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Table of contents
1. Planning 8

2. Elicitation 24

3. Requirements life cycle management 38

4. Strategy analysis 45

5. Solution evaluation 56

6. Requirements modelling 64

7. Vocabulary comparisons 78

8. BA techniques 91

9. Requirements modelling 97

10. Scenario based questions 118

11. Agile 137

12. Testing 145

13. Contemporary questions 157

14. HR questions 165

Questions Distribution
Number of
Topic
Questions
Planning 115
Elicitation 110
Requirements life cycle management 55
Strategy analysis 85
Solution evaluation 70
Requirements modelling 115
Vocabulary comparisons 70
Techniques comparison 50
Requirements modelling questions 50
Scenario based questions 70
Agile 50
Testing 50
Contemporary topics 50
HR questions 60
Total 1000
1. Planning
1 What is change team?

2 What are the different levels of changes in any organization?

3 Define organization knowledge.

4 What is RACI matrix?

5 What is the role of a project manager?

6 What is creative thinking?

7 What does a requirements management plan contain?

8 Define PERT.

9 What is a plan?

10 What is the role of a sponsor?

11 What roles suppliers may play in BA?

12 What is bottom-up estimation?

13 What is meant by work breakdown structure (WBS)?

14 What is a stakeholder list?

15 What is a business analysis communication plan?

16 Explain business analysis plan.

17 Define RACI.

18 What do you understand by change management?

19 What does the term complexity imply?

20 What is a rolling wave technique?

21 Explain methodology knowledge.

22 What are business analysis roles?

23 What does stakeholder analysis involve?

24 Who is a tester?

25 Define Delphi estimation.

26 Explain parametric estimation.

27 What do you understand by estimate?

28 What are constraints?

29 What is meant by solution knowledge?

30 Who is a customer?

31 What is understood by teaching?

32 What are business analysis perspectives?

33 What is adaptive approach?

34 What do you understand by leadership and influencing?

35 What is an onion diagram?

36 Who is a business analyst?

37 What is business analysis performance assessment?

38 Who is an implementation SME?

39 What is a predictive approach?

40 What is a product backlog?

41 Define business analysis.

42 Who is a domain subject matter expert (SME)?

43 Who is consulted?
44 Explain business analysis approach.

45 What is core concept (business analysis)?

46 Define decomposition.

47 What happens during reporting?

48 What is conceptual thinking?

49 What are metrics and KPIs?

50 What does a stakeholder map represent?

51 What is a time-box?

52 Define project scope.

53 Who is a regulator?

54 What is governance approach?

55 What is information management approach?

56 What is meant by learning and growth dimension?

57 Define interface analysis.

58 Define key performance indicator.

59 Explain stakeholder proxy (business analyst)?

60 What do you understand by task (business analysis)?

61 What is an interface?

62 Who is accountable?

63 What does stakeholder charter define?

64 What do you understand by service (business analysis)?

65 Define business analysis effort.

66 Define business process dimension.

67 What is a stakeholder matrix?

68 What does certification mean?

69 Who is called 'informed'?

70 What is a methodology?

71 Who are stakeholders?

72 What is a technique?

73 What does context mean?

74 What is CMMI?

75 Define iteration (business analysis).

76 Explain the term requirements allocation.

77 What is rough order of magnitude (ROM)?

78 Define value (business analysis).

79 What are risk analysis results?

80 What do you understand by transfer?

81 What is meant by business analysis planning and monitoring?

82 Define knowledge area (business analysis).

83 Define metric.

84 What is a planning poker?

85 Explain the term- tailor.

86 What is story point?

87 What is a body of knowledge?

88 Define scope model?

89 What is a market oriented structure?

90 What is a work breakdown structure?

91 What are both in and out scope?

92 What is a function point?

93 What is to mitigate?

94 Define top-down estimation?

95 What are identified risks?

96 What are knowledge areas?

97 What is a predictive approach?

98 Define an agile manifesto.

99 What is organizational model?

100 What do you mean by increase?

101 Who is termed as responsible?

102 Define agile.

103 What do you mean by risk assessment?

104 What is burn-down?

105 What is need?

106 What do you mean by velocity?

107 What is an approach?

108 What do you mean by sprint backlog?

109 What is achievable?

110 What is a sprint plan?

111 What does measurable mean?

112 What is a risk register?

113 What is the level of formality required in adaptive approach?

114 What is the level of formality required in a predictive

approach?

