Here is a list of the most common business analyst interview questions and how to answer them.
1) What is a business analysis?
Business analysis is the set of tasks, skills, and knowledge needed to figure out what a business needs and how to solve problems in an enterprise. Even though the general definition is the same, different industries may have different ways of doing things.
In the IT field, solutions often involve systems development, but they could also involve process improvement or organisational change.
Business analysis can also be used to learn about the current state of an organisation or to figure out what its business needs are. Most of the time, though, business analysis is used to define and test solutions that meet the needs, goals, or objectives of a business.
2) Who is a Business Analyst?
A business analyst is someone who looks at an organisation or business domain, real or imagined, and writes down its business, processes, or systems. They also evaluate the business model or how it works with technology. But titles within an organisation can be different, like analyst, business analyst, business systems analyst, or systems analyst.
3) Why does a company need a Business Analyst?
Because of the following, businesses need business analysts:
- To put a system into place in an organisation, you need to know how it works and what its basic structure is.
- To find ways the target organisation could improve and to understand the problems it is facing right now.
- To make sure that the end user, the customer, and the developers all know what the target organisation is,
4) Explain what a flowchart is.
Flowcharts use symbols and diagrams to show how all the parts of a system work together. It shows what information is needed for a process, where that information is kept, and how it moves through a system to reach a goal. To solve the problem, a flowchart is used.
5) Why is the flowchart so important?
The flowchart is important because it makes the system easy for the people who built it and everyone else who needs to know about it to understand.
6) What is the SDLC?
SDLC stands for Software Development Life Cycle, which is an acronym. System Development Life Cycle or Application Development Life Cycle are other names for it. It is used to talk about the planning, making, testing, and putting into use of an information system.
There are five steps in the SDLC process:
- Planning
- Analysis
- Design
- Implementation
- Maintenance
7) What kinds of SDLC models are there?
Here are the various SDLC models:
- Waterfall Model
- Iterative Model
- V-Model
- Spiral Model
- Prototype model, etc.
8) What should a business analyst\’s most important skills be?
An analyst of business must be:
- A good listener
- Easy to learn
- Good at figuring things out
- Approach to solving problems
- Tech Savvy
- Think outside the box.
Instead of the skills listed above, a business analyst needs to be able to speak and write English well.
9) What are the biggest problems a business analyst has to deal with?
Here are three problems that a business analyst has to deal with:
Change management is the most important problem to solve because it happens right now. It happens when you get the client\’s requirements, but when development starts, the client comes up with some changes or improvements.
- Managing across teams: It\’s because the team and the individuals don\’t get along. It takes smarts and people skills.
- Problems with talking to each other: This can happen sometimes.
You might be good at speaking and understanding English, but sometimes it\’s hard to understand people who speak English with a different accent. American people, for example, speak English. Romans speak English in a different way, etc.
10) What is project management? Can you explain?
Project management is the process of planning, organising, motivating, and controlling resources, procedures, and protocols to reach a specific goal. It helps solve both scientific and everyday problems. The most difficult part of project management is making sure all the project goals are met. These are things like time, quality, size, cost, etc.
11) Do you know anything about Risk and Issue?
Risk: Risk is something you can plan for and deal with by making plans to reduce it.
The issue is the name for the risk that came true. Once a problem has happened, it is fixed by contingency management or issue management. Most problems aren\’t solved, but you can learn something from them that you can use in other projects.
12) What do you think are a business analyst\’s most important strengths?
Business analysis is a field that is always changing, so a business analyst needs to have the right skills to do well. He needs to know about both technical and non-technical things.
13) What does SDD mean?
SDD stands for System Design Document. It is a step in the middle between developers and business users.
14) What are the diagrams that business analysts use most often?
These are the most common types of diagrams:
- What\’s going on?
- Business Domain model
- Data model
- Data flow diagram
- Feature matrix
- State diagram
- Sequence diagram
- Scope model etc.
15) What\’s a use case diagram?
A tool is a use case diagram. It is used to describe the whole business world. It shows a single actor doing a lot of things that all have something to do with each other.
16) What is modelling with UML?
Unified Modeling Language is what UML stands for. It is a standard in the business world that is used to see, write down, and build the different parts of a system.
17) Where do the rules not apply?
Exceptions are inputs, situations, or results that an application doesn\’t want to see.
18) What does a business analyst do and what are their roles?
A business analyst\’s main job is to organise requirements and documents in a clear way and make sure that the client and development team work together well.
19) What are the main tools a business analyst needs to do their job?
Most of the time, a business analyst uses tools like MS Word, MS Excel, Powerpoint, MS Project, etc.
20) What does INVEST mean?
INVEST stands for Independent, Negotiable, Valuable, Estimatable, Appropriately Sized, and Testable. It is used to help project managers and technical teams deliver high-quality products and services.
21) Which model, the Waterfall model or the Spiral model, do you think is better?
You should answer this question based on what kind of project it is and how big it is. You can also say that a life cycle model is always chosen to build a system based on the organisational culture and other factors.
22) What makes it different from other jobs?
Business analysis is different from financial analysis, project management, quality assurance, organisational development, testing, training, and creating documentation. But, depending on the company, a Business Analyst may do some or all of these similar jobs.
IT business analysts, technical business analysts, online business analysts, business systems analysts, or systems analysts are all names for business analysts who only work on making software systems.
Business analysis also involves coordinating between stakeholders, development teams, testing teams, and so on.
23) What are the most important steps in the SDLC?
Here are the most important parts of the SDLC:
Planning Stage Defining Stage Designing Stage Building Stage Testing Stage Deployment
24) What\’s the difference between Business Analysis and Business Analyst?
A business analyst is someone in a company who does business analysis.
25) As a business analyst, which tools do you think are more useful?
There are a lot, but the ones I use most are Rational Tools, MS Visio, MS Word, MS Excel, MS Project, and MS PowerPoint.
26) What kinds of documents have you made in the past?
I have worked on Functional Specification Documents, Technical Specification Documents, Business Requirements Documents, Use Case Diagrams, etc.
27) What is Software as a Service (SaaS)?
Software as a Service is what SaaS stands for. It has to do with computing in the cloud. It\’s different from other software packages because you don\’t have to install this kind of software on your computer. To use it, all you need is a way to connect to the Internet and a Web browser.
28) What steps must be taken to turn an idea into a product?
You must do a Market Analysis, a Competitor Analysis, a SWOT Analysis, a Personas Analysis, a Strategic Vision Analysis, and a Feature Set Analysis. Features, Use Cases, SDLC, Storyboards, Test Cases, Monitoring, and Scalability should be put in order of importance.
29) What is an OLTP system?
On-Line Transaction Processing (OLTP) is what OLTP stands for. These kinds of systems can do database transactions and are meant to make database transactions go quickly. Most of the time, these systems are used to enter data and get information from a database.
30) How many different kinds of business analysis methods are there?
When helping a business, a business analyst can choose from more than 100 business techniques. These techniques are put into groups called strategic, investigative, analytical, project management, documentation, and modelling.
31) What is the Pugh Matrix?
The Six Sigma method always includes this technique. It is also called a design matrix or a problem matrix.
The Pugh Matrix is used to figure out the best solution and other options.