IIBA CBAP Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

IIBA CBAP Online Questions & Answers

• Question 211:

  After the implementation of a new financial solution, the business analyst (BA) observes that the performance of a solution does not meet the anticipated benefits detailed in the original business case. What is a technique the BA can use to understand the reason for this?

  A. Interface analysis
  B. Business capability analysis
  C. Data flow diagram
  D. Fishbone diagram
  B. Business capability analysis

• Question 212:

  A floral company wants to gather information about each of its 30 international facilities to determine whether employees are satisfied with their jobs.

  Which of the following elicitation techniques should the business analyst (BA) use?

  A. Survey
  B. Decision analysis
  C. Observation
  D. Concept modelling
  A. Survey

• Question 213:

  You are the business analyst for a solution that has 435 stakeholders.

  How many communication channels exist in this project?

  A. 188,790
  B. 189,225
  C. 94,395
  D. 435
  C. 94,395

• Question 214:

  A business analyst (BA) has completed the prioritization of requirements with various risk-averse stakeholder groups. Several requirements conflict with a regulatory requirement that, if not implemented, will result in a fine from a regulatory body.

  What should the BA do?

  A. Measure the value of the other requirements against the penalty of not meeting the regulatory requirement
  B. Compare the regulatory requirement to the recommended solution
  C. Determine a means to work around the regulatory requirement
  D. Inform the stakeholders that the regulatory requirement takes precedence over other requirements
  C. Determine a means to work around the regulatory requirement

• Question 215:

  Manufacturer O has received a merger proposal from Manufacturer K. There is concern among the senior management of Manufacturer O that regulations could shift in the future, prompting Manufacturer K to move headquarters elsewhere and close operations at the current Manufacturer O site. In assessing the proposal limitations and as part of identifying enterprise limitations, a culture assessment is completed. As part of this work, what else would the BA perform?

  A. Organization and functional modelling
  B. Scope and requirements prioritization
  C. Financial and risk analysis
  D. Stakeholder impact and operational analysis
  D. Stakeholder impact and operational analysis

• Question 216:

  An insurance company wants to implement a business intelligence solution to consolidate data from various different internal systems to provide a better understanding of their customer base.

  A business analyst (BA) is engaged to put together a tender (bid) to be sent to various business intelligence providers and implementation partners. Among other information, the business analyst requests the following:

  Licensing costs for Year 0 based on meeting 1 Central Processing Unit (CPU) license

  Licensing costs for specific user types such as Report Creators. Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) users and Power uses Predicted licensing costs for renewing in Years 1 ad 2

  Full implementation costs

  After reviewing the received vendor responses the project team shortlists the candidates to 3 and the BA structures the received information as follows:

  

  The BA also conducts a sensitivity analysis to compare the expected costs should the company's needs grow based on the following information:

  Scenario 1: Ten extra report creator, 1 extra OLAP user and 1 extra power user licenses and 2 extra CPU licenses Scenario 2: Twenty five extra report creator, 1 extra OLAP user and 1 extra power user licenses and 3 extra CPU licenses

  

  What is the increased cost in Scenario 2 for Company C?

  A. $695,448
  B. $453,635
  C. $653,934
  D. $207,790
  A. $695,448

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• Question 217:

  A business analyst (BA) is working on a payment system (PS) implementation. A set of systems which should interact with a new system has been identified. The business analyst defined that a user with role of "Supervisor" in the PS must

  pass a two-factor authentication before an execution of the functions: "Change system parameters" and "Set up new supervisor." A user must have the role of "Supervisor" to use the standard functions "Send mail notification" or "Send SMS

  notification".

  The BA defined the following use cases:

  ?;Change system parameter";

  ?;Setup new superviso";

  ?;Send mail notificatio";

  ?;Send SMS notificatio";

  ?;Send notificatio";

  ?;Pass a two-factor authenticatio";

  The BA wants to create a Use Case diagram.

  Which technique should be used to define a communications protocol between the PS and other systems?

  A. Vertical prototyping
  B. Interface analysis
  C. Concept modelling
  D. System analysis
  D. System analysis

• Question 218:

  You are working with several business analysts to determine the solution approach for an identified problem.

  All of the following techniques are acceptable for identifying the solution approach except for which one?

  A. Benchmarking
  B. Decision analysis
  C. Risk analysis
  D. Brainstorming
  C. Risk analysis

• Question 219:

  You are the business analyst for the TGH Organization and are determining if you should buy or build a solution for your company. You have determined that you can create the in-house solution for $78,000 with a monthly support cost of

  $8,765. A vendor can create the solution for $61,000 with a monthly support costs of $7,990.

  How long will it take your company to break even if you choose the internal solution versus the vendor's solution?

  A. 36 months
  B. 12 months
  C. 6 months
  D. 22 months
  D. 22 months

• Question 220:

  You are the business analyst for your organization. You are coaching Tom about the different approaches to business analysis.

  Which type of business analysis approach has the most business analysis work at the beginning of the project or during the start of a project phase?

  A. Change-driven approach
  B. Value-driven approach
  C. Plan-driven approach
  D. Requirements-driven approach
  C. Plan-driven approach