IIBA IIBA-AAC Online Practice Questions and Exam Preparation

IIBA IIBA-AAC Online Questions & Answers

• Question 1:

  Why does analysis take into consideration the agile principal of Think as a Customer?

  A. Observing how a product owner thinks the customer will use the solution is important
  B. Sponsors get upset when features are built that won't be used
  C. Feedback and learning is central to ensuring changes are incorporated into future iterations of the solution
  D. Customers are key stakeholders in workshops
  A. Observing how a product owner thinks the customer will use the solution is important

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  Explanation/Reference:

  Reference: https://medium.com/everything-new-is-dangerous/agile-customer-thinking-and-the-agile-manifesto-278828436c8f#:~:text=Agile%20Customer%20Thinking%20captures%20customer,team%20members%20to%20the%20customer

• Question 2:

  The team establishes ground rules for considering business analysis performance improvements. They agree that speed and accuracy of executing analysis activities becomes very important at the following horizon:

  A. Feedback horizon
  B. Strategy horizon
  C. Initiative horizon
  D. Delivery Horizon
  D. Delivery Horizon

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  Explanation/Reference:

  Reference: https://www.agilealliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/AgileExtension_V2-Member-Copy.pdf (133)

• Question 3:

  The team discusses the agile principle of avoiding waste and decide it's important because it allows the team to:

  A. Verify that the budget is aligned with spending
  B. Focus on items that contribute to satisfying the need
  C. Ensure clear and effective communication
  D. Demonstrate ongoing quality backlog refinement
  B. Focus on items that contribute to satisfying the need

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  Explanation/Reference:

  Reference: https://www.agilealliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/AgileExtension_V2-Member-Copy.pdf (21)

• Question 4:

  A team has been delivering a steady stream of small value increments and has completed several solution components, with some still remaining. The solution owner examines the reactions to the delivered components from customers, and decides that the need has been met and the remaining potential components won't deliver enough additional value to justify doing them. The solution owner will:

  A. Request Strategy Horizon input about what action to take
  B. Accept the work is complete and cancel remaining work
  C. Fully document the working initiative D. Ask the team to come up with new, more valuable, solution components for the initiative
  A. Request Strategy Horizon input about what action to take

• Question 5:

  A team member has written a full user guide about a feature that has not yet been developed. Shortly before delivery is to start, the feature is dropped. What did the team member forget to value highly?

  A. Following the plan
  B. Detailed processes
  C. Fixed iterations
  D. Working solutions
  D. Working solutions

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  Explanation/Reference:

  Reference: https://www.agilealliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/AgileExtension_V2-Member-Copy.pdf (17)

• Question 6:

  Knowing that every situation is unique and techniques, processes, and tools must be chosen to fit a context is a core part of the:

  A. Strategic horizon
  B. Business value
  C. Analysis principle
  D. Agile mindset
  D. Agile mindset

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  Explanation/Reference:

  Reference: https://www.atlassian.com/agile/advantage/agile-mindset

• Question 7:

  The team is creating plans at the Strategy Horizon. Diverse opinions are delaying this effort because different people are focused on different timeframes. After some discussion the team realizes they need to focus their efforts on the following viewpoint:

  A. Business view of the teams working on the initiatives
  B. Micro-view of the potential changes to the organization
  C. Broader view of the impact of the change to the organization
  D. Local view of the effect on the community.
  C. Broader view of the impact of the change to the organization

• Question 8:

  The delivery team is completing a review of user stories. They notice that a particular user story needs to be updated to ensure the INVEST criteria are followed. This is because it:

  A. Is negotiable and can change
  B. Has dependencies on other stories in order to be delivered
  C. Can be completed in one iteration
  D. Expresses the value to the customer
  A. Is negotiable and can change

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  Explanation/Reference:

  Reference: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/my-understanding-invest-principle-user-stories-amit-kulkarni/

• Question 9:

  The team demonstrates they value customer collaboration over contract negotiation by:

  A. Constantly refining their understanding of the need based on stakeholder feedback
  B. Learning what works by trying things out
  C. Making people the center of the work
  D. Updating the backlog based on the solution created
  A. Constantly refining their understanding of the need based on stakeholder feedback

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  Explanation/Reference:

  Reference: http://thinkrelevance.com/how-we-work/agile_principles#/agile-customer_collaboration

• Question 10:

  A team is working to deliver capabilities for a fixed date release. They realize that things are going much slower than they expected. Which of the following techniques would provide the team with a way to identify which stories should be delivered, and which should not?

  A. Prioritization
  B. Value Modeling
  C. Strategy Alignment
  D. Real Options
  B. Value Modeling

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  Explanation/Reference:

  Reference: https://www.linkedin.com/learning/cert-prep-agile-analysis-iiba-aac/value-modeling?autoSkip=trueandautoplay=trueandresume=falseandu=95141346