Agile Business Analyst (AgileBA) Practice Exam

Knowledge exists on a spectrum from explicit to tacit, with a middle ground called semi-tacit. Explicit knowledge is codified and written down—things you can share and transfer easily, like requirement specifications, models, or process diagrams. Tacit knowledge lives in people’s heads—their experience, intuition, and know-how that’s hard to articulate. Between these two is semi-tacit knowledge, which is not fully codified but is partially expressed in guides, templates, best-practice notes, or workflows that people can follow, though real mastery still relies on experience. This mix is why explicit, tacit, and semi-tacit is the best answer: it captures the full range of how knowledge can exist and be transferred in a project. The other options mix concepts that don’t describe how knowledge is expressed or shared—like ownership terms (public/private/shared) or presentation modes (formal/informal)—and one substitutes implicit for semi-tacit, which doesn’t clearly reflect the intermediate state between codified and deeply tacit knowledge.