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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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1. What are the inputs to the task Conduct Stakeholder Analysis?
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Organizational Process Assets
Benefits - Costs - Risk Assessment - Results Measurement
Decision Analysis
Manage Solution Scope & Requirements - Manage Requirements Traceability - Maintain Requirements for Re-use - Prepare Requirements Package - Communicate Requirements

2. A good indicator has 5 characteristics:
Visual Learner - Auditory Learner - Kinesthetic Learner
Requirements (Analyzed)
Business Principles & Practices
Clear - Relevant - Economical - Adequate - Quantifiable

3. 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
Prototyping
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Solution Performance Assessment
SWOT Analysis

4. What are the general modeling concepts that are relevant to business analysis?
Functional Decomposition - Interface Analysis - Scope Modeling - User Stories - Problem or Vision Statement
Visual Learner - Auditory Learner - Kinesthetic Learner
Requirements (Stated - Confirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Confirmed)
User Classes - Profiles or Roles; Concepts & Relationships - Events - Processes - Rules

5. What are the techniques used in the task - Determine Solution Approach?
Acceptance - Transfer - Avoidance - Mitigation
Benefits - Costs - Risk Assessment - Results Measurement
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Decision Analysis - Estimation - SWOT Analysis - Feasibility Analysis
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets

6. Divides requirements into 4 categories - Must - Should - Could - Won't
Requirements (Approved)
Business Analysis Plan
Interviews - Lessons Learned Process - Metrics and KPIs - Problem Tracking - Process Modeling - Root Cause Analysis - Survey/Questionnaire - Variance Analysis
MoSCoW Analysis

7. Organizational culture - Stakeholder preference - complexity - organizational maturity and availability of resources are all factors used to do what?
Risk - assumptions - constraints - etc.
Requirements Management Plan
Perform tailoring exercises
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

8. What are the inputs to the task - Define Business Case?
Assumptions & Constraints - Business Need - Solution Scope - Stakeholder Concerns
Requirements Management Plan - Solution Scope - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities - Stakeholder/Solution or Transition Requirements (Communicated or Traced)
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
Leadership

9. Requires the team to focus on examining the premises - assumptions - observations and expectations of the team members. This type of conflict can have a beneficial effect of strengthening the foundations of the analysis and the solution.
Cognitive Conflict
Business Rules Analysis
Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Data Modeling - Functional Decomposition - Organizational Modeling - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases - Scope Modeling - User Stories

10. Rules that are intended to help determine when something is or is not true - or when things fall into a specific category. They are expressed as rules because they describe categorizations that may change over time.
Risk Analysis
That they understand them and the current state the requirements are in
Requirements Analysis
Structural Rules

11. 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.
Functions - Markets - Matrix
Benchmarking
Business Analysis Approach - BA Performance Assessment - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Business Rule

12. What are the techniques used in the task Manage Solution Scope & Requirements?
Business Analysis Performance Metrics - Business Analysis Plan - Organization Performance Standards - Requirements Management Plan
Impact Analysis
Three-point Estimation
Problem Tracking - Baselining - Signoff

13. What are the inputs to the task - Define Assumption & Constraints?
Elicitation Results
Sequences - Repetitions - Optional Elements
Term and Fact Model
Stakeholder Concerns

14. What are the inputs to the task - Specify & Model Requirements?
Onion Diagram
Requirements (Stated) - Requirements Structure
Estimation
Industry Knowledge

15. Understanding of the business architecture of the organization that is being analyzed. Understanding business models (generates profit) - org structure - relationships between business units and the persons who occupy key stakeholder positions.
Elicitation Results
Business Analysis Approach
Requirements (Stated) - Stakeholder Concerns
Organizational Knowledge

16. What are the inputs for the task - Prepare Requirements Package?
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements - Requirements Structure
Vertical Prototype
Requirements (Stated) - Requirements Structure
Formal Documentation - Presentation - Model

17. 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
Metrics & KPIs
Historic Analysis
Ongoing Cost versus Initial Investment - Opportunity Costs - Necessity - Sunk Costs

18. Approach to decision making that examines and models the possible consequences of different decisions. Make an optimal decision under conditions of uncertainty.
Sequence Diagrams
Decision Analysis
Requirements (Stated) - Stakeholder Concerns
Solution Performance Assessment

19. Elements identified for each activity and task.
Analogous Estimation
Focus Group
User Classes - Profiles or Roles; Concepts & Relationships - Events - Processes - Rules
Unique Number - Activity Description - Assumptions - Dependencies - Milestones

20. What is the output of the task Plan Requirements Management Process?
Requirements Structure
Requirements Management Plan
Evolutionary or Functional Prototype
Trustworthiness

21. What are the techniques used in the task - Assess Proposed Solution?
Advantages of Document Analysis
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Decision Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Requirements Package
Non-functional Requirements Analysis

22. What are the techniques used in the task Define Business Need?
Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Business Rules Analysis - Focus Groups - Functional Decomposition - Root Cause Analysis
Strengths - Weaknesses
Glossary

23. Measures progress towards a strategic goal or objective.
Plan Business Analysis Approach - Conduct Stakeholder Analysis - Plan Business Analysis Activities - Plan Business Analysis Communication - Plan Requirements Management Process - Manage BA Performance
Key Performance Indicator (KPI )
Requirements (Stated) - Requirements Structure
Requirements (Stated - Unconfirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Unconfirmed)

24. A package should contain a consistent - cohesive and coherent set of requirements. This describes the ____________.
Requirements - Requirements Management Plan
That they understand them and the current state the requirements are in
Benefits - Costs - Risk Assessment - Results Measurement
Requirements Structure

