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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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1. Gathering information relevant to a decision - breaking down the information relevant to a decision - making comparisons and tradeoffs between similar and dissimilar options and identifying the option that is most desirable.
Acceptance Criteria
To record the conflict in the Requirements Issues Log.
Decision Analysis
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)

2. Divides requirements into 4 categories - Must - Should - Could - Won't
Enterprise Analysis - often the starting point for initiating a new project
Repository - Traceability - Requirement Attributes - Prioritization Process - Change Management - Tailoring the Requirements Management Process
Verify Requirements
MoSCoW Analysis

3. What is the output of the task Confirm Elicitation Results?
Requirements (Prioritized)
Define Transitional Requirements
Requirements (Stated - Confirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Confirmed)
Requirements (Stated) - Stakeholder Concerns

4. What are the inputs to the task - Validate Requirements?
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Metrics & KPIs - Prototyping - Risk Analysis - Structured Walkthrough
Onion Diagram
Key Performance Indicator (KPI )
Business Case; Stakeholder - Solution or Transition Requirements (Verified)

5. Prioritizes requirements based on a allocated fixed amount of money.
Prepare Requirements Package
Activity List
SWOT Analysis
Budgeting

6. The knowledge area that describes how a BA manages conflicts - issues and changes in order to ensure that stakeholders and the project team remain in agreement on the solution scope - how requirements are communicated to stakeholders and how knowledg
Interface Analysis
Requirements Management & Communication
Business Analysis Approach
Stakeholder Matrix

7. Elements identified for each activity and task.
Conduct Elicitation Activity
Throw-away Prototype
Unique Number - Activity Description - Assumptions - Dependencies - Milestones
Decision Analysis - Focus Groups - Observation - Survey/Questionnaire

8. What techniques are used in the task - Prepare Requirements Package?
Business Analysis Performance Assessment - Business Analysis Process Assets - Includes a comparison of planned versus actual performance - understanding the root cause of variances from the plan and other information to help understand the level of
Requirements Documentation - Requirements for Vendor Selection
Business Case; Stakeholder - Solution or Transition Requirements (Verified)
Organize Requirements

9. What are the techniques used in the task Document Elicitation Results?
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Problem Tracking - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Compliance with regulatory or other standards
Business Need - Expert Judgment - Organizational Process Assets
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Decision Analysis - Vendor Assessment

10. Uses history as a basis for estimating. It is similar to analogous estimation - but is used not only for the top-down estimate - but for the detailed tasks as well.
Business Analysis Plan
Historic Analysis
Scenarios & Use Cases
Business Analysis Approach

11. Ability to find information - on-time completion of tasks - efficiency in the completion of work - ability to easily identify all outstanding work and the status of each work item.
Business Rules Analysis
Personal Organization
Ethics
Requirements (Maintained and Reusable)

12. What are the likely sources of transition requirements?
BABOK
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Brainstorming - Interviews - Organizational Modeling - Process Modeling - Requirements Workshop - Risk Analysis - Scenarios & Use Cases - User Stories - Scope Modeling - Survey/Questionnaire - RACI Matrix
Data - Ongoing Work - Organizational Change
Solution Assessment & Validation

13. Defines the key terms and data relevant to a business domain.
Data Dictionary & Glossary
BABOK
Structured Walkthrough
Repository - Traceability - Requirement Attributes - Prioritization Process - Change Management - Tailoring the Requirements Management Process

14. This knowledge area describes the problem definition and analysis - business case development - feasibility studies and the definition of solution scope.
Enterprise Analysis
Oral Communications - Teaching - Written Communication
Analogous Estimation
Requirements (Maintained and Reusable)

15. What are the attributes of a Data Model?
Name - Value/Meanings - Description
Document Analysis
Solution (Constructed) - Requirements (Prioritized and Validated)
Organize Requirements

16. The purpose is to describe the required qualities of a system - such as its usability and performance characteristics.
Non-functional Requirements Analysis
Interviews - Observation
Implementation SME
Assess Proposed Solution - Allocate Requirements - Assess Organizational Readiness - Define Transition Requirements - Validate Solution - Evaluate Solution Performance

17. A formal written specification with possible walk-thru - an informal one is possibly verbal or email Communication
Allocate Requirements
Formal requirements presentation to stakeholders
Observation
Business Policy

