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7021437151 https://trainsmart.co.in Question 1: Samantha is a Senior Business Analyst in ABC consultants. She has been assigned to a new client - Global Automotive - to work with product owner to document business requirements for a new car launch. Global Automotive produces budget cars to suit the requirements of Middle- class economy in Asean counties. Their USP (Unique Selling Point) is that their cars are cost effective, but their Aftersales support for service is commendable. What are the factors that Samantha would consider while she documents Business requirements? A) Samantha needs to do an opportunity-benefit analysis and record the constraints and risks. B) Samantha needs to understand the cost of doing nothing, i.e. if Global Automotive was not beginning it's new initiative C) Samantha needs to understand the source of the new initiative, the costs involved with mitigating all the risks D) Samantha needs to understand the purpose of new initiative and record the benefits of taking up Answer: A) Samantha needs to do an opportunity-benefit analysis and record the constraints and risks. Note - When we analyse current state, we produce an output of business requirement. Also constraints need to be understood as a part of business requirement documentation. B is not valid as we are not looking at maintaining the same state right now. C is not important at this phase as cost is not considered as a factor D is important at the stage of documenting Business needs. We are at a progressed state now documenting requirements
7021437151 https://trainsmart.co.in Question 2: Samantha and her team are working with a sanitary fitment company to increase their margins. They have arrived at 3 possible design options and are discussing on which option has to be recommended to the sponsor. Samantha feels that value of preferred option works out to Euros 120,000 where as her team members arrive at some other value. Mario feels it is Euros 95,000 and Janette feels it is Euros 150,000. As a team, Samantha needs to present the value in Business Case explaining her recommendation of preferred option. What value should they present? A) Euros 150,000 - Afterall higher the value, more convinced will the sponsor be B) Euros 95,000 - Projecting lower value and over achieving is better than projecting higher value and under achieving C) Euros 121666.70 - Average makes sense. D) Euroa 120833.33 - A number in between arrived through some calculation Please choose an answer and justify it. Answer: D) 120833.33 Calculation is arrived by (Most optimistic value + Most Pessimistic value + (4× most likely value))/ 6
7021437151 https://trainsmart.co.in Question 3: Mario is a Business Analyst in ABC consultants. She is conducting a stakeholder meeting describing different requirements and associated designs. There is a major difference of opinion that arises between stakeholders and there is a conflict associated with different interpretations of same requirements. Her boss, Samantha advises her to use a specific technique to resolve the conflict and gain agreement from all stakeholders. According to you, what technique might have Samantha recommended? A) Interviews B) Item tracking C) Acceptance and Evaluation Criteria D) Decision Analysis Answer: D) Decision Analysis Interpretation of requirements is different by different stakeholders. Hence that conflict can be resolved using decision Analysis. BABOK states A decision is the act of choosing a single course of action from several UNCERTAIN outcomes with different values. Decisions are usually difficult to assess when problem is poorly stated and in such cases this technique helps.
7021437151 https://trainsmart.co.in Question 4: Samantha was studying an in-house developed application that generates pick list of parts from warehouse such that there is least movement by the operator. However, the solution performance analysis indicates that the objective is not met effectively. After a lot of research, she recommends a COTS (Commercial Off-The-Shelf) package for this activity. In her previous organizations, she has worked with 4 vendors whose services were very well appreciated there. She recommends these vendors for validation and selection process as well. For all the activities mentioned above, what techniques would she have used? A) Decision Analysis, Structured walk Through and Functional Decomposition B) Process Analysis, Decision Analysis, Acceptance and Evaluation Criteria and Vendor Assessment C) Data Modelling, Vendor Assessment, Key Performance Indicator, Acceptance and Evaluation Criteria D) Process Modelling, Document Analysis, Financial Analysis, Risk Analysis and Management, Key Performance Indicator Answer: