Top 20 business analyst interview

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Tell me about yourself?
This is probably the most asked
question in business analyst interview.
It breaks the ice and gets you to talk
about something you should be fairly
comfortable with. Have something
prepared that doesn't sound rehearsed.
It's not about you telling your life story
and quite frankly, the interviewer just
isn't interested. Unless asked to do so,
stick to your education, career and
current situation. Work through it
chronologically from the furthest back
to the present.

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Define Application Usability?
Application usability is actually the
quality of the system that makes the
system useful for its end users.
Systems usability is good if it is
capable of achieving users goals.
Personas are basically social roles,
performed by any actor or character. It
is derived from a Latin word meaning
character. In marketing terminology, it
represents group of customers/end
users.

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What Can You Do for Us That Other Candidates
Can't?

What makes you unique? This will

take an assessment of your
experiences, skills and traits.
Summarize concisely: "I have a
unique combination of strong
technical skills, and the ability to
build strong customer relationships.
This allows me to use my
knowledge and break down
information to be more user-

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 friendly."

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How do you define Personas?
Personas are used instead of real users
that assist developers and technical
team to judge the user behavior in
different scenarios, more clearly.
Personas are basically social roles,
performed by any actor or character. It
is derived from a Latin word meaning
character. In marketing terminology, it
represents group of customers/end
users.

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How can you explain the user centered design
methodology?
It all depends on the end users. In
such scenario, we develop the
system with a users point of view.
Who are the end users, what they
require etc. Personas are basically
social roles, performed by any actor
or character. It is derived from a
Latin word meaning character. In
marketing terminology, it represents
group of customers/end users.

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How can you explain the user centered design
methodology?
It all depends on the end users. In
such scenario, we develop the system
with a users point of view. Who are
the end users, what they require etc.
Personas are basically social roles,
performed by any actor or character.
It is derived from a Latin word
meaning character. In marketing
terminology, it represents group of
customers/end users.

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What FMEA stands for?
It means Failure Mode and Effects
Analysis. It is a failure analysis, that
is used mainly in product
development, system engineering and
operations management. This analysis
is performed to figure out various
failure modes and their severity in any
system.

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What is Pareto Analysis?
It is a decision making technique, also
known as 80/20 rule. It is used for
quality control and defect resolution. It
explains few factors that can be
responsible for big problems. It is
named as 80/20 rule, because as per this
rule, 80 % effects in the system, arises
from 20 % causes.

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What is a 100-point method?
This method is used to assign priority
to different steps in a process. Each
group member is supposed to assign
points to different steps. In the end all
the points for each step are calculated.
The step having the highest points has
the highest priority.

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What is a flowchart and why it is important?
Define Use Case Model?
Flowchart shows complete flow of
system through symbols and diagrams. It
is important, because it makes the
system easy to understand for developers
and all concerned people.

Use case model shows sequence of

events and stream of actions regarding
any process performed by an actor.

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What steps are required to develop a product
from an idea?
You have to perform, Market Analysis,
Competitor Analysis, SWOT Analysis,
Personas, Strategic Vision and Feature
Set, Prioritize Features, Use Cases,
SDLC, Storyboards, Test Cases,
Monitoring, Scalability.

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Differentiate between Fish Model and V Model?
Fish model is comparatively very
costly and time consuming, while,
V model requires less time and
cost. Moreover, Fish model is
used when there were no
ambiguities in the customers
requirements. Otherwise, other
model is preferred.

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Define Benchmarking?
Benchmarking is about measuring
performance of an organization to
compete in the industry. In this process a
company may measure its policies,
performance, rules and other measures.

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Define Agile?
Agile is basically a technique that uses
several light-weight methodologies such as
Rapid Application Development (RAD),
Extreme Programming (XP) and SCRUM.
All these methodologies focus on the
development of iterative solutions

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Define Scrum Method? What does JAD stand
for?
It is one of the agile methods, used to
develop iterative information systems.
In this method a small team works on
the assigned tasks for a time period of
30 days usually.

It means Joint Application

Development.

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Define BCG Matrix?
The Boston Consulting Group (BCG)
matrix is developed to analyze several
of business processes and new product
offerings from companies. It is a useful
tool that can be used in portfolio
analysis, strategic management, product
management, and brand marketing.

