PC-BA-FBA-20 BCS Foundation Certificate in Business Analysis V4.0 Real Questions

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BCS Foundation Certificate in Business Analysis V4.0 PC-BA-FBA-20 exam questions are collected from real test to help you pass your exam easily. This certificate covers the range of concepts, approaches and techniques that are applicable to business analysis. This certification provides a foundation for the range of specialist BCS modular certificates in the areas of Business Analysis and Business Change. The certification can also be used as the knowledge-based specialist module for the Diploma in Business Analysis. FreeTestShare provides the latest BCS Certification PC-BA-FBA-20 exam questions to help you pass your exam with high score.

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1. How would usability and performance requirements be classified?

As general requirements

As technical requirements.

As functional requirements

As non-functional requirements.

2. 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.

3. What stage immediately precedes testing in the waterfall lifecycle?

Design.

Development.

Implementation.

Analysis.

4. Which of the following describes the objectives in a MOST analysis?

The statements declaring what the business is in and what it intends to achieve.

The approach the organisation intends to take to achieve its declared mission.

The goals against which the organisation’s achievements can be measured.

The detailed means by which an agreed business strategy will be implemented.

5. When analysing stakeholders, it is useful to produce a stakeholder analysis grid.

What is depicted on the axes of this grid?

Objectives and interests.

Power and influence

Perspectives and impacts

Power and interest

6. A system must hold the price of every product sold by the company.

Which of the following is the price likely to be?

An attribute

An entity.

An object.

A use case.

7. 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?

As (8..100) at the Department end of the relationship.

As a many-to-many between Department and Employee.

As a one-to-one between Department and Employee.

As a one-to-many between Department and Employee.

8. Which of the following represents the total cash flows of an investment, over a period of time, adjusted to reflect the time value of money?

The Internal Rate of Return.

The Time to Payback.

The Net Present Value.

The Return on Investment.

9. Which stage of Isaksen and Treffinger’s creative problem-solving model is concerned with analysing the opinions and concerns to identify how information can be quantified?

Mess finding.

Data finding

Problem finding.

Idea finding

10. A process model has been produced which includes diamond-shaped symbols.

What does this diamond-shaped symbol represent in the model?

A document

An event.

A manual process.

A decision

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11. Which of the following statements about change and change management is correct?

Change management should be considered right from the start of the project.

Change management should first be considered in the design stage of the project.

The management of change is the sole responsibility of the project manager.

Social and cultural factors have little influence on the success of implementing changes.

12. 1.What is the business analyst doing when he or she compares the BAM with the current business situation?

Conceptual modelling.

Analysing perspective

Gap analysis

Defining CATVVO

13. Which of the following is NOT an example of a generic stakeholder group?

Regulators.

Competitors.

Testers.

Employees.

14. What does the O’ stand for in the CATVVOE analysis?

The objectives of the business system under review.

The opportunities for change in the business system under review.

The organisation of the business system under review.

The owner of the business system under review.

15. The table below shows the costs and savings associated with a project.

In which of the following years does the project break even?

Year 2.

Year 3.

Year 4.

The project does not pay back within the four year period

16. An entity type is a template for its entity occurrences.

Which of the following is a template for objects?

A class.

A use case.

An operation

An actor.

17. Which of the following lists includes only activities that are defined as support activities in the value chain?

Firm infrastructure, service, marketing and sales.

Inbound logistics, outbound logistics, operations.

Procurement, technology development, human resource management.

Service, procurement, firm infrastructure

18. An analyst has asked a user to describe each step in a task as they perform it.

Which of the following investigation techniques is the analyst using?

Ethnographic study.

Interviewing.

Activity sampling

Protocol analysts.

19. The entity relationship model below shows the relationship between Customer and Order.

Which of the following business rules is correct?

An order may be placed by many customers.

A customer may place many orders.

A customer may never place an order

An order need not be placed by a customer.

20. What is the first stage of the waterfall systems development lifecycle?

Plan.

Analysis.

Feasibility Study.

Strategic Vision.

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21. What is stage 0 (zero) of the concerns-based adoption model?

Shock.

Defininition.

Initial change.

Awareness.

22. In which of the following business analysis areas does the traditional systems analyst role primarily operate?

Quantifying costs and benefits.

Defining the needs of the business.

Implementing business changes.

Specifying IT system requirements.

