The business analyst wants to ensure that requirement changes can be formally tracked after the product is baselined. What will the business analyst need to evaluate the proposed change?

A. Scope statement

B. Impact analysis

C. Requirements management plan

D. Pareto analysis

Two weeks prior to the delivery date, a customer changes the business requirements. What should the business analyst do?

A. Deliver the existing product and then begin work on the requested changes.

B. Ask the developers to implement the changes.

C. Trace the requirements and measure the impact of the requested changes on the existing delivery date.

D. Schedule a review by the change control board (CCB) to determine next steps.

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 in the final phases of implementing a project for a client. Which tool or technique could the business analyst use to iteratively validate the solution?

A. Expected vs. actual results

B. Expected vs. actual costs

C. Schedule variance

D. Quality variance

Last year, a company registered a high number of complaints about its customer service. Which of the following tools or techniques can help to identify the high-priority changes needed to improve that service?

A. A work breakdown structure analysis of the service

B. A cause-and-effect diagram

C. A Pareto analysis

D. A flowchart of the service

Company A has initiated a project to update their online ordering system. The business analyst has noticed that the purchasing department, a primary stakeholder, is excluded from the list of stakeholders.

In which reference material can the business analyst find information about the missing project stakeholders?

A. Business analyst communication plan

B. Business case

C. Organizational chart

D. Business analysis 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 quality function deployment is best suited to assist in the process of:

A. quality assurance by structuring the quality audits.

B. relating the product features to customer value.

C. quality control by determining the control charts and the run charts.

D. controlling the effects between the quality functions.

A business analyst created requirements for production of a product extract file for several systems. After reviewing the complex systems and dividing the processes into manageable tasks, the business analyst is able to identify the tasks required to implement the deliverable.

Which analysis technique has the business analyst used?

A. Organization

B. Decomposition

C. Interface

D. Dependency

The business analyst has completed the requirements gathering and documentation processes in developing a baseline document. Several signoffs are needed. During the joint review process with the key stakeholders, the stakeholders announce that they are still not ready to sign off due to a communication gap.

Which technique should the business analyst have followed to ensure consensus?

A. The business analyst should have invited the key stakeholders to the meeting.

B. The business analyst should have reviewed the requirements of the project sponsor first before reviewing other requirements.

C. The business analyst should have performed a complete review of each requirement with the key stakeholders prior to the meeting.

D. The business analyst should have performed a complete review of each requirement with one of the stakeholders' peers before the meeting.