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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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1. What are the inputs to the task - Validate Solution?
Requirements Analysis
Business Analysis Communication Plan
Solution (Constructed) - Requirements (Prioritized and Validated)
Business Goals & Objectives - Requirements (Stated)

2. The process of informing stakeholders of metrics of indicators in specified formats at specified intervals.
Advantages of Document Analysis
Reporting
Cultural Assessment - Operational or Technical Assessment - Stakeholder Impact Analysis
Specific - Measurable - Achievable - Relevant - Time-bound Objectives must be SMART.

3. What are the tasks in the knowledge area - Solution Assessment & Validation?
Assess Proposed Solution - Allocate Requirements - Assess Organizational Readiness - Define Transition Requirements - Validate Solution - Evaluate Solution Performance
Activity List
Requirements Documentation - Requirements for Vendor Selection
Automate or Simplify Work - Improve Access to Information - Reduce Complexity of Interfaces - Increase Consistency of Behavior - Eliminate Redundancy

4. What is the output of the task Conduct Stakeholder Analysis?
Functional Decomposition - Interface Analysis - Scope Modeling - User Stories - Problem or Vision Statement
Emotional and Cognitive
Structured Walkthrough
Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities

5. What is the output of the task - Prepare Requirements Package?
Requirements Package
Validate Requirements
Lessons Learned Process
Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring

6. What is the output of the task Plan Business Analysis Activities?
Glossary
Requirements Workshop
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Requirements - Requirements Package
Business Analysis Plan

7. What are the inputs for the task Confirm Elicitation Results?
Requirements (Stated - Unconfirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Unconfirmed)
Term and Fact Model
Operative Rules
Requirements Package

8. Characteristics that are common to all organizations with a similar purpose and structure - whether or not the are in the same industry.
Data Modeling
Business Principals
Stakeholder Matrix - Onion Diagram
Horizontal Prototype

9. How is the Operational Support stakeholder utilized in the Evaluate Solution Performance task?
This person will be involved in monitoring the performance and effectiveness of a solution or its components.
Business Analysis Plan
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Required Capabilities
Define Business Need - Access Capability Gaps - Determine Solution Approach - Define Solution Scope - Define Business Case

10. What are the techniques used in the task - Define Transition Requirements?
Business Case
Emotional and Cognitive
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Modeling - Organization Modeling - Data Modeling
Decision Analysis - Risk Analysis - MoSCoW Analysis - Timeboxing/Budgeting - Voting

11. Understanding of how a change to a component affects the system as a whole - identification of reinforcing and compensating feedback loops - understanding of how systems adapt to external pressures and changes - A system as a whole will have properti
Systems Thinking
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
Expert Judgment
Relationships - Impact Analysis - Configuration Management System

12. This will impose constraints to the effort to deploy the solution - including relationships that may exist between solution components.
Requirements Analysis
Personal Organization
Reliability - Performance Efficiency - Operability - Security - Compatibility - Maintainability - Transferability
Dependencies

13. 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.
Metrics & KPIs
Enterprise Analysis - often the starting point for initiating a new project
Requirements Analysis
Solution Performance Assessment

14. What are the attributes of a Data Model?
Structured Walkthrough
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets
That they understand them and the current state the requirements are in
Name - Value/Meanings - Description

15. What techniques are used in the task - Prepare Requirements Package?
Document Analysis
Identified Defects - Mitigating Actions - Solution Validation Assessment
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
Requirements Documentation - Requirements for Vendor Selection

16. What are the techniques used in the task Define Business Need?
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Business Rules Analysis - Focus Groups - Functional Decomposition - Root Cause Analysis
Expert Judgment
Requirements (Approved)
Assumptions & Constraints

17. 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.
Personal Organization
Coverage Matrix - Table or spreadsheet used to manage tracing.
Responsible - Accountable - Consulted - Informed
Industry Knowledge

18. Means of eliciting information from many people - sometimes anonymously - in a relatively short period of time
Learning
Survey/Questionnaire
Problem Tracking - Baselining - Signoff
Visual Learner - Auditory Learner - Kinesthetic Learner

19. 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
Delphi Estimation
Data Modeling
Root Cause Analysis
Business Requirements - Stakeholder Requirements - Solution Requirements - Transition Requirements

20. Define the requirements that must be met in order for a solution to be considered acceptable to key stakeholders.
User Story
Requirements Management Plan
Decision Analysis
Acceptance & Evaluation Technique

21. What is the output of the task - Validate Requirements?
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving
Requirements (Validated)
Stakeholder Matrix
Opportunity Cost

