PMI-PBA Online Practice Questions and Answers

The customer and the business analyst are collaborating in the development of a solution scope. It is important for the customer to:

A. spend the time required to provide, clarify, and elaborate requirements.

B. communicate changes to requirements only when they are completely defined.

C. perform an alternatives analysis for requirements implementation.

D. challenge assessments of the cost and feasibility of requirements.

A national company with offices in every state in the country has deployed a solution to allow employees to view their health benefits online. The business analyst on the project team is validating solution results to assess whether or not the solution has achieved the desired business result.

Which is the best technique to gather information from employees regarding their satisfaction with the solution?

A. Survey

B. Organization modeling

C. Focus groups

D. Interface analysis

A firm implements SharePoint and the business analyst creates the requirements to develop a business analysis repository. In the requirements, the analyst describes a detailed workflow that includes appropriate stakeholders receiving email notifications of certain activities. The SharePoint team needs to know which activities should trigger the notification workflow.

Which workflow trigger should the business analyst incorporate?

A. Changes to test cases traced to requirements

B. Change through project life cycle

C. Any change to the requirements matrix

D. Changes to stakeholder memberships

When a business analyst uses subject matter experts to define roles and identify influencers, which project artifact is created or updated?

A. Stakeholder management plan

B. RACI matrix

C. Stakeholder register

D. SWOT analysis

A company is pleased with its delivered solution and reports that is has heard only minimal complaints for the first three months of use. How can the business analyst determine how well the solution meets the business case?

A. Ask the sponsor for feedback.

B. Survey the project.

C. Conduct a user survey.

D. Compare the results of day-in-the-life (DITL) testing and integration testing.

A startup company sells organic vegetable and fruit smoothies. Management is tracking a rapid decrease in sales of their best-selling juice, so they contract a business analyst to identify solutions in order to increase sales by comparing similar products offered by competitors.

Which technique or tool should be used?

A. Trend analysis

B. Benchmarking

C. Competitive analysis

D. Focus group

The document that defines the process for managing requirements revisions is the:

A. project management plan.

B. communications management plan.

C. scope management plan.

D. change management plan.

During the project execution phase, the client requests the addition of a new feature. Which of the following would allow the business analyst to determine the impact for the specific requirement change?

A. Requirements management tool

B. Requirements traceability matrix

C. Requirements cards

D. Requirements baseline

The customer generated a design specification for a new product. What is the best action to take to establish an approved requirements baseline with the customer?

A. Create a requirements traceability matrix for review and approval by the customer.

B. Create a requirements baseline approval form for the customer to review and approve.

C. Request that the customer create a baseline of the requirements in the contract specification.

D. Perform a variance analysis on the design specification and report the results to the customer.

Which tool is the most appropriate to aid in development of measurable and actionable requirements for a new project?

A. Entity relationship diagram

B. Network diagram

C. Activity-on-node diagram

D. Use case diagram