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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning
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1. What are the techniques used in the task - Assess Capability Gaps?
Document Analysis - SWOT Analysis
Business Analysis Plan
Observation
User Classes - Profiles or Roles; Concepts & Relationships - Events - Processes - Rules
2. To define the rules that govern decisions in an organization and that define - constrain or enable organization operations.
Business Rules Analysis
Historic Analysis
Data Modeling
Repository - Traceability - Requirement Attributes - Prioritization Process - Change Management - Tailoring the Requirements Management Process
3. Confidence in the problem solving process that a selected solution is correct - new solution options can be evaluated effectively using the problem solving framework - selected solutions meet the defined objectives and solve the underlying problem -
Validate Requirements
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Facilitation & Negotiation - Leadership & Influencing - Teamwork
Problem Solving
4. 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
Organize Requirements
Acceptance & Evaluation Technique
Brainstorming
Name - Value/Meanings - Description
5. 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.
The Business Analysis Communication Plan
Business Principals
Learning
Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution (Designed) - Solution Scope
6. What are the inputs to the Plan Business Analysis Approach?
Stakeholder Concerns
Acceptance Criteria
Requirements Workshop
Business Need - Expert Judgment - Organizational Process Assets
7. What are the inputs to the task - Assess Proposed Solution?
Specific - Measurable - Achievable - Relevant - Time-bound Objectives must be SMART.
Business Need - Expert Judgment - Organizational Process Assets
Enterprise Analysis - often the starting point for initiating a new project
Assumptions & Constraints - Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution Options
8. Used to describe the roles - responsibilities and reporting structures that exist within an organization and to align those structures with the organization's goals.
Name - Aliases - Values/Meanings - Description
Assumptions & Constraints - Business Need - Solution Scope - Stakeholder Concerns
Problem Solving
Organization Modeling
9. What are the techniques used in the task - Prioritize Requirements?
Strengths - Weaknesses
Decision Analysis - Risk Analysis - MoSCoW Analysis - Timeboxing/Budgeting - Voting
Business Case; Stakeholder - Solution or Transition Requirements (Verified)
Data Dictionary & Glossary - Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshops - Survey/Questionnaire
10. Three types of organizational structures
System
Functions - Markets - Matrix
Ethics - Trustworthiness - Personal Organization
Conduct Elicitation Activity
11. Prioritizes requirements based on a allocated fixed amount of money.
Structured Walkthrough
Unique Number - Activity Description - Assumptions - Dependencies - Milestones
System
Budgeting
12. 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
Name - Value/Meanings - Description
SWOT Analysis
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets
13. Name some commonly used financial valuation techniques.
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Decision Analysis - Estimation - SWOT Analysis - Feasibility Analysis
Relationship to Time - Relationship to Task Completion - Relationship to Contracts - Relationships to Formal and Informal Authority
Discounted Cash Flow - Net Present Value - Internal Rate of Return - Average Rate of Return - Pay Back Period - Cost-Benefit Analysis
Personal Organization
14. This prototype extends the initial interface requirements into a fully functioning system and requires a specialized prototyping tool or language.
Evolutionary or Functional Prototype
Benefits - Costs - Risk Assessment - Results Measurement
Acceptance - Transfer - Avoidance - Mitigation
Solution Assessment & Validation
15. The minimum set of requirements that must be met in order for a particular solution to be worth implementing.
Facilitation & Negotiation - Leadership & Influencing - Teamwork
Coverage Matrix - Table or spreadsheet used to manage tracing.
Acceptance Criteria
Cultural Assessment - Operational or Technical Assessment - Stakeholder Impact Analysis
16. 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.
