CBAP TEST EXAM

You are the business analyst for your organization. You are currently with several key stakeholders as part of the determination of which business analysis approach is most appropriate for the current project. Which stakeholder is not considered when completing the business analysis planning and monitoring task to determine a business analysis approach?

• Project manager
• Tester
• Regulator
• Functional management

Answer explanation

Functional management describes the layer of management that often oversees business analysts, project manager, and lines of business. This layer is not considered a key stakeholder for the selection of the business analysis approach unless this layer is directly involved in the project or problem the business analyst is working on. If the functional management is considered a stakeholder, then they are considered to be a customer, domain subject matter expert, end user, or supplier.

You are the business analyst for your organization and are preparing to conduct stakeholder analysis. As part of this process you realize that you'll need several inputs. Which one of the following is NOT an input you'll use for the conduct stakeholder analysis task?

• Business need
• Enterprise architecture
• Organizational process assets
• Enterprise environmental factors

Answer explanation

There are just three inputs to the conduct stakeholder analysis process: the business need, enterprise architecture, and organizational process assets. Enterprise environmental factors describe the rules and policies of an organization.

Martha is the business analyst for organization and she's coaching Linda, a new business analyst, on the importance of recording key dependencies between requirements. Which one of the following is the primary reason why key dependencies should be recorded?

• To identify the necessities of the requirement
• To identify the value of the requirement
• To trace the requirement across the project life cycle
• To determine who owns the requirement in the project life cycle

Answer explanation

Key dependencies and relationships between requirements should be recorded so they can be traced across the project life cycle. Creating and maintaining this information assists the business analyst in sequencing project work activities to design and deploy the capabilities found in the requirements. It also assists the business analyst in correctly allocating requirements to solution components.

Elizabeth is a project stakeholder in your project and she is asking for a change in one of the project requirements. Before this change can be approved, you'll need to determine the effect of the change on all other project requirements. What term best describes the examination of the relationships that may be affected by the change in requirement?

• Traceability
• Decomposition
• Integration management
• Change control process

Answer explanation

Traceability facilitates better decision making when it comes to assessing the impact of change requests on a project.

There are six tasks that comprise the business analysis planning and monitoring and that must be completed by the business analyst. Which one of the following items is not one of the six tasks that you should complete as a business analyst following the traditional business analyst planning and monitoring approach to a project?

• Planning the business analysis approach
• Conducting quality assurance processes
• Planning business analysis communication
• Managing business analysis performance

Answer explanation

Quality assurance is not one of the six business analyst activities that you'll do in the planning and monitoring domain of business analysis activities. The correct six activities are: the business analysis approach, conducting stakeholder analysis, planning business analysis activities, planning business analysis communication, planning the requirements management process, managing business analysis performance.

You are the business analyst for your organization and you're gathering project requirements for a small project to create a simple website for a client. Management requires that you use a tool to trace all requirements throughout the project life cycle even for smaller projects. Based on this smaller project, what type of requirements tracing would you recommend?

• Coverage matrix
• System matrix
• Roles and Responsibilities matrix
• RACI matrix

Answer explanation

The coverage matrix technique is specific to the Manage Requirements Traceability task. Basically, a coverage matrix is a table or spreadsheet used to manage and facilitate tracing of requirements. This simple approach is used on simple projects where there are only few requirements or on other projects where traceability is very limited and not too detailed.

One of the most important activities you'll do as a business analyst is stakeholder analysis. This process helps you, the project team, and the project manager understand who the stakeholders are, and what their roles in the project will be, their priorities for their requirements and communication demands. When does stakeholder analysis typically occur?

• During the controlled start phase of the project
• During project initiation
• Before the project begins
• As often as needed

Answer explanation

The business analyst initially performs stakeholder analysis during the controlled start phase of a project, or as part of the pre-project activities. Analysis activities at this point in time focus on key stakeholders who are impacted by the business need and the proposed solution.

Juan is the business analyst for his organization and he's performing stakeholder analysis. During this process, Juan wants to create a method to capture the roles and responsibilities for each of the stakeholders. Some of the stakeholders, for example, will be responsible for specific tasks while other stakeholders just need to be kept informed of the progress of the work. Which tool should Juan use to best facilitate this approach?

• Stakeholder register
• Stakeholder management plan
• Stakeholder RACI Chart
• Roles and Responsibilities matrix

Answer explanation

Of all the choices presented, this is the best answer. A RACI chart can be used when conducting stakeholder analysis. A RACI matrix is used to define business analysis stakeholder roles across four designations: Responsible, Accountable, Consulted, and Informed.

Which one of the following best describes the tool and technique of user stories as part of stakeholder analysis to be performed by a business analyst?

• Scope models can show the business analysis team the set of stakeholders external to the solution scope who interact with the solution in some way.
• Stakeholder roles can be used as the basis for actors and roles if the business analysis team has selected the scenarios and use cases modeling technique.
• Analysts may use this technique to identify shared characteristics of a particular business analysis stakeholder group.
• Stakeholders involved with your efforts can be the source of possible risks, and they can also help the team identify additional risks that may be important downstream.

Answer explanation

User stories allow stakeholder roles to be used as the basis for actors and roles if the business analysis team has selected the scenarios and use cases modeling technique.

Beth is the business analyst for her organization and she's working with her team to identify the activities list for the business analysis duties. In order to properly and completely create the activities list, what document should Beth creates first based on the scope of the business analysis work?

• Work breakdown structure
• RACI
• RAM
• Risk management plan

Answer explanation

The BABOK recommends decomposing the scope of work to be done in a Work Breakdown Structure, building an activity list, and linking the business analysis work activities in a logical sequence in order to get them done. Work and costs are then estimated, resources are assigned and optimized, and the business analysis team iterates until they have a plan that is good to go. The resulting business analysis plan or plans should easily integrate with the project plans that contain their specific slice of business analysis work.