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WorksheetsCBAP Prep Quiz 1
Total questions: 14
Worksheet time: 13mins
Suppose you were assigned to a project that has a defined and approved solution scope for a new COTS package. The NEXT thing you would typically do is:
Define a business case, starting with identifying and quantifying the benefits and costs.
Define a business case, starting with determining the measurement process for benefits and costs.
Finish defining the solution scope by adding the implementation approach.
Finish defining the solution scope by conducting a vendor assessment.
Which task uses the business need as input in the Strategy Analysis knowledge area?
Analyze Current State
Prioritize Requirements
Define Future States
Verify Requirements
What is the purpose of “Assess Risks” task?
To identify new risks within the organization that can be exploited.
To understand the undesirable consequences of internal and external forces on the enterprise during a transition to, or once in, the future state.
Review the enterprise architecture for knowledge transfer gaps.
Determine the solution risks.
Which of the following statements BEST describes a common test for assessing goals and objectives?
Specific, Achievable, Tangible, Measurable, Realistic.
Time-bound, Relevant, Analytical, Measurable, Specific.
Achievable, Specific, Measurable, Time-bound, Relevant.
Manageable, Solid, Actionable, Relevant, Time-bound.
Which of the following is NOT a financial valuation technique?
Discounted cash flow, net present value.
Internal rate of return, average rate of return.
Payback period, cost benefit analysis.
Dollar rate adjustment, decision analysis.
Before a Define Change Strategy, which of the following have to be done?
Identify Business Analysis Performance Improvements
Risk Assessment
Prepare for Elicitation
Manage Stakeholder Collaboration
A Bussiness Case can contain ALL BUT the following:
Executive summary
Detailed costs of the solution
Business problem and/or opportunity statement
Market research to identify viable solution options
An organization maintains a central repository for managing new products that are brought into the organization. This central repository was built over a decade ago, initially starting in a spreadsheet, then moved to various iterations of a custom solution built in house. There are many pitfalls in the current implementation and it does not have clear set of baseline requirements. The organization wants to improve the process.
Which of the following should the BA do?
Document the current solution's existing functionality
Develop the performance measures for the new solution
Create a wish list of desired performance functionality
Review the features of commercial off-the-shelf products
Aslı is a business analyst for Project RADON. Stakeholder Zen has good familiarity with traceability. Zen insists that the project follows the approach.
Aslı’s response should be
Accept the stakeholder’s suggestion as traceability matrix is very popular.
Explain that there are many ways to maintain traceability.
Traceability is not required as the project is of medium complexity.
Maintain traceability only at the feature level.
Bülent does not feel the need to assess current performance. Bülent is of the opinion that the new system is far more superior to the old one and stakeholders are anyway going to love the new application.
What is the risk that Bülent is running into?
A prudent decision
An assumption that could become a risk
Discuss with Domain SME to seek acceptance
Discuss with the sponsor to seek acceptance
Which statement below defines an example of feasibility analysis?
The business analyst alone or with a small team of experts examines the possible approaches in an informal working session.
Interviewing stakeholders and project team members for constraints and assumptions.
Ranking and selecting possible solution approaches.
Identify solution approaches that have proven effective in other organizations.
What is a critical element of root cause analysis?
To ensure that deeper causes are investigated.
To capture all contributing factors to a cause.
To focus on the cause of the problem and not the solution.
To ensure that current business thinking and business processes are challenged.
A _____________ is a document or collection of notes or diagrams that is used by the Business Analyst to organize and analyze requirements.
work structure
formal deliverable
work product
informal deliverable
While a Business Analyst is not usually involved in ____________ a design solution, he or she is responsible for _______________ the design solution to business stakeholders.
implementing; communicating
communicating; implementing
writing; implementing
implementing; outsourcing