Impact Analysis
Stakeholder Matrix
Term and Fact Model
Opportunity Cost
17. Is generally understood to describe just one way that an actor can accomplish a particular goal
Requirements - Requirements Management Plan
Risk Analysis
Scenario
Customer
18. What are the inputs to the task - Allocate Resources?
Elicitation
Evaluation
Evaluate Solution Performance
Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution (Designed) - Solution Scope
19. What is the output of the task Conduct Stakeholder Analysis?
Define Transitional Requirements
Functions - Markets - Matrix
Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Business Rule
20. What are the inputs to the task - Validate Solution?
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Business Rules Analysis - Focus Groups - Functional Decomposition - Root Cause Analysis
Decision Analysis
Solution (Constructed) - Requirements (Prioritized and Validated)
Data Dictionary & Glossary - Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshops - Survey/Questionnaire
21. What are the likely sources of transition requirements?
Requirements Structure
Data - Ongoing Work - Organizational Change
Business Domain - Corporate Culture & Environment - Skills of the Analyst - Requirement Deliverable
Cohesive - Complete - Consistent - Correct - Feasible - Modifiable - Unambiguous - Testable
22. The decomposition of activities and tasks creates?
Term and Fact Model
Ethics - Trustworthiness - Personal Organization
Assumptions & Constraints
Activity List
23. 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.
Unique Number - Activity Description - Assumptions - Dependencies - Milestones
Interviews - Observation
Requirements Analysis
Cultural Assessment - Operational or Technical Assessment - Stakeholder Impact Analysis
24. Useful for ensuring that all stakeholders are in agreement on the format and content of relevant information. Capturing these definitions in a single model ensures that these terms will be used consistently.
Advantages of a Data Dictionary & Glossary
Personal Organization
Organization Modeling
Structured Walkthrough
25. How is the Operational Support stakeholder utilized in the Evaluate Solution Performance task?
This person will be involved in monitoring the performance and effectiveness of a solution or its components.
Learning
Elimination
Requirements Documentation - Requirements for Vendor Selection
26. Creates a conceptual model of the work that needs to be completed to deliver the new business solution.
Root Cause Analysis
Brings them to a Communication on understanding
Metrics & KPIs
Functional Decomposition
27. 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
Assess Proposed Solution - Allocate Requirements - Assess Organizational Readiness - Define Transition Requirements - Validate Solution - Evaluate Solution Performance
Problem Tracking - Baselining - Signoff
Data Dictionary
28. What are the elements of Communication Skills?
Visual Learner - Auditory Learner - Kinesthetic Learner
Define Transitional Requirements
Oral Communications - Teaching - Written Communication
Glossary
29. A formal written specification with possible walk-thru - an informal one is possibly verbal or email Communication
Learning
Impact Analysis
Formal requirements presentation to stakeholders
Dependencies
30. What are the inputs for the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?
Perform tailoring exercises
Evolutionary or Functional Prototype
Business Requirements - Identified Defects - Solution Performance Metrics - Solution (Deployed)
Decision Analysis - Risk Analysis - MoSCoW Analysis - Timeboxing/Budgeting - Voting
31. A continuous process of collecting data to determine how well a solution has been implemented compared to expected results.
Monitoring
Assumptions & Constraints - Business Need - Solution Scope - Stakeholder Concerns
Requirements (Analyzed)
The Business Analysis Communication Plan
32. 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.
Business Analysis Plan
Sequence Diagrams
Requirements - Requirements Management Plan
Interviews - Lessons Learned Process - Metrics and KPIs - Problem Tracking - Process Modeling - Root Cause Analysis - Survey/Questionnaire - Variance Analysis
33. 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
Decision Making
Elimination of Dominated Alternative - Ranking Objects on a Similar Scale
Problem Tracking
Business Analysis Approach
34. What are the underlying competencies a BA should possess?
Ongoing Cost versus Initial Investment - Opportunity Costs - Necessity - Sunk Costs
Requirements - Requirements Management Plan
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving - Behavioral Characteristics - Business Knowledge - Communication Skills - Interaction Skills - Software Application
Evaluation Criteria
35. Techniques used in the task Plan Requirements Management Process.
Brainstorming
Business Requirements - Stakeholder Requirements - Solution Requirements - Transition Requirements
Requirements - Requirements Management Plan
Decision Analysis - Problem Tacking - Risk Analysis
36. Long-term - ongoing and qualitative statements of a state or condition that the organization is seeking to establish and maintain.
