CBAP: Certified Business Analysis Professional Sample Questions

Question 1 – In the case of a vendor implementing a solution in production, what is the term used to describe the cost of the solution?

• A. Total ownership costing
• B. Lifecycle maintenance fees
• C. Sustainability fees
• D. Total cost of ownership

Correct Answer: D

Question 2  – Which of the given options is one of the five outputs of the enterprise analysis tasks?

• A. Assumptions and constraints
• B. Stakeholder concerns
• C. Solution performance assessment
• D. Solution approach

Correct Answer: D

Question 3 – Except for which stakeholder do all other stakeholders contribute to the prioritization of requirements?

• A. Implementation subject matter expert
• B. Project team
• C. Domain subject matter expert
• D. Project manager

Correct Answer: B

Question 4  – A model of the requirements has been requested by the management so stakeholders will understand the requirements and the overall project better. You are the business analyst in your organization. Which statement best describes the model?

• A. They are slices of the project solution.
• B. They simplify the requirements for common stakeholders.
• C. They are statistics for the return on investment, time saved, and other mathematics.
• D. They abstract and simplify reality.

Correct Answer: D

Question 5  – Which plan will describe stakeholder groups, communication needs, and the appropriate level of formality?

• A. Requirements management plan
• B. Project management plan
• C. Scope management plan
• D. Business analysis communication plan

Correct Answer: D

Question 6  – You are the business analyst for a smaller project where there are few requirements. Management would still like you to create a method to trace the few requirements for this project. Which of the given type of matrix will be suitable in this instance?

• A. Roles and responsibility matrix
• B. RACI matrix
• C. Coverage matrix
• D. Requirements trace matrix

Correct Answer: C

Question 7  – Managing an identified problem within an organization requires many solutions, and you have many options available to you being a business analyst. If you want to decide which solution is best for your organization quickly and fairly, you need a way to do this. What approach do you think will let you determine the top-rated solutions for your organization?

• A. Scoring system
• B. Acceptance and evaluation criteria
• C. Vendor assessment
• D. Voting system

Correct Answer: A

Question 8  – How do organizations manage communications when they use a change-driven business analysis model?

• A. They focus more on the frequency of communication.
• B. They typically use face-to-face channels.
• C. They focus more on formal communications.
• D. They are all ad hoc.

Correct Answer: A

Question 9  – Management has asked you to develop a method to store project requirements, such as those under development, under review, and those that have been approved, as the business analyst for your organization. What exactly is the management asking you to create?

• A. A change management system
• B. A repository
• C. A project scope statement
• D. A requirements register

Correct Answer: B

Question 10  – You are your organization’s business analyst and are working alongside Tim to identify the business solution’s assumptions. Which one of the following is an assumption?

• A. The vendor believes the hardware should arrive by December 1
• B. The software must be compatible with Windows Vista
• C. The software must cost less than $99 per license
• D. The hardware must cost less than $450 per unit.

Correct Answer: A

Question 11  – As part of your company’s business analysis duties, you are working with Terry on conducting stakeholder analysis. As a part of Terry’s business analysis duties, he wants to know why it is so important to identify stakeholders early on. What statement most accurately describes the importance of identifying stakeholders early on in the business analysis process?

• A. identifying the stakeholders so the business analyst knows whom to report to, is important
• B. identifying the stakeholders so the business analyst knows whom to bill for the project, is important
• C. identifying the stakeholder so the business analyst could ensure timely delivery of the requirements deliverables, is important
• D. identifying the stakeholders so the stakeholders know who is the business analyst, is important

Correct Answer: C

Question 12  – Nancy asks you to trace a particular requirement for her. What does the phrase ‘to trace a requirement’ mean?

• A. to look at a requirement and the others to which it is related. A risk, cost, quality, and scope analysis links stakeholders’ and solution requirements to other artifacts created by the team and to components of a solution.
• B. to look at a requirement and the others to which it is related. Business requirements are linked to stakeholders and solution requirements are linked to other artifacts that are created by the team and to solution components.
• C. to look at a requirement and the others to which it is related. Business requirements are linked to the components in the project’s work breakdown structure.
• D. to track a requirement from its first identification to its completion for seeing what issues, risks, costs, quality, and defects surround the requirement

Correct Answer: B

Question 13 – At what time do change requests increase in a project?

• A. During the project’s launch.
• B. Towards the beginning of the project.
• C. During the project scope management processes.
• D. Towards the end of the project.

Correct Answer: D

Question 14 – Currently, Ben is working on improving a laser printer for his organization as a business analyst. The laser printer has been disassembled, its components have been identified, and the purpose of each component has been documented. Which of the following type of requirements organization is Ben doing in this scenario?

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

Correct Answer: C

Question 15  – For the business analysis deliverables, Fred’s organization uses a plan-driven approach. How will the requirements be captured in this approach?

• A. Fred will use the appropriate documentation at the discretion of the business analysis team.
• B. Fred will use the project management information system.
• C. Fred will use whatever business analysis forms are most appropriate.
• D. Fred will use standardized templates.

Correct Answer: D

Question 16  – How will the ends that the organization seeks to achieve be evaluated as part of the business needs evaluation process?

• A. Business goals and objectives
• B. Alternative identification
• C. Solution assessment
• D. Requirements

Correct Answer: A

Question 17  – What type of business analysis approach provides rapid value to the business in short intervals of time?

• A. Risk-driven
• B. Change-driven
• C. Risk-laden
• D. Profit-driven

Correct Answer: B

Question 18  – Wanda works for her organization as a business analyst, and part of that process is documenting the textual requirements, which is one element of the specify and model process. Which the third component of the textual requirement must Wanda describe, as well as the capabilities of the solution?

• A. Any constraints that may prevent the solution from fulfilling the requirement
• B. Write in the active voice
• C. Describe a situation or problem
• D. Express only one requirement at a time

Correct Answer: A

Question 19  – Except for which one, does the business analysis approach define all of the following attributes?

• A. Requirements for solutions acceptance
• B. Deliverables
• C. Team roles
• D. Analysis technique

Correct Answer: A

Question 20  – A business analyst is preparing a presentation about the requirements for an upcoming software development project for his organization. Before making the presentation what must he first do as a part of the preparation for the presentation?

• A. Determining an appropriate format for the presentation.
• B. Confirming that he has the authority to host the presentation.
• C. Assuringthat the stakeholders have signed off on the requirements.
• D. Hiring a scribe to keep the minutes of the meeting.

Correct Answer: A