PMI PBA Sample Questions for Business Analysis Exam Mastery

Advance your PMI Professional in Business Analysis (PMI-PBA) exam readiness with a curated set of high-quality sample questions and practice materials. These PMI PBA sample questions reflect the actual exam pattern, covering needs assessment, stakeholder engagement, requirements analysis, traceability, and solution evaluation. Whether you’re searching for PMI PBA dumps, realistic exam simulations, or targeted business analysis mock questions, this guide offers you a strategic edge. Test your understanding, identify areas of improvement, and increase your confidence with scenario-based PMI-PBA exam practice. Designed for business analysts, project managers, and professionals pursuing PMI credentials, this toolkit supports a focused approach toward passing the PMI-PBA exam in your first attempt.

PMI PBA Sample Questions List :

1. What is crucial or key for ensuring that requirements are complete, consistent, and have clearly defined evaluation criteria?

1. Collaboration (PM, BA, Testers)

2. Solution evaluation process

3. Decision-making process

4. Traceability approach

2. What model visually shows system scope and actor interactions?

1. Goal/objective model

2. Feature model

3. Context diagram

4. Ecosystem map

3. Which document provides a high-level summary of the product's aspirations, target market, key benefits, and overall value proposition?

1. Vision statement

2. Roadmap

3. Product scope

4. Situation statement

4. Which stakeholder is typically responsible for providing the financial resources for a project?

1. Sponsor

2. End-users

3. Project Manager

4. Stakeholders

5. What's NOT in a traceability approach?

1. Traced objects

2. Relationships

3. Detail level

4. When relationships are tracked

6. Which statement accurately depicts what changes can be made to requirements after they are baselined?

1. Requirements can be changed only with sponsor approval

2. Requirements can be changed through a defined process

3. Requirements cannot be changed once development begins

4. Requirements cannot be changed once user acceptance testing begins

7. If a Change Control Board (CCB) rejects a change request, what is the most appropriate next step for the business analyst?

1. Impact analysis

2. Resubmit

3. Inform manager

4. Document rationale

8. A major stakeholder of a project is surprised to learn that a particular requirement was not implemented during the latest launch. The business analyst tells the stakeholder that the requirement status was changed to "deferred." What could have prevented the stakeholder from being surprised about the status change?

1. The status should have been reviewed prior to project launch

2. The status should have been updated in the traceability matrix

3. The status should have been communicated to all project stakeholders

4. The status should have been communicated to the requirement’s source

9. A project team has been assembled to reduce production costs. The business analyst is working with the project team to review and approve requirements. A stakeholder from the assembly line area has an issue with one of the requirements since it is dependent on using existing equipment that is set to be retired within the next six months. Which of these techniques would the business analyst use to manage issues identified by stakeholders with requirements to ensure that those issues are resolved?

1. Process modeling

2. Interviews

3. Estimation

4. Problem tracking

10. Which technique allows the collection of the maximum number of ideas on a subject from a group without considering the validity or practicality of the ideas?

1. Prototyping

2. Interviewing

3. Surveying

4. Brainstorming

11. What's the BA's role in getting stakeholder approval for the situation statement?

1. Ensure IT inclusion

2. BA not involved

3. BA facilitates

4. BA approves

12. You present requirements, issue log, and interview notes for approval. You're asked to redo it. Why?

1. The issue log is embarrassing.

2. You shouldn't have been asked back.

3. Interview notes are inappropriate.

4. You mixed work products and deliverables.

13. What is the Business Analyst's role in obtaining stakeholder agreement on a situation statement?

1. Not involved

2. Facilitates approval

3. BA approves

4. Ensures IT inclusion

14. How can a business analyst show progressive iterations of product development to stakeholders after the requirements baseline has been approved?

