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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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1. 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.
Specific - Measurable - Achievable - Relevant - Time-bound Objectives must be SMART.
Analogous Estimation
Business Need
Requirements (Stated - Unconfirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Unconfirmed)

2. What are the techniques used in the task - Assess Organizational Readiness?
Elicitation Results
Transition 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
Organization Modeling

3. To assess the ability of a potential vendor to meet commitments regarding a product or service
Organizational Knowledge
Tracing Requirements
Vendor Assessment
Reliability - Validity - Timeliness

4. What are the inputs to the task - Organize Requirements?
Requirements (Verified)
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements (Stated) - Solution Scope
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Organizational Process Assets
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Problem Tracking - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire

5. What are the elements of the area - Analytical Thinking and Problem Solving - Successful generation of new ideas - application of new ideas to resolve existing problems - willingness of stakeholders to accept new approaches.
Requirements Documentation - Requirements for Vendor Selection
Acceptance Criteria
Creative Thinking - Decision Making - Learning - Problem Solving - Systems Thinking
Requirements (Traced)

6. What are the Behavioral Characteristics a BA should exhibit?
Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Problem Tracking - Root Cause Analysis
Ethics - Trustworthiness - Personal Organization
Reliability - Validity - Timeliness

7. 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.
Horizontal Prototype
Requirements Analysis
Business Rules Analysis
Structural Rules

8. What are the elements of the task - Define Solution Scope?
Requirements (Stated - Unconfirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Unconfirmed)
Solution Scope Definition - Implementation Approach - Dependencies
Formal requirements presentation to stakeholders
Solution Approach

9. What is the output of the task Plan Business Analysis Activities?
Unique Number - Activity Description - Assumptions - Dependencies - Milestones
Requirements Structure
Business Analysis Plan
Prioritize Requirements - Organize Requirements - Specify & Model Requirements - Define Assumptions & Constraints - Verify Requirements - Validate Requirements

10. Measures progress towards a strategic goal or objective.
Requirements (Allocated)
Rolling Wave
Key Performance Indicator (KPI )
User Classes - Profiles or Roles; Concepts & Relationships - Events - Processes - Rules

11. 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.
Business Policy
Assessment of Proposed Solution
Necessity - Effort - Subset - Cover - Value
Data Modeling

12. Requires the team to focus on examining the premises - assumptions - observations and expectations of the team members. This type of conflict can have a beneficial effect of strengthening the foundations of the analysis and the solution.
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Business Rules Analysis - Focus Groups - Functional Decomposition - Root Cause Analysis
Cognitive Conflict
Define Transitional Requirements
Opportunity Cost

13. 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.
Requirements Workshop
Non-functional Requirements Analysis
Identified Defects - Mitigating Actions - Solution Validation Assessment
Problem or Vision Statement

14. What are stakeholder requirements?
Organization Modeling
Estimation - Functional Decomposition - Risk Analysis
Decision Analysis - Focus Groups - Observation - Survey/Questionnaire
They describe what a solution must be capable of doing to meet the needs of one or more stakeholder groups

15. Name some commonly used financial valuation techniques.
Perform tailoring exercises
Interviews
Discounted Cash Flow - Net Present Value - Internal Rate of Return - Average Rate of Return - Pay Back Period - Cost-Benefit Analysis
Problem Tracking

16. Checklist of characteristics to consider when considering non-functional requirements.
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements - Requirements Structure
Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis
Reliability - Performance Efficiency - Operability - Security - Compatibility - Maintainability - Transferability
Organizational Readiness Assessment - Requirements (Stated) - Solution (Deployed) - Solution (Designed)

17. Ensure that the solution meets the business need and determine the most appropriate response to identified defects.
Problem Tracking - Baselining - Signoff
Validate Solution
Business Domain - Corporate Culture & Environment - Skills of the Analyst - Requirement Deliverable
Clear - Relevant - Economical - Adequate - Quantifiable

18. What are the inputs to the task Manage Business Analysis Performance?
Formal Documentation - Presentation - Model
Business Analysis Plan
Relationships - Impact Analysis - Configuration Management System
Business Analysis Performance Metrics - Business Analysis Plan - Organization Performance Standards - Requirements Management Plan

