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Salesforce Business Analyst Certification Exam Questions and Answers Part-1
Salesforce Business Analyst Certification Exam Practice Questions and Answers
Question: 1
The business analyst is working with a stakeholder on a Salesforce project. The stakeholder needs an approval process on contract submissions. Sales managers want to see all contracts when the discount is greater than 20%. They will decline any contracts with a discount that is greater than 25%, but they want visibility into other highly discounted contracts. Which acceptance criteria is the most effective for this scenario?
A. A sales manager wants to be notified when a contract has been submitted with a discount greater than 20% so the manager can approve or decline a discounted price.
B. Users in a sales manager role should have access to a button on contracts to click to approve or decline a contract with a discounted price of 2G% or more.
C. A sales manager wants to be able to approve contracts with a large discount and they need a validation rule related to contract discounts greater than 25%
Answer: A
Question: 2
The business analyst at Universal Containers is helping the team transition from workflow rules to flows. The work has been built and it is time to kick off user acceptance testing (UAT). What is the goal of UAT?
A. To ensure what was originally requested is being delivered
B. summarize the overall ask and determine what is in scope
C. To identify acceptance criteria with pass/fail indicators
Answer: A
Question: 3
Northern Trail Outfitters is Updating Its customer portal built on Experience Cloud. The team has drafted a user story:
“As a customer, I want to be able to chat with a support agent and view my account, see my orders, and ask questions via the customer port.
What should a business analyst do to improve this user story?
A. Estimate how long it will take the technical team to complete the story.
B. Include specific information about potential Salesforce solutions.
C. Adjust the goal of the user story to be independent.
Answer: C
Question: 4
The Salesforce project team at Cloud Kicks is about to start a project that crosses sales and service teams. The business analyst (BA) has been tasked with writing user stories with the teams in a workshop.
What should the BA keep in mind during the process?
A. User stories encourage iterative development.
B. User stories specify which technical components are impacted.
C. User stories are fixed upon stakeholder approval.
Answer: A
Question: 5
During a sprint grooming session for the Sales Cloud implementation at Cloud Kicks, the development team mentions the step “Code Review by Technical Architect” listed within the acceptance criteria needs to be adjusted.
Which location should the business analyst move this item to?
A. Project plan
B. Definition of done
C. Pull request template
Answer: B
Question: 6
The business analyst (BA) at Universal Containers has been capturing the requirements for a major Sales Cloud release. An admin has been deploying the resulting system changes. The quality assurance (QA) team has run into challenges when testing the changes. The BA is unaware of deployment and testing challenges.
What should the BA do to resolve these challenges with the release team?
A. Associate each set of metadata -changes to the corresponding user story.
B. Provide detailed test cases to validate the functional requirements C. Involve the stakeholders in the business requirements gathering sessions.
Answer: A
Question: 7
A group of business analysts (BA) at Universal Containers have been working with different teams of stakeholders on eliciting requirements for a new Salesforce app. The BAs have gathered and documented all of the information in a central location. Upon review of the requirements, the BAs discovered that changes made to the documentation were overwritten by each other, and they will lose time recapturing them.
What should the BAs do differently to prevent this error from happening?
A. Each BA should use their own separate documentation.
B. Each BA should enter their business needs in a shared spreadsheet,
C. Each BA should use a shared system that has version control.
Answer: C
Question: 8
The business analyst (BA) at Northern Trail Outfitters is writing user stories for a Service Cloud implementation.
In which order should the BA arrange the three components of a user story?
A. I want <xyz>, as a <xyz>, so that <xyz>
B. As a <xyz>, I want <xyz>, so that <xyz>
C. I want <xyz>, so that <xyz>, for a <xyz>
Answer: B
Question: 9
Universal Containers is currently doing user acceptance testing for a global customer service project that leverages Service Cloud. A stakeholder is executing a test case for a specific user story. The stakeholder has provided this feedback:
• The functionality described in the test case is working as expected.
• The stakeholder wants to change the label of several fields described in the test case.
• The stakeholder wants to add two new fields that were excluded from the test case. Which step should the business analyst take next?
A. Acknowledge the feedback, update the existing user story to include the field changes, and assign the user story back to the technical team for immediate development.
B. Acknowledge the feedback, create a new test case that includes the field changes, and assign the test case hack to the stakeholder far immediate testing.
C. Acknowledge the feedback, create a new user Story that includes the field changes, and ask the stakeholder to update the existing tat case to show it was successfully tested.
Answer: C
Question: 10
A business analyst (BA) at Northern Trail Outfitters is preparing for a user acceptance testing (UAT) session for a global Sales Cloud project.
