IIBA CCBA Practice Exams
Last updated on Oct 23,2026- Exam Code: CCBA
- Exam Name: Certification of Competency in Business Analysis
- Certification Provider: IIBA
- Latest update: Oct 23,2026
Linda is the business analyst for her organization and she’s working with Joe, a new business analyst, to prioritize requirements. Joe doesn’t understand why requirements need to be prioritized; as all requirements are required, they should carry equal weight in the analysis.
What should Linda tell Joe as to why requirements must be prioritized?
- A . Prioritization ranks the requirements according to the cost and schedule.
- B . Prioritization ranks the requirements on a weighted scale of key performance indicators, such as cost, schedule, risk, and experience.
- C . Prioritization ensures that the most important stakeholders are considered first.
- D . Prioritization of requirements focuses on the most critical requirements first.
What condition of the requirements must be fulfilled in order to use the matrix documentation approach to specify and model requirements?
- A . The requirements must have opposing values.
- B . The requirements must have common characteristics.
- C . The requirements must have the uniform structure.
- D . The requirements must have rated goals, such as time, cost, and quality.
When a business analyst hosts a structured walkthrough of the requirements, what should the walkthrough always include at the beginning of the process?
- A . Review of the business case for the analysis
- B . Review of the requirements to be discussed
- C . Agenda
- D . Identification of the objectives and goals
A business analyst (BA) has just started a large project and is collaborating with stakeholders to define requirements. Another BA is joining soon to help with this initiative.
What action should the BA take to ensure that the new BA understands the project?
- A . Run elicitation sessions in parallel to speed up the process.
- B . Delay elicitation activities until the new BA joins.
- C . Document outcomes of discussions with stakeholders.
- D . Ask the BA to define the stakeholder engagement approach.
The business analyst (BA) has traced the requirements for the interaction between a customer and the new online ordering system.
Besides enabling the BA to ensure quality of the requirements to stakeholders, tracing the requirements will also enable the BA to:
- A . show all of the decision points in the business process.
- B . illustrate the relationships between relevant requirements.
- C . capture all users that will be impacted by the project.
- D . detail the inner workings of the system being changed.
Two business analysts (BAs) are working on a requirement elicitation activity. One BA comes across a checklist that contains stakeholder details such as who are involved, location, group dynamics that are to be considered before beginning the elicitation activity and seeks a clarification from the second BA.
The other BA explains that these details, along with several other items mentioned in the checklist, are required to:
- A . select elicitation techniques.
- B . prepare stakeholders.
- C . secure supporting material.
- D . understand scope of elicitation.
You are the business analyst for your organization and working with the stakeholders to prioritize the requirements. The stakeholders are concerned about the financial impact of the requirements should some of them fail during the implementation. You would like to rank the risk tolerance of the stakeholders based on their comments about the solution and the requirements.
The following are the three categories of risk tolerance associated with the stakeholders except for which one?
- A . Neutrality
- B . Mitigation
- C . Risk-seeking
- D . Risk-aversion
A business analyst (BA) has spent the week conducting work sessions with a project’s key stakeholders. Together, they have been reviewing user requirements and high-level design flowcharts to ensure that they have been correctly defined and documented.
Which of the following describes the purpose of their work?
- A . Validating requirements
- B . Eliciting requirements
- C . Verifying requirements
- D . Approving requirements
A domain subject matter expert (SME) describes a scenario to the business analyst (BA) that may need to be considered for an impending change. The BA and domain SME sketch out the process model for this exception scenario for consideration.
What action does the BA take?
- A . Capture and integrate this process model into other appropriate planned outcomes
- B . Plan an observation activity to gain a hands-on understanding of the situation
- C . Document the elicitation results then verify and validate in requirements review
- D . Review the issue with stakeholders during a follow-up session
The project manager has tasked the business analyst (BA) to collect a performance measure on the solution implemented in the latest release.
Which of the following considerations can help the BA obtain that information?
- A . Sample size
- B . Solution size
- C . Performance variance
- D . Risk assessment