CBAP Certification Exam Sample Questions Quiz!

1. As the business analysis activity advances, due to budgetary constraints, the sponsors ask that the team should focus their effort of the subsequent work only on the most critical requirements. What must the business analyst do?

Prioritize Requirements

Organize Requirements

Verify Requirements

Validate Requirements

Section 6.1.1: Prioritize Requirements

Explanation

Section 6.1.1: Prioritize Requirements

2. Jenny is a business analyst who has gathered the requirements for a new system to be implemented. Her key stakeholder is Roger. When she reviewed the requirements with him, she sensed that Roger was not satisfied with the current requirements. He expressed that some of the requirements will not meet the needs of his department. The source of those requirements came from Roger's manager. What should Jenny do? (choose the best answer)

Jenny must find a way to resolve this conflict either by facilitating a formal meeting, through research or other methods

Jenny must escalate this conflict to other higher level manager

Jenny should ask Roger to talk to his boss in order to agree on what the requirement should be

Jenny's hands are tied. After all, Roger will understand that his boss's requirements come before his

Section 4.1.4.2 Conflict and Issue Management

Explanation

Section 4.1.4.2 Conflict and Issue Management

3. You've determined based on your assessment of the proposed solutions that two solutions provide comparative business value and do not any substantive differences in their core features. Which is would be your next best course of action to select the best solution?

Identify additional potential capabilities and determine the best solution by ranking those capabilities

Ask the end users to select the solution they prefer most

Ask the sponsor to select the best solution that they believe would be best for their organization

You've done all you can do, escalate this to the PM who would determine the best solution based on other project criteria

Section 7.1.4

Solution options will sometimes offer capabilities (whether potential or actual) to the organization above and beyond those identified in the requirements or the original business case. In many cases, these capabilities are not of immediate value to the organization but have the potential to provide future value, as the solution may support the rapid development or implementation of those capabilities if they are required (for example, a software application may have features that the organization anticipates using in the future).

Explanation

Section 7.1.4

Solution options will sometimes offer capabilities (whether potential or actual) to the organization above and beyond those identified in the requirements or the original business case. In many cases, these capabilities are not of immediate value to the organization but have the potential to provide future value, as the solution may support the rapid development or implementation of those capabilities if they are required (for example, a software application may have features that the organization anticipates using in the future).

4. Carrie is documenting the way data will be transformed from an existing system in order to become more compatible with the new system. What type of requirement is she documenting?

Non-Functional Requirements

Transition Requirements

Functional Requirements

Solution Requirements

Section 1.3.3

Transition requirements cover data conversion from existing systems, skill gaps that must be addressed, and other related changes to reach the desired future state

Explanation

Section 1.3.3

Transition requirements cover data conversion from existing systems, skill gaps that must be addressed, and other related changes to reach the desired future state

5. You are preparing for elicitation. You have just selected the individuals to participate in the elicitation events. While selecting the elicitation events, one of the consideration you need to make is whether you would have open-ended or closed-ended questions. You also need to determine the best method for distributing those questions. What technique have you selected for the elicitation events?

Survey/Questionnaire

Prototyping

Interviews

Requirement Workshop

Survey requires for the questions to be distributed as opposed to all other techniques.

Explanation

Survey requires for the questions to be distributed as opposed to all other techniques.

6. In her last job, Debbie knew how everything worked. Her organizations had formal and informal standards in place regarding how the business analysis should be performed. But after leaving her last job, she just landed a Sr. Business Analyst job with RWZ company and to her surprise, there are no defined standards in place. Debbie knows that she needs to define a business analysis approach for the initiative she has been assigned to. What should Debbie do? (select the best answer)

Debbie must work with the appropriate stakeholders to determine how the work will be completed

Debbie must implement the same standards from her previous organization to complete her initiative

Debbie should introduce the CMMI model to her manager in order to define the business analysis standards

Debbie should look to the project manager to make the decision on how the business analysis will be accomplished

Section 2.1.2

Explanation

Section 2.1.2

7. When you gather as much enterprise architecture information about the current state of the area of the enterprise affected by the business need, you are…

Uncovering the current capability analysis in order to assess the capability gaps of an organization

Generating the business need from the bottom up approach in order to define the business need

Gathering information in order to define the business case

Analyzing requirement in order to specify and model the requirements

Section 5.2.4.1

Explanation

Section 5.2.4.1

8. Alice is using a data dictionary to document the meanings of some identified data elements during her ERD session. She decides to divide customer's addresses into each part as the following: 1). Address 2). City 3). State 4). Zip 5). Country When she assembles these components to form a whole address (made up of all the fields), which type of data element is she using?

Primitive Data Elements

Composite Data Elements

Mix Data Elements

Sequential Data Elements

Section 9.5.3

Explanation

Section 9.5.3

9. After organizing the requirements, Amanda provides the following stakeholder with a list of those organized requirements. The stakeholder uses this set of requirements to verify the scope of the solution and assess the work that needs to be done in the project. Who is this stakeholder?

Team leader

Release Manager

Process Owner

Configuration Manager

Section 6.2.6 Stakeholders

Explanation

Section 6.2.6 Stakeholders

10. Identify which of the following list represents the components of a data flow diagram?

External entities, processes, data stores, data flow

Name, aliases, entities, process flow, sequences

Concept, attributes, relationships, metadata

Entities, attributes, processes, data stores, data flow

The components of a data flow diagram include external entities, processes, data stores, and data flow. External entities are the sources or destinations of data, processes represent the activities or transformations that occur within the system, data stores are the repositories where data is stored, and data flow represents the movement of data between the components. The other options listed do not accurately represent the components of a data flow diagram.

Explanation

The components of a data flow diagram include external entities, processes, data stores, and data flow. External entities are the sources or destinations of data, processes represent the activities or transformations that occur within the system, data stores are the repositories where data is stored, and data flow represents the movement of data between the components. The other options listed do not accurately represent the components of a data flow diagram.