BCS Foundation Certificate in Business Analysis V4.0 (PC-BA-FBA) Free Practice Test

Question 1

One of Porter's five forces explicitly considers industry competitors.
Which of the following is the Key Focus' of this force?

A. The products offered by Competitors

B. Rivalry among existing Competitors

C. A Competitor's external marketing campaign

D. The market share of known Competitors.

Correct Answer: B

Question 2

What does the O' stand for in the CATVVOE analysis?

A. The organisation of the business system under review.

B. The owner of the business system under review.

C. The objectives of the business system under review.

D. The opportunities for change in the business system under review.

Correct Answer: B

Question 3

A stakeholder in a project has been classified as having no interest but high power/influence on the power/interest grid.
Which of the following would be an appropriate way of managing this stakeholder?

A. Keep informed

B. Keep on side.

C. Watch.

D. Ignore.

Correct Answer: C

Question 4

Which stage of Isaksen and Treffinger's creative problem-solving model is concerned with analysing the opinions and concerns to identify how information can be quantified?

A. Problem finding.

B. Data finding

C. Idea finding

D. Mess finding.

Correct Answer: B

Question 5

The entity relationship model below shows the relationship between Product and Order.

Which of the following business rules is correct and is reflected in the diagram?

A. The minimum number of orders for each product is one.

B. The maximum number of products on one order is unlimited.

C. The minimum number of products on each order is zero.

D. The maximum number of products on one order is eight.

Correct Answer: D

Question 6

What is the first stage of the waterfall systems development lifecycle?

A. Feasibility Study.

B. Strategic Vision.

C. Plan.

D. Analysis.

Correct Answer: A

Question 7

A business analyst has identified that one of the use cases on a use case diagram contains a large amount of optional processing. This optional processing is so large that he has decided to remove it to a separate use case which can be called by the original use case if required.
How should the original use case be linked to the new use case?

A. By a broken, arrowed line stereotyped with the word <>.

B. By a broken, arrowed line stereotyped with the word <>.

C. By a solid line with no arrowhead or stereotype.

D. By a broken, arrowed line stereotyped with the word <>.

Correct Answer: A

Question 8

Every night at midnight a batch process is invoked to invoice all orders received that day.
How will the time midnight be represented on a use case diagram?

A. As a use case.

B. As an actor.

C. As an association.

D. As a system boundary.

Correct Answer: B

Question 9

An analyst investigating a sales system wishes to ask questions about how a customer order form is completed in the current system.
What investigation technique is the analyst using?

A. Activity sampling.

B. Structured observation

C. Protocol analysis.

D. Document analysis

Correct Answer: D

Question 10

Which category of activities should be identified first when developing a 'Business Activity Model' (BAM)?

A. Doing.

B. Monitoring.

C. Planning.

D. Enabling.

Correct Answer: A

Question 11

One of the claimed advantages of buying a software package is that it is possible to predict future maintenance costs with some certainty.
How would these costs be classified in a cost-benefit analysis?

A. As an intangible cost.

B. As an intangible benefit.

C. As a tangible cost.

D. As a tangible benefit.

Correct Answer: C

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