The BABOK poses basic questions that are answered as the BA navigates through the requirements and design cycle. What is the order of the four questions in which they are processed during the design cycle?

• What are the needs?; Why do I want it?; What do I want?; What are the conditions?

• Why do I want it?; What are the needs?; What are the conditions?; What do I want?

• Why do I want it?; What are the needs?; What do I want?; What are the conditions?

• What are the needs?; What are the conditions?; Why do I want it? What do I want?

Which of the following is true about knowledge areas?

• They comprise the business analysis project life cycle.

• They represent areas of specific business analysis expertise that encompass several tasks

• They provide a methodology for completing business analysis work.

• They represent or correlate to project phases.

Susan is a business analyst developing a screen mock-up for a key stakeholder showing fields from a data model. Which of the following is true?

• Susan is defining the design of some aspect of the solution based upon elicited requirements.

• Susan is working both as a business analyst and a design architect.

• Susan is eliciting requirements and using the data model fields to understand user needs.

• Susan is assisting the architect and developer to complete their deliverables.

Eliciting requirements is a key task in business analysis and serves as a foundation for the solution to the business needs. The business analyst should understand the commonly used techniques to elicit requirements, should be able to select appropriate technique(s) for a given situation, and be knowledgeable of the tasks needed to prepare, execute and complete each technique. According to the BABOK, which types of requirements are elicited?

• Isolated, compartmental, validation, verification

• Focused technical, organizational, external, non-technical

• Business, stakeholder, solution, transition

• Functional, non-functional, customer, stakeholder

At a conference for business analysts, there was a heated debate on the topic of the BACCM and the order of importance for the six core concepts. Which of the following statements are correct?

• Deriving the solution is the first priority as that drives the priority of the other five concepts.

• Stakeholders should be identified as the first key step in using the BACCM.

• The Need must be addressed first as this is the basis for the Change.

• No single concept holds greater importance or significance over any other concept.

Gil was recently hired by Simon Technologies as a BA due to his extensive experience with Customer Relationship Management systems. Gil immediately began designing the future state processes based upon what he has seen work best for other organizations. According to the BACCM, what is Gil missing?

• Necessity

• Solution

• Context

• Value

Andre is focusing on documenting the needs of the enterprise related to data conversion. What type of requirement is Andre documenting?

• Transition requirement

• Non-functional requirement

• Functional requirement

• Solution requirement

Two analysts were having a debate about which job titles actually conduct business analysis. Which of the following include job titles that perform business analysis?

• Process analyst, business systems analyst, enterprise analyst.

• Process analyst, business systems analyst, product owner, product manager.

• Process analyst, business systems analyst, product owner, product manager.

• Job titles aren't important; anyone can be considered a business analyst regardless of their job title if they perform business analysis tasks.

Sariah has just completed her required tasks as prescribed by the business analysis plan. Although the project is completed, how can Sariah continue to deliver value to the enterprise?

• Sariah does not have any further work to complete as she has done what the project manager has asked of her.

• Sariah can create test plans to confirm adoption of the changes by personnel.

• Sariah needs to conduct a readiness assessment to determine if the organization is ready for additional changes.

• Sariah needs to be prepared to conduct analysis in support of enterprise evolution and continuous improvement.

"The system shall be available 99.3% of the time during the service hours of 6:00 a.m. and 9:00 p.m. seven days a week" is an example of what type of requirement?

• Non-functional requirement

• Stakeholder requirement

• Solution requirement

• Business requirement