115 What is stakeholder engagement approach?

2. Elicitation
1 What are transition requirement?

2 What is a business process?

3 Explain stakeholder requirement.

4 Explain solution requirement.

5 What do you mean by industry knowledge?

6 What is a focus group?

7 What is behavioral business rule?

8 What are viewpoints?

9 What is a non-functional requirement?

10 What is meant by stated requirement?

11 Explain definitional business rule.

12 What is understood by functional decomposition?

13 Define business rule.

14 What are definitional rules?

15 What do you mean by facilitation?

16 What is a process model?

17 Define roles and permissions matrix.

18 What is requirements workshop?

19 Define visual thinking.

20 What is a requirements package?

21 What are focus groups?

22 Define views.

23 What is meant by assumption?

24 What does security mean?

25 Define domain.

26 Explain the process of interview.

27 What is a feature?

28 Explain reliability.

29 What do you mean by elicitation and collaboration?

30 Explain maintainability.

31 What is business analysis information?

32 What is document analysis?

33 Explain business requirement.

34 What is a business analysis package?

35 What is brainstorming?

36 What are collaborative games?

37 What is organization modelling?

38 What is work product (business analysis)?

39 What is meant by behavioral rules?

40 What do you understand by business capabilities?

41 Define input (business analysis).

42 What is a requirements artifact?

43 What are template architectures?

44 What is meant by active / noticeable observation?

45 What is an experiment?

46 What is a functional requirement?

47 Define observation (business analysis)?

48 What is a workshop?

49 What are supporting materials?

50 What constitutes a glossary?

51 What is a survey?

52 What is existing business analysis information?

53 What are knowledge sources?

54 What do you mean by verbal communication?

55 What are closed questions?

56 Who is responsible for operational support?

57 What is a persona?

58 What is a questionnaire?

59 What is decision requirements diagram?

60 What are collaboration and knowledge management tools?

61 What does localization mean?

62 What are service level agreements?

63 What is a business policy?

64 Define elicitation.

65 What is meant by in-scope?

66 What is meant by out-of-scope?

67 What is proof of principle or concept?

68 What do you understand by deliverable?

69 Define fish-bowl.

70 What is an artifact (business analysis)?

71 What is portability?

72 What is compliance?

73 What is scalability?

74 Explain group collaboration.

75 What is collaboration?

76 What is secondary research?

77 Describe organizational structure.

78 What is an organizational unit?

79 What do you mean by passive/unnoticeable observation?

80 What are stakeholder requirements?

81 What do you mean by availability?

82 Define interoperability.

83 What do you understand by observation?

84 What does extensibility mean?

85 What is functionality?

86 What does usability refer to?

87 What is scope?

88 What do you mean by story boarding?

89 What do you mean by time-bound?

90 What is compatibility?
91 What is a corrective action?

92 What is individual collaboration?

93 What is a product box?

94 What is a stakeholder collaboration approach?

95 What is domain knowledge?

96 What is a stakeholder collaboration plan?

97 What is an elicitation activity plan?

98 What do you understand by heterogeneous group?

99 Define rules engine.

100 What is an affinity map?

101 What are open ended questions?

102 What do you understand by homogeneous group?

103 What are communication tools (email, instant messaging)?

104 What does specific mean?

105 What is a requirement?

106 Who is an author?

107 What is atomic?

108 How do stakeholders with negative attitude affect a project?

109 Why should stakeholders be prepared before elicitation?

110 Why should elicitation results be confirmed?

3. Requirements life cycle
management
1 What is the lessons learned process?

2 What is requirements management tool?

3 What is lessons learned?

4 What is stability?

5 Define requirements management.

6 What is negotiation and conflict resolution?

7 Describe the governance process (change).

8 What is traceability?

9 Define benefit as a basis for prioritization.

10 Explain the term monitoring.

11 Define risk as a basis for prioritization.

12 What is neutrality?

13 What is a risk?

14 What is change control?

15 What does urgency mean?

16 Define regulatory or policy compliance as a basis for prioritization.

17 Define stability as a basis for prioritization.

18 What do you mean by absolute reference?

19 Define evaluation criteria.

20 What is acceptance criteria?

21 Define ownership.

22 What is requirements (traced)?

23 What do you mean by depends relationship?

24 Define penalty as a basis for prioritization.

25 What is prioritization?

26 What is impact analysis?

27 What is derive relationship?

28 What is a repository?

29 What do you mean by residual risk?

30 What is meant by accept?

31 What do you mean by validate relationship?

32 What is cost as a basis for prioritization?

33 What are delegations?

34 Define user story.

35 What is status?

36 What are requirements life cycle management?

37 What is requirements attribute?

38 What are requirements life cycle management tools?

39 What is requirements architecture?

40 Define satisfy relationship.

41 Define dependencies as a basis for prioritization.

42 What is multi-phased prioritization approach?

43 What is time sensitivity as a basis for prioritization?

44 What is requirements life cycle?

45 What is life cycle?

46 What is backlog management?

47 What are traceability repositories?

48 What do you understand by trade-off?

49 What is risks as basis for prioritization?

50 What do you mean by requirements traceability?

51 What does priority mean?

52 What is a requirements management tools/repository?

53 What is backward traceability?

54 What is forward traceability?

55 Are you aware of any tools that help in implementing traceability?

4. Strategy analysis
1 What is a market analysis?

2 What do you mean by architecture?

3 What are expected benefits?

4 Defines evaluation.

5 What is feasibility study?

6 Define business architecture.

7 What is a business case?

8 What is competitive analysis?

9 What are goals?

10 What are benchmark studies?

11 What is a business decision?

12 What are strengths (internal)?

13 Define capability.

14 What are threats (external)?

15 What is risk-seeking?

16 What is benchmarking?

17 Define enterprise architecture.

18 What is a solution component?

19 What are customer segments?

20 What is a revenue stream?

21 Explain cost-benefit analysis.

22 Defines net present value.

23 What are opportunities (external)?

24 What is organizational capability?

25 What is organizational strategy?

26 What is strategy analysis?

27 Define business goal.

28 What is a process?

29 What is a product vision statement?

30 What do you understand by background research?

31 Define gap analysis.

32 What is a matrix?

33 Define present value.

34 What is a strategy?

35 What is an organization?

36 What is an initiative?

Define strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats analysis

37 (SWOT).

38 What are expected costs?

39 What is a business model canvas?

40 What is a matrix structure?

41 What is meant by a balance score card?

42 What is a business problem?

43 What are objectives?

44 What is an opportunity costs?

45 What are licensing or subscription fees?

46 What do you mean by systems thinking?

47 What is an enterprise?

48 What is functionally oriented structure?

49 What is a system?

50 What is a change strategy?

51 What are channels?

52 What is a value proposition?

53 What is a mission statement?

54 What do you mean by value-add?

55 What is cost of the change?

56 What are weaknesses (internal)?

57 What are core capabilities?

58 What does primary research mean?

59 What is a business objective?

60 Define payback period.

61 What is a project?

62 What is a business need?

63 What are capability maps?

64 Define return on investment.

65 What is internal rate of return?

66 What is discount rate?

67 What is a process centric view?

68 What is capability centric view?

69 What are customer dimension?

70 What do you mean by revenue thorough sales?

71 What is return on investment (ROI) (business analysis)?

72 Define total cost of ownership (TCO).

73 What is cost structure?

74 What are transaction or usage fees?

75 What does renting mean?

76 What is a change?

77 What is future state description?

78 What is leasing?

79 What is lending?

80 What do you mean by change approach?

81 Who is a change agent?

82 What is TO BE state?

83 What is AS IS state?

84 What is the most common example of organization model?

85 What is the key deliverable for strategy analysis?

5. Solution evaluation
1 What is request for proposal (RFP)?

2 What is COTS?

3 Define requirements defect.

4 What is force field analysis?

5 What is a fishbone diagram?

6 What do you mean by user acceptance test (UAT)?

Define suppliers, inputs, process, outputs, and customers

7 (SIPOC).