Decision Analysis - Estimation - Metrics & KPIs - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Organizational Readiness Assessment
Goals
Budgeting
37. Who is the primary stakeholder in the Define Business Case task?
The Sponsor
Learning
Automate or Simplify Work - Improve Access to Information - Reduce Complexity of Interfaces - Increase Consistency of Behavior - Eliminate Redundancy
Requirements Workshop
38. Checklist of characteristics to consider when considering non-functional requirements.
Interviews - Lessons Learned Process - Metrics and KPIs - Problem Tracking - Process Modeling - Root Cause Analysis - Survey/Questionnaire - Variance Analysis
Reliability - Performance Efficiency - Operability - Security - Compatibility - Maintainability - Transferability
Requirements Documentation - Requirements for Vendor Selection
Opportunity Cost
39. What are the elements of the area - Analytical Thinking and Problem Solving - Successful generation of new ideas - application of new ideas to resolve existing problems - willingness of stakeholders to accept new approaches.
Requirements (Stated) - Stakeholder Concerns
Creative Thinking - Decision Making - Learning - Problem Solving - Systems Thinking
Business Rule
Problem Tracking
40. What are the tasks in the knowledge area - Solution Assessment & Validation?
Assess Proposed Solution - Allocate Requirements - Assess Organizational Readiness - Define Transition Requirements - Validate Solution - Evaluate Solution Performance
Prioritize Requirements - Organize Requirements - Specify & Model Requirements - Define Assumptions & Constraints - Verify Requirements - Validate Requirements
Cultural Assessment - Operational or Technical Assessment - Stakeholder Impact Analysis
Elicitation Results
41. A means to elicit ideas and attitudes about a specific product - service or opportunity in an interactive group environment. The participants share their impressions - preferences and needs - guided by a moderator. - Effective for learning people's a
Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Absolute Reference - Author - Complexity - Ownership - Priority - Risks - Source - Stability - Status - Urgency
Data Flow Diagrams
Focus Group
42. What are the techniques used in the task Conduct Stakeholder Analysis?
Use Case
Functional Decomposition
Business Requirements - Identified Defects - Solution Performance Metrics - Solution (Deployed)
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
43. What is the output of the task - Verify Requirements?
Data Dictionary
Decision Making
Requirements (Verified)
Solution (Constructed) - Requirements (Prioritized and Validated)
44. A package should contain a consistent - cohesive and coherent set of requirements. This describes the ____________.
Requirements Structure
Define Business Case
Business Need
Business Rules Analysis
45. 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.
All
Requirements Management & Communication
Interviews
Three-point Estimation
46. What are some of the key variables used in determining the priority of a requirement?
Transition Requirements
Problem Tracking
User Classes - Profiles or Roles; Concepts & Relationships - Events - Processes - Rules
Business Value - Business or Technical Risk - Implementation Difficulty - Likelihood of Success - Regulatory or Policy Compliance - Relationship to Other Requirements - Stakeholder Agreement - Urgency
47. 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
Evaluation Criteria
Business Principals
Prototyping
Operative Rules
48. 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
Automate or Simplify Work - Improve Access to Information - Reduce Complexity of Interfaces - Increase Consistency of Behavior - Eliminate Redundancy
Historic Analysis
Facilitation
Assess Proposed Solution - Allocate Requirements - Assess Organizational Readiness - Define Transition Requirements - Validate Solution - Evaluate Solution Performance
49. What is the output of the Manage Business Analysis Performance task?
Functional Decomposition
Evaluation Criteria
Organizational Readiness Assessment - Requirements (Stated) - Solution (Deployed) - Solution (Designed)
Business Analysis Performance Assessment - Business Analysis Process Assets - Includes a comparison of planned versus actual performance - understanding the root cause of variances from the plan and other information to help understand the level of
50. This task describes the work required to decide which formats are appropriate for a particular project and its stakeholders. The requirements must be clear - concise - accurate and at the appropriate level of detail to assure clear understanding by t
Scheduled Resources - Supporting Materials
Prepare Requirements Package
Acceptance & Evaluation Technique
Prepare for Elicitation - Conduct Elicitation Activity - Document Elicitation Results - Confirm Elicitation Results