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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning
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1. The decomposition of activities and tasks creates?
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets
Requirements Structure
Activity List
Business Need - Solution Scope & Business Case - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
2. What are the techniques used in the task - Define Assumptions & Constraints?
Organize Requirements
Creative Thinking - Decision Making - Learning - Problem Solving - Systems Thinking
Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis
Prepare for Elicitation - Conduct Elicitation Activity - Document Elicitation Results - Confirm Elicitation Results
3. What are the techniques used in the task - Validate Solution?
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Problem Tracking - Root Cause Analysis
Leadership
Evaluate Solution Performance
Interviews
4. What is the output of the task - Define Assumptions & Constraints?
Assumptions & Constraints
BABOK
Operative Rules
Rolling Wave
5. What are some of the key variables used in determining the priority of a requirement?
Requirements Package
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements - Requirements Structure
Expert Judgment
Business Value - Business or Technical Risk - Implementation Difficulty - Likelihood of Success - Regulatory or Policy Compliance - Relationship to Other Requirements - Stakeholder Agreement - Urgency
6. What are the output(s) of the task - Validate Solution?
Systems Thinking
Identified Defects - Mitigating Actions - Solution Validation Assessment
Leadership
Solution Approach
7. Involved motivating people to act in ways that enable them to work together to achieve shared goals and objectives.
Tracing Requirements
Leadership
Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution (Designed) - Solution Scope
Decision Analysis
8. 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
Organizational Knowledge
Requirements Management & Communication
Compliance with regulatory or other standards
Requirements Analysis
9. This knowledge area describes the tasks that are performed in order to ensure that solutions meet the business need and to facilitate successful implementation.
Business Rule
General Purpose Applications & Specialized Applications
Problem or Vision Statement
Solution Assessment & Validation
10. What are the inputs to the task - Define Business Need?
Organizational Readiness Assessment
Data - Ongoing Work - Organizational Change
Business Goals & Objectives - Requirements (Stated)
Vertical Prototype
11. 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.
Business Value - Business or Technical Risk - Implementation Difficulty - Likelihood of Success - Regulatory or Policy Compliance - Relationship to Other Requirements - Stakeholder Agreement - Urgency
Personal Organization
Visual Learner - Auditory Learner - Kinesthetic Learner
Interviews
12. The people involved - the interactions between them - the external forces affecting their behavior and all other relevant elements and factors.
Requirements (Any Except Stated)
System
Document Analysis - SWOT Analysis
Benefits - Costs - Risk Assessment - Results Measurement
13. What are the tasks for the knowledge area - Requirements Management & Communication?
Sequence Diagrams
Requirements (Traced)
Manage Solution Scope & Requirements - Manage Requirements Traceability - Maintain Requirements for Re-use - Prepare Requirements Package - Communicate Requirements
Name - Value/Meanings - Description
14. This task determines if an organization can justify the investment required to deliver a proposed solution.
Define Business Case
Requirements Workshop - Structured Walkthrough
The Sponsor
Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
15. This knowledge area involves analyzing stakeholder needs to define solutions that meet those needs - assessing the current state of the business to identify and recommend improvements and the verification and validation of the resulting requirements.
Elicitation
Requirements Analysis
Automate or Simplify Work - Improve Access to Information - Reduce Complexity of Interfaces - Increase Consistency of Behavior - Eliminate Redundancy
Requirements (Allocated)
16. Knowing the dependencies and relationships between requirements helps when determining the sequence in which requirements are to be addressed. Common relations are:
Structural Rules
Assess Proposed Solution - Allocate Requirements - Assess Organizational Readiness - Define Transition Requirements - Validate Solution - Evaluate Solution Performance
Necessity - Effort - Subset - Cover - Value
Advantages of Document Analysis
17. Investigating how a solution is actually used after it is deployed and assessing the effect it has had - both positive and negative.
Survey/Questionnaire
Evaluate Solution Performance
Prepare Requirements Package
Three-point Estimation
18. When a requirement is changed - the BA can easily review all the related requirements and software components in order to understand the impact of the change.
Formal Documentation - Presentation - Model
Business Principals
Functional Decomposition
Impact Analysis
19. Business rules require a defined glossary of terms and an understanding of the relationships between them - this is known as:
Term and Fact Model
Prepare for Elicitation - Conduct Elicitation Activity - Document Elicitation Results - Confirm Elicitation Results
Data - Ongoing Work - Organizational Change
Stakeholder Matrix - Onion Diagram
20. What are the inputs to the task - Verify Requirements?
Decision Making
Brainstorming
Evaluation Criteria
Requirements (Any Except Stated)
21. Provides an organized approach to tracking - management - and resolution of defects - issues - problems - and risks throughout business analysis activities. Management of issues is important so that they can be resolved in a timely manner to ensure s
Problem Tracking - Baselining - Signoff
Elimination
Problem Tracking
Requirements Structure
22. What are the attributes of a Data Model?
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Business Rules Analysis - Decision Analysis - Functional Decomposition - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases
Cultural Assessment - Operational or Technical Assessment - Stakeholder Impact Analysis
Name - Value/Meanings - Description
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements - Requirements Structure
23. What are the inputs to the task - Assess Capability Gaps?
Requirements Structure
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Solution Performance Assessment
Acceptance - Transfer - Avoidance - Mitigation
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Decision Analysis - Vendor Assessment
24. Industry Knowledge - Organization Knowledge - Solution Knowledge What are the elements of Business Knowledge?
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
Data Dictionary & Glossary - Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshops - Survey/Questionnaire
User Classes - Profiles or Roles; Concepts & Relationships - Events - Processes - Rules
Business Principles & Practices
25. Corrective or preventative measures uncovered while performing a Business Analysis Performance Assessment will result in changes to what plan?
