CBAP · Question #101
What element of the conduct elicitation activity is tracked to provide a basis for future planning?
The correct answer is A. Time actually spent eliciting the requirements. Tracking actual time spent during elicitation provides a historical baseline that business analysts use to plan and estimate future elicitation activities more accurately.
Question
What element of the conduct elicitation activity is tracked to provide a basis for future planning?
Options
- ATime actually spent eliciting the requirements
- BNumber of stakeholders that did not participate in the requirements elicitation
- CCost of actually eliciting the requirements
- DChanges that entered the scope throughout the requirements elicitation activities
How the community answered
(38 responses)- A79% (30)
- B5% (2)
- C3% (1)
- D13% (5)
Why each option
Tracking actual time spent during elicitation provides a historical baseline that business analysts use to plan and estimate future elicitation activities more accurately.
Recording the actual time spent on elicitation activities creates a measurable baseline for estimating how long similar efforts will take in the future. This historical data directly informs scheduling and resource planning for subsequent elicitation work, making it the element most relevant to future planning.
The number of non-participating stakeholders measures engagement coverage, not time or effort data useful for planning future elicitation schedules.
Cost data serves budget and financial tracking purposes but does not directly provide the time-based planning baseline needed for scheduling future elicitation activities.
Scope changes are managed through change control processes and represent deviations from the plan, not a metric that serves as a basis for planning future elicitation work.
Concept tested: Tracking elicitation activity time for future planning
Source: https://www.iiba.org/standards-and-resources/babok/
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