IIBA CBAP Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

IIBA CBAP Online Questions & Answers

• Question 391:

  You are the business analyst for your organization. On your current project you'll be using the change-driven approach for defining requirements and gathering feedback.

  Which of the following statements best describes the change-driven approach?

  A. The change-driven approach favors defining requirements through experimentation.
  B. The change-driven approach does not define the requirements until after a solution for the problem has been identified.
  C. The change-driven approach favors defining requirements standardized templates.
  D. The change-driven approach favors defining requirements through team interaction.
  D. The change-driven approach favors defining requirements through team interaction.

• Question 392:

  Before the start of a large, cross functional change effort, the team of business analysts (BAs) assigned decided they need something to help them ensure requirements collectively support one another and do not conflict. What option would provide the consistency they are looking for?

  A. Requirements Architecture
  B. Functional decomposition
  C. Checklists
  D. Process modelling
  A. Requirements Architecture

• Question 393:

  A business analyst is helping management determine which solution they should choose. As it happens that the organization can only choose one of the two solutions due to time and resource restrictions. Solution A worths $456,000 to the organization while solution B worths $565,000 to the organization. While solution A costs less, it is less risky and takes less time to complete so management elects to seize Solution A.

  What is the opportunity cost?

  A. $565,000
  B. There is not enough information to know how much the solution will cost the organization.
  C. $109,000
  D. $456,000
  A. $565,000

• Question 394:

  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:

  

  Which technique would the BA use to validate the desired outcomes?

  A. Business model canvas
  B. Decision analysis
  C. Key performance indicators
  D. Use cases
  C. Key performance indicators

• Question 395:

  You are hosting a collection of stakeholders from across the organization to identify the ideas and attitudes about your company's help desk. You want the stakeholders to honestly share their opinions about the help desk service so you can identify problems, solutions, and take actions to improve the service.

  What type of requirements elicitation activity is this?

  A. Stakeholder analysis
  B. Focus groups
  C. Workshop
  D. Root cause analysis
  B. Focus groups

• Question 396:

  Which of the following documents is described in the statement below?

  "It is a type of procurement document used to request proposals from prospective sellers of products or services."

  A. Request for quote
  B. Request for information
  C. Request for bid
  D. Request for proposal
  D. Request for proposal

• Question 397:

  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 stakeholders.
  B. Defines the general approach that will be taken to create or acquire new capabilities required to meet the business need.
  C. It is an uncertain event or condition that may have a positive or negative impact on the abilities of the chartered project.
  D. Decomposes the project scope into smaller deliverables; each deliverable is subdivided repeatedly until the deliverable cannot or should not be broken down any further.
  B. Defines the general approach that will be taken to create or acquire new capabilities required to meet the business need.

• Question 398:

  Which of the following is an estimate based on past projects to predict the current cost and/or duration of the current project?

  A. Current estimate
  B. Past project cost
  C. Past estimate
  D. Top-down estimate
  D. Top-down estimate

• Question 399:

  The creative thinking process has three values to determine the effectiveness of the process.

  Which one of the following is not a measurement of effective creative thinking?

  A. Application of new ideas to resolve existing problems
  B. Generation of a pre-determined number of new ideas for a business solution
  C. Willingness of stakeholders to accept new approaches
  D. The successful generation and productive consideration of new ideas
  B. Generation of a pre-determined number of new ideas for a business solution

• Question 400:

  What does the T in SWOT analysis mean?

  A. Trial
  B. Threats
  C. Test
  D. Time
  B. Threats