FBA15 BCS Foundation Certificate in Business Analysis Questions and Answers

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

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?

Which of the following is considered by the Boston Box?

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

What type of model is a 'Business Activity Model' (BAM)?

Cars, trucks and motorbikes are all types of vehicle. What structure could be used on a class model to model this?

The table below shows the costs and savings associated with a project. In which of the following years does the project break even?

Which investigation technique is supported by use case' descriptions?

During a workshop, it is useful to ask participants to come up with ideas which are listed for later evaluation. What is this technique called?

Which of the following is a perceived advantage of using workshops to investigate requirements?

Which of the following statements about a BAM is correct?

A software house is developing a software package specifically for hotel management. A business analyst has been employed because of her familiarity with the hotel industry. Which of the following competencies has she been employed to bring to the project?

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

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

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

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?

The required competencies of a business analyst are classified into three categories. Which of the following is one of these three categories?

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?

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?

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?

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