BA Baracus Flashcards
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A group of business analysts (BA) at Universal Containers have been working with different teams of stakeholders on eliciting requirements for a new Salesforce app. The BAs have gathered and documented all of the information in a central location. Upon review of the requirements, the BAs discovered that changes made to the documentation were overwritten by each other, and they will lose time recapturing them.
What should the BAs do differently to prevent this error from happening?
A. Each BA should use their own separate documentation,
B. Each BA should enter their business needs in a shared spreadsheet,
C. Each BA should use a shared system that has version control.
C. Each BA should use a shared system that has version control.
The business analyst (BA) at Universal Containers has been capturing the requirements for a major Sales Cloud release. An admin has been deploying the resulting system changes. The quality assurance (QA) team has run into challenges when testing the changes. The BA is unaware of deployment and testing challenges.
What should the BA do to resolve these challenges with the release team?
A. Associate each set of metadata -changes to the corresponding user story.
B. Provide detailed test cases to validate the functional requirements
C. Involve the stakeholders in the business requirements gathering sessions.
A. Associate each set of metadata -changes to the corresponding user story.
During a sprint grooming session for the Sales Cloud implementation at Cloud Kicks, the development team mentions the step “Code Review by Technical Architect” listed within the acceptance criteria needs to be adjusted.
Which location should the business analyst move this item to?
A. Project plan
B. Definition of done
C. Pull request template
A. Project plan
The Salesforce project team at Cloud Kicks is about to start a project that crosses sales and service teams. The business analyst (BA) has been tasked with writing user stories with the teams in a workshop.
What should the BA keep in mind during the process?
A. User stories encourage iterative development.
B. User stories specify which technical components are impacted.
C. User stories are fixed upon stakeholder approval.
B. User stories specify which technical components are impacted.
Northern Trail Outfitters is Updating Its customer portal built on Experience Cloud. The team has drafted a user story:
“As a customer, I want to be able to chat with a support agent and view my account, see my orders, and ask questions via the customer port.
What should a business analyst do to improve this user story?
A. Estimate how long it will take the technical team to complete the story.
B. Include specific information about potential Salesforce solutions.
C. Adjust the goal of the user story to be independent.
C. Adjust the goal of the user story to be independent.
The business analyst at Universal Containers is helping the team transition from workflow rules to flows. The work has been built and it is time to kick off user acceptance testing (UAT).
What is the goal of UAT?
A. To ensure what was originally requested is being delivered
B. summarize the overall ask and determine what is in scope
C. To identify acceptance criteria with pass/fail indicators
A. To ensure what was originally requested is being delivered
Northern Trail Outfitters launched a new feature on its Experience Cloud site to allow customers to compare features of similar products ahead of the major promotional event of the year. The user acceptance testing (UAT) passed successfully; however, many customers complained of issues when accessing the site.
What did the business analyst overlook before recommending that the release go live?
A. The UAT should have been performed with enough time to resolve bugs in the new feature,
B. The UAT should have been performed with both peak load and average load simulation.
C. The UAT should have been performed by customers who are familiar with the products.
B. The UAT should have been performed with both peak load and average load simulation.
Universal Containers (UC) has low adoption rate of its Salesforce solution. UC has hired a new vendor to overhaul its documentation and train)ng process. needs a business analyst to facilitate this transition.
Which set of actions are the most effective business needs from stakeholders?
A. send surveys to collect feedback; observe end ‘Users; whiteboard incoming requests; and store communication In a centralized location.
B. Mock up a design; build a prototype; demonstrate functionality to end users; and collect feedback for Changes.
C. Use multiple forms of communication; build trust; show empathy; and get commitment for next
C. Use multiple forms of communication; build trust; show empathy; and get commitment for next
The technical team at Cloud Kicks is trying to deliver one of its Salesforce customizations. The business analyst (BA) has been asked to put assignments, test plans, decisions, and milestones in writing and share this document with stakeholders so there is less potential for confusion.
Which tactical document should the BA use to capture features?
Options:
A. Business analysis plan
B. User Acceptance Test plan
C. Release plan
C. Release plan
A business analyst (BA) uncovered a number of issues communicated by stakeholders in a Sales Cloud discovery session.
Which issue should concern the BA most?
A. The previous implementation partner neglected to do a knowledge transfer of the final solution.
B. The support organization still needs to be trained on how to use Sales Cloud.
C. The system admins note a fair amount of technical debt without having the time or expertise to address it.
A. The previous implementation partner neglected to do a knowledge transfer of the final solution.
Cloud Kicks is a rapidly growing company and has just expanded its team to include a business analyst (BA). The IT directory has asked the BA to use application Lifecycle Management (ALM) for all Salesforce development projects.
Which step of the ALM cycle requires the BA to study current business process gather requirements, and analyze them?
Options:
A. Test
B. Plan
C. Build
B. Plan
A business analyst (BA) at Universal Containers had a meeting with sales and service reps to gather requirements around contact management for a new Salesforce implementation. A sales rep wants a place to capture the names of the contact’s spouse and children to help build the relationship. The BA writes the following user story.
‘As a user, I need to be able to record a contact’s title and role as separate data points so I know who to address for various needs of the account.’’
Who should be listed as the persona?
