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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning
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1. Shows how the behavior of a concept - entity or object changes in response to events during its lifetime - and defines which events cause a transition between those states.
Validate Solution
State Diagrams
Evaluation
A statement of the needs of a particular stakeholder or class of stakeholders
2. Divides requirements into 4 categories - Must - Should - Could - Won't
Business Policy
MoSCoW Analysis
Solution Scope
Discounted Cash Flow - Net Present Value - Internal Rate of Return - Average Rate of Return - Pay Back Period - Cost-Benefit Analysis
3. What is the output of the task - Define Assumptions & Constraints?
Assumptions & Constraints
Business Policy
Acceptance - Transfer - Avoidance - Mitigation
Timeboxing
4. Understanding of the competitive forces that shape an industry - understand the various customer segments that the industry services and the demographic or other characteristics common to that segment.
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Problem Tracking - Structured Walkthrough - Checklists
Business Analysis Communication Plan
Industry Knowledge
Requirements Management Plan
5. What is the output of the task - Assess Proposed Solution?
Assessment of Proposed Solution
Lessons Learned Process
Facilitation & Negotiation - Leadership & Influencing - Teamwork
Scope Modeling
6. Models a shallow - and possibly wide view of the system's functionality. It typically does not have any business logic running behind the visualization.
General Purpose Applications & Specialized Applications
Horizontal Prototype
Functional Decomposition - Interface Analysis - Scope Modeling - User Stories - Problem or Vision Statement
Ethics - Trustworthiness - Personal Organization
7. What knowledge area discusses the business analysis activities necessary to identify a business need - problem or opportunity - define the capture of the solution and justify the investment necessary to deliver the solution.
Assessment of Proposed Solution
Root Cause Analysis
Enterprise Analysis - often the starting point for initiating a new project
A statement of the needs of a particular stakeholder or class of stakeholders
8. Ensure that the solution meets the business need and determine the most appropriate response to identified defects.
Validate Solution
Requirements (Verified)
Expert Judgment
Vendor Assessment
9. What are the Cultural diversity issues that should be taken into account when planning communication?
Personal Organization
Evolutionary or Functional Prototype
Systems Thinking
Relationship to Time - Relationship to Task Completion - Relationship to Contracts - Relationships to Formal and Informal Authority
10. What are the inputs for the task - Maintain Requirements for Re-use?
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements
Prepare for Elicitation - Conduct Elicitation Activity - Document Elicitation Results - Confirm Elicitation Results
SWOT Analysis
Verify Requirements
11. Techniques used in the task Plan Requirements Management Process.
Structured Walkthrough
Decision Analysis - Problem Tacking - Risk Analysis
Absolute Reference - Author - Complexity - Ownership - Priority - Risks - Source - Stability - Status - Urgency
Unique Number - Activity Description - Assumptions - Dependencies - Milestones
12. What are the techniques used in Plan Business Analysis Approach?
Solution (Constructed) - Requirements (Prioritized and Validated)
Share - Enhance - Exploit
Impact Analysis - Requirements Coverage - Requirements Allocation
Decision Analysis - Process Modeling - Structured Walkthrough
13. Define the requirements that must be met in order for a solution to be considered acceptable to key stakeholders.
Acceptance & Evaluation Technique
Required Capabilities
Enterprise Analysis
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Metrics & KPIs - Prototyping - Risk Analysis - Structured Walkthrough
14. What is the output of the Plan Business Analysis Approach?
Problem Tracking - Baselining - Signoff
Decision Analysis - Risk Analysis - MoSCoW Analysis - Timeboxing/Budgeting - Voting
Dependencies
Business Analysis Approach
15. Three types of organizational structures
Compliance with regulatory or other standards
Estimation - Functional Decomposition - Risk Analysis
Perform tailoring exercises
Functions - Markets - Matrix
16. 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.
