EMT Practice Test

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Question1: Which of the following is an example of a functional requirement?

Question2: The business analyst has been assigned to a project which delivers functionality for a much larger solution.
The project has many requirements but has not received adequate funding. In addition, the stakeholders' views conflict.
Which tools and techniques should the business analyst use to maximize business value while establishing the requirements baseline?

Question3: What should be done lo ensure that the product design meets the stated requirements?

Question4: The client produced a specification for a new product to be developed by Company A. Company A designed and successfully tested the new product against the test plan. yet the client does not agree that it meets the specification.
What could have caused this?

Question5: The human resources, engineering, and marketing departments have provided feedback on the business needs for a new product. After analyzing the feedback from the three departments, it would be best to:

Question6: A type of requirements document that would be the most valuable to a database administrator would be:

Question7: What is a standardized, effective, and efficient way to manage changes to project documentation?

Question8: The business analyst wishes lo clarify the project's key business drivers and ensure that requirements can be prioritized to provide maximum business value. Which question should the business analyst ask of stakeholders to help obtain this clarification?

Question9: A business analyst has received a test result report that shows evidence of defective functionality. The business analyst checks the test result again and verifies that the functionality behaves according to the requirements.
At this point, the business analyst should first:

Question10: The sales team of a company has won a time-and-malerial project. The business analyst discovers that the sales team has underestimated the required budget and schedule Which course of action should the business analyst take?

Question11: The project team is working on the requirements specifications for a new product. The team reached a decision on which requirements will be included in the next release A third of the stakeholders endorse one approach while no other approach achieved more than a quarter of the vote Which decision role was used?

Question12: The requirements traceability matrix should primarily be used to:

Question13: The business managers had clearly slated that the delivered website must simultaneously accommodate millions of users around the globe. However, within the first week of the production launch, the website crashes frequently.
This situation could have been averted if:

Question14: A business analyst is attempting to elicit requirements on a current project. The business subject matter experts (SMEs) from various departments in the company question how the solution will work with their various systems.
Which modeling technique should the business analyst use to depict how the solution will work with all of the company's systems?

Question15: The project team is working on test scripts to test a solution. Which source can be used for building tests of end-to-end business processes across business functions and systems?

Question16: Which tool can be used to analyze how the system responds to various combinations of input conditions with the probability of each outcome?

Question17: The quality function deployment is best suited to assist in the process of:

Question18: A business analysis team has collected the mam business requirements from the major stakeholders of a project. The team wants to be sure that each stakeholder has a clear understanding of the areas of analysis that will be in scope.
Which model should the team employ to ensure the most effective representation of analysis boundary?

Question19: To reduce the amount of time and effort needed to create a product specification for a project, the business analyst plans to reuse:

Question20: Midway through Ihe requirements gathering phase, a stakeholder informs the business analyst that a requested requirement does not address the solution. The stakeholder wants to know who made the request. The business analyst spends hours searching emails to identity the requestor.
What should the business analyst have documented?

Question21: A stakeholder has rejected a project's deliverable because it does not meet the original business need. It is further determined that the deliverable does not meet the requirements identified in the baseline.
What is the best approach to resolve this issue?

Question22: An organization is evaluating the possibility of conducting business internationally. Which factors should be investigated at the onset of the initiative?

Question23: A business analyst is ready lo begin requirements elicitation; however, stakeholders are not available to participate for another two weeks. Which elicitation technique should the business analyst use during this time?

Question24: A company has launched a new online sales application and engaged a focus group to test how quickly the customer could place an order. The focus group also provided feedback on their satisfaction.
Which metrics tool should the business analyst use to record the results?

Question25: The document that defines the process for managing requirements revisions is the:

Question26: Company A would like to enter into a new market. The business analyst has been assigned lo a project for which nobody in Company A has any prior experience. The project manager has asked the business analyst to assist in resource planning.
What should the business analyst recommend to the project manager?

Question27: While preparing a business case, an experienced business analyst faces difficulty in deciding which of three different solution options to recommend. The senior vice president (SVP) who requested the business case favors an outsourced solution; however, an analysis favors a custom-developed solution, either built internally or using contract labor.
To prepare the recommendation, what should the business analyst do?

Question28: The business analyst is in the process of implementing a solution for a customer. The team is having difficulty confirming if certain requirements have been met. What could have caused this issue?

Question29: A business analyst is developing a traceability matrix to determine whether or not any gaps exist and to identify any discrepancies.

Which critical field is needed to ensure that the traceability matrix is usable?

Question30: After analyzing a set of requirements documents, it is determined that the requirements are not yet ready for peer review. This was most likely caused by:

Question31: Which document best provides the boundaries for product development?

Question32: The test team is reviewing requirements that were written for Project A. They are having difficulty determining if the test results meet the project needs. Which project artifact could the test team review to help identify acceptance criteria?

Question33: A business analyst has been assigned to Project Y. After a requirements gathering session, the project manager asks the business analyst to identify which requirements would be considered in scope and out of scope, based on the business need.
What document should the business analyst use to determine the relationship of the requirement to the business need?

Question34: Company A has been awarded a contract to finalize the development of a product that Company B was not able to finish. The business analyst is given a copy of the documentation left by Company B.
To which of the following documents should the business analyst pay the most attention to ensure the project succeeds this time?

Question35: The project manager is beginning to prepare for a test readiness review with the customer. The project manager knows that the customer will want a summary of requirements that have been rejected or deferred.
The project manager has requested that the business analyst provide a list of rejected and deferred requirements.
What should the business analyst have done to complete this request?