8 What is request for information (RFI)?

9 What do you mean by inspection?

10 What is an enterprise readiness assessment?

11 Define enterprise culture.

12 What is an indicator?

13 What do you mean by vendor assessment?

14 What are business constraints?

15 Define constraint (business analysis).

16 What is a defect?

17 What is business (business world)?

18 What are existing solutions?

19 What is five-whys?

20 What is a weighted decision matrix?

21 What is root cause?

22 What is a root cause analysis?

23 What do you mean by improvement?

24 What is item tracking?

25 What is checklist (business analysis)?

26 What is a solution scope?

27 What is a component?

28 What do you mean by organizational culture?

29 Define statement of work (SOW)?

30 What is CMM?

31 What is solution evaluation?

32 What do you mean by preventive?

33 What is a solution life cycle?

34 What are solution recommendations?

35 Define request for quote (RFQ).

36 What is financial dimension?

37 Define product (business analysis).

38 What is request for tender (RFT)?

39 What are spreadsheets?

40 What is SQL?

41 What is a target metric?

42 What are predictive scorecards?

43 What are leading indicators?

44 What are office productivity tools and technology?

45 What do you mean by non-value-add?

46 What is a release plan?

47 What are word processing and presentation programs?

48 What is a variance?

49 What do you mean by guideline (business analysis)?

50 What are lagging indicators?

51 Define performance efficiency?

52 What are quality attributes?

53 What are enterprise limitations?

54 What do you understand by presentation software?

55 What is a solution?

56 What is repeatability?

57 Who is an end user?

58 What is a feature tree?

59 What is a decision tree?

60 What do you mean by relevant?

61 What is accuracy?

62 What is potential value?

63 What is SIPOC?

64 Define proactive analysis.

65 What is reactive analysis?

66 What is reproducibility?

67 What do you mean by solution limitation?

68 Define scope of solution space.

69 What are solution performance measures?

70 What are recommended actions?

6. Requirements modelling
1 What is a vertical prototype?

2 What are state models?

3 What is a walkthrough?

4 What are support vector machines?

5 What do you understand by asynchronous call?

6 What is concept model?

7 What is requirements verification?

8 What is an attribute?

9 What is throw-away prototype?

10 What do you understand by non-value-add activities?

11 What are sequence diagrams?

12 Explain proof of concept.

13 What is metadata?

14 What is decision analysis?

15 What is external interface?

16 What is horizontal prototype?

17 Explain dynamic systems development method (DSDM).

18 What do you mean by use case?

19 What is evolutionary or functional prototype?

20 What is a verified requirement?

21 What is a model?
 22 What are requirements analysis and design definition?

23 What is risk analysis?

24 What are user stories?

25 What is an activity diagram?

26 What is data mining?

27 What are scenarios and use cases?

28 Explain verb concept.

29 What does validated requirement mean?

30 Define verification in business analysis.

31 What is business rules analysis?

32 What do you mean by requirements validation?

33 Explain decision modelling.

34 What is an architecture management software?

35 What is exception flow?

36 Define a prototype.

37 Define swim-lane.

38 What is a temporal event?

39 What is business process management (BPM)?

40 What is value stream mapping?

41 What is a design?

42 What is a logical data model?

43 What do you understand by peer review?

44 What is quality assurance?

45 What is synchronous call?

46 Define entity-relationship diagram.

47 What is online analytical processing (OLAP)?

48 What are design options?

49 Define a physical data model.

50 What is process analysis?

51 What are transition requirements?

52 Define validation in business analysis.

53 What is a system process model?

54 What is a desk check?

55 What is a use case diagram?

56 What is a sequence diagram?

57 What do you mean by the term cardinality?

58 What is a functional prototype?

59 What is process modelling?

60 What is a trigger?

61 What is a program process flow?

62 Define hardware.

63 What is an evolutionary prototype?

64 What is BPMN?

65 What is business process re-engineering?

66 What do you mean by requirements model?

67 What is an event in business analysis?

68 What is an informal walkthrough?

69 Who is an actor in business analysis?

70 What are modelling tools?

71 Who is a secondary actor?

72 What is state table?

73 What are reviews?

74 What is form study prototype?

75 What is meant by include relationship in use case diagram?

76 What are models?

77 What is conceptual data model?

78 What is a decision table?

79 Define workflow modelling?

80 What are concept models?

81 What is a formal walkthrough?

82 What are linear and logistic regression?

83 What do you mean by inheritance?

84 What is a deployment model?

85 What is a class?

86 What is crow's foot notation?

87 What is Gane-Sarson notation?

88 What are associations?

89 Define quality.

90 What is a state diagram?

91 What are neural networks?

92 What does extend mean?

93 What are noun concepts?

94 What do you mean by basic, primary or main success flow?

95 What is post-condition?

96 What is an entity?

97 What is an alternative flow?

98 What do you understand by a solution option?

99 What is a pre-condition?

100 What are modelling notations/ standards?

101 What is paper prototyping?

102 What do you mean by pass around?

103 Define usability prototype.

104 What is an entity relationship diagram?

105 What is a Yourdon notation?

106 What is crud matrix?

107 What is UML?

108 What is a class diagram?

109 What do you mean by simulation?

110 What is use case point?

111 What is a visual prototype?

112 What is an ad hoc review?

113 Define single issue review (also known as technical review)?

114 What is RDBMS?

115 What is meta data?

7. Vocabulary comparisons
1 How active listening differs from passive listening?

2 How active observation differs from passive observation?

3 How activity diagram differs from process diagram?

4 How adaptive approach differs from predictive approach?

5 How asynchronous call differs from synchronous call?

7 How burn-down differs from burn-up?

8 How business analysis approach differs from project approach?

9 How business policy differs from business rule?

10 How business requirement differs from stakeholder requirement?

11 How capability centric view differs from process centric view?

12 How closed questions differ from open questions?

13 How concept model differs from data model?

14 In RACI matrix, how consulted differs from informed?

15 How decision table differs from decision tree?

16 How definitional business rule differs from behavioral business rule?

17 How Delphi estimation differs from parametric estimation?

18 How domain knowledge differs from solution knowledge?

19 How elicitation differs from requirements gathering?

20 How enterprise limitations differ from solution limitations?

21 How entity-relationship diagram differs from class diagram?

22 How evaluation criteria differ from acceptance criteria?

23 How feature differs from requirement?

24 How form study prototype differs from visual prototype?

25 How functional prototype differs from paper prototype?

26 How goals differ from objectives?

27 How heterogeneous group differs from homogenous group?

28 How include relationship differs from extend relationship?

29 How leading indicators differ from lagging indicators?

30 How linear regression differs from logistic regression?

31 How localization differs from internationalization?

32 How matrix structure differs from functional structure?

33 How metadata differs from data dictionary?

34 How methodology differs from approach?

35 How non-verbal communication differs from verbal communication?

36 How noun concepts differ from verb concepts?

37 How onion diagram differs from stakeholder matrix?

38 How organization differs from enterprise?

39 How persona differs from role?

40 How plan differs from approach?

41 How present value differs from net present value?

42 How primary actor differs from secondary actor?

43 How proactive analysis differs from reactive analysis?

44 How project scope differs from solution scope?

45 How release plan differs from sprint plan?

46 How reliability differs from availability?

47 How requirements validation differs from requirements verification?

48 How scenarios differ from use cases?

49 How secondary research differs from primary research?

50 How solution life cycle differs from project life cycle?

51 How solution scope differs from solution space?

52 How SQL differs from NoSQL?

53 How state table differs from state model?

54 How strengths differ from opportunities?

55 How template architectures differ from viewpoints?

56 How threats differ from weaknesses?

57 How throw-away prototype differs from evolutionary prototype?

58 What is the difference between TO BE and AS IS?

59 How requirements tracing differs from tracking?

60 How UML differs from BPMN?

61 How urgency differs from priority?

62 How use case diagram differs from use case specification?

63 How use case point differs from story point?

64 How user story differs from use case?

