Free Practice Questions for PMI-PBA Exam

A national company with offices in every stale in the country has deployed a solution to allow employees to view their health benefits online. The business analyst on the project team is validating solution results to assess whether or not the solution has achieved the desired business result.Which is the best technique to gather information from employees regarding their satisfaction with the solution?

• Interface analysis
• Focus groups
• Survey
• Organization modeling

The business analyst generated a design specification for a new product. What is the best type of formal review to conduct with the customer to establish an approved requirements baseline?

• Production readiness review
• System requirements review
• Critical design review
• Test readiness review

A financial company deployed a new online product lo Iheir customers to invest in the stock market. The company notices a problem regarding financial calculations and starts the problem analysis. The company discovers that the new rules for taxes and fees were not implemented.This problem could have been avoided by:

• involving a business analyst during all phases of system development.
• implementing an automated Issue tracking system to facilitate the tracing of defects to the requirements.
• using a table that shows each applicable business rule with the implemented functional requirement.
• rolling back the operations using a contingency process in order to avoid loss and client dissatisfaction.

The document that defines the process for managing requirements revisions is the:

• change management plan.
• communications management plan.
• project management plan.
• scope management plan.

The following requirement was included in a business requirements document: 'An API shall be built to send data back and forth from the accounting system to the customer relationship system so that name and address data can be synchronized.' What should be done with this business requirement?

• It should remain because it specifies the type of data and the source system.
• It should be revised because it states a solution to the problem rather than the business need.
• It should be removed because it does not state how often the data should be synchronized.
• It should remain because it specifies the reason why the business requirement is needed.

One of the main purposes for creating a requirements traceability matrix is to:

• track the project solution scope.
• track how requirements can be connected to the solution.
• provide test cases to validate solution deliverables.
• document stakeholder approval of project requirements.

Which function involves auditing both the quality requirements to resolve discrepancies and the results of quality control measurements to ensure that appropriate quality standards and operational definitions are being used?

• Quality assessment
• Quality control
• Quality management
• Quality assurance

A business analyst is working on a system enhancement project and has completed the requirements according to the requirements management plan. The business analyst is now ready to request approval from the stakeholders.How should the business analyst obtain approval?

• Provide a defect tracking log for review.
• Conduct a formal or informal review of the requirements.
• Send an email requesting approval of requirements.
• Create and maintain an audit history log of changes to requirements.

After analyzing a set of requirements documents, it is determined that the requirements are not yet ready for peer review. This was most likely caused by:

• the requirements not providing all of the information needed to define the work.
• the requirements documents having not yet received sign-off from the sponsor.
• the requirements' reference codes not tracing to the attribute numbers in the work breakdown structure.
• some requirements having not yet been discussed in a work group session.

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?

• Impact analysis
• Pareto analysis
• Requirements management plan
• Scope statement