IIBA CCBA Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

IIBA CCBA Online Questions & Answers

• Question 61:

  Beth is the business analyst for her organization and she wants to be certain that she and her team follow the correct procedures for enterprise analysis. What document can provide the governances for enterprise analysis efforts?

  A. Organizational process assets
  B. Enterprise environmental factors
  C. Business analysis plans
  D. Project charter
  C. Business analysis plans

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  Business analysis plans define the governance or rules and procedures that Beth should follow as the business analyst for her organization. Answer A is incorrect. Organizational process assets are the rules and procedures for the implementation of documents, templates, and guidelines. Answer B is incorrect. Enterprise environmental factors are the regulations, policies, and procedures that are unique to an organization and industry. Answer D is incorrect. The project charter isn't the correct answer, as the charter authorizes the project, not business analysis activities.

• Question 62:

  Stakeholders initially agreed to an implementation schedule for a set of reports based on the value to business users. The development team provided a detailed estimate of the time required to develop each report based on the business requirements. What should the business analyst (BA) and the stakeholders do with the estimates?

  A. Revise the business requirements
  B. Write functional report specifications
  C. Review the priorities
  D. Analyze technical constraints
  C. Review the priorities

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  The BA and the stakeholders should review the priorities when they receive detailed estimates of time required to develop each report based on business requirements. This means that they should reassess and adjust the relative importance or urgency of each report based on its value, feasibility, risk, and dependency. They should also consider factors such as stakeholder expectations, resource availability, schedule constraints, and quality standards. The other options are incorrect because: Option A is incorrect because revising business requirements is not an action that the BA and stakeholders take when they receive detailed estimates of time required to develop each report based on business requirements. Business requirements are high-level statements of goals, objectives, needs, or problems of stakeholders or an organization. Business requirements are not revised based on estimates, but based on changes in stakeholder needs or expectations. Option B is incorrect because writing functional report specifications is not an action that the BA and stakeholders take when they receive detailed estimates of time required to develop each report based on business requirements. Functional report specifications are detailed descriptions of how each report should look and behave in terms of layout, content, format, functionality, etc. Functional report specifications are written based on business requirements, not based on estimates. Option D is incorrect because analyzing technical constraints is not an action that the BA and stakeholders take when they receive detailed estimates of time required to develop each report based on business requirements. Technical constraints are limitations or restrictions imposed by the technology, system, or solution that affect its design, development, or implementation. Technical constraints are analyzed based on solution requirements, not based on estimates.

• Question 63:

  You need to identify assumptions as part of the assessment of capability gaps. Which of the following is an example of an assumption?

  A. The project manager believes that her project team members can program in COBOL.
  B. The software must be compatible with the current operating system.
  C. The risk in the project must be quantified.
  D. All vendors must have security clearance.
  A. The project manager believes that her project team members can program in COBOL.

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  Of all the choices, the belief about the project team members is the best example of an assumption. An assumption is something that is believed to be true, but it has not been proven to be true. Answer: B is incorrect. This is an example of a constraint. Answer D is incorrect. This is an example of a requirement. Answer: C is incorrect. This is an enterprise environmental factor, which could also be seen as a requirement.

• Question 64:

  An organization prefers to execute projects using an adaptive approach. However, the new project is much more complex than previously executed projects. What will the business analyst (BA) recommend?

  A. Select an extreme programming approach
  B. Review current approach with key stakeholders
  C. Follow a predictive approach
  D. Choose an agile programming approach
  C. Follow a predictive approach

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  Predictive approach: An approach where planning and baselines are established early in the life cycle of the initiative in order to maximize control and minimize risk.

• Question 65:

  You are the business analyst for your organization and you're preparing the solution for your organization's review and implementation. Some of the requirements of the solution, however, must be inspected by compliance officers before the project and implementation can move forward. The requirements of the inspection can be best described as what?

