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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning
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1. A formal written specification with possible walk-thru - an informal one is possibly verbal or email Communication
Formal requirements presentation to stakeholders
Verify Requirements
Prepare for Elicitation - Conduct Elicitation Activity - Document Elicitation Results - Confirm Elicitation Results
Term and Fact Model
2. What are the techniques used in the task Conduct Elicitation Activity?
That they understand them and the current state the requirements are in
Data Dictionary & Glossary - Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshops - Survey/Questionnaire
Business Case
Validate Solution
3. This task ensures that requirement specifications and models meet the necessary standard of quality to allow them to be used effectively to guide further work. Requirements have been defined correctly.
Assumptions & Constraints
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Organizational Process Assets
Timeboxing
Verify Requirements
4. Long-term - ongoing and qualitative statements of a state or condition that the organization is seeking to establish and maintain.
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Metrics & KPIs - Prototyping - Risk Analysis - Structured Walkthrough
Document Analysis
Evolutionary or Functional Prototype
Goals
5. What are the techniques used in the task Document Elicitation Results?
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Problem Tracking - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Delphi Estimation
Estimation
Functional Decomposition - Interface Analysis - Scope Modeling - User Stories - Problem or Vision Statement
6. Combination of expert judgment and history. Individual estimates - sharing the estimates with experts - and having several rounds until consensus is reached. An average of the three estimates is used
Fishbone Diagram - Five Whys
Metrics & KPIs
Formal requirements presentation to stakeholders
Delphi Estimation
7. List 3 possible forms of a requirements packages.
Formal Documentation - Presentation - Model
Elicitation
Advantages of a Data Dictionary & Glossary
Responsible - Accountable - Consulted - Informed
8. What are the 3 elements in the Assess Organizational Readiness?
Business Analysis Performance Metrics - Business Analysis Plan - Organization Performance Standards - Requirements Management Plan
Cultural Assessment - Operational or Technical Assessment - Stakeholder Impact Analysis
Activity List
Requirements Workshop
9. What is the output of the task Plan Business Analysis Communication?
Decision Analysis - Risk Analysis - MoSCoW Analysis - Timeboxing/Budgeting - Voting
Business Analysis Communication Plan
Formal requirements presentation to stakeholders
Delphi Estimation
10. 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.
Solution Performance Assessment
Validate Requirements
Business Analysis Performance Metrics - Business Analysis Plan - Organization Performance Standards - Requirements Management Plan
Assumptions & Constraints - Business Need - Solution Scope - Stakeholder Concerns
11. Decisions are made with the interest of all stakeholders considered - reasons for a decision are cleared articulated - prompt and full disclosure of conflicts of interest - honesty regarding one's abilities and the performance of one's work.
Business Policy
Ethics
Prioritize Requirements - Organize Requirements - Specify & Model Requirements - Define Assumptions & Constraints - Verify Requirements - Validate Requirements
Customer
12. This knowledge area describes the behaviors - knowledge and other characteristics that support the effective performance of a BA.
Underlying Competencies
Define Business Need - Access Capability Gaps - Determine Solution Approach - Define Solution Scope - Define Business Case
Learning
Elimination
13. When performing root cause analysis as part of the Validate Solution task - what stakeholder may be involved?
Implementation SME
Decision Analysis - Process Modeling - Structured Walkthrough
State Diagrams
Requirements Analysis
14. What are the techniques used in the task - Communicate Requirements?
Business Value - Business or Technical Risk - Implementation Difficulty - Likelihood of Success - Regulatory or Policy Compliance - Relationship to Other Requirements - Stakeholder Agreement - Urgency
User Classes - Profiles or Roles; Concepts & Relationships - Events - Processes - Rules
Assumptions & Constraints
Requirements Workshop - Structured Walkthrough
15. The people involved - the interactions between them - the external forces affecting their behavior and all other relevant elements and factors.
