IIBA CCBA Certification of Competency in Business Analysis Online Training
IIBA CCBA Online Training
The questions for CCBA were last updated at Jul 19,2025.
- Exam Code: CCBA
- Exam Name: Certification of Competency in Business Analysis
- Certification Provider: IIBA
- Latest update: Jul 19,2025
According to ‘A Guide to the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge’, when should the business analyst and an organization actually start requirements allocation?
- A . As soon as a budget has been created
- B . After approval of the requirements
- C . After the project charter
- D . As soon as the solution approach is determined
You are working with the project stakeholders to analyze and prioritize their requirements for the
project. One of the project requirements is to achieve a high-level of customer satisfaction for the project deliverable.
What is the danger in this project requirement?
- A . Achieving customer satisfaction is a risk, as the project manager cannot control how satisfied the customer will be with the project deliverables.
- B . Achieving customer satisfaction is an assumption and should be documented in the project scope.
- C . Achieving customer satisfaction should always map to the quality requirements for the project.
- D . Achieving customer satisfaction is a subjective requirement and entails a high level of risk of being successfully accomplished.
You are a business analyst in an organization that has recently embraced business analysis as part of its initiative for new projects. In this organization, there is not an organizational standard for tailoring business analysis duties and expectations.
Which one of the following best describes the action you should take to begin business analysis?
- A . Work with the appropriate stakeholders to determine how the business analysis work should be completed.
- B . Define the organizational standard first.
- C . Create a business case for the need of organizational standards for business analysis.
- D . Take charge and begin the business analysis activities, but document your approach to serve as a template for future business analysis initiatives.
You are the business analyst for your organization and you’re working with the project manager to complete some business analysis activities. The project manager has the authority to approve the requirements based on the short iterations of business analysis activities.
What approach of business analysis are you using in this scenario?
- A . Progressive elaboration
- B . Change-driven
- C . Plan-driven
- D . Iterative
In a change-driven environment, what’s more important than formal communications in regard to effective requirements management?
- A . Correct communication
- B . Frequency of communication
- C . Message of communication
- D . Type of communication
When a business analyst performs requirements tracing, he may need to trace the requirements backward through their lineage and may need to trace the requirements forward through their relationship to other requirements.
What is the forward tracing activity called in requirements traceability?
- A . Lineage tracking
- B . Backwards pass
- C . Derivation
- D . Allocation
You are the business analyst for the NHQ Project. You have identified several stakeholders that need different types of information related to the requirements.
Which stakeholder would need detailed technical interface requirements?
- A . Project manager
- B . Testers
- C . Implementation subject matter experts
- D . Regulators
As a business analyst, you should be able to identify the characteristics of each business analysis task and domain area.
Which one of the following statements best describes the characteristics of the business analysis knowledge area of requirements analysis?
- A . It describes the activities and considerations for managing and expressing requirements to a broad and diverse audience.
- B . It describes the business analysis activities necessary to identify a business need, problem, or opportunity, define the nature of a solution that meets that need, and justify the investment necessary to deliver that solution.
- C . It describes the tasks and techniques used by a business analyst to analyze stated requirements in order to define the required capabilities of a potential solution that will fulfill stakeholder needs.
- D . It is the act of eliciting business, stakeholder, solution, or transition requirements.
Which of the following is the best definition of the business rules analysis?
- A . To define the historical information that is available for the business analyst to rely on for his research.
- B . To define the rules that govern decisions in and organization and that define, constrain, or enable organizational policies.
- C . To define the people that govern decisions in and organization and that define, constrain, or enable organizational policies.
- D . To define the job functions, roles and responsibilities, and the designation of power among the
project stakeholders.
You are the business analyst for your organization. You are currently working with Susan on creating a model as part of the specify and model requirements process. Susan doesn’t understand why you need a model. You explain to Susan that a model is just a simplified representation of a complex reality that is useful for understanding that reality and making decisions regarding it.
In fact, you tell Susan, model can do all of the following except one option. Choose the option that model cannot do?
- A . Define the resources that will be needed on the project team
- B . Define boundaries for the business domain
- C . Describe a situation or problem
- D . Describe thought processes and action flows