Free Business Architecture Guild CBA Practice Test & Real Exam Questions

Exam Code/Number: CBA
Exam Name/Title: Business Architecture Guild Certified Business Architect (CBA)®
Certification Provider: Business Architecture Guild
Corresponding Certification: Business Architecture Guild Certified

Exam Questions: 210
Updated On: Aug 12, 2026

Question #31

A business architecture practitioner:

A. Leverages business and IT capabilities to optimize business performance to satisfy customer needs

B. Provides a holistic perspective in defining business system initiatives to deliver strategic objectives

C. Works with the business to map business capabilities and ensure they support strategic goals

D. Translates strategy into actionable project plans

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Correct Answer: C Vote an answer

Question #32

A large retail company has a strong desire to establish a joint venture in a global location to increase manufacturing and research/development capabilities. Which business architecture practice helps identify the manner in which the two organizations can combine capabilities to optimize stakeholder value of the joint venture?

A. Information mapping

B. Stakeholder mapping

C. Value stream mapping

D. Business performance management

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Correct Answer: C Vote an answer

Question #33

Which aspect of business architecture should be utilized on a business unit operational improvement?

A. Aligning business units with IT architecture to deliver rationalized systems

B. Considering customer, trading partner and collaborative partner needs

C. Defining the scope of impact of objectives within a particular business unit strategy

D. Capability cross-mapping to ensure other business units are not adversely affected

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Correct Answer: D Vote an answer

Question #34

You are a portfolio manager who was assigned to help prioritize various projects under consideration for funding in this coming year. You have heat-mapped capabilities, value streams and value stream / capability cross-mappings for the business areas targeted by these projects. You have been asked to quickly provide feedback on more than three dozen projects. Projects should be prioritized based on their ability to:

A. Improve effectiveness of high impact capabilities across multiple value streams

B. Improve effectiveness of high impact stakeholders and product categories

C. Increase automation across a wide breadth of value streams and capabilities

D. Increase process efficiencies in high impact value streams and capabilities

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Correct Answer: A Vote an answer

Question #35

What is an attribute of capabilities?

A. They encapsulate people, processes and tools

B. They map to other views of the business

C. They are comprised of business processes

D. They are capabilities if they are automated

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Correct Answer: B Vote an answer

Question #36

What is the benefit of heat mapping the capability map when conceiving, building and launching a new product?

A. It identifies current processes needed to implement the new product

B. It identifies the resources required to deploy the new product

C. It provides insight to the capabilities of highest value to the product launch team

D. It identifies if improved or new capabilities are required to enable the product launch

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Correct Answer: D Vote an answer

Question #37

A business wants to shift from a product line and business unit centric business model to a customer centric business model. This would involve major business as well as IT transformation. Which baseline business frame of reference will provide the best foundation for such a transformation?

A. A well-defined information map and resulting conceptual and logical data architecture

B. A complete, detailed inventory of all business processes, application systems and databases

C. A mature capability map, value stream / capability mapping and business unit / capability mapping

D. A complete cross-mapping between the capability map and the current state application architecture

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Correct Answer: C Vote an answer

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Question #38

What is the value business architecture provides to inform, align and drive solution architecture?

A. Frames the data persistency approach used by a solution architecture

B. Establishes an agile requirements approach and methodology

C. Provides a frame of reference for articulating the scope of solution deployments

D. Provides best practices for establishing a technical architecture deployment

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Correct Answer: C Vote an answer

Question #39

A business architecture practitioner's advisory role is described as trusted advisor to:

A. IT as a liaison to the business

B. Analysts and software development teams

C. Business executives and planning teams

D. Other business architecture practitioners

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Correct Answer: C Vote an answer

Question #40

The set of competencies that illustrate the role of a business architecture practitioner are:

A. Decision making, strategy develpment and innovation

B. Subject matter expertise, decision making and leadership

C. Program management, consultancy and IT governance

D. Facilitation, influencing and leadership

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Correct Answer: D Vote an answer

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