1. Create prototype proof-of-concept models

2. Conduct requirement walkthrough sessions

3. Review performance data with the project sponsor

4. Talk to distinct testing groups to check testing status

15. The requirements baseline is ready for sign-off when the requirements are:

1. Justified, clear, consistent, and verified

2. Clear, consistent, complete, and validated

3. Consistent, analyzed, complete, and validated

4. Complete, clear, verified, and adopted

16. What's NOT an input to post-implementation assessment?

1. Identified defects

2. Business requirements

3. Technical design

4. Solution performance metrics

17. Comparing processes to standards. What technique?

1. Benchmarking

2. SWOT

3. Market analysis

4. Comparative analysis

18. End-users desire certain features. Which Kano category?

1. Reverse

2. Performance

3. Delighters

4. Basic

19. A project team has been assembled to streamline accounts payable processes in all divisions of the company. As part of the planning activities, the business analyst is working to identify stakeholders. Which of the following techniques would the business analyst use to identify stakeholders?

1. Brainstorming

2. Estimation

3. Prototyping

4. State diagram

20. A business analyst created requirements for production of a product extract file for several systems. After reviewing the complex systems and dividing the processes into manageable tasks, the business analyst is able to identify the tasks required to implement the deliverable. Which analysis technique has the business analyst used?

1. Interface

2. Dependency

3. Organization

4. Decomposition

21. What technique is used for analyzing job requirements and competencies?

1. Persona analysis

2. Job analysis

3. RACI model

4. Org chart

22. A business analyst is assigned to a business process re-engineering project. In addition to planning a workshop to elicit requirements, the business analyst wants to send out a survey to gather data to use in a statistical analysis on user satisfaction with the current business process. Which of the following types of surveys would be most appropriate to create and why?

1. A closed-ended survey using the Likert scale to rank specific areas of the current business process.

2. An open-ended survey to collect different opinions on the current business process

3. A closed-ended survey to pose several multiple choice questions and ask the users if the current business process is correct

4. An open-ended survey to allow users the opportunity to explain their opinions on the current business process

23. What are valid inputs for business analysis planning?

1. Charter, planning approaches, risk analysis, org structure

2. Charter, requirements baseline

3. Charter, planning approaches, risk analysis, feasibility study

4. Charter, planning approaches, risk analysis, backlog

24. After validating requirements, a team member requests new features. What do you do?

1. Root cause analysis

2. Send change request to CCB

3. Refuse the change

4. Impact analysis and add

25. What factors should primarily guide the determination of the appropriate level of detail for requirements traceability?

1. Align with standards, regulations, future needs

2. Align with org change procedures

3. Align with statements/information

4. Align with business case/needs

26. A project team has 120 days to deliver a solution, but the stakeholders have too many requirements for the delivery window. What requirements prioritization technique should be used to determine which requirements will be delivered?

1. Time-boxing

2. Multivoting

3. MoSCoW

4. Budget analysis

27. A business analyst conducts an initial review to define scope. The analysis includes the review of the business case, project goals, and objectives to obtain the necessary and required context. Based on that information, the business analyst determines that this is a large project with multiple interfaces which could cost the company money that was not initially included in the budget. What characteristics of the project are needed to determine the approach so that the business analyst can validate whether they will need to have a discussion about the budget?

1. Business analysis deliverables to be produced

2. Decision on the type of models to be used

3. Selected project life cycle

4. Type of elicitation activities to be conducted

28. A business analyst is working on a project to implement a new inventory management system. During requirements validation, it is discovered that one of the key requirements was not included in the final solution. What should the business analyst do next?

1. Document the missing requirement and perform an impact analysis

2. Reject the solution and restart the project

3. Proceed with the solution and address the missing requirement in a future release

4. Escalate the issue to the project sponsor for resolution

29. A document is being created that will detail the customer’s needs for a product and will include a functional model, a data model, and a glossary of terms. This document is called a:

1. Project charter

2. Business case

3. Standard operating manual

4. Requirements specification

30. The test team is reviewing requirements that were written for Project A. They are having difficulty determining if the test results meet the project needs. Which project artifact could the test team review to help identify acceptance criteria?

1. Project scope

2. RACI chart

3. Delphi outcome

4. Use cases

31. Customer service team (operates the system) belongs in which influence/impact category?

1. High/High

2. Low/Low

3. High/Low

4. Low/High

32. The business owner wants to "improve UX" and "increase efficiency." What is the most likely reason for the Business Analyst's discomfort with these objectives?

1. Not measurable

2. Not confirmed

3. No benefits stated

4. No problem/opportunity stated

33. The Project Manager requires a schedule outlining the planned business analysis activities. What are the typical steps a Business Analyst should take to create this schedule?

