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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

Subjects : certifications, business-skills

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1. The goal of this task is to create a set of views of the requirements for the new business solution that are comprehensive - complete - consistent and understood from all stakeholder perspectives.
Organize Requirements
Business Need - Solution Scope & Business Case - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Dependencies
Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring

2. What are the techniques used in the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?
MoSCoW Analysis
Define Business Need - Access Capability Gaps - Determine Solution Approach - Define Solution Scope - Define Business Case
Personal Organization
Decision Analysis - Focus Groups - Observation - Survey/Questionnaire

3. Organizational culture - Stakeholder preference - complexity - organizational maturity and availability of resources are all factors used to do what?
Focus Group
Benchmarking
Data Modeling
Perform tailoring exercises

4. What are the techniques used in the task - Define Business Case?
Decision Analysis - Estimation - Metrics & KPIs - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Business Rule
Requirements Analysis
Requirements (Validated)

5. What are the techniques used in Plan Business Analysis Activities?
Business Principals
Implementation Approach
Estimation - Functional Decomposition - Risk Analysis
Assess Proposed Solution - Allocate Requirements - Assess Organizational Readiness - Define Transition Requirements - Validate Solution - Evaluate Solution Performance

6. What are the strategies for a positive risk?
Elicitation Results
Operative Rules
Share - Enhance - Exploit
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Business Rules Analysis - Decision Analysis - Functional Decomposition - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases

7. What are the inputs to the task - Assess Proposed Solution?
Business Policy
Decision Making
Assumptions & Constraints - Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution Options
Unique Number - Activity Description - Assumptions - Dependencies - Milestones

8. 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.
Expert Judgment
Necessity - Effort - Subset - Cover - Value
Requirements Structure
Scheduled Resources - Supporting Materials

9. What are the likely sources of transition requirements?
Vertical Prototype
Lessons Learned Process
Data - Ongoing Work - Organizational Change
Rolling Wave

10. 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
Problem or Vision Statement
Assessment of Proposed Solution
Acceptance - Transfer - Avoidance - Mitigation
Compliance with regulatory or other standards

11. A non-actionable directive that supports a business goal.
Business Policy
Repository - Traceability - Requirement Attributes - Prioritization Process - Change Management - Tailoring the Requirements Management Process
Formal requirements presentation to stakeholders
Evaluation

12. How is the Operational Support stakeholder utilized in the Evaluate Solution Performance task?
Implementation Approach
Metrics & KPIs
Necessity - Effort - Subset - Cover - Value
This person will be involved in monitoring the performance and effectiveness of a solution or its components.

13. Describes all the possible outcomes of an attempt to accomplish a particular goal that the solution will support.
Requirements (Analyzed)
Structural Rules
Stakeholder Matrix
Use Case

14. What are the inputs to the task - Specify & Model Requirements?
Requirements (Allocated)
Learning
Requirements (Stated) - Requirements Structure
That they understand them and the current state the requirements are in

15. What is the output of the task - Maintain Requirements for Re-use?
Relationship to Time - Relationship to Task Completion - Relationship to Contracts - Relationships to Formal and Informal Authority
Requirements (Maintained and Reusable)
Sequence Diagrams
Problem or Vision Statement

16. What should be considered when establishing a Change Management process?
Requirements (Allocated)
Determine the Process - Who will Authorize Changes - Impact Analysis - Wording of the Request - Coordinate Prioritization of Change
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Required Capabilities
Formal requirements presentation to stakeholders

17. What techniques are used in the task - Prepare Requirements Package?
Requirements Documentation - Requirements for Vendor Selection
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving
Impact Analysis
Requirements Structure

18. A continuous process of collecting data to determine how well a solution has been implemented compared to expected results.
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Requirements - Requirements Package
Coverage Matrix - Table or spreadsheet used to manage tracing.
Manage Solution Scope & Requirements - Manage Requirements Traceability - Maintain Requirements for Re-use - Prepare Requirements Package - Communicate Requirements
Monitoring

19. What techniques are used in the task Prepare for Elicitation?
Solution Assessment & Validation
Primary stakeholders in the Organize Requirements task
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Non-functional Requirements Analysis

20. Revised process and templates for BA deliverables should be analyzed and documented and lessons learned should be recorded.
Business Value - Business or Technical Risk - Implementation Difficulty - Likelihood of Success - Regulatory or Policy Compliance - Relationship to Other Requirements - Stakeholder Agreement - Urgency
Business Analysis Process Assets
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Decision Analysis - Estimation - SWOT Analysis - Feasibility Analysis
Requirements (Stated) - Requirements Structure

21. 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
Define Business Need - Access Capability Gaps - Determine Solution Approach - Define Solution Scope - Define Business Case
Delphi Estimation
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving
Risk Analysis

22. What techniques are used in the task Manage Requirements Traceability?
Evolutionary or Functional Prototype
Coverage Matrix - Table or spreadsheet used to manage tracing.
Business Need - Expert Judgment - Organizational Process Assets
Interviews - Observation

23. What is the output of the task - Assess Organizational Readiness?
Creative Thinking - Decision Making - Learning - Problem Solving - Systems Thinking
Organizational Readiness Assessment
Business Rule
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Business Rules Analysis - Focus Groups - Functional Decomposition - Root Cause Analysis

24. To assess the ability of a potential vendor to meet commitments regarding a product or service
Communicated Requirements
User Story
Unique Number - Activity Description - Assumptions - Dependencies - Milestones
Vendor Assessment

