SF - BA - Questions For SF
SF - BA - Questions For SF
Cloud Kicks leadership wants to use custom code for functionality that can easily be created declaratively in Sates Cloud. The business analyst
(BA) has been asked to advise leadership on how these approaches impact their solution options.
What is one of the BA's strongest arguments for using configuration over code?
Answer: C
Question # 11
The project team at Cloud Kicks is under a tight deadline to implement a new Service Cloud feature. The business analyst, BA) has received
feedback from the customer that the existing functionality is difficult to use. The BA wants to better understand the customers pair points
A. Journey map
B. Process map
C. Capability map
Answer: A
Question # 12
Universal Containers (UC) stores information about its containers in the standard Salesforce Product object. UC deals with data integrity issues,
such as the Container Color field fails to update on all containers when the color is updated on a Container Product Line. The project owner
mentioned that a previous consultant recommended that UC move to a more normalized data model to represent its containers.
What should the business analyst review to learn more about the previous consultant's recommendation?
Answer: A
Question # 15
The project manager for a new project at Northern Trail Outfitters (NTO) wants the business analyst (BA) to obtain alignment on goals and
strategies across NTO's organization, using NTO's documentation, the BA begins to understand NTO's strategies but needs more information.
Answer: A
Question # 16
Northern Trail Outfitters (NTO) wants to leverage the power of Sales Cloud to implement its lead to cash process. A business analyst (BA) is
tasked with understanding NTO's current processes, identifying areas of improvement, and communicating it effectively to stakeholders.
B. Process mapping
C. Change management
Answer: B
Question # 17
Cloud Kicks (CK) faces challenges with accurate reporting and metrics to use when CK schedules service agent shifts. The VP of service is unsure
A. Strategy Analysis
B. Stakeholder Analysis
C. Enterprise Analyst
Answer: C
Question # 18
At the start of a new Agile development project, the Universal Containers' product owner asked the business analyst (BA) to clearly define the
intended results of the work based on stakeholder needs. The development and implementation teams will use the intended results to plan
product decisions. The definition should avoid assumptions and focus on stakeholder value.
A. Requirements
B. User stories
C. Epics
Answer: B
Question # 20
Northern Trail Outfitters (NTO) has completed a project with a third-party event organization platform to enhance its MVP Experience Site.
Many features were left in the project backlog. NTO's IT team is beginning a new phase of work on the Experience Site to build additional
features requested by business stakeholders and wants to include the items that were left in the backlog in the first phase.
How should the business analyst coordinate the user stories to most efficiently manage the new project timeline?
A. Include existing and new user stories to be completed within the duration of the project. Hire additional developers to accommodate both
B. Reprioritize existing and new user storks to place the storie into each sprint of the project. Return an equivalent: amount of lower priority
C. Prioritize user stories for the new enhancements for the initial sprints of the project to accommodate business stakeholder requests.
Answer: B
Question # 21
Northern Trail Outfitters (NTO) wants to discuss an enhancement to Campaigns with the engineering, marketing, and sales teams. The changes
involve detailed integration between systems that will be used by WTO's customers. The business analyst (BA) needs to complete the org
impact analysis.
Answer: B
Question # 22
Universal Containers uses Kanban to complete its Salesforce development. In the middle of a sprint, the sales manager submits an important
A. Ask the team to reprioritize the backlog and work on the item at the top.
B. Ask the team to commit to the work for the next sprint.
Answer: A
Question # 23
The business analyst (BA) at Universal Containers (UC) wants to understand why UC failed to meet a deployment date for its product go live
while following the Agile process. According to the BA's research, the developers lacked a sense of the work in progress and the intended goal
of that work, and the QA team was unable to clearly test the functionality based on a given persona.
A. Create a SWOT (Strength, Weakness, Opportunity, Threat) analysis to understand why development and testing took more time.
B. Move the deployment date out so the teams have more time to work.
C.Review the user stories to ensure they are small, testable, and valuable.
