Business Analysis Basic

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Question 1

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What is a Stakehoder
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  • Everyone involved or impacted by the project,
  • An individula who manages the project.
  • User who are impacted by the project.
  • The sponsor of the project.

Question 2

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What is Business Analyst
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  • Someone who analyses an organisation and designs its processes and systems.
  • Someone who carries out analysis when asked.
  • Someone who looks at organisations and documents reports about users.
  • Someone who designs process maps and analyses business users.

Question 3

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Project Initiation is carried out after requirements are documented.
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  • True
  • False

Question 4

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The [blank_start]waterfall[blank_end] model is a sequential design process, used in software development processes, in which progress is seen as flowing steadily downwards (like a waterfall) through the phases of conception, initiation, analysis, design, construction, testing, production/implementation and maintenance.
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  • waterfall

Question 5

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[blank_start]System Development Life Cycle[blank_end] (SDLC) is a series of six main phases to create a hardware system only, a software system only or a combination of both to meet or exceed customer’s expectations. Planning Analysis Design Implementation Testing and Integration Maintenance
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  • System Development Life Cycle

Question 6

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Good Requirements should have aspects such as consistency, accuracy, coherency. Individual requirements at the microscopic level should be accurate, clear, unambiguous and verifiable. Hence the SMART framework for a requirement is: SMART to be: [blank_start]S pecific[blank_end] M easurable A ttainable R ealisable [blank_start]T raceable.[blank_end]
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  • S pecific
  • S tylish
  • S trong
  • S pecial
  • T raceable
  • T rue
  • T argeted
  • T ested

Question 7

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A scribe is a person who during a meeting captures what documents need to be maintained during the project.
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  • True
  • False

Question 8

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Out of the following, which 3 techniques are used for requirements gathering?
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  • One-on-one interviews
  • Case management
  • Use cases
  • Shadowing people
  • Negotiating requirements
  • One-on-one workshop plannning

Question 9

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Which of the following are correct procedures to validate requirements?
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  • Create a functional specifications document that is an extension of the user requirements, but contains slightly more information. Each requirement now expands to three or four sentences.
  • Create project initiation document that contains a list of sentences identifying functionality that is required for your business.
  • Create a specifications document that maps processes that might be required during the requirements validation process.
  • Create a user requirements document that contains a quick list of one or two-line sentences identifying the functionality that is required for your business.

Question 10

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Which of the following is not a Project Management methodology?
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  • Agile
  • Waterfall
  • Prince2
  • Agileness

Question 11

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Which of the following are elements of stakehoder analysis?
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  • Identifying stakeholders
  • Assessing Stakeholders
  • Prioritising your stakeholders
  • Understanding stakeholder processes
  • Managing stakeholder communication
  • Managing your stakeholders
  • Organisational change
  • Understanding your key stakeholders

Question 12

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Which of the following are incorrect?
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  • UAT = User Acceptance Tool
  • Requirement = Something that is needed or must be done
  • PID = Project interview document
  • Business Analysis = Discipline of negotiating business needs and determining solutions to business problems.
  • UML = United Modeling Language
  • Business Analysis = Discipline of identifying business needs and determining solutions to business problems.
  • Swimlane = A non visual element used in process flow diagrams
  • Functional requirement = Describe how the system works
  • Non Functional requirement = specifies something the system should do
  • Critical path = A step-by-step project management technique for process planning that defines critical and non-critical tasks with the goal of preventing time-frame problems and process bottlenecks.

Question 13

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Project scope, goals, schedule, and budget requirements are determined during the system initiation phase of the system development process.
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  • True
  • False

Question 14

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One of the problem-solving steps in business analysis is to identify the problem?
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  • True
  • False

Question 15

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System owners – an information system’s sponsor and executive advocate, usually responsible for funding the project of developing, operating, and maintaining the information system.
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  • True
  • False

Question 16

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What is stakeholder analysis
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  • Stakeholder analysis is a tool used to contact stakeholders in a project, so you understand where they stand, and actions to be taken next.
  • Stakeholder analysis is a tool for clearly defining key stakeholders for a project or other activity, understanding where stakeholders stand, and developing cooperation between the stakeholders and the project team. The main objective is to ensure successful outcomes for the project or the changes to come.
  • A tool for clearly defining key stakeholders for a project or other activity, understanding where the stakeholder might wish to stand, and developing cooperation between stakeholders and individual project team members. The main objective is to ensure successful outcomes for the project manager.

Question 17

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Name three sources that can be used to capture requirements?
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  • Intranet
  • Workshops
  • Prototype
  • RFP

Question 18

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The waterfall model consists of the following phases: Requirements Gathering and Analysis System Solution Implementation Testing Deployment of requirements Maintenance
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  • True
  • False

Question 19

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Name 2 advantages of waterfall model:
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  • Waterfall model works well for larger projects where requirements are complex.
  • Waterfall model works well for smaller projects where requirements are very well understood.
  • The model is simple and easy to understand and use.
  • This model is simple and easy to adapt to different types of projects.

Question 20

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Name 2 disadvantages of waterfall model
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  • Once an application is in the testing stage, it is very difficult to go back and change something that was not well-thought out in the concept stage.
  • Once an application is in the testing stage, it is very easy to go back and change something that was not well-thought out in the concept stage but once changed you cannot change it a second time..
  • Not suitable for the projects where requirements are at a moderate to high risk of changing.
  • Not suitable for the projects where requirements are low risk of changing.

Question 21

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When should you use the waterfall model
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  • Use only when the requirements are complex and fixed.
  • Use only when the requirements are very well known, clear and fixed.
  • There are no ambiguous requirements
  • There are ambiguous requirements
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