Use Case
Sequence Diagrams
System
Business Case - Business Need - Requirements - Requirements Management Plan - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
16. Two techniques used in Root Cause Analysis?
Organizational Readiness Assessment
Fishbone Diagram - Five Whys
Creative Thinking - Decision Making - Learning - Problem Solving - Systems Thinking
Sequence Diagrams
17. The knowledge area that describes how a BA manages conflicts - issues and changes in order to ensure that stakeholders and the project team remain in agreement on the solution scope - how requirements are communicated to stakeholders and how knowledg
Sequence Diagrams
Requirements Management Plan - Solution Scope - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities - Stakeholder/Solution or Transition Requirements (Communicated or Traced)
Requirements Management & Communication
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
18. What are the techniques used in Plan Business Analysis Approach?
Decision Analysis - Process Modeling - Structured Walkthrough
Rolling Wave
Trustworthiness
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Organizational Process Assets
19. What are the techniques used in the task - Assess Capability Gaps?
Document Analysis - SWOT Analysis
Ethics
Benchmarking
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving - Behavioral Characteristics - Business Knowledge - Communication Skills - Interaction Skills - Software Application
20. 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.
Business Analysis Performance Metrics - Business Analysis Plan - Organization Performance Standards - Requirements Management Plan
Dependencies
Requirements Analysis
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
21. 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 -
Automate or Simplify Work - Improve Access to Information - Reduce Complexity of Interfaces - Increase Consistency of Behavior - Eliminate Redundancy
Activity List
Scheduled Resources - Supporting Materials
BABOK
22. Communicated Requirements mean what to stakeholders?
Reliability - Performance Efficiency - Operability - Security - Compatibility - Maintainability - Transferability
Requirements (Allocated)
That they understand them and the current state the requirements are in
Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis
23. Technique involving refinement of estimates. Estimate the details for activities in the current iteration or increment and provide an analogous estimate for the entire scope of work. As the end of the iteration approaches - estimates for the next ite
Rolling Wave
Absolute Reference - Author - Complexity - Ownership - Priority - Risks - Source - Stability - Status - Urgency
Document Analysis - SWOT Analysis
Ongoing Cost versus Initial Investment - Opportunity Costs - Necessity - Sunk Costs
24. Set of requirements that will be used to choose between multiple solutions.
Elicitation
Data Dictionary & Glossary - Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshops - Survey/Questionnaire
Decision Analysis - Focus Groups - Observation - Survey/Questionnaire
Evaluation Criteria
25. Two effective trade-off methods.
Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution (Designed) - Solution Scope
Elimination of Dominated Alternative - Ranking Objects on a Similar Scale
Data Flow Diagrams
Assumptions & Constraints - Required Capabilities - Solution Approach
26. Business rules require a defined glossary of terms and an understanding of the relationships between them - this is known as:
Term and Fact Model
Activity List
Decision Analysis - Process Modeling - Structured Walkthrough
Business Need - Expert Judgment - Organizational Process Assets
27. 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.
Cultural Assessment - Operational or Technical Assessment - Stakeholder Impact Analysis
Formal requirements presentation to stakeholders
Learning
Benchmarking
28. 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.
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Required Capabilities
Requirements Package
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Models - Focus Groups - Interviews - Survey/Questionnaire - Organizational Modeling - Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Force Field Analysis
Cognitive Conflict
29. What are the tasks of the Elicitation Knowledge Area?
Required Capabilities
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
Prepare for Elicitation - Conduct Elicitation Activity - Document Elicitation Results - Confirm Elicitation Results
Dependencies
30. Industry Knowledge - Organization Knowledge - Solution Knowledge What are the elements of Business Knowledge?
Business Principles & Practices
Rolling Wave
Implementation SME
Data - Ongoing Work - Organizational Change
31. Involves assessing a situation - understanding it as fully as possible - and making judgments about possible solutions to the problem.