65 How value stream mapping differs from SIPOC?

66 How vertical prototype differs from horizontal prototype?

67 How viewpoints differ from views?

68 How walkthroughs differ from inspections?

69 How weighted decision matrix differs from simple decision matrix?

70 How work product differs from deliverable?

8. BA Techniques
1 How Collaborative games differs from Focus groups?

2 How Focus groups differ from Brainstorming?

3 How Collaborative games differs from Workshops?

4 How Interviews differs from Workshops?

5 What is the main advantage of Survey or Questionnaire?

6 What kind of observations can be conducted during business analysis?

7 What are the main advantages of Document analysis?

8 What are the main disadvantages of Document analysis?

9 How Brain-writing differs from Brainstorming?

10 How Brainstorming differs from Brainstorming paradox?

11 How Data dictionary differs from Glossary?

12 How Glossary can help in business analysis?

13 How Lessons learned helps during BA?

14 How Mind mapping can help during elicitation?

15 How Root cause analysis helps in business analysis?

16 How Acceptance and evaluation criteria helps Backlog management?

17 How Backlog management helps in Estimation?

18 Can you describe common methods for estimation?

19 How Metrics and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) differ?

20 How Organizational modelling helps in stakeholder analysis?

21 How Stakeholder list, map, or personas help in scope modeling?

22 How Stakeholder list, map, or personas helps in Business rules
analysis?

23 How Data modeling differs from Data mining?

24 How Data mining differs from Data analysis?

25 How Interface analysis contributes to requirements analysis?

26 How Non-functional requirements analysis contributes to requirements

analysis?

27 Can you describe common NFRs?

28 How Prototyping helps in requirements analysis?

29 How Data flow diagrams differs from Process analysis?

30 How Process analysis differs from Process modelling?

31 How Process modelling contributes to Roles and permissions matrix?

32 What are common Roles and permissions matrix?

33 How Sequence diagrams differs from State modelling?

34 How State modelling differs from Use cases and scenarios?

35 How Use cases and scenarios differs from User stories?

36 How User stories differs from Concept modelling?

37 How Concept modelling differs from Data dictionary?

38 How Data dictionary differs from Data modelling?

39 How physical data modelling differs from logical data modeling?

40 How SWOT differs from Business capability analysis?

41 How Business capability analysis differs from Business cases?

42 How Business cases differ from Business model canvas?

43 What are common process modeling methods?

44 How Decision analysis differs from Decision modelling?

45 What are common financial analysis methods?

46 How risk analysis contributes to Financial analysis?

47 How Business model canvas differs from SWOT analysis?

48 How SWOT analysis differs from Balanced scorecard?

49 How is RFI different from RFP?

50 How is RFP different from RFQ?

9. Requirements modelling
Set-1
A is a Nashville, TN based healthcare-focused technology services and
solutions organization. Since 1999, it has been working to make healthcare
accessible and affordable through their work in the healthcare domain and
proven technology competence. A would like to automate its requirements
management process.

The following diagram models the overview of the planned system. Answer the
questions based on the diagram.

1 As per the diagram, who can add requirements?

2 As per the diagram, are all the use cases named correctly?

3 As per the diagram, which users have the privilege to delete

requirements?

4 Is the log off function mandatory?

5 As per the diagram, can the developer view requirements?
Set – 2

A is a Nashville, TN based healthcare-focused technology services and

solutions organization. Since 1999, it has been working to make healthcare
accessible and affordable through their work in the healthcare domain and
proven technology competence. A would like to automate its requirements
management process.

The following diagram models the control and object flow of the use case “add
requirements”. As per the business need, one may or may not include test
cases and traceability matrix after adding requirements.
1 What is the above diagram called in UML?

2 Are the decision boxes named correctly? Give reason.

3 Does the intimation mail to the PM always take place after

inheriting the requirements to the project?

4 In order to make “include test cases” an optional activity, what

should you change in the model?

5 Can an invalid user log into the system? Give reason.

Set 3

A is a Nashville, TN based healthcare-focused technology services and

solutions organization. Since 1999, it has been working to make healthcare
accessible and affordable through their work in the healthcare domain and
proven technology competence. A would like to automate its requirements
management process.

The following diagram models the data structures and their relationships of
the planned system.

1 What is the above shown diagram used for?

2 Briefly explain the parts of a class diagram.

3 How is the defects class associated with requirements class?

4 Are users the same as employees?

5 How many schedules can a project have?

Set 4

A is a Nashville, TN based healthcare-focused technology services and

solutions organization. Since 1999, it has been working to make healthcare
accessible and affordable through our work in the healthcare domain and proven
technology competence. A would like to automate its requirements management
process.

The following diagram models the states of the requirements for developers to
implement.

1 What are state models used for?

2 Can a reviewed requirement be closed?

3 Which are the two super states shown in the diagram?

4 “only requirements on-hold can be cancelled.” Is this statement

true?

5 Reviewed requirements can move on to which other states?

Set 5

A is a Nashville, TN based healthcare-focused technology services and

solutions organization. Since 1999, it has been working to make healthcare
accessible and affordable through their work in the healthcare domain and
proven technology competence. A would like to automate its requirements
management process.

The following diagram models the data flows for the planned requirements
management system.

1 What is the above diagram called and when is it used?

2 Is adaptive red user a source or a sink?

3 Does data process “search for requirements” read data from the
 data store “requirements library”?

4 Is email system a sink? Elaborate.

5 What is a data store?

Set 6

A is a Nashville, TN based healthcare-focused technology services and

solutions organization. Since 1999, it has been working to make healthcare
accessible and affordable through their work in the healthcare domain and
proven technology competence. A would like to automate its requirements
management process.

The following diagram models the data structures and their relationships of
the planned system.

1 What is the above shown diagram called? What is its purpose?

2 As per the diagram, what is the relationship between requirements

engineer and requirements?

3 What are the attributes for requirements history?

4 Can a requirement can have only 1 history?

5 Can requirements engineer create 1000 requirements?

Set 7

A is us based business analysis services and solutions organization. Founded

in 2006, it has been delivering business analysis projects for its clients
world-wide. A would like to automate its project management process.

The following diagram models the overview of the planned system.

1 What is the above shown diagram called in UML? What is its purpose?

2 Is it mandatory to send alerts every time a schedule is created?

3 What has to be done mandatorily to delete a schedule?

4 As per the diagram, can a project lead do what a project manager

can?

5 Can use case diagramming technique be used to represent functional

decomposition?
Set 8
A is us based business analysis services and solutions organization. Founded
in 2006, it has been delivering business analysis projects for its clients
world-wide. A would like to automate its project management process.

A’s management would like to define multiple tasks for a schedule and provide
associated efforts. It also mandates planning risks and planning resources.

Stakeholders should be intimated only after all project management data is

completed.

The following diagram models the activities of the planned system.

1 As per the diagram, can efforts be planned before adding new
schedule?

2 Should resources be planned before planning risks?

3 What does the circle with a dark colored inner circle indicate?

4 What happens when an invalid user tries to log in?

5 In order to make “plan risks” an optional activity, what should

you change in the model?
Set 9
A is us based business analysis services and solutions organization. Founded
in 2006, it has been delivering business analysis projects for its clients
world-wide. A would like to automate its project management process.

The following diagram models the data structures and their relationships of
the planned system.

1 As per the diagram, can schedule resources be deleted?

2 Only a maximum of 50 resources can be assigned to a schedule. Is

this statement true? Justify.

