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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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1. The purpose is to describe the required qualities of a system - such as its usability and performance characteristics.
Stakeholder Matrix - Onion Diagram
Assess Organization Readiness
Non-functional Requirements Analysis
Document Analysis - SWOT Analysis

2. Revised process and templates for BA deliverables should be analyzed and documented and lessons learned should be recorded.
Business Analysis Process Assets
Formal Documentation - Presentation - Model
They describe what a solution must be capable of doing to meet the needs of one or more stakeholder groups
Requirements (Stated - Confirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Confirmed)

3. 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
Requirements (Prioritized)
Document Elicitation Results task
Problem Tracking
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

4. Approach to decision making that examines and models the possible consequences of different decisions. Make an optimal decision under conditions of uncertainty.
Fishbone Diagram - Five Whys
Decision Analysis
Requirements Workshop - Structured Walkthrough
Interviews - Observation

5. What are the Primitive Data Elements?
Functions - Markets - Matrix
Document Elicitation Results task
Requirements (Prioritized)
Name - Aliases - Values/Meanings - Description

6. What are the elements of Communication Skills?
Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis
Tracing Requirements
Oral Communications - Teaching - Written Communication
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Problem Tracking - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire

7. A brief description of functionality that users need from a solution to meet a business objective. The goal they are trying to accomplish - and any additional information that may be critical to understanding the scope of the story.
Name - Value/Meanings - Description
Organizational Readiness Assessment
MoSCoW Analysis
User Story

8. A requirement that does not deliver direct or indirect value to a stakeholder is a strong candidate for what?
Assumptions & Constraints - Required Capabilities - Solution Approach
Data Dictionary & Glossary
Functional Decomposition
Elimination

9. What are the inputs to the task - Assess Capability Gaps?
Observation
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Business Rules Analysis - Focus Groups - Functional Decomposition - Root Cause Analysis
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving - Behavioral Characteristics - Business Knowledge - Communication Skills - Interaction Skills - Software Application
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Solution Performance Assessment

10. What are the strategies for a negative risk?
Acceptance - Transfer - Avoidance - Mitigation
Document Elicitation Results task
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Required Capabilities
Facilitation & Negotiation - Leadership & Influencing - Teamwork

11. What are the classifications used to describe requirements
Business Requirements - Stakeholder Requirements - Solution Requirements - Transition Requirements
Business Analysis Plan
Requirements (Validated)
Vendor Assessment

12. 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.
Cultural Assessment - Operational or Technical Assessment - Stakeholder Impact Analysis
Sequence Diagrams
Communicated Requirements
Formal Documentation - Presentation - Model

13. Most optimistic estimate; most pessimistic estimate; most likely estimate
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Models - Focus Groups - Interviews - Survey/Questionnaire - Organizational Modeling - Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Force Field Analysis
Interviews - Observation
Three-point Estimation
Decision Analysis - Estimation - Metrics & KPIs - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Vendor Assessment

14. What are the inputs for the task Plan Business Analysis Activities?
Data Modeling
Business Analysis Approach - BA Performance Assessment - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Data Dictionary & Glossary - Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshops - Survey/Questionnaire
Analogous Estimation

15. What are the inputs for the task - Define Transitional Requirements?
Key Performance Indicator (KPI )
Organizational Readiness Assessment - Requirements (Stated) - Solution (Deployed) - Solution (Designed)
Solution Performance Assessment
Requirements (Stated - Unconfirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Unconfirmed)

16. 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.
Verify Requirements
To record the conflict in the Requirements Issues Log.
Personal Organization
Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution (Designed) - Solution Scope

17. What are the inputs to the task Conduct Stakeholder Analysis?
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Organizational Process Assets
The Business Analysis Communication Plan
Key Performance Indicator (KPI )
Benefits - Costs - Risk Assessment - Results Measurement

