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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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1. What are some of the commonly used requirement attributes?
Organizational Readiness Assessment
Operative Rules
Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Absolute Reference - Author - Complexity - Ownership - Priority - Risks - Source - Stability - Status - Urgency

2. What are the techniques used in the task Conduct Stakeholder Analysis?
Trustworthiness
Decision Making
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
Term and Fact Model

3. What is the output of the task - Maintain Requirements for Re-use?
Requirements (Maintained and Reusable)
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Requirements - Requirements Package
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets
Elimination of Dominated Alternative - Ranking Objects on a Similar Scale

4. What are the inputs to the task - Verify Requirements?
Requirements (Any Except Stated)
Systems Thinking
Business Analysis Approach
Description - Raised by - Date Identified - Impact - Priority - Need by Date - Owner - Status - Action Needed to be Resolved - Responsible for Action - Completion Date of Action - Outcome

5. A diagram indicating how involved the stakeholder is with the solution.
Onion Diagram
Business Requirements - Identified Defects - Solution Performance Metrics - Solution (Deployed)
Estimation
Influence on the project - organizational - project health and other stakeholders

6. A structured examination of the aspects of a situation to establish the root causes and resulting effects of the problem. A critical element is to ensure that the current business thinking and processes are challenged. The purpose is to determine the
Conduct Elicitation Activity
Root Cause Analysis
Onion Diagram
Requirements Documentation - Requirements for Vendor Selection

7. What techniques are used in the task - Define Solution Scope?
Functional Decomposition - Interface Analysis - Scope Modeling - User Stories - Problem or Vision Statement
Key Performance Indicator (KPI )
Requirements (Verified)
Business Principals

8. What are the inputs for the task - Prepare Requirements Package?
Requirements (Analyzed)
Business Rules Analysis
Brings them to a Communication on understanding
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements - Requirements Structure

9. Prioritizes requirements based on a allocated fixed amount of money.
Key Performance Indicator (KPI )
Lessons Learned Process
Budgeting
Metrics & KPIs

10. What is the output of the task - Specify & Model Requirements?
Share - Enhance - Exploit
Business Case; Stakeholder - Solution or Transition Requirements (Verified)
Requirements (Analyzed)
Business Need - Solution Scope & Business Case - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities

11. What are the attributes of a Data Model?
Solution Scope Definition - Implementation Approach - Dependencies
Name - Value/Meanings - Description
Evolutionary or Functional Prototype
Scenario

12. Two effective trade-off methods.
Acceptance & Evaluation Technique
Verify Requirements
Business Principles & Practices
Elimination of Dominated Alternative - Ranking Objects on a Similar Scale

13. Performed to communicate - verify and validate requirements. Is a working session where invited participants review and discuss a set of requirements
Visual Learner - Auditory Learner - Kinesthetic Learner
Structured Walkthrough
Lessons Learned Process
Prototyping

14. Organizational culture - Stakeholder preference - complexity - organizational maturity and availability of resources are all factors used to do what?
Perform tailoring exercises
Acceptance & Evaluation Technique
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
Business Case

15. Used to describe the roles - responsibilities and reporting structures that exist within an organization and to align those structures with the organization's goals.
Scope Modeling
Rolling Wave
Organization Modeling
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Models - Focus Groups - Interviews - Survey/Questionnaire - Organizational Modeling - Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Force Field Analysis

16. What are the strategies for a negative risk?
Acceptance - Transfer - Avoidance - Mitigation
Specific - Measurable - Achievable - Relevant - Time-bound Objectives must be SMART.
Throw-away Prototype
All

17. What techniques are used in the task Manage Requirements Traceability?
Requirements Structure
Absolute Reference - Author - Complexity - Ownership - Priority - Risks - Source - Stability - Status - Urgency
Coverage Matrix - Table or spreadsheet used to manage tracing.
Business Value - Business or Technical Risk - Implementation Difficulty - Likelihood of Success - Regulatory or Policy Compliance - Relationship to Other Requirements - Stakeholder Agreement - Urgency

