Business Analyst question bank
100 questions. Filter by level and skill, track what you've solved, and see how many people get each one right.
- Spot the non-functional requirement
- 'We need a new dashboard'
- Which requirement is testable
- Why map the as-is process
- Power and interest grid
- Writing Given/When/Then criteria
- Internal factors in SWOT
- Finding the root cause
- Spot the business requirement
- Spot the transition requirement
- When to observe users
- When to use a survey
- Asking an open question
- The I in INVEST
- User story format
- The W in MoSCoW
- Actors in use case diagrams
- BPMN event shape
- Lanes in BPMN
- What SIPOC stands for
- Using a fishbone diagram
- A PESTLE factor
- One-to-many relationship
- The data dictionary
- The C in RACI
- What a BRD contains
- Why acceptance criteria
- Who is a stakeholder
- Wireframes in elicitation
- A well-formed KPI
- Filtering rows in SQL
- Why swimlane diagrams
- What a persona is
- The risk with focus groups
- Conflicting requirements
- Requirements traceability
- Finding customers with no orders
- Gap analysis
- Purpose of UAT
- Reading a BPMN diagram
- 'Just add an Excel export'
- When the average hides the problem
- Verification vs validation
- The BPMN parallel gateway
- Choosing an inclusive gateway
- Communicating between pools
- Escalating a slow approval
- Which UML diagram for messages
- Modelling a status lifecycle
- Include vs extend
- Splitting a large story
- Kano attractive features
- Prioritising with WSJF
- Cost of a delayed launch
- Calculating ROI
- A negative NPV
- Repeated data in a table
- Customers with many orders
- Process cycle efficiency
- One voice dominates a workshop
- Fixing a vague requirement
- Where requirements live
- The BA in backlog refinement
- Gherkin scenario outlines
- Classifying a business rule
- Modelling complex rules
- What a story map does
- What 99.9% availability allows
- A regulatory change before UAT
- A manager bypasses the process
- Payback period for automation
- Signed off, but users are unhappy
- A metric with a side effect
- A suspicious drop in the data
- Too many must-haves
- Using AI to draft requirements
- Calculating a two-year NPV
- When IRR and NPV disagree
- What payback ignores
- Parts of cost of delay in WSJF
- Waiting for the first event
- Parallel split, exclusive merge
- Exclusive split, parallel join
- Hidden rules in a legacy system
- 'Make it work like the old one'
- Why Kano categories change
- Security vs usability trade-off
- Duplicate customer records
- A biased satisfaction survey
- Correlation or causation?
- Rising overall, falling everywhere
- Students, courses and grades
- Questioning a simple rule
- Agile in a regulated bank
- Measuring a self-service portal
- Finding the bottleneck
- Fit-gap for an off-the-shelf CRM
- Testing a key assumption
- UAT finding: defect or change?
- Interviews contradict the data