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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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1. What are the techniques used in the task Confirm Elicitation Results?
Formal Documentation - Presentation - Model
Acceptance & Evaluation Technique
Functional Decomposition
Interviews - Observation

2. What techniques are used in the task Manage Requirements Traceability?
Functions - Markets - Matrix
Coverage Matrix - Table or spreadsheet used to manage tracing.
Activity List
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Organizational Process Assets

3. What is the output of the task - Prioritize Requirements?
Requirements (Stated - Confirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Confirmed)
Business Rules Analysis
Requirements Structure
Requirements (Prioritized)

4. What are the inputs to the Plan Business Analysis Approach?
Implementation Approach
Root Cause Analysis
Business Need - Expert Judgment - Organizational Process Assets
Implementation SME

5. Long-term - ongoing and qualitative statements of a state or condition that the organization is seeking to establish and maintain.
Term and Fact Model
Requirements (Stated - Unconfirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Unconfirmed)
Goals
Business Need

6. What are the techniques used in the task Conduct Elicitation Activity?
Business Rule
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements
Underlying Competencies
Data Dictionary & Glossary - Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshops - Survey/Questionnaire

7. A diagram indicating how involved the stakeholder is with the solution.
Onion Diagram
Automate or Simplify Work - Improve Access to Information - Reduce Complexity of Interfaces - Increase Consistency of Behavior - Eliminate Redundancy
Expert Judgment
Specific - Measurable - Achievable - Relevant - Time-bound Objectives must be SMART.

8. What are the inputs for the task - Define Solution Scope?
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Requirements - Requirements Package
Requirements Structure
Assumptions & Constraints - Required Capabilities - Solution Approach
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Required Capabilities

9. Elements identified for each activity and task.
Business Analysis Approach - BA Performance Assessment - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Business Case; Stakeholder - Solution or Transition Requirements (Verified)
Unique Number - Activity Description - Assumptions - Dependencies - Milestones

10. What are the inputs to the task - Allocate Resources?
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Problem Tracking - Root Cause Analysis
Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution (Designed) - Solution Scope
Document Elicitation Results task
Prepare Requirements Package

11. What are the techniques used in the task Manage Solution Scope & Requirements?
Decision Making
Evolutionary or Functional Prototype
Industry Knowledge
Problem Tracking - Baselining - Signoff

12. Use of parameters - multiplied by the number of hours. (COCOMO II - Function Point Counting - Use Case Points - and Story Points)
Required Capabilities
Underlying Competencies
Decision Analysis
Parametric Estimation

13. What are the techniques used in the task - Define Business Case?
Requirements (Maintained and Reusable)
Implementation Approach
Decision Analysis - Estimation - Metrics & KPIs - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Assess Proposed Solution - Allocate Requirements - Assess Organizational Readiness - Define Transition Requirements - Validate Solution - Evaluate Solution Performance

14. This will impose constraints to the effort to deploy the solution - including relationships that may exist between solution components.
Dependencies
That they understand them and the current state the requirements are in
Requirements (Allocated)
Assumptions & Constraints

15. Corrective or preventative measures uncovered while performing a Business Analysis Performance Assessment will result in changes to what plan?
Scenario
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Metrics & KPIs - Prototyping - Risk Analysis - Structured Walkthrough
Business Analysis Plan
Cognitive Conflict

16. What are the Cultural diversity issues that should be taken into account when planning communication?
Business Rule
Functional Decomposition
Strengths - Weaknesses
Relationship to Time - Relationship to Task Completion - Relationship to Contracts - Relationships to Formal and Informal Authority

17. Defines the key terms and data relevant to a business domain.
Tracing Requirements
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Decision Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Data Dictionary & Glossary
Risk Analysis

18. Used to describe the roles - responsibilities and reporting structures that exist within an organization and to align those structures with the organization's goals.
Organization Modeling
Estimation
Define Business Case
Estimation - Functional Decomposition - Risk Analysis

19. What is the output of the task Confirm Elicitation Results?
Business Analysis Process Assets
Requirements (Stated - Confirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Confirmed)
They describe what a solution must be capable of doing to meet the needs of one or more stakeholder groups
Expert Judgment

