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10 free, exam-style IIBA Agile Analysis Certification (IIBA-AAC) practice questions with answers and explanations. No signup required. Work through them below, then take the full free IIBA-AAC practice test to study every exam domain.

Question 1

While elaborating a report, a business analysis practitioner adds several extra data fields that no stakeholder requested, reasoning that the team "might need them eventually." The added fields increase build and testing effort but deliver no confirmed value. Which Principle of Agile Business Analysis is the practitioner MOST directly working against?

  1. Avoid Waste
  2. Understand What is Doable
  3. Get Real Using Examples
  4. See the Whole
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Correct answer: A - Avoid Waste

Question 2

A project manager argues that, because the team now follows agile, it should stop producing documentation of any kind. Using the Agile Manifesto value "working software over comprehensive documentation," which response is MOST accurate?

  1. Once a team adopts agile values, producing any form of documentation is no longer permitted
  2. Comprehensive documentation must always be finished before any software is built
  3. Documentation and working software carry equal weight in every situation
  4. Working software is valued more, yet documentation still has value when it helps
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Correct answer: D - Working software is valued more, yet documentation still has value when it helps

Question 3

A stakeholder says a proposed change is only worth funding if it is genuinely useful to the customers it serves. In the Business Analysis Core Concept Model (BACCM), the worth or usefulness of something to a stakeholder within a context is captured by which core concept?

  1. Need
  2. Value
  3. Solution
  4. Context
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Correct answer: B - Value

Question 4

An executive leadership team is deciding which of several competing products to fund for the coming fiscal year and how to allocate people and budget across the whole portfolio of work. At which planning horizon does this decision sit?

  1. Initiative Horizon
  2. Delivery Horizon
  3. Strategy Horizon
  4. Iteration Horizon
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Correct answer: C - Strategy Horizon

Question 5

Using Kano Analysis, a team examines a feature that customers fully expect to be present. Its presence does not noticeably raise satisfaction, but its absence makes customers actively dissatisfied. How is this feature BEST classified?

  1. Excitement (delighter) need
  2. Performance (linear) need
  3. Basic (threshold) need
  4. Indifferent need
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Correct answer: C - Basic (threshold) need

Question 6

To plan upcoming releases, a practitioner arranges user stories left to right along the sequence of activities a user performs to reach a goal, then groups them vertically into release slices. Which technique does this describe?

  1. Backlog Refinement
  2. Story Mapping
  3. Relative Estimation
  4. Story Decomposition
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Correct answer: B - Story Mapping

Question 7

During refinement the team finds a user story too large to complete within a single iteration and too uncertain to size with confidence. Applying the INVEST guidance for good stories, what is the MOST appropriate next step?

  1. Pull the story into the next iteration unchanged and absorb any overflow in a later iteration
  2. Split the story into smaller stories that can each be delivered within one iteration
  3. Remove the story from the product backlog because it currently cannot be estimated
  4. Convert the story directly into an entry in the team's definition of done
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Correct answer: B - Split the story into smaller stories that can each be delivered within one iteration

Question 8

A new team member asks how acceptance criteria differ from the definition of done. Which statement draws the distinction CORRECTLY?

  1. Acceptance criteria are agreed only once the project reaches closure; the definition of done is established sometime after delivery has occurred
  2. Acceptance criteria and the definition of done are interchangeable names for one checklist
  3. Acceptance criteria define conditions for one specific story to be accepted; the definition of done is a shared standard every increment must meet
  4. Acceptance criteria apply identically to every backlog item; the definition of done is written fresh for each story
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Correct answer: C - Acceptance criteria define conditions for one specific story to be accepted; the definition of done is a shared standard every increment must meet

Question 9

At the end of an iteration a team holds two separate sessions: in one, stakeholders view the working increment and give feedback on the product; in the other, only the team reflects on how it worked in order to improve. Which pairing identifies these sessions CORRECTLY?

  1. The first is the retrospective; the second is the iteration review held with stakeholders
  2. Both sessions are reviews, simply held with two different audiences at different times
  3. Both sessions are retrospectives, each one focused on a different topic
  4. The first is the iteration review; the second is the retrospective
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Correct answer: D - The first is the iteration review; the second is the retrospective

Question 10

Before committing to an estimate, a team faces an unfamiliar technology and cannot tell how hard a story will be. They create a short, time-boxed piece of work whose only goal is to investigate the unknown and reduce the uncertainty. What is this called?

  1. A spike
  2. A persona profile
  3. A retrospective
  4. A readiness checklist
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Correct answer: A - A spike

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