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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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1. What are some of the commonly used requirement attributes?






2. What are the techniques used in the task Conduct Stakeholder Analysis?






3. What is the output of the task - Maintain Requirements for Re-use?






4. What are the inputs to the task - Verify Requirements?






5. A diagram indicating how involved the stakeholder is with the solution.






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






7. What techniques are used in the task - Define Solution Scope?






8. What are the inputs for the task - Prepare Requirements Package?






9. Prioritizes requirements based on a allocated fixed amount of money.






10. What is the output of the task - Specify & Model Requirements?






11. What are the attributes of a Data Model?






12. Two effective trade-off methods.






13. Performed to communicate - verify and validate requirements. Is a working session where invited participants review and discuss a set of requirements






14. Organizational culture - Stakeholder preference - complexity - organizational maturity and availability of resources are all factors used to do what?






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.






16. What are the strategies for a negative risk?






17. What techniques are used in the task Manage Requirements Traceability?






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.






19. This prototype extends the initial interface requirements into a fully functioning system and requires a specialized prototyping tool or language.






20. What are the elements of Communication Skills?






21. Means of eliciting information from many people - sometimes anonymously - in a relatively short period of time






22. Defines the key terms and data relevant to a business domain.






23. What are the inputs to the task - Organize Requirements?






24. What are the tasks in Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring?






25. What are some of the key variables used in determining the priority of a requirement?






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.






27. What is the output of the Manage Business Analysis Performance task?






28. What are the inputs for the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?






29. What are the inputs to the task - Define Business Case?






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 -






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






32. What are the elements of the task - Define Solution Scope?






33. To assess the ability of a potential vendor to meet commitments regarding a product or service






34. What are the techniques used in the task Document Elicitation Results?






35. What is the output of the task - Define Transition Requirements?






36. What is the output of the task Prepare for Elicitation?






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






38. What is the output of the task - Allocate Resources?






39. What are the inputs for the task Plan Business Analysis Activities?






40. What are the characteristics of quality for a requirements?






41. To identify interfaces between solutions and/or solution components and define requirements that describe how they will interact.






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.






43. Involves assessing a situation - understanding it as fully as possible - and making judgments about possible solutions to the problem.






44. What are the tasks for the knowledge area - Requirements Management & Communication?






45. What are the techniques used in the task - Assess Capability Gaps?






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






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.






48. What are stakeholder requirements?






49. What are the techniques used in the task - Define Assumptions & Constraints?






50. What are the techniques used in the task Conduct Elicitation Activity?