ECBA-BABOK-PRACTICE QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS.
Elicitation and Collaboration Knowledge Area - Answer -Prepare for elicitation
Confirm elicitation results
Communicate business analysis information
Manage stakeholder collaboration
Strategy Analysis - Answer -Analyze current state
Define future state
Assess risks
Define change strategy
solution Evaluation - Answer -Measure solution performance
Analyze performance measures
Assess solution limitations
Assess enterprise limitations
Recommend actions to increase solution value
Requirement Life Cycle Management - Answer -Trace requirements
Maintain requirements
Prioritize requirements
Assess requirements changes
Approve requirements
Requirements Analysis and Design Definition - Answer -specify and model requirements
Verify requirements
Validate requirements
Define requirements architecture
Define design options
Analyze potential value and recommend solution
Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring - Answer -Plan business analysis approach
Plan business analysis governance
, Plan business analysis information management
Identify business analysis performance improvements
behavioural business rule - Answer A business rule that places an obligation (or prohibition)
on conduct, action, practice, or procedure; a business rule whose purpose is to shape (govern)
day-to-day business activity. Also known as operative rule.
Benchmarking - Answer Comparing an organization's practices, processes, and products
against the world's best to identify opportunity for improvement.
Business architecture - Answer The design, structure, and behaviour of the current and future
states of an enterprise to provide a common understanding of the organization. It is used to
align the enterprise's strategic objectives and tactical demands.
Business Case - Answer A justification for a course of action based on the benefits to be
realized by using the proposed solution, as compared to the cost, effort, and other
considerations to acquire and live with that solution.
Business goal - Answer A state or condition that an organization is seeking to establish and
maintain, usually expressed qualitatively rather than quantitatively.
Business need - Answer A problem or opportunity of strategic or tactical importance to be
addressed.
Business objective - Answer An objective, measurable result to indicate that a business goal
has been achieved.
Business rule - Answer A specific, practicable, testable directive that is under the control of the
business and that serves as a criterion for guiding behaviour, shaping judgments, or making
decisions.
Decomposition - Answer A technique that subdivides a problem into its component parts in
order to facilitate analysis and understanding of those components.
Dynamic Systems Development Method (DSDM) - Answer A project delivery framework which
focuses on fixing cost, quality, and time at the beginning while contingency is managed by
varying the features to be delivered.
Entity-relationship diagram - Answer A graphical representation of the entities relevant to a
chosen problem domain and the relationships between them.
AND ANSWERS.
Elicitation and Collaboration Knowledge Area - Answer -Prepare for elicitation
Confirm elicitation results
Communicate business analysis information
Manage stakeholder collaboration
Strategy Analysis - Answer -Analyze current state
Define future state
Assess risks
Define change strategy
solution Evaluation - Answer -Measure solution performance
Analyze performance measures
Assess solution limitations
Assess enterprise limitations
Recommend actions to increase solution value
Requirement Life Cycle Management - Answer -Trace requirements
Maintain requirements
Prioritize requirements
Assess requirements changes
Approve requirements
Requirements Analysis and Design Definition - Answer -specify and model requirements
Verify requirements
Validate requirements
Define requirements architecture
Define design options
Analyze potential value and recommend solution
Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring - Answer -Plan business analysis approach
Plan business analysis governance
, Plan business analysis information management
Identify business analysis performance improvements
behavioural business rule - Answer A business rule that places an obligation (or prohibition)
on conduct, action, practice, or procedure; a business rule whose purpose is to shape (govern)
day-to-day business activity. Also known as operative rule.
Benchmarking - Answer Comparing an organization's practices, processes, and products
against the world's best to identify opportunity for improvement.
Business architecture - Answer The design, structure, and behaviour of the current and future
states of an enterprise to provide a common understanding of the organization. It is used to
align the enterprise's strategic objectives and tactical demands.
Business Case - Answer A justification for a course of action based on the benefits to be
realized by using the proposed solution, as compared to the cost, effort, and other
considerations to acquire and live with that solution.
Business goal - Answer A state or condition that an organization is seeking to establish and
maintain, usually expressed qualitatively rather than quantitatively.
Business need - Answer A problem or opportunity of strategic or tactical importance to be
addressed.
Business objective - Answer An objective, measurable result to indicate that a business goal
has been achieved.
Business rule - Answer A specific, practicable, testable directive that is under the control of the
business and that serves as a criterion for guiding behaviour, shaping judgments, or making
decisions.
Decomposition - Answer A technique that subdivides a problem into its component parts in
order to facilitate analysis and understanding of those components.
Dynamic Systems Development Method (DSDM) - Answer A project delivery framework which
focuses on fixing cost, quality, and time at the beginning while contingency is managed by
varying the features to be delivered.
Entity-relationship diagram - Answer A graphical representation of the entities relevant to a
chosen problem domain and the relationships between them.