Stakeholder Concerns
Discounted Cash Flow - Net Present Value - Internal Rate of Return - Average Rate of Return - Pay Back Period - Cost-Benefit Analysis
Opportunity Cost
Business Analysis Plan
26. Are written to describe how an actor interacts with a solution to accomplish one or more of that actor's goals - or to respond to an event.
Elimination
Use Case
Functions - Markets - Matrix
Scenarios & Use Cases
27. What is the output of the task - Verify Requirements?
Requirements (Verified)
Monitoring
Ethics
Responsible - Accountable - Consulted - Informed
28. Divides requirements into 4 categories - Must - Should - Could - Won't
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Business Rules Analysis - Decision Analysis - Functional Decomposition - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases
Organization Modeling
MoSCoW Analysis
29. What is the output of the task - Define Transition Requirements?
Survey/Questionnaire
Responsible - Accountable - Consulted - Informed
Transition Requirements
User Classes - Profiles or Roles; Concepts & Relationships - Events - Processes - Rules
30. What are the inputs for the task Plan Business Analysis Activities?
Key Performance Indicator (KPI )
Business Analysis Approach - BA Performance Assessment - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Observation
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
31. Domain SME - End User - Implementation SME - and Sponsor: They Affected by analysis techniques used to organize requirements since they need to verify and validate the requirements.
Expert Judgment
Strengths - Weaknesses
Primary stakeholders in the Organize Requirements task
Requirements Structure
32. The BA is a stakeholder in ______ business analysis activities.
All
Visual Learner - Auditory Learner - Kinesthetic Learner
Impact Analysis
Business Need - Solution Scope & Business Case - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
33. 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.
Organizational Knowledge
Evaluation
Structured Walkthrough
Functional Decomposition
34. What are the techniques used in the task - Allocate Resources?
Business Principals
Business Goals & Objectives - Requirements (Stated)
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Business Rules Analysis - Decision Analysis - Functional Decomposition - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases
Stakeholder Concerns
35. What are the techniques used in the task Manage Business Analysis Performance?
Requirements Documentation - Requirements for Vendor Selection
Monitoring
Parametric Estimation
Interviews - Lessons Learned Process - Metrics and KPIs - Problem Tracking - Process Modeling - Root Cause Analysis - Survey/Questionnaire - Variance Analysis
36. Set of requirements that will be used to choose between multiple solutions.
Problem Tracking
Acceptance & Evaluation Technique
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Modeling - Organization Modeling - Data Modeling
Evaluation Criteria
37. What are the inputs to the Plan Business Analysis Approach?
Problem Tracking
Requirements (Maintained and Reusable)
Solution Assessment & Validation
Business Need - Expert Judgment - Organizational Process Assets
38. What does SMART stand for?
Scenario
Specific - Measurable - Achievable - Relevant - Time-bound Objectives must be SMART.
Requirements Structure
Industry Knowledge
39. What are the classifications used to describe requirements
Confirm Elicitation Results
Cognitive Conflict
Business Requirements - Stakeholder Requirements - Solution Requirements - Transition Requirements
Data Dictionary & Glossary
40. Performed to communicate - verify and validate requirements. Is a working session where invited participants review and discuss a set of requirements
Advantages of Document Analysis
Estimation - Functional Decomposition - Risk Analysis
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Requirements - Requirements Package
Structured Walkthrough
41. List 3 possible forms of a requirements packages.
Facilitation
Vertical Prototype
Business Analysis Plan
Formal Documentation - Presentation - Model
42. Organizational culture - Stakeholder preference - complexity - organizational maturity and availability of resources are all factors used to do what?
Business Need - Expert Judgment - Organizational Process Assets
Non-functional Requirements Analysis
Perform tailoring exercises
Name - Value/Meanings - Description
43. 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.
Identified Defects - Mitigating Actions - Solution Validation Assessment
Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis
Benchmarking
Data Flow Diagrams
44. Agreement by stakeholders that analysis models effectively and completely describe the domain - identification of related problems or issues from multiple areas in the domain - rapid absorption of new information or new domain.
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Required Capabilities
MoSCoW Analysis
Sequence Diagrams
Learning
45. The skill of moderating discussions among a group or enable all participants to effectively articulate their views on a topic under discussion and to further ensure that participants in the discussion are able to recognize and appreciate the differin
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements - Requirements Structure
To record the conflict in the Requirements Issues Log.
Facilitation
Analogous Estimation
46. The knowledge area that covers how BAs determine which activities are necessary in order to complete a business analysis effort.
The Sponsor
Facilitation
Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring
Validate Solution
47. What are the tasks of the Elicitation Knowledge Area?
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Required Capabilities
Prepare for Elicitation - Conduct Elicitation Activity - Document Elicitation Results - Confirm Elicitation Results
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Requirements - Requirements Package
System
48. What is the output of the task - Prepare Requirements Package?
Requirements Package
Reliability - Validity - Timeliness
Timeboxing
Enterprise Analysis
49. What is the output of the Plan Business Analysis Approach?
Functions - Markets - Matrix
Evolutionary or Functional Prototype
Problem Tracking - Baselining - Signoff
Business Analysis Approach
50. What are some examples of stakeholder concerns?
Risk - assumptions - constraints - etc.
Required Capabilities
Automate or Simplify Work - Improve Access to Information - Reduce Complexity of Interfaces - Increase Consistency of Behavior - Eliminate Redundancy
Strengths - Weaknesses