Business Analyst Interview Questions and Answers: with Scenario based questions

From the AuthorGlad to present the latest edition of this BA interview questions and answers book, which is much bigger than the previous edition and has more questions with improved answers and illustrations (wherever needed). This book is written to enable business analysts to succeed in the job interviews. This book covers general, business analysis core skills and situational interview questions with suggested answers.In my professional career, I have interviewed 100s of IT professionals at different levels. I came across several professionals, who could not answer questions as effectively as I would have liked. Even though, I can make out that they knew the answers but could not structure them well.I wanted to create a self-help book which would enable business analysts doing well in the interviews and getting their dream jobs.This book has four sections as describes below.Section I deals with general questions. These questions give the interviewer(s) the first impression about your confidence, composure, and basic communication skills. This section includes General questions about you and your profile as well as General BA questions about the role and the projects.Second II – Business Analysis core skills has questions relating to Requirements elicitation, techniques, UML modelling, Requirements specifications documentation (Business Analysis core skills). It covers various aspects of requirements, Use cases, process diagrams, SRS and its elements, prioritization, elicitation, verification, and validation etc. It is also the longest section of the book. Section III deals with Agile, SCRUM and user stories. There are advance questions relating to personas and application usability as well.Section IV includes some additional questions on Business analysis. Section V deals with the situation / scenario-based questions. These questions are asked in the BA interviews regularly. I have tried to cover 20+ situations questions to provide a wide coverage. Each of the answers have been provided with the context and suggested answers.ContributorsI must thank my colleagues Rashmi Srivastava and Neha for the sincere and diligent contributions to help me with inputs and feedbacks.Abhishek Srivastava