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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning
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1. What is the output of the Plan Business Analysis Approach?
Historic Analysis
Necessity - Effort - Subset - Cover - Value
Impact Analysis
Business Analysis Approach
2. What are the tasks in Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring?
Sequences - Repetitions - Optional Elements
Business Analysis Plan
Business Goals & Objectives - Requirements (Stated)
Plan Business Analysis Approach - Conduct Stakeholder Analysis - Plan Business Analysis Activities - Plan Business Analysis Communication - Plan Requirements Management Process - Manage BA Performance
3. What are the inputs to the task Conduct Stakeholder Analysis?
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Organizational Process Assets
Budgeting
Solution Assessment & Validation
Requirements (Any Except Stated)
4. What are the techniques used in the task Conduct Stakeholder Analysis?
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Confirm Elicitation Results
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
Throw-away Prototype
5. 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
Solution Assessment & Validation
Organization Modeling
Solution Assessment & Validation
Systems Thinking
6. What are the techniques used in the task - Communicate Requirements?
Benefits - Costs - Risk Assessment - Results Measurement
Requirements Workshop - Structured Walkthrough
Business Policy
Horizontal Prototype
7. What are the classifications used to describe requirements
Tracing Requirements
Business Requirements - Stakeholder Requirements - Solution Requirements - Transition Requirements
Clear - Relevant - Economical - Adequate - Quantifiable
Vendor Assessment
8. What does RACI stand for?
Learning
Validate Requirements
Responsible - Accountable - Consulted - Informed
Solution Assessment & Validation
9. What are the inputs for the task - Maintain Requirements for Re-use?
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements
Business Case
Term and Fact Model
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Required Capabilities
10. 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.
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets
Primary stakeholders in the Organize Requirements task
Verify Requirements
Visual Learner - Auditory Learner - Kinesthetic Learner
11. Knowing the dependencies and relationships between requirements helps when determining the sequence in which requirements are to be addressed. Common relations are:
Implementation SME
Leadership
Necessity - Effort - Subset - Cover - Value
Organizational Knowledge
12. What is the output of the task - Maintain Requirements for Re-use?
Business Analysis Performance Metrics - Business Analysis Plan - Organization Performance Standards - Requirements Management Plan
Acceptance - Transfer - Avoidance - Mitigation
Requirements (Maintained and Reusable)
Business Analysis Approach - BA Performance Assessment - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
13. What is the output of the task - Define Business Case?
Solution Scope
Business Case
To record the conflict in the Requirements Issues Log.
Onion Diagram
14. What is the output of the task - Manage Requirements Traceability?
Risk - assumptions - constraints - etc.
Requirements (Validated)
Requirements (Traced)
Brainstorming
15. A package should contain a consistent - cohesive and coherent set of requirements. This describes the ____________.
Sequences - Repetitions - Optional Elements
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Requirements - Requirements Package
Data Modeling
Requirements Structure
16. What factors guide technique selection?
Interviews - Observation
Vendor Assessment
Business Domain - Corporate Culture & Environment - Skills of the Analyst - Requirement Deliverable
Organizational Readiness Assessment - Requirements (Stated) - Solution (Deployed) - Solution (Designed)
17. 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
Functions - Markets - Matrix
Brainstorming
Decision Analysis - Risk Analysis - MoSCoW Analysis - Timeboxing/Budgeting - Voting
Requirements (Validated)
18. 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.
Problem or Vision Statement
Reliability - Validity - Timeliness
Influence on the project - organizational - project health and other stakeholders
Interviews
19. Used to describe the roles - responsibilities and reporting structures that exist within an organization and to align those structures with the organization's goals.
Conduct Elicitation Activity
Organization Modeling
Trustworthiness
Cognitive Conflict
20. This describes how the chosen solution will deliver the solution scope - may break delivery down into releases or provide a roadmap that indicates the timeframe in which a capability is expected.
Requirements Analysis
Requirements (Any Except Stated)
Formal requirements presentation to stakeholders
Implementation Approach
21. What are some examples of stakeholder concerns?
Interviews - Observation
Business Rules Analysis
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Risk - assumptions - constraints - etc.
22. What techniques are used in the task - Prepare Requirements Package?
Glossary
Solution Scope
Unique Number - Activity Description - Assumptions - Dependencies - Milestones
Requirements Documentation - Requirements for Vendor Selection
23. What techniques are used in the task Manage Requirements Traceability?
Emotional and Cognitive
Advantages of Document Analysis
Coverage Matrix - Table or spreadsheet used to manage tracing.
Relationships - Impact Analysis - Configuration Management System
24. Strengths - Weaknesses - Opportunities - Threats - A valuable tool to quickly analyze various aspects of the current state of the business process undergoing change.
