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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning
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1. 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 -
Assumptions & Constraints - Required Capabilities - Solution Approach
Automate or Simplify Work - Improve Access to Information - Reduce Complexity of Interfaces - Increase Consistency of Behavior - Eliminate Redundancy
Benchmarking
Evaluate Solution Performance
2. What are the techniques used in Plan Business Analysis Approach?
Requirements (Analyzed)
Cultural Assessment - Operational or Technical Assessment - Stakeholder Impact Analysis
Decision Analysis - Process Modeling - Structured Walkthrough
Document Analysis
3. What is the output of the task Conduct Stakeholder Analysis?
Share - Enhance - Exploit
Implementation Approach
Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Requirements (Stated - Unconfirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Unconfirmed)
4. What are the tasks in the knowledge area - Solution Assessment & Validation?
Evolutionary or Functional Prototype
Assess Proposed Solution - Allocate Requirements - Assess Organizational Readiness - Define Transition Requirements - Validate Solution - Evaluate Solution Performance
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Data Modeling - Functional Decomposition - Organizational Modeling - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases - Scope Modeling - User Stories
Business Rule
5. To assess the ability of a potential vendor to meet commitments regarding a product or service
Manage Solution Scope & Requirements - Manage Requirements Traceability - Maintain Requirements for Re-use - Prepare Requirements Package - Communicate Requirements
Focus Group
Vendor Assessment
Use Case
6. Elicitation Results are the inputs for the ____________
Acceptance - Transfer - Avoidance - Mitigation
Solution (Constructed) - Requirements (Prioritized and Validated)
Document Elicitation Results task
Define Business Case
7. What are the Behavioral Characteristics a BA should exhibit?
General Purpose Applications & Specialized Applications
Ethics - Trustworthiness - Personal Organization
Industry Knowledge
Benchmarking
8. The goal of tracing is to ensure that requirements are linked back to a business objective. Creation of this relationship helps in what other traceability activities?
All
Necessity - Effort - Subset - Cover - Value
Relationships - Impact Analysis - Configuration Management System
Impact Analysis - Requirements Coverage - Requirements Allocation
9. Name the 2 types of Software categories that assist in BA productivity.
Observation
General Purpose Applications & Specialized Applications
Bottom-up Estimation
Business Policy
10. 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
Root Cause Analysis
Rolling Wave
Requirements (Allocated)
Business Analysis Approach - BA Performance Assessment - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
11. The knowledge area that covers how BAs determine which activities are necessary in order to complete a business analysis effort.
Requirements Management Plan - Solution Scope - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities - Stakeholder/Solution or Transition Requirements (Communicated or Traced)
Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution (Designed) - Solution Scope
Business Need - Solution Scope & Business Case - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring
12. What are the techniques used in the task - Organize Requirements?
Emotional and Cognitive
Confirm Elicitation Results
Opportunity Cost
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Data Modeling - Functional Decomposition - Organizational Modeling - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases - Scope Modeling - User Stories
13. What techniques are used in the task - Prepare Requirements Package?
Requirements Structure
Requirements Documentation - Requirements for Vendor Selection
Systems Thinking
Problem Solving
14. This knowledge area describes the problem definition and analysis - business case development - feasibility studies and the definition of solution scope.
Decision Analysis - Estimation - Metrics & KPIs - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Validate Requirements
Requirements (Stated) - Requirements Structure
Enterprise Analysis
15. What are the internal factors in a SWOT Analysis?
Analogous Estimation
Acceptance & Evaluation Technique
Strengths - Weaknesses
Define Business Case
16. What techniques are used in the task Prepare for Elicitation?
Plan Business Analysis Approach - Conduct Stakeholder Analysis - Plan Business Analysis Activities - Plan Business Analysis Communication - Plan Requirements Management Process - Manage BA Performance
Decision Analysis - Estimation - Metrics & KPIs - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Repository - Traceability - Requirement Attributes - Prioritization Process - Change Management - Tailoring the Requirements Management Process
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
17. 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
Goals
Acceptance & Evaluation Technique
Requirements Workshop
18. Define the requirements that must be met in order for a solution to be considered acceptable to key stakeholders.
Elimination
Acceptance & Evaluation Technique
Brainstorming
Requirements (Traced)
19. Stakeholders involved the BA in decision making - acceptance of the BA's recommendations - willingness to discuss difficult or controversial topics with the BA - stakeholders willing to support or defend the BA when problems occur.
