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FBA15 Practice Exam Questions with Answers BCS Foundation Certificate in Business Analysis Certification

Question # 6

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

A.

Generalisation

B.

Association class

C.

Exclusivity relationship

D.

The <> construct

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Question # 7

What are business case development, subject matter expertise and procurement all examples of?

A.

Behavioural skill competencies required by business analysts.

B.

Business knowledge competencies required by business analysts.

C.

Technique competencies required by business analysts.

D.

Personal knowledge competencies required by business analysts.

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Question # 8

When is the self-esteem of individuals affected by a change process usually at its lowest?

A.

At the end of the change process.

B.

At the start of the change process.

C.

At all points during the change process.

D.

In the middle phase of the change process.

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Question # 9

Which of the following BEST describes the term value proposition?

A.

The net present value of a proposed project.

B.

The value that a product or service offers to customers.

C.

The proposed value of benefits in a cost-benefit analysis.

D.

The value of the Internal Rate of Return of a project.

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Question # 10

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

A.

A step where one actor passes the process to another actor.

B.

A mismatch between the capacities of related process steps.

C.

An unnecessary step or steps in a sequence of process steps.

D.

A number of related steps that are carried out by different actors.

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Question # 11

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?

A.

V model.

B.

Spiral model.

C.

Unified process.

D.

Workflow model.

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Question # 12

An IT department needs to upgrade its hardware to run the new version of an established operating system. The cost of this required upgrade is $2 million. As an alternative, the IT director has suggested that the company should change to a completely different operating system. Although this will cost $6 million, the change will bring many other benefits, including cheaper maintenance costs and increased security. What is the avoided cost in his proposal?

A.

$2 million.

B.

$4 million.

C.

$6 million.

D.

$8 million.

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Question # 13

Which of the following statements is TRUE?

A.

The IRR of every project is based on it achieving a Net Present Value of zero.

B.

It is preferable for the calculated IRR of a project to be below bank interest rates,

C.

Discounted cash flows do not usually take into account the time value of money.

D.

When comparing two projects, the one with the lower NPV should be preferred.

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Question # 14

An organisation called Quality Signs' makes display signs for commercial customers. Which of the following are MOST likely to be the Actors in a CATWOE analysis?

A.

The Managing Director of Quality Signs.

B.

The sign makers of Quality Signs.

C.

The competitors of Quality Signs.

D.

The customers of Quality Signs.

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Question # 15

An analyst is defining the requirements for an online booking system and wishes to show the business managers the look and feel of the system in order to elicit usability requirements. What investigation technique should the analyst use?

A.

Workshops.

B.

Interviewing.

C.

Ethnographic study

D.

Prototyping.

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Question # 16

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

A.

Management Qualities.

B.

Business Knowledge.

C.

IT Skills

D.

Project Skills.

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Question # 17

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

A.

When available sources of supply are available and easy to find.

B.

When the cost of a product or service is low.

C.

When switching costs are high.

D.

When the supplier brand is powerful.

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Question # 18

In a business activity model, which of the following type of activities respond to deviations between actual and planned performance?

A.

Monitoring activities.

B.

Doing activities.

C.

Controlling activities.

D.

Planning activities.

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Question # 19

A system must hold the price of every product sold by the company. Which of the following is the price likely to be?

A.

An attribute.

B.

An entity.

C.

An object.

D.

A use case.

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Question # 20

Which of the following is explicitly considered as a force in Porter's five forces model?

A.

Rivalry between suppliers.

B.

Government legislation.

C.

Internal business processes.

D.

Bargaining power of buyers.

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Question # 21

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

A.

User acceptance testing.

B.

Post-implementation review.

C.

Benefits realisation.

D.

Implementation.

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Question # 22

The V model is an example of which of the following?

A.

A business analysis process model.

B.

A systems development lifecycle.

C.

A concerns-based adoption model.

D.

A soft systems methodology.

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Question # 23

Which of the following models might include the documentation of scenarios?

A.

A class model.

B.

A business activity model.

C.

A use case model.

D.

A corporate data model.

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Question # 24

In which of the following categories would return on investment be considered when assessing the feasibility of a project?

A.

Financial feasibility.

B.

Business feasibility.

C.

Technical feasibility.

D.

Operational feasibility.

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