Options:
A. Sales rep
B. Contact
C. Service rep
A. Sales rep
The Business analyst (BA) at Northern Outfitters (NTO) has gathered preliminary functional requirements for an upcoming Salesforce implementation project. Before translating these requirements into user stories, the BA wants to gain additional perspective, feedback, and detail on the requirements from the NTO team.
Which document should help the BA gather this information?
Options:
A. Stakeholder analysis
B. Business analysis plan
C. Current state analyst
A. Stakeholder analysis
An executive stakeholders at Northern Trail Outfitters (NTO) wants to explore automating NTO’s Quote-to-Cash process and has asked the business analyst (BA) to pull together some high-level information on possible solutions.
Which type of document should the BA present to the stakeholders?
Options:
A. A capability map detailing the functionality of Salesforce and AppExchange Quote-to-Cash products
B. A SIPOC (Support inputs, Process, Outputs, and Customers) map outlining the Quote-to-Cash process
C. A business process map detailing the existing step-by-step Quote-to-Cash process
A. A capability map detailing the functionality of Salesforce and AppExchange Quote-to-Cash products
Cloud Kicks uses declarative change set development to deliver its Salesforce customizations. The business analyst (BA) works with the technical lead on the project to track changes that require manual migration.
Which resources should the BA use to determine which changes must be made manually in each environment?
Options:
A. Metadata coverage report
B. Object Schema Builder
C. Setup Audit Trail
A. Metadata coverage report
Cloud Kicks is implementing cases to handle its growing volume of customer inquiries. The Business analyst (BA) on the implementation has 2 years of experience with Service Cloud. This is one of the user stories the BA wrote for the implementation:
A customer service representative wants to use Salesforce Macros to update notes and change the case stats to close to reduce the time spent on each case.
Which mistake did the BA make when writing this user story?
Options:
A. The incorrect persona was used in the story.
B. The story included feature- specific language.
C. The story explained the value to the user.
B. The story included feature- specific language.
Universal Containers is developing a new recurring app utilizing Lightning screen flows. The business analyst (BA) has started writing user stores in a repository. The project lead has edited user stories in the DevOps tool to make them more complete.
What should the BA do to understand which user stories were modified?
Options:
A. Review the approval history.
B. Review the change sets history
C. Review the version control history.
C. Review the version control history.
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Northern Trail Outfitters is setting up a new team to support an implementation of Service Cloud and is considering which workflow to use.
In which scenario should he business analyst recommend Kanban?
Options:
A. Work is generally project-based and can be broken into smaller pieces.
B. Work includes platform support requiring immediate outage handling.
C. Work is predictable but sometimes lacks sufficient planning.
B. Work includes platform support requiring immediate outage handling.
Universal Containers has several independent Salesforce projects this quarter involving shared objects and a complex deployment process managed by a DevOps team. While smoke testing the shared user acceptance testing (UAT) environment, the business analyst (BA) noticed that one of the minor changes to the Account to the Account page layout for the project is missing. The client is eager to begin its UAT.
What should the BA do to address the issue?
Options:
A. Make the page layout change directly in UAT so the client can begin testing.
B. Log a defect for the page layout change and discuss it with the DevOps team.
C. Ask the project manager to reschedule UAT until after the defect is resolved
B. Log a defect for the page layout change and discuss it with the DevOps team.
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The VP of sales at Cloud Kicks wants to streamline the lead qualification process to improve the team’s productivity and help them reach their target goals. A business analyst (BA) has been assigned to the project to identify the disconnect between the sales and marketing teams’ definition of a qualified lead?
What should the BA focus on?
Options:
A. Mapping historical lead data from each team and building charts to highlight similarities
B. Evaluating team’ skill and experience to determine how they can better align.
C. Scheduling an all-day collaboration workshop with both team to resolve their differences
C. Scheduling an all-day collaboration workshop with both team to resolve their differences
A sales manager express frustration that the sales team is failing to enter calls in salesforce. The manager is hoping to resolve the issue quickly and has limited time and budget to complete revamp existing tools and process, the sales manager reaches out to the business analyst (BA) for recommendation.
What should the BA do next?
Options:
A. Engage a developer to scope a custom solution.
B. Research third-party apps on the AppExchange.
C. Export a weekly report of user activity.
B. Research third-party apps on the AppExchange.
Which method should a business analyst use to show current state business flows in Salesforce?
Options:
A. Universal Process Notation
B. Entity Relationship Diagramming
C. Storyboarding
B. Entity Relationship Diagramming
The project team at Universal Containers has started to review the existing Salesforce manufacturing solution that has low adoption and a variety of customization including custom objects, custom fields, renamed standard fields.
What should the business analyst recommend to the project team to increase understanding when documenting requirements, process and potential solutions?
Options:
A. Use customer terminology and language.
B. Use industry terminology and language.
C. Use Salesforce terminology and language.
B. Use industry terminology and language.
The business analyst (BA) at Universal Containers is preparing for user acceptance testing (UAT) for an Experience Cloud implementation.
Which people should participate in UAT?
Options:
A. Business users, project manager, key stakeholders
B. BA, project manager, key stakeholders
C. BA, business users, key stakeholders
C. BA, business users, key stakeholders