Test PBA Chapter 1 – Need Assessment

At your company the CFO has asked you as business analyst to lead the requirements effort for a project to implement NetSuite across the accounting department. What question should you ask the sponsor first:

Ideally when is the business analyst assigned to the project:

When interfacing and dealing with the customer, what should business analyst do:

You are called to participate in a feasibility study as a business analyst. What is the most true of all the options below:

You are in a meeting with key executives to discuss long term, ongoing conditions the organization is striving to achieve. What is being discussed at the meeting:

Which type of requirements best describes the need of a stakeholder and how such stakeholder will interact with the solution:

Ion is working on a project for which requirements and subsequent solution looks to be quite obvious but he still want to challenge his stakeholders so that to ensure business thinking is inline with the requirement and solution. What is he trying to do:

Which of the following is a SMART objective?

Business analysts spend their time on:

What a context diagram shows:

Your boss has requested an estimate of the cost needed to build a new software system. You are unsure the new system will bring value to the organization. To explain your concerns you should:

Another name for business problem or opportunity is:

Your sponsor asked for help and assistance outlining a business case. What are the required components of this document?

A colleague of yours, project manager, asked for help in defining objectives that are specific and clearly understood. You recall the goals and objectives should be:

VP of the project management office asked for you assessment on whether the product approved by the sponsor is in alignment with business goals and objectives. You schedule a meeting to review the following:

As a business analyst for a company, you have just presented a plan that include metrics to assess how well the proposed solution aligns with the organization goals and objectives. You have just presented:

Important techniques used when defining a business case include:

You are working with two subject matter experts (SMEs) in artificial intelligence. As their business analyst, you have begun identifying the stakeholder based on their power, legitimacy and urgency. You are creating a:

The solution scope is needed to:

The quantifiable criteria established early in the project and upon which the project is measured are the project: