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PMI PMI-PBA - PMI Professional in Business Analysis

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Total 200 questions

What should a business analyst do after discovering that two solution requirements conflict?

A.

Consult the sponsor(s) and log the constraint.

B.

Perform an impact analysis and propose a lower-cost alternative.

C.

Update the requirements baseline and upload it to the project repository.

D.

Communicate the conflict to stakeholders and facilitate a resolution.

A company is awarded a contract to design and build a custom product. The contract references a detailed technical specification. What is the best action to take to ensure the design meets customer requirements?

A.

Create a system requirements verification matrix to trace the design to the technical requirements and include verification methods.

B.

Conduct a one-on-one interview with each member of the technical team to ensure that they understand the customer's specification.

C.

Generate a design package for the product and ask the customer to verify that the design meets his or her technical needs.

D.

Develop a test plan to verify that the product meets the performance requirements in the technical specification.

A business analyst is working on a project to implement a new call management system for a help desk. They expected the average time interval to answer a call to decrease over time, but the interval has increased instead.

Which technique should the business analyst use to investigate the problem?

A.

Interviews

B.

Root cause analysis

C.

Observation

D.

Process modeling

What should the business analyst do during the first steps of a project?

A.

Identify stakeholders and their interests.

B.

Identify the classes of users and their requirements.

C.

Align the sponsor expectations along the project goals.

D.

Evaluate the sources for requirements and prioritize them.

After reviewing a business case, project goals, and objectives, a business analyst determines that the organization prefers taking an exploratory approach to finding the solution that best meets the business need. Which approach best aligns with the business need for this organization?

A.

Plan-driven approach

B.

Waterfall approach

C.

Analytical approach

D.

Change-driven approach

Which of the following is the best approach to enable developers and product owners to be in constant communication so that changes or issues that occur during development are exposed and discussed as they develop?

A.

Iterative

B.

Waterfall

C.

Linear

D.

Agile

A business analyst is discussing the acceptance criteria for a new measurement system with the operations manager. The operations manager is particularly concerned about the accuracy of the new system because mistakes in data measurements could be extremely costly to fix.

Which of the following is the best strategy to define the appropriate acceptance criteria?

A.

Quantify the risks associated with the measurement errors and update the risk register.

B.

Ask the operations manager to formally accept the requirements documents.

C.

Plan a training session for the new system before it is handed over to the operations manager.

D.

Clearly define the maximum acceptable error rate for the new system.

Which of the following would be the best practice in product validation?

A.

The measurement of the requirement should be based on the average of two or more evaluations.

B.

There should be two separate measurements for evaluating each functional requirement.

C.

Two or more testers should test the product using the same test cases so that their evaluations are consistent.

D.

The evaluation criteria should be the same as what was used to measure the requirement.

A business analyst is working with the project manager, company auditors, and project stakeholders to determine whether formal signoff should be required for the project. For which reason would the business analyst recommend formal signoff to the group?

A.

The industry is unregulated.

B.

The project impact is contained within a small department of the company.

C.

Errors in the product could result in financial solvency.

D.

The organization follows an iterative project life cycle.

The business analyst receives multiple changes from different stakeholders during the requirements gathering phase of a project. How should the business analyst track the requirements throughout the lifecycle of the project to secure the delivery of the expected solution?

A.

Perform inspections through the lifecycle of the project to detect any gaps and adjust the requirements baseline.

B.

Plan regular meetings with stakeholders to review the requirements baseline update and to discuss changes.

C.

Establish a risk traceability matrix and designate someone to manage each risk with the appropriate response.

D.

Record all the requirements in a matrix, review it regularly, and get approval from stakeholders.