  A. Bottleneck
  B. Requirements
  C. Cost-negativity
  D. Constraint
  D. Constraint

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  Requirements that require a compliance officer to be regulated and inspected are constraints that limit the project's options. Answer B is incorrect. While these are requirements, the best answer is a constraint. Constraints limit the project's ability to move forward. A delay in the inspection can delay the project. Answer C is incorrect. This isn't a valid term and isn't applicable to this scenario. Answer A is incorrect. While some business analysts and project managers may call this a bottleneck in the flow of the project, the correct business analysis term for this is constraint.

• Question 66:

  Mary is the business analyst for your organization. She asks you what the purpose of the assess capability gaps task is. Which of the following is the best response to give Mary?

  A. It identifies the skill gaps in the existing resources.
  B. It identifies the causal factors that are contributing to an effect the solution will solve.
  C. It identifies new capabilities required by the organization to meet the business need.
  D. It describes the ends that the organization wants to improve.
  C. It identifies new capabilities required by the organization to meet the business need.

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  The assessment of capability gaps is a business analysis task to identify new capabilities required in order to meet the business need. Answer D is incorrect. This is the definition of the business goal. Answer A is incorrect. This is the definition of a resource skill assessment which may be included as part of the assessment of capability gaps. Answer B is incorrect. This is a description of root cause analysis.

• Question 67:

  The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of a company presents a new corporate strategy that will introduce a new system to the organization. The CEO has expressed a concern about the impact to the staff once the strategy has been implemented. What must the business analyst (BA) do to address concerns of the CEO?

  A. Identify required cultural changes
  B. Perform a cost-benefit analysis of the strategy
  C. Ensure requirements are easily accessible
  D. Align the new capabilities to the company's architecture
  A. Identify required cultural changes

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  The BA must identify the required cultural changes to address the concerns of the CEO about the impact to the staff once the strategy has been implemented. This is because cultural changes are changes that affect the values, beliefs, behaviors, or norms of an organization or a group of people. Identifying the required cultural changes can help the BA to assess how the new system will affect the staff and what actions are needed to facilitate their adoption and acceptance of the change. The other options are not as effective or relevant as identifying the required cultural changes. References: BABOK Guide, section 10.19: Identify Cultural Differences CCBA Practice Test,

• Question 68:

  A company is embarking on a software project in a heavily regulated domain. The client expects large upfront planning and detailed documentation for the project. The recommended approach for the project will be:

  A. adaptive.
  B. predictive.
  C. waterfall.
  D. scrum.
  B. predictive.

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  The predictive approach to delivery is a more formal approach and hence can cause a rework of tasks and activities already completed when a change is implemented as well as of the activities required to assess the proposed change on the whole. A lot of requirements elicitation and analysis done in the early phases of a project follow the predictive approach. This means when a change is required during later phases of this type of project, there is often a higher impact on the time, cost, and effort required. An adaptive approach will try and minimize the impact of changes with iterative implementations from an early stage of the project. This approach typically lends itself to a less formal and more adaptable approach to manage the impact of change that is introduced during the life cycle of the project. Within the adaptive approach to delivery, the idea of an evolutionary delivery may also reduce the need for a formal impact assessment to be performed when a change is proposed to a requirement.

• Question 69:

  A business analyst (BA) has been asked to develop a plan to complete the associated business analysis activities for a project in which an organization is switching from a manual to an automated process for receiving payments. As the final step in developing the plan, which technique will the BA use?

  A. Surveys or QUESTION NO:naires for the current initiative
  B. Functional Decomposition for the current initiative
  C. Lessons learned from previous initiatives
  D. Process modelling from previous initiatives
  C. Lessons learned from previous initiatives

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  According to the BABOK?v3 guide, the purpose of survey and QUESTION NO:naires is "to elicit business analysis information ?including information about customers, products, work practices, and attitudes ?from a group of people in a structured way and in a relatively short period of time."

• Question 70:

  A new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) is appointed to revive a chain of well-recognized superstores. The CEO wants to increase sales by introducing on-line shopping. Most stores are understaffed and maintenance is a challenge. Which of the following would be considered an asset?

  A. Store maintenance expenses
  B. Brand reputation
  C. Interest mounting on bank loan
  D. Online shopping website
  B. Brand reputation