The task of prioritizing requirements creates just one output. What is it?

A business analyst (BA) is working on a project for a media company. The BA has verified, validated, and prioritized the requirements based on business benefits. During the development phase, the team discovered that the current viewer will no longer be supported by the provider. The technical team needs to either upgrade to the newer version with different technology or find an alternate viewer. Given this new information, what is the next step for the BA?

There are competing needs from the different business areas that will use a new system. The business analyst (BA) sets up a weekly meeting with a structured agenda to review the total effort, cost, business impact and risk of each requirement with the business leads to determine what is included in each release of the solution. What approach has the BA defined?

During the analysis, synthesis, and refinement of elicitation results the business analyst (BA) has discovered that some information is missing. Which course of action would resolve the situation?

A business analyst (BA) is working on a project that has a number of stakeholder conflicts and issues. The BA is finding it difficult to resolve the conflicts and issues effectively. What should the BA do to prevent a similar situation in the future?

A business analyst (BA) is working on an effort to upgrade a system to take advantage of new technology. Most of the end users with the business knowledge and IT staff with technical knowledge of the system are no longer with the company. What can the BA evaluate to better understand the extent of the effort?

A business analyst (BA) has completed an impact analysis of a proposed change, gained approval for the change, and has updated the requirements. The project sponsor wants to be updated with an overview of the results. How should the BA communicate the results?

A business analyst (BA) has elicited requirements for a new system. A subset of these requirements refers to judging the performance of the system, such as efficiency, capacity, security, and scalability. What technique is used to examine and group these requirements?

A stakeholder has requested an extremely detailed resolution to an issue during current state analysis that may consume about 20% of the estimated project effort. How should the business analyst (BA) handle the situation?

A business analyst (BA) needs approval for the requirements which were elicited, collated, and verified by a peer. The BA needs to understand the approval process and appropriate stakeholders who have the authority to approve the requirements. Which of the following artifacts contains this information?

A business analyst (BA) identified that a stakeholder requirement for an online system led to a functional requirement to provide a user login screen. This is an example of which type of traceability relationship?

You are the business analyst for your organization and management has asked you to select a model for your solution. Management wants you to describe the people within and without of your organization who will interact with the solution. What type of model has management asked you to create?

A one-location restaurant has been a huge success and the owner wants to expand into more markets. The owner wants to ensure that the quality of the food and pleasing atmosphere is maintained without introducing new variables. Working with the key members of the organization, the owner determines that training and standard processes must be defined. The owner engages a business analyst (BA) to create training materials and operating procedures based on the existing processes at the original restaurant. During this documentation, the BA identifies some opportunities for improvement. How must the BA proceed?

As a candidate for the CCBA exam, you should be able to recognize the activities associated with each knowledge area. All of the following are the business analysis planning & monitoring activities except for which one?

A business analyst (BA) is developing the requirements for an inventory management system. Some current accounting processes are automated but other departments like purchasing, marketing, sales and distribution departments work in isolation and have a manual process. They extensively use spreadsheets to maintain the transactions and at the end of the day the department managers manually verify and reconcile transactions before supplying the information to the accounting department. In order to verify and validate the elicited requirements, the BA will need to prepare a:

You are the business analyst for your organization. Management has asked that you create a method to store the project requirements including those under development, under review, and the requirements which have been approved. What is management asking you to create?

A business analyst (BA) worked with two stakeholders to finalize the access rights related requirements for an internal software application. According to the first stakeholder “Comments, once entered in the application, should be stored for 365 days and should not allow the users to delete”. According to the second stakeholder, “The users with super administrator privileges should be able to add/delete/modify every page/section in the entire application.” Which characteristic does this pair of requirements fail to meet?

As a candidate for CCBA, you should be able to recognize the activities associated with each knowledge area. Which of the following is an elicitation process that is a part of job observation?

Henry is the business analyst for the UUH Organization. Currently Henry is working on several work products as part of the requirements development process. He may need to share these work products with the stakeholders. Which of the following is not an example of a work product?

Which of the following is the best definition of the business rules analysis?

You are the business analyst for the NHQ Project. You have identified several stakeholders that need different types of information related to the requirements. Which stakeholder would need detailed technical interface requirements?

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 business analyst is studying the cost of the endeavor in relation to the projected income the endeavor will bring once the project is completed. What financial valuation technique can the business analyst use to determine the breakeven point for the project?

You have 83 project stakeholders from all across your organization. Some of the stakeholders, such as functional management, require weekly communication from you, while other stakeholders, such as the end users, only need quarterly progress updates. Where can you record these communication requirements based on your stakeholder analysis?

What type of a business analysis approach focuses on the rapid delivery of business value in short iterations?

You need to identify assumptions as part of the assessment of capability gaps. Which of the following is an example of an assumption?

Consider a business analyst who is completing the business analysis tasks of specifying and modeling requirements for an organization. This task can help an organization achieve all of the following objectives except for which one?

A business analyst wants to host a brainstorming session with eight key stakeholders. In preparation for this event, the business analyst should designate which one of the following rules for the session?

Which of the following describes the organizational policies, procedures, forms, and methodologies the business analyst is to follow?

You are the business analyst for your organization. Management has asked you to create a plan that will define the proposed structure and schedule for communicating the business analysis activities to the appropriate stakeholders. What plan does management want you to create?