Business Analyst Interview Questions

What is the importance of a flow chart???

Flow chart is graphical representation of the process which makes the system simple to understand for all the persons who belongs to the development of the project.

What is a use case model? Explain in brief ?

Use case diagram:

Use case diagrams describe the business environment. It is a series of events / flow of actions related to a process that are performed by an actor.

What is called an UML modeling?

UML means unified modeling language. It is the standard language for constructing, visualizing and documenting the components of a system.

What is the importance of an Activity diagram?

The main use of an activity diagram is to show the work flow of the business and to show the activities happening in the business system and actions completed. In a companies there may be different sections like medical, accounting, HR etc..and each department has different privileges to the system. I.e medical dept can access only medical related screens and HR dept to only HR screens etc..So this activity diagrams shows the activities of different departments with their relation. This will be useful to the developers while designing and coding.

How many types of diagrams and what you know about them ?

Use case diagram &

Collaboration diagram.

What is meant by alternate flow in use case ?

It is a flow that will come into picture when there is a failure in the system and expected results did not come.

What do you mean by exception flow in a use case?

It is basically any unexpected situations or unusual results in an application.

These exceptions are handles in different ways.

What do you mean by extends and includes in an use case?

Extend means when there is a specific action must take place. And include means the action may or may not take place.

What are different documents that relate to a use cases.?

There are 2 docs.

FRD (functional requirement document)

SDD (system design document) / TRS (Technical requirements specifications)