20. What are the tasks of the Elicitation Knowledge Area?
This person will be involved in monitoring the performance and effectiveness of a solution or its components.
Vendor Assessment
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Business Rules Analysis - Focus Groups - Functional Decomposition - Root Cause Analysis
Prepare for Elicitation - Conduct Elicitation Activity - Document Elicitation Results - Confirm Elicitation Results

21. What are the inputs for the task Plan Business Analysis Activities?
Relationships - Impact Analysis - Configuration Management System
Business Analysis Approach - BA Performance Assessment - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Leadership
Transition Requirements

22. This knowledge area describes the problem definition and analysis - business case development - feasibility studies and the definition of solution scope.
Opportunity Cost
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
Solution Scope Definition - Implementation Approach - Dependencies
Enterprise 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
Focus Group
Rolling Wave
Solution Scope
Organizational Readiness Assessment - Requirements (Stated) - Solution (Deployed) - Solution (Designed)

24. A requirement that does not deliver direct or indirect value to a stakeholder is a strong candidate for what?
Elimination
Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Focus Group
Absolute Reference - Author - Complexity - Ownership - Priority - Risks - Source - Stability - Status - Urgency

25. What are the strategies for a negative risk?
The Sponsor
Requirements - Requirements Management Plan
Acceptance - Transfer - Avoidance - Mitigation
Enterprise Architecture - Solution Scope - Solution (Designed) - Stakeholder Concerns

26. 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.
Risk Analysis
Organize Requirements
System
Solution Scope

27. What are the inputs for the task - Define Transitional Requirements?
Transition Requirements
Organizational Readiness Assessment - Requirements (Stated) - Solution (Deployed) - Solution (Designed)
Conduct Elicitation Activity
Perform tailoring exercises

28. Industry Knowledge - Organization Knowledge - Solution Knowledge What are the elements of Business Knowledge?
Business Principles & Practices
Assessment of Proposed Solution
User Classes - Profiles or Roles; Concepts & Relationships - Events - Processes - Rules
Organizational Readiness Assessment - Requirements (Stated) - Solution (Deployed) - Solution (Designed)

29. What are the techniques used in the task - Prioritize Requirements?
Decision Analysis - Risk Analysis - MoSCoW Analysis - Timeboxing/Budgeting - Voting
Business Analysis Communication Plan
Interviews
User Classes - Profiles or Roles; Concepts & Relationships - Events - Processes - Rules

30. What is the output of the task - Communicate Requirements?
State Diagrams
Business Analysis Performance Metrics - Business Analysis Plan - Organization Performance Standards - Requirements Management Plan
User Classes - Profiles or Roles; Concepts & Relationships - Events - Processes - Rules
Communicated Requirements

31. What are the inputs to the task Manage Business Analysis Performance?
Brings them to a Communication on understanding
Requirements Documentation - Requirements for Vendor Selection
Business Analysis Performance Metrics - Business Analysis Plan - Organization Performance Standards - Requirements Management Plan
Assumptions & Constraints - Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution Options

32. What are the techniques used in Plan Business Analysis Activities?
Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Requirements (Prioritized)
Estimation - Functional Decomposition - Risk Analysis
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Problem Tracking - Structured Walkthrough - Checklists

33. What are the underlying competencies a BA should possess?
Organizational Readiness Assessment
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Modeling - Organization Modeling - Data Modeling
Brings them to a Communication on understanding
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving - Behavioral Characteristics - Business Knowledge - Communication Skills - Interaction Skills - Software Application

34. A means of eliciting requirements by conducting an assessment of the stakeholder's work environment. This technique is appropriate when documenting details about current processes or if the project is intended to enhance or change a current process.
Allocate Requirements
Observation
Identified Defects - Mitigating Actions - Solution Validation Assessment
Business Analysis Approach

35. What are the inputs for the task Prepare for Elicitation?
Document Elicitation Results task
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements - Requirements Structure
Business Need - Solution Scope & Business Case - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Reliability - Performance Efficiency - Operability - Security - Compatibility - Maintainability - Transferability

