Certified Business Analyst (CBA) - Foundation (CBAF-001) Free Practice Test

Question 1

In which of the following categories would return on investment be considered when assessing the
feasibility of a project?

A. Financial feasibility.

B. Business feasibility.

C. Technical feasibility.

D. Operational feasibility.

Correct Answer: A

Question 2

In which stage of the requirements engineering process are requirements checked to see whether they
are well formed and SMART?

A. Requirements analysis.

B. Requirements management.

C. Requirements documentation.

D. Requirements elicitation.

Correct Answer: A

Question 3

Which of the following is an example of 'Individual Tacit Knowledge'?

A. Process.

B. Culture.

C. Intuition.

D. Norms.

Correct Answer: C

Question 4

What does the 0' stand for in the CATVVOE analysis?

A. The owner of the business system under review.

B. The organization 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: A

Question 5

What are subsequent changes subject to once a requirements document has been signed off?

A. Requirements management.

B. Requirements documentation.

C. Requirements validation.

D. Requirements verification.

Correct Answer: A

Question 6

The V model is an example of which of the following?

A. A business analysis process model.

B. A soft systems methodology.

C. A concerns-based adoption model.

D. A systems development lifecycle.

Correct Answer: D

Question 7

During a workshop, it is useful to ask participants to come up with ideas which are listed for later
evaluation. What is this technique called?

A. Brainstorming.

B. Round Robin.

C. Mind Mapping.

D. Mess Finding.

Correct Answer: A

Question 8

Which of the following BEST describes the term value proposition?

A. The value of the Internal Rate of Return of a project.

B. The net present value of a proposed project.

C. The proposed value of benefits in a cost-benefit analysis.

D. The value that a product or service offers to customers.

Correct Answer: D

Question 9

Which of the following are steps in the Isaksen and Treffinger's creative problem solving model?
a. Mess Finding.
b. Data Modelling.
c. Process Finding.
d. Problem Finding.
e. Solution Finding.

A. b, c and e.

B. a, b, c and d.

C. a, c, d and e.

D. a, d and e.

Correct Answer: D

Question 10

Which of the following diagrams helps the business analyst to document a range of issues that have been
uncovered about a business situation?

A. The use case diagram .

B. The rich picture.

C. The business activity model.

D. The 'to be' process model.

Correct Answer: B

Question 11

The term CATWOE provides a framework for defining and analysing business perspectives. In a project,
which letter of CATWOE should be first understood by the business analyst?

A. The Actor.

B. The Owner.

C. The Weltanschauung or world-view.

D. The Customer.

Correct Answer: C

Question 12

An analyst has discovered that a company wishes to hold information about departments and employees.
A department may have many employees in it, but each employee can, at any one time, only work in one
department. There is no requirement to store historical information. However, there are currently eight
departments and over one hundred employees. How would this relationship be shown on an Entity
Relationship diagram?

A. As (8 .. 100) at the Department end of the relationship.

B. As a one-to-many between Department and Employee.

C. As a one-to-one between Department and Employee.

D. As a many-to-many between Department and Employee.

Correct Answer: B

Question 13

Which of the following options only includes workshop discovery techniques?

A. Stepwise refinement, context diagrams, process models.

B. Round robin, post-it exercise, brainstorming.

C. Brainstorming, brainwriting, mind maps.

D. Rich pictures, mind maps, task scenarios.

Correct Answer: B

Question 14

Which of the following techniques can be used to pull together the results of an analysis of the external
and internal business environment of an organization?

A. Balanced business scorecard.

B. SWOT analysis.

C. Resource audit.

D. Five-forces model.

Correct Answer: B

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