CBAP Study Questions and Answers Latest 2022(Graded A+)
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You are the business analyst for your organization. You are currently with several key stakeholders as part of the determination of which business analysis approach is most appropriate for the current project. Which stakeholder is not considered when completing the business analysis planning and mo...
CBAP Study Questions and Answers Latest 2022(Graded
A+)
You are the business analyst for your organization. You are currently with several key
stakeholders as part of the determination of which business analysis approach is most
appropriate for the current project. Which stakeholder is not considered when
completing the business analysis planning and monitoring task to determine a business
analysis approach?
A. Project manager.
B. Tester
C. Regulator.
D. Functional management
Answer: (d) Functional management describes the layer of management that often
oversees business analysts, project manager, and lines of business. This layer is not
considered a key stakeholder for the selection of the business analysis approach unless
this layer is directly involved in the project or problem the business analyst is working
on. If the functional management is considered a stakeholder, then they are considered
to be a customer, domain subject matter expert, end user, or supplier.
You are the business analyst for your organization and are preparing to conduct
stakeholder analysis. As part of this process you realize that you'll need several inputs.
Which one of the following is NOT an input you'll use for the conduct stakeholder
analysis task?
A. Business need
B. Enterprise architecture
C. Organizational process assets
D. Enterprise environmental factors
Answer: (d)There are just three inputs to the conduct stakeholder analysis process: the
business need, enterprise architecture, and organizational process assets. Enterprise
environmental factors describe the rules and policies of an organization
Martha is the business analyst for organization and she's coaching Linda, a new
business analyst, on the importance of recording key dependencies between
requirements. Which one of the following is the primary reason why key dependencies
should be recorded?
A. To entify the necessities of the requirement
B. To identify the value of the requirement.
,C. To trace the requirement across the project life cycle.
D. To Determine who owns the requirement in the project life cycle
Answer: (c) Key dependencies and relationships between requirements should be
recorded so they can be traced across the project life cycle. Creating and maintaining
this information assists the business analyst in sequencing project work activities to
design and deploy the capabilities found in the requirements. It also assists the
business analyst in correctly allocating requirements to solution components.
Elizabeth is a project stakeholder in your project and she is asking for a change in one
of the project requirements. Before this change can be approved, you'll need to
determine the effect of the change on all other project requirements. What term best
describes the examination of the relationships that may be affected by the change in
requirement?
TraceabilityA.
DecompositionB.
Integration managementC.
Change control process
Answer: (a) Traceability facilitates better decision making when it comes to assessing
the impact of change requests on a project.
There are six tasks that comprise the business analysis planning and monitoring and
that must be completed by the business analyst. Which one of the following items is not
one of the six tasks that you should complete as a business analyst following the
traditional business analyst planning and monitoring approach to a project?
Planning the business analysis approachA.
Conducting quality assurance processesB.
Planning business analysis communicationC.
Managing business analysis performance D.
Answer: (b) Quality assurance is not one of the six business analyst activities that you'll
do in the planning and monitoring domain of business analysis activities. The correct six
activities are: the business analysis approach, conducting stakeholder analysis,
planning business analysis activities, planning business analysis communication,
planning the requirements management process, managing business analysis
performance.
You are the business analyst for your organization and you're gathering project
requirements for a small project to create a simple website for a client. Management
requires that you use a tool to trace all requirements throughout the project life cycle
even for smaller projects. Based on this smaller project, what type of requirements
tracing would you recommend?
,Coverage matrixA.
System matrixB.
Roles and Responsibilities matrixC.
RACI matrix D.
Answer: (a) The coverage matrix technique is specific to the Manage Requirements
Traceability task. Basically, a coverage matrix is a table or spreadsheet used to manage
and facilitate tracing of requirements. This simple approach is used on simple projects
where there are only few requirements or on other projects where traceability is very
limited and not too detailed.
One of the most important activities you'll do as a business analyst is stakeholder
analysis. This process helps you, the project team, and the project manager understand
who the stakeholders are, and what their roles in the project will be, their priorities for
their requirements and communication demands. When does stakeholder analysis
typically occur?
During the controlled start phase of the projectA.
During project initiationB.
Before the project beginsC.
As often as needed D.
Answer: (a) The business analyst initially performs stakeholder analysis during the
controlled start phase of a project, or as part of the pre-project activities. Analysis
activities at this point in time focus on key stakeholders who are impacted by the
business need and the proposed solution.
Juan is the business analyst for his organization and he's performing stakeholder
analysis. During this process, Juan wants to create a method to capture the roles and
responsibilities for each of the stakeholders. Some of the stakeholders, for example, will
be responsible for specific tasks while other stakeholders just need to be kept informed
of the progress of the work. Which tool should Juan use to best facilitate this approach?
Stakeholder registerA.
Stakeholder management planB.
Stakeholder RACI ChartC.
Roles and Responsibilities matrix
Answer: (c) Of all the choices presented, this is the best answer. A RACI chart can be
used when conducting stakeholder analysis. A RACI matrix is used to define business
analysis stakeholder roles across four designations: Responsible, Accountable,
Consulted, and Informed.
Which one of the following best describes the tool and technique of user stories as part
of stakeholder analysis to be performed by a business analyst?
, Scope models can show the business analysis team the set of stakeholders external to
the solution scope who interact with the solution in some way.A.
Stakeholder roles can be used as the basis for actors and roles if the business analysis
team has selected the scenarios and use cases modeling technique.B.
Analysts may use this technique to identify shared characteristics of a particular
business analysis stakeholder group.C.
Stakeholders involved with your efforts can be the source of possible risks, and they
can also help the team identify additional risks that may be important downstream.D.
Answer: (b) User stories allow stakeholder roles to be used as the basis for actors and
roles if the business analysis team has selected the scenarios and use cases modeling
technique.
Which one of the following statements best describes the role of a business analyst?
A person who performs the set of tasks and techniques used to work as a project
manager among stakeholders in order to understand the structure, policies, and
operations of an organization and to recommend solutions that enable the organization
to achieve its goals.A.
A person who performs the set of tasks and techniques used to work as a liaison among
project managers in order to understand the structure, policies, and operations of an
organization and to recommend solutions that enable the organization to achieve its
goals.B.
A person who performs the set of tasks and techniques used to work as a liaison among
project manager, project team members, and other business analysts in order to
understand the structure, policies, and operations of an organization and to recommend
solutions that enable the organization to achieve its goals.C.
A person who performs the set of tasks and techniques used to work as a liaison among
stakeholders in order to understand the structure, policies, and operations of an
organization and to recommend solutions that enable the organization to achieve its
goals.D.
Answer: (d) A business analyst is a person who works as a liaison among stakeholders,
not project managers, project teams, and program managers - stakeholders.
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