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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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1. Elements of a Requirements Management Plan include?






2. The objective of this technique is to determine how companies achieve their superior performance levels and use that information to design projects to improve operations of the enterprise.






3. Describes all the possible outcomes of an attempt to accomplish a particular goal that the solution will support.






4. The goal of this task is to meet with stakeholder(s) to gather information regarding their needs.






5. What are the inputs to the task - Validate Requirements?






6. Documents terms unique to a domain.






7. What are the attributes of a Data Model?






8. 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.






9. What are the tasks in the knowledge area - Enterprise Analysis?






10. 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.






11. 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.






12. 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.






13. 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.






14. What are the techniques used in the task Manage Business Analysis Performance?






15. Estimating relies on the expertise of those who have performed the work in the past. These experts can be internal or external to the project team or to the organization.






16. Prioritizes requirements based on a allocated fixed amount of money.






17. What are the inputs to the task - Organize Requirements?






18. A structured way to capture requirements. May be used to scope - discover - define - prioritize and reach closure on requirements for the target system. Considered one of the most effective ways to deliver high quality requirements quickly.






19. What techniques are used in the task - Define Solution Scope?






20. This knowledge area describes the behaviors - knowledge and other characteristics that support the effective performance of a BA.






21. What are the inputs to the Plan Business Analysis Approach?






22. What are the inputs to the task - Assess Proposed Solution?






23. Used to describe the roles - responsibilities and reporting structures that exist within an organization and to align those structures with the organization's goals.






24. Understanding of the business architecture of the organization that is being analyzed. Understanding business models (generates profit) - org structure - relationships between business units and the persons who occupy key stakeholder positions.






25. What are the inputs to the task - Assess Organizational Readiness?






26. What are the techniques used in the task - Allocate Resources?






27. 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






28. What are the Composite Data Elements?






29. What are the likely sources of transition requirements?






30. 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 -






31. 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.






32. What are the techniques used in the task - Prioritize Requirements?






33. What does RACI stand for?






34. Three types of organizational structures






35. 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.






36. Elements identified for each activity and task.






37. What are the techniques used in the task - Assess Organizational Readiness?






38. What are the inputs to the task - Specify & Model Requirements?






39. Creates a conceptual model of the work that needs to be completed to deliver the new business solution.






40. What is the output of the task - Specify & Model Requirements?






41. Business value can be delivered through requirements that support _______________ - alignment with internal standards or policies of the organization - or increased satisfaction for stakeholders - even if those things do not have a direct measurable






42. Checklist of characteristics to consider when considering non-functional requirements.






43. The minimum set of requirements that must be met in order for a particular solution to be worth implementing.






44. What techniques are used in the task Manage Requirements Traceability?






45. What is the output to the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?






46. What is the output of the task - Define Business Case?






47. The purpose is to compile and document successes - opportunities for improvement - failures - and recommendations for improving the performance of future projects or project phases






48. What are the inputs for the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?






49. A specific - actionable - testable directive that is under the control of an organization and supports a business policy.






50. To define the rules that govern decisions in an organization and that define - constrain or enable organization operations.