CBAP Online Practice Questions and Answers

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?

A. Identify constraints and assumptions

B. Validate requirements

C. Verify requirements

D. Specify and model requirements

A popular department store chain wants to make computer upgrades as well as conduct a major remodeling effort to increase revenue to all their 100 stores over the next 2 years. The remodeling will occur in two phases. The two phases are required at each store and can be completed in any order, but each phase must be fully completed before the next phase can begin. Phase 1 will take approximately 32 weeks and will not require a store to be temporarily closed. Phase 2 will take approximately 20 weeks and will require a store to be temporarily closed.

In order to keep inventory level and total revenue for the department store chain at an operational level, 75% of the stores must remain open to the public at all times. Against the board of director's advice, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) made a decision to start and complete the top 25 revenue-producing stores in the first year to get those stores remodeled and fully operational.

A business analyst (BA) has been brought in to help with planning the project and gathering requirements.

What tool will help the BA understand the changes needed to keep the majority of the stores open?

A. Capability Model

B. Business capability analysis

C. Transition State Diagram

D. Stakeholder Matrix

A martial arts organization has been expanding throughout the mid-Atlantic states and has hired a business analyst (BA) to create a system that will enable the organization to manage its growing needs. The following list describes some of

the operations of the martial arts organization:

The martial arts organization offers a variety of seminars to trainees that span the entire spectrum of the martial arts training system.

Each seminar is made up of a set of techniques.

Coaches in the martial arts organization are assigned seminars to teach according to the area that they specialize in and their availability.

The martial arts organization publishes and maintains a web-based calendar of the different seminars (and the assigned coaches) every quarter for the trainees to view.

strator in the martial arts organization manages the seminars (including seminar content), assigns seminars to coaches, and defines the seminar schedule.

To ensure understanding of the business need, the BA has created three Unified Modelling Language (UML) diagrams, which are shown below:

The seminar administrator reviewed these three diagrams and asked the BA to create a fourth diagram to model the various levels that a trainee goes through (e.g., while belt to yellow belt, yellow belt to green belt, etc.). What modeling technique will the BA use to create this diagram?

A. Organizational modelling

B. State modelling

C. Concept modelling

D. Decision modelling

A Business Analyst (BA) is tasked with presenting the requirements for an auto insurance product to domain and implementation subject matter experts (SMEs). What requirements viewpoints should be used by the BA?

A. Logical Data Model

B. Organization Model

C. Scope Model

D. Business Process Model

A business analyst (BA) finds that the solution service level agreement (SLA) cannot be met in one out of five identified scenarios, as there is a dependency on a requirement which is a part of a future release. How should the BA approach the solution limitation?

A. Modify the SLA

B. Change the business process

C. Increase the scope and include the dependent requirement

D. Assess the impact on the business operations

A business analyst (BA) was tasked with eliciting requirements for a new product scheduling system. The BA interviewed and discussed the requirements with the manager and supervisor. The requirements were written and approved by both the supervisor and manager. Which stakeholders were missed in the requirements?

A. IT support

B. Project manager

C. Upper management

D. End users

A business analyst (BA) has just finished verifying requirements for a new application that impacts various business processes for product setup, sales, and support. Which of the following methods should be used to validate the requirements with key stakeholders?

A. Team review

B. Joint application design

C. Product backlog prioritization

D. Brainstorming

A business analyst (BA) has engaged various groups from across the organization to define the business opportunity a potential project will address. The BA must consolidate the information collected from the groups. The BA should ensure the business needs __________.

A. are traceable to their source stakeholders.

B. are articulated from the enterprise perspective.

C. describe the potential solutions that they will satisfy.

D. have minimal risk associated with them.

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?

A. Functional decomposition

B. Data flow diagramming

C. Work decomposition

D. Organization modeling

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?

A. Feasibility study

B. Vision statement

C. Project scope statement

D. Current state assessment