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BCS FBA15 BCS Foundation Certificate in Business Analysis Exam Practice Test

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BCS Foundation Certificate in Business Analysis Questions and Answers

Question 1

In a business activity model, which of the following type of activities respond to deviations between actual and planned performance?

Options:

A.

Monitoring activities.

B.

Doing activities.

C.

Controlling activities.

D.

Planning activities.

Question 2

Which stage of the Requirements Engineering process is concerned with tracking requirements from inception to implementation?

Options:

A.

Requirements documentation

B.

Requirements management

C.

Requirements validation.

D.

Requirements analysis.

Question 3

It is unclear to a project sponsor why a particular requirement has been included in a recently released version of a system. Which of the following will allow him to identify who originally asked for the requirement?

Options:

A.

The validation of the requirement.

B.

The source of the requirement.

C.

The resolution of the requirement.

D.

The justification of the requirement.

Question 4

A process model has been produced which includes diamond-shaped symbols. What does this diamond-shaped symbol represent in the model?

Options:

A.

A document.

B.

An event.

C.

A manual process.

D.

A decision.

Question 5

An analyst is defining the requirements for an online booking system and wishes to show the business managers the look and feel of the system in order to elicit usability requirements. What investigation technique should the analyst use?

Options:

A.

Workshops.

B.

Interviewing.

C.

Ethnographic study

D.

Prototyping.

Question 6

Different reactions may be observed when a change to working methods is proposed. These reactions include:

a. Enthusiasm for the change.

b. Fear of the change.

c. Reduced performance on the job.

d. Reluctant acceptance of the change.

Which of the following represents the typical sequence of these four reactions?

Options:

A.

b, d, c and a.

B.

a, b, c and d.

C.

b, c, d and a.

D.

a, b, d and c.

Question 7

Which of the following statements about change and change management is correct?

Options:

A.

Change management should be considered right from the start of the project.

B.

Change management should first be considered in the design stage of the project.

C.

The management of change is the sole responsibility of the project manager.

D.

Social and cultural factors have little influence on the success of implementing changes.

Question 8

What is the final stage of the waterfall systems devebpment lifecycle?

Options:

A.

User acceptance testing.

B.

Post-implementation review.

C.

Benefits realisation.

D.

Implementation.

Question 9

A stakeholder in a project has been classified as having no interest but high power/influence on the power/interest grid. Which of the following would be an appropriate way of managing this stakeholder?

Options:

A.

Ignore.

B.

Watch.

C.

Keep on side.

D.

Keep informed.

Question 10

Style guides, manuals and job descriptions are examples of what type of knowledge?

Options:

A.

Explicit.

B.

Implicit.

C.

Tacit.

D.

Organisational.

Question 11

A software house is developing a software package specifically for hotel management. A business analyst has been employed because of her familiarity with the hotel industry. Which of the following competencies has she been employed to bring to the project?

Options:

A.

Domain knowledge.

B.

Problem solving.

C.

Team leadership.

D.

Project management.

Question 12

Which of the following requirements elicitation techniques is ineffective at defining the future requirements of a system?

Options:

A.

Workshops.

B.

Prototyping,

C.

Scenario analysis.

D.

Shadowing.

Question 13

The requirements catalogue documents the business user or users who requested the requirement. Which heading in the requirements catalogue template would this information be recorded?

Options:

A.

Owner.

B.

Justification.

C.

Author.

D.

Source.

Question 14

Which of the following BEST describes the cause of a bottleneck in a business process?

Options:

A.

A step where one actor passes the process to another actor.

B.

A mismatch between the capacities of related process steps.

C.

An unnecessary step or steps in a sequence of process steps.

D.

A number of related steps that are carried out by different actors.

Question 15

What is the business analyst doing when he or she compares the BAM with the current business situation?

Options:

A.

Conceptual modelling.

B.

Analysing perspective.

C.

Gap analysis.

D.

Defining CATVVOE.

Question 16

Which stage of the requirements engineering process precedes requirements validation?

Options:

A.

Requirements elicitation.

B.

Requirements analysis.

C.

Requirements management.

D.

Requirements documentation.

Question 17

An entity type is a template for its entity occurrences. Which of the following is a template for objects?

Options:

A.

A class.

B.

A use case.

C.

An operation

D.

An actor.

Question 18

A business case for a project claims that the new system will provide managers with more time to think creatively about strategic issues. What would this be classified as in a cost-benefit analysis?

Options:

A.

An intangible cost.

B.

A tangible benefit.

C.

An intangible benefit.

D.

A tangible cost.

Question 19

How would usability and performance requirements be classified?

Options:

A.

As general requirements.

B.

As technical requirements.

C.

As functional requirements.

D.

As non-functional requirements.

Question 20

When analysing stakeholders, it is useful to produce a stakeholder analysis grid. What is depicted on the axes of this grid?

Options:

A.

Objectives and interests.

B.

Power and influence.

C.

Perspectives and impacts.

D.

Power and interest.

Question 21

The change curve shows the range of emotions experienced by people when facing change. One of the axes on the graph is Time; what is the other axis?

Options:

A.

Fear.

B.

Self-esteem.

C.

Anger.

D.

Shock.

Question 22

It is claimed that a new system will bring improved job satisfaction to employees. How should this improved job satisfaction be classified?

Options:

A.

As a tangible benefit.

B.

As an intangible cost.

C.

As a tangible cost.

D.

As an intangible benefit.

Question 23

As part of an investigation, a business analyst has asked a business user to keep track of the actual tasks they carry out over a period of time. What is this investigation technique called?

Options:

A.

Shadowing.

B.

Prototyping.

C.

Special purpose records.

D.

Activity sampling.

Question 24

Which of the following are steps in the Isaksen and Treffinger's creative problem solving model?

a. Mess Finding.

b. Data Modelling.

c. Process Finding.

d. Problem Finding.

e. Solution Finding.

Options:

A.

a, b, c and d.

B.

b, c and e.

C.

a, d and e.

D.

a, c, d and e.

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