1. Define, durations

2. Define, sequence, effort

3. Define, sequence, assumptions/etc./durations

4. Define, sequence, resources/durations

34. What does parametric estimating involve?

1. Using a statistical model

2. Defining product lifecycle

3. Using work packages

4. Using a WBS

35. Which tool can be used to analyze how the system responds to various combinations of input conditions with the probability of each outcome?

1. Expected monetary value

2. Functional decomposition

3. Weighted criteria

4. Decision tree

36. A business analyst for Company A has been assigned to a three-year project to assist health insurance Company B with implementing and testing a new set of medical codes. The business analyst has identified many stakeholders who will participate in the project. For example, Company A will designate technical staff to write and code the requirements and provide a testing team to test the new functionality. The senior director of Company B will require weekly progress updates. The project manager from Company A will create project plans, schedule meetings, and provide meeting minutes. In the scenario above, what is the role of the technical staff and testing team from Company A?

1. Accountable

2. Consult

3. Inform

4. Responsible

37. An insurance company embarks on a project to replace its current enrollment and billing software application, which will no longer be supported by the end of the calendar year. The new enrollment and billing application must be implemented before the current vendor contract ends. The business analyst gathers the initial requirements for the new enrollment and billing application. Based on the large volume of requirements, the business analyst realizes that the requirements will need to be prioritized. Which requirements prioritization method should the business analyst use for this project?

1. Risk analysis

2. Weighted ranking

3. Time-boxing

4. MoSCoW

38. Requirements for a project have already been approved and finalized when a stakeholder approaches the project team with a change to one of their requirements. Which method of document control should the business analyst use to document changes in requirement(s) versioning?

1. Project plan

2. Problem or opportunity statement

3. Statement of work

4. Traceability matrix

39. A business analyst has elicited, documented, and verified the requirements, discovering that there are not enough resources to deliver all the requirements. Which technique should the business analyst employ to rectify the issue?

1. Ask stakeholders to vote on the requirements

2. Perform traceability to find out where the requirements originated

3. Hold a brainstorming workshop to build the rationale for the requirements

4. Survey stakeholders on their likes and dislikes about the requirements

40. During validation of a project solution, the business analyst discovers that a requirement has been altered. Instead of placing the company logo in the upper-left corner of the window, it is displayed in the upper-right corner. When the business analyst asks the developer about the change, the developer says that one of the stakeholders asked directly for the change. Which corrective action should the business analyst take?

1. Ask the developer to correct the logo as stated in the requirement

2. Confront the stakeholder that requested the change

3. Discuss the change in the next stakeholder meeting

4. Follow the change control process as defined in the business analysis plan

41. A business analyst is assigned to the lead analyst role for a project. This project is one of the largest in the history of the company and includes several components and complex interfaces. The system in development will be used by a wide variety of stakeholders. Which tool should the business analyst use to trace the large number of requirements that will be generated by this project?

1. Configuration management system

2. Sequence diagram

3. Process model

4. Data dictionary

42. You repeatedly ask stakeholders "why" to understand a problem. What technique is this?

1. Five Whys

2. Interrelationship Diagram

3. Fishbone Diagram

4. Root Cause Analysis

43. A colleague (not a stakeholder) suggests adding requirements after baseline. Best action?

1. Discuss with the team

2. Perform impact analysis

3. Refuse the change

4. Add the requirement

44. Executive managers, who provide strategic direction but are not direct users of the solution, typically fall into which category of the influence/impact matrix?

1. Low/High

2. High/Low

3. High/High

4. Low/Low

45. What is the primary purpose or use of an elicitation plan in business analysis?

1. Coordinates/conducts elicitation

2. Stakeholder org/contact info

3. Elicitation timing/schedule

4. Elicitation questions

46. The following requirement was included in a business requirements document: "An API shall be built to send data back and forth from the accounting system to the customer relationship system so that name and address data can be synchronized." What should be done with this business requirement?

1. It should be revised because it states a solution to the problem rather than the business need

2. It should remain because it specifies the type of data and the source system

3. It should remain because it specifies the reason why the business requirement is needed

4. It should be removed because it does not state how often the data should be synchronized

47. The business analyst has concluded a requirements elicitation workshop. They now need to document the rationale for each requirement. Which of the following pairs of items would be important to include in the rationale?

