IIBA CBAP Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

IIBA CBAP Online Questions & Answers

• Question 401:

  Management comes to you and asks you to complete some specifications and models about the current state of the organization. Management wants you to complete this business analysis activity as soon as possible and report back to them with your findings.

  What is the primary purpose of the specify and model requirements process?

  A. To analyze the processes of an organization to determine what processes can be improved, removed, or added.
  B. To analyze the utility function within the organization to determine how risk tolerance may allow for new opportunities.
  C. To analyze the roles and responsibilities of users within the organization to determine how the processes may be improved.
  D. To analyze the functioning of an organization and to provide an insight into opportunities for improvement.
  D. To analyze the functioning of an organization and to provide an insight into opportunities for improvement.

• Question 402:

  Donna is leading a brainstorming session for her organization. She has asked the participants in this group to come up with at least ten ideas for possible solutions to an identified problem.

  What is the problem with setting the goal as ten ideas for possible solutions in this session?

  A. The goal should be to come up with as many solutions as possible, not just ten ideas.
  B. The goal should be to generate ten ideas within a set time period.
  C. The goal should be to come up with the best solution for the problem, not ten ideas.
  D. The goal should be to include everyone's input to the solutions.
  A. The goal should be to come up with as many solutions as possible, not just ten ideas.

• Question 403:

  You are the business analyst for your organization. You are currently working with Susan on creating a model as part of the specify and model requirements process. Susan doesn't understand why you need a model. You explain to Susan that a model is just a simplified representation of a complex reality that is useful for understanding that reality and making decisions regarding it. In fact, you tell Susan, model can do all of the following except one option.

  Choose the option that model cannot do?

  A. Define the resources that will be needed on the project team
  B. Define boundaries for the business domain
  C. Describe a situation or problem
  D. Describe thought processes and action flows
  A. Define the resources that will be needed on the project team

• Question 404:

  You are the business analyst for your organization and are working with Sally, a project manager, for your organization. You and Sally are determining the cost of the labor, materials, equipment, and facilities in order to achieve the different solutions that have been proposed for an identified problem.

  What is this process called?

  A. Cost budgeting
  B. Expert judgment
  C. Rough order of magnitude cost estimating
  D. Scoping the project costs
  C. Rough order of magnitude cost estimating

• Question 405:

  You are currently working on creating the activity list for an initiative in your organization. What characteristic must be assigned to each task in your task list?

  A. Procurement needs
  B. Roles and responsibilities
  C. Unique number
  D. Risk level
  C. Unique number

• Question 406:

  A business analyst (BA) is outlining who should participate in an upcoming requirements elicitation meeting.

  From whom should the BA obtain approval before selecting the participants?

  A. Sponsor
  B. End user
  C. Project manager
  D. Subject matter expert
  C. Project manager

• Question 407:

  

  The table illustrates the statement of cash flows for a courier company for the last fiscal year.

  Due to aggressive market competition, the management of the company performed a strategy review and based on their findings and the current market conditions they came up with strategic and tactical changes in order to keep a competitive market position.

  In order to strengthen customer retention strategies through a new competitive advantage, the company is considering implementing a live parcel tracking system. The added value will be that the customers may determine the exact location of the parcel whether it is in a warehouse, crossing the ocean through an overseas ship, or travelling in a delivery truck at any time. The system tracks the location of the parcel by tracking the vehicle in which it is contained. However, for a group of old delivery trucks, it was noticed that the engine sound and vibration disturbed the tracking signal and caused interruptions. Therefore, the tracking does not perform accurately on these vehicles. Although the majority of management would like to sell these vehicles and replace them with newer ones, the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) was strongly against that approach. The CFO argued that instead of hanging tracking devices on the trucks' body, they can have the truck drivers manually send the truck location from a hand held mobile device every 30 minutes.

  The company has a total of 134 old delivery trucks that have been in service for 10 years. Each vehicle was bought at a price of $22,000. Depreciation is done using a straight line basis and it is estimated that the vehicle depreciates at $1000 per year. The estimated salvage value per vehicle is about $3,000.

  Another area of tactical improvement for the courier company is pricing. The management strongly believes that they can start a price war with the most aggressive competitor. Management thinks, with their variable cost of $4 per parcel and fixed cost of $6 per parcel, they can win the market. However, after implementing the tracking solution, fixed cost will jump to $8 per parcel which made management reconsider their options. The competitor has variable costs of $5 per parcel and fixed costs o $7 per parcel.

  In order to align with the added value required from the parcel tracking solution that would be an important requirements' category for the BA to give more focus?

  A. Transition
  B. Process
  C. Stakeholder
  D. Non functional
  C. Stakeholder

• Question 408:

  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 working on the design options for the future state at the martial arts organization. There are several design elements that need to be considered for the future state. Which of the following design elements does the Activity Diagram address?

  A. Business processes to be performed and managed
  B. Business policies and business rules
  C. People who operate and maintain the solution
  D. Operational business decisions to be made
  A. Business processes to be performed and managed

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• Question 409:

  A business analyst (BA) is facilitating a meeting between process owners to capture the business rules for a workflow solution. One of the attendees expresses a strong opinion that the solution will not deliver the expected value. How will the BA ensure the process owner remains engaged and will support the change?

  A. Update the requirements
  B. Record the feedback and continue
  C. Review the future state
  D. Change the governance approach
  B. Record the feedback and continue

• Question 410:

  Which of the following models demonstrates the attributes, operations, and relationship to entities within the solution?

  A. Entity Relationship
  B. Data dictionary
  C. Class model
  D. CRUD matrix
  C. Class model