Trustworthiness
Solution (Constructed) - Requirements (Prioritized and Validated)
Business Requirements - Identified Defects - Solution Performance Metrics - Solution (Deployed)
Decision Analysis
20. Communication of requirements does what for stakeholders?
To record the conflict in the Requirements Issues Log.
Brings them to a Communication on understanding
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Solution Performance Assessment
Scenario
21. Are used to model the logic of usage scenarios - by showing the information passed between objects in the system through the execution of the scenario. Shows how classes and objects interact during a scenario.
Relationships - Impact Analysis - Configuration Management System
Requirements Analysis
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Decision Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Sequence Diagrams
22. What are the inputs to the task - Assess Capability Gaps?
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Solution Performance Assessment
Confirm Elicitation Results
Business Analysis Approach - BA Performance Assessment - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Business Analysis Process Assets
23. What are the inputs to the task Manage Requirements Traceability?
Requirements - Requirements Management Plan
Requirements Package
Requirements (Approved)
Business Rules Analysis
24. This knowledge area describes how the BA assesses proposed solutions and determines which solution best fits the business need - identifies gaps and shortcomings to solutions and determines necessary workarounds or changes to the solution.
Solution Assessment & Validation
Fishbone Diagram - Five Whys
Decision Analysis - Process Modeling - Structured Walkthrough
Requirements (Verified)
25. What are the techniques used in the task - Define Assumptions & Constraints?
Requirements (Stated - Confirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Confirmed)
Enterprise Analysis - often the starting point for initiating a new project
Communicated Requirements
Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis
26. What are the techniques used in the task - Communicate Requirements?
Requirements Workshop - Structured Walkthrough
Business Case
Business Rules Analysis
The Business Analysis Communication Plan
27. The purpose is to describe the required qualities of a system - such as its usability and performance characteristics.
Perform tailoring exercises
Non-functional Requirements Analysis
Advantages of a Data Dictionary & Glossary
Key Performance Indicator (KPI )
28. What are the techniques used in the task - Validate Solution?
Assessment of Proposed Solution
Business Analysis Plan
Lessons Learned Process
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Problem Tracking - Root Cause Analysis
29. What stakeholder receives noticeable negative impact if information is incorrectly transferred from the old to new solution?
Business Requirements - Identified Defects - Solution Performance Metrics - Solution (Deployed)
Customer
Structural Rules
Business Value - Business or Technical Risk - Implementation Difficulty - Likelihood of Success - Regulatory or Policy Compliance - Relationship to Other Requirements - Stakeholder Agreement - Urgency
30. What are the inputs for the task Prepare for Elicitation?
Business Need - Expert Judgment - Organizational Process Assets
Activity List
Business Need - Solution Scope & Business Case - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Functions - Markets - Matrix
31. Measures progress towards a strategic goal or objective.
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Business Rules Analysis - Focus Groups - Functional Decomposition - Root Cause Analysis
Business Case
Key Performance Indicator (KPI )
User Story
32. The objective of this technique is to determine how companies achieve their superior performance levels and use that information to design projects to improve operations of the enterprise.
Enterprise Architecture - Solution Scope - Solution (Designed) - Stakeholder Concerns
Assumptions & Constraints - Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution Options
Impact Analysis - Requirements Coverage - Requirements Allocation
Benchmarking
33. Estimating relies on the expertise of those who have performed the work in the past. These experts can be internal or external to the project team or to the organization.