3 What are the attributes for application users?

4 What does the colored diamond symbol indicate?

5 What are the operations which can be carried on projects?

Set 10

A is a us based business analysis services and solutions organization. Founded

in 2006, it has been delivering business analysis projects for its clients
world-wide. A would like to automate its project management process.

The following diagram models the data flows for the planned schedule
management system.

1 What is the functionality of a data process?

2 Can you identify all data processes in the diagram?

3 What data is the “search for schedule” process pulling from the
data store?

4 Is the PM entity both a source as well as a sink?

5 How many sources are there in the diagram? Which are they?
10. Scenario based questions
1 Organization A is embarking on a plan to automate all its practices.
One of key stakeholders insists that the project complete all
detailed requirements before embarking on the solution. Business
analyst B estimates that the requirements gathering phase itself may
take more than a year. What should business analyst B do in such a
situation?

2 Business analyst B uses hierarchical decomposition to break down the

business analysis deliverables into activities and tasks. B then adds
the hours needed and can give an accurate estimate of the time needed
to complete BA work. What type of estimation has B used?

3 Business analyst B says there is no need to document anything

formally as the project operates in agile methodology and the
developers can develop code with verbal instructions from the ba. How
would you respond in this situation?

4 Business analyst C did not invite stakeholders from organizational

unit p as p has a past reputation of adding too many requirements.
What is the danger C can face?

5 B is a business analyst for project Q. One of B’s stakeholder has

proposed a requirement that the system should support off-line mode
of operation. However, B’s technical team has indicated that it will
take a lot of effort to implement this particular feature. What can B
do in this situation?

6 Z is business analyst for project R. One of Z's stakeholders has good

familiarity with traceability matrix. He insists that the project
follows that approach. How should Z respond in this situation?

7 A is business analyst for project P. A discovered an important new

feature that would significantly improve the solution, but would
 affect the projected deadline if included. What should a do?

8 Organization A is embarking on a new project to automate its global

employee appraisal process. Organization A has employees in more than
80 countries. More than 400 SPOCs have been identified at the country
level to participate in the project. Organization A intends to meet
government regulations for all countries in the first release. What
is the most likely prioritization basis for the project?

9 A is business analyst for project P. Business analyst A’s

stakeholder has requested for a change to a baselined requirement.
What should a do?

10 A is a business analyst for project P. Stakeholder s does not want to

use defined requirements template. S says that this will delay the
requirements gathering activity. What should business analyst a's
suggestion be in this scenario?

11 A's SMEs added two new requirements to the project after it was
signed off. Technically these did not match the overall scope of the
project. However, a was convinced that the chosen solution could
handle the two new requirements, so a passed them on to the
development team. What should have been the correct thing to do?

12 B is business analyst for project q. One of B’s stakeholders would

like to implement a change within the next business day. How should B
respond to this?

13 Business analyst A maintains requirements in emails as she is the

only business analyst for the project. Is this a good approach to
maintain requirements, why?

14 A and B are business analysts for project P. B would like the sponsor
to approve each and every requirement for the project by the sponsor.
B's argument for the same is that since sponsor is ultimately
accountable for the solution scope, it is better to get all the
 requirements approved by sponsor. How should business analyst a
respond to this?

15 Stakeholder a would like to fix the defects as and when they are
discovered during requirements review. Is this a good practice, why?

16 Business analyst A was perplexed while attending a large project team

meeting. Many Domain SMEs had gathered to explain the requirements
and kept talking about something called MAISAI conversion. Business
analyst A couldn’t make any sense make out of it. To a, it looked
like there was a Japanese scientist who created a certain kind of
formula and the team was discussing on implementing that formula.
What could have a done to avoid this problem?

17 A, the business analyst for the new banking system project at Zen
bank, was worried. The vendor, a large it services company, delivered
the system after 15 months of off-shore development. Once a’s team
started testing it, in just about 1 months’ time, they discovered
600+ bugs. Vendor organization claimed they were not bugs as the
requirements were not stated clearly. What could have a done to avoid
this problem?

18 M, operations head for Etravel was in a state of shock. Etravel had

modified its web-site to attract holiday seasons travelers. Within 30
minutes of opening the sale, Etravel sold 500+ tickets. The bad news
was that the average ticket price was just 15 USD where as it should
have been around 1500 USD. Upon enquiring the cause, m got to know
that developer D decided to drop the decimals in price and an
interfacing system reduced the prices by 100 times due to the same.
What would have been the best way to handle the problem?

19 Business analyst A was proudly presenting the new dashboard from GRC
Perfect, the enterprise governance, risk and compliance system
developed by his organization. The dashboard had nice RAB (red -
amber - green) indicators. The prospect saw the dashboard, and said
“a, i am color blind, and i am unable to distinguish between red and
green.” What was the best way to handle this problem?
20 Business analyst A had an interesting problem in hand. A was
implementing the order management system for a Spanish customer. The
total order values for the month shown on the system and the values
shown after downloading the report to his laptop were very different.
What was the best way to handle this problem?

21 Business analyst D received a message from, Zen systems, saying their

pilot enterprise risk management system was completely down. D
enquired who all had used the application during the previous day. K,
J, M, and R had used the application. On enquiry, it was found that K
deleted all users including the admin account of the system. Why did
this problem occur?

22 Business analyst m was worried. The code base for the product was
growing very rapidly. The same functionalities behaved differently in
different modules. For example, in defect management module, active
employees for the project were displayed. The risk management module
showed even those users which were no longer part of the system. Why
did this problem occur?

23 Business analyst J was really worried. J prepared the requirements

document with lots of effort. J painstakingly prepared many
requirements models such as activity diagrams, state chart diagrams,
user interfaces etc. For each of the features needed in the product.
The document described detailed requirements for 20+ modules and it
crossed 400+ pages. What could J have done to solve this problem?

24 T, head of legal function, wanted to see business analyst d. D had

met t only during the project kick-off. For subsequent project review
meetings, no one from the legal function joined the project review
meetings. When D met t, t told that all the financial reports
developed by d’s team had to be re-worked to comply with us legal
requirements.

25 Business analyst p looked at the MS project Plan for sales automation

project. The project was behind schedule by 9 months. Upon discussion
with the previous pm, p understood that the project was getting
delayed due to lack of stakeholder availability for sign-offs. As per
 the project management policy in the organization, all key
stakeholders must be available for signing off milestones, which
rarely happens. What could p have done to avoid this situation?

26 Business analyst J was indeed frustrated. The network was slow and it
took a couple of hours to download the requirements document. After
that when J clicked on the requirements document, Microsoft word pops
out an error message, “word has failed to open the document”. J
checked the document size; it was more than 12 MB in size. What was
the cause for this?

27 Business analyst A was furious. It was the 3rd progress review for
the project. A’s organization had already invested lot of time and
energy into the project. During the 3rd progress review, the sponsor
made a killer statement, “unless the product supports PERT
estimation, we cannot go live”. The sponsor was of the opinion that
PERT was a well-known estimation technique and that a’s organization
should have considered the same. What could have a done to avoid this
situation?

