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BCS FBA15 BCS Foundation Certificate in Business Analysis Exam Practice Test

Demo: 24 questions
Total 160 questions

BCS Foundation Certificate in Business Analysis Questions and Answers

Question 1

Which stage of the requirements engineering process precedes requirements validation?

Options:

A.

Requirements elicitation.

B.

Requirements analysis.

C.

Requirements management.

D.

Requirements documentation.

Question 2

The term CATWOE provides a framework for defining and analysing business perspectives. In a project, which letter of CATWOE should be first understood by the business analyst?

Options:

A.

The Owner.

B.

The Customer.

C.

The Weltanschauung or world-view.

D.

The Actor.

Question 3

The senior managers of an organisation recognise that they employ knowledgeable, committed staff. Under which category of a SWOT will this be recorded?

Options:

A.

Weaknesses,

B.

Opportunities.

C.

Threats.

D.

Strengths.

Question 4

Which stage of Isaksen and Treffinger's creative problem-solving model is concerned with analysing the opinions and concerns to identify how information can be quantified?

Options:

A.

Mess finding.

B.

Data finding.

C.

Problem finding.

D.

Idea finding

Question 5

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 6

Which of the following would BEST be managed with the "keep satisfied" stakeholder management strategy?

Options:

A.

Those with high power/influence and no interest in the project.

B.

Those with high power/influence and some interest in the project.

C.

Those with some power/influence and high interest in the project.

D.

Those with some power/influence and some interest in the project.

Question 7

What does the O' stand for in the CATVVOE analysis?

Options:

A.

The objectives of the business system under review.

B.

The opportunities for change in the business system under review.

C.

The organisation of the business system under review.

D.

The owner of the business system under review.

Question 8

Which stage in the waterfall model is considered as several separate stages in the V model?

Options:

A.

Development.

B.

Analysis.

C.

Testing.

D.

Design.

Question 9

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 10

During which stage of the Business Analysis Process Model would a gap analysis be carried out?

Options:

A.

Define requirements.

B.

Analyse needs.

C.

Evaluate the options.

D.

Investigate situation.

Question 11

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 12

The following requirement has been identified; The system must be able to record customer payments'. What type of requirement is this?

Options:

A.

A functional requirement.

B.

A non-functional requirement.

C.

A general requirement.

D.

A technical requirement.

Question 13

What stage of the V model provides the test criteria for user acceptance testing?

Options:

A.

The business needs.

B.

The requirements.

C.

The designed solution.

D.

The developed solution.

Question 14

Which of the following investigation techniques is the MOST time consuming?

Options:

A.

Questionnaires.

B.

Ethnographic study.

C.

Shadowing.

D.

Activity sampling.

Question 15

There is a requirement for an employee to enter time worked details into a computerised project reporting system. If this requirement was drawn on a use case diagram, which of the following would be correct?

Options:

A.

Employee would be the boundary, time details an actor.

B.

Project reporting system would be an actor, employee a use case.

C.

The computer system would be the boundary, the project reporting system a use case.

D.

Enter time details would be a use case, employee an actor.

Question 16

What stage immediately precedes testing in the waterfall lifecycle?

Options:

A.

Design.

B.

Development.

C.

Implementation.

D.

Analysis.

Question 17

A company provides a help desk facility to support users of their computer software. How would the provision of this facility be classified on their value chain?

Options:

A.

As an Inbound Logistics activity,

B.

As a Sales and Marketing activity.

C.

As a Technology Development activity.

D.

As a Service activity.

Question 18

Which of the following is NOT one of the perspectives considered by the 'Balanced Business Scorecard'?

Options:

A.

Competition.

B.

Customer.

C.

Learning and Growth.

D.

Financial.

Question 19

The term 'happy day' is often used in the context of which of the following investigation techniques?

Options:

A.

Protocol analysis.

B.

Scenarios.

C.

Activity Sampling.

D.

Document analysis.

Question 20

One of the claimed advantages of buying a software package is that it is possible to predict future maintenance costs with some certainty. How would these costs be classified in a cost-benefit analysis?

Options:

A.

As an intangible cost.

B.

As a tangible benefit.

C.

As a tangible cost.

D.

As an intangible benefit.

Question 21

Which of the following stages is immediately after problem-finding in Isaksen and Treffinger's creative problem-solving model?

Options:

A.

Idea-finding.

B.

Solution-finding.

C.

Data-finding.

D.

Acceptance-finding.

Question 22

Which of the following models might include the documentation of scenarios?

Options:

A.

A class model.

B.

A business activity model.

C.

A use case model.

D.

A corporate data model.

Question 23

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 24

The V model is an example of which of the following?

Options:

A.

A business analysis process model.

B.

A systems development lifecycle.

C.

A concerns-based adoption model.

D.

A soft systems methodology.

Demo: 24 questions
Total 160 questions