Salesforce Certified-Business-Analyst - Salesforce Certified Business Analyst Exam (SP25)

 The business analyst should use a stakeholder analysis to gather additional perspective, feedback, and detail on the requirements from the NTO team. A stakeholder analysis is a technique to identify and understand the needs, expectations, interests, influence, and power of the stakeholders involved in a project. A stakeholder analysis can help the business analyst communicate effectively with the stakeholders, manage their expectations, address their concerns, involve them in decision making, and obtain their feedback and approval. A business analysis plan is not a document to gather additional perspective, feedback, and detail on the requirements from the NTO team. A business analysis plan is a document that describes how the business analysis activities will be conducted, such as what techniques, tools, deliverables, roles, and responsibilities will be used. A business analysis plan can help the business analyst plan and manage their work, but it does not help them gather information from the stakeholders. A current state analysis is not a document to gather additional perspective, feedback, and detail on the requirements from the NTO team. A current state analysis is a technique to understand and document how the current situation or process works, what are its strengths and weaknesses, what are the problems or opportunities for improvement, and what are the root causes of the issues. A current state analysis can help the business analyst identify gaps and needs, but it does not help them gather information from the stakeholders. References: https://trailhead.salesforce.com/en/content/learn/modules/business-analyst_skills-strategies/explore-techniques–information-discovery

The business analyst should seek sign-offs from the business for the functional requirements, individual test case functionality, and final go live date. The functional requirements are the statements that describe what the solution must do or provide to meet user needs or business objectives. The individual test case functionality is the verification that each test case meets the acceptance criteria for the corresponding user story or requirement. The final go live date is the date when the solution will be released to production and available for users or customers. These sign-offs help to ensure that the solution is complete, satisfactory, and ready for launch.

This answer states that reviewing the services team’s goals, initiatives, strategies, and obstacles is what the BA should do to determine if the current solution of implementing an Experience Site that allows customers to view Knowledge articles and submit cases is adding value to UC’s business. Goals are what the services team wants to achieve or accomplish in terms of business outcomes or benefits. Initiatives are what the services team plans to do or implement to achieve their goals. Strategies are how the services team executes or delivers their initiatives. Obstacles are what prevents or hinders the services team from achieving their goals, implementing their initiatives, or executing their strategies. Reviewing the services team’s goals, initiatives, strategies, and obstacles means that the BA analyzes and documents these elements related to implementing an Experience Site that allows customers to view Knowledge articles and submit cases. Reviewing the services team’s goals, initiatives, strategies, and obstacles is what the BA should do to determine if the current solution is adding value to UC’s business because it helps the BA to measure and evaluate the performance and impact of the current solution against these elements. References: https://trailhead.salesforce.com/en/content/learn/modules/salesforce-business-analyst-quick-look/use-stakeholder-engagement-skills

Email Proof is the User access and sharing feature that would be used for the following use case: it is the first time a user logs in and they need to be sent an email with a way to authenticate their email. Email Proof is a security feature that requires users to verify their email address when they log in for the first time or change their email address. 2 FA, Single Sign-On, and Login Link are not User access and sharing features that would be used for this use case. References: https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sf.security_email_proof.htm &type=5

The best practice for preventing a session from being derailed by an off-topic stakeholder is to use a “parking lot” technique. A parking lot is a list of topics or issues that are not relevant to the current session but may need further discussion or resolution later. The BA should add the stakeholder’s concerns to a parking lot for further discussion, and acknowledge that they are important but out of scope for the current session. This way, the BA can keep the session focused on the onboarding process and avoid wasting time or losing engagement from other stakeholders. References: https://trailhead.salesforce.com/en/content/learn/modules/business-analysis-process-mapping/plan-and-facilitate-a-process-mapping-session

When faced with budgetary constraints, re-prioritizing requirements ensures alignment with available resources:

Budget Optimization: Re-prioritizing allows the team to focus on delivering high-value features while deferring less critical requirements.

Role Collaboration: Salesforce recommends close collaboration between the BA and project manager to adjust project scope and maintain alignment with business goals.

Stakeholder Alignment: This approach ensures transparency with stakeholders about changes in project focus due to budgetary constraints.

This answer states that building tooltips and discoverable content in the new console layouts is how the BA should help the EMEA sales team learn the new features after completing the user acceptance testing phase of a major update to Sales Cloud. Tooltips are small pop-up windows that provide brief explanations or instructions for a feature or a functionality when a user hovers over or clicks on an element. Discoverable content is content that is hidden until a user interacts with a trigger, such as a button, a link, or an icon. Building tooltips and discoverable content in the new console layouts can help the BA to provide contextual and on-demand guidance and information to the EMEA sales team, and help them learn the new features at their own pace and convenience. References: https://trailhead.salesforce.com/en/content/learn/modules/salesforce-business-analyst-quick-look/use-stakeholder-engagement-skills

The business analyst should gather testing requirements from the stakeholder to address the need for user acceptance testing (UAT) for a particular story involving an update to an important trigger. UAT is end-user testing performed in a sandbox or test environment to verify that a project or enhancement works as intended and what was originally requested is actually being delivered. The business analyst should gather testing requirements from the stakeholder to understand what scenarios or cases need to be tested, what data or inputs need to be used, what outputs or results need to be expected, and what criteria or metrics need to be measured. The business analyst should also document and communicate these testing requirements to the testers and developers involved in UAT. Running all Apex tests using change set validation is not an action that the business analyst should take to address the need for UAT for a particular story involving an update to an important trigger. Running all Apex tests using change set validation is a process that checks whether deploying a change set would succeed or fail in another org without actually deploying it. Running all Apex tests using change set validation helps ensure code quality and coverage but does not verify whether a project or enhancement meets user needs or expectations. Performing testing on all objects in the trigger is not an action that the business analyst should take to address the need for UAT for a particular story involving an update to an important trigger. Performing testing on all objects in the trigger is a process that checks whether the trigger works correctly and consistently for all objects that it affects. Performing testing on all objects in the trigger helps ensure functionality and performance but does not verify whether a project or enhancement meets user needs or expectations. References: https://trailhead.salesforce.com/en/content/learn/modules/user-acceptance-testing-video/learn-about-user-acceptance-testing

The business analyst should focus on scheduling an all-day collaboration workshop with both teams to resolve their differences around contact management for a new Salesforce implementation. A collaboration workshop is a technique to bring together different stakeholders to share information, discuss issues, generate ideas, make decisions, or reach consensus on a topic or problem. Scheduling an all-day collaboration workshop with both teams can help identify their needs, expectations, pain points, goals, and priorities around contact management and find common ground or alignment among them. Mapping historical lead data from each team and building charts to highlight similarities is not a good option because it would not address the disconnect between the sales and marketing teams’ definition of a qualified lead, which is related to contact management, not lead management. Evaluating team’ skill and experience to determine how they can better align is not a good option because it would not address the disconnect between the sales and marketing teams’ definition of a qualified lead, which is related to contact management, not skill or experience. References: 1 https://trailhead.salesforce.com/en/content/learn/modules/salesforce-business-analyst-certification-prep/collaborate-with-stakeholders

The reference that the business analyst should consult to understand the integration pattern is a Solution Architecture Diagram. A Solution Architecture Diagram is a diagram that shows the high-level design and components of a system or solution. A Solution Architecture Diagram helps to understand the integration pattern by showing how different systems or applications are connected and interact with each other, as well as what data or information is exchanged between them. A Solution Architecture Diagram also helps to identify the scope, requirements, dependencies, and risks of an integration project or enhancement. References: https://trailhead.salesforce.com/content/learn/modules/salesforce-business-analyst-certification-prep/solution-design