Primary stakeholders in the Organize Requirements task
Business Analysis Performance Metrics - Business Analysis Plan - Organization Performance Standards - Requirements Management Plan
Strengths - Weaknesses
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving
32. What are the techniques used in the task Manage Solution Scope & Requirements?
Problem Tracking - Baselining - Signoff
Solution Assessment & Validation
Assumptions & Constraints - Required Capabilities - Solution Approach
Requirements (Approved)
33. What are the techniques used in the task - Organize Requirements?
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Data Modeling - Functional Decomposition - Organizational Modeling - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases - Scope Modeling - User Stories
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets
Validate Requirements
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements Management Plan - Scheduled Resources - Solution Scope & Business Case - Supporting Materials
34. What are the tasks in the knowledge area - Requirements Analysis?
State Diagrams
Prioritize Requirements - Organize Requirements - Specify & Model Requirements - Define Assumptions & Constraints - Verify Requirements - Validate Requirements
Reliability - Performance Efficiency - Operability - Security - Compatibility - Maintainability - Transferability
Observation
35. What describes how - when and why the business analyst will work with stakeholders?
Onion Diagram
Business Case; Stakeholder - Solution or Transition Requirements (Verified)
The Business Analysis Communication Plan
Requirements Package
36. Models a deep - and usually narrow slice of the entire system's functionality.
Interviews - Lessons Learned Process - Metrics and KPIs - Problem Tracking - Process Modeling - Root Cause Analysis - Survey/Questionnaire - Variance Analysis
Ethics - Trustworthiness - Personal Organization
Vertical Prototype
Timeboxing
37. 7 knowledge areas of ________ : Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring - Elicitation - Requirements Management & Communication - Enterprise Analysis - Requirements Analysis - Solution Assessment & Validation - Underlying Competencies
BABOK
Manage Solution Scope & Requirements - Manage Requirements Traceability - Maintain Requirements for Re-use - Prepare Requirements Package - Communicate Requirements
Term and Fact Model
Estimation
38. The process of informing stakeholders of metrics of indicators in specified formats at specified intervals.
Observation
Solution Approach
Reporting
Solution Performance Assessment
39. What are the elements of the task - Define Solution Scope?
Monitoring
Acceptance - Transfer - Avoidance - Mitigation
Solution Scope Definition - Implementation Approach - Dependencies
Decision Analysis - Problem Tacking - Risk Analysis
40. What are the characteristics of Interaction Skills?
Strengths - Weaknesses
Emotional and Cognitive
Facilitation & Negotiation - Leadership & Influencing - Teamwork
Functional Decomposition
41. Maps the level of stakeholder influence and interest in a project.
Observation
Elimination
Stakeholder Matrix
Glossary
42. 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.
Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis
Implementation Approach
Sequence Diagrams
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements - Requirements Structure
43. 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
Horizontal Prototype
Data Dictionary & Glossary - Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshops - Survey/Questionnaire
Business Domain - Corporate Culture & Environment - Skills of the Analyst - Requirement Deliverable
44. What is the output of the task Conduct Stakeholder Analysis?
Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Data Flow Diagrams
Define Transitional Requirements
Verify Requirements
45. A package should contain a consistent - cohesive and coherent set of requirements. This describes the ____________.
Requirements Structure
Assumptions & Constraints
Risk - assumptions - constraints - etc.
Share - Enhance - Exploit
46. What are the inputs for the task - Define Transitional Requirements?
Structural Rules
Organizational Readiness Assessment - Requirements (Stated) - Solution (Deployed) - Solution (Designed)
System
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving
47. To identify and manage areas of uncertainty that can impact an initiative - solution - or organization.
Risk Analysis
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Problem Tracking - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Organizational Readiness Assessment
MoSCoW Analysis
48. According to the BABOK 2.0 - what type of analysis generates STAKEHOLDER requirements?
Requirements Analysis
State Diagrams
Responsible - Accountable - Consulted - Informed
Business Goals & Objectives - Requirements (Stated)
49. Strengths - Weaknesses - Opportunities - Threats - A valuable tool to quickly analyze various aspects of the current state of the business process undergoing change.
Scheduled Resources - Supporting Materials
Organize Requirements
SWOT Analysis
Business Need
50. To define the rules that govern decisions in an organization and that define - constrain or enable organization operations.
Brings them to a Communication on understanding
Industry Knowledge
Business Rules Analysis
Assumptions & Constraints - Business Need - Solution Scope - Stakeholder Concerns