25. Knowing the dependencies and relationships between requirements helps when determining the sequence in which requirements are to be addressed. Common relations are:
Solution Scope
Evolutionary or Functional Prototype
Necessity - Effort - Subset - Cover - Value
Requirements (Stated) - Requirements Structure

26. What is the output of the task - Define Transition Requirements?
Transition Requirements
Determine the Process - Who will Authorize Changes - Impact Analysis - Wording of the Request - Coordinate Prioritization of Change
Decision Analysis
Prepare for Elicitation - Conduct Elicitation Activity - Document Elicitation Results - Confirm Elicitation Results

27. What are the techniques used in the task - Assess Capability Gaps?
Document Analysis - SWOT Analysis
Throw-away Prototype
Implementation SME
Benefits - Costs - Risk Assessment - Results Measurement

28. A package should contain a consistent - cohesive and coherent set of requirements. This describes the ____________.
Requirements (Stated) - Stakeholder Concerns
Impact Analysis
Requirements Structure
Clear - Relevant - Economical - Adequate - Quantifiable

29. Use of parameters - multiplied by the number of hours. (COCOMO II - Function Point Counting - Use Case Points - and Story Points)
Formal requirements presentation to stakeholders
Parametric Estimation
Business Principles & Practices
Brainstorming

30. What are the tasks for the knowledge area - Requirements Management & Communication?
Business Analysis Plan
Monitoring
Organization Modeling
Manage Solution Scope & Requirements - Manage Requirements Traceability - Maintain Requirements for Re-use - Prepare Requirements Package - Communicate Requirements

31. The decomposition of activities and tasks creates?
Vendor Assessment
Activity List
Requirements (Allocated)
Solution Scope

32. 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
Organizational Readiness Assessment - Requirements (Stated) - Solution (Deployed) - Solution (Designed)
Requirements Management & Communication
Requirements Analysis
Solution Assessment & Validation

33. 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.
Data Modeling
Industry Knowledge
Organize Requirements
Opportunity Cost

34. What is the output of the task - Prioritize Requirements?
Requirements (Prioritized)
Personal Organization
Operative Rules
Enterprise Architecture - Solution Scope - Solution (Designed) - Stakeholder Concerns

35. What are the characteristics of quality for a requirements?
Implementation Approach
Organize Requirements
Requirements Structure
Cohesive - Complete - Consistent - Correct - Feasible - Modifiable - Unambiguous - Testable

36. What are the attributes of a Data Model?
Term and Fact Model
Metrics & KPIs
Name - Value/Meanings - Description
Organizational Readiness Assessment - Requirements (Stated) - Solution (Deployed) - Solution (Designed)

37. What are the inputs to the task - Validate Solution?
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements - Requirements Structure
Emotional and Cognitive
Solution (Constructed) - Requirements (Prioritized and Validated)
Requirements (Any Except Stated)

38. What are the techniques used in the task - Assess Proposed Solution?
Industry Knowledge
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Decision Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring
Tracing Requirements

39. A specific - actionable - testable directive that is under the control of an organization and supports a business policy.
Clear - Relevant - Economical - Adequate - Quantifiable
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets
Implementation Approach
Business Rule

40. What are the characteristics of Interaction Skills?
They describe what a solution must be capable of doing to meet the needs of one or more stakeholder groups
Risk - assumptions - constraints - etc.
Customer
Facilitation & Negotiation - Leadership & Influencing - Teamwork

41. 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.
Solution Knowledge
Horizontal Prototype
Interviews
Creative Thinking - Decision Making - Learning - Problem Solving - Systems Thinking

42. Rules that are intended to help determine when something is or is not true - or when things fall into a specific category. They are expressed as rules because they describe categorizations that may change over time.
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Formal requirements presentation to stakeholders
Structural Rules
Stakeholder Matrix - Onion Diagram

43. 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.
All
Cohesive - Complete - Consistent - Correct - Feasible - Modifiable - Unambiguous - Testable
Requirements Analysis
Industry Knowledge

44. To identify interfaces between solutions and/or solution components and define requirements that describe how they will interact.
Tracing Requirements
Business Need - Expert Judgment - Organizational Process Assets
Interface Analysis
Sequences - Repetitions - Optional Elements

45. 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.
State Diagrams
Risk - assumptions - constraints - etc.
Document Analysis
Verify Requirements

46. What does RACI stand for?
Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Throw-away Prototype
Responsible - Accountable - Consulted - Informed
Analogous Estimation

47. What does SMART stand for?
Specific - Measurable - Achievable - Relevant - Time-bound Objectives must be SMART.
Acceptance - Transfer - Avoidance - Mitigation
Requirements (Maintained and Reusable)
Relationships - Impact Analysis - Configuration Management System

48. What techniques are used in the task - Define Solution Scope?
Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution (Designed) - Solution Scope
Functional Decomposition - Interface Analysis - Scope Modeling - User Stories - Problem or Vision Statement
Elimination of Dominated Alternative - Ranking Objects on a Similar Scale
Stakeholder Concerns

49. What are the inputs for the task - Define Transitional Requirements?
Requirements (Maintained and Reusable)
Decision Analysis - Focus Groups - Observation - Survey/Questionnaire
Organizational Readiness Assessment - Requirements (Stated) - Solution (Deployed) - Solution (Designed)
Requirements Management & Communication

50. 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.
Cognitive Conflict
Responsible - Accountable - Consulted - Informed
Estimation
Risk Analysis