18. What are the inputs to the task - Define Business Case?
Organizational Readiness Assessment
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements (Stated) - Solution Scope
Business Value - Business or Technical Risk - Implementation Difficulty - Likelihood of Success - Regulatory or Policy Compliance - Relationship to Other Requirements - Stakeholder Agreement - Urgency
Assumptions & Constraints - Business Need - Solution Scope - Stakeholder Concerns

19. What are the Cultural diversity issues that should be taken into account when planning communication?
Relationships - Impact Analysis - Configuration Management System
Monitoring
Relationship to Time - Relationship to Task Completion - Relationship to Contracts - Relationships to Formal and Informal Authority
Verify Requirements

20. What are the tasks in Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring?
Plan Business Analysis Approach - Conduct Stakeholder Analysis - Plan Business Analysis Activities - Plan Business Analysis Communication - Plan Requirements Management Process - Manage BA Performance
Data Dictionary & Glossary - Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshops - Survey/Questionnaire
SWOT Analysis
Cognitive Conflict

21. What is the output of the task Plan Requirements Management Process?
Requirements Management Plan
Key Performance Indicator (KPI )
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements Management Plan - Scheduled Resources - Solution Scope & Business Case - Supporting Materials
Functional Decomposition - Interface Analysis - Scope Modeling - User Stories - Problem or Vision Statement

22. What is the output of the task - Determine Solution Approach?
MoSCoW Analysis
Validate Requirements
Transition Requirements
Solution Approach

23. What are the inputs for the task - Define Solution Scope?
Advantages of Document Analysis
Assumptions & Constraints - Required Capabilities - Solution Approach
Data Dictionary & Glossary - Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshops - Survey/Questionnaire
User Story

24. What is the output of the task - Organize Requirements?
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Solution Performance Assessment
Assumptions & Constraints
Verify Requirements
Requirements Structure

25. A specific - actionable - testable directive that is under the control of an organization and supports a business policy.
Business Analysis Approach - BA Performance Assessment - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Business Rule
Parametric Estimation
Requirements (Maintained and Reusable)

26. What are the underlying competencies a BA should possess?
Solution Approach
Problem Tracking
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving - Behavioral Characteristics - Business Knowledge - Communication Skills - Interaction Skills - Software Application
Oral Communications - Teaching - Written Communication

27. Name the 2 types of Software categories that assist in BA productivity.
Document Analysis - SWOT Analysis
Business Case - Business Need - Requirements - Requirements Management Plan - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
General Purpose Applications & Specialized Applications
Use Case

28. What are the techniques used in the task - Communicate Requirements?
Requirements (Any Except Stated)
Root Cause Analysis
Scenarios & Use Cases
Requirements Workshop - Structured Walkthrough

29. Characteristics that are common to all organizations with a similar purpose and structure - whether or not the are in the same industry.
Elicitation Results
Solution Performance Assessment
Prepare Requirements Package
Business Principals

30. 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.
Learning
Bottom-up Estimation
Goals
Organization Modeling

31. What are the different types of learning styles?
Relationship to Time - Relationship to Task Completion - Relationship to Contracts - Relationships to Formal and Informal Authority
Requirements Workshop
Bottom-up Estimation
Visual Learner - Auditory Learner - Kinesthetic Learner

32. What are the inputs to the task Manage Solution Scope & Requirements?
Elimination
Requirements Management Plan - Solution Scope - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities - Stakeholder/Solution or Transition Requirements (Communicated or Traced)
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Requirements - Requirements Package
Business Goals & Objectives - Requirements (Stated)

33. What are the inputs to the task - Assess Organizational Readiness?
Functional Decomposition
Metrics & KPIs
Enterprise Architecture - Solution Scope - Solution (Designed) - Stakeholder Concerns
Decision Analysis - Risk Analysis - MoSCoW Analysis - Timeboxing/Budgeting - Voting

