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A business analyst (BA) is running a workshop with a group of stakeholders to understand the requirements for a change that the company is planning to implement.

What important factor does the BA need to understand to ensure the workshop remains focused on the topic in question?

Several risks were identified for an upcoming change initiative. One risk is related to a slippage concern because of loose gravel at the local site of the change initiative. The business analyst (BA) has recommended that all on-site stakeholders must wear durable, slip-resistant boots while the change initiative is being executed.

This is an example of which type of risk treatment?

A non-profit utility company has 900 employees, a majority of whom are hourly employees and must track their time using a paper based process. A few years ago, the Director of Human Resources purchased a software system to eliminate the current paper-based time reporting process. No requirements specific to the utility company were defined prior to the purchase. A team was formed to implement the software. During implementation process, the team discovered the software lacked functionality and was not robust enough to support the general ledger requirements The company stopped the effort and incurred a 1500.000 USD loss on the cost of the software.

This year, the Director of Finance requested that a team investigate the current paper-based time reporting process and recommend solutions. The Director of Finance feels that the Director of Human Resources must be involved as a critical stakeholder The Director of Human Resources is still bitter about the last effort because the process stopped.

During a design review meeting to discuss the future state, all stakeholders are in agreement except the Director of Human Resources. Who makes the final decision?

A health insurance provider undertakes enhancements to its mobile application platform and finalizes the following capabilities as part of the scope of the next release:

I.Ability to integrate online maps and global positioning system (GPS) technology with the mobile application in real time to display location of service providers in the subscriber's vicinity that participate in the subscriber's plan network.

II.Ability for the subscriber to lookup the service providers by specifying either a postal code or a search area radius in miles.

III.Ability for the subscriber to initiate the download of fee information for one or more service providers in a single request.

Through requirements workshops the business analyst elicits the following detailed business requirements:

1.The company's mobile application platform must support real time integration with the following third-party systems:

A ) GPS System

B ) Postal Code Validation

2.The service providers available for selection must participate in the subscriber's medical plan network as of the current system date.

3.The map display shall highlight the boundary of the search area with a dotted yellow line.

4.The extent and shape of the search area shall be determined based on one of the following user choices:

A ) Postal code – Subscriber location acquired from GPS shall be used to determine and populate the related postal code as the default postal code with options for the user to change the postal code.

B ) Radius for the search area around the subscriber's location, that will have default value of 5 miles. The radius can be changed by the subscriber with a maximum range of 50 miles.

5.Subscriber shall be able to select one of the options above and supply corresponding input.

6.System shall validate the user input and display appropriate error messages if invalid.

7.Based on the inputs and the plan of the subscriber, the system shall retrieve information for the participating service providers that are located within the designated search area.

8.System shall display a map including visual markers to indicate locations of the service providers in the top half of the device screen and a list of the same service providers in the bottom half of the device screen.

9.The list of service providers shall include the Name, Phone Number and Street Address.

10.If the subscriber specified the radius or retained the default postal code for the search area, the list shall additionally include the approximate driving distance in miles from the subscriber's last registered location and the list shall be sorted in the ascending order of the driving distance.

11.The subscriber shall be able to select a service provider either from the list or from the map and download a document that contains the name, contact telephone, email address, fax number and the fee schedule for the covered services applicable to the subscriber's plan.

Which primary subscriber business need is addressed with the enhancements?

The seminar administrator reviewed these three diagrams and asked the BA to create a fourth diagram to model the various levels that a trainee goes through (e.g., white belt to yellow belt yellow belt to green belt etc). What modeling technique will the BA use to create this diagram?

The BA is working on the design options for the future state at the martial arts organization. There are several design elements that need to be considered for the future state. Which of the following design elements does the Activity Diagram address?

During requirements review, the implementation subject matter expert (SME) identified the requirement 'parsing of data' that must be implemented before other requirements. The business analyst (BA) has given this requirement high priority.

What factor influenced the prioritization of the requirement?

Company A is a nation-wide leader in commercial demolition. Having just celebrated its 100th year of operations, the company decided to begin doing work internationally. The current system used for reporting company finances is unable to keep pace with the potential demands of doing work in geographically dispersed locations. Therefore, the company decided to replace its client-based Profit & Loss (P&L) reporting system with a more robust, web-based system. This will ensure transparency across the organization and enable better decision making.

The business analyst (BA) at Company A has recently completed several rounds of elicitation to determine the requirements for the new, web-based system. Over 1250 requirements were elicited. An initial Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) has been drafted, and a subset of the RTM can be seen below:

While verifying the requirements, the BA notices that Requirement ID NFO0003 does not meet the "unambiguous" or the "testable" characteristics of requirements quality. The BA plans to re-write the requirement.

Which of the following requirements is both unambiguous and testable?

A business analyst (BA) elicits requirements for the sales order processing of multiple product lines. Elicitation reveals that the business processes for the sales orders of most products follow similar activity patterns that have been established over a number of years. Some of the new proposed seasonal products, however, will necessitate major variations in the process flow of some departments. The seasonal products are likely to be different every year. The business needs to carefully adapt its business practices so that the significant but seasonal variations in some of the business processes for the new products are handled adequately without disrupting the processes for the other established products.

Which of the following approaches must the BA take to manage the requirements for sales order processing in the long term?

A financial institution engaged in mortgage lending has embarked on a business process improvement initiative to eliminate the activities that hinder growth to ultimately improve the success rate of its mortgage business. As a benchmark for identification, the institution is keen on improving any business process that has less than a 75% success rate. The institution has appointed a business analyst (BA) to review the business transactions for the processes of origination, payments, and closures, as well as identify opportunities for improvements and recommend solutions.

The BA has collected the following information over the last three months pertaining to these business processes:

•All the business processes are at their maximum capacity in terms of the current number of transactions.

•Each business process has a certain number of rejects and the reasons for rejection include documentation, verification, collateral, and funding. Funding rejects occur when the bank's customers have failed to make payment of their mortgage processing fee or mortgage closure payment.

The BA has also recommended the use of documentation checklists as a solution to eliminate the documentation rejects.

If the financial institution always works at full capacity month to month and the new success rate continues to remain the same after implementing the BA's recommendation, what is the average number of successes per month for the mortgage closure process, if the current process capability were increased by 50%?