1) What is a flowchart? Why it is important?
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2) Define the Use Case Model
3) What does UML stand for?
4) Do you think Activity Diagram is important?
5) Name two types of diagrams used in Business analyst
6) What is meant by an alternate flow in a use case?
7) What are exceptions?
8) What are extends?
9) Name the two documents related to a use case
10) What is the difference between Business Analyst and Business Analysis?
11) As a business analyst, what are the tools which are more helpful to you?
12) In your previous experience, what kind of documents you have created?
13) Explain the term INVEST
14) Define SaaS
15) What steps are required to develop a product from an idea?
16) What do you think is better, the Waterfall Model or Spiral Model?
17) How can you explain a user-centered design methodology?
18) How do you define Personas?
19) Define the term Application Usability
20) What is a database transaction?
21) Give a full form of OLTP
22) What is Pugh Matrix?
23) What does FMEA stand for?
24) What is a 100-point method?
25) What is 8-omega?
26) What is a misuse case?
27) What is SQUARE stand for?
28) What is Pareto Analysis?
29) What is Agile Manifesto?
30) What BPMN stand for?
31) Define BPMN Gateway
32) Name the five basic elements’ categories in BPMN
33) Have you ever used Kano Analysis in your previous jobs, and how do you define it?
34) What are the key areas in a Kano Analysis?
35) Define Pair-Choice Technique
36) Do you have suggestions to make an effective use-case model?
37) How many types of an actor can be depicted in a use-case?
38) Define BCG Matrix
39) How can you differentiate between pool and swimlane?
40) Differentiate between Fish Model and V Model?
41) How do you manage frequently changing customers’ requirements while developing any system?
42) Define use-case points
43) What does PEST stand for?
44) Name the four key phases of business development?
45) Define Benchmarking?
46) What do we mean by SWEBOK?
47) What do you know about GAP Analysis?
48) Define Agile?
49) Define Scrum method
50) What does JAD stand for?
51) What is ETL?
52) As a Business Analyst, which method do you prefer more- a waterfall model or a spiral model?
53) What is the requirement elicitation?
54) What is the Kano Analysis?
55) What is Version Control?
56) Explain Black Box Testing
57) What is an important quality of a good requirement?
58) What Is OOAD?
59) What is UAT?
60) How can you measure the quality of a product?
61) What is RAD?
62) What are the important areas in a Kano Analysis?
63) Why do you like a career as a business analyst?
64) What do you know about scope creep?
65) What are the important skills that a business analyst must have:
66) How can you avoid scope creep?
67) Name three best practice you should follow while writing a use case
68) What is CaaS?
69) What is a requirement elicitation technique?
70) What is the major difference between risk and issue?
71) How do you define a Kanban tool in Business analysis process?
72) Name important agile metrics which should be considered by business analysts
73) What is meant by an increment in business analysis?
74) How should BA perform risk management for your project?
75) Name out a different document that can come across to business analyst
76) How many categories of business analysis techniques exist?
77) What is a misuse case?
78) Which model is better Waterfall model or Spiral Model?
79) What is a must for White Box Testing?
80) What is BRD?
81) State the important differences between BRD and SRS
82) As a business analyst, which subject is more beneficial to you?
83) What is ERD mean?
84) What is called the movement of information or material from one activity or worksite to another?
85) What will employees and systems use to perform important functions?
86) Which method is mostly used for assessment or evaluation of a prospective vendor?
87) What are the important elements of the use case model?
88) What are the four most important metrics in business development?
89) Name important phases of an IT project
90) Explain critical path analysis
91) What is RUP Methodology?
92) What are Project deliverables?
93) List the important advantages of Business process modeling
94) What are the important aspects of creating analytical reporting?
95) Why is process design important for the Business analyst?
96) How to define the feasibility study?
97) What is CATWOE in business analysis?
98) Difference between software development lifecycle and project lifecycle
99) What are the important elements of BPMN gateway:
100) What are the members of the Scrum Team?
101) Why you should use a spring burndown chart?
102) Explain the velocity of a sprint?
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FRD (Functional Requirement Document) SDD (System Design Document).
Unexpected Delighters Performance Attributes Must Have Attributes
Analytical skills– An outstanding analytical skills will separate out a good business analyst. A good part of BA role includes basics of business analysis, analyzing data, workflow, user or stakeholders inputs, documents, etc. Leadership skills– One of the Business Analyst responsibilities is directing team members, forecasting budget, helping team members with the problem, etc. Business process and planning– Planning the project scope, understanding and implementing requirement of project, identifying resources required for the project and so on
Technical skill– If a business analyst is in the IT sector, few technical aspect are expected to know like operating systems, hardware capabilities, database concepts, networking, SDLC methodology, etc.
Documenting the scope of the project. By following proper change management. Informing the effects of the change to the affected parties before making a change. Documenting the new requirements in the project log.
Use case diagrams along with use case UI details/note in the use case.
The sprint burndown metric Work category allocation The priority of the work Business value delivery Defect resolution time
Scope & Prospect of Project. Fact sheet for constraints Functional Requirements document including UML, Activity, and dataflow diagrams. Testing phase documents along with QA Test requirements, plan, and types of tests.
Initiation Planning Execution Monitoring and control
Ability to think critically Understand of business analysis Show your analysis skills.
Flow objects Data connection objects Swimlanes Artifacts
