Free Salesforce Certified-Business-Analyst Practice Exam with Questions & Answers

The analysis that a BA should perform is strategy analysis. Strategy analysis is a technique that helps to understand the business context and environment of an organization, its vision and goals, its strengths and weaknesses, its opportunities and threats, its capabilities and resources, and its stakeholders and competitors. Strategy analysis helps to identify the business problems or needs that need to be addressed, evaluate potential solutions or options that can address them, and align them with the business strategy and objectives. In this case, CK faces challenges with accurate reporting and metrics to use when scheduling service agent shifts. A BA should perform strategy analysis to understand CK’s business context and environment, identify the root causes of the challenges, evaluate potential solutions or options that can solve them in Salesforce, and align them with CK’s business strategy and objectives. References: https://trailhead.salesforce.com/en/content/learn/modules/business-analysis-strategy-analysis/understand-strategy-analysis

The business analyst should review the version control history to understand which user stories were modified by the project lead. Version control is a system that records changes to a file or set of files over time so that you can recall specific versions later. Version control can help track who made what changes, when, and why. It can also help compare different versions, merge changes, resolve conflicts, and restore previous versions. The business analyst should use a version control system to store and manage their user stories in a repository and review the version control history to see the edits made by the project lead. Reviewing the approval history is not a good option because it would only show who approved or rejected the user stories, not who modified them or how. Reviewing the change sets history is not a good option because it would only show what metadata components were deployed or retrieved between orgs, not what user stories were modified or how. References: https://trailhead.salesforce.com/en/content/learn/modules/org-development-model/get-to-know-org-development

The best practice for understanding the sales reps process in order to increase Salesforce adoption is to host focus groups, conduct surveys, and shadow the sales reps to observe the tools they use and how they use them. These methods help to elicit feedback and insights from the sales reps, understand their pain points and needs, identify the gaps and opportunities in their current process, and demonstrate the value and benefits of using Salesforce. The other options are either insufficient or irrelevant. Option B does not capture the sales reps’ perspectives or preferences, and may not reflect their actual usage of Salesforce. Option C does not address the sales reps’ process or challenges, and may not be applicable or effective for them. References: https://trailhead.salesforce.com/en/content/learn/modules/business-analysis-discovery/plan-and-facilitate-discovery-sessions

This answer states that meeting with stakeholders as a group to understand the current state is the first step that the BA should take for revamping an existing process used by the sales team at NTO. Stakeholders are the people who have a significant interest or influence in the project outcome, such as the sales team, the sales manager, the customers, etc. Meeting with stakeholders as a group means that the BA facilitates a discussion or a workshop with the stakeholders to elicit their needs, expectations, pain points, and opportunities related to the existing process. Understanding the current state means that the BA analyzes and documents how the existing process works or does not work, what are its inputs, outputs, steps, decisions, roles, etc. Meeting with stakeholders as a group to understand the current state is the first step that the BA should take for revamping an existing process because it helps the BA to establish a baseline or a reference point for identifying and validating the gaps or issues in the existing process, and for designing and proposing improvements or solutions for the future state.

The final step that a business analyst should perform during the user acceptance testing process that would ensure a “go” decision is to get written sign-off from all business stakeholders. Written sign-off means obtaining formal approval or confirmation from the business stakeholders that the system or solution meets their requirements or expectations and is ready to be released to production. Written sign-off helps to ensure a “go” decision by demonstrating that the system or solution has passed all the tests or validations, as well as resolving any issues or risks that may prevent the release. Written sign-off also helps to document and communicate the completion and acceptance of the user acceptance testing process. References: https://trailhead.salesforce.com/content/learn/modules/user-acceptance-testing-video/learn-about-user-acceptance-testing

The first step that the business analyst should take during the initial discovery phase is to understand and document the data quality issues reported by the data science team. Data quality issues are problems or errors that affect the accuracy, completeness, consistency, timeliness, or validity of data in a system or database. Data quality issues can negatively affect the analysis, reporting, decision making, or performance of a system or solution. The business analyst should understand and document the data quality issues reported by the data science team by asking questions, reviewing data samples, identifying root causes, and measuring impacts. Understanding and documenting the data quality issues helps to define and prioritize the business problem or need, as well as propose and evaluate potential solutions. References: https://trailhead.salesforce.com/content/learn/modules/salesforce-business-analyst-certification-prep/customer-discovery

The items that the business analyst documented are non-functional requirements. Non-functional requirements are statements that describe how a system or solution should perform, behave, or appear, rather than what it should do or provide. Non-functional requirements can include aspects such as usability, reliability, security, availability, scalability, etc. Non-functional requirements help to ensure that the system or solution meets the quality standards and expectations of the stakeholders or users. The items that the business analyst documented are non-functional requirements because they specify how Sales Cloud should perform (portal pages should load within 2 seconds) and behave (all logins must use multi-factor authentication). References: https://trailhead.salesforce.com/content/learn/modules/salesforce-business-analyst-certification-prep/requirements-management

The BA should gather information about the limitations of the current support process during the initial discovery meeting. This will help the BA to understand the pain points, challenges, and gaps that the internal support team is facing, and to identify the opportunities for improvement and optimization. The BA should not gather contact information for key stakeholders, as this is not relevant to the scope of the project, and should be done before the discovery meeting. The BA should also not gather employee review cycle for the support team, as this is not related to the business requirements or the solution design. References: Customer Discovery, Get Started with Salesforce Business Analyst Certification Prep, Cert Prep: Salesforce Business Analyst

The step that the BA should include in the business flowchart is to capture decision steps and different outcomes. Decision steps are points in the process where a choice or condition needs to be evaluated, and different outcomes are possible depending on the result of the evaluation. Capturing decision steps and different outcomes helps to show the logic and flow of the process, and account for different scenarios or exceptions that may occur. The other options are either irrelevant or incomplete. Option B does not relate to the business flowchart, but rather to the data model or integration design. Option C does not specify what limits to set or how to document them. References: https://trailhead.salesforce.com/en/content/learn/modules/business-analysis-process-mapping/create-a-process-map

This answer states that building tooltips and discoverable content in the new console layouts is how the BA should help the EMEA sales team learn the new features after completing the user acceptance testing phase of a major update to Sales Cloud. Tooltips are small pop-up windows that provide brief explanations or instructions for a feature or a functionality when a user hovers over or clicks on an element. Discoverable content is content that is hidden until a user interacts with a trigger, such as a button, a link, or an icon. Building tooltips and discoverable content in the new console layouts can help the BA to provide contextual and on-demand guidance and information to the EMEA sales team, and help them learn the new features at their own pace and convenience. References: https://trailhead.salesforce.com/en/content/learn/modules/salesforce-business-analyst-quick-look/use-stakeholder-engagement-skills