18. This technique represents the types of peoples - places - things and concepts that are important to the business - attributes associated with them and the significant business relationships among them.
Scenario
Data Modeling
MoSCoW Analysis
Requirements Analysis

19. What is the output of the task Prepare for Elicitation?
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Models - Focus Groups - Interviews - Survey/Questionnaire - Organizational Modeling - Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Force Field Analysis
Data Dictionary & Glossary - Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshops - Survey/Questionnaire
Business Principals
Scheduled Resources - Supporting Materials

20. Business value can be delivered through requirements that support _______________ - alignment with internal standards or policies of the organization - or increased satisfaction for stakeholders - even if those things do not have a direct measurable
Compliance with regulatory or other standards
Requirements (Maintained and Reusable)
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Models - Focus Groups - Interviews - Survey/Questionnaire - Organizational Modeling - Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Force Field Analysis

21. Issues that may influence the replacement or elimination decision of a system include:
Reliability - Validity - Timeliness
Business Analysis Performance Metrics - Business Analysis Plan - Organization Performance Standards - Requirements Management Plan
Solution (Constructed) - Requirements (Prioritized and Validated)
Ongoing Cost versus Initial Investment - Opportunity Costs - Necessity - Sunk Costs

22. What is the output of the task - Communicate Requirements?
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Business Rules Analysis - Focus Groups - Functional Decomposition - Root Cause Analysis
Implementation Approach
Communicated Requirements
Systems Thinking

23. What is the output of the task - Organize Requirements?
Requirements Structure
Business Requirements - Stakeholder Requirements - Solution Requirements - Transition Requirements
Requirements Workshop
User Story

24. Approach to decision making that examines and models the possible consequences of different decisions. Make an optimal decision under conditions of uncertainty.
Reliability - Validity - Timeliness
Unique Number - Activity Description - Assumptions - Dependencies - Milestones
Benefits - Costs - Risk Assessment - Results Measurement
Decision Analysis

25. States the business need - identifies key stakeholders and briefly describes the positive impact that meeting the business need will have on those stakeholders.
Decision Analysis - Process Modeling - Structured Walkthrough
Problem or Vision Statement
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Modeling - Organization Modeling - Data Modeling
Fishbone Diagram - Five Whys

26. List 3 possible forms of a requirements packages.
The Business Analysis Communication Plan
Business Analysis Plan
Formal Documentation - Presentation - Model
Scope Modeling

27. Strengths - Weaknesses - Opportunities - Threats - A valuable tool to quickly analyze various aspects of the current state of the business process undergoing change.
SWOT Analysis
General Purpose Applications & Specialized Applications
Opportunity Cost
Decision Analysis - Estimation - Metrics & KPIs - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Vendor Assessment

28. What is the output of the task - Assess Organizational Readiness?
Interviews
Benchmarking
Business Analysis Approach
Organizational Readiness Assessment

29. Details user interface requirements and integrates them with other requirements such as use cases - scenarios - data and business rules. Stakeholders often find this to be a concrete means of identifying - describing and validating their interface ne
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets
SWOT Analysis
Prototyping
Requirements (Verified)

30. How is the Operational Support stakeholder utilized in the Evaluate Solution Performance task?
Creative Thinking - Decision Making - Learning - Problem Solving - Systems Thinking
Name - Aliases - Values/Meanings - Description
This person will be involved in monitoring the performance and effectiveness of a solution or its components.
Formal Documentation - Presentation - Model

31. When performing root cause analysis as part of the Validate Solution task - what stakeholder may be involved?
Confirm Elicitation Results
Sequence Diagrams
Automate or Simplify Work - Improve Access to Information - Reduce Complexity of Interfaces - Increase Consistency of Behavior - Eliminate Redundancy
Implementation SME

32. A good indicator has 5 characteristics:
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving - Behavioral Characteristics - Business Knowledge - Communication Skills - Interaction Skills - Software Application
Clear - Relevant - Economical - Adequate - Quantifiable
Business Domain - Corporate Culture & Environment - Skills of the Analyst - Requirement Deliverable
Business Value - Business or Technical Risk - Implementation Difficulty - Likelihood of Success - Regulatory or Policy Compliance - Relationship to Other Requirements - Stakeholder Agreement - Urgency

33. The goal of this task is to ensure that all requirements support the delivery of value to the business - fulfill its goal and objectives and meet a stakeholder need.
Structured Walkthrough
Decision Analysis - Problem Tacking - Risk Analysis
Business Case - Business Need - Requirements - Requirements Management Plan - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Validate Requirements