Answer: C
Question # 24
Cloud Kicks has decided to implement a case management process through Service Cloud. A business analyst (BA) has been tasked with writing
Which process should the BA follow to draft and finalize the requirements?
A.
3. Draft requirements.
B.
2. Draft requirements.
5. Share user stories with the technical team so they can begin building.
C.
3. Draft requirements.
.5. Prioritize which requirements will be included in the minimum viable product.
Answer: C
Question # 25
Which Information should the BA gather during the initial discovery meeting?
Answer: B
Question # 26
A sales manager at Universal Containers (UC) customized all of their list views on the Account object to include a new field. Although they have
multiple list views. The sales manager prefers to keep the recently viewed list as their default list. When the manager realize they are unable to
modify the recently viewed list, they reach out to UC’s Salesforce team for help?
What are the next steps the business analyst should take?
A. Recommend that the user submit a ticket related to the field creation.
C. Document the desired outcome and research the impact of making a change.
Answer: B
Question # 27
Which type of process diagram should the business analyst use at the beginning of a Salesforce project to outline high-level process areas such
as "Prospect to Contract?
A. Capability model
Answer: B
Question # 28
A business analyst (BA) at Universal Containers (UC) has been asked to evaluate a business process at a high level and in detail, while also
keeping regulatory considerations in mind. Management wants to use the output from the BA's evaluation to inform decisions about UC's
A. Cross-functional flowchart
Answer: C
Question # 30
A business analyst (BA) is reviewing the risks associated With a proposed solution leveraging Cases and Support Queues, and the effect that
A. Enterprise Analysis
B. Strategy Analysis
C. Stakeholder Analysis
Answer: B
Question # 31
Cloud Kicks has invited stakeholders from multiple departments and roles to participate in its latest Salesforce project. Each stakeholder's
experiences and priorities for the project are different which causes tension within the team and a lack of clarity around project direction.
What should the business analyst do to help the team work together more effectively?
A. Encourage leadership to share their vision for the project, and ask the larger team to focus feedback only on the key objectives, pain points,
B. Limit participation in key project discovery, requirements, and solutioning meetings to leadership. and engage the larger team to answer
C. Lead the stakeholders in creating a team agreement that assigns project roles and outlines how the team will collaborate, disagree, develop
Answer: C
Question # 32
The business analyst (BA) at Northern Trail Outfitters recently configured a feature on Opportunities for the sales team. The BA plans to gather
feedback from a small group of end users before rolling out the feature to the entire company.
Answer: B
Question # 34
The business analyst (BA) at Cloud Kicks has been asked to map the current sales process in Sales Cloud to document legal compliance with
local privacy regulations, which can differ based on the state or country of a data transaction.
Which activity would be most effective in helping the BA understand the sales process?
Answer: A
Question # 3
The business analysis (BA) at Northern Trail Outfitters is assigned to a project to help revamp its Experience Cloud implementation. When
assessing the existing process, which type of diagram should the BA use to identify waste within and between processes?
Answer : C
Question # 5
Cloud Kicks will launch a new customer experience portal. During discussions with the VP of customer service, a business analyst (BA)
recorded the following: • All logins must use multi-factor authentication (MFA). • Portal pages should load within 2 seconds. How should the
A. functional requirement
B. Non-functional requirement
C. User story
Answer : B
Question # 6
A business analyst (BA) discovers that universal Containers automated case assignments in Service Cloud. UC uses case assignment rules to
route cases to predefined team. The UC leadership team wants to improve how cases are routed. What should the BA recommend to help
Answer : C
Question # 7
Sales leadership at 230Cloud Kicks (CK) is concerned about the limited adoption of Salesforce at the company. Salesforce implementation
includes many custom pages. Multiple users have complained about wa.t.ng a long time for key functionality to display
Answer : A
Question # 8
A business analyst (BA) at Northern Trail Outfitters is assigned to a project to help revamp the case management process. The BA has
gathered requirements and finished the first draft of user stories. What should the BA use to assess the quality of a user story?
