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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

Subjects : certifications, business-skills

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1. Involved motivating people to act in ways that enable them to work together to achieve shared goals and objectives.
Assumptions & Constraints - Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution Options
Evaluation
Leadership
Requirements (Stated - Confirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Confirmed)

2. Set of requirements that will be used to choose between multiple solutions.
Requirements (Traced)
Evaluation Criteria
Specific - Measurable - Achievable - Relevant - Time-bound Objectives must be SMART.
Business Rules Analysis

3. 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
Evaluation
Data Dictionary & Glossary - Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshops - Survey/Questionnaire
Survey/Questionnaire
Compliance with regulatory or other standards

4. A package should contain a consistent - cohesive and coherent set of requirements. This describes the ____________.
Monitoring
Requirements Structure
Business Requirements - Identified Defects - Solution Performance Metrics - Solution (Deployed)
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Business Rules Analysis - Decision Analysis - Functional Decomposition - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases

5. 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.
Problem Tracking - Baselining - Signoff
Survey/Questionnaire
Elimination
Interviews

6. List 3 possible forms of a requirements packages.
Organize Requirements
Requirements (Maintained and Reusable)
Responsible - Accountable - Consulted - Informed
Formal Documentation - Presentation - Model

7. What are some of the key variables used in determining the priority of a requirement?
Business Value - Business or Technical Risk - Implementation Difficulty - Likelihood of Success - Regulatory or Policy Compliance - Relationship to Other Requirements - Stakeholder Agreement - Urgency
SWOT Analysis
Requirements Workshop - Structured Walkthrough
Organizational Readiness Assessment - Requirements (Stated) - Solution (Deployed) - Solution (Designed)

8. The BA is a stakeholder in ______ business analysis activities.
Business Need
Facilitation & Negotiation - Leadership & Influencing - Teamwork
All
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving - Behavioral Characteristics - Business Knowledge - Communication Skills - Interaction Skills - Software Application

9. What is the output of the task Confirm Elicitation Results?
Scenarios & Use Cases
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
Interviews - Observation
Requirements (Stated - Confirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Confirmed)

10. Is generally understood to describe just one way that an actor can accomplish a particular goal
Scenario
Problem Tracking - Baselining - Signoff
Requirements - Requirements Management Plan
Glossary

11. What are the inputs for the task - Maintain Requirements for Re-use?
Decision Analysis
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements
Glossary
Requirements Package

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.
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Solution Performance Assessment
Survey/Questionnaire
Analogous Estimation
Trustworthiness

13. Describes the effect a new solution will have on an organization and whether the organization is prepared for the organizational change the solution implementation will cause.
Automate or Simplify Work - Improve Access to Information - Reduce Complexity of Interfaces - Increase Consistency of Behavior - Eliminate Redundancy
Assess Organization Readiness
They describe what a solution must be capable of doing to meet the needs of one or more stakeholder groups
Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis

14. What are the different types of learning styles?
Visual Learner - Auditory Learner - Kinesthetic Learner
Requirements (Allocated)
Evaluate Solution Performance
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements - Requirements Structure

15. What techniques are used in the task - Prepare Requirements Package?
Requirements - Requirements Management Plan
Requirements Documentation - Requirements for Vendor Selection
Business Analysis Approach - BA Performance Assessment - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Metrics & KPIs

16. What knowledge area discusses the business analysis activities necessary to identify a business need - problem or opportunity - define the capture of the solution and justify the investment necessary to deliver the solution.
Rolling Wave
Enterprise Analysis - often the starting point for initiating a new project
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Problem Tracking - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Goals

17. What are the Behavioral Characteristics a BA should exhibit?
Opportunity Cost
Ethics - Trustworthiness - Personal Organization
Requirements (Prioritized)
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Required Capabilities

18. What techniques are used in the task Manage Requirements Traceability?
Vertical Prototype
Impact Analysis - Requirements Coverage - Requirements Allocation
Requirements Structure
Coverage Matrix - Table or spreadsheet used to manage tracing.

