Cetified business analysis professional (CBAP) appliaction (CBAP) Free Practice Test

Question 1

It's often impossible or difficult to prove that the implementation of a solution will change the current state of an organization to the desired future state. The business analyst must document the characteristics and risk of the implementation of a solution in case the belief that the solution will achieve the desired results will prove invalid.
What is the belief that the solution will create the desired effect for the organization called?

A. Model

B. Risk

C. Assumption

D. Project

Correct Answer: C

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Question 2

I. A health insurance provider undertakes enhancements to its mobile application platform and finalizes the following capabilities as part of the scope of the next release:
L Ability to integrate online maps and global positioning system (GPS) technology with the mobile application in real time to display location of service providers in the subscriber's that participate in the subscriber's plan network.
Ability for the subscriber to lookup the service providers by specifying either a postal code on a search area radius in miles.
III. Ability for the subscriber to initial the download of fee information for one more service providers in a single request.
Through requirements workshops the business analyst elicits the following detailed business requirements:
1. The company's mobile application platform must support real time integration with the following third- party systems:

A. Interface Analysis

B. Capability Analysis

C. Decision Analysis

D. Process Analysis

E. Postal Code Validation
2. The service providers available for selection must participate in the subscriber's medical plan network as of the current system date.
3. The map display shall highlight the boundary of the search area with a dotted yellow line.
4. The extent and shape of he searches area shall be determined based on one of the following user choices:
A postal code-Subscriber location acquired from GPS shall be used to determine and populate........................
Which of the following is the appropriate technique to define communication flows between the Postal Code validation system with other systems?

F. GPS System

Correct Answer: B

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Question 3

One of the processes within requirements analysis is to prioritize requirements.
As a business analyst why would you ever want to prioritize requirements?

A. You may need to determine the cost of each requirement.

B. You may need to determine which requirements are most critical so additional risk analysis can be completed on those requirements.

C. You may need to determine the schedule for each requirement.

D. You may need to determine which requirements are most critical so the analysis and implementation efforts focus on the most critical requirements.

Correct Answer: D

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Question 4

You are the business analyst for your organization and need a method to requirements elicitation from nearly
12,000 stakeholders. You want a method to quickly capture this group's feelings and thoughts to identify what the majority of this group needs and wants in a new solution your organization may create.
What requirements elicitation technique can be used in this scenario?

A. Surveys

B. Trend analysis

C. Focus groups

D. Interviews

Correct Answer: A

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Question 5

As a program manager, you decided to overlap two phases of your program.
Which of the following terms best describe your act?

A. Fast tracking

B. Rolling

C. Crashing

D. Lead time

Correct Answer: A

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Question 6

Gary is the business analyst for his organization. He has realized that he has overlooked a key group of stakeholders during the conduct stakeholder analysis process.
What is the danger in overlooking a key set of stakeholders?

A. The newly identified stakeholders will need to spend extra time to learn about the project and how it will affect them.

B. The newly identified stakeholders will now have to pay for any requirements they want to add to the requirements.

C. The newly identified stakeholders will be excluded from decisions that affect the deliverables that have already been created in the project.

D. The newly identified stakeholders may have requirements that require additions to the project or may nullify other requirements already in the project.

Correct Answer: D

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Question 7

You are the business analyst for your organization. You are coaching Tom about the different approaches to business analysis.
Which type of business analysis approach has the most business analysis work at the beginning of the project or during the start of a project phase?

A. Requirements-driven approach

B. Plan-driven approach

C. Change-driven approach

D. Value-driven approach

Correct Answer: B

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Question 8

Which of the following defines how the project scope should be created, executed, monitored and controlled, and then validated?

A. Scope variance plan

B. Staffing management plan

C. Scope management plan

D. Schedule management plan

Correct Answer: C

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Question 9

Several commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) software packages exist that would enable the business analyst (BA) to meet the needs of the business. For the potential deign options, the Ba included one of the COTS packages as a solution approach What kind of solution approach is this?

A. Exploit

B. Purchase

C. Outsource

D. Create

Correct Answer: B

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Question 10

Which of the following techniques is used to test customer acceptance of the solution and to measure marketplace demand?

A. Prototyping

B. Market Survey

C. Technology Assessment

D. Interviews

Correct Answer: A

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Question 11

When do change requests generally increase in a project?

A. During the project's launch.

B. Towards the beginning of the project.

C. Towards the end of the project.

D. During the project scope management processes.

Correct Answer: B

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Question 12

After the new report "Customer Sales by Date" was deployed last week, the sales team is now unable to generate the previously existing report "Consolidated Sales by Customer, " which is causing customer dissatisfaction.
What could the business analyst (BA) have assessed to prevent this situation?

A. Solution assessment results

B. Current state and stakeholder needs

C. Balanced scorecard

D. Strengths, weaknesses, and threats

Correct Answer: B

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Question 13

A non-profit utility company has 900 employees, a majority of whom are hourly employees and must track their time using a paper based process. A few years ago, the Director of Human Resources purchased a software system to eliminate the current paper-based time reporting process. No requirements specific to the utility company were defined prior to the purchase. A team was formed to implement the software. During implementation process, the team discovered the software lacked functionality and was not robust enough to support the general ledger requirements The company stopped the effort and incurred a 1500.000 USD loss on the cost of the software.
This year, the Director of Finance requested that a team investigate the current paper-based time reporting process and recommend solutions. The Director of Finance feels that the Director of Human Resources must be involved as a critical stakeholder The Director of Human Resources is still bitter about the last effort because the process stopped.
During a design review meeting to discuss the future state, all stakeholders are in agreement except the Director of Human Resources. Who makes the final decision?

A. The BA

B. Those identified in the governance approach

C. All stakeholders must be in complete agreement

D. The sponsor

Correct Answer: B

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