19. This task determines if an organization can justify the investment required to deliver a proposed solution.
Business Goals & Objectives - Requirements (Stated)
Evaluation
Define Business Case
Business Requirements - Identified Defects - Solution Performance Metrics - Solution (Deployed)

20. Models a shallow - and possibly wide view of the system's functionality. It typically does not have any business logic running behind the visualization.
A statement of the needs of a particular stakeholder or class of stakeholders
Horizontal Prototype
Business Need - Expert Judgment - Organizational Process Assets
Structured Walkthrough

21. This knowledge area describes the tasks that are performed in order to ensure that solutions meet the business need and to facilitate successful implementation.
Cultural Assessment - Operational or Technical Assessment - Stakeholder Impact Analysis
Solution Assessment & Validation
Relationship to Time - Relationship to Task Completion - Relationship to Contracts - Relationships to Formal and Informal Authority
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Organizational Process Assets

22. What are the inputs to the task - Assess Capability Gaps?
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Solution Performance Assessment
Cultural Assessment - Operational or Technical Assessment - Stakeholder Impact Analysis
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Decision Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Organizational Process Assets

23. What are the techniques used in Plan Business Analysis Activities?
Clear - Relevant - Economical - Adequate - Quantifiable
Onion Diagram
Estimation - Functional Decomposition - Risk Analysis
Assess Organization Readiness

24. Two effective trade-off methods.
Elimination of Dominated Alternative - Ranking Objects on a Similar Scale
Stakeholder Concerns
Requirements (Any Except Stated)
Activity List

25. What techniques are used in the task Manage Requirements Traceability?
Problem or Vision Statement
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
Coverage Matrix - Table or spreadsheet used to manage tracing.
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Solution Performance Assessment

26. What are the factors of influence by stakeholders on a project?
Requirements (Prioritized)
Define Business Case
Influence on the project - organizational - project health and other stakeholders
Verify Requirements

27. What are the inputs for the task Plan Business Analysis Activities?
Expert Judgment
Business Analysis Approach - BA Performance Assessment - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Coverage Matrix - Table or spreadsheet used to manage tracing.
Data Flow Diagrams

28. What are some of the key variables used in determining the priority of a requirement?
Historic Analysis
Requirements Management Plan - Solution Scope - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities - Stakeholder/Solution or Transition Requirements (Communicated or Traced)
Interviews
Business Value - Business or Technical Risk - Implementation Difficulty - Likelihood of Success - Regulatory or Policy Compliance - Relationship to Other Requirements - Stakeholder Agreement - Urgency

29. What are the strategies for a negative risk?
Acceptance - Transfer - Avoidance - Mitigation
Problem Solving
Goals
Historic Analysis

30. 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
Delphi Estimation
Functional Decomposition - Interface Analysis - Scope Modeling - User Stories - Problem or Vision Statement
Opportunity Cost
Influence on the project - organizational - project health and other stakeholders

31. Involved motivating people to act in ways that enable them to work together to achieve shared goals and objectives.
Acceptance & Evaluation Technique
Conduct Elicitation Activity
Leadership
Sequence Diagrams

32. Knowing the dependencies and relationships between requirements helps when determining the sequence in which requirements are to be addressed. Common relations are:
Solution Performance Assessment
Visual Learner - Auditory Learner - Kinesthetic Learner
Scenario
Necessity - Effort - Subset - Cover - Value

33. What is the output of the task - Determine Solution Approach?
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Problem Tracking - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Assumptions & Constraints - Required Capabilities - Solution Approach
Impact Analysis - Requirements Coverage - Requirements Allocation
Solution Approach

34. A diagram indicating how involved the stakeholder is with the solution.
Onion Diagram
Oral Communications - Teaching - Written Communication
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Business Rules Analysis - Focus Groups - Functional Decomposition - Root Cause Analysis
Define Business Need - Access Capability Gaps - Determine Solution Approach - Define Solution Scope - Define Business Case

35. Communication of requirements does what for stakeholders?
Brings them to a Communication on understanding
Requirements (Prioritized)
Elimination of Dominated Alternative - Ranking Objects on a Similar Scale
Estimation