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving - Behavioral Characteristics - Business Knowledge - Communication Skills - Interaction Skills - Software Application
Elimination of Dominated Alternative - Ranking Objects on a Similar Scale
Expert Judgment
Bottom-up Estimation
34. 7 knowledge areas of ________ : Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring - Elicitation - Requirements Management & Communication - Enterprise Analysis - Requirements Analysis - Solution Assessment & Validation - Underlying Competencies
BABOK
Requirements (Stated - Unconfirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Unconfirmed)
Leadership
Organization Modeling
35. Documents terms unique to a domain.
Assess Organization Readiness
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
Glossary
Structured Walkthrough
36. Approach to decision making that examines and models the possible consequences of different decisions. Make an optimal decision under conditions of uncertainty.
Decision Analysis
Requirements (Stated) - Requirements Structure
Activity List
Brainstorming
37. What is the output of the task Document Elicitation Results?
Requirements Management Plan - Solution Scope - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities - Stakeholder/Solution or Transition Requirements (Communicated or Traced)
Requirements (Stated) - Stakeholder Concerns
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Metrics & KPIs - Prototyping - Risk Analysis - Structured Walkthrough
State Diagrams
38. Confidence in the problem solving process that a selected solution is correct - new solution options can be evaluated effectively using the problem solving framework - selected solutions meet the defined objectives and solve the underlying problem -
Necessity - Effort - Subset - Cover - Value
Solution Knowledge
Delphi Estimation
Problem Solving
39. Organizational culture - Stakeholder preference - complexity - organizational maturity and availability of resources are all factors used to do what?
Perform tailoring exercises
Requirements Workshop - Structured Walkthrough
Business Rules Analysis
Decision Analysis - Estimation - Metrics & KPIs - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Vendor Assessment
40. What is the output of the task - Determine Solution Approach?
Risk - assumptions - constraints - etc.
The Business Analysis Communication Plan
Solution Approach
Structural Rules
41. Involves assessing a situation - understanding it as fully as possible - and making judgments about possible solutions to the problem.
Impact Analysis
Stakeholder Concerns
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving
Acceptance - Transfer - Avoidance - Mitigation
42. This prototype seeks to quickly uncover and clarify interface requirements using simple tools - sometimes just paper and pencil. The focus is on functionality that is not easily elicited by other techniques - has conflicting viewpoints - or is diffic
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
Decision Making
Business Principles & Practices
Throw-away Prototype
43. What are the techniques used in the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?
Assumptions & Constraints - Required Capabilities - Solution Approach
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Decision Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Business Value - Business or Technical Risk - Implementation Difficulty - Likelihood of Success - Regulatory or Policy Compliance - Relationship to Other Requirements - Stakeholder Agreement - Urgency
Decision Analysis - Focus Groups - Observation - Survey/Questionnaire
44. Elements identified for each activity and task.
Prepare for Elicitation - Conduct Elicitation Activity - Document Elicitation Results - Confirm Elicitation Results
Unique Number - Activity Description - Assumptions - Dependencies - Milestones
Organizational Knowledge
That they understand them and the current state the requirements are in
45. What are the techniques used in the task - Determine Solution Approach?
Ethics - Trustworthiness - Personal Organization
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Decision Analysis - Estimation - SWOT Analysis - Feasibility Analysis
Define Business Need - Access Capability Gaps - Determine Solution Approach - Define Solution Scope - Define Business Case
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
46. 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.
BABOK
Oral Communications - Teaching - Written Communication
Allocate Requirements
Validate Requirements
47. What are the inputs to the task - Assess Proposed Solution?
Assumptions & Constraints - Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution Options
Ongoing Cost versus Initial Investment - Opportunity Costs - Necessity - Sunk Costs
Requirements Analysis
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Decision Analysis - Vendor Assessment
48. What are the inputs to the task - Communicate Requirements?
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Requirements - Requirements Package
Interviews
Reporting
Verify Requirements
49. An important tool in defining the scope of work and developing estimates. Decomposes the project scope into smaller and smaller pieces - creating a hierarchy of work.
Cultural Assessment - Operational or Technical Assessment - Stakeholder Impact Analysis
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Models - Focus Groups - Interviews - Survey/Questionnaire - Organizational Modeling - Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Force Field Analysis
Necessity - Effort - Subset - Cover - Value
50. 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.
Data Modeling
Decision Making
Assumptions & Constraints - Required Capabilities - Solution Approach
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Organizational Process Assets