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NEW QUESTION 1

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

• A. Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Time
• B. Stakeholder Weaknesses, Organizational Threats
• C. Stakeholders Weaknesses, Organization, Threats
• D. Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 2

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?

• A. It is the expected deliverables that will be beneficial for the organizatio
• B. It is the point in time when the solution will be complete
• C. It is the duration of each phase of the project until the solution earns a profi
• D. It is the point in time for the solution to break even on cost and begin earning a profi

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 3

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

• A. A project review
• B. A sign-off
• C. Risk assessment
• D. Inspection trend analysis

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 4

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

• A. Total ownership costing
• B. Lifecycle maintenance fees
• C. Sustainability fees
• D. Total cost of ownership

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 5

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

• A. Risk-driven
• B. Change-driven
• C. Risk-laden
• D. Profit-driven

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 6

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?

• A. To convey the cost, schedule, and risk information clearly
• B. To convey information clearly and in an understandable fashion
• C. To present the requirements in packages that are easy for the project team to accomplish in their project execution
• D. To help the project manager create the work breakdown structure

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 7

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

• A. Risk identification
• B. Risk management
• C. Risk communication
• D. Risk analysis

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 8

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

• A. Business goals and objectives
• B. Alternative identification
• C. Solution assessment
• D. Requirements

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 9

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?

• A. You need authority granted to you from the sponsor to utilize resources for the elicit requirements proces
• B. You need to determine which elicitation techniques are needed for the requirements gathering techniqu
• C. You need to ensure all needed resources are organized and scheduled for conducting the elicitation activitie
• D. You need to receive permission from functional management to interview and elicit requirements for the stakeholder

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 10

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 eachsoftware package to generate data reports for customers. What type of recommendation can you make in regard to this observation?

• A. You can address the automation of how the workers perfor
• B. You will need to perform active observation first to understand the processes in more detai
• C. You can address the non-functional requirements of the activitie
• D. You will need to perform passive observation first to understand the processes in moredetai

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 11

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?

• A. End user
• B. Database analyst
• C. Stakeholder
• D. Trainer

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 12

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

• A. Requirements management plan
• B. Project management plan
• C. Scope management plan
• D. Business analysis communication plan

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 13

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

• A. Project manager
• B. Subject matter expert
• C. Solution owner
• D. Stakeholder

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 14

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?

• A. It is the documentation and control of changes to the product scope as approved by the project stakeholder
• B. Defines the general approach that will be taken to create or acquire new capabilities required to meet the business nee
• C. It is an uncertain event or condition that may have a positive or negative impact on the abilities of the chartered projec
• D. Decomposes the project scope into smaller deliverables; each deliverable is subdivided repeatedly until the deliverable cannot or should not be broken down any furthe

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 15

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

• A. Risk register
• B. Work performance information
• C. Performance report
• D. Project management plan

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 16

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?

• A. Many-to-many interviews
• B. Requirements workshop
• C. Focus group
• D. Prototyping

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 17

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?

• A. To analyze the processes of an organization to determine what processes can be improved, removed, or adde
• B. To analyze the utility function within the organization to determine how risk tolerance may allow for new opportunitie
• C. To analyze the roles and responsibilities of users within the organization to determine how the processes may be improve
• D. To analyze the functioning of an organization and to provide an insight into opportunities forimprovemen

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 18

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

• A. Step funding
• B. Phase funding
• C. Stakeholders funding
• D. Milestone funding

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 19

Which of the following is the process of analyzing the areas of a project that are most affected by risk?

• A. Risk Identification
• B. Risk Urgency Assessment
• C. Risk Categorization
• D. Risk Analysis

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 20

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

• A. Decision tree
• B. Ishikawa
• C. Influence
• D. Tornado

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 21

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

• A. Time actually spent eliciting the requirements
• B. Number of stakeholders that did not participate in the requirements elicitation
• C. Cost of actually eliciting the requirements
• D. Changes that entered the scope throughout the requirements elicitation activities

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 22

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

• A. Analysis task
• B. Independent task
• C. Predecessor task
• D. Dependent task

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 23

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?

• A. Mitigation
• B. Risk-aversion
• C. Risk-seeking
• D. Neutrality

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 24

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?

• A. Risk analysis
• B. Risk identification
• C. Risk retention
• D. Risk communication

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 25

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

• A. Cost management plan
• B. Cost variance reports
• C. Control chart
• D. Coercive power

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 26

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?

• A. The requirements are categorized by type of work, and then ranked within each category of ease of implementation to difficulty of implementatio
• B. The requirements are ranked most difficult to easiest to implemen
• C. The requirements are ranked from easiest to hardest to implemen
• D. The requirements are categorized by the likelihood of management approving the requirem ent

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 27

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

• A. Interviews
• B. Market Survey
• C. Technology Assessment
• D. Prototyping

Answer: B

NEW QUESTION 28

You are preparing the business case for a proposed solution in your organization. You need to identify several components for the business case including an assessment of the risks the solution may contain. Which one of the following is the best definition of a risk as it pertains to the business case?

• A. Risk is an uncertain event or condition that may have both positive and negative affects on the solutio
• B. Risk is an uncertain event that can cause the organization to lose more monies than it invests in the solutio
• C. Risk is a potential event that can cause the solution to fai
• D. Risks are threats to the organization's succes

Answer: A

NEW QUESTION 29

When do change requests generally increase in a project?

• A. During the project's launc
• B. Towards the beginning of the projec
• C. During the project scope management processe
• D. Towards the end of the projec

Answer: D

NEW QUESTION 30

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."

• A. Cause and effect diagram
• B. Histogram
• C. Run chart
• D. Pareto chart

Answer: C

NEW QUESTION 31
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