Valid PC-BA-FBA-20 Exam Dumps – Pass BCS Foundation Certificate in Business Analysis V4.0 Exam

1. What is the business analyst doing when he or she compares the BAM with the current business situation?

2. An IT department needs to upgrade its hardware to run the new version of an established operating system. The cost of this required upgrade is $2 million. As an alternative, the IT director has suggested that the company should change to a completely different operating system. Although this will cost $6 million, the change will bring many other benefits, including cheaper maintenance costs and increased security.

What is the avoided cost in his proposal?

3. Which of the following actions could sustain business change?

4. The senior managers of an organisation recognise that they employ knowledgeable, committed staff.

Under which category of a SWOT will this be recorded?

5. Which of the following represents the total cash flows of an investment, over a period of time, adjusted to reflect the time value of money?

6. A business analyst wishes to show that a company wants to store information about different types of product. Some attributes are common to every product (for example; product name) but other attributes only apply to certain product types. For example, product material only applies to accessory products.

Which of the following constructs could the business analyst use to represent this on a class model?

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

8. Which of the following would be an appropriate name for a use case that allows a project manager to allocate resources to a project?

9. Which of the following lists includes only activities that are defined as support activities in the value chain?

10. The entity relationship model below shows the relationship between Customer and Order.

Which of the following business rules is correct?

11. Which of the following diagrams explicitly shows the sequence of tasks?

12. Which of the following BEST describes the term value proposition?

13. Which of the following is an advantage to the host organisation of using an internal consultant to conduct a business analysis project?

14. The following is a list of statements about stakeholders and stakeholder management.

a. A customer can be considered as a stakeholder in a project.

b. A supplier can be considered as a stakeholder in a project.

c. Stakeholders’ positions do not remain static during the life of the project.

d. Communication must not be tailored to each stakeholder in the project.

Which of the following is correct?

15. Which of the following statements about business activity models (BAM) is correct?

16. The following is a list of statements concerning investigation techniques

a. Questionnaires are an effective way of developing rapport with the business users.

b. Workshops are an effective way of obtaining user buy-in and acceptance.

c. Protocol analysis involves following a user for a period to find out what they do.

d. Scenarios can be used as an effective basis for the development of prototypes.

Which of the following is correct?

17. A business case for a project claims that the new system will provide managers with more time to think creatively about strategic issues.

What would this be classified as in a cost-benefit analysis?

18. Which of the following BEST describes the cause of a bottleneck in a business process?

19. Which of the following may be used as a basis for scripting acceptance tests?

20. Which of the following options only includes workshop discovery techniques?

21. Which of the following statements is true?

22. When is the self-esteem of individuals affected by a change process usually at its lowest?

23. What does the M stand for in MoSCoW?

24. Which of the following is likely to be an input into the Analysing the Needs’ stage of the business analysis process model?

25. An entity type is a template for its entity occurrences.

Which of the following is a template for objects?

26. What are subsequent changes subject to once a requirements document has been signed off?

27. 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?

28. 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?

29. An analyst investigating a sales system wishes to ask questions about how a customer order form is completed in the current system.

What investigation technique is the analyst using?

30. Which of the following diagrams helps the business analyst to document a range of issues that have been uncovered about a business situation?

31. Which stage of the requirements engineering process precedes requirements validation?

32. Which of the following is considered by the Boston Box?

33. In which of the following circumstances is supplier power high?

34. What does a force-field analysis consider?

35. What are business case development, subject matter expertise and procurement all examples of?

36. Which of the following only includes explicit corporate knowledge?

37. Which of the following approaches is the variation of the Waterfall lifecycle that shows explicitly the link between the analysis stages and the testing stages?

38. Which of the following statements is TRUE?

39. In which stage of the requirements engineering process are requirements checked to see whether they are well formed and SMART?

40. The table below shows the costs and savings associated with a project.

In which of the following years does the project break even?

41. An airline wishes to assess the punctuality of its flights.

What type of business activity would do this?

42. When are the acceptance criteria for user acceptance testing defined?

43. The requirements catalogue documents the business user or users who requested the requirement.

Which heading in the requirements catalogue template would this information be recorded?

44. Business analysis bridges the gap between which two disciplines?

45. A requirement has been identified as beneficial. It will be included in the system if it does not take too long to deliver or cost too much.

How would this requirement be prioritized in the MoSCoW classification?

46. It is claimed that a new system will bring improved job satisfaction to employees.

How should this improved job satisfaction be classified?

47. Which of the following is NOT an example of a generic stakeholder group?

48. When undertaking business system modelling how many Business Activity Models’ (BAM’s) are initially produced?

49. Which investigation technique is supported by use case’ descriptions?

50. Which category of activities should be identified first when developing a ‘Business Activity Model’ (BAM)?

51. What is the business analyst doing when he or she compares the BAM with the current business situation?

52. Who is the target of the value proposition?

53. Who should be defined as the owner of a risk?

54. One of Porter’s five forces explicitly considers industry competitors.

Which of the following is the Key Focus’ of this force?

55. Which ONE model is used for planning the training the support that people need as they adapt to change?

56. Cars, trucks and motorbikes are all types of vehicle.

What structure could be used on a class model to model this

57. As part of an investigation, a business analyst has asked a business user to keep track of the actual tasks they carry out over a period of time.

What is this investigation technique called?

58. Which of the following is an example of ‘Individual Tacit Knowledge’?

59. Why should requirements be SMART?

60. In which stage of the business analysis process model would the business analyst produce a business case?