Tell me about yourself or brief your CV this is the most common question irrespective of any job opening.

. You can start with your education background (if your score is good then mention percentage else not required :--) Your certifications (not mandatory) Your knowledge on Business Analysis Activities you carried / involved during your college days (like seminars, workshops) Your knowledge on domains (if you know else not a problem!!) Your academic projects (do not explain in-detail, you can explain in-detail when specific question is asked to explain your project). Some personal details (only at higher level like your family and hobbies. Note: keep it simple, do not tell stories) [When this question is asked, interviewer will be interested to know your education, mainly your communication level, team player and knowledge level.] What are your strengths and weakness? Explain your strengths like (if you are) punctual, flexible, smart working, smart thinking. You may be asked with one more question to defend your strengths with an example. So be prepared, just do not tell punctual, smart etc for answering sake. Weakness very important thing you should keep in mind. NEVER EVER bluff by portraying your strength as weakness. Like I am hard worker I cannot sit idle, I am very punctual and when others are not punctual I get irritated these sorts of things will be told you in soft skill classes but it is very wrong. You should mind that, interviewer would have passed all these stages and he/she will know all the gimmicks. Interviewer can easily make out that you are bluffing. So be honest for this question. Like I was bad in time management and I am working constantly to improve my time management from past 3 months and I am improved as of now and shortly I will overcome this weakness. You should tell your weakness and followed by your actions to overcome that weakness. Explain your projects? You know the answer. You can be cross-questioned on the projects as well so be prepared. Whats the key differentiating factors that you have, that makes you eligible? This question sounds like again asking strengths but you need to answer smartly. You need to portray your Business Analysis skills, team player skills, domain knowledge and strengths. The overall Idea is to know how you stand out from other candidates.

Do you know SDLC / Explain SDLC in brief? You need to be perfect for this question. I have already written on SDLC you can go through or if you have referred some other books as well, it is fine to say that answer. Important point is reading the SDLC in books if different and understanding the SDLC is different. So understand SDLC properly it will help you in interview. Name different types of SDLC models? Waterfall, Iterative Methods, V-Model, Spiral Model, Prototyping, Agile methods You can be asked to explain any particular SDLC model or can be asked to explain the difference between any of the SDLC models. Please refer Google or any standard books for this else the page you are reading will become 100 pages J . What are the roles and responsibilities of a Business Analyst? I have written article on this (in same website you can refer) or if you have different information on this question you can go ahead with that. Do know QA or testing cycle? I have written article on this (in same website you can refer) or if you have different information on this question you can go ahead with that. Name the skills which Business Analyst should have? Good Listener , Quick & continuous learner, Analytical skills, problem solving approach, thinking beyond the box, tech savvy (can keep updating what are the latest technologies released in market and how those are important). Team or people management, solid communication, documenting skills (written English), team player, devising new solutions, market research etc (if know some more you can add). You can be told some scenario and asked to act as Business Analyst and collect requirements (interviewer will act as client). This will be scenario based question like, I am running xyz business and I want to build software, as a business analyst what do you suggest? So you need to be prepared for these sorts of questions. You can be told some scenario or business case and asked to write possible requirements on a sheet of paper. Again, this depends on scenario so be prepared for this. Preferably with requirements plot use case diagram, activity diagram. (I will write about use case, use case diagrams, activity diagrams, and data flow diagrams very shortly. For now you can search in Google you will get results) What do you think about challenges faced by Business Analyst?

Change management is the biggest challenge because this happens in real time as well. After requirements stage when development is started client will come-up some changes or enhancements. Cross departmental or cross team management like conflict management between teams. Also individuals. This requires soft skills and smartness. Communication problems In real time this can happen. You might be good in speaking and understanding the English language. BUT sometimes it happens like Different people across the globe speak different style of English. In USA itself Mexico people speak English differently. Romans speak different English. So at initial level to understand the accent can be a challenge but after some time you will become perfect. What is your understanding on Risk and Issue? Risk is something which can be forecasted and can be handled by formulating mitigation plans. Risk which happened is called Issue. There will be contingency management or issue management to solve issue. Basically we will be not solving the issue but will try making Damage control and take it as learning for other projects. What would you do if you haven't received all the required signoffs on phase documentation submitted for approval? Highlight risk management process - how to flag these? Resolution - of such scenarios, by working alongside PM What is CMMi and explain the levels? This is there in your college syllabus. Be prepared. What is Project management? Do you have any idea? This is there in your college syllabus. Be prepared. Some managerial sort of questions will be asked to test your management skills. Like you had a project delivery and your team was not able to meet deadline. How do you handle the situation? On repeatedly telling one of your team member is not punctual due this your team is facing the problems. How will you handle? There can be N number of such cases. Be prepared. Also do not forget the Interview basics. Be dressed well. Guys with Formals, neatly shaved, have wrist watch. Switch-off your mobile phone, Have pen with you.

