BA TECHNICAL BASED QUESTIONS:
1. What are the SDLC methodologies you are aware? In which method you are mastered?
2. Talk to me about waterfall methodology? Tell me how comfortable you are with waterfall Methodology?
3. How is the Agile methodology different from Waterfall methodology? Does is make any difference to the
responsibilities of a BA?
4. Are you familiar with UML? Have you written Use Cases before?
5. What happens when we are following waterfall methodology, if a stakeholder comes back with new requirement?
6. Define Software project life cycle?
7. What is Gap analysis?
8. What is UAT? Explain the Role of a BA in UAT?
9. What are non functional requirements? Give some examples.
10. What is a traceability matrix and how do you use it when using the Unified process?
11. What is Impact Analysis? Did you perform impact analysis? Can you explain your thoughts on it?
12. What do you understand by version control and configuration management?
13. What are the various testing stages in a software project life cycle?
14. Tell me about RUP methodology? How many workflows RUP has? Name them.
15. Describe in brief the different stages of RUP.
16. What is your familiarity with Use cases? How many have you created so far?
17. What are the various tools and strategies that are typically employed during the requirement capturing phase
18. What are the essential elements to look out for in a Business Requirement Document (BRD)? Who are the
stakeholders for the sign-off.?
19. What the various tools that can be typically used for creating the Business artifacts like the Vision document, UC, etc
20. How can a BA quickly strategize and prepare for change management?
21. What is the purpose of Requirement Verification Traceability Matrix (RTVM)? What are the typical elements a
RVTM? Who are the creators and consumers of this artifact?
22. Who is typically the owner of a Functional Requirement Document (FRD)? Does a BA need to get involved in the
creation of a FRD. If “yes”, in what capacity. If “no”, then explain?
23. Is it a good idea for a BA to get involved during the testing phase? If “yes”, explain how a BA can ensure his/her
involvement during such a phase?
24. How would you transform business requirements to functional requirements?
25. Describe the main qualities of a good requirement.
26. What are the problems solved by Business Analyst?
27. Walk me through the change control process?
28. What is a fail proof SDLC methodology, which applies to all projects?
29. What is the Role of the BA as a Tester?
30. What are the process flow diagrams?
31. What is an alternate flow? What is an exception?
32. If a company project is at the scale of CMM 1 then how will you help that company to attain the next level?
33. What is Data Mapping?
34. What is meant by Logical and Physical Data Model?
35. What is ETL?
36. What is the database view? Should the BA understand it?
37. Do you have experience with SQL? Tell me more about why did you use SQL?