You are a business analyst in an organization that has recently embraced business analysis as part of its initiative for new projects. In this organization, there is not an organizational standard for tailoring business analysis duties and expectations. Which one of the following best describes the action that you should take to begin business analysis?
A. Take charge and begin the business analysis activities, but document your approach to serve as a template for future business analysis initiatives.
B. Create a business case for the need for organizational standards for business analysis.
C. Define the organizational standard first.
D. Work with the appropriate stakeholders to determine how the business analysis work should be completed.
When using a change-driven approach, the business analyst may create an initial list of high-level requirements for the initiative. This high-level requirements list is also known as what term?
A. Requirements envisioning
B. Project scope
C. Product scope
D. Requirements foundation
Which stakeholder(s) will be involved to determine if the requirements can be implemented?
A. Domain subject matter expert
B. Implementation subject matter expert
C. Project team members
D. Sponsor
You have identified a task in your task list that cannot be completed until the inspector for the project signs off on the initial deliverables. The inspector's signoff on the initial deliverables is called what?
A. Constraint
B. Assumption
C. Dependency
D. Milestone
You are the business analyst for your organization. You've believed that your solution can actually be purchased from outside vendor rather than trying to create the solution internally. You decide to ask the vendor to provide a fee for their services based on the statement of work. What document will you give the vendor along with the statement of work?
A. Request for quote
B. Contract terms
C. Request for proposal
D. Purchase order
A business analyst is meeting with the customer of the project. The customer tells the business analyst that she can only allow the budget of $575,000 for the project. This budget is best described as what type of constraint?
A. Technical constraint
B. Verified constraint
C. Financial constraint
D. Business constraint
A business analyst (BA) is working on a project that follows incremental and iterative approaches. The BA and the stakeholders have shortlisted several user stories to be considered in the project scope. Which of the following methods would enable them to arrive at a common understanding on delivering value in the product and ranking the stories?
A. Story decomposition
B. State modelling
C. Value stream mapping
D. MoSCoW prioritization
The Chief Information Officer (CIO) of a large financial services firm with many technology applications was formally reviewing all ongoing projects and noticed that the requirements were complex and difficult to follow. The CIO asks the business analyst (6A) what would improve the stakeholder's ability to understand the requirements. Which of the following will improve the requirements quality?
A. Traceability matrices
B. IEEE /ISO 29148 requirements standards
C. Additional requirements attributes
D. Matrix documentation formats
The Business Requirements Document (BRD) prepared by the business analyst (BA) was circulated to stakeholders for approval. Some stakeholders objected to the Use Case diagrams and could not understand them. Why would these be included in the document?
A. The models were included as a mistake because Use Case diagrams are technical.
B. The models are part of the technical documents and not part of BRD documents.
C. The models are used for analysis and refining requirements and design.
D. The models did not change the value compared to text based requirements
Which stakeholder in the solution assessment task will provide information on technical constraints that could limit the solutions that may be implemented?
A. Project manager
B. Suppliers
C. Sponsor
D. Operational support