Cloud Kicks leadership wants to use custom code for functionality that can easily be created declaratively in Sates Cloud. The business analyst (BA) has been asked to advise leadership on how these approaches impact their solution options.
What is one of the BA's strongest arguments for using configuration over code?
A. Configuration leverages multiple programming languages.
B. Configuration allows for any level of complexity.
C. Configuration provides faster speed to market.
While working on a new Sales Cloud feature request for the sales team at Northern Trail Outfitters, the business analyst (BA) uncovers a workflow which could have an impact on the service team. The sales director assures the BA that the impact to service would be minimal.
Which step should the BA take next?
A. Review the effort and impacts with the service team, and work to align requirements across the teams.
B. Continue with the effort as defined by sales and add a backlog item to review the service impacts in the future.
C. Prioritize the effort as defined by sales and ask the director to review any service impacts. .
Universal Containers wants the ability to fill out a survey based on customer feedback. The team is unable to visualize a possible solution in order to confirm the requirements.
Which elicitation technique should the business analyst use to help the team meet its goal?
A. Prototyping
B. Brainstorming
C. Observation
A business analyst is working with a new customer on a Sales Cloud implementation. The executive sponsor for the project is new to the company and their role as VP. The sponsor has inherited functional requirements from the previous VP that were gathered 9 months ago. The project start date has yet to be defined. The sponsor wants to use the Inherited requirements in lieu of a traditional discovery process.
What is the largest risk with this approach?
A. The previous VP's requirements fail to meet current formatting standards.
B. The previous VP's requirements may differ from those of the new executive.
C. The previous VP's requirements are outside of the Salesforce framework.
The sales team is learning a new sales methodology. Management wants to align Salesforce opportunities with the methodology.
What is the first step a business analyst should take to begin overhauling the Opportunity object?
A. Understand the current business process.
B. Configure stages in Salesforce.
C. Create new reports and dashboards.
Universal Containers has several independent Salesforce projects this quarter involving shared objects and a complex deployment process managed by a DevOps team. While smoke testing the shared user acceptance testing (UAT) environment, the business analyst (BA) noticed that one of the minor changes to the Account page layout for the project is missing. The client is eager to begin its UAT.
What should the BA do to address the issue?
A. Make the page layout change directly in UAT so the client can begin testing.
B. Log a defect for the page layout change and discuss it with the DevOps team.
C. Ask the project manager to reschedule UAT until after the defect is resolved
The delivery team at Cloud Kicks has Just conducted a successful sprint demo showcasing a new sales dashboard. However, the marketing team Is unhappy because the new lead automation they requested was missing from the deliverables and an Important new marketing campaign is starting the next day.
What did the business analyst fall to do during sprint planning'?
A. Prioritize the sprint backlog with stakeholders
B. Calculate the sprint capacity correctly
C. Create a burndown list of sprint tasks
Cloud Kicks uses declarative change set development to deliver its Salesforce customizations. The business analyst (BA) works with the technical leas on the project to track changes that require manual migration.
Which resources should the BA use to determine which changes must be made manually in each environment?
A. Metadata coverage report
B. Object Schema Builder
C. Setup Audit Trail
Sales managers at Northern Trail Outfitters (NTO) have received feedback from sales reps that record pages are slow and often take longer to load when using the app on the phone. The business analyst (BA) has been asked to evaluate NTO's org to find out which pages are the slowest to load when using the app on the phone.
What is the first step the BA should take to help resolve the issue?
A. Create a new page layout for the phone.
B. Use performance analyzer to view the assessment.
C. Confirm steps to reproduce the issue.
The sales team at Universal Containers has concerns that the process for distributing new leads is too slow. The VP of sales has engaged a business analyst (BA) to help map out a process to distribute new leads quickly. The BA sets up a meeting with stakeholders and learns a stakeholder already has a solution in mind.
What should the BA do next?
A. Implement the solution now to save time in the planning phase.
B. Ask the stakeholder to demo their solution to the project team.
C. Gather requirements and then note the proposed solution.