Foundation Certificate in Business Analysis (BA15) Free Practice Test

Question 1

Description, impact assessment, probability and countermeasures are usually recorded for which of the following?

A. Key Performance Indicators.

B. Stakeholdei-s.

C. Risks.

D. Requirements.

Correct Answer: C

Question 2

There is a requirement for an employee to enter time worked details into a computerised project reporting system. If this requirement was drawn on a use case diagram, which of the following would be correct?

A. The computer system would be the boundary, the project reporting system a use case.

B. Project reporting system would be an actor, employee a use case.

C. Employee would be the boundary, time details an actor.

D. Enter time details would be a use case, employee an actor.

Correct Answer: D

Question 3

An analyst investigating a finance system wishes to build rapport with individual stakeholders and investigate in detail each stakeholder's views. Which of the following techniques should the analyst use?

A. Special purpose records.

B. Questionnaires.

C. Interviewing.

D. Document analysis.

Correct Answer: C

Question 4

Which of the following is an input to the 'Investigate the Situation' stage of the business analysis process model?

A. Business case.

B. List of issues/problems.

C. Terms of reference.

D. Stakeholder perspectives.

Correct Answer: C

Question 5

What is stage 0 (zero) of the concerns-based adoption model?

A. Initial change.

B. Awareness.

C. Shock.

D. Defininition.

Correct Answer: B

Question 6

How would usability and performance requirements be classified?

A. As functional requirements.

B. As non-functional requirements.

C. As general requirements.

D. As technical requirements.

Correct Answer: B

Question 7

An airline wishes to assess the punctuality of its flights. What type of business activity would do this?

A. A controlling activity.

B. A monitoring activity.

C. A planning activity.

D. An enabling activity.

Correct Answer: B

Question 8

Which of the following only includes explicit corporate knowledge?

A. Job descriptions, tasks, targets.

B. Culture, norms, historical data.

C. Skills, values, communities of practice.

D. Style guides, procedures, processes.

Correct Answer: D

Question 9

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 organisation?

A. Balanced business scorecard.

B. SWOT analysis.

C. Resource audit.

D. Five-forces model.

Correct Answer: B

Question 10

What occurs at handoffs when two actors do not synchronise their work?

A. Queues.

B. Decisions.

C. Functions.

D. Errors.

Correct Answer: A

Question 11

Who should be defined as the owner of a risk?

A. The person responsible for defining the probability of the risk.

B. The person who identified the risk in the initial requirements analysis.

C. The person best placed to take the necessary counter-measures to the risk.

D. The person who documented the risk in the risk register.

Correct Answer: C

Question 12

Which of the following investigation techniques involves following a user for one or two days in order to find out what a particular job entails?

A. Activity sampling.

B. Protocol analysis.

C. Shadowing.

D. Scenario analysis.

Correct Answer: C

Question 13

The requirements catalogue documents the business user or users who requested the requirement.
Which heading in the requirements catalogue template would this information be recorded?

A. Author.

B. Source.

C. Justification.

D. Owner.

Correct Answer: B

Question 14

The entity relationship model below shows the relationship between Product and Order. Which of the following business rules is correct and is refilected 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

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