Free Foundation Certificate in Business Analysis Exam FBA15 Exam Practice Test

When are workshops especially valuable?

• When suitably sized rooms are available.
  
• When all stakeholders are agreed on the way forward.
  
• When a geographically dispersed set of users needs to be consulted.
  
• When time and budget are constrained.
  

Which of the following only includes explicit corporate knowledge?

• Skills, values, communities of practice.
  
• Job descriptions, tasks, targets.
  
• Culture, norms, historical data.
  
• Style guides, procedures, processes.
  

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

• Idea-finding.
  
• Solution-finding.
  
• Data-finding.
  
• Acceptance-finding.
  

Which of the following techniques is used to focus solely on the external influences on an organisation?

• SWOT.
  
• PESTLE.
  
• CATWOE.
  
• MOST.
  

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

• They will have a broad business perspective.
  
• They will be familiar with the host organisation.
  
• They will only be paid when they are needed.
  
• They will have a dispassionate view of the host organisation.
  

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

• A swim-lane diagram.
  
• A use case diagram.
  
• A business activity model.
  
• A class model.
  

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?

• Legal.
  
• Environmental.
  
• Technological.
  
• Economic.
  

Why should requirements be SMART?

• To ensure that the requirement supports business objectives.
  
• To ensure that the requirement is intelligently expressed.
  
• To ensure that the requirement is well formed.
  
• To ensure that the requirement is graphically modelled.
  

In which of the following circumstances is supplier power high?

• When switching costs are low.
  
• When there are relatively few customers.
  
• When the supplier brand is powerful.
  
• When alternatives are readily available.
  

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?

• V model.
  
• Spiral model.
  
• Unified process.
  
• Workflow model.