36. Set of requirements that will be used to choose between multiple solutions.
Requirements (Any Except Stated)
Evaluation Criteria
Reporting
Oral Communications - Teaching - Written Communication

37. What are the Primitive Data Elements?
Assess Proposed Solution - Allocate Requirements - Assess Organizational Readiness - Define Transition Requirements - Validate Solution - Evaluate Solution Performance
Name - Aliases - Values/Meanings - Description
Impact Analysis - Requirements Coverage - Requirements Allocation
Organizational Readiness Assessment - Requirements (Stated) - Solution (Deployed) - Solution (Designed)

38. 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
Business Requirements - Identified Defects - Solution Performance Metrics - Solution (Deployed)
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Decision Analysis - Estimation - SWOT Analysis - Feasibility Analysis
Document Elicitation Results task

39. Ability to find information - on-time completion of tasks - efficiency in the completion of work - ability to easily identify all outstanding work and the status of each work item.
Personal Organization
Requirements Management & Communication
Requirements - Requirements Management Plan
Enterprise Analysis

40. What is the output of the task - Organize Requirements?
Metrics & KPIs
Requirements Structure
The Sponsor
Survey/Questionnaire

41. What is the output of the task - Verify Requirements?
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Models - Focus Groups - Interviews - Survey/Questionnaire - Organizational Modeling - Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Force Field Analysis
Requirements (Verified)
Prepare Requirements Package
Data Flow Diagrams

42. What is the output of the task Plan Requirements Management Process?
Description - Raised by - Date Identified - Impact - Priority - Need by Date - Owner - Status - Action Needed to be Resolved - Responsible for Action - Completion Date of Action - Outcome
Requirements Management Plan
Functional Decomposition - Interface Analysis - Scope Modeling - User Stories - Problem or Vision Statement
Analogous Estimation

43. The systematic and objective assessment of a solution to determine its status and efficacy in meeting objectives over time - and to identify ways to improve the solution to better meet objectives.
Evaluation
Strengths - Weaknesses
Dependencies
Observation

44. 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
Absolute Reference - Author - Complexity - Ownership - Priority - Risks - Source - Stability - Status - Urgency
Brainstorming
Cohesive - Complete - Consistent - Correct - Feasible - Modifiable - Unambiguous - Testable
Coverage Matrix - Table or spreadsheet used to manage tracing.

45. While eliciting requirements it is important to guard against scope creep - This activity will ensure that the requirements should be included since they meet the business goal/objectives.
Business Requirements - Stakeholder Requirements - Solution Requirements - Transition Requirements
Business Analysis Communication Plan
Tracing Requirements
Structured Walkthrough

46. What are the techniques for the task - Verify Requirements?
Assess Proposed Solution - Allocate Requirements - Assess Organizational Readiness - Define Transition Requirements - Validate Solution - Evaluate Solution Performance
Define Business Case
Business Principles & Practices
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Problem Tracking - Structured Walkthrough - Checklists

47. Creates a conceptual model of the work that needs to be completed to deliver the new business solution.
Functional Decomposition
Coverage Matrix - Table or spreadsheet used to manage tracing.
Business Policy
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements

48. What are the characteristics of Interaction Skills?
Primary stakeholders in the Organize Requirements task
Specific - Measurable - Achievable - Relevant - Time-bound Objectives must be SMART.
Requirements Management Plan
Facilitation & Negotiation - Leadership & Influencing - Teamwork

49. The purpose of _______________ is to ensure that a stakeholder's actual underlying needs are understood - rather than the their stated or superficial desires.
Estimation - Functional Decomposition - Risk Analysis
MoSCoW Analysis
Elicitation
Vertical Prototype

50. What are the inputs to the task Conduct Stakeholder Analysis?
Requirements (Any Except Stated)
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Organizational Process Assets
Cultural Assessment - Operational or Technical Assessment - Stakeholder Impact Analysis
Fishbone Diagram - Five Whys