34. Elicitation Results are the inputs for the ____________
Facilitation & Negotiation - Leadership & Influencing - Teamwork
Brainstorming
Document Elicitation Results task
Oral Communications - Teaching - Written Communication

35. Models a deep - and usually narrow slice of the entire system's functionality.
Estimation - Functional Decomposition - Risk Analysis
Requirements Structure
Vertical Prototype
Business Value - Business or Technical Risk - Implementation Difficulty - Likelihood of Success - Regulatory or Policy Compliance - Relationship to Other Requirements - Stakeholder Agreement - Urgency

36. Knowing the dependencies and relationships between requirements helps when determining the sequence in which requirements are to be addressed. Common relations are:
Necessity - Effort - Subset - Cover - Value
Requirements Structure
Perform tailoring exercises
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets

37. Includes the standard definition of data elements - their meanings and allowable values.
Business Requirements - Identified Defects - Solution Performance Metrics - Solution (Deployed)
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Problem Tracking - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Business Analysis Approach
Data Dictionary

38. Involved motivating people to act in ways that enable them to work together to achieve shared goals and objectives.
Leadership
Requirements (Stated) - Requirements Structure
Advantages of a Data Dictionary & Glossary
Solution Scope

39. What does SMART stand for?
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Problem Tracking - Structured Walkthrough - Checklists
Requirements (Stated - Unconfirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Unconfirmed)
Ethics
Specific - Measurable - Achievable - Relevant - Time-bound Objectives must be SMART.

40. What are the techniques used in the task Conduct Elicitation Activity?
Assumptions & Constraints
Industry Knowledge
Formal requirements presentation to stakeholders
Data Dictionary & Glossary - Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshops - Survey/Questionnaire

41. What are the elements of the task Plan Requirements Management Process?
Learning
Decision Analysis
Repository - Traceability - Requirement Attributes - Prioritization Process - Change Management - Tailoring the Requirements Management Process
Necessity - Effort - Subset - Cover - Value

42. Ensure that the solution meets the business need and determine the most appropriate response to identified defects.
Prepare for Elicitation - Conduct Elicitation Activity - Document Elicitation Results - Confirm Elicitation Results
Define Business Need - Access Capability Gaps - Determine Solution Approach - Define Solution Scope - Define Business Case
Validate Solution
Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring

43. Means of eliciting information from many people - sometimes anonymously - in a relatively short period of time
Survey/Questionnaire
Requirements Management Plan
Functional Decomposition
Prioritize Requirements - Organize Requirements - Specify & Model Requirements - Define Assumptions & Constraints - Verify Requirements - Validate Requirements

44. What techniques are used in the task Manage Requirements Traceability?
Advantages of Document Analysis
Coverage Matrix - Table or spreadsheet used to manage tracing.
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Requirements - Requirements Package
Lessons Learned Process

45. 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.
Structured Walkthrough
Brainstorming
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Problem Tracking - Structured Walkthrough - Checklists
Expert Judgment

46. What are the elements of the task - Define Solution Scope?
Solution Assessment & Validation
Solution Scope Definition - Implementation Approach - Dependencies
Conduct Elicitation Activity
Business Principals

47. The goal of this task is to meet with stakeholder(s) to gather information regarding their needs.
Problem or Vision Statement
Organization Modeling
Conduct Elicitation Activity
Requirements (Any Except Stated)

48. What is the output of the task - Prioritize Requirements?
Analogous Estimation
Name - Aliases - Values/Meanings - Description
Requirements (Prioritized)
Necessity - Effort - Subset - Cover - Value

49. What are the strategies for a positive risk?
They describe what a solution must be capable of doing to meet the needs of one or more stakeholder groups
Share - Enhance - Exploit
Scenario
Stakeholder Matrix

50. What are stakeholder requirements?
Requirements (Stated) - Requirements Structure
They describe what a solution must be capable of doing to meet the needs of one or more stakeholder groups
Estimation
Data - Ongoing Work - Organizational Change