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BABOK Enterprise Analysis
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1. As PM matures into Critical Management Discipline - Orgs realize that _______.
Managing Projects has 2 initiatives
Executive Team
Solution Assessment and Validation Activities
Organization's Future
2. In the EA Activity - Selecting and Prioritizing New Business Opportunities - Sr. BAs (1) ________________; (2) Present Proposal for New Projects.
CMBA: Creating and Maintaining The Business Architecture
Collaborate with SME
Long term goals/objectives
Plan and Facilitate Portfolio Management Meetings
3. In the EA Activity - Business Architecture Development - the BAs (1) Use Information from Strategic Plan and Goals (2) Lead Development and ________________.
Strategic Plan
Selecting and Prioritizing New Business Opportunities
Application
Maintenance of Current and Future State Business Architecture
4. The Requirements Planning and Management Activities: 1) ____________; 2) DBAWDS: Define Business Analyst Work Division Strategy; 3) DRRA: Define Requirements Risk Approach; 4) DPC: Determine Planning Considerations; 5) SRA: Select Requirements Activi
Provide Executive Presentation
UTRP: Understand Team Roles for the Project
Strategic Plan Document
Business Requirements
5. Collection of Pre-Project Activities to Capture Future view of Business to provide Context to Project Requirements Elicitation - and Solution Design for Given Initiative or long-term Planning.
Plan and Facilitate Portfolio Management Meetings
Organization's Reason for Being
Small - Low-Risk project
Enterprise Analysis Activities
6. Business Architecture considered to be: __________ used to understand the current state and plans for the future state of the enterprise.
Sr. BAs
Strategic asset
Enterprise Governance Body
Provide Executive Presentation
7. The 10 Requirements Elicitation Techniques: 1) BS: Brainstorming; 2) _______________; 3) FG: Focus Group; 4) IA: Interface Analysis; 5) I: Interview; 6) O: Observation; 7) P: Prototyping; 8) RW: Requirements Workshop; 9) RE: Reverse Engineering; 10)
Initiatives realized by Organizations
DA: Document Analysis
Business Architecture
Organization's Reason for Being
8. In the EA Activity - Strategic Goal Development - what are the Deliverables?
Strategic Goals - Themes - and Measures
Provide Executive Presentation
Internal interest only
Determine Most Viable Option
9. _________________________- considered during the Strategic Planning Process: (1) Investigate Current Strategy as related to Environmental and Market Trends; (2) Assess Current Technology Structure and Strategies to Ensure Fit with Business Vison; (3)
Provide Executive Presentation
Business Circumstances and Needs
Project Plan
Requirements Analysis and Documentation
10. In the EA Activity Business Case Development - who is the ______? Business Analyst
Significant - High-Risk project
Owner
Strategic asset
Maintenance of Current and Future State Business Architecture
11. The attributes of a significant - high risk project type: 1) 12 - 24 months; 2) _____________; 3) Problem and solution difficult to define/understand and solution difficult to achieve; 4) Affects core service delivery or directly relates to key initi
Low-to-Moderate Risk project
Context
UTRP: Understand Team Roles for the Project
Fixed deadline. no flexibility
12. Outputs from Enterprise Analysis will become ________ to: a) Requirements Planning and Management; b) Requirements Elicitation/Gathering; c) Requirements Communication.
Inputs
Updated Business Case at Key Control Gates
Strategic asset
Future Course of an Enterprise
13. In the EA Activity - Managing Projects for Value - BAs (1) Works in Partnership with PM to Update Business Case at key checkpoint control gate reviews to ________________ to Help Determine whether to Continue to Invest in Project.
Provide Management with Info
Propose New Programs
Maintenance of Current and Future State Business Architecture
Facilitate Strategic Goal Setting Sessions
14. For Management to _____________ they need: 1) Accurate - (2) Consistent - (3) Useful Information about new ventures and currently funded ventures.
Selecting and Prioritizing New Business Opportunities
Plan and Facilitate Portfolio Management Meetings
Initiatives realized by Organizations
Invest in Most Valuable Projects
15. The level of enterprise analysis needed for a ____________: 1) Simplified set of enterprise analysis deliverables: a) Simplified Business Case; b) some Business Architecture to provide context.
