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CBAP stands for Certified Business Analysis Professional. This title is a professional certification, and a registered trademark from the International Institute of Business Analysis awarded to those who have the required experience. For this quiz, you should know the difference between non-functional, transition, functional, and solution requirements and the difference between survey, prototyping, interviews, and requirement workshops. If you are interested to understand more about CBAP, look no further than this quiz.


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  • 1. 

    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?

    • A.

      Non-Functional Requirements

    • B.

      Transition Requirements

    • C.

      Functional Requirements

    • D.

      Solution Requirements

    Correct Answer
    B. Transition Requirements
    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

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  • 2. 

    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)

    • A.

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

    • B.

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

    • C.

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

    • D.

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

    Correct Answer
    A. Debbie must work with the appropriate stakeholders to determine how the work will be completed
    Explanation
    Section 2.1.2

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  • 3. 

    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?

    • A.

      Survey/Questionnaire

    • B.

      Prototyping

    • C.

      Interviews

    • D.

      Requirement Workshop

    Correct Answer
    A. Survey/Questionnaire
    Explanation
    Survey requires for the questions to be distributed as opposed to all other techniques.

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  • 4. 

    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)

    • A.

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

    • B.

      Jenny must escalate this conflict to other higher level manager

    • C.

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

    • D.

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

    Correct Answer
    A. Jenny must find a way to resolve this conflict either by facilitating a formal meeting, through research or other methods
    Explanation
    Section 4.1.4.2 Conflict and Issue Management

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  • 5. 

    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…

    • A.

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

    • B.

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

    • C.

      Gathering information in order to define the business case

    • D.

      Analyzing requirement in order to specify and model the requirements

    Correct Answer
    A. Uncovering the current capability analysis in order to assess the capability gaps of an organization
    Explanation
    Section 5.2.4.1

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  • 6. 

    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?

    • A.

      Prioritize Requirements

    • B.

      Organize Requirements

    • C.

      Verify Requirements

    • D.

      Validate Requirements

    Correct Answer
    A. Prioritize Requirements
    Explanation
    Section 6.1.1: Prioritize Requirements

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  • 7. 

    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?

    • A.

      Team leader

    • B.

      Release Manager

    • C.

      Process Owner

    • D.

      Configuration Manager

    Correct Answer
    A. Team leader
    Explanation
    Section 6.2.6 Stakeholders

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  • 8. 

    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?

    • A.

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

    • B.

      Ask the end users to select the solution they prefer most

    • C.

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

    • D.

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

    Correct Answer
    A. Identify additional potential capabilities and determine the best solution by ranking those capabilities
    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).

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  • 9. 

    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?

    • A.

      Primitive Data Elements

    • B.

      Composite Data Elements

    • C.

      Mix Data Elements

    • D.

      Sequential Data Elements

    Correct Answer
    B. Composite Data Elements
    Explanation
    Section 9.5.3

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  • 10. 

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

    • A.

      External entities, processes, data stores, data flow

    • B.

      Name, aliases, entities, process flow, sequences

    • C.

      Concept, attributes, relationships, metadata

    • D.

      Entities, attributes, processes, data stores, data flow

    Correct Answer
    A. External entities, processes, data stores, data flow
    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.

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