What should the BA do to engage the business most effectively during UAT”?
A. Hand or ownership for writing, reviewing, and executing UAT scenarios, providing feedback, and approval for release to business stakeholders.
B. Work with quality assurance analysts to collaborate in writing, reviewing and executing UAT scenarios, providing feedback, and approval for release.
C. Work business stakeholders to collaborate in writing, reviewing, and executing UAT scenarios, providing feedback, and approval for release.
Answer: C
Question: 11
The business analyst (BA) is preparing for user acceptance testing (UAT) for Northern Trail Outfitters’ new Service Cloud implementation. The BA secured the sandbox for the testing environment, wrote test cases, and created a process to track and manage reported bugs. Which additional step is required during the UAT planning process?
A. Identify power users.
B. Schedule deployment.
C. Gather business requirements.
Answer: A
Question: 12
Northern Trail Outfitters is getting ready to enter the user acceptance testing (UAT) phase of its latest Salesforce project. The business analyst (BA) plans to solicit and document sign-offs from the business as part of the UAT process. Which sign-offs should the BA seek?
A. Test cases to implement, individual test case functionality, and final go live date
B. Test cases to implement, user stories, and final go live date
C. Functional requirements, individual test case functionality, and final go live date
Answer: C
Question: 13
Northern Trail Outfitters launched a new feature on its Experience Cloud site to allow customers to compare features of similar products ahead of the major promotional event of the year. The user acceptance testing (UAT) passed successfully; however, many customers complained of issues when accessing the site.
What did the business analyst overlook before recommending that the release go live?
A. The AT should have been performed with enough time to resolve bugs in the new feature,
B. The UAT should have been performed with both peak load and average load simulation.
C. The UAT should have been performed by customers who are familiar with the products.
Answer: B
Question: 14
The sales team at Universal Containers has concerns that the process for distributing new leads is too slow. The VP of sales has engaged a business analyst (BA) to help map out a process to distribute new leads quickly. The BA sets up a meeting with stakeholders and learns a stakeholder already has a solution in mind.
What should the BA do next?
A. Implement the solution now to save time in the planning phase.
B. Ask the stakeholder to demo their solution to the project team.
C. Gather requirements and then note the proposal solution.
Answer: C
Question: 15
The sales team is learning a new sales methodology. Management wants to align Salesforce opportunities with the methodology.
What is the first step a business analyst should take to begin overhauling the Opportunity object?
A. Understand the current business process.
B. Configure stages in Salesforce.
C. Create new reports and dashboards.
Answer: A
Question: 16
Cloud Kicks (CK) recently decided to transition its business from spreadsheets to a Salesforce solution. CK leaders are excited about the capabilities of Salesforce. Each leader has different ideas about how the platform should be implemented. CK has hired a business analyst (BA) to help define and manage the implementation.
What should the BA do in the first discovery meeting with stakeholders?
A. Collaborate with stakeholders to examine and define CK’s purpose, customers, metrics, and overall business to inform project direction and vision.
B. Discuss and document specific pain points in existing processes to inform future project requirements.
C. Preview potential Salesforce solutions and collect feedback from stakeholders on each option to inform the direction of the project.
Answer: A
Question: 17
During the discovery phase of a Salesforce project, which types of analyses should a business analyst typically perform?
A. Financial, Technical, Operational
B. Technical, Stakeholder, Enterprise
C. Enterprise, Strategy, Stakeholder
Answer: C
Question: 18
Cloud Kicks has an existing implementation of Salesforce. A business analyst (BA) wants to understand details about the Salesforce environment:
• Custom apps
• Active Salesforce Sites
• Active flows
• Custom tabs
• Visualforce pages
Which path should the BA take to find this information?
A. Review configuration settings.
B. Conduct stakeholder interviews.
C. Read business process documentation
Answer: A
Question: 19
Cloud Kicks (CK) plans to establish a Center of Excellence (CoE).
How will CK benefit from using a CoE to define the long-term vision for its Salesforce org?
A. CK will be better able to prioritize across teams and streamline processes.
B. CK will get insights to current business processes.
C. CK will develop a process to gather feedback from end users regularly.
Answer: A
Question: 20
As a part of discovery, the business analyst (BA) at Universal Containers is trying to understand how Salesforce was implemented.
What should the BA utilize to help uncover any technical constraints or potential problems in a Salesforce implementation?
A. Salesforce Optimizer
B. Setup Audit Trail
C. Reports and Dashboards
Answer: A
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