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Question 1 of 25

1. Question
According to the CMM/I, what is the relationship between maturity level and solution quality and team productivity?
- As a project's requirements and software development process matures, project timelines and costs increase while productivity and quality decrease.
- Maturity levels for solution quality and team productivity rise in tandem.
- As a project's requirements and software development process matures, project timelines and costs decrease while productivity and quality increase.
- None of the above.
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2. Question
Studies have shown which of the following to have a direct negative impact on solution quality?
- Missing requirements.
- Inaccurate requirements.
- Incomplete requirements.
- All of the above.
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Question 3 of 25

3. Question
Who has the primary responsibility to elicit, analyze, document, verify, and validate the needs of project stakeholders?
- Sponsor.
- Business Analyst.
- Project Manager.
- Quality Assurance Tester.
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4. Question
Communication is the cornerstone of any business analyst’s day-to-day responsibilities?
- True.
- False.
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5. Question
What must the business analyst understand before being able to effectively communicate to project stakeholders?
- The user's goals and objectives for the system.
- The project manager's WBS.
- Who the sponsor is.
- Classes and their attributes as expressed within the solution code.
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Question 6 of 25

6. Question
What must a business analyst determine before communicating requirements to a specific audience?
- The specific requirements relevant to each stakeholder group and their desired format.
- Where the audience is located.
- The level of detail each stakeholder desires.
- How much time is needed to write the communications plan.
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Question 7 of 25

7. Question
The techniques listed in the BABOK® can be used by a business analyst to communicate technical requirements.
- True.
- False.
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Question 8 of 25

8. Question
Effective communication is based on what elements?
- Knowing your audience.
- Understanding the intended message.
- Using an appropriate mix of techniques and communication formats.
- All of the above.
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Question 9 of 25

9. Question
What percentage of implemented solutions are “rolled back” out of production each year?
- 15%
- 50%
- 65%
- 80%
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Question 10 of 25

10. Question
What is the estimated cost to U.S. businesses each year due to poorly defined applications?
- $30 million
- $300 million
- $30 billion
- $30 trillion
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Question 11 of 25

11. Question
A requirement is:
- A condition or capability that is nice but not necessary.
- A condition or capability that is required by a stakeholder to solve a problem or achieve an objective or meet a compliance requirement, or a diagram of a required condition or capability.
- A condition or capability that is required by a stakeholder.
- A description of how the system behaves, not what it looks like to users, its performance, security, or impact on current infrastructure.
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Question 12 of 25

12. Question
If another project must be completed first before your project can be implemented, that is known as a:
- Risk
- Issue
- Dependency
- Constraint
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13. Question
Requirements must first be validated before they can be managed.
- True.
- False.
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14. Question
The requirements baseline, also known as the solution scope:
- Is the set of requirements contained within the intended project solution of functional and non-functional requirements.
- Documents the “who, what, where, when, and how” of business analyst activities on a project.
- Determines the way in which business analysts work on a given task.
- None of the above.
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15. Question
What must be determined first before requirements can be communicated or managed?
- Project start date.
- Work Breakdown Structure (WBS).
- Project manager to manage the project.
- Requirements management and communication plans.
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Question 16 of 25

16. Question
In addition to identifying how requirements will be managed and communicated, these plans also should include:
- Evaluation metrics to measure business analyst work on the project.
- Technical solution details such as specifications.
- Both of the above
- None of the above
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Question 17 of 25

17. Question
Project deliverables are different from work products in this way:
- Project deliverables are not required on projects, work products are.
- Work products require project stakeholder approval.
- Project deliverables require project stakeholder approval.
- Project deliverables and work products are the same.
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Question 18 of 25

18. Question
If approving stakeholders do not agree on the set of requirements for the intended solution, the business analyst must:
- Redo requirements elicitation from start to finish; obviously something was missed when first conducted.
- Get stakeholders who disagree to agree in order to resolve the gap and gain approval of requirements baseline.
- Ask the project manager for help.
- Talk to other business analysts to ask what they would do.
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Question 19 of 25

19. Question
An example of a typical plan-driven project approach would be:
- Agile
- Waterfall
- CMMI
- RAD
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Question 20 of 25

20. Question
A requirements baseline is established when:
- All reviewers have reviewed the requirements.
- All those responsible for working on requirements have completed their work.
- All required stakeholders have approved the set of requirements.
- All business analysts have started eliciting requirements.
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Question 21 of 25

21. Question
Communicating requirements helps:
- To complete the project on time and on budget.
- To bring the stakeholders to a common understanding of the requirements.
- To inform the project manager when deliverables are due.
- Define the tasks to be done for the WBS.
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Question 22 of 25

22. Question
Management of requirements assists with:
- Understanding the effects of change.
- Ensuring the knowledge and understanding of the organization gained during business analysis is available for future use.
- Linking the business goals and objectives to actual solution.
- All of the above.
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Question 23 of 25

23. Question
“Change-driven” approaches such as SCRUM use a formal change control process.
- True.
- False.
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Change driven approaches such as Agile prioritize requirements and select requirements for implementation at each iteration, making a formal change control process unnecessary.

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Question 24 of 25

24. Question
The requirements baseline, also known as the solution scope, represents:
- The “who, what, where, when and how” of business analyst activities on a project.
- The set of requirements contained within the intended solution or project or iteration scope.
- How business analysts work on a given task.
- None of the above.
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Question 25 of 25

25. Question
It is important to define what a requirement is to stakeholders upfront to aid in developing a shared understanding:
- True.
- False.
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According to Wiegers, there is a trap that business analysts sometimes fall in to. “Don’t assume that all of your project stakeholders share a common notion of what requirements are. Establish definitions up front so that you’re all talking about the same things.

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