1. Stakeholder impact and design decisions

2. Reasons and assumptions

3. Product vision and operational relationships

4. Functional relationships and work breakdown structure code

48. You are looking for similar solutions at other companies to inform your "to-be" analysis. What technique is this?

1. Competitive analysis

2. SWOT analysis

3. Gap analysis

4. Benchmarking

49. A business analyst is leading a project to implement automated order entry software at a local pizza restaurant. The business analyst has very little information about the project. The ordering process takes too long and often ends in incorrect orders. What step should the business analyst take next?

1. Schedule a requirements gathering session with the manager of the ordering department

2. Request information on the current ordering process and compare it with other companies

3. Select the software to implement and start working with the technical resources

4. Identify testing resources to support the implementation

50. A company is awarded a contract to design and build a custom product. The contract references a detailed technical specification. What is the best action to take to ensure the design meets customer requirements?

1. Create a system requirements verification matrix to trace the design to the technical requirements and include verification methods

2. Generate a design package for the product and ask the customer to verify that the design meets his or her technical needs

3. Develop a test plan to verify that the product meets the performance requirements in the technical specification

4. Conduct a one-on-one interview with each member of the technical team to ensure that they understand the customer's specification

FAQs

1. What is the PMI Professional in Business Analysis (PMI-PBA) certification?

It is a globally recognized PMI credential that validates your skills in business analysis, requirements management, and bridging project management with business needs.

2. How do I become PMI-PBA certified?

You must meet PMI’s eligibility requirements, apply through PMI.org, and pass the PMI-PBA exam.

3. What are the eligibility requirements for the PMI-PBA exam?

• Secondary degree + 7,500 hours of BA experience + 35 hours of BA training, OR

• Bachelor’s degree + 4,500 hours of BA experience + 35 hours of BA training.

4. How much does the PMI-PBA certification exam cost?

PMI members: $405 USD.

Non-members: $555 USD.

5. How many questions are on the PMI-PBA exam?

The exam consists of 200 multiple-choice questions.

6. What is the passing score for the PMI-PBA exam?

PMI does not disclose a fixed passing score; performance is reported by proficiency levels.

7. What topics are covered in the PMI Professional in Business Analysis exam?

The domains are: Needs Assessment, Planning, Analysis, Traceability and Monitoring, and Evaluation.

8. How long is the PMI-PBA exam and what is the format?

It is a 4-hour, computer-based exam with 200 questions.

9. How long does it take to prepare for the PMI-PBA certification exam?

On average, candidates spend 10–12 weeks preparing.

10. What is the difficulty level of the PMI Professional in Business Analysis exam?

It is moderately to highly difficult, requiring both knowledge and real-world BA experience.

11. Are there any PMI-PBA sample questions or practice tests available?

Yes, PMI provides sample questions, and CertiMaan offers practice tests and dumps.

12. What is the validity period of the PMI-PBA certification?

The certification is valid for 3 years.

13. How many PDUs are required to maintain the PMI-PBA certification?

You need 60 PDUs every 3 years.

14. Can I retake the PMI-PBA exam if I fail?

Yes, you can take the exam up to 3 times within your one-year eligibility period.

15. What jobs can I get with a PMI-PBA certification?

Typical roles include Business Analyst, Requirements Manager, Business Systems Analyst, and Project Manager.

16. How much salary can I earn with PMI Professional in Business Analysis certification?

Salaries vary, but PMI-PBA certified professionals often earn 20% more than non-certified peers.

17. Is the PMI-PBA certification worth it?

Yes. It demonstrates strong BA skills, boosts career opportunities, and enhances credibility.

18. What is the difference between PMI-PBA and CBAP certifications?

• PMI-PBA: PMI-focused, integrates BA with project/program management.

• CBAP: IIBA-focused, designed for senior business analysts.

19. What are the best study materials for PMI Professional in Business Analysis exam?

Use PMI’s Exam Content Outline, PMI-PBA reference guides, and practice resources from CertiMaan.

20. Where can I register for the PMI-PBA certification exam?

You can register directly on the PMI website (pmi.org) by submitting your application.