28 Business analyst A was very excited. A had been discussing with the
management about the need for an ecommerce portal for the
organization. A’s organization paid 50% advance money to zeon
ecommerce. A was confident that Zeon ecommerce would understand their
requirements. Once the solution was unveiled, to a’s surprise, there
was no quantity field or buy button on the product page. Upon
discussion, Zeon ecommerce informed that they could not do anything
about it as the solution was built on a platform and the platform did
not support home page buying.

29 Business analyst A was surprised. Country head for PZX insurance

refused to go live on the new system as it did not have SMS
integration. The country head argued that SMS feature exists for all
competing products and without this feature the solution will not be
able to compete in the market. SMS integration was not asked for by
the country head earlier. This situation arose because?
30 Business analyst A saw close to 100 customers queued up in front of
the customer care center. To his surprise, all of the customers had
received bills with 0 amounts. Being an old area of the city, many
consumers had old meters which had only 3 digits. Programmers
calculated the consumption as (final meter reading - initial meter
reading) * per unit rate. Since consumption can’t be negative, when
final meter reading was less than initial meter reading, the system
made it as 0. What could be the possible cause?

31 Business analyst A received a SoS message from the operations

manager. Her team’s productivity had declined as the new application
was 10 times slower than the previous application. The previous
application was built on client server technology and the new
application was web based. When the vendor was contacted, it said
that the company had not provided any specific performance
requirements. What could have a done to avoid this situation?

32 Business analyst A’s dream project of developing a modern insurance

system for a’s organization, able insurances, has gone down the
drain. Able had already spent more than USD 2 million on this
project. A’s country was the first country to go live with the new
system. A evaluated multiple development platforms which could
support rapid development of user interfaces, workflows and business
rules. However, a did not consider support for chinese language as a
requirement as china was a different business geography. What was the
possible cause for this situation?

33 Business analyst A met the sponsor for able it's appraisal system
project. The sponsor wanted to limit the system scope only to
automate the appraisal data capture process. However, the benefits
manager wanted the system to implement statistical analysis
capability. This would help the benefits administrator to determine
the increments to be provided based on employee performance linked to
Gaussian (bell) distribution. Business analyst A was worried as such
a functionality would increase the development cost by 100%. What
should a do in this situation?
34 S was a worried sales head. The sales team has been submitting close
to 100 software consulting proposals in the last 1 year. Each
proposal costed her organization between 2000 to 3000 dollars to
prepare. This meant an outflow of approximately USD 250000 for the
organization. However, the rate of acceptance for the proposals was
only 8% whereas the industry benchmark was 25%. S requested business
analyst a to help her in this regard. What should a do in this
situation?

35 It was quite late in the evening. K’s team struggled hard to

complete the user interfaces for a client project related to building
a contract compliance management system. Next day morning, he had a
rude shock in his mail box. The client had rejected every single user
interface that k’s team had prepared. The UIs looked perfect on the
test system laptop. What could have gone wrong?

36 M was showcasing her organization’s solution to a large prospective

client. To her surprise, when it was time to demo the automatic
project life cycle (plc), one of the key features of the schedule
management module, she found that the plc button was missing.
Apparently, the developer thought that the button was no longer
needed and decided to hide the button. What should m have done to
avoid this situation?

37 R was reviewing the roll out of the integrated project management

system. Abc tech’s technology division designed and developed the
integrated project management system spending 50 person-years of
effort. The system was released with much fanfare. However, even
after 6 months of release, only 20% of projects are using the system.
What could be the possible cause?

38 Business analyst A was reviewing the change requests for the

contractor compliance system for a reputed oil company. To a’s
surprise, a found many new requirements for which the client has put
an estimated cost as 0 dollars. When a checked with the client
project manager, the answer was simple, a herself had said that those
requirements were indeed good ideas. When the business analyst
herself agreed that the ideas were good, should not those become part
 of system requirements? What should a have done to avoid this
situation?

39 Business analyst A for the new audit system was angry. A was already
working overtime. New head of delivery decided to change the
organization structure from a function oriented structure to market
oriented structure. A’s team had designed the system based on the
existing organization structure and practices which were function
oriented structure. What should a have done to avoid this situation?

40 J, country CTO of one of the world’s largest electronic appliances

maker and A, BA realized a flaw in the order management system. Being
a festive season, they had to ship about 10000 laptops to various
distributors. Already trucks were queuing in the warehouse. The new
system was missing alternate serial numbers of laptops that were to
be shipped. This would create not only legal problem while
dispatching the goods, but would also create lot of problems in terms
of warranty management in future. Testing team had always tested for
few serial numbers and the system behaved perfectly fine. Why did
this occur and what could have been done to avoid this?

41 A, lead BA for the development project for automating workflows in

the client organization was visibly upset. A’s project manager asked
a to release the most competent BA, R to be sent on an onsite
assignment. A knew for sure that his project work will be affected by
the absence of R but the other requirement was also very critical
from the business unit’s client relationship point of view. What
should a have done to avoid this situation?

42 A, business analyst for a large multi-country ERP roll-out project is

worried. A’s client decided to centralize their it operations.
However, some of the implementation countries work on a different
time zone and have different holidays from that of the central
location. This was severely affecting their work as they did not get
support on their workdays which was a holiday in the centralized
 operations place. What should a have done to avoid this situation?

43 M, business analyst for a large multi-country ERP roll-out project

was deeply worried. The client had consolidated all it operations to
a centralized location. The wan link to the central server was down
for more than 2 days and the entire operations had come to a
standstill. They had a back-up 128kb ISDN link which they assumed to
be useful in case of a main link failure. However, when they tried,
the application always hanged. What went wrong here?

44 R, BA for ABC Technologies’ was visibly upset. R’s team was not
delivering quality work and R found himself spending inordinate
amount of time with the team trying to resolve the issues. Upon
investigation, R found that many of the project team members had no
training on the product to be supported which in turn was affecting
their productivity. What should a have done to avoid this situation?

45 Lead business analyst found that most of the bas were unable to
complete their assigned work in time. BAs used to guess a number out
of their head to estimate the work. This resulted in gross under
estimation. What should a have done to avoid this situation?

46 A leading it service provider in 1999 was 5000+ people. Today it is

close to 150,000 people organization - an increase of 3000%. It has
invested 10 times more on hardware but still the performance is very
slow. The application crashes or is not available for many users
during Friday afternoons. During Friday afternoons, most users submit
their time sheet data. Suggest a good workaround to overcome this
problem.

47 Business analyst A was angry. Now suddenly, one key stakeholder has
put a requirement which is not designed into the solution. This will
delay the project by another 2 months. There were a number of project
Progress review meetings and the project has covered 80% of the
 planned schedule and effort. The stakeholder did not bother to attend
the review meetings. Business analyst A was not sure what to do this
in this situation. What could have a done to avoid this situation?