36. The purpose is to describe the required qualities of a system - such as its usability and performance characteristics.
Non-functional Requirements Analysis
Organizational Readiness Assessment - Requirements (Stated) - Solution (Deployed) - Solution (Designed)
Acceptance - Transfer - Avoidance - Mitigation
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving - Behavioral Characteristics - Business Knowledge - Communication Skills - Interaction Skills - Software Application

37. What are the inputs to the task Manage Solution Scope & Requirements?
That they understand them and the current state the requirements are in
Rolling Wave
Requirements Management Plan - Solution Scope - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities - Stakeholder/Solution or Transition Requirements (Communicated or Traced)
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements - Requirements Structure

38. This prototype seeks to quickly uncover and clarify interface requirements using simple tools - sometimes just paper and pencil. The focus is on functionality that is not easily elicited by other techniques - has conflicting viewpoints - or is diffic
Relationship to Time - Relationship to Task Completion - Relationship to Contracts - Relationships to Formal and Informal Authority
Structured Walkthrough
Throw-away Prototype
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving - Behavioral Characteristics - Business Knowledge - Communication Skills - Interaction Skills - Software Application

39. 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.
Primary stakeholders in the Organize Requirements task
Requirements (Allocated)
Ethics - Trustworthiness - Personal Organization
Relationships - Impact Analysis - Configuration Management System

40. 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.
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Business Rules Analysis - Decision Analysis - Functional Decomposition - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases
Requirements (Traced)
User Story
Reliability - Performance Efficiency - Operability - Security - Compatibility - Maintainability - Transferability

41. Defines the key terms and data relevant to a business domain.
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements
Opportunity Cost
Necessity - Effort - Subset - Cover - Value
Data Dictionary & Glossary

42. What is the output of the task - Allocate Resources?
This person will be involved in monitoring the performance and effectiveness of a solution or its components.
Business Case - Business Need - Requirements - Requirements Management Plan - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Plan Business Analysis Approach - Conduct Stakeholder Analysis - Plan Business Analysis Activities - Plan Business Analysis Communication - Plan Requirements Management Process - Manage BA Performance
Requirements (Allocated)

43. Three key factors when assessing the quality of indicators and their metrics
Reliability - Validity - Timeliness
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements Management Plan - Scheduled Resources - Solution Scope & Business Case - Supporting Materials
Advantages of a Data Dictionary & Glossary
Ethics - Trustworthiness - Personal Organization

44. What are the 3 elements in the Assess Organizational Readiness?
Cultural Assessment - Operational or Technical Assessment - Stakeholder Impact Analysis
Scheduled Resources - Supporting Materials
Requirements Structure
Business Need - Expert Judgment - Organizational Process Assets

45. What is the output of the task Plan Requirements Management Process?
Evolutionary or Functional Prototype
Requirements Management Plan
Requirements (Allocated)
Ethics

46. What are the characteristics of Interaction Skills?
Facilitation & Negotiation - Leadership & Influencing - Teamwork
User Story
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 (Analyzed)

47. This knowledge area describes how the BA assesses proposed solutions and determines which solution best fits the business need - identifies gaps and shortcomings to solutions and determines necessary workarounds or changes to the solution.
Enterprise Architecture - Solution Scope - Solution (Designed) - Stakeholder Concerns
Scheduled Resources - Supporting Materials
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving - Behavioral Characteristics - Business Knowledge - Communication Skills - Interaction Skills - Software Application
Solution Assessment & Validation

48. What are the inputs to the task - Specify & Model Requirements?
Validate Requirements
Requirements (Stated) - Requirements Structure
Decision Analysis - Problem Tacking - Risk Analysis
Problem Tracking - Baselining - Signoff

49. What are the different types of learning styles?
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Scenario
Visual Learner - Auditory Learner - Kinesthetic Learner
Requirements Management & Communication

50. What are the inputs to the task - Validate Requirements?
Advantages of a Data Dictionary & Glossary
Business Case; Stakeholder - Solution or Transition Requirements (Verified)
Assess Organization Readiness
Requirements Analysis