19. 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
Business Rule
Structured Walkthrough
Manage Solution Scope & Requirements - Manage Requirements Traceability - Maintain Requirements for Re-use - Prepare Requirements Package - Communicate Requirements

20. Business rules require a defined glossary of terms and an understanding of the relationships between them - this is known as:
Term and Fact Model
Compliance with regulatory or other standards
Enterprise Analysis
Solution Scope Definition - Implementation Approach - Dependencies

21. What are the techniques used in the task - Assess Capability Gaps?
Prepare Requirements Package
Document Analysis - SWOT Analysis
Problem or Vision Statement
Solution Knowledge

22. A good indicator has 5 characteristics:
Estimation
Manage Solution Scope & Requirements - Manage Requirements Traceability - Maintain Requirements for Re-use - Prepare Requirements Package - Communicate Requirements
Business Requirements - Stakeholder Requirements - Solution Requirements - Transition Requirements
Clear - Relevant - Economical - Adequate - Quantifiable

23. The goal of this task is to meet with stakeholder(s) to gather information regarding their needs.
Acceptance & Evaluation Technique
Decision Analysis - Process Modeling - Structured Walkthrough
Conduct Elicitation Activity
Assumptions & Constraints

24. What are the inputs to the Plan Business Analysis Approach?
Business Need - Expert Judgment - Organizational Process Assets
Data - Ongoing Work - Organizational Change
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Problem Tracking - Structured Walkthrough - Checklists
Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring

25. The knowledge area that describes how a BA manages conflicts - issues and changes in order to ensure that stakeholders and the project team remain in agreement on the solution scope - how requirements are communicated to stakeholders and how knowledg
Requirements Management & Communication
Evaluation
SWOT Analysis
Business Principals

26. What are the strategies for a negative risk?
Enterprise Analysis
Acceptance - Transfer - Avoidance - Mitigation
Assumptions & Constraints - Required Capabilities - Solution Approach
Analogous Estimation

27. Three types of organizational structures
Requirements Structure
Solution Assessment & Validation
Functions - Markets - Matrix
Requirements (Analyzed)

28. What are the tasks of the Elicitation Knowledge Area?
Prepare for Elicitation - Conduct Elicitation Activity - Document Elicitation Results - Confirm Elicitation Results
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving
Sequences - Repetitions - Optional Elements
Interface Analysis

29. Decisions are made with the interest of all stakeholders considered - reasons for a decision are cleared articulated - prompt and full disclosure of conflicts of interest - honesty regarding one's abilities and the performance of one's work.
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Solution Performance Assessment
Requirements (Stated - Unconfirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Unconfirmed)
Ethics
Risk - assumptions - constraints - etc.

30. Confidence in the decision analysis process that a decision is correct - new information or alternative that cause a decision to be revisited are new and not simply overlooked - decisions are effective in addressing underlying problem - impact of unc
Decision Making
Advantages of Document Analysis
Oral Communications - Teaching - Written Communication
Requirements Package

31. What are the strategies for a positive risk?
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Problem Tracking - Root Cause Analysis
Formal requirements presentation to stakeholders
Share - Enhance - Exploit
Solution Approach

32. Techniques used in the task Plan Requirements Management Process.
Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis
Decision Analysis - Problem Tacking - Risk Analysis
Stakeholder Concerns
A statement of the needs of a particular stakeholder or class of stakeholders

33. What is the output of the task - Validate Requirements?
Requirements (Validated)
A statement of the needs of a particular stakeholder or class of stakeholders
Risk Analysis
Impact Analysis - Requirements Coverage - Requirements Allocation

34. Includes the standard definition of data elements - their meanings and allowable values.
Decision Making
Document Elicitation Results task
Data Dictionary
Non-functional Requirements Analysis

35. What are the inputs to the task - Define Business Need?
Business Goals & Objectives - Requirements (Stated)
Requirements (Approved)
Reliability - Performance Efficiency - Operability - Security - Compatibility - Maintainability - Transferability
Creative Thinking - Decision Making - Learning - Problem Solving - Systems Thinking

