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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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1. What are the inputs for the task Plan Business Analysis Activities?






2. What are the techniques used in the task Manage Solution Scope & Requirements?






3. 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.






4. Communicated Requirements mean what to stakeholders?






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






6. What are some of the key variables used in determining the priority of a requirement?






7. What are the likely sources of transition requirements?






8. A package should contain a consistent - cohesive and coherent set of requirements. This describes the ____________.






9. What are the techniques used in the task - Validate Solution?






10. The knowledge area that covers how BAs determine which activities are necessary in order to complete a business analysis effort.






11. 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?






12. What are the tasks in the knowledge area - Requirements Analysis?






13. This knowledge area describes the problem definition and analysis - business case development - feasibility studies and the definition of solution scope.






14. What are the inputs to the task - Define Business Need?






15. To identify interfaces between solutions and/or solution components and define requirements that describe how they will interact.






16. According to the BABOK 2.0 - what type of analysis generates STAKEHOLDER requirements?






17. What are the Behavioral Characteristics a BA should exhibit?






18. What are the inputs to the task - Allocate Resources?






19. Measures progress towards a strategic goal or objective.






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






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






22. What is the output of the task - Define Assumptions & Constraints?






23. Models a shallow - and possibly wide view of the system's functionality. It typically does not have any business logic running behind the visualization.






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






25. What factors guide technique selection?






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






27. 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.






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






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






30. Models a deep - and usually narrow slice of the entire system's functionality.






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






32. What are some of the commonly used requirement attributes?






33. How is the Operational Support stakeholder utilized in the Evaluate Solution Performance task?






34. Strengths - Weaknesses - Opportunities - Threats - A valuable tool to quickly analyze various aspects of the current state of the business process undergoing change.






35. Name the 2 types of Stakeholder maps.






36. 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






37. This technique represents the types of peoples - places - things and concepts that are important to the business - attributes associated with them and the significant business relationships among them.






38. To assess the ability of a potential vendor to meet commitments regarding a product or service






39. What are the strategies for a negative risk?






40. What does SMART stand for?






41. Documents terms unique to a domain.






42. The people involved - the interactions between them - the external forces affecting their behavior and all other relevant elements and factors.






43. What are the techniques used in the task - Define Transition Requirements?






44. Approach to decision making that examines and models the possible consequences of different decisions. Make an optimal decision under conditions of uncertainty.






45. What are the inputs to the task - Define Assumption & Constraints?






46. 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.






47. Gathering information relevant to a decision - breaking down the information relevant to a decision - making comparisons and tradeoffs between similar and dissimilar options and identifying the option that is most desirable.






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






49. 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.






50. Using this technique the business analyst has collected the deliverables - activities - tasks - and estimates from all the involved stakeholders and rolls them up to get a total for all the activities and tasks.