IIBA-AAC Online Practice Questions and Answers

During a team meeting, the team discuss a technique where real or perceived benefits to the customer, direct costs and opportunity costs are assessed. Which technique are they discussing?

A. Minimum Viable Product

B. Impact Mapping

C. Kano Analysis

D. Value Modeling

The team demonstrates they value customer collaboration over contract negotiation by:

A. Constantly refining their understanding of the need based on stakeholder feedback

B. Learning what works by trying things out

C. Making people the center of the work

D. Updating the backlog based on the solution created

The product owner has found the overall goals of an initiative need to change and discusses the revisions with the team. The estimate of the revised work is greater than the original, which will likely cause the team to miss the fixed release date. The team works actively together to understand the new information about what is valuable and what is not, and find ways to eliminate work that does not directly relate to the newly expressed value. The team is demonstrating which agile value?

A. Contract negotiation

B. Customer collaboration

C. Comprehensive documentation

D. Processes and tools

When the product owner determines there has been enough value delivered on the initiative to satisfy the need, then the sponsor's immediate next step is to:

A. Cancel future work on the initiative to avoid waste

B. Start work on the list of enhancements to improve the delivered product

C. Hold individual interviews to collect feedback

D. Dive deeper into the next delivery cycle's stories

Agile business analysis focuses on producing something, showing it to stakeholders, and eliciting immediate feedback. This demonstrates the following characteristic of working in an agile context:

A. Systems approach

B. Focused nature

C. Empirical nature

D. Planned approach

Backlog items that are dependent on other backlog items compromise and limit rapid decision making, fast delivery and strategic alignment by not leveraging:

A. Feedback loops

B. Daily standups

C. Retrospectives

D. Thinking like a customer

The delivery team is discussing how to achieve the strategic goals for their work. They determine the following analysis technique is important to help the team maintain its focus:

A. Relative estimation

B. Spikes

C. Story elaboration

D. Visioning

While working at the Strategy Horizon, one of the key decisions to make upfront is:

A. Is a need worth satisfying?

B. What features should we deliver?

C. Have we delivered enough value?

D. Should we cancel the work?

During a project to improve efficiency at a customer service center, the product owner has established that a 15% improvement from the start on each of a specific set of 5 measures is the target for a particular initiative. They meet this goal and move on to a new initiative. Having a metric and a target helped them do what activity?

A. Analyze to determine what is valuable

B. Assess stakeholder compliance

C. Determine if the need is satisfied

D. Prioritize the next initiative

The team is discussing the initiative and thinking about what solution increments are worth doing. An appropriate technique for them to use is:

A. Backlog refinement

B. Portfolio kanban

C. Purpose alignment model

D. Story elaboration