48 Business analyst A was confused. The SPOCs from 2 different countries

are at complete loggerheads. No party is willing to change their
process. Each country says the practices that they follow are the
best and that it should be implemented in the system. What should
business analyst a do in this situation?

49 Business analyst A joined a new project to design an enterprise data

management system. The client had a legacy system which could not
support new business processes. It was also becoming difficult to
find developers with experience in old technologies to maintain the
application. The team was trying to write data migration requirements
using the use case template. When a enquired with the Domain SME D,D
said, “use case template has been a practice in our organization.”
What should business analyst a do in this situation?

50 Business analyst B is documenting the way data will be transformed

from an existing system so that it becomes more compatible with the
new system. What type of requirement is B documenting?

51 In business analyst B’s previous job, B knew how everything worked.

B’s organization had formal and informal standards in place
regarding how business analysis should be performed. But after
leaving B’s last job, B landed as a sr. Business analyst job with
RWZ company and to B’s surprise, there were no defined standards in
place. B knew that she had to define a business analysis approach for
the initiative she was assigned to. What should B do?

52 Business analyst C is preparing for elicitation. C has just selected

the individuals to participate in the elicitation events. While
selecting the elicitation events, one of the considerations C needs
to make is whether C would have open-ended or closed ended questions.
C also needs to determine the best method for distributing those
 questions. What technique has C selected for the elicitation events?

53 D is a business analyst who has gathered requirements for a new

system to be implemented. D’s key stakeholder is J. When D reviewed
the requirements with j, D sensed that J was not satisfied with the
current requirements. J expressed that some of the requirements will
not meet the needs of J’s department. But the source of those
requirements is J’s manager. What should D do?

54 As the business analysis activity advances, budgetary constraints

crop up and the sponsors ask the team to focus their subsequent work-
related efforts only on the most critical requirements. What must the
business analyst do?

55 After organizing the requirements, business analyst s provides the

following stakeholder with a list of those organized requirements.
The stakeholder uses this set of requirements to verify the scope of
the solution and assess the work that needs to be done in the
project. Who is this stakeholder?

56 Business analyst B has determined based on B’s assessment of the

proposed solutions that two solutions provide comparative business
value and do not have any substantive differences in their core
features. Which would be B’s next best course of action to select
the best solution?

57 D is a business analyst for a small project where there are few

requirements. Management would still like D to create a method to
trace the few requirements for this project. What type of matrix
would be best in this instance?

58 F is the business analyst for F’s organization and have many

solutions available for an identified problem. F would like a way to
quickly and fairly determine which solution is the best choice for
F’s organization. Which of the following approaches would allow f to
 determine the top-rated solutions for F’s organization?

59 Business analyst A was excited. The demo for the newly built project
management system was planned with the CDO. During the review, the
CDO asked if she could get consolidated metrics at the program,
account and business unit level. The team was surprised as the system
was a project management system and needs of PM’s were considered
for development. This situation arose because of what?

60 P is the business analyst for p’s organization. Management has asked

p to create a method to store the project requirements including
those under development, under review, and the requirements which
have been approved. What is management asking p to create?

61 Business analyst R is working with h on conducting stakeholder

analysis. H wants to know why it's so important to identify
stakeholders so early in the business analysis duties. If you were R,
what would you say?

62 B is the business analyst for B’s organization. B is currently

working on a solution to improve a laser printer. B has taken the
laser printer apart, identified each component, and documented each
component's purpose. What type of requirements organization is B
doing in this scenario?

63 Business analyst F’s organization is using waterfall approach for

the business analysis deliverables. In this approach how will the
requirements be captured?

64 Abc Tech released a new PM system with much fanfare. Top management
dictated all projects to adopt the new system. However, geographies
which were far away from corporate head-quarters struggled to use the
product. Sometimes it took 15 minutes just to login to the system.
This was due to poor band-width between head-quarter and remote
locations. What could business analyst a have done to avoid this
 situation?

65 Business analyst A is planning a brain-storming session. In the past,

a observed that stakeholder D was quite dominating during the brain-
storming sessions because of d’s domineering personality. What
should business analyst a do to avoid this situation in the next
brain-storming session?

66 Business analyst A was delighted that xyz corporation accepted their

solutions for project management. After a month, a was expecting the
PO to come in. Suddenly, the information security put a hold on the
purchase saying the project management system did not meet corporate
security standards aligned to ISO 27001. ISO 27001 is likely to
become a default requirement with many clients. What should business
analyst a have done to avoid such situations in future?

67 Business analyst A was worried. Automation of existing business

processes is likely to result in 20% less workload for the client.
Client has strong unions and they will not allow any workforce
reduction. There is also a possibility of violence if employees are
asked to leave the organization. What should business analyst A do in
such a scenario?

68 Business analyst A was disappointed. The project team had implemented

several features in the project management system. When the senior
management review happened for the project management system, they
solely focused on reports from the system. Unfortunately, this
feature was not present. This situation arose because?

69 Business analyst A got a SoS message from the delivery head. The
schedule import program from emails suddenly stopped working.
Recently the product team added two more information fields in the
schedule tracker - planned revenue and actual revenue, due to a
request from a customer. Why did this situation arise?
70 Business analyst A was worried. A received product feature
requirement for a compliance management system from client xyz corp.
A was surprised to see that the client has marked 48 out of 50
requirements as critical. The team has only 3 months to deliver and
it may not be possible for the team to complete. Project is planned
to be executed in sprints and each sprint is 1-month long. In spite
of repeated requests, client is not willing to change the priorities.
What should a do in this situation?
11. Agile
1 What is agile methodology?

2 What do daily stand up meetings entail?

3 What is a release candidate?

4 What are the most important components of Agile?

5 What project management tools are used in agile?

6 How can story board be defined in agile?

7 How des BA approach differ from waterfall projects?

8 What qualities should a good Agile BA have?

9 What is difference between Epic, User stories & Tasks?

10 How the velocity of sprint is measured?

11 Explain what is a product backlog in Scrum?

12 Can you explain Velocity in Agile?

13 How can BA add value to an agile team?

14 What does a scrum burn down chart comprise?

15 What is a Scrum Sprint?

16 What are the key properties of a sprint?

17 What is a sprint backlog?

18 What is acceptance criteria?

19 How to measure velocity of a sprint?

20 What are common methods to estimate user stories?

21 What is planning poker?

22 How are story points arrived?

23 Who shall be writing user stories?

24 What shall a good user story look like? What is its structure?

25 Why aren't user stories simply estimated in man-hours?

26 What should the BA do with the backlog?

How can you as a Business analyst contribute to the sprint

27 planning?

28 What are the characteristics of good use stories?

29 Who estimates the effort needed to complete scrum tasks?

30 Who all should participate in the review?

31 Who all should participate in the retrospective?

32 What is agile manifesto?

33 Why does agile promote continuous delivery?

34 Why does agile promote continuous change?

35 What is a good length for sprints?

36 How big should an agile team be?

37 How should an agile team behave?

38 How should an agile team be formed?

39 In the agile world, what is the most efficient and effective

method of conveying information?