Business Analyst Interview QuestionDear Friends.I am sharing you my interview exp with you. These are some question, whichdefiantly help you out in BA Interview.Basically an interviewer may ask different questions but he/she will try to check outsome of the following skills only: Confidence level Logical thinking Consistency in your answers. Leadership

Problem solving skills. Temperament Business understanding Ability to prioritise activities as per situation.1.Introduce yourself including your main job responsibility in last organization. 2 . H o w d o y o u d o r e q u i r e m e n t gathering.3.What steps you follow in requirement gathering4.What is requirement elicitation process5.What are the methods of requirement e l i c i t a t i o n ? 6.For a business analyst what are the essential skills?7.Which documents you prepared during requirement gathering and what are there contents.8 . W h a t i s t r a c t a b i l i t y m a t r i x ? 9 . W h a t i s b u s i n e s s ? 10.What is business process?11.Give me a real example of business process from your daily life12.How do you ensure the real requirements13.How do you handle the change requirements14.As a BA which function you found the most crucial /difficult to handle.15.Which tool you used as a BA.16.What is USE cases17.What is Actor? (May ask do draw use case diagram of a particular system)18.Suppose you have developed the software as per the clients requirements, butnow the client has changed the requirements, how do you handle the situation.19.What documents you prepared.20.What are the contents in SRS?21.Brief me about SDLC. 22.As a BA how many SDLC phases you involved. brief your role in each andevery phases clearly and what documents you prepared in every phase.23.What is multi tenancy? 2 4 . W h a t i s S a a S . 25.In which module you worked.26.Please brief me your role in material mgmt.27.What is your strength and weakness?28.Why should I select you?29.And how will you contribute in our organization30.Please describe your role in ERP Implementation.31.What are the phases in ERP Impleme ntation?32.How will you react in deadlock situation /33.What is Gap Analysis? 34.How do you do gap analysis, can you describe through example.35.Can you draw the DFD of online shopping model?36.How do you interact with your technical team? 37.How do you define the costing of any work?38.What are your hobbies?39.What satisfied you?40.What your future plan.41.Why you are looking for change.42.How many employees were in your last organization.43.What documents you passed to the technical team.44.Which was your most difficult assignment you worked and why it wasdifficult for you .how did you handle it.45.What is e-commerce?46.What are the essential qualities of a e commerce website.47.Which is the most important feature of a online shopping portal to attractcustomers.48.if you have to launch a pen ( of avg quality and no brand name ) throughMLM . What would be your strategy?49.If you have to launch a product for online sale which is no longer available for online shopping. What would be your strategy?50.Which is the most exciting moment of your life.51.Are you a team player? pls justify with an Example.52.How you rate yourself in programming.53.database concepts .

1. What is business analysis? One should not restrict the BA role to only being a link between Non-It and IT or only for development projects.A BA is someone who is able to bring in improvements, changes (technology, process, peopleetc.) in an efficient manner. So a BA could be part of the marketing team who helps themarketing team in providing estimates/high level solutions for a said project which is under the process of procurement. Or he could be someone involved during the Requirementgathering/analysis once the project is initiated. Or he could be someone who brings profit to thecompany by performing process improvement activities ROIs at process level.Last but not the least BAs could be domain specific as well.For more BA Questions, Sample Resumes and Open Jobs please visit

5. What analysis and modeling techniques do you use to translate business objectivesinto system requirements? Create project-initiation diagrams including business use cases, activity diagrams, workflow

diagrams, flowchartsDetermine project scope and derive context diagrams and project use cases from the business diagramsDetail the use cases by using activity diagrams or other techniques Create high level analysis dataflow diagrams, domain class diagrams, and entity-relationship diagrams from the use cases or other high level diagramsRecognize and understand the various design models, including the other relevant types of UML diagrams, detailed design entity-relationship diagrams, and decomposed dataflowdiagramsDetermine when to use which modeling technique, following them through a project life cycle, and understand which diagrams are derived from othersUnderstand the basic concepts of normalization and decomposition so can converse intelligently on the topic and review diagrams that have been normalized or decomposedFor more BA Questions, Sample Resumes and Open Jobs please visit:http://futurethoughtsllc.com/InterviewQuestionsandAnswers.aspx 6.Mention some of the tools commonly used by business analyst? There might be various tools that you as a business analyst would be using depending upon thework environment.The primary tools are:MS-Office (Especially Word)MS-Visio (for visualizing the concepts, creating diagrams)But a lot of bigger organizations have been using Rational Software. Rational software licensingis expensive so you might not find it being used everywhere.Rational Requisite Pro (for Requirement Management)Rational ClearCase/ClearQuest (For change management)I have also found that some places like using MS-SharePoint, telelogic DOORS and other toolsfor document collaboration. I would say, keep a working knowledge of MS SharePoint, at least.Sometimes you might end up being a BA com QA. As such, it is nice to have a workingknowledge of creating Test cases, using Load Runner, QTP etc.