34. What are the characteristics of quality for a requirements?
Solution Approach
Cohesive - Complete - Consistent - Correct - Feasible - Modifiable - Unambiguous - Testable
Business Analysis Plan
All

35. Is generally understood to describe just one way that an actor can accomplish a particular goal
Scenario
Underlying Competencies
Repository - Traceability - Requirement Attributes - Prioritization Process - Change Management - Tailoring the Requirements Management Process
Cognitive Conflict

36. What are the techniques for the task - Verify Requirements?
Assess Organization Readiness
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Problem Tracking - Structured Walkthrough - Checklists
Activity List
Decision Analysis - Estimation - Metrics & KPIs - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Vendor Assessment

37. Define the requirements that must be met in order for a solution to be considered acceptable to key stakeholders.
Acceptance & Evaluation Technique
Scheduled Resources - Supporting Materials
Non-functional Requirements Analysis
Stakeholder Matrix

38. While eliciting requirements it is important to guard against scope creep - This activity will ensure that the requirements should be included since they meet the business goal/objectives.
Tracing Requirements
Business Requirements - Stakeholder Requirements - Solution Requirements - Transition Requirements
Root Cause Analysis
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets

39. A means to elicit requirements by studying available documentation on existing and comparable solutions and identifying relevant information. - Not starting from a blank page.- Leveraging existing materials to discover and/or confirm requirements. -
Business Principals
Document Analysis
Risk Analysis
Benchmarking

40. The knowledge area that covers how BAs determine which activities are necessary in order to complete a business analysis effort.
Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring
Structured Walkthrough
Ethics
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving - Behavioral Characteristics - Business Knowledge - Communication Skills - Interaction Skills - Software Application

41. What are the characteristics of Interaction Skills?
Facilitation & Negotiation - Leadership & Influencing - Teamwork
Requirements (Stated) - Stakeholder Concerns
Organizational Readiness Assessment
Clear - Relevant - Economical - Adequate - Quantifiable

42. What are the tasks in Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring?
Relationship to Time - Relationship to Task Completion - Relationship to Contracts - Relationships to Formal and Informal Authority
Plan Business Analysis Approach - Conduct Stakeholder Analysis - Plan Business Analysis Activities - Plan Business Analysis Communication - Plan Requirements Management Process - Manage BA Performance
The Sponsor
Business Need - Expert Judgment - Organizational Process Assets

43. A systematic approach designed to elicit information from a person or group of people in an informal or formal setting by talking to an interviewee - asking relevant questions and documenting the responses.
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving - Behavioral Characteristics - Business Knowledge - Communication Skills - Interaction Skills - Software Application
Interviews
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements (Stated) - Solution Scope
Learning

44. The goal of this task is to meet with stakeholder(s) to gather information regarding their needs.
Conduct Elicitation Activity
Organization Modeling
Assess Organization Readiness
Business Rule

45. What is the output of the task Plan Requirements Management Process?
Data Flow Diagrams
Share - Enhance - Exploit
Requirements Management Plan
That they understand them and the current state the requirements are in

46. What is the output of the task - Allocate Resources?
Requirements (Allocated)
Assumptions & Constraints - Business Need - Solution Scope - Stakeholder Concerns
Coverage Matrix - Table or spreadsheet used to manage tracing.
Sequence Diagrams

47. What are the techniques used in the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?
Requirements Structure
Decision Analysis - Focus Groups - Observation - Survey/Questionnaire
Three-point Estimation
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements Management Plan - Scheduled Resources - Solution Scope & Business Case - Supporting Materials

48. What are the internal factors in a SWOT Analysis?
Implementation SME
Identified Defects - Mitigating Actions - Solution Validation Assessment
Prototyping
Strengths - Weaknesses

49. Revised process and templates for BA deliverables should be analyzed and documented and lessons learned should be recorded.
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Business Rules Analysis - Decision Analysis - Functional Decomposition - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases
MoSCoW Analysis
Business Analysis Process Assets

50. Most optimistic estimate; most pessimistic estimate; most likely estimate
Interviews - Observation
Assumptions & Constraints - Business Need - Solution Scope - Stakeholder Concerns
Three-point Estimation
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Solution Performance Assessment