PMI-PBA

PMI-PBA practice questions, page 5 of 8, with answer review and explanations.

Question 21

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?

  1. Scope statement
  2. Impact analysis
  3. Requirements management plan
  4. Pareto analysis

Question 22

When a change request is received, the business analyst is responsible for:

  1. analyzing the impact on business and underlying systems.
  2. prioritizing and scheduling the changes requested.
  3. ensuring that change-related incidents are minimized in production.
  4. analyzing the impact to the project schedule and budget.

Question 23

While preparing a business case, an experienced business analyst faces difficulty in deciding which of three different solution options to recommend. The senior vice president (SVP) who requested the business case favors an outsourced solution; however, an analysis favors a custom-developed solution, either but internally or using contract labor. To prepare the recommendation, what should the business analyst do?

  1. Perform solution evaluation.
  2. Recommend the SVP’s choice, as it is most likely to be adopted.
  3. Review the stakeholder analysis
  4. Formulate a weighted-ranking matrix.

Question 24

The software developers have delivered a completed solution. The quality assurance team has passed the solution. What should the business analyst do next?

  1. Evaluate the solution against the project charter.
  2. Conduct performance testing.
  3. Evaluate the solution with the sponsor(s)
  4. Conduct user acceptance testing.

Question 25

Which solution should be chosen according to the completed weighted-ranking matrix?

  1. Enhance the existing system.
  2. Purchase off-the-shelf software.
  3. Develop in-house software.
  4. Outsource the development.