Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP) Practice Test

The activity that is essential for validating stakeholders' requirements against the identified problem is confirming elicitation results. This step ensures that the requirements gathered during the elicitation process accurately reflect the stakeholders' needs and the problem identified. By confirming these results, the business analyst can verify that there is an alignment between what stakeholders require and the actual issues that need to be addressed.

Validation serves as a critical check to ensure that all stakeholder inputs have been understood correctly and are being accurately represented in the requirements documentation. This process also provides an opportunity for clarification and adjustment if any discrepancies or misunderstandings are identified.

While identifying the business need provides a framework for what needs to be solved, and analyzing current capabilities helps to understand the existing situation, neither of these directly assesses whether the requirements align with the problem at hand. Similarly, assessing proposed solutions is a later stage in the analysis process where you evaluate how well potential solutions address the validated requirements, rather than focusing specifically on validating those requirements initially. Hence, confirming elicitation results is the most relevant activity for this context.