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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

Subjects : certifications, business-skills

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1. This task determines if an organization can justify the investment required to deliver a proposed solution.
Document Elicitation Results task
Document Analysis - SWOT Analysis
Define Business Case
They describe what a solution must be capable of doing to meet the needs of one or more stakeholder groups

2. Rules that the organization chooses to enforce as a matter of policy. They are intended to guide the actions of people working within the organization. They may oblige people to take certain actions - prevent people from taking actions - or prescribe
Requirements Structure
Organize Requirements
Operative Rules
Functions - Markets - Matrix

3. What are the tasks for the knowledge area - Requirements Management & Communication?
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Business Rules Analysis - Decision Analysis - Functional Decomposition - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases
Manage Solution Scope & Requirements - Manage Requirements Traceability - Maintain Requirements for Re-use - Prepare Requirements Package - Communicate Requirements
Cognitive Conflict
Analogous Estimation

4. When a requirement is changed - the BA can easily review all the related requirements and software components in order to understand the impact of the change.
Implementation Approach
Impact Analysis
Organization Modeling
Business Analysis Plan

5. Maps the level of stakeholder influence and interest in a project.
Stakeholder Matrix
Business Analysis Process Assets
Requirements Workshop - Structured Walkthrough
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Brainstorming - Interviews - Organizational Modeling - Process Modeling - Requirements Workshop - Risk Analysis - Scenarios & Use Cases - User Stories - Scope Modeling - Survey/Questionnaire - RACI Matrix

6. Business rules require a defined glossary of terms and an understanding of the relationships between them - this is known as:
Define Business Need - Access Capability Gaps - Determine Solution Approach - Define Solution Scope - Define Business Case
Term and Fact Model
Primary stakeholders in the Organize Requirements task
Risk Analysis

7. What is the output of the Manage Business Analysis Performance task?
Allocate Requirements
Business Analysis Approach - BA Performance Assessment - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Solution Assessment & Validation
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

8. 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.
User Story
Trustworthiness
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Required Capabilities
Document Analysis

9. 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.
Enterprise Analysis - often the starting point for initiating a new project
Rolling Wave
Allocate Requirements
Goals

10. 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
Personal Organization
Decision Analysis
Validate Requirements

11. What is the output of the task Plan Requirements Management Process?
Assess Organization Readiness
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Data Modeling - Functional Decomposition - Organizational Modeling - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases - Scope Modeling - User Stories
Requirements Management Plan
Reporting

12. The decomposition of activities and tasks creates?
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Modeling - Organization Modeling - Data Modeling
Activity List
Strengths - Weaknesses

13. A requirement that does not deliver direct or indirect value to a stakeholder is a strong candidate for what?
Business Rules Analysis
Elimination
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Business Rules Analysis - Decision Analysis - Functional Decomposition - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases
Structured Walkthrough

14. Allocate stakeholder and solution requirements among solution components and releases in order to maximize the possible business value given the options and alternatives generated by the design team.
Business Goals & Objectives - Requirements (Stated)
Allocate Requirements
Evolutionary or Functional Prototype
Historic Analysis

15. What are the inputs to the task - Organize Requirements?
Assessment of Proposed Solution
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving - Behavioral Characteristics - Business Knowledge - Communication Skills - Interaction Skills - Software Application
Requirements (Validated)
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements (Stated) - Solution Scope

16. What are the techniques used in the task - Communicate Requirements?
Risk Analysis
Decision Making
Requirements Workshop - Structured Walkthrough
Requirements (Stated - Unconfirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Unconfirmed)

17. What are the inputs to the task - Define Business Need?
Business Goals & Objectives - Requirements (Stated)
Expert Judgment
Fishbone Diagram - Five Whys
Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis

18. Performed to communicate - verify and validate requirements. Is a working session where invited participants review and discuss a set of requirements
Define Business Need - Access Capability Gaps - Determine Solution Approach - Define Solution Scope - Define Business Case
Interviews - Lessons Learned Process - Metrics and KPIs - Problem Tracking - Process Modeling - Root Cause Analysis - Survey/Questionnaire - Variance Analysis
Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis
Structured Walkthrough

19. 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
Solution Approach
Vendor Assessment
Requirements Package

20. What are some examples of stakeholder concerns?
Learning
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets
Business Principals
Risk - assumptions - constraints - etc.

21. What are the factors of influence by stakeholders on a project?
Influence on the project - organizational - project health and other stakeholders
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Required Capabilities
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Solution Performance Assessment
System

22. What are the techniques used in the task - Define Assumptions & Constraints?
Coverage Matrix - Table or spreadsheet used to manage tracing.
Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements - Requirements Structure
Evaluation

23. What factors guide technique selection?
Sequences - Repetitions - Optional Elements
Business Domain - Corporate Culture & Environment - Skills of the Analyst - Requirement Deliverable
Evaluation Criteria
Acceptance Criteria

24. What techniques are used in the task - Define Solution Scope?
Functional Decomposition - Interface Analysis - Scope Modeling - User Stories - Problem or Vision Statement
Assessment of Proposed Solution
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Decision Analysis - Estimation - SWOT Analysis - Feasibility Analysis
Business Analysis Performance Metrics - Business Analysis Plan - Organization Performance Standards - Requirements Management Plan

25. The objective of this technique is to determine how companies achieve their superior performance levels and use that information to design projects to improve operations of the enterprise.
Requirements (Prioritized)
Benefits - Costs - Risk Assessment - Results Measurement
Benchmarking
Business Principals