Question36: A business analyst is working on a highly complex project and has elicited a large number of requirements from stakeholders in several departments Due to the large number of requirements, the stakeholders have determined that they would like to prioritize them to minimize a potentially large scope.
Which technique could the business analyst use to manage requirements?

Question37: A business analyst has been assigned to a project team that is redesigning the company's website The business analyst has been documenting the relationships between requirements and has found requirements that do not trace to a business need.
Which type of requirements are these?

Question38: Prior to the design phase, the project team needs to conduct a requirements review with the customer. To prepare for the review, it would be best for the team to:

Question39: What can a business analyst use to track requirements documentation?

Question40: A major stakeholder wants to know how the implementation of new features in the development of a product is progressing. Which of the following should be reported to the stakeholder?

Question41: Inthe middle of a project, a new requirement was added to the scope. The business analyst must determine if any impacts, dependencies, or risks are associated with the addition to the scope.
What task should the business analyst perform in order to identify these impacts?

Question42: A company's management team has decided to deploy a new product. However, there is concern that users may not accept a new product that forces them to change existing practices.
The business analyst should:

Question43: Which of the following best describes the function of the requirements baseline?

Question44: A business analyst created requirements for production of a product extract file for several systems. After reviewing the complex systems and dividing the processes into manageable tasks, the business analyst is able to identify the tasks required to implement the deliverable.
Which analysis technique has the business analyst used?

Question45: A project team delivers a solution based on the approved requirements and is confident that it meets the defined acceptance criteria. What should the business analyst do to obtain signoff?

Question46: After a project was delivered, the business analyst learns of a project objective with no associated requirement.
What would have helped determine this issue before delivery?

Question47: A business analyst has elicited, documented, and verified the requirements, discovering that there are not enough resources to deliver all the requirements. Which technique should the business analyst employ to rectify the issue?

Question48: Once the requirements are compared to internal and external quality standards, what should the business analyst do next?

Question49: An insurance company embarks on a project to replace its current enrollment and billing software application, which will no longer be supported by the end of the calendar year. The new enrollment and billing application must be implemented before the current vendor contract ends. The business analyst gathers the initial requirements for the new enrollment and billing application. Based on the large volume of requirements, the business analyst realizes that the requirements will need to be prioritized.
Which requirements prioritization method should the business analyst use for this project?

Question50: When a change request is received, the business analyst is responsible for:

Question51: After implementation of the product, the customer reports defects. What is the best course of action to take?

Question52: Once a new project has been identified, the business analyst works with project team members to define what will be included in and excluded from the new system. Which of the following has the business analyst defined?

Question53: A company has completed a major project within time. cost, and scope and satisfied high-level quality standards and marketing requests. However, the product was considered a complete failure by shareholders and the market due to low return on investment From the business analysis perspective, the main reason for this business failure was a failure to:

Question54: Which of the following tools will help facilitate the decision-making process when stakeholders do not agree on the value of an initiative?

Question55:
Which solution should be chosen according to the completed weighted-ranking matrix?

Question56: A project that was going well for the last few months has encountered a situation-regulatory authorities have deemed that the project does not meet their requirements. Although regulatory requirements were identified during an earlier phase of the project, there is no substantial evidence to prove that the requirements were formally rejected.
This could have been avoided if:

Question57: The following requirement was included in a business requirements document: "An API shall be built to send data back and forth from the accounting system to the customer relationship system so that name and address data can be synchronized." What should be done with this business requirement?

Question58: What should a business analyst do after discovering that two solution requirements conflict?

Question59: One of the main purposes for creating a requirements traceability matrix is to:

Question60: A company is developing a new product for a customer and is required to verify and validate the product against the customers acceptance test plan and requirements. The product was successfully verified against the acceptance test criteria, but the customer does not believe that the product meets the requirements.
This occurred because the customer's acceptance test plan:

Question61: In the first few weeks after a large implementation of a new web-based application, a critical report failed.
Further investigation determined that a worker had been using a field that was not supposed to be used. This issue was not identified in testing.
Which technique could have prevented this problem from occurring?

Question62: Two weeks prior to the delivery date, a customer changes the business requirements. What should the business analyst do?

Question63: A business analyst anticipates receiving requirements changes. What should the business analyst do to avoid scope creep?

Question64: After several meetings with different groups of users, a business analyst has gathered the requirements for a large IT project Now, the business analyst needs to document those requirements in a way that is clearly understood by the development team and provides enough information to check if the requirement has been met.
Which of the following would work best in this case?

Question65: Which tool is the most appropriate to aid in development of measurable and actionable requirements for a new project?

Question66: A business analyst has been assigned to a project to implement a new phone system for a customer call center.
The business analyst will need to create a business case.
Which of the following components will the business analyst use as input to the business case?

Question67: The business analyst is planning an approach to formally manage updates to requirements that may be requested by stakeholders. What should the business analyst do?

Question68: A business analyst is leading a project to implement automated order entry software at a local pizza restaurant.
The business analyst has very little information about the project the ordering process takes too long and often ends in incorrect orders.
What step should the business analyst take next?

Question69: In order to reduce product and project risk for a large, complex project, a business analyst is asked to help develop a change process that includes formal authorization and tracking throughout the life cycle of the project. The business analyst needs a capability that will help ensure that the product conforms to approved requirements, changes can be documented, and the status of each change can be reported.
What should the business analyst use?

Question70: A business analyst has started a project for a system enhancement. In order to determine how the requirements will be approved, the business analyst schedules a meeting with the stakeholders to discuss the proposed approval process.
Which measure of effective decision making allows the business analyst to finalize the process for requirement approval?