Small - Low-Risk project
CMBA: Creating and Maintaining The Business Architecture
Enterprise Governance Body
Collaborate with SME
16. What does Strategic Planning Serve to Establish?
Future Course of an Enterprise
Enterprise Analysis Activites
UTRP: Understand Team Roles for the Project
Business Architecture
17. Business Architecture provides ____________ that guides selection and management of programs/projects.
Strategic Goal Development
Feasibility Study Report
Unified structure and context
Project Plan
18. The Requirements Elicitation Task
Measured and Analyzed
Business Analyst
Enterprise Analysis Activites
ER: Elicit Requirements
19. The Business Architecture describes: 1) Business Strategy; 2) ___________________; 3) High level business environment through process or functional view; 4) Technological environment; 5) External environment.
Business Circumstances and Needs
DA: Document Analysis
Long term goals/objectives
UTRP: Understand Team Roles for the Project
20. The attributes of a small - low risk project type: 1) < 6 months; 2) Schedule is flexible; 3) Not complex: easily understood/solution readily available; 4) ________________; 5) Impacts a single bu; 6) No major dependencies/inter-related projects
Application
Managing Projects for Value
Owner
Internal interest only
21. KA of BABOK that Describes Business Analysis Activities need for organizations to (1) Identify Business Opportunities - (2) Build Business Architecture Framework - (3) Determine Optimum Project Investment Path - including New Business and Technical S
Facilitate Strategic Goal Setting Sessions
Feasibility Study Report
Enterprise Analysis
Business Architecture
22. In the EA Activity - Feasibility Studies - BAs (1) Collaborate with SME; (2) Facilitate team to (a) Identify Solutions; (b) Examine Feasibility of Each Option; (c) _______________
Determine Most Viable Option
Measured and Analyzed
Unified structure and context
New Project Proposal
23. In the EA Activity - Managing Projects for Value - what are the Deliverables?
Actual vs. Expected Benefits
Updated Business Case at Key Control Gates
Significant - High-Risk project
Business Analyst
24. Investigative - Feasibility - or Business Architecture Endeavor; Managed as Stand-Alone Project.
Enterprise Analysis Activites
Organization's Future
Sr. BAs
Enterprise Analysis in large organizations
25. In the EA Activity - Launching New Projects - who is the owner?
Requirements Communications Tasks
Project Manager
Selecting and Prioritizing New Business Opportunities
Balanced Scorecard Reports
26. In the Activity - Strategic Goal Development - Sr. BA's _______________
Facilitate Strategic Goal Setting Sessions
Owner
Inputs
Fully Understand Strategic Planning Process
27. Higher-level statements of Goals - Objectives - Needs of Enterprise.
Project Manager
Inputs
Business Analyst
Business Requirements
28. In the EA Activity - Business Architecture Development - who is the Owner?
Selecting and Prioritizing New Business Opportunities
Business Analyst
Collaborate with SME
Enterprise Analysis Activites
29. In the EA Activity - Tracking Project Benefits - what are the Deliverables?
Long term goals/objectives
Balanced Scorecard Reports
Enterprise Governance Body
Managing Projects for Value
30. In the EA Activity - Strategic Goal Development - who is the owner?
Strategic asset
Executive Team
Long term goals/objectives
Business Circumstances and Needs
31. Business Analyst collaborates with ____________ to build a Strong Relationship between the Business and Technical Communities when Implementing a New IT-Enabled Business Solution.
Low-to-Moderate Risk project
Increase the Value Projects Bring to the Organization
Business Stakeholders
6 - 12 months
32. (1) Why a Project is Initiated; (2) What a Project will Achieve; (3) Metrics used to Measure Success.
Inputs
Significant - High-Risk project
Business Requirements descriptions
DA: Document Analysis
33. Why are Companies adopting the practice of Professional Business Analysis? To ___________.
Increase the Value Projects Bring to the Organization
Project Plan
Internal interest only
Selecting and Prioritizing New Business Opportunities
34. Through Business Analysis Practices - _____________ is: (1) Gathered - (2) Analyzed - (3) Prepared in form of Decision Package for new projects.