18. 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.
Root Cause Analysis
Interviews - Observation
Scheduled Resources - Supporting Materials
Personal Organization

19. This prototype extends the initial interface requirements into a fully functioning system and requires a specialized prototyping tool or language.
Evolutionary or Functional Prototype
Requirements (Traced)
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Business Rules Analysis - Focus Groups - Functional Decomposition - Root Cause Analysis
Decision Analysis - Risk Analysis - MoSCoW Analysis - Timeboxing/Budgeting - Voting

20. What are the elements of Communication Skills?
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Business Rules Analysis - Focus Groups - Functional Decomposition - Root Cause Analysis
Reliability - Performance Efficiency - Operability - Security - Compatibility - Maintainability - Transferability
Sequence Diagrams
Oral Communications - Teaching - Written Communication

21. Means of eliciting information from many people - sometimes anonymously - in a relatively short period of time
Requirements (Stated - Confirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Confirmed)
Survey/Questionnaire
Expert Judgment
Business Principles & Practices

22. Defines the key terms and data relevant to a business domain.
Data Dictionary & Glossary
Evaluation Criteria
Implementation Approach
Throw-away Prototype

23. What are the inputs to the task - Organize Requirements?
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements (Stated) - Solution Scope
Elimination
Requirements (Allocated)
Business Case; Stakeholder - Solution or Transition Requirements (Verified)

24. What are the tasks in Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring?
Plan Business Analysis Approach - Conduct Stakeholder Analysis - Plan Business Analysis Activities - Plan Business Analysis Communication - Plan Requirements Management Process - Manage BA Performance
All
Brainstorming
Interviews

25. What are some of the key variables used in determining the priority of a requirement?
Verify Requirements
Reliability - Performance Efficiency - Operability - Security - Compatibility - Maintainability - Transferability
Business Value - Business or Technical Risk - Implementation Difficulty - Likelihood of Success - Regulatory or Policy Compliance - Relationship to Other Requirements - Stakeholder Agreement - Urgency
Enterprise Analysis - often the starting point for initiating a new project

26. A means of eliciting requirements by conducting an assessment of the stakeholder's work environment. This technique is appropriate when documenting details about current processes or if the project is intended to enhance or change a current process.
Advantages of a Data Dictionary & Glossary
Customer
Risk Analysis
Observation

27. What is the output of the Manage Business Analysis Performance task?
Benefits - Costs - Risk Assessment - Results Measurement
Organizational Readiness Assessment
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
System

28. What are the inputs for the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?
Business Requirements - Identified Defects - Solution Performance Metrics - Solution (Deployed)
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets
Business Principals
Acceptance & Evaluation Technique

29. What are the inputs to the task - Define Business Case?
Requirements (Stated - Confirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Confirmed)
Trustworthiness
Assumptions & Constraints - Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution Options
Assumptions & Constraints - Business Need - Solution Scope - Stakeholder Concerns

30. What are some of the ways a BA can help to improve the operations of a business? Acceptance and Evaluation Criteria Definition - Business Rules Analysis - Data Dictionary and Glossary - Data Flow Diagrams - Data Modeling - Functional Decomposition -
Automate or Simplify Work - Improve Access to Information - Reduce Complexity of Interfaces - Increase Consistency of Behavior - Eliminate Redundancy
Solution Performance Assessment
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Decision Analysis - Estimation - SWOT Analysis - Feasibility Analysis
Ethics - Trustworthiness - Personal Organization

31. An excellent way to foster creative thinking about a problem. The goal is to produce numerous new ideas and to derive themes for further analysis. - Ability to elicit many ideas in a short time period. - - Non-judgmental environment enables creative
Brainstorming
Formal requirements presentation to stakeholders
Monitoring
Required Capabilities

32. What are the elements of the task - Define Solution Scope?
Requirements (Traced)
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Requirements - Requirements Package
This person will be involved in monitoring the performance and effectiveness of a solution or its components.
Solution Scope Definition - Implementation Approach - Dependencies