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Do you have suggestions to make an effective
use-case model?
Yes, I would suggest making two
separate diagrams. One serves as a use-
case and the other serves as an actor
diagram. So that we can highlight all
the possible activities in a use case & in
actor diagram and then we can merge
both the diagrams to get an effective
use-case diagram.

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Define Pair-Choice Technique?
The pair-Choice Technique is used to
give priority to various items in a
process. It is mainly used when
distinctive stakeholders are involved in
the project. This technique asks from
the group to compare each item with the
other and select the one having highest
priority.

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Can you define mis-use case? How many types
of actor can be there in a Use-Case?
It is a term derived from use-case.
Unlike use case, a mis-use case is
something that shows -what kind of
malicious activities can be performed
by an actor that may result in system
failure.

There are primary and secondary actors.

Primary actors start the process and
secondary actors assist them. Moreover,
actors can be of four types such as
Human, System, Hardware and Timer.

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Define BPMN Gateway? Name the five basic
elements categories in BPMN? What BPMN
stands for?
BPMN Gateway is a processing
modeling component that is used to
control flow of interaction, sequence of
processes.

They are Flow Objects, Data,

Connecting Objects, Swimlanes and
Artifacts.

It is Business Process Model and

Notation. It is a graphical representation
of business processes.

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Top 6 tips for job interview

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Tip 1: Do your homework
You'll likely be asked difficult questions
during the interview. Preparing the list of
likely questions in advance will help you
easily transition from question to question.

Spend time researching the company. Look

at its site to understand its mission statement,
product offerings, and management team. A
few hours spent researching before your
interview can impress the hiring manager
greatly. Read the company's annual report
(often posted on the site), review the
employee's LinkedIn profiles, and search the
company on Google News, to see if they've
been mentioned in the media lately. The
more you know about a company, the more
you'll know how you'll fit in to it.

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Tip 2: First impressions
When meeting someone for the first time, we
instantaneously make our minds about various aspects of
their personality.
Prepare and plan that first impression long before you
walk in the door. Continue that excellent impression in
the days following, and that job could be yours.
Therefore:
Never arrive late.
Use positive body language and turn on your
charm right from the start.
Switch off your mobile before you step into the
room.
Look fabulous; dress sharp and make sure you look
your best.
Start the interview with a handshake; give a nice
firm press and then some up and down movement.
Determine to establish a rapport with the
interviewer right from the start.
Always let the interviewer finish speaking before
giving your response.
Express yourself fluently with clarity and
precision.

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Tip 3: The Hidden Job Market
Many of us dont recognize that hidden job
market is a huge one and accounts for 2/3
of total job demand from enterprises. This
means that if you know how to exploit a
hidden job market, you can increase your
chance of getting the job up to 300%.

In this section, the author shares his

experience and useful tips to exploit hidden
job market.

Here are some sources to get penetrating

into a hidden job market: Friends; Family;
Ex-coworkers; Referral; HR communities;
Field communities; Social networks such
as Facebook, Twitter; Last recruitment
ads from recruiters; HR emails of potential
recruiters

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Tip 4: Do-It-Yourself Interviewing Practice
There are a number of ways to prepare
for an interview at home without the
help of a professional career counselor
or coach or a fee-based service.

You can practice interviews all by

yourself or recruit friends and family to
assist you.

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Tip 5: Ask questions
Do not leave the interview without
ensuring that you know all that you
want to know about the position. Once
the interview is over, your chance to
have important questions answered has
ended. Asking questions also can show
that you are interested in the job. Be
specific with your questions. Ask about
the company and the industry. Avoid
asking personal questions of the
interviewer and avoid asking questions
pertaining to politics, religion and the
like.

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interview

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Tip 6: Follow up and send a thank-you note
Following up after an interview can
help you make a lasting impression and
set you apart from the crowd.
Philip Farina, CPP, a security career
expert at Manta Security Management
Recruiters, says: "Send both an email as
well as a hard-copy thank-you note,
expressing excitement, qualifications
and further interest in the position.
Invite the hiring manager to contact you
for additional information. This is also
an excellent time to send a strategic
follow-up letter of interest."

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