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When determining the value of a business case, which tool or technique should be used?

• A.Variance analysis
• B.Cost-benefit analysis
• C.Feasibility analysis
• D.SWOT analysis

A company has just finished the development work for a new software sales tracking application and is in the process of validating that the new application meets all of the acceptance criteria defined for the business requirements. During the validation process, a stakeholder discovers that the application does not provide the selection criteria needed to produce the sales volume reporting required by the company's financial department. The business analyst for the project determines that the selection criteria needed was not specified in the system requirements or design specifications.
Which of the following tools and/or techniques might be used by the business analyst to determine how the selection criteria requirement was missed?

• A.Scope modeling, Ishikawa diagram, and/or the Five Whys
• B.Root cause analysis, fishbone diagram, and/or the Five Whys
• C.Cause and effect diagram, brainstorming, and/or the Five Whys
• D.Root cause analysis, problem tracking, and/or benchmarking

While preparing a business case, an experienced business analyst faces difficulty in deciding which of three different solution options to recommend. The senior vice president (SVP) who requested the business case favors an outsourced solution; however, an analysis favors a custom-developed solution, either built internally or using contract labor.
To prepare the recommendation, what should the business analyst do?

• A.Formulate a weighted-ranking matrix.
• B.Recommend the SVP's choice, as it is most likely to be adopted.
• C.Perform solution evaluation.
• D.Review the stakeholder analysis.

Projects have been managed well and completed on schedule and on budget. However, successful completion of the projects has not improved the company's performance and profitability.
Which of the following should have been implemented to ensure that the projects would improve the company's performance and profitability?

• A.review with appropriate stakeholders
• B.A strategies and goals analysis
• C.A risk plan
• D.A project management plan

The business analyst has worked with the stakeholders to capture their views of organizational improvement for the company. It would be best to align these with the:

• A.vision/scope document.
• B.work breakdown structure.
• C.requirements traceability matrix.
• D.project charter.