33. To assess the ability of a potential vendor to meet commitments regarding a product or service
Estimation
Vendor Assessment
Problem Solving
Survey/Questionnaire

34. 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
Historic Analysis
The Business Analysis Communication Plan
Business Principals

35. What is the output of the task - Define Transition Requirements?
Transition Requirements
Relationship to Time - Relationship to Task Completion - Relationship to Contracts - Relationships to Formal and Informal Authority
Compliance with regulatory or other standards
Requirements Analysis

36. What is the output of the task Prepare for Elicitation?
This person will be involved in monitoring the performance and effectiveness of a solution or its components.
Scheduled Resources - Supporting Materials
Specific - Measurable - Achievable - Relevant - Time-bound Objectives must be SMART.
Data Dictionary

37. An organized structure for the requirements and a documented set of relationships between them. Is used so the analyst and stakeholders know where a specific requirement should be found. Should have a clear implicit scope (clear to the stakeholders w
Assumptions & Constraints
Timeboxing
Requirements Structure
Horizontal Prototype

38. What is the output of the task - Allocate Resources?
Timeboxing
Requirements (Allocated)
Problem Solving
Root Cause Analysis

39. What are the inputs for the task Plan Business Analysis Activities?
Assumptions & Constraints
Business Case; Stakeholder - Solution or Transition Requirements (Verified)
Business Analysis Approach - BA Performance Assessment - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Requirements Management Plan

40. What are the characteristics of quality for a requirements?
Cohesive - Complete - Consistent - Correct - Feasible - Modifiable - Unambiguous - Testable
Goals
Influence on the project - organizational - project health and other stakeholders
Requirements Documentation - Requirements for Vendor Selection

41. To identify interfaces between solutions and/or solution components and define requirements that describe how they will interact.
Elimination
Risk Analysis
Interface Analysis
Requirements Management Plan - Solution Scope - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities - Stakeholder/Solution or Transition Requirements (Communicated or Traced)

42. Use of a similar project as the basis for developing estimates for the current project. Also known as "top-down" estimating. This is usually done at the beginning of the project or project phase and more detailed estimates follow as more is known.
User Classes - Profiles or Roles; Concepts & Relationships - Events - Processes - Rules
Transition Requirements
Compliance with regulatory or other standards
Analogous Estimation

43. Involves assessing a situation - understanding it as fully as possible - and making judgments about possible solutions to the problem.
Emotional and Cognitive
Expert Judgment
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving
Requirements (Any Except Stated)

44. What are the tasks for the knowledge area - Requirements Management & Communication?
Benchmarking
Manage Solution Scope & Requirements - Manage Requirements Traceability - Maintain Requirements for Re-use - Prepare Requirements Package - Communicate Requirements
Document Analysis - SWOT Analysis
Organizational Knowledge

45. What are the techniques used in the task - Assess Capability Gaps?
Document Analysis - SWOT Analysis
Document Elicitation Results task
Requirements (Validated)
Requirements (Approved)

46. Understanding of how a change to a component affects the system as a whole - identification of reinforcing and compensating feedback loops - understanding of how systems adapt to external pressures and changes - A system as a whole will have properti
Requirements (Any Except Stated)
All
Solution Performance Assessment
Systems Thinking

47. 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.
Solution Assessment & Validation
Throw-away Prototype
Tracing Requirements
Assess Proposed Solution - Allocate Requirements - Assess Organizational Readiness - Define Transition Requirements - Validate Solution - Evaluate Solution Performance

48. What are stakeholder requirements?
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements
Influence on the project - organizational - project health and other stakeholders
Stakeholder Concerns
They describe what a solution must be capable of doing to meet the needs of one or more stakeholder groups

49. What are the techniques used in the task - Define Assumptions & Constraints?
Fishbone Diagram - Five Whys
Document Elicitation Results task
Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis
Scenarios & Use Cases

50. What are the techniques used in the task Conduct Elicitation Activity?
Evaluate Solution Performance
Data Dictionary & Glossary - Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshops - Survey/Questionnaire
Assess Organization Readiness
Business Need