A. INVEST checklist
B. Numerical framework
Answer : A
Question # 9
Northern Trail Outfitters is undergoing a Service Cloud implementation and has decided to use the Scrum methodology for the
implementation. A business analyst (BA) received an urgent, high-priority change request m the middle of a sprint. Which step should the BA
take next?
A. Add the change request to the backlog to be prioritized for the next sprint.
B. De-prioritize some user stones and add the change request to the current sprint.
C. Begin working on the change request as soon as the team has capacity.
Answer : B
Question # 10
A new employee at Universal Containers just sent the business analyst (BA) a Slack message with an named
User3tories_v37_final_final_final.docx. Which best practice should the 6A train the employee on fir
Answer : C
Question # 11
Cloud Kicks (CK) faces challenges with accurate reporting and metrics to use when CK schedules service agent shifts. The VP of service is
unsure how the challenges can be solved in Salesforce. Which analysis should a business analyst perform?
A. Strategy Analysis
B. Stakeholder Analysis
C. Enterprise Analyst
Answer : C
Question # 13
A business analyst JBA) for Northern Trail Outfitters (NTO) is reviewing the business backlog and determines that many of the requirements
would require custom code that is expensive and hard to maintain. The BA knows that the backlog should be prioritized by people who have
knowledge of the features and functionary of the Salesforce Platform. Who should own the process of prioritizing the business backlog?
A. The third-party implementation team, with support from the internal technology teams affected by the project who understand NTO's vision
and strategy
B. The business teams affected, with support from the internal technology teams who understand ways to maximize Salesforce’s declarative
features
C. The project manager, with support from the third-party implementation and business teams who understand both platform and business
priorities.
Answer : B
Question # 14
The quality assurance (QA) team at Cloud Kicks is reviewing user stones to write test scripts. The QA team is having difficulty with a specific
story where a modification to an existing flow is needed for a custom object. The QA team is unable to discern what needs to be tested as a
result of the updated flow. What should the business analyst review and revise to provide more clarity to the QA team?
Answer : A
Question # 15
Universal Containers is transitioning to Slack as its internal communication tool and is ready to release. What is the final step that a business
analyst should perform during the user acceptance testing process that would ensure a "go" decision?
Answer : B
Question # 16
A business analyst (BA) is reviewing the risks associated With a proposed solution leveraging Cases and Support Queues, and the effect that
those risks might have on the project timeline. Which type of analysis is the BA performing?
A. Enterprise Analysis
B. Strategy Analysis
C. Stakeholder Analysis
Answer : B
Question # 17
A business analyst (BA) at Northern Trail Outfitters (NTO) is assigned to a project to help revamp n process. The current process used by the
sales team is different than the process outlined in NTO’s documentation. Which step should the BA take first?
Answer : C
Question # 18
Over the past month, a business analyst (BA) has worked with various stakeholders at Cloud Kicks to document requirements for an
upcoming Tableau implementation. A stakeholder suggested a revision to the requirements. The BA sent the updated requirements to the
stakeholders and they signed off. Where should the BA track this milestone?
A. Statement of work
B. Change log
C. Sprint plan
Answer : A
Question # 20
Cloud Kicks wants managers to be able to approve time-off requests in Salesforce. A business analyst (BA) wrote the following: User
Story. "As a manager, I want to communicate the status of time-off requests with employees so that I can increase employee satisfaction.' •
A manager can change the status of the request • A manager can send a comment to the employee about their request. • The solution must
be intuitive. Why does the BA need to make a change to improve the user story'
Answer : A
Question # 22
The development team at Universal Containers is reviewing several stories to be added to the current sprint. The team is having trouble with
a particular story about an Opportunity email alert and is unsure about which type of testing is needed. What should the business analyst
A. Definition of done
B. User persona
C. Acceptance criteria
Answer : C
Question # 23
Universal Containers is planning to implement Commerce Cloud to sell more products. The business analyst working on this project has
gathered requirements and is translating them into user stories. What should the user story focus on?
A. Sales margins
B. Customer experience
C. Product functionality
Answer : B
Question # 24
The business analyst (BA) at Cloud Kicks is working on improving the company's Service Cloud deployment. The BA wants to leverage
Universal Process Notation (UPN) to document the current process. What is one benefit of using UPN in this scenario?
