BCS Foundation Certificate in Business Analysis FBA15 Dumps

1. Which of the following statements is TRUE?

2. When running workshops it is useful to have someone with a role that includes specific responsibility for keeping attendees focused on achieving the objective of the workshop.

Which of the following terms describes this role?

3. Which of the following models shows the driving and resisting forces of change?

4. Which of the following terms may be used to describe the attitude of a stakeholder who is NOT in favour of the project but is probably not actively opposed to it?

5. Which of the following is a primary activity in the value chain?

6. As part of an investigation a Business Analyst has devised a form for users of an existing system to use to keep track of the tasks they undertake during their working day.

Which of the following describes this investigation technique?

7. Which of the following investigation techniques involves following a user for one or two days in order to find out what a particular job entails?

8. Given the cashflows below, which of the following is correct?

9. Which of the following BEST describes an ethnographic study?

10. Which of the following statement is TRUE about the process view of an organisation?

11. Which of the following techniques can be used to pull together the results of an analysis of the external and internal business environment of an organisation?

12. A well formed requirement is said to comply with which of the following acronyms?

13. Different reactions may be observed when a change to working methods is proposed.

These reactions include:

a ) Enthusiasm for the change.

b ) Fear of the change.

c ) Reduced performance on the job.

d ) Reluctant acceptance of the change.

Which of the following represents the typical sequence of these four reactions?

14. An analyst is defining the requirements for an online booking system and wishes to show the business managers the look and feel of the system in order to elicit usability requirements.

What investigation technique should the analyst use?

15. Which stage of the Requirements Engineering process is concerned with tracking requirements from inception to implementation?

16. A system holds information about an employee; Mike Berry.

Which of the following is Mike Berry an example of?

17. In a particular organisation it is common practice to call all managers by their first name. It is part of the culture of the organisation. Newcomers are quickly corrected if they do not follow this informal approach.

What would knowing about this convention be classified as in Requirements Engineering?

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

19. A batch program runs every night to raise invoices. The next day these invoices are posted out to customers by a clerk. Customers pay the invoices with cheques. The cheques are then banked by a clerk.

In this scenario, which of the following represents a business event?

20. In a business activity model, which of the following type of activities respond to deviations between actual and planned performance?

21. The following requirement has been identified; The system must be able to record customer payments'.

What type of requirement is this?

22. A business analyst has identified that one of the use cases on a use case diagram contains a large amount of optional processing. This optional processing is so large that he has decided to remove it to a separate use case which can be called by the original use case if required.

How should the original use case be linked to the new use case?

23. A process model has been produced which includes diamond-shaped symbols.

What does this diamond-shaped symbol represent in the model?

24. When should benefits realisation be carried out?

25. In which of the following business analysis areas does the traditional systems analyst role primarily operate?

26. An organisation called Quality Signs' makes display signs for commercial customers.

Which of the following are MOST likely to be the Actors in a CATWOE analysis?

27. It is unclear to a project sponsor why a particular requirement has been included in a recently released version of a system.

Which of the following will allow him to identify who originally asked for the requirement?

28. An analyst investigating a finance system wishes to build rapport with individual stakeholders and investigate in detail each stakeholder's views.

Which of the following techniques should the analyst use?

29. It has been suggested that five clerical posts can be abolished when a new computer system is implemented.

Under which category of costs or benefits will this be recorded?

30. On a class diagram, what do the multiplicities represent?

31. A convenience food manufacturer has undertaken a strategic analysis study and has identified a threat from groups lobbying against the use of packaging for food products.

Which of the PESTLE categories would have helped highlight this threat?

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

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

34. The required competencies of a business analyst are classified into three categories.

Which of the following is one of these three categories?

35. One of the stages of the Business Activity Process Model is 'Consider the perspectives'.

Which of the following would be particularly relevant in this stage?

36. In which of the following circumstances do buyers have high bargaining power?

37. Business rules define how actions are to be performed.

Under which of the following headings are business rules considered?

38. An analyst has discovered that a company wishes to hold information about departments and employees. A department may have many employees in it, but each employee can, at any one time, only work in one department. There is no requirement to store historical information. However, there are currently eight departments and over one hundred employees.

How would this relationship be shown on an Entity Relationship diagram?

39. A stakeholder has been classified as 'some' on both the power/influence and interest axes of a power/interest grid.

Which of the following would be an appropriate way of managing this

stakeholder?

40. What is the first stage of the waterfall systems development lifecycle?

41. Which of the following describes a 'rich picture'?

42. What is the final stage of the waterfall systems devebpment lifecycle?

43. Which of the following would you describe about each stakeholder?

44. Which of the following types of activity help identify the KPI's of an organisation?

45. An analyst has asked a user to describe each step in a task as they perform it.

Which of the following investigation techniques is the analyst using?

46. Which of the following may be used to document the outcomes of a workshop?

47. Which of the following describes the objectives in a MOST analysis?

48. Which of the following is likely to be shown as a process in a swim-lane diagram of a library book borrowing system?

49. Linking a piece of delivered software functionality with a requirement is known as which of the following?

50. 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?