CBAP-CT04 | Techniques Packs 1-3

As a Business Analyst who is responsible for eliciting requirements both directly from engaging with stakeholders and indirectly through other means, which one of the following elicitation techniques can be described as an indirect elicitation technique in this context?

You are the business analyst for your organization and are working with Sally, a project manager, for your organization. You and Sally are determining the cost of the labor, materials, equipment, and facilities in order to achieve the different solutions that have been proposed for an identified problem. What is this process called?

What is the primary purpose for a Business Analyst applying a form of collaborative games during a group workshop?

All of the following statements are true regarding a brainstorming session during BA Information Management except for which one?

During the verification meeting with the stakeholders for the deployment of the production module of an ERP, Azin, as a business analyst, realizes that one of the problems from some time ago is still unsolved. To reassure the stakeholders, she says that the problems have been followed up transparently. What does she offer for this?

You are performing a stakeholder analysis and want to assess how involved the different stakeholders will be with the project solution. Which technique would help you document this?

Which business analysis technique allows the business analyst to leverage existing materials to analyze the current state of the enterprise relative to a business need?

A business analyst (BA) wants to estimate the potential value delivered by a set of requirements and design options by targeting a small group of stakeholders to understand their perceived value and expectations. The BA is going to organize a discussion during which feedback is collected. Which technique will be used?

Susan is conducting elicitation for her project by visiting the customer locations. These locations receive deliveries of raw materials, sorted, barcoded, and are sent to warehouses. Which elicitation technique is she using?

Victoria is a product owner in a computer games company. To formulate a needs elicitation approach, she has to refer to past experiences. Which of the following can she help best?

You and the project sponsor are informally discussing what the business expects from a proposed new system. You came into the discussion with no prepared questions. What type of elicitation interview are you conducting?

You are gathering requirements for the security of a new application. You are identifying the roles of the different users and what level of access to data and functions they should have. This can be documented in a———-

When selecting an elicitation technique, consideration should be given to the geographic location of participants. For a geographically dispersed team, the following would be good to use as one of the techniques:

Business analyst B uses hierarchical decomposition to break down B’s business analysis deliverables into activities and tasks. B then adds the hours needed and can give an accurate estimate of the time needed to complete the BA work. What type of estimation has Business analyst B used?

Business analyst A is conducting a requirements workshop. A found that few stakeholders were quite silent during the workshop. What technique can A adopt to elicit requirements from all stakeholders?

When you develop an organizational model and you choose to group staff together based on shared skills or areas of expertise, as well as acknowledging a standardized way of working within that area, you are showing a particular type of organizational model. Select the type of organizational model you are illustrating.

An organization’s Business Analysis Center of Excellence (BACoE) has deployed several business analysts (BAs) to provide Business Analysis Information Management to a crossfunctional initiative. After the first phase of the project, the BACoE seeks to determine the effectiveness of the business analysis work. Which of the following techniques could be used to elicit feedback from all affected stakeholders?

A business analyst (BA) finds conflicting requirements gathered from several stakeholders. Aside from interviews, what additional activities can the BA use to safeguard against this happening?

As a business analyst, Alexandra uses techniques to interact with her stakeholders that are detailed profiles of fictional characters that represent a specific segment of users within a targeted demographic. What exactly did she use?

July has recently been working as a business analyst in a company producing audio and video equipment. She has noticed that the number of change requests has fluctuated over the past few weeks. Together with her colleague Elena, She has noticed that 12 change requests are optimistic, 8 change requests are most likely, and 16 change requests are pessimistic. If she wants to give the CEO an estimate of the number of change requests. What number will it show?

Antonella was scheduled to interview the CEO for Governance document finalization. She wrote 10 questions based on very important, important and insignificant and decided to ask him in order of priority. The CEO left at the last minute. She sent her questions on WhatsApp. If the CEO answers Antonella’s questions. Specify the type of interview:

You are hosting a collection of stakeholders from across the organization to identify the ideas and attitudes about your company’s help desk. You want the stakeholders to honestly share their opinions about the help desk service so you can identify problems, solutions, and take actions to improve the service. What type of requirements elicitation activity is this?

After their organization entered a mega project, the business analyst team realized that their governance structure needed many revisions and updates. Considering the past successes of the company, there is a possibility of their presence in other megaprojects. In parallel, which register is a potential update candidate?

A business analyst (BA) has been assigned to manage the ongoing stakeholder collaboration after completing a project. The BA needs to understand the stakeholders’ level of satisfaction and wants to offer stakeholders an opportunity to help improve the working relationships based on this information. Which technique should the BA use?

You are the business analyst for a large software development project. There are several issues that must be resolved by certain dates or the problem will prevent the project from advancing. What technique can you use to track problems with the requirements?

There have been issues with the processing times for orders at JTC Enterprises. To find out more about the symptoms of the problems and to investigate causes, the business analyst could identify and meet with

Nasreen recently joined an oil company as a business analyst. In the company’s web-based office portable, a general organization chart structure has been compiled. But she is confused again and doesn’t know who should report to whom. Which technique is helpful for this problem?

Martha is observing Gary complete several activities as part of her requirements elicitation process. Martha is simply observing the steps Gary takes to complete his work and she is taking notes. In this instance Martha does not ask Gary any questions. What type of observation technique is Martha completing?

Your developer has provided you with an estimate based on the “cost per line of code”. What type of estimate did the developer use to provide this information?

A business analyst (BA) is working to identify pain points on decentralized software maintenance and license contract management process. Four major stakeholders are involved in this process. The stakeholders are unclear about who is doing what and what is expected to be done. What should the BA do to delineate the stakeholders’ roles?

A business analyst (BA) is preparing for observation. A passive approach has been selected for establishing performance metrics. What should be identified for the next step?

You are the business analyst for your organization and you and your staff are creating as many solutions as possible to an identified problem in the solution approach process. What is this activity element called?