IIBA CBAP Exam : Cetified business analysis professional (CBAP) appliaction

A large company has thousands of geographically dispersed employees and dozens of IT systems. Multiple business analysts (BAs) work in parallel on various requirements with different stakeholders. When considered in isolation, the requirements look meaningful and valuable to those who approved them.
However, when it comes to implementation, some of the requirements appear to be contradicting each other.
A lead BA recognizes that adding some traceability information would help uncover such conflicts early in the process.
To what should the BA trace the requirements?

• A. Stakeholder tasks
• B. Organizational functions
• C. Solution components
• D. Business needs

After the implementation of a new financial solution the business analyst (BA) observes that the performance of a solution does not meet the anticipated benefits detailed in the original business case. What is a technique the BA can use to understand the reason for that?

• A. Business capability analysis
• B. interface analysis
• C. Data flow diagram
• D. Fishbone diagram

Henry is the business analyst for his organization. Management has created a pre-determined budget of
$450,000 for his solution. Henry has identified the project requirements but now wants to prioritize them based on timeboxing and budgeting. Henry examines the cost of the requirements and begins removing the requirements from the allowed list in order to meet the $450,000 budget.
What timeboxing or budgeting approach is Henry using?

• A. All out
• B. All in
• C. Parametric
• D. Selective

A company with a big information technology (IT) department has hired a lead business analyst (BA) to enhance its business analysis practices. The lead BA discovers that sponsors are not satisfied with project outcomes. Developers complain about incomplete, ambiguous, and changing requirements. All stakeholders, including project managers, are blaming long cycles of analysis for the delays. The business analysts, in turn, feel overwhelmed with the number of projects and frustrated by the lack of collaboration from reviewers of their deliverables. All of the evidence is anecdotal and none of the groups could strongly substantiate their opinions.
The lead BA wants the BAs to report anticipated and actual completion dates for their deliverables, as well as the time spent on planned and unplanned activities. What is the lead BA trying to do by analyzing the results of such measurements?

• A. Identify typical missing or wasteful activities
• B. Ensure even workloads of the BA
• C. Motivate the BA to work belter
• D. Establish an equitable compensation system

In a risk assessment exercise of a software implementation program, the business analyst (BA) has successfully computed the probability of occurrence (POC) and the cost of impact for each of the identified risks as follows:

Which of the following will have the highest negative impact to value?

• A. System security
• B. Natural disasters
• C. Power surges
• D. Human errors