B. A single activity box can answer Who, What, When, Why, and How.
Answer : B
Question # 25
Northern Trail Outfitters has decided to implement Sales Cloud. A business analyst (BA) has been assigned to document the requirements
Answer : C
Question # 27
The Cloud Kicks admin is getting ready to release a record-triggered flow that autogenerates Renewal Opportunity Order Line Items once an
Opportunity is Closed/Won for a sales team user story. During user acceptance testing, what should the business analyst do to ensure the
A. Draft a list of test cases and scripts and choose "Run flow as another user'' to debug the flow as a sales team user to identify and fix bugs.
B. Choose subject matter experts as testers and prepare a sandbox with quality test data, test cases, and scripts that match real-world
scenarios.
C. Collaborate with the admin and a power user to test the flow for scalability, robustness, and maintainability in a sandbox.
Answer : B
Question # 28
Universal Containers wants to build a simple activity capture process for leads. One of the objectives is to minimize technical debt and
inherit new features of the Salesforce Platform in future releases. What should the business analyst recommend to meet the requirements'
B. Standard object for activity capture, custom Lightning Web Component user interface
C. Custom object for activity capture, custom Lightning web component user interface
Answer : B
Question # 29
Universal Containers has chosen to leverage Experience Cloud to create an engaging site for its customers. The business analyst (6A) leading
this project needs to validate that the requirements meet the goal. What should the BA do to ensure alignment?
A. Survey customers to confirm whether the new site meets their requirements.
Answer : B
Question # 30
The service Center at Universal Containers is deploying a new case management solution. Management has asked the project team to
prepare for end user training. The project team consists of an admin and a business analyst (BA). Which task should be assigned to the BA?
Answer : B
Question # 32
The VP of customer success at Northern Trail Outfitters wants to implement a new client onboarding process leveraging custom objects and
a custom Console Lightning App. Which approach should a business analyst take to begin this process?
Answer : A
Question # 33
Cloud Kicks hired a new business analyst (BA) to join an experienced cross-functional team that has successfully delivered high-quality
Salesforce solutions to global stakeholders. The BA wants to quickly become a trusted advisor to the team. What should the BA do?
A. Focus on the task at hand instead of on individual team members.
Answer : C
Question # 34
Universal Containers is integrating its enterprise resource planning (ERP) with Salesforce to gain inventory visibility for the sales team. One
of the user stories for this project is: ‘’As a sales rep, I want to be able to find containers dose to my customer so I can tell them which
products they can receive quicklyWhich acceptance criteria is most appropriate for this story?
A. Sales rep can see the inventory closest to a customer with a quick action.
Answer : C
Question # 35
Business analyst (BA) at Universal Containers looks at the user stories for a new implementation of the for salesforce Customer Data
Platform (CDP) and notices they are too large. The BA recommends that the large Dries be broken down into smaller stories which will
decrease the future level of effort for subsequent ac. Which activity will be mast impacted by breaking down the user stories?
A. Estimation
C. Acceptance criteria
Answer : C
Question # 36
A business analyst (BA) at Cloud Kicks is preparing for a user acceptance testing (UAT) session to release a record-triggered flow that notifies
account and opportunity owners once a quote has been accepted. What should the BA do during UAT to ensure the solution meets the
requirements?
A. Work with subject matter experts to perform UAT in a sandbox.
C. Work with the quality assurance (QA) team to perform UAT in a sandbox.
Answer : A
Questions 2
Cloud Kicks wants to assess the efficiency of its Sales Cloud solution to eliminate unnecessary steps and cut costs. A business analyst (BA) will
give a presentation to executives to help them understand the current state and define the future state.
Options:
Answer: A
Questions 6
Universal Containers wants to streamline a complex business process. The business analyst (BA) assigned to the Service Cloud project is
creating a business process map of the existing process. The BA is having difficulty documenting the process because there is disagreement
among the stakeholders about the steps that are being followed.