Risk Analysis
Identified Defects - Mitigating Actions - Solution Validation Assessment
Learning
Data Flow Diagrams
17. What are the techniques used in Plan Business Analysis Activities?
Problem or Vision Statement
Estimation - Functional Decomposition - Risk Analysis
Horizontal Prototype
Decision Analysis - Focus Groups - Observation - Survey/Questionnaire
18. What are the techniques used in the task - Validate Solution?
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Problem Tracking - Root Cause Analysis
Horizontal Prototype
Data Flow Diagrams
Business Case; Stakeholder - Solution or Transition Requirements (Verified)
19. Elicitation Results are the inputs for the ____________
Document Elicitation Results task
Impact Analysis
Elimination
Business Case - Business Need - Requirements - Requirements Management Plan - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
20. This will impose constraints to the effort to deploy the solution - including relationships that may exist between solution components.
Requirements (Verified)
Dependencies
Business Need - Expert Judgment - Organizational Process Assets
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
21. The goal of this task is to meet with stakeholder(s) to gather information regarding their needs.
Conduct Elicitation Activity
General Purpose Applications & Specialized Applications
Compliance with regulatory or other standards
Dependencies
22. Describes the effect a new solution will have on an organization and whether the organization is prepared for the organizational change the solution implementation will cause.
Reliability - Performance Efficiency - Operability - Security - Compatibility - Maintainability - Transferability
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving - Behavioral Characteristics - Business Knowledge - Communication Skills - Interaction Skills - Software Application
Assess Organization Readiness
Solution (Constructed) - Requirements (Prioritized and Validated)
23. What is the output of the task - Determine Solution Approach?
Solution Approach
Business Requirements - Identified Defects - Solution Performance Metrics - Solution (Deployed)
Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis
Problem Tracking - Baselining - Signoff
24. Name the 2 types of Software categories that assist in BA productivity.
General Purpose Applications & Specialized Applications
Implementation Approach
Cohesive - Complete - Consistent - Correct - Feasible - Modifiable - Unambiguous - Testable
Delphi Estimation
25. What is the output of the task - Manage Requirements Traceability?
Requirements (Traced)
Elicitation
Root Cause Analysis
Verify Requirements
26. What is the output of the task - Define Transition Requirements?
Stakeholder Matrix - Onion Diagram
Interviews - Observation
Transition Requirements
Clear - Relevant - Economical - Adequate - Quantifiable
27. What are the techniques used in the task Confirm Elicitation Results?
Risk Analysis
They describe what a solution must be capable of doing to meet the needs of one or more stakeholder groups
Interviews - Observation
Scheduled Resources - Supporting Materials
28. What are the tasks in the knowledge area - Requirements Analysis?
Requirements Structure
Prioritize Requirements - Organize Requirements - Specify & Model Requirements - Define Assumptions & Constraints - Verify Requirements - Validate Requirements
That they understand them and the current state the requirements are in
Document Analysis - SWOT Analysis
29. What is the output of the task Conduct Stakeholder Analysis?
Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Interviews
Problem Tracking
Define Business Case
30. What is the output of the task - Communicate Requirements?
Ongoing Cost versus Initial Investment - Opportunity Costs - Necessity - Sunk Costs
Allocate Requirements
Organizational Readiness Assessment
Communicated Requirements
31. The goal of tracing is to ensure that requirements are linked back to a business objective. Creation of this relationship helps in what other traceability activities?
Business Analysis Approach
Vertical Prototype
Required Capabilities
Impact Analysis - Requirements Coverage - Requirements Allocation
32. 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.
Requirements Analysis
Cognitive Conflict
Stakeholder Matrix
Goals
33. This knowledge area describes the tasks that are performed in order to ensure that solutions meet the business need and to facilitate successful implementation.
Requirements Structure
Benchmarking
Solution Assessment & Validation
Business Goals & Objectives - Requirements (Stated)
34. Includes the standard definition of data elements - their meanings and allowable values.
Coverage Matrix - Table or spreadsheet used to manage tracing.
Requirements Management & Communication
Data Dictionary
Decision Analysis
35. When a conflict arises between stakeholders on one or more documented requirements - the first thing that needs to take place is what?
To record the conflict in the Requirements Issues Log.