Provide Management with Info
Decision-Support Information
Inputs
Determine Most Viable Option
35. In the EA Activity - New Project Proposal - BAs (1) Collect relevant Info about Proposed new Project; (2) _________________; (3) Provide Decision Package to Business Sponsor to propose New Project to Organizational Project Investment Governance Body.
Organization's Reason for Being
Provide Executive Presentation
Strategic asset
Determine Most Viable Option
36. The Activities in Enterprise Analysis: (1) Strategic Plan Development; (2) ______________ (3) Business Architecture Developoment; (4) Feasibility Studies; (5) Business Case Development; (6) New Project Proposal; (7) Selecting and Prioritizing New Bus
Executive Team
Strategic Goal Development
Updated Business Case at Key Control Gates
Low-to-Moderate Risk project
37. Business Requirements for future project investments which are also Documented.
6 - 12 months
Enterprise Analysis Activities
Identified during Enterprise Analysis Activities
Business Circumstances and Needs
38. In the EA Activity - Feasibility Studies - what are the Deliverables?
ER: Elicit Requirements
Unified structure and context
Feasibility Study Report
Low-to-Moderate Risk project
39. The 7 _______________: 1) CRCP: Create a Requirements Communication Plan; 2) MRC: Manage Requirements Conflicts; 3) DARF: Determine Appropriate Requirements Format; 4) CRP: Create a Requirements Package; 5) CRP: Conduct a Requirements Presentation; 6
Business Architecture
CMBA: Creating and Maintaining The Business Architecture
Requirements Communications Tasks
Managing Projects has 2 initiatives
40. The 3 ____________________ Techniques: 1) DBM: Data and Behavior Models; 2) P/FM: Process / Flow Models; 3) UM: Usage Models
Business Circumstances and Needs
Long term goals/objectives
CMBA: Creating and Maintaining The Business Architecture
Requirements Analysis and Documentation
41. What does the Business Architecture define?
Plan and Facilitate Portfolio Management Meetings
Relevant stakeholders
Managing Projects has 2 initiatives
Application
42. In the EA Activity - Launching New Project - what are the Deliverables?
Increase the Value Projects Bring to the Organization
Project Plan
Managing Projects has 2 initiatives
Balanced Scorecard Reports
43. Set of documentation that defines an organization's current and future capabilities;
Business Architecture
Relevant stakeholders
Enterprise Analysis in large organizations
Business Case Document
44. The attributes of a low-to-moderate risk project type: 1) ______________; 2) Schedule undergos variations - but deadlines are firm; 3) Complexity small: difficult to understand or solution is difficult to achieve/unclear; 4) Some direct business impa
6 - 12 months
Future Course of an Enterprise
Enterprise Governance Body
Business Architecture
45. In the EA Activity - _________________ - what are the Deliverables? (1) Project Selection; (2) Project Priority; (3) Project Charter
Enterprise Analysis
Identified during Enterprise Analysis Activities
DA: Document Analysis
Selecting and Prioritizing New Business Opportunities
46. In the EA Activity Business Case Development - what are the Deliverables?
Business Case Document
Business Analyst
SRP: Structure Requirements Packages
Internal interest only
47. In the EA Acitivity - Strategic Plan Development - ______: (1) Conduct Competitive Analysis; (2) Benchmark Studies to servve as Input to Strategic Planning Process; (3) Plan/Facilitate Strategic Planning Sessions.
Managing Projects has 2 initiatives
Sr. BAs
Business Case Document
Updated Business Case at Key Control Gates
48. The Enterprise Architecture consists of five architectures: 1) Business Architecture; 2) Information Architecture; 3) ____________ Architecture; 4) Technology Architecture; 5) Security Architecture
Project Plan
Strategic asset
Balanced Scorecard Reports
Application
49. Things defined in the Strategic Planning Role: _______________ in Terms of (1) Vision - (2) Mission - (3) Strategic Goals.
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50. Information Compiled as a Result of Enterprise Analysis Facilitates: _____________ that Manifest themselves in Programs and Supporting Projects.
Business Analyst
Business Sponsor
Strategic asset
Investment Decisions