IIBA CBAP Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

IIBA CBAP Online Questions & Answers

• Question 1:

  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?

  A. Business Analysis Plan
  B. Business Analysis Communications Plan
  C. Communications management plan
  D. Stakeholder Management Plan
  B. Business Analysis Communications Plan

• Question 2:

  You are the business analyst for a large, complex solution and you are working with the stakeholders to determine the prioritization of the requirements. You would like to use the decision analysis to determine the best decision for the requirements outcome. You must know four things as part of decision analysis.

  Which one of the following will not help you with this approach to the requirements prioritization process?

  A. The values, goals, and objectives that are relevant to the requirements
  B. The consequences of each possible decision
  C. The nature of the decision that must be made
  D. The future value of the requirements
  D. The future value of the requirements

• Question 3:

  In a requirements elicitation effort, the business analyst (BA) needs to define boundaries for business domains, categorize and create a hierarchy of items, and show data sources and their relationships for specific audiences.

  Which of the following modeling formats should the BA use?

  A. Diagrams
  B. Graphics
  C. Matrices
  D. Prototype
  A. Diagrams

• Question 4:

  Which of the following is a method of displaying the timelines of all the various subtasks that are involved in any project?

  A. Pie chart
  B. Scatter chart
  C. Activity network diagram
  D. Cost-benefit analysis
  C. Activity network diagram

• Question 5:

  Enterprise analysis creates just five outputs.

  Which one of the following is an output of the enterprise analysis tasks?

  A. Assumptions and constraints
  B. Stakeholder concerns
  C. Solution performance assessment
  D. Solution approach
  D. Solution approach

• Question 6:

  A business analyst (BA) has defined a business analysis approach and presented the documents to the sponsors, the senior executives, the domain experts, the project manager, and the head of technology, to obtain agreement from all. At this juncture, the project manager objected to some of the estimates determined in the budget and refused to agree with the estimates. Which guideline or tool, if followed by the BA, would have helped in avoiding such disagreements?

  A. Risk Analysis and Management
  B. Business Analysis Performance Assessment
  C. Requirements Classification Schema
  D. Stakeholder Engagement Approach
  D. Stakeholder Engagement Approach

• Question 7:

  A team of business analysts (BAs) were assigned to review an enhancement request that would involve changes in a stockroom and the inventory of products. The changes will impact several groups of people and the amount of savings is in excess of $1 million dollars. The recommended process improvement will be presented to management for approval.

  What should the team do first?

  A. Create a business case
  B. Produce an organizational model
  C. Define the change strategy
  D. Validate the cost savings
  C. Define the change strategy

• Question 8:

  Stakeholders have indicated concerns with the level of uncertainty they are willing to accept with the solution.

  What type of analysis can the business analyst (BA) use to alleviate these concerns?

  A. Gap
  B. Financial
  C. Requirements
  D. Risk
  A. Gap

• Question 9:

  Your organization uses the MoSCoW approach to requirements prioritization.

  What does MoSCoW mean?

  A. Must, Should, Could, Would
  B. Must, Should, Could, Won't
  C. Mission, Schedule, Cost, Willingness
  D. Must not, Should not, Could not, Will not
  B. Must, Should, Could, Won't

• Question 10:

  An organization is trying to streamline its current processes to improve performance and reduce costs. A business analyst (BA) conducted a process improvement workshop and identified the following issues as the top three items to be addressed:

  1.

  There are multiple teams to define systems, functionality, and content. In many instances multiple teams are defining the same functionalities while other functionalities are not being defined at all, leading to unclear understanding of business requirements.

  2.

  Product specification forms are published each year. A comparison tool is used to evaluate specification between yearly releases, but does not adequately identify changes between versions and needs to be improved.

  3.

  Training consists of a new team member shadowing a seasoned team member. There are not written training materials for formal training sources therefore training is inconsistent and not meeting the needs of the organization.

  Which stakeholders would the BA interview to determine the changes needed to the comparison tool?

  A. Implementation Subject Matter Expert and Tester
  B. Project Manager and Project Sponsor
  C. Regulator and Operational Support Manager
  D. Domain Subject Matter Expert and End User
  B. Project Manager and Project Sponsor