IIBA CCBA Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

IIBA CCBA Online Questions & Answers

• Question 31:

  Henry is the business analyst for the UUH Organization. Currently Henry is working on several work products as part of the requirements development process. He may need to share these work products with the stakeholders. Which of the following is not an example of a work product?

  A. Interview Questions and notes
  B. Presentation slides
  C. Meeting agendas and minutes
  D. Requirements documentation
  D. Requirements documentation

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  Requirements documentation is not a work product but a formal document that describes the requirements for the solution scope. Solution scope is a set of capabilities a solution must deliver in order to meet the business need. Answer: C, A, and B are incorrect. These are examples of a work product.

• Question 32:

  A system owner calls the project team to inquire about a recent change in one of the requirements, and insists that the change was never requested. What should the project team do to investigate the issue?

  A. Record a defect for fixing
  B. Consult with the project manager
  C. Revert back the changes
  D. Check the audit history of changes
  D. Check the audit history of changes

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  According to the BABOK Guide, checking the audit history of changes is a technique for maintaining requirements. This technique can help the project team investigate the issue raised by the system owner, as it provides a record of who made what changes to the requirements, when, and why1. By reviewing the audit history, the project team can verify if the change was requested, authorized, communicated, and implemented correctly. Therefore, the correct answer is D.

• Question 33:

  An organization has selected a solution for a business need and the business analyst has elected to use the time boxing/budgeting technique for requirements prioritization. What is the time boxing/budgeting technique?

  A. It's a method to prioritize requirements based on a pre-determined budget and/or a pre- determined deadline.
  B. It's used when there are conflicting requirements that must be resolved quickly and cost efficiently.
  C. It's a method to rank requirements in different boxes based on time, cost, risk, and need.
  D. It's used to determine which requirements can be implemented fastest and for the least amount of cost.
  A. It's a method to prioritize requirements based on a pre-determined budget and/or a pre- determined deadline.

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  The timeboxing/budgeting technique for requirements prioritization allows the business analyst to filter requirements down to meet the amount of funds available and the amount of schedule that may be available. Answer B is incorrect. This isn't a valid definition of the timeboxing/budgeting technique for requirements prioritization. Answer D is incorrect. This isn't a valid definition of the timeboxing/budgeting technique for requirements prioritization. Answer: C is incorrect. This isn't a valid definition of the timeboxing/budgeting technique for requirements prioritization.

• Question 34:

  You are a Business Analyst for your organization, and you're preparing to elicit requirements from stakeholders. You've gathered several inputs to help with the elicitation process. Which input will you use to ensure that you understand the type of information that should be elicited from stakeholders?

  A. Roles and Responsibilities
  B. Stakeholder List
  C. Business Need
  D. Risk Assessment
  C. Business Need

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  The inputs required to prepare for elicitation are as follows: Business Need. It guarantees that the type of information elicited from stakeholders is understood to the business analyst. This input is used at the time of eliciting business requirements. Solution Scope and Business Case. It guarantees that the type of information elicited from stakeholders is understood to the business analyst. This input is used at the time of eliciting stakeholder, transaction requirement, and solution. Stakeholder List, Roles, and Responsibilities. It is required for the identification of stakeholders that are required to participate in elicitation activity. Answer D is incorrect. Risk Assessment is a review of the risks in the project, and isn't an input to the elicitation business analyst tasks.

• Question 35:

  A business analyst (BA) is working on a project that has a release date that cannot be changed. The BA engaged with stakeholders and completed the business requirements elicitation task. Upon review with the rest of the project team, it is determined that not all requirements can be implemented by the set deadline. What must the BA do to ensure maximum business value?

  A. Ensure test scenarios conform to business requirements
  B. Choose an appropriate format to communicate requirements
  C. Analyze requirements to remove unnecessary components
  D. Align business requirements to organizational strategy
  C. Analyze requirements to remove unnecessary components

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  The BA must analyze requirements to remove unnecessary components to ensure maximum business value when working on a project that has a fixed release date. This means that the BA should prioritize and refine the requirements based on their importance, urgency, feasibility, and alignment with the project objectives and scope. The BA should eliminate any requirements that are out of scope, redundant, conflicting, or low- value. The other options are incorrect because: Option A is incorrect because ensuring test scenarios conform to business requirements is not an action that the BA takes to ensure maximum business value when working on a project that has a fixed release date. This is an action that the BA takes to ensure quality assurance and control of the solution. Test scenarios are descriptions of how to test a requirement or a feature of a solution. Option B is incorrect because choosing an appropriate format to communicate requirements is not an action that the BA takes to ensure maximum business value when working on a project that has a fixed release date. This is an action that the BA takes to ensure effective communication and collaboration among stakeholders. The format of requirements can be textual, graphical, tabular, or any combination of these. Option D is incorrect because aligning business requirements to organizational strategy is not an action that the BA takes to ensure maximum business value when working on a project that has a fixed release date. This is an action that the BA takes to ensure strategic alignment and traceability of the solution. Organizational strategy is a statement of direction or vision for an organization.