26. What is the output of the task - Define Assumptions & Constraints?
Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring
Assumptions & Constraints
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements Management Plan - Scheduled Resources - Solution Scope & Business Case - Supporting Materials
Ethics

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.
Throw-away Prototype
Oral Communications - Teaching - Written Communication
Requirements Workshop
Decision Analysis

28. A formal written specification with possible walk-thru - an informal one is possibly verbal or email Communication
SWOT Analysis
Formal requirements presentation to stakeholders
Business Domain - Corporate Culture & Environment - Skills of the Analyst - Requirement Deliverable
Share - Enhance - Exploit

29. What are the inputs to the task Manage Business Analysis Performance?
Business Analysis Performance Metrics - Business Analysis Plan - Organization Performance Standards - Requirements Management Plan
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Required Capabilities
Document Elicitation Results task
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)

30. What are the different types of learning styles?
Business Principles & Practices
Verify Requirements
Visual Learner - Auditory Learner - Kinesthetic Learner
Advantages of Document Analysis

31. What are the inputs for the task - Define Transitional Requirements?
Estimation - Functional Decomposition - Risk Analysis
Creative Thinking - Decision Making - Learning - Problem Solving - Systems Thinking
Organizational Readiness Assessment - Requirements (Stated) - Solution (Deployed) - Solution (Designed)
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Required Capabilities

32. What are the likely sources of transition requirements?
Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis
Fishbone Diagram - Five Whys
Organize Requirements
Data - Ongoing Work - Organizational Change

33. A structured examination of the aspects of a situation to establish the root causes and resulting effects of the problem. A critical element is to ensure that the current business thinking and processes are challenged. The purpose is to determine the
Problem or Vision Statement
Root Cause Analysis
Validate Requirements
Operative Rules

34. What is the output of the Plan Business Analysis Approach?
Requirements Workshop
Decision Analysis - Focus Groups - Observation - Survey/Questionnaire
Requirements Structure
Business Analysis Approach

35. What is the output of the task - Validate Requirements?
Requirements (Validated)
Validate Solution
Emotional and Cognitive
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Decision Analysis - Estimation - SWOT Analysis - Feasibility Analysis

36. What are the techniques used in the task Confirm Elicitation Results?
Interviews - Observation
Business Principles & Practices
Requirements Analysis
Glossary

37. Uses history as a basis for estimating. It is similar to analogous estimation - but is used not only for the top-down estimate - but for the detailed tasks as well.
Elimination of Dominated Alternative - Ranking Objects on a Similar Scale
Historic Analysis
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets
Data Dictionary & Glossary

38. What are the elements of the task Plan Requirements Management Process?
Reporting
Elimination of Dominated Alternative - Ranking Objects on a Similar Scale
Stakeholder Concerns
Repository - Traceability - Requirement Attributes - Prioritization Process - Change Management - Tailoring the Requirements Management Process

39. What are the characteristics of a Problem Record?
Validate Requirements
Metrics & KPIs
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
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Problem Tracking - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire

40. Define requirements for capabilities needed to move from an existing solution to a new solution.
Define Transitional Requirements
Data - Ongoing Work - Organizational Change
Organizational Readiness Assessment
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Problem Tracking - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire

41. What are the techniques used in Plan Business Analysis Activities?
Estimation - Functional Decomposition - Risk Analysis
Functional Decomposition - Interface Analysis - Scope Modeling - User Stories - Problem or Vision Statement
Solution Knowledge
Business Case

42. What is the output of the task - Allocate Resources?
Solution Assessment & Validation
Elimination
Requirements (Allocated)
Bottom-up Estimation

43. 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.
Interviews
Problem Tracking
Creative Thinking - Decision Making - Learning - Problem Solving - Systems Thinking
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements - Requirements Structure

44. Organizational culture - Stakeholder preference - complexity - organizational maturity and availability of resources are all factors used to do what?
Name - Aliases - Values/Meanings - Description
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Requirements - Requirements Package
Elicitation Results
Perform tailoring exercises

45. Checklist of characteristics to consider when considering non-functional requirements.
Perform tailoring exercises
Reliability - Performance Efficiency - Operability - Security - Compatibility - Maintainability - Transferability
Systems Thinking
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Data Modeling - Functional Decomposition - Organizational Modeling - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases - Scope Modeling - User Stories

46. What are the techniques used in the task Define Business Need?
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Business Rules Analysis - Focus Groups - Functional Decomposition - Root Cause Analysis
Metrics & KPIs
Automate or Simplify Work - Improve Access to Information - Reduce Complexity of Interfaces - Increase Consistency of Behavior - Eliminate Redundancy
Business Requirements - Identified Defects - Solution Performance Metrics - Solution (Deployed)

47. The skill of moderating discussions among a group or enable all participants to effectively articulate their views on a topic under discussion and to further ensure that participants in the discussion are able to recognize and appreciate the differin
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Metrics & KPIs - Prototyping - Risk Analysis - Structured Walkthrough
Solution Approach
Communicated Requirements
Facilitation

48. Use of parameters - multiplied by the number of hours. (COCOMO II - Function Point Counting - Use Case Points - and Story Points)
Parametric Estimation
Organize Requirements
Requirements Workshop
Emotional and Cognitive

49. Describes all the possible outcomes of an attempt to accomplish a particular goal that the solution will support.
Use Case
Opportunity Cost
Prepare for Elicitation - Conduct Elicitation Activity - Document Elicitation Results - Confirm Elicitation Results
Enterprise Analysis

50. What is the output of the task - Verify Requirements?
Focus Group
Requirements - Requirements Management Plan
Requirements (Verified)
Brings them to a Communication on understanding