Free IIBA CCBA Practice Exams

Question #1

What can be considered the only input to the task of defining assumptions and constraints?

A . Business case
B . Prioritized requirements
C . Requirements
D . Stakeholder concern

Question #2

Stakeholders must be able to determine the audit and approval history of requirements and designs.

Which of the following provides a means to document traceability and change?

A . Risk analysis and management
B . legal and regulatory information
C . Requirements management tools
D . Acceptance and evaluation criteria

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Question #3

A business analyst (BA) is structuring requirements to ensure they are cohesive and tell the full story.

Which of the following requirements is consistent with a stakeholder’s need: “As a Product Manager, I want to review my general insurance sales performance so I track my sales performance against my annual target”?

A . “Provide weekly new bank account sales reports on a shared drive.”
B . “Increase customer retention across the life insurance division”
C . “Segment insurance sales data between life and general”
D . “Migrate the insurance web portal to a cloud platform."

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Question #4

If a requirement has been satisfied, why is it still considered a requirement?

A . A requirement is considered a requirement as long as the requirement may be able to be changed.
B . Requirements are considered requirements even if the requirements have been satisfied.
C . A requirement is considered valid as long as the business stakeholders need it.
D . If a requirement has been satisfied, it is no longer a requirement and should be purged from the requirements set.

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Question #5

Ben is the business analyst for his organization. Ben is currently working on a solution to improve a laser printer. He has taken the laser printer apart, identified each component, and documented each component’s purpose.

What type of requirements organization is Ben doing in this scenario?

A . Functional decomposition
B . Process modeling
C . Scope modeling
D . Data modeling

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Question #6

Management comes to you and asks you to complete some specifications and models about the current state of the organization.

Management wants you to complete this business analysis activity as soon as possible and report back to them with your findings.

What is the primary purpose of the specify and model requirements process?

A . To analyze the roles and responsibilities of users within the organization to determine how the processes may be improved.
B . To analyze the utility function within the organization to determine how risk tolerance may allow for new opportunities.
C . To analyze the functioning of an organization and to provide an insight into opportunities for improvement.
D . To analyze the processes of an organization to determine what processes can be improved, removed, or added.

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Question #7

You are the business analyst for a large project that will create new software for the entire organization. This new software will affect all of the administrative assistants in the organization schedule meetings, reserve facilities, and share calendars. There are approximately 2,400administrative assistants in your organization and not all of these people can attend requirements gathering workshops.

What approach can you use to manage and gather requirements from these 2,400 administrative assistants?

A . You can meet with a small group of administrative assistants that will serve as representatives for the remaining administrative assistants.
B . You will need to meet with all of the administrative assistants as part requirements elicitation.
C . You can meet with a small group of administrative assistants and assume their requirements are reflective of the remaining group of administrative assistants.
D . You can meet with the administrative assistants’ managers.

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Correct Answer: A
A

Explanation:

According to the CCBA® Handbook, one of the techniques for requirements elicitation is focus group, which is “a facilitated session that brings together a pre-defined group of stakeholders to discuss and provide feedback on a topic” (p. 22) . Focus group is a useful technique when you have a large number of stakeholders who share similar characteristics, needs, or interests, and you want to gather their opinions, preferences, or expectations in a structured way. By meeting with a small group of administrative assistants that will serve as representatives for the remaining administrative assistants, you can use the focus group technique to elicit their requirements for the new software. You can also validate the requirements with the larger group of administrative assistants through other techniques, such as surveys or questionnaires.

The other options are not correct because:

B. You will need to meet with all of the administrative assistants as part of requirements elicitation is not a feasible or efficient approach, as it would require a lot of time, resources, and coordination to involve 2,400 people in the elicitation process. It would also create challenges for managing and analyzing the requirements data.

C. You can meet with a small group of administrative assistants and assume their requirements are reflective of the remaining group of administrative assistants is not a reliable or valid approach, as it would introduce the risk of missing, misinterpreting, or conflicting requirements from the larger group of administrative assistants. It would also reduce the stakeholder engagement and satisfaction with the solution.

D. You can meet with the administrative assistants’ managers is not a sufficient or representative approach, as it would exclude the direct input from the end users of the new software, who are the administrative assistants. The managers may not have the same level of knowledge, experience, or perspective as the administrative assistants, and may not be able to articulate their requirements accurately or completely.

Reference: CCBA® Handbook, p. 22

12 Techniques for Requirement Gathering | Indeed.com, section “Focus group”

Question #7

You are the business analyst for a large project that will create new software for the entire organization. This new software will affect all of the administrative assistants in the organization schedule meetings, reserve facilities, and share calendars. There are approximately 2,400administrative assistants in your organization and not all of these people can attend requirements gathering workshops.

What approach can you use to manage and gather requirements from these 2,400 administrative assistants?

A . You can meet with a small group of administrative assistants that will serve as representatives for the remaining administrative assistants.
B . You will need to meet with all of the administrative assistants as part requirements elicitation.
C . You can meet with a small group of administrative assistants and assume their requirements are reflective of the remaining group of administrative assistants.
D . You can meet with the administrative assistants’ managers.

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Correct Answer: A
A

Explanation:

According to the CCBA® Handbook, one of the techniques for requirements elicitation is focus group, which is “a facilitated session that brings together a pre-defined group of stakeholders to discuss and provide feedback on a topic” (p. 22) . Focus group is a useful technique when you have a large number of stakeholders who share similar characteristics, needs, or interests, and you want to gather their opinions, preferences, or expectations in a structured way. By meeting with a small group of administrative assistants that will serve as representatives for the remaining administrative assistants, you can use the focus group technique to elicit their requirements for the new software. You can also validate the requirements with the larger group of administrative assistants through other techniques, such as surveys or questionnaires.

The other options are not correct because:

B. You will need to meet with all of the administrative assistants as part of requirements elicitation is not a feasible or efficient approach, as it would require a lot of time, resources, and coordination to involve 2,400 people in the elicitation process. It would also create challenges for managing and analyzing the requirements data.

C. You can meet with a small group of administrative assistants and assume their requirements are reflective of the remaining group of administrative assistants is not a reliable or valid approach, as it would introduce the risk of missing, misinterpreting, or conflicting requirements from the larger group of administrative assistants. It would also reduce the stakeholder engagement and satisfaction with the solution.

D. You can meet with the administrative assistants’ managers is not a sufficient or representative approach, as it would exclude the direct input from the end users of the new software, who are the administrative assistants. The managers may not have the same level of knowledge, experience, or perspective as the administrative assistants, and may not be able to articulate their requirements accurately or completely.

Reference: CCBA® Handbook, p. 22

12 Techniques for Requirement Gathering | Indeed.com, section “Focus group”

Question #9

You are the business analyst for a large project in your organization. While your company prefers face-to-face communications there are many stakeholders located in different geographical locations.

How can you still effectively serve as a business analyst when the stakeholders are not collocated?

A . You will need the stakeholders to periodically gather in one locale.
B . You will need to travel on a regular rotation to each of the geographical locations to complete the business analyst duties.
C . Add more business analysts in each of the geographical location.
D . You will need to implement videoconferences.

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Question #10

A business analyst (BA) is planning to elicit requirements. The BA understands the scope of the elicitation and has selected interviewing as an appropriate technique.

Which of the following is part of the logistics for these interviews?

A . Relationships between elicited requirements
B . Performance metrics
C . Definition of the future state
D . Participants and their roles

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