Except for these tools if you have knowledge of RDBMS, Oracle, SQL, different operatingsystems, some OOP, it is always a plus.For more BA Questions, Sample Resumes and Open Jobs please visit:http://futurethoughtsllc.com/InterviewQuestionsandAnswers.aspx 7.Explain equivalence class? Equivalence class a mathematical concept is a subset of given set induced by anequivalencerelationon that given set. (If the given set is empty then the equivalence relation is empty andthere are no equivalence classes; otherwise the equivalence relation and its concomitantequivalence classes are all non-empty.) Elements of an equivalence class are said to beequivalent under the equivalence relation to all the other elements of the same equivalence class.For each equivalence relation there is a collection of equivalence classes. Any two differentequivalence classes are disjoint and the union over all of the equivalence classes is the given set.Equivalence classes and their corresponding equivalence relation are defined in set theory a vitalfoundation for mathematics and those fields that use mathematics. More details can be found in astudy of equivalence relation.For more BA Questions, Sample Resumes and Open Jobs please visit:http://futurethoughtsllc.com/InterviewQuestionsandAnswers.aspx 8.What are the problems solved by business analysis? As a BA the most critical part is in gathering requirements (we should understand them very wellfrom a Business User /stake holder point of view!!!)Reason: There might be a chance for the whole project to go in the wrong path due to wrongunderstanding of the Business users/ Stake holders needs and the gathered requirements createdfor the work following that step i.e. going from A to C instead of going from A to B. Notes: (Business Users: are the individuals who work in organizations in different departmentslike Logistics accounting finance Inventory) in the company who wanted the software in Placefor them to work on to help the Customers.Stake Holders: Someone who is related to the Project? 2 types of People are involved:Direct Stake holders: business end users customers developers tech team.Indirect stake holders: management etc.The Project Manager responsibility (usually) identifies the stakeholders determine their needsand expectations and more important must manage and take their help for the project success.

(You should Understand them well to provide them with right service for the right success of the project)...SMEs: are the Subject Matter Experts who know about that project and have indepthknowledge about that software application used and that particular business domain knowledgelike Finance (terms and permutations etc.) Accounting (Business Planning Ledger maintainingForecasting) Mortgage (Local banking rules Knowledge about compliancy of applications forms/applications that needs the authorizations of the local Government bodies or countiesUnderwriting conditions (How flexible the Loan lending organizations at the individuals creditcheck or History)So The SMEs help the Project Manager or BA to help them understand about the necessities or needs of the Business Users or Stake holders like/interests- (How the Project help save time for the transactions or? how much secure/security is needed the application wise or profitable over long run) and SMEs explain How the Stakeholders or Business Users want the application to beor appear to be for the Customers or Business Users).For more BA Questions, Sample Resumes and Open Jobs please visit:http://futurethoughtsllc.com/InterviewQuestionsandAnswers.aspx 9. What is the difference between data model and an entity relationship diagram ? A data model is a model which shows how data is stored and used for e.g. a normal database Ithas 3 main parts1)Structural part:- how data is structured2)Integrity part:- Rules governingstructure3)Manipulation part:- operators used to select,update,querry that data,egselect,update,delete commands in sqlTo furhter add Data Modelling is when we add this

theoryto Live instance.ENTERPRISE DATA MODEL(ENTERPRISE RELATIONSHIPMODELING) :- This can be called as an conceptual model or semantic model The sub parts of an ERM are1)Entity:- It is an object,eg employees,computer2) Relationship:- It captures howtwo or more entities are related to each other3)Attributes:- Every entity has its own sets of attributes (e.g. PAN no in India for each employee or SSN in US)To clarify the point look at egA employee is an entity belonging to entity sets(All employees) which has a relationship withdepartment, and attributes is emp codeFor more BA Questions, Sample Resumes and Open Jobs please visit:http://futurethoughtsllc.com/InterviewQuestionsandAnswers.aspx 10.Who uses the output produced by business analyst? The output will be used by the Both IT and Non-It People, as IT people use this document as keyfor the building of the application and Non - It people use those document where they can see prototype of their application.