is the RACI matrix?

Question56: 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?

Question57: 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?

Question58: Which of the following describes the organizational policies, procedures, forms, and methodologies the business analyst is to follow?

Question59: According to the business analysis book 'A Guide to the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge', which your exam is largely based on, almost all methodologies fit somewhere along a spectrum between plan-driven and what other methodology?

Question60: 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?

Question61: A business analyst is helping management determine which solution they should choose. As it happens that the organization can only choose one of the two solutions due to time and resource restrictions. Solution A worth $456,000 to the organization while solution B worth $565,000 to the organization. While solution A costs less, it is less risky and takes less time to complete so management elects to seize Solution A.
What is the opportunity cost?

Question62: 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?

Question63: When a business analyst completes the task of organizing requirements, he is completing two key objectives.
What are the two objectives?

Question64: 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?

Question65: Which of the following is the best definition of the business rules analysis?

Question66: 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. Which of the following statements is true regarding the plan business analysis approach?

Question67: Which technique in organizing requirements is best described as showing the concepts and relationships relevant to the solution or business domain?

Question68: Which stakeholder analysis technique shows stakeholders that fall outside the scope of the solution but still interact with it in some way?

Question69: 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?

Question70: 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?

Question71: Shelly is the business analyst for her organization and she's working with Thomas to review the business requirements. They are discussing the identified requirements, how the requirements will transition to the operations, and the longevity of the solution. Thomas is concerned that the identified requirements may not map to the desired future state of the organization. What business analysis task is Shelly facilitating in this scenario?

Question72: 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?

Question73: 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?

Question74: 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?

Question75: Which of the following are documented approaches to the business analysis work? Each correct answer represents a complete solution.

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

Question77: 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?

Question78: You are the business analyst for your organization and preparing to plan the business analysis approach. There are three inputs to the business analysis approach. Which one of the following is not an input to this approach?

Question79: If an organization wants to re-use requirements, where should the defined requirements be kept?

Question80: All of the following are documented approaches to business analysis work except for which one?

Question81: 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?

Question82: You are the business analyst in your organization and you're working to organize the requirements for the business units in your company. Which technique is best suited for structuring requirements around the needs of each stakeholder group?

Question83: 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?

Question84: 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.

Question85: In a change-driven environment, what's more important than formal communications in regard to effective requirements management?

Question86: 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?

Question87: Which one of the following is not an event-based elicitation technique?

Question88: In the life of a project, when do the number and impact of change requests often increase?

Question89: Enterprise analysis provides many things for an organization. All of the following are tasks included in enterprise analysis except for which one?

Question90: Nancy has asked you to trace a particular requirement for her. What does 'to trace a requirement' mean?

Question91: 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?

Question92: You are the business analyst for your organization and you're working with your stakeholders to assess the organization's readiness for the solution. As part of this assessment, you'll perform a cultural assessment. What is the purpose of this assessment?