IIBA CBAP Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

IIBA CBAP Online Questions & Answers

• Question 151:

  A business analyst (BA) was developing an outline of the timing of business analysis activities with the project manager. What factors may impact the timing of the activities the BA is performing?

  A. Solution design
  B. Project manager's experience
  C. Contract terms
  D. Project sponsor interest
  D. Project sponsor interest

• Question 152:

  The technology team at a financial institution has successfully constructed a software application to be deployed as part of a digital banking strategy. A business analyst (BA) has completed a review of the current state description and now needs to evaluate the solution and determine limiting factors for value realization.

  What additional input is required to perform the assessment of enterprise limitations?

  A. Operational assessment
  B. Potential value
  C. Solution performance analysis
  D. Organizational structure
  C. Solution performance analysis

• Question 153:

  Which of the following processes measures the maturity level of the security program?

  A. Risk analysis
  B. Risk mitigation
  C. Risk assessment
  D. GAP analysis
  D. GAP analysis

• Question 154:

  You are the business analyst for your organization and are with another business analyst, Steve, on the requirements elicitation for a new solution. You warn Steve that you'll need to be tracing the requirements in an effort to prevent scope creep.

  What is scope creep?

  A. The scope grows slightly larger as more requirements, often unneeded, are added to the scope
  B. The scope slips on the schedule which in turn delays the project delivery date
  C. Gold plating
  D. The scope shifts from the original intent of the business case
  A. The scope grows slightly larger as more requirements, often unneeded, are added to the scope

• Question 155:

  A business analyst (BA) elicits requirements for the sales order processing of multiple product lines. Elicitation reveals that the business processes for the sales orders of most products follow similar activity patterns that have been established over a number of years. Some of the new proposed seasonal products, however, will necessitate major variations in the process flow of some departments. The seasonal products are likely to be different every year. The business needs to carefully adapt its business practices so that the significant but seasonal variations in some of the business processes for the new products are handled adequately without disrupting the processes for the other established products.

  Which of the following approaches must the BA take to manage the requirements for sales order processing in the long term?

  A. Reference specific departments in the requirements for the seasonal products
  B. Reference specific departments in the requirements for the established products
  C. Use a high level of abstraction for the seasonal products to make them less subject to revision during a change
  D. Use a high level of abstraction for the established products to make them less subject to revision during a change
  D. Use a high level of abstraction for the established products to make them less subject to revision during a change

• Question 156:

  An insurance company wants to increase sales by 15% and customer retention by 10% within 1 calendar year. Various strategies to achieve this were considered and a restructure to the existing pricing model is selected to help achieve these goals.

  A business analyst (BA) works with stakeholders such as actuaries, product specialists, sales staff, risk managers, and underwriters who agree to applying varying levels of discounts to customers based on:

  ?Total annual premium the customer has with the company (Financial worth)

  ?Time with the insurance company (Loyalty)

  Various financial models are considered but the stakeholders agree that an initial applicable discount is determined based on the customer's overall premium:

  

  The percentage of the maximum possible discount available to the customer is adjusted based on time with the company:

  

  What did the BA create to ensure that everyone who needed to be included had been?

  A. Onion diagram
  B. Concept model
  C. Capability diagram
  D. Context model
  A. Onion diagram

• Question 157:

  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.

  The seminar administrator 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 BA is analyzing the requirements that are represented in the Class Diagram. In addition to the diagram, the BA would like to include a separate document that has the information about the data elements to ensure a common understanding of the classes' attributes. What technique is used to define the data elements?

  A. Data Dictionary
  B. Data Mining
  C. Glossary
  D. Reviews
  A. Data Dictionary

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• Question 158:

  A national branch of a global company is struggling to improve business processes of its Public and Government Affairs (PGA) department. To work with external stakeholders effectively, PGA employees need to collect, manage, and exchange a vast amount of information. Complex cases involve collaboration of many employees from different departments. The ability to share information and to coordinate corresponding activities is crucial for the company's growth plans. Their current tools and practices do not serve the purpose well. The existing system, which was deployed a couple of years ago, has only a few active users. The majority of PGA employees avoid using it because the system is hard to use and lacks needed functionality. Consequently, available information is mostly unstructured and stored either locally or on a shared network drive. Some of the information exists only in a paper form.

  The branch's PGA head, who sponsors the project, wants to implement a configurable solution that two other branches successfully deployed several months ago. Both deployments were done by three solution consultants, who will be available to assist in the project. They will be responsible for tailoring the solution to PGA needs, as well as for training the PGA staff. With their help, the sponsor plans to complete the project in approximately three months.

  The solution consultants reside in another country 7 hours ahead of the rest of the project team. They will be available part-time, but are planning two one-week long trips to the PGA central office to conduct initial training and to participate in the final deployment of the system into production. The consultants, in turn, expect a business analyst (BA) to assist in collecting necessary data and defining customization requirements.

  What should define the timing of business analysis work in this project?

  A. Buy-in of the proposed solution
  B. Approach used by the previous deployments
  C. Availability of solution consultants
  D. Overall project schedule
  A. Buy-in of the proposed solution

• Question 159:

  A business analyst (BA) is preparing to specify requirements. Various attributes can be specified for each requirement or set of requirements.

  Which approach contains a suitable set of attributes?

  A. Stakeholder Engagement
  B. Information Management
  C. Business Analysis
  D. Governance
  B. Information Management

• Question 160:

  Which of the following is a visual decomposition of the project scope?

  A. Budgeted Cost of Work Scheduled (BCWS)
  B. Resource Breakdown Structure (RBS)
  C. product breakdown structure (PBS)
  D. Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
  D. Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)