• Question 36:

  You are the business analyst for your organization and you're performing the solution assessment process. When you assess a solution, what are you actually looking for?

  A. To determine the value of the proposed solution to the stakeholder requirements
  B. To determine the quality of the proposed solution to the stakeholder requirements
  C. To determine the cost of the proposed solution to the stakeholder requirements
  D. To determine the accuracy of the proposed solution to the stakeholder requirements
  D. To determine the accuracy of the proposed solution to the stakeholder requirements

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  The purpose of assessing proposed solutions is to determine how closely they meet stakeholder and solution requirements. The business analyst, while assessing a single solution, determines whether the solution delivers enough business value to justify its implementation. However, the business analyst has the additional goal of attempting to determine which solution delivers the greatest business value while assessing multiple alternative solutions. Answer A is incorrect. Solution assessment isn't concerned with the value of the solution. Answer B is incorrect. Solution assessment isn't concerned with the quality, but with the accuracy of the solution in light of the stakeholders' requirements. Answer C is incorrect. Solution assessment isn't concerned with the costs, but with the accuracy of the solution in light of the stakeholders' requirements.

• Question 37:

  A business analyst (BA) has been tasked with examining and analyzing the relationship between a set of requirements by verifying that they are unambiguous. What will the BA be looking for?

  A. That there are no relationships that link elements in two different and conflicting ways.
  B. That relationships are described in the same way, using the same set of standard descriptions.
  C. That there is a genuine relationship and that the type of the relationship is described
  D. That the relationship is necessary for understanding the requirements holistically
  B. That relationships are described in the same way, using the same set of standard descriptions.

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  The BA will be looking for that relationships are described in the same way, using the same set of standards. This is because ambiguous relationships can lead to confusion, inconsistency, and errors in the requirements. According to the BABOK Guide, a relationship is a connection or association between two or more elements. A relationship can be of different types, such as dependency, traceability, composition, generalization, etc. To avoid ambiguity, the BA should use a consistent notation and terminology to describe the relationships and their types.

• Question 38:

  A business analyst (BA) is reviewing the elicitation results of several workshops in order to decide which technique to use to model the requirements. The elicitation identified user roles needed in a future solution, the functionality needed by

  each of these roles, and how the desired interaction with the solution should look.

  Which technique allows the BA to model this type of information?

  A. Process models
  B. Roles and permission matrix
  C. Use cases and scenarios
  D. Sequence diagrams
  C. Use cases and scenarios

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  Use cases and scenarios. This technique allows the BA to model the type of information that was elicited from the workshops. Use cases and scenarios are a way of describing the interactions between the user roles and the solution in terms of the functionality and the user interface. Use cases and scenarios capture the requirements from the user perspective and show how the solution will meet the user needs and expectations. The other options are incorrect because: A. Process models. This technique is used to model the flow of activities, events, decisions, and data within a business process. Process models focus on the inputs, outputs, and transformations of a process, rather than the user roles and the solution functionality and interface. B. Roles and permission matrix. This technique is used to model the access rights and privileges of different user roles to the solution features or functions. Roles and permission matrix focus on the security and authorization aspects of the solution, rather than the user interactions and the solution behavior and appearance. D. Sequence diagrams. This technique is used to model the sequence and timing of messages or events between the objects or components of a system. Sequence diagrams focus on the technical and logical aspects of the system, rather than the user roles and the solution functionality and interface.

• Question 39:

  You are the business analyst for a smaller project where there are few requirements. Management would still like you to create a method to trace the few requirements for this project. What type of matrix would be best in this instance?

  A. Coverage matrix
  B. Requirements trace matrix
  C. Roles and responsibility matrix D. RACI matrix
  A. Coverage matrix

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  A coverage matrix is a table used to manage tracing. It is ideal for smaller projects where there are few requirements to trace. It's also ideal for when only the high-level requirements need to be traced. Answer B is incorrect. A requirements trace matrix is a table used to track requirements' relationships. The columns in the table provide requirements information and associated project. It is ideal for a solution with many requirements to trace throughout the solution. Answer C is incorrect. A roles and responsibility matrix maps team members to their work in the project or business analysis duties. Answer D is incorrect. A RACI chart is a type of roles and responsibilities matrix that uses the legend of responsible, accountable, consult, and inform.

• Question 40:

  During a lesson learned session, stakeholders had a heated discussion on the performance measures being employed and why they are necessary. The business analyst (BA) explained that performance measures are required to:

  A. evaluate whether the required return on investment is met.
  B. gather insights into the value provided by a solution.
  C. decide if similar projects should be taken up again.
  D. verify that organizational resources were spent wisely.
  B. gather insights into the value provided by a solution.

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  Process performance measures are parameters that are used to identify process improvement opportunities. Process performance measures are defined and deployed to ensure that processes are aligned to the business needs and strategic objectives of the organization. Process performance measures can address many aspects of a process including quality, time, cost, agility, efficiency, effectiveness, responsiveness, adaptability, flexibility, customer satisfaction, velocity, variability, visibility, variety, rework, and volume. Many of the process performance measures seek to measure the effectiveness and efficiency of the process as well as the degree to which the process goals are achieved.