.You are the business analyst for a large project in your organization

.You are working with Bill to create requirements packages to present to the stakeholders, the business analyst team, and to the project manager

?Ben wants to know why you’re creating requirements packages. What’s the primary goal of developing a requirements package

.Stakeholders have indicated concerns with the level of uncertainty they are willing to accept with the solution

?What type of analysis can the business analyst (BA) use to alleviate these concerns

?Which one is not a feature of Stakeholder Engagement

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 options. 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?

.Jeff is the business analyst for his organization

.He has realized that he has overlooked a key group of stakeholders during the conduct stakeholder analysis process

?What is the danger in overlooking a key set of stakeholders

.Stakeholder ………. is defined as the willingness of stakeholders to actively work and interact with the business analysis team

?Who may participate in requirements elicitation activities

:All of the following are inputs, guidelines, or tools used when confirming elicitation results except

The Elicitation and Collaboration knowledge area focuses on eliciting business, stakeholder, solution, and ………. requirements.

.You are starting the requirements-gathering effort for a new project and you are responsible for a team of business analysts

?You want to make sure that they all know each other and understand the objectives. How do you accomplish this

.You are working on a new development project and the customer is getting ready for a requirements session

?He hands you some old flowcharts in some unknown (to you) notation. What should you do

A business analyst (BA) meets with a long tenured vice president who expresses disagreement with the objectives of the project on which the BA is currently engaged.
In what way does the vice president impact the BA’s next step?

.You have just started on a new large effort to gather requirements

.The project manager has asked you to identify risks for your activities

?On which risks should the business analyst primarily focus

.At the post mortem of a recent project, the customer complains about some missing functionality in the product delivered to them

,When you point out that those features were never part of the requirements document

.the customer gets irate and lets you know that anyone with any business sense should have understood that these features were essential

?What went wrong

.You have just started to gather requirements for a new accounts payable system, standardizing processes among four business units

.You had your first meeting yesterday and it was a real disappointment to you

.It did not seem like anyone was interested, and no one would speak up or give you any ideas

?What may the best approach to try for the next meeting

.During a customer interview, the analyst gets challenged by the customer in regards to the purpose of the interview

.The customer is not seeing the value of the session and wants to get an understanding of why he is there

.One of the issues is that he “doesn’t even know what a requirement is.” He has asked for a number of things that have been rejected and the heat is increasing

?Which of the following would be the best statement to start with

.You are the business analyst working on the elicitation activity plan for a new project

?Who should be your primary interface in the organization for review of the plan

:When performing document analysis as a part of the elicitation of information for a project, the following would not be a disadvantage

When doing a formal requirements interview, care should be given to

.For the new executive information system, the project manager has selected an approach using a prototype to gather requirements and then gradually refine the prototype

 ………. This approach

… Complexity of stakeholder interaction may be influenced by

… The elicitation technique of interface analysis can be extra challenging because

.One difference between a plan-driven approach and a change driven approach is about requirements gathering

?Which is true

?What is achieved by the Manage Stakeholder Collaboration task

?Which of the following is an input into preparing for elicitation

… After the elicitation has been performed and documented, the last step in the elicitation process is

… When using an iterative approach to requirements gathering, it is important that

… One good way to prepare for requirements gathering is to study the existing systems. One good advantage of this is

:Requirements gathering activities are also known as requirements

.You are to gather requirements for a virtual team, located across the globe

?The team has not worked together before. Which of the following deliverables will be most important to create early on

Which of the following is a tool to help keep a session focused?

Which one is the biggest driver when selecting an elicitation technique?

Which of the following is the practice of obtaining the requirements of a system from users, customers, and other stakeholders?