40 In the agile world, how do we measure progress?

41 Should the agile team work late every day?

42 As a BA, what should one of your key focus be?

43 How should team structure be decided in agile?

44 How can one improve the agile process?

45 What is re-factoring?

46 How should user stories be prioritized?

47 Do you think UML will be useful in the agile environment?

48 Do we still prepare BRD in agile?

49 What is Jira?

50 What is Confluence?
12. Testing
1 What is a bug?

2 What is defect?

3 What is debugging?

4 What do you understand by Alpha testing?

5 What is the difference between pilot and beta testing?

6 What is white box testing?

7 What is test approach?

8 What is the KEY difference between preventative and reactive

approaches to testing?

9 What is the difference between static and dynamic testing?

10 What are different test levels?

11 What is load testing?

12 What is random/monkey testing? When is it used?

13 What is black box testing?

14 Which review is normally used to evaluate a product to determine

its suitability for intended use and to identify discrepancies?

15 List some advantages of designing tests early in the life cycle of

a project?

16 Can automated testing replace manual testing?

17 What is risk-based testing?

18 What is configuration management?

19 What is the difference between UAT (User Acceptance Testing) and

 System testing?

20 What is Test Case?

21 What do you understand by test environment?

22 What is Phase Test Plan?

23 Should testing be done only after the build and execution phases
are complete?

24 When should testing be stopped?

25 Are there more defects in the design phase or in the coding phase?

26 What is a test log?

27 What's the difference between System testing and Acceptance

testing?

28 What is functional system testing?

29 What is a V-Model?

30 What is maintenance testing?

31 Can you explain the concept of defect cascading?

32 Can you explain data-driven testing?

33 What are the different strategies for Rolling out an application to

end users?

34 Explain Unit Testing, Integration Tests, System Testing and

Acceptance Testing?

35 What is Rapid Application Development?

36 What is the difference between Testing Techniques and Testing

Tools?

37 Explain Regression testing and Confirmation testing?

38 When should Regression Testing be performed?

39 What is negative and positive testing?

40 What is the purpose of test completion criteria?

41 What is the difference between re-testing and regression testing?

42 How much testing is needed?

43 What is test coverage?

44 When do we prepare RTM (Requirement traceability matrix)? Is it

before test case designing or after test case designing?

45 During the testing of a module tester X finds a bug and assigned it

to the developer. But the developer rejects the same, saying that
it is not a bug. What should X do?

46 Does an increase in testing always improve the project?

47 What is Use-Case testing?

48 What is the difference between STLC (Software Testing Life Cycle)

and SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) ?

49 What is Integration testing?

50 What are the attributes of good test case?

13. Contemporary questions
1 What is IoT?

2 How can IoT help business?

3 What are the key risks for deploying IoT?

4 What are the emerging trends for IoT?

5 How is IoT different from embedded systems?

How are IoT applications different from traditional business

6 applications?

7 What is DevOps?

8 How can DevOps help business?

9 What are the key principles behind DevOps?

10 What is Social media?

11 How can Social media help business?

12 Can you name some popular social media sites?

13 What are the emerging trends in Social media?

How will social media applications be different from

14 traditional business applications?

15 What are the risks that businesses face from social media?

16 What is Cloud?

17 How can Cloud help business?

18 Who are the major cloud solution providers?

19 What are the emerging trends for Cloud?

20 How will business analysis in Cloud be different from

 traditional business analysis?

21 What is Analytics?

22 How can Analytics help business?

23 What are the popular analytics tools?

24 What are the emerging trends for Analytics?

How is Analytics different from traditional software

25 development?

How business analysis in Analytics will be different from

26 traditional business analysis?

27 How can Mobile help business?

28 How mobile can help improve business?

29 What are the emerging trends for Mobile?

How mobile applications are different from traditional software

30 applications?

31 What is AI?

32 How can AI help business?

33 What are the emerging trends in AI?

How is business analysis in AI different from traditional

34 business analysis?

35 What is machine learning?

36 How can machine learning help business?

37 What are the emerging trends in machine learning?

38 How is machine learning different from deep learning?

How is business analysis in machine learning different from

39 traditional business analysis?
40 What is Big-data?

41 How can Big-data help business?

42 What is Mongo DB?

43 What is NoSQL?

44 Can NoSQL support RDBMS?

45 What are some common tools for Big-data?

How is business analysis in Big-data different from traditional

46 business analysis?

47 What is Blockchain?

48 How can Blockchain help business?

49 What are the emerging trends in Blockchain?

How is Blockchain different from traditional software

50 development?
14. HR questions
1 Tell me about yourself

2 What are your key strengths?

3 What is one thing, which you want to improve about yourself?

4 What are your weaknesses?

5 Where do you see yourself in 5 years from now?

Have you been in some challenging situation? Explain how you handled
6 it?

7 Why should we hire you?

8 What value addition will we get by hiring you?

9 What is success to you?

10 What are your career goals?

11 Why do you want to join our organization?

12 Why do you want to quit your present organization?

13 Tell me something about your hobbies and interests.

14 Are you ready to relocate?

15 Are you okay with flexi timing?

16 What are your expectations from your job?

17 What do you like about our Organization?

18 What are your salary expectations?

19 How soon can you join?

20 Are you interested in pursuing higher education?

21 Have you ever had a problem with your peer?

22 What have you done to improve your knowledge?

23 Can you perform under pressure?

24 Are you a team player?

25 What motivates you?

26 If you disagree with your manager, how would you handle it?

27 Do you have any doubts/questions about us?

28 What is it the trait that you can't stand in a co-worker?

29 Which is your dream job?

30 What is your attitude towards work?

Describe a difficult situation in your previous job and how you

31 managed it.

32 Are you willing to work over weekends?

33 What is your take on work-life balance?

34 What kind of co-worker are you?

35 What is your work style?

36 Describe your management style

37 How quickly do you adapt to new technology?

38 What is the difference between hard work and smart work?

39 Was your work ever criticized? What did you do?

40 How do you handle stress?

41 Can you name 3 key soft-skills for BAs?

42 How do soft-skills help BAs?

43 Why is adaptability important for a BA?

44 How can one develop business knowledge?

45 How can one learn about a new domain?

46 How can one develop creativity?

47 What should you do when a stakeholder is not supporting your work?

What are few things one should keep in mind while visiting a foreign
48 country?

49 What is the best way to resolve conflicts?

50 What would you like to know about our company?

51 What do you understand by trustworthiness?

52 What is decision making?

53 Define business acumen.

54 What do business analysis tools and technology provide?

55 What do you understand by listening?

56 Define non-verbal communication.

57 Define adaptability.

58 Explain personal accountability.

59 Is it better to be perfect and late, or good and on time?

60 Is it ok to do personal work in office hours?

End of the Book.