36. Means of eliciting information from many people - sometimes anonymously - in a relatively short period of time
Survey/Questionnaire
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements Management Plan - Scheduled Resources - Solution Scope & Business Case - Supporting Materials
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
Necessity - Effort - Subset - Cover - Value

37. 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 -
Solution Performance Assessment
The Business Analysis Communication Plan
Implementation SME
Problem Solving

38. What are the inputs to the task - Assess Organizational Readiness?
Enterprise Architecture - Solution Scope - Solution (Designed) - Stakeholder Concerns
Specific - Measurable - Achievable - Relevant - Time-bound Objectives must be SMART.
Onion Diagram
Data Flow Diagrams

39. What is the output of the task - Allocate Resources?
Requirements (Allocated)
Assess Proposed Solution - Allocate Requirements - Assess Organizational Readiness - Define Transition Requirements - Validate Solution - Evaluate Solution Performance
Customer
Business Need - Expert Judgment - Organizational Process Assets

40. What describes how - when and why the business analyst will work with stakeholders?
Define Transitional Requirements
Business Analysis Communication Plan
The Business Analysis Communication Plan
Cultural Assessment - Operational or Technical Assessment - Stakeholder Impact Analysis

41. Defines the key terms and data relevant to a business domain.
Data Dictionary & Glossary
Observation
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Requirements - Requirements Package
Interface Analysis

42. What are the inputs to the task - Specify & Model Requirements?
Operative Rules
Prepare for Elicitation - Conduct Elicitation Activity - Document Elicitation Results - Confirm Elicitation Results
Requirements (Stated) - Requirements Structure
Strengths - Weaknesses

43. Use of a similar project as the basis for developing estimates for the current project. Also known as "top-down" estimating. This is usually done at the beginning of the project or project phase and more detailed estimates follow as more is known.
Assess Proposed Solution - Allocate Requirements - Assess Organizational Readiness - Define Transition Requirements - Validate Solution - Evaluate Solution Performance
Requirements - Requirements Management Plan
Prepare Requirements Package
Analogous Estimation

44. What is the output of the task - Assess Proposed Solution?
Assessment of Proposed Solution
State Diagrams
Cultural Assessment - Operational or Technical Assessment - Stakeholder Impact Analysis
Requirements Structure

45. What are the inputs to the task - Allocate Resources?
Requirements (Prioritized)
Enterprise Architecture - Solution Scope - Solution (Designed) - Stakeholder Concerns
Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution (Designed) - Solution Scope
Assess Organization Readiness

46. A means to elicit requirements by studying available documentation on existing and comparable solutions and identifying relevant information. - Not starting from a blank page.- Leveraging existing materials to discover and/or confirm requirements. -
Interviews - Lessons Learned Process - Metrics and KPIs - Problem Tracking - Process Modeling - Root Cause Analysis - Survey/Questionnaire - Variance Analysis
Requirements Workshop - Structured Walkthrough
Define Business Case
Document Analysis

47. What are the inputs to the task Conduct Elicitation Activity?
Requirements (Allocated)
Relationships - Impact Analysis - Configuration Management System
Requirements (Traced)
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements Management Plan - Scheduled Resources - Solution Scope & Business Case - Supporting Materials

48. Limited to "as-is" perspective. - Existing documentation may not be up-to-date or valid. - Can be a time-consuming and even tedious process to locate the relevant information
Automate or Simplify Work - Improve Access to Information - Reduce Complexity of Interfaces - Increase Consistency of Behavior - Eliminate Redundancy
Advantages of Document Analysis
Cohesive - Complete - Consistent - Correct - Feasible - Modifiable - Unambiguous - Testable
Requirements Management & Communication

49. 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
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Required Capabilities
Stakeholder Matrix

50. What are the inputs for the task - Define Solution Scope?
Assessment of Proposed Solution
Data Dictionary
Assumptions & Constraints - Required Capabilities - Solution Approach
Advantages of a Data Dictionary & Glossary