IIBA CBAP Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

IIBA CBAP Online Questions & Answers

• Question 291:

  Ben is the business analyst for his organization. Ben is currently working on a solution to improve a laser printer. He has taken the laser printer apart, identified each component, and documented each component's purpose.

  What type of requirements organization is Ben doing in this scenario?

  A. Process modeling
  B. Data modeling
  C. Functional decomposition
  D. Scope modeling
  C. Functional decomposition

• Question 292:

  Which of the following terms is used to describe a major deliverable or key even in the project used to measure project progress?

  A. Project life cycle
  B. Phase
  C. Achievement
  D. Milestone
  D. Milestone

• Question 293:

  While defining what necessary conditions are required to achieve the business need for a highly regulated government client, a business analyst (BA) discovers that some legacy policies will either constrain or are insufficient to achieve value desired by the future state.

  How should the BA proceed?

  A. Modify the solution to comply with the policies
  B. Identify an assumption about future state value
  C. Model two future states, one with and another without these policies
  D. Obtain approval to change the policies
  C. Model two future states, one with and another without these policies

• Question 294:

  What element of the plan business analysis process affects the business analysis duties that need to be performed?

  A. The experience of the business analyst
  B. The experience of the project manager
  C. The expected completion date of the business analysis duties
  D. The type of project or initiative
  D. The type of project or initiative

• Question 295:

  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 finalizing the definition of the requirements architecture by understanding how requirements relate to each other. A key component that must be apparent in all three diagrams is that none of the requirements be linked in different or conflicting ways. What relationship quality criterion does this represent?

  A. Correct
  B. Unambiguous
  C. Defined
  D. Necessary
  B. Unambiguous

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• Question 296:

  Which of the following process groups occurs at the beginning of the project?

  A. Executing
  B. Planning
  C. Initiating
  D. Controlling and Monitoring
  E. Closing
  C. Initiating

• Question 297:

  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 activity should the BA do to determine which stores will be the first to start the renovations?

  A. Perform document analysis for stores annual records
  B. Survey store managers for number of customers per day
  C. Conduct a focus group with store managers to determine which should be first D. Brainstorm with store managers on the current state of each store
  A. Perform document analysis for stores annual records

• Question 298:

  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
  B. Requirements workshop

• Question 299:

  An insurance company has two actuarial teams: Life and Non-Life. The Life team has a specialized tool to make their calculations while the Non-life team performs calculations manually. Last year the company bought a single solution to support both groups. The Non-Life team continues to do certain calculations manually to conform to their processes.

  Which type of analysis was missed prior to purchasing a solution?

  A. Operational assessment
  B. Organizational structure
  C. Stakeholder impact analysis
  D. Stakeholder location
  C. Stakeholder impact analysis

• Question 300:

  Following a recent, successful deployment, a business analyst (BA) has noticed that several of the requirements are candidates for reuse in multiple upcoming change initiatives. Which type of requirement is a potential candidate for re-use?

  A. Stakeholder requirements
  B. Business requirements
  C. Non-Functional requirements
  D. Transition requirements
  A. Stakeholder requirements