Which recommendation should the BA make to help the stakeholders reach agreement about the process?
Options:
A. Refer to the Responsible, Accountable, Consulted, Informed (RACI) chart to determine who is accountable.
Answer: B
Which step should a business analyst take to establish credibility and covert empathy with stakeholders during discovery sessions for a new
Experience site?
Options:
A. Describe work with other companies that has solved similar problem.
B. Ensure the workshop schedule consider tome zone and language differences.
C. Reiterate the project objectives and the KPIs that will be tracked.
Answer: A
Questions 20
At Universal Containers, a business analyst (BA)r solution architect, lead developer, quality assurance lead, and other team members need
access to user stories as part of the Agile lifecycle of enhancements to a Marketing Cloud integration project.
What should the BA do to give all team members access and visibility to the most recent user stories as the project is in motion?
Options:
A. Define a common repository to hold all user stories and track changes over time.
B. Allow each team member to merge all user stories at the end of user acceptance testing.
C. Send emails to stakeholders with all of the changes to the user stories.
Answer: A
Questions 21
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
Options:
A. Stakeholder analysis
Answer: A
Questions 22
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.
Options: aakash
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
Answer: A
Questions 26
The business analyst (BA) at universal Containers is grooming user stories to add to the next sprint The BA Is having difficulty understanding the
level of testing that's necessary for a particular story involving an update to an Important trigger.
What should the BA do to address the need for user acceptance testing (UAT)?
Options:
Answer: B
Questions 27
A business analyst (BA) conducted a group workshop with stakeholders to understand and document in-scope business processes. The BA feels
What should the BA do to close the gaps or confirm the process steps?
Options:
B. Review the documentation to ensure that information gathered about the process is correct.
C. Using strategy analysis, define models of how gaps in the business process can be resolved.
Answer: C
Questions 29
The Salesforce project team at Universal Containers is reviewing a backlog of user stories to add to an sprint. The team is unsure of which story
Options:
Answer: B
Questions 31
The data science team at Universal Containers (UC) has been asked to analyze the sales team's data within Salesforce. Early In their research,
the data science team discovered concerns about data quality. UC has brought in a business analyst (BA) to help address the concern.
What should the BA focus on doing first during the initial discovery phase?
Options:
A. Shadow the sales team to observe process for entering data into Accounts and Opportunities.
B. Meet with the executive leadership team to accurately understand the business need.
C. Understand and document the data quality issues reported by the data science team.
Answer: C
Question # 5
Cloud Kicks has completed the user acceptance testing (UAT) phase of a major update to Sales Cloud for its EMEA sales team.
How should the business analyst help the EMEA sales team learn the new features?
Answer: B
Question # 8
Universal Containers is focused on an initiative to streamline its channel management processes. Due to the level of complexity, the business
analyst (BA) will gather and document the key points in preparation to build a more detailed process map.
Which diagram should the BA use in this case?
B. Capability Model
Answer: A
The business analyst (BA) At universal Containers is writing user stories for its Salesforce Field Service implementation.
What should the BA evaluate to understand the understand the risk level of the user stories?
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Question # 17
Universal Containers in rolling out Sales Cloud for the contract renewals team. The team has expressed resistance to learning another platform
and changing their processes. The business analyst (BA) shows them a video case study of a contract renewals team at another company that
successfully adopted Sales Cloud, which shortened it’s time to close and increased its close rate by 30%.
Which influencing style is the BA using?
A. Accommodating
B. Collaborative
C. inspiring
Answer: C
Question # 19
Which method should a business analyst use to show current state business flows in Salesforce?
C. Storyboarding
Answer: B
Question # 23
Cloud Kicks (CK) needs to implement an event management system within Salesforce. After researching potential solutions, a managed package
meets the majority of CK s business requirements. However, the CRM director has expressed a desire to heavily customize an open source
solution.
Which benefit of using a managed package versus an open source solution should the business analyst share to help the CRM director make a
decision?
Answer: A
Question # 26
The lead business analyst (BA) at Cloud Kicks is putting together user Stories for the new sales process that will
be implemented in Sales Cloud. The lead BA is advising junior BAS on how to construct a user story.
