Business Analyst - Quiz

1. You are trying to gather quantitative data in your survey. What should you do?

Ask closed-ended questions.

Ask open-ended questions.

Ask both open-ended and closed-ended questions.

Ask specific financial questions.

You have answered wrong: The correct answer is A.

2. Which two meeting roles should preferably NOT be the same person in a Requirements Elicitation session?

Facilitator and Scribe.

Facilitator and Business Process Owner.

Facilitator and Timekeeper.

Business Process Owner and Subject Matter Expert (SME).

You have answered wrong: The correct answer is B.

3. What are the key elements when conducting elicitation activities?

Requirements workshops, building data dictionaries, brainstorming.

Observation, job shadowing, questionnaires.

Tracing requirements, capturing requirement attributes, tracking elicitation metrics.

Domain SME, requirements workshops, tracing requirements.

You have answered wrong: The correct answer is C.

4. Which statement about how User Interfaces (UI) and prototypes help with requirements elicitation and documentation is LEAST true?

They will uncover additional data attributes and relationships.

They will help to refine processing requirements for navigation of interfaces.

Use cases help provide the foundation for UIs, including how they should respond to actors.

Documenting user interfaces is not a requirements activity, but should be left to interface designers.

You have answered wrong: The correct answer is D.

5. The success of a Requirements Workshop is highly dependent on the expertise of which role(s):

Facilitator and scribe.

Project manager and business analyst

Scribe and business analyst.

Sponsor.

You have answered wrong: The correct answer is A.

6. Which of the following statements best represent BABOK elicitation techniques?

Story boarding, facilitated session, document analysis, survey

Document analysis, storyboarding, navigation flow, requirements workshops.

Focus groups, customer interviews, job shadowing, contextual.

Prototyping, observation, functional, survey.

You have answered wrong: The correct answer is B.

7. Which of the following is an advantage of prototyping?

Users develop unrealistic expectations.

Too many assumptions have to be made about the technology.

Throwaway prototypes are inexpensive.

People are focused on how's vs. what's.

You have answered wrong: The correct answer is C.

8. Successful interviewing depends on all of the following general factors:

BA's level of understanding of organizational behavior, BA's presentation skill, interviewee's readiness to provide information, interviewee's clarity
regarding business expectations from the target system, BA and interviewee rapport.

BA's interviewing skill, interviewee's readiness to provide information, interviewee's clarity regarding business expectations from the target system,
interviewee's expertise in user interface design, BA and interviewee rapport.

BA's level of understanding programming technologies, BA's interviewing skill, interviewee's readiness to provide information, interviewee's clarity
regarding business expectations from the target solution.

BA's level of understanding the business, BA's interviewing skill, interviewee's readiness to provide information, interviewee's clarity regarding business
expectations from the target system, BA and interviewee rapport.

You have answered wrong: The correct answer is D.

9. Which of the following can help you prepare for a requirements workshop?

Conducting pre-workshop interviews.

Enforcing discipline.

Establishing the tone of the meeting.

Eliciting some initial requirements.

You have answered wrong: The correct answer is A.

10. Which of these statements about the business analyst is true?

A business analyst is doing business analysis work when they are designing a database.

A business analyst is doing business analysis work when they are prototyping the solution. Prototyping is a Requirements Elicitation technique.

A business analyst is doing business analysis work when they are scheduling resources.

A business analyst is doing business analysis work when they are planning business risks.

You have answered wrong: The correct answer is B.

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