25. What are the output(s) of the task - Validate Solution?
Absolute Reference - Author - Complexity - Ownership - Priority - Risks - Source - Stability - Status - Urgency
Manage Solution Scope & Requirements - Manage Requirements Traceability - Maintain Requirements for Re-use - Prepare Requirements Package - Communicate Requirements
Analogous Estimation
Identified Defects - Mitigating Actions - Solution Validation Assessment

26. Knowing the dependencies and relationships between requirements helps when determining the sequence in which requirements are to be addressed. Common relations are:
Implementation Approach
Metrics & KPIs
Glossary
Necessity - Effort - Subset - Cover - Value

27. What is the output of the task - Specify & Model Requirements?
Plan Business Analysis Approach - Conduct Stakeholder Analysis - Plan Business Analysis Activities - Plan Business Analysis Communication - Plan Requirements Management Process - Manage BA Performance
Requirements (Approved)
Solution Scope Definition - Implementation Approach - Dependencies
Requirements (Analyzed)

28. 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.
Primary stakeholders in the Organize Requirements task
Necessity - Effort - Subset - Cover - Value
Survey/Questionnaire
Solution Assessment & Validation

29. What are the techniques used in the task Conduct Elicitation Activity?
Requirements Analysis
Unique Number - Activity Description - Assumptions - Dependencies - Milestones
Lessons Learned Process
Data Dictionary & Glossary - Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshops - Survey/Questionnaire

30. Defines the key terms and data relevant to a business domain.
System
Data Modeling
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Decision Analysis - Estimation - SWOT Analysis - Feasibility Analysis
Data Dictionary & Glossary

31. What is the output of the Plan Business Analysis Approach?
Business Rule
Required Capabilities
Leadership
Business Analysis Approach

32. What are the strategies for a positive risk?
Share - Enhance - Exploit
Sequences - Repetitions - Optional Elements
Assess Proposed Solution - Allocate Requirements - Assess Organizational Readiness - Define Transition Requirements - Validate Solution - Evaluate Solution Performance
To record the conflict in the Requirements Issues Log.

33. What are the techniques used in the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?
Decision Analysis - Focus Groups - Observation - Survey/Questionnaire
Requirements (Stated) - Stakeholder Concerns
Organizational Readiness Assessment - Requirements (Stated) - Solution (Deployed) - Solution (Designed)
Trustworthiness

34. What are the elements of the task Plan Requirements Management Process?
Requirements (Stated) - Requirements Structure
Enterprise Analysis - often the starting point for initiating a new project
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
Repository - Traceability - Requirement Attributes - Prioritization Process - Change Management - Tailoring the Requirements Management Process

35. Communicated Requirements mean what to stakeholders?
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Problem Tracking - Root Cause Analysis
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Solution Performance Assessment
Business Domain - Corporate Culture & Environment - Skills of the Analyst - Requirement Deliverable
That they understand them and the current state the requirements are in

36. What are the techniques used in the task - Define Transition Requirements?
Problem Tracking - Baselining - Signoff
Interviews - Observation
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Requirements - Requirements Package
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Modeling - Organization Modeling - Data Modeling

37. What is the output of the task - Manage Requirements Traceability?
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Decision Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Requirements (Prioritized)
Requirements (Analyzed)
Requirements (Traced)

38. To define the rules that govern decisions in an organization and that define - constrain or enable organization operations.
Business Rules Analysis
Throw-away Prototype
Glossary
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)

39. What are the likely sources of transition requirements?
Data - Ongoing Work - Organizational Change
Requirements Workshop
The Business Analysis Communication Plan
Onion Diagram

40. What is the output to the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?
Risk Analysis
A statement of the needs of a particular stakeholder or class of stakeholders
Solution Performance Assessment
Required Capabilities

41. What are the techniques used in the task - Prioritize Requirements?
Decision Analysis - Risk Analysis - MoSCoW Analysis - Timeboxing/Budgeting - Voting
Requirements Analysis
Problem or Vision Statement
Timeboxing

42. What does SMART stand for?
Specific - Measurable - Achievable - Relevant - Time-bound Objectives must be SMART.
Influence on the project - organizational - project health and other stakeholders
Vertical Prototype
Evaluation Criteria

43. What are the elements to the task - Define Business Case?
All
Benefits - Costs - Risk Assessment - Results Measurement
Problem Tracking - Baselining - Signoff
Reliability - Validity - Timeliness

44. What are the Primitive Data Elements?
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving
Requirements (Traced)
Name - Aliases - Values/Meanings - Description
Requirements Package

45. Elicitation Results are the inputs for the ____________
Document Elicitation Results task
The Business Analysis Communication Plan
Business Principals
Throw-away Prototype

46. What are the inputs to the task Plan Requirements Management Process?
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets
Business Case; Stakeholder - Solution or Transition Requirements (Verified)
Rolling Wave
Formal requirements presentation to stakeholders

47. What are the elements of the task - Define Solution Scope?
Organization Modeling
Solution Scope Definition - Implementation Approach - Dependencies
Absolute Reference - Author - Complexity - Ownership - Priority - Risks - Source - Stability - Status - Urgency
Formal Documentation - Presentation - Model

48. What is the output of the task - Assess Organizational Readiness?
Enterprise Architecture - Solution Scope - Solution (Designed) - Stakeholder Concerns
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
Manage Solution Scope & Requirements - Manage Requirements Traceability - Maintain Requirements for Re-use - Prepare Requirements Package - Communicate Requirements
Organizational Readiness Assessment

49. Characteristics that are common to all organizations with a similar purpose and structure - whether or not the are in the same industry.
Focus Group
Expert Judgment
Business Principals
Opportunity Cost

50. What are the underlying competencies a BA should possess?
Evolutionary or Functional Prototype
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving - Behavioral Characteristics - Business Knowledge - Communication Skills - Interaction Skills - Software Application
Decision Analysis
Confirm Elicitation Results