23. What are subsequent changes subject to once a requirements document has been signed off?

Requirements verification

Requirements documentation

Requirements validation

Requirements management

24. In which stage of the requirements engineering process are requirements checked to see whether they are well formed and SMART?

Requirements management.

Requirements documentation.

Requirements analysis.

Requirements elicitation.

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

Rivalry between suppliers.

Government legislation.

Internal business processes.

Bargaining power of buyers.

26. One of Porter’s five forces explicitly considers industry competitors.

Which of the following is the Key Focus’ of this force?

A Competitor’s external marketing campaign

The products offered by Competitors

Rivalry among existing Competitors

The market share of known Competitors.

27. What type of model is a ‘Business Activity Model’ (BAM)?

Conceptual

Logical

Physical

Dynamic

28. Who should be defined as the owner of a risk?

The person who documented the risk in the risk register

The person who identified the risk in the initial requirements analysis.

The person responsible for defining the probability of the risk.

The person best placed to take the necessary counter-measures to the risk

29. Which of the following are steps in the Isaksen and Treffinger’s creative problem solving model?

a. Mess Finding.

b. Data Modelling.

c. Process Finding.

d. Problem Finding.

e. Solution Finding.

a. Mess Finding.

a, b, c and d.

b, c and e.

a, d and e.

a, c, d and e.

30. A requirement has been identified as beneficial. It will be included in the system if it does not take too long to deliver or cost too much.

How would this requirement be prioritized in the MoSCoW classification?

As a ‘M’.

As a ‘C’.

As a ‘S’.

As a ‘W’.

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31. Cars, trucks and motorbikes are all types of vehicle.

What structure could be used on a class model to model this

Generalisation

Association class

Exclusivity relationship

The <> construct

32. Business rules define how actions are to be performed. Under which of the following headings are business rules considered?

Explicit or implicit management statements,

Statutory and internal policies.

Constraints and operational guidance.

Negotiable and non-negotiable limitations.

33. Which of the following requirements elicitation techniques is ineffective at defining the future requirements of a system?

Workshops.

Prototyping,

Scenario analysis.

Shadowing.

34. The following is a list of statements concerning investigation techniques

a. Questionnaires are an effective way of developing rapport with the business users.

b. Workshops are an effective way of obtaining user buy-in and acceptance.

c. Protocol analysis involves following a user for a period to find out what they do.

d. Scenarios can be used as an effective basis for the development of prototypes.

Which of the following is correct?

Statements a and c are incorrect, statements b and d are correct.

Statements a and d are incorrect, statements b and c are correct

Statements b and c are incorrect, statements a and d are correct.

Statements c and d are incorrect, statements a and b are correct.

35. When running workshops it is useful to have someone with a role that includes specific responsibility for keeping attendees focused on achieving the objective of the workshop.

Which of the following terms describes this role?

The arbitrator.

The scribe.

The stakeholder.

The facilitator.

36. Who is the target of the value proposition?

The Supplier,

The Sponsor.

The Customer

The Competitor.

37. Which of the following BEST describes an ethnographic study?

A study which uses prototype graphical screens to demonstrate a user requirement.

A study of users in their workplace undertaking representative simulated scenarios.

A study where the analyst spends an extended period of time in the target environment.

A study which ensures that the needs of a wide range of ethnic groups are considered.

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

A class model.

A business activity model.

A use case model.

A corporate data model.

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

SWO

PESTL

CATWO

MOS

40. Which of the following BEST describes the term value proposition?

The net present value of a proposed project.

The value that a product or service offers to customers.

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

The value of the Internal Rate of Return of a project

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41. A use case Place Order must always invoke a related use case Check Credit.

How is the association between the two use cases shown?

By a solid line with no arrowhead or stereotype.

By a broken, arrowed line stereotyped with the word <>.

By a broken, arrowed line stereotyped with the word <>

By a broken, arrowed line stereotyped with the word <>.

42. On a class diagram, what do the multiplicities represent?

The number of attributes held within each class.

The minimum and maximum number of operations in each class.

The minimum and maximum number of objects in each class.

The business rules for an association between two classes.

43. Which of the following may be used as a basis for scripting acceptance tests?

Stepwise refinement

Context diagrams.

Mind maps,

Scenario analysis.

44. The table below shows the costs and savings associated with a project.

In which of the following years does the project break even?

Year 4.

Year 5.

Year 3.

The project does not break even.