Relationship to Time - Relationship to Task Completion - Relationship to Contracts - Relationships to Formal and Informal Authority
Problem Solving
SWOT Analysis
Requirements Documentation - Requirements for Vendor Selection
25. What is the output of the task Plan Business Analysis Activities?
Budgeting
Verify Requirements
Business Policy
Business Analysis Plan
26. Three types of organizational structures
Visual Learner - Auditory Learner - Kinesthetic Learner
Requirements (Validated)
Elimination
Functions - Markets - Matrix
27. Divides requirements into 4 categories - Must - Should - Could - Won't
MoSCoW Analysis
Bottom-up Estimation
Business Case
The Business Analysis Communication Plan
28. Involved motivating people to act in ways that enable them to work together to achieve shared goals and objectives.
Benefits - Costs - Risk Assessment - Results Measurement
Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Requirements - Requirements Package
Leadership
29. Three key factors when assessing the quality of indicators and their metrics
Benefits - Costs - Risk Assessment - Results Measurement
Reliability - Validity - Timeliness
Requirements Management & Communication
Relationships - Impact Analysis - Configuration Management System
30. What are the Primitive Data Elements?
Name - Aliases - Values/Meanings - Description
Brings them to a Communication on understanding
Solution Scope
Decision Analysis - Process Modeling - Structured Walkthrough
31. What are the inputs to the task - Assess Capability Gaps?
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Metrics & KPIs - Prototyping - Risk Analysis - Structured Walkthrough
Conduct Elicitation Activity
Advantages of Document Analysis
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Solution Performance Assessment
32. Defines what must be delivered in order to meet the business need - and the effect of the proposed change initiation on the business and technology operations and infrastructure.
Key Performance Indicator (KPI )
Solution Scope
Problem Solving
Interviews - Observation
33. What are the inputs for the task Confirm Elicitation Results?
Requirements (Stated - Unconfirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Unconfirmed)
Discounted Cash Flow - Net Present Value - Internal Rate of Return - Average Rate of Return - Pay Back Period - Cost-Benefit Analysis
Leadership
Organization Modeling
34. The goal of this task is to create a set of views of the requirements for the new business solution that are comprehensive - complete - consistent and understood from all stakeholder perspectives.
Historic Analysis
Decision Analysis - Risk Analysis - MoSCoW Analysis - Timeboxing/Budgeting - Voting
Business Analysis Approach - BA Performance Assessment - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Organize Requirements
35. Corrective or preventative measures uncovered while performing a Business Analysis Performance Assessment will result in changes to what plan?
Business Rule
Business Analysis Plan
Acceptance & Evaluation Technique
Data - Ongoing Work - Organizational Change
36. List 3 possible forms of a requirements packages.
Formal Documentation - Presentation - Model
Organizational Readiness Assessment - Requirements (Stated) - Solution (Deployed) - Solution (Designed)
Requirements Management & Communication
Communicated Requirements
37. What are the techniques for the task - Verify Requirements?
Define Business Need - Access Capability Gaps - Determine Solution Approach - Define Solution Scope - Define Business Case
Requirements (Stated - Confirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Confirmed)
Rolling Wave
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Problem Tracking - Structured Walkthrough - Checklists
38. What are the Cultural diversity issues that should be taken into account when planning communication?
Relationship to Time - Relationship to Task Completion - Relationship to Contracts - Relationships to Formal and Informal Authority
Requirements Structure
Trustworthiness
Data - Ongoing Work - Organizational Change
39. 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.
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Business Rules Analysis - Decision Analysis - Functional Decomposition - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases
Decision Analysis
Cognitive Conflict
Sequence Diagrams
40. What are the inputs to the task - Validate Requirements?
The Business Analysis Communication Plan
Three-point Estimation
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Data Modeling - Functional Decomposition - Organizational Modeling - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases - Scope Modeling - User Stories
Business Case; Stakeholder - Solution or Transition Requirements (Verified)
41. Measures progress towards a strategic goal or objective.
Organizational Knowledge
Reliability - Performance Efficiency - Operability - Security - Compatibility - Maintainability - Transferability
Solution Scope
Key Performance Indicator (KPI )
42. What is the output of the task - Verify Requirements?
Business Case; Stakeholder - Solution or Transition Requirements (Verified)
Verify Requirements
Decision Analysis - Estimation - Metrics & KPIs - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Requirements (Verified)
43. What are the techniques used in the task - Assess Proposed Solution?
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Decision Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Problem Solving
Impact Analysis - Requirements Coverage - Requirements Allocation
Requirements (Validated)
44. What are the inputs to the task - Determine Solution Approach?
The Sponsor
Decision Analysis - Process Modeling - Structured Walkthrough
Problem Tracking
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Required Capabilities
45. What are the Behavioral Characteristics a BA should exhibit?
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Problem Tracking - Structured Walkthrough - Checklists
Term and Fact Model
Estimation
Ethics - Trustworthiness - Personal Organization
46. What are the techniques used in the task Manage Solution Scope & Requirements?
Problem Tracking - Baselining - Signoff
Ongoing Cost versus Initial Investment - Opportunity Costs - Necessity - Sunk Costs
Scope Modeling
Use Case
47. What are the elements of the task Plan Requirements Management Process?
Prepare for Elicitation - Conduct Elicitation Activity - Document Elicitation Results - Confirm Elicitation Results
Requirements (Any Except Stated)
Repository - Traceability - Requirement Attributes - Prioritization Process - Change Management - Tailoring the Requirements Management Process
Problem Tracking
48. 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
Vendor Assessment
Prototyping
Assessment of Proposed Solution
Decision Analysis
49. Models a deep - and usually narrow slice of the entire system's functionality.
Risk Analysis
Requirements Management Plan
Vertical Prototype
Leadership
50. What are the strategies for a positive risk?
Share - Enhance - Exploit
Data Modeling
Opportunity Cost
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)