CCBA: Certification of Competency in Business Analysis

Management comes to you and asks you to complete some specifications and models about the current state of the organization.

Management wants you to complete this business analysis activity as soon as possible and report back to them with your findings. What is the primary purpose of the specify and model requirements process?

To analyze the roles and responsibilities of users within the organization to determine how the processes may be improved.
To analyze the utility function within the organization to determine how risk tolerance may allow for new opportunities.
To analyze the functioning of an organization and to provide an insight into opportunities for improvement.
To analyze the processes of an organization to determine what processes can be improved, removed, or added.

Correct answer: C

Explanation:

The specify and model requirements is a business analysis process to analyze the functioning of an organization and provide an insight into opportunities for improvement.

In preparation for your business analysis examinations, you should be familiar with the tasks to complete requirements management and communication activities. How many tasks are there in the knowledge area of requirements management and communication?

7
4
5
6

Correct answer: C

Explanation:

Following are the tasks in Requirements Management and Communication:Manage solution scope and requirements. Manage requirements traceability. Maintain requirements for reuse. Prepare requirements package. Communicate requirements.

Following are the tasks in Requirements Management and Communication:

Manage solution scope and requirements.
Manage requirements traceability.
Maintain requirements for reuse.
Prepare requirements package.
Communicate requirements.

Which business analysis task in the requirements management and communication domain is best described as creating and maintaining relationships among business objectives, requirements, team deliverables, and solution components to support business analysis activities?

Communicate requirements.
Prepare the requirements package.
Manage requirements traceability.
Document requirements for review.

Correct answer: C

Explanation:

The question describes the task of managing requirements traceability.

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

Organizational process asset
Enterprise architecture
Business need
Matrix structure

Correct answer: A

Explanation:

Organizational process assets describe the organizational policies, procedures, forms, and methodologies the business analyst is to follow.

You are the business analyst for your organization. You've believed that your solution can actually be purchased from outside vendor rather than trying to create the solution internally. You decide to ask the vendor to provide a fee for their services based on the statement of work. What document will you give the vendor along with the statement of work?

Request for quote
Contract terms
Request for proposal
Purchase order

Correct answer: A

Explanation:

When an organization wants just the cost of the service or product, request for quote is used. Quotes, provided by vendors to buyers, don't present any ideas or direction, but provide just the cost of the solution.

Which requirements allocation technique is best described as the breaking down of the solution scope into smaller units for allocation?

Functional decomposition
Resource allocation granularity
WBS creation
Process modeling

Correct answer: A

Explanation:

Functional decomposition takes the solution scope and decomposes it into smaller, more manageable units.

John and Hanna are business analysts in their organization and they are completing the verification activities to check for completeness of the requirements. When should John and Hanna perform these verification activities?

At each milestone of the requirements analysis process
Once all of the requirements have been gathered
Iteratively throughout the requirements analysis process
As often as the requirements management plan calls for

Correct answer: C

Explanation:

Requirements verification activities are performed iteratively throughout the requirements analysis process.

Business needs do not always originate from the business analyst or from business owners. There are several stakeholders which may identify or contribute to the identification of a business need. Which one of the following stakeholders are most likely to have the most direct awareness of problems that could lead to a business need?

End users
Business analysts
Project managers
Functional managers

Correct answer: A

Explanation:

End users of a system are the stakeholders that are to have the most direct awareness of problems. The end users typically represent the largest group of stakeholders and are closest to the applications, services, and facilities where business needs may be represented.

You are the business analyst for your organization and are leading a presentation about an identified problem. This presentation will help the stakeholders to understand the problem and it will help you when you begin to elicit requirements from the stakeholders. Which type of learner learns best through the presentation of models?

Kinesthetic learners
Auditory learners
Communication model learners
Visual learners

Correct answer: D

Explanation:

Visual learners are people that learn best by observing a model of the problem or visual aids to demonstrate the problem.

Brian is the business analyst for his organization and he's hosting a brainstorming session. He is facilitating the session with eight stakeholders. Why is it important for Brian to not set a goal for the number of ideas the group should generate in the session?

A goal for the number of ideas to be generated should be created.
A goal for the number of ideas puts too much pressure on the group.
A goal for the number of ideas may be too large to reach.
A goal for the number of ideas actually limits the ideas that can be generated.

Correct answer: D

Explanation:

When a business analyst sets a goal for the number of ideas to be generated during a brainstorming session, it actually limits the number of ideas that the group can generate. For example, if Brian sets the goal of 25 ideas, then once the group reaches 25, the session ends instead of urging more ideas into the session.