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A company that specialized in manufacturing vending machines for books has been in business for 10 years. As the e-book and online retailing grow, the company perceived that a change is required to respond to the new emerging market forces. However, the change should focus on reusability as much as possible to reduce expenses. After analyzing the current state with the business subject matter experts, the business analyst (BA) proposed investing in a new business line of vending machines that sell pay per use mobile device phone fast charging stations.
Due to the urgency of this change, the BA was asked to finalize requirements elicitation in the shortest possible time.
By proposing this change, what type of view did the BA use to analyze the current manufacturer’s state?
- A . Data-centric
- B . Capability-centric
- C . Process-centric
- D . People-centric
A sports wristwatch product manufacturer wants to add a blood sugar monitoring toolkit to the watch. Market research has confirmed that the most profitable segment of the manufacturer’s target customer is looking for this feature. The business analyst (BA) worked with the product owner to finalize the set of requirements and design options and then defined multiple approaches for implementing the feature. At this point, the solutions’ team agreed that they were unable to accurately assess the merits of each of the proposed solutions.
What is the possible reason?
- A . Requirements are not allocated to solution components
- B . Too many approaches are dividing the team
- C . Business needs are unclear to the team
- D . Requirements and design options are not detailed enough
C
Explanation:
Reference: IIBA BABOK v3 (178)
Which of the following meeting brings all of the potential vendors together to discuss the statement of work and the request for proposal?
- A . Contract bidding meeting
- B . Status meeting
- C . Qualified vendors meeting
- D . Bidders conference
Which of the following qualitative techniques involves a disciplined analysis of the event sequences that could transform a potential hazard into an accident?
- A . Failure mode and effects criticality analysis
- B . HAZOP technique
- C . Failure mode and effects analysis
- D . Preliminary Risk Analysis
Which one of the following diagrams when properly laid out is always laid in a left to right display to properly reflect the chronology of all project work?
- A . Influence diagram
- B . Project schedule network diagram
- C . Arrow diagramming method
- D . Time-scaled schedule network diagram
In order to align with the added value required from the parcel tracking solution, what would be an important requirements’ category for the BA to give more focus?
- A . Transition
- B . Process
- C . Non functional
- D . Stakeholder
Your organization is using a plan-driven approach to business analysis.
What characteristic must be true of changes in the approach that your organization is using?
- A . All the changes only occur if they are less than an agreed factor, such as ten percent of the solution’s overall cost or a percentage of the project’s schedule.
- B . All the changes only occur if they are less than ten percent of the solution’s overall cost.
- C . All the changes only occur if they are genuinely necessary.
- D . Changes are generally not permitted in the plan-driven approach to business analysis.
A business analyst (BA) works for a financial institution that wants to acquire new systems and migrate all future business operations to the new systems. The BA is responsible for performing a gap analysis and has reviewed the current state of systems.
What is the next task that the BA needs to do to complete the gap analysis?
- A . Identify performance measures
- B . Define the future state capabilities
- C . Categorize risks factors
- D . Select the stakeholder engagement approach
C
Explanation:
Reference: IIBA BABOK v3 (111)
A large insurance company wants to buy a new claims processing system or upgrade one of its two existing system. Each year the claims department is given a $3.5 million budget to spend. Time is of the essence since there are tome regulatory charges that will be coming the following year that will require several features that currently neither one of the two claims System currently support.
There are eight stakeholders onvolved in this initiative. There are local to where the claim system are managed, while five are located across the country. The business analyst (BA) struggled to get all stakeholders to agree on the desired features but ultimately got agreement on ten identified key features for the new claims system. The BA was able to build a current state and future state process model which included all ten key features.
System a processes 75% of the company’s claims. It is 5 years old and the claim processors love it because it is easy to use. However it must go offline for two hours each day. The code is very module so it does have flexibility to be modified. To upgrade system A to have all ten features it would cost $5 million. System A would be at capacity if it were to process all of the company’s claims.
System B process 25% of the company’s claims. It is an older mainframe system, but rarely goes offline. It could easily handle double the number of claims that system A processes. However it has a lot of legacy code and would cost $6 million to upgrade.
Both system have some of the tem desired key features. But neither system has all ten.
The cost to buy a new system would be $7 million.
Below is the estimated cost for each feature in priority order.
If the budget for the initiative was firm, what is a feasible solution to make sure the project stays within budget?
- A . Buy the new system with only the first 8 features.
- B . Upgrade system A with the first 8 features
- C . Upgrade system B with the first B features
- D . Buy the new system with only the first 5 features
The BA is analyzing the requirements that are represented in the Class Diagram. In addition to the diagram, the BA would like to include a separate document that has the information about the data elements to ensure a common understanding of the classes’ attributes .
What technique is used to define the data elements?
- A . Reviews
- B . Data Mining
- C . Glossary
- D . Data Dictionary