Responsible - Accountable - Consulted - Informed
Lessons Learned Process
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Decision Analysis - Estimation - SWOT Analysis - Feasibility Analysis
36. Investigating how a solution is actually used after it is deployed and assessing the effect it has had - both positive and negative.
Focus Group
Enterprise Architecture - Solution Scope - Solution (Designed) - Stakeholder Concerns
Business Case - Business Need - Requirements - Requirements Management Plan - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Evaluate Solution Performance
37. What are the techniques used in the task - Validate Requirements?
Functions - Markets - Matrix
Visual Learner - Auditory Learner - Kinesthetic Learner
Evaluation Criteria
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Metrics & KPIs - Prototyping - Risk Analysis - Structured Walkthrough
38. What is the output of the task - Validate Requirements?
Sequences - Repetitions - Optional Elements
Parametric Estimation
Requirements (Validated)
Impact Analysis - Requirements Coverage - Requirements Allocation
39. What techniques are used in the task - Define Solution Scope?
Functional Decomposition - Interface Analysis - Scope Modeling - User Stories - Problem or Vision Statement
Coverage Matrix - Table or spreadsheet used to manage tracing.
Determine the Process - Who will Authorize Changes - Impact Analysis - Wording of the Request - Coordinate Prioritization of Change
Leadership
40. What are the techniques used in the task Manage Solution Scope & Requirements?
Problem Tracking - Baselining - Signoff
Strengths - Weaknesses
The Business Analysis Communication Plan
Scenarios & Use Cases
41. What are the tasks for the knowledge area - Requirements Management & Communication?
Business Principals
Manage Solution Scope & Requirements - Manage Requirements Traceability - Maintain Requirements for Re-use - Prepare Requirements Package - Communicate Requirements
Business Analysis Process Assets
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Problem Tracking - Structured Walkthrough - Checklists
42. What are the elements to the task - Define Business Case?
Benefits - Costs - Risk Assessment - Results Measurement
Throw-away Prototype
Scenario
Ethics
43. The goal of this task is validate that the stated requirements expressed by the stakeholder match the stakeholder's understanding of the problem and the stakeholder's needs. Analyst's understanding conforms to the actual desire or intentions of the s
Business Requirements - Identified Defects - Solution Performance Metrics - Solution (Deployed)
Tracing Requirements
Confirm Elicitation Results
Organizational Readiness Assessment
44. Communicated Requirements mean what to stakeholders?
Conduct Elicitation Activity
That they understand them and the current state the requirements are in
Decision Analysis - Process Modeling - Structured Walkthrough
Decision Analysis - Problem Tacking - Risk Analysis
45. When performing root cause analysis as part of the Validate Solution task - what stakeholder may be involved?
Underlying Competencies
Implementation SME
MoSCoW Analysis
Requirements Documentation - Requirements for Vendor Selection
46. Uses history as a basis for estimating. It is similar to analogous estimation - but is used not only for the top-down estimate - but for the detailed tasks as well.
Solution Assessment & Validation
Business Analysis Process Assets
Historic Analysis
Customer
47. What are the characteristics of quality for a requirements?
Interface Analysis
Use Case
Opportunity Cost
Cohesive - Complete - Consistent - Correct - Feasible - Modifiable - Unambiguous - Testable
48. What are the inputs for the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Data Modeling - Functional Decomposition - Organizational Modeling - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases - Scope Modeling - User Stories
Business Requirements - Identified Defects - Solution Performance Metrics - Solution (Deployed)
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements - Requirements Structure
Requirements Package
49. Performed to communicate - verify and validate requirements. Is a working session where invited participants review and discuss a set of requirements
Reliability - Performance Efficiency - Operability - Security - Compatibility - Maintainability - Transferability
Structured Walkthrough
Survey/Questionnaire
Name - Aliases - Values/Meanings - Description
50. What are the techniques used in the task - Determine Solution Approach?
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Decision Analysis - Estimation - SWOT Analysis - Feasibility Analysis
Business Need - Expert Judgment - Organizational Process Assets
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Organizational Process Assets
Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution (Designed) - Solution Scope