IIBA CCBA Practice Exams
Last updated on Apr 09,2025- Exam Code: CCBA
- Exam Name: Certification of Competency in Business Analysis
- Certification Provider: IIBA
- Latest update: Apr 09,2025
Performance measures have been collected and analyzed by a business analyst (BA) to evaluate a solution that was launched a few years ago; however, the performance measures do not indicate whether or not the solution is contributing to the desired value.
What is the recommended next step?
- A . Replace the solution as soon as possible
- B . Identify and collect more measurements
- C . Increase the efficiency of the solution
- D . Reduce the business’ expectations of value
After a number of requirements elicitation workshops, the business analyst (BA) notices that two business stakeholders did not speak up during any of the discussions.
What should the BA do in the next workshop?
- A . Allow only the two stakeholders to speak so that other stakeholders hear their input.
- B . Ask all attendees for their input, ensuring that each stakeholder is given time to speak and provide their opinion.
- C . Omit the two stakeholders from the next meeting since they do not seem to be engaged.
- D . Proceed as normal, assuming that the two business stakeholders will speak up if and when they are ready.
A business analyst (BA) working with a large insurance corporation interviewed an industry thought leader who predicted that many of the regulations currently imposed by the government will change very soon. The BA carefully documented all these inputs from the thought leader because it will impact many of the strategic initiatives of the insurance company.
What specific element of requirement validation is being executed by the BA?
- A . Identify constraints
- B . Define measurable evaluation criteria
- C . Identify assumptions
- D . Evaluate alignment with solution scope
You are the business analyst for your organization and your manager has asked you to prepare an analysis of each proposed solution. Your manager wants you to determine whether and how each option can provide an expected business benefit to meet the stated business need.
What is your manager asking you to create?
- A . Feasibility study
- B . Abbreviated study
- C . Alternative identification analysis
- D . Quantified analysis
A software company wants to make a gradual change from its traditional way of developing requirements to a more adaptive approach. A business analyst (BA) is hired to quantify the probability that the solution will meet the company’s needs and assess the relevant risks.
Which element of risk assessment does the BA need to consider?
- A . Issue management
- B . Negative impact to value
- C . Risk tolerance
- D . Positive evaluation results
Beth is a business analyst for her organization and she’s completing the tasks in the requirements management and communication knowledge area. As a result of these tasks, she’ll create several things for her organization.
Which one of the following, however, is not one of the outputs of the requirements management and communication tasks?
- A . Traced requirements
- B . Requirement management plan
- C . Requirement package
- D . Approved requirements
A business analyst (BA) worked with two stakeholders to finalize the access rights related requirements for an internal software application. According to the first stakeholder “Comments, once entered in the application, should be stored for 365 days and should not allow the users to delete”. According to the second stakeholder, “The users with super administrator privileges should be able to add/delete/modify every page/section in the entire application.”
Which characteristic does this pair of requirements fail to meet?
- A . Concise
- B . Consistent
- C . Complete
- D . Complex
Bonny is the business analyst for her organization and she’s making a determination from which vendor the solution should be purchased. She has identified several categories to measure each vendor’s overall performance and solution. cost, schedule, experience, certification, references, and years in business. For each category, she has identified scores the vendor may earn; for example, cost is worth 25 points, schedule is worth up to 20 points, and years in business is worth up to ten points. The vendor who gets the most points in the assessment will win the contract.
What is Bonny using in this scenario?
- A . Scoring model
- B . Vendor profile assessment scale
- C . Weighted scoring model
- D . Screening system
A system owner calls the project team to inquire about a recent change in one of the requirements, and insists that the change was never requested.
What should the project team do to investigate the issue?
- A . Record a defect for fixing
- B . Consult with the project manager
- C . Revert back the changes
- D . Check the audit history of changes
Nancy has asked you to trace a particular requirement for her.
What does ‘to trace a requirement’ mean?
- A . Tracing a requirement means to look at a requirement and the others to which it is related. It links business requirements to components in the project’s work breakdown structure.
- B . Tracing a requirement means to track a requirement from its first identification all the way to its completion to see what issues, risks, costs, quality, and defects have surrounded the requirement.
- C . Tracing a requirement means to look at a requirement and the others to which it is related. It links risk, cost, quality, and scope elements to stakeholder and solution requirements to other artifacts created by the team and to solution components.
- D . Tracing a requirement means to look at a requirement and the others to which it is related. It links business requirements to stakeholder and solution requirements to other artifacts created by the team and to solution components.