What should the lead BA tell the junior BAs to include in a user story?
Answer: B
Question # 29
The business analyst (BA) at Cloud Kicks is working on improving the company's Service Cloud deployment. The BA wants to leverage Universal
Process Notation (UPN) to document the current process.
What is one benefit of using UPN in this scenario?
B. A single activity box can answer Who, What, When, Why, and How.
Question # 33
Cloud Kicks (CK) needs to integrate the industry standard due-diligence in its sales process to verify customers in Sales Cloud. CK asks the
business analyst (BA) to identify which stage in the sales process the industry standard due-diligence should be embedded.
What should the BA do to meet the requirement?
A. Develop a process map as a base, work with stakeholders to understand the trigger point, and locate the stage.
B. Identify the triggers, locate the stage, and add the standard due-diligence as a subprocess.
C. Locate the stage, add the standard due-diligence as a subprocess, and set the trigger point.
Question # 37
Northern Trail Outfitters is starting a project to implement Service Cloud for the customer service department.
Which activity should be handled by a business analyst assigned to this project?
Question # 36
A business analyst has been asked to evaluate all of the that Universal Containers (UC) currently uses, including CRM Analytics, to identify gaps
and overlaps in functionality.
Which tool would help UC understand the existing functionality.
B. Capability model
C. Process map
Northern Trail Outfitters (NTO) is a rapidly growing company that hired a business analyst (BA) to help revamp its sales and support processes.
The stakeholder at NTO wants to understand the value of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM).
What are benefits of ALM that the BA should share with the stakeholder?
Options:
A. ALM provides processes and policies which help build apps more efficiently.
B. ALM offers preview access to the three Salesforce Releases per year.
Answer: A
Questions 4
The business analyst (BA) at Universal Containers is meeting with business leaders to elicit and document functional requirements
specifications related to its new Salesforce implementation. The BA will also document the functionality this system should provide so it can be
Options:
C. User story
Answer: A
Questions 8
Northern Trail Outfitters (NTO) has acquired a competitor. The agreement is to migrate the acquired company into NTG’s Technological
Platforms. One of its challenges is to offer a unified customer experience while strengthening the relationship with its customers. The business
analyst (BA) has been asked to translate the business objectives and assemble an improved and standard customer experience.
Options:
A. Understand business objectives, define the intention and audience, conduct user experience research, analyze the research results, and
B. Understand business objectives, define the intention and audience, lead a journey mapping workshop, find opportunities for improvement,
Answer: C
Questions 11
A business analyst (BA) uncovered a number of issues communicated by stakeholders in a Sales Cloud discovery session.
Options:
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.
Answer: A
Questions 12
Universal Containers recently launched a solution that leverages Service Cloud for its North America (NA) customer support team. Planning has
started for the second phase of the project which will expand the solution to include the Asia Pacific (APAC) customer support team. The APAC
readership team has indicated that its processes are similar to the NA team. The APAC team wants to see the high-level process areas that were
used for the NA team so it car scope the key priorities for the overall business. The business analyst (BA) has scheduled a meeting with the
APAC team. ,
Options:
Answer: C
Questions 14
The business analyst (BA) at Cloud Kicks (CK) is writing user stones for an upcoming Commerce Cloud website release. One of the requirements
from the technical team is to perform stress testing for an upcoming promotion. The BA is translating the requirement into a user story.
A. As a visitor to the CK website, I want to make sure that I can shop without disruption during a large promotion so I have a frictionless
shopping experience.
B. As a site administrator of the CK website, I want to make sure that the web server can process requests at 150% of the average traffic rate
C. As a user, I want to make sure that shoppers on the CK website can complete their purchases without disruption during the newest
promotion.
Answer: B
Questions 32
The business analysis (BA) at Northern Trail Outfitters is assigned to a project to help revamp its Experience Cloud implementation.
When assessing the existing process, which type of diagram should the BA use to identify waste within and between processes?
Options:
Answer: C