22. Checklist of characteristics to consider when considering non-functional requirements.
Strengths - Weaknesses
Verify Requirements
Reliability - Performance Efficiency - Operability - Security - Compatibility - Maintainability - Transferability
Business Analysis Approach - BA Performance Assessment - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities

23. Techniques used in the task Plan Requirements Management Process.
Requirements - Requirements Management Plan
They describe what a solution must be capable of doing to meet the needs of one or more stakeholder groups
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Decision Analysis - Problem Tacking - Risk Analysis

24. Understanding of the business architecture of the organization that is being analyzed. Understanding business models (generates profit) - org structure - relationships between business units and the persons who occupy key stakeholder positions.
Brainstorming
Organizational Knowledge
Sequence Diagrams
Elimination

25. Investigating how a solution is actually used after it is deployed and assessing the effect it has had - both positive and negative.
Evaluate Solution Performance
Business Analysis Process Assets
Implementation SME
Functions - Markets - Matrix

26. Approach to decision making that examines and models the possible consequences of different decisions. Make an optimal decision under conditions of uncertainty.
MoSCoW Analysis
To record the conflict in the Requirements Issues Log.
Decision Analysis
Functional Decomposition

27. What should be considered when establishing a Change Management process?
Requirements Package
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Problem Tracking - Root Cause Analysis
Determine the Process - Who will Authorize Changes - Impact Analysis - Wording of the Request - Coordinate Prioritization of Change
Ongoing Cost versus Initial Investment - Opportunity Costs - Necessity - Sunk Costs

28. Name the 2 types of Software categories that assist in BA productivity.
Business Need - Solution Scope & Business Case - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Requirements Structure
General Purpose Applications & Specialized Applications
Lessons Learned Process

29. 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
Prepare Requirements Package
Solution Knowledge
Problem Tracking - Baselining - Signoff
Operative Rules

30. What are the 3 elements in the Assess Organizational Readiness?
Requirements Analysis
Functional Decomposition - Interface Analysis - Scope Modeling - User Stories - Problem or Vision Statement
Compliance with regulatory or other standards
Cultural Assessment - Operational or Technical Assessment - Stakeholder Impact Analysis

31. The BA is a stakeholder in ______ business analysis activities.
All
Interviews - Lessons Learned Process - Metrics and KPIs - Problem Tracking - Process Modeling - Root Cause Analysis - Survey/Questionnaire - Variance Analysis
Requirements (Maintained and Reusable)
A statement of the needs of a particular stakeholder or class of stakeholders

32. To identify and manage areas of uncertainty that can impact an initiative - solution - or organization.
Risk Analysis
Business Value - Business or Technical Risk - Implementation Difficulty - Likelihood of Success - Regulatory or Policy Compliance - Relationship to Other Requirements - Stakeholder Agreement - Urgency
Requirements (Stated) - Stakeholder Concerns
Bottom-up Estimation

33. What are the inputs to the Plan Business Analysis Approach?
Risk Analysis
Business Need - Expert Judgment - Organizational Process Assets
Requirements Package
Reliability - Performance Efficiency - Operability - Security - Compatibility - Maintainability - Transferability

34. While eliciting requirements it is important to guard against scope creep - This activity will ensure that the requirements should be included since they meet the business goal/objectives.
Implementation Approach
Tracing Requirements
Organization Modeling
Determine the Process - Who will Authorize Changes - Impact Analysis - Wording of the Request - Coordinate Prioritization of Change

35. The goal of this task is to ensure that all requirements support the delivery of value to the business - fulfill its goal and objectives and meet a stakeholder need.
Business Need
Benchmarking
Validate Requirements
Solution Knowledge

36. The knowledge area that covers how BAs determine which activities are necessary in order to complete a business analysis effort.
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements Management Plan - Scheduled Resources - Solution Scope & Business Case - Supporting Materials
Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring
Manage Solution Scope & Requirements - Manage Requirements Traceability - Maintain Requirements for Re-use - Prepare Requirements Package - Communicate Requirements
Assess Organization Readiness

37. 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.
Estimation
Business Analysis Performance Metrics - Business Analysis Plan - Organization Performance Standards - Requirements Management Plan
Enterprise Architecture - Solution Scope - Solution (Designed) - Stakeholder Concerns
Primary stakeholders in the Organize Requirements task

38. What are the inputs to the task - Assess Proposed Solution?
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
Monitoring
Assumptions & Constraints - Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution Options

39. Used to describe the roles - responsibilities and reporting structures that exist within an organization and to align those structures with the organization's goals.
Risk - assumptions - constraints - etc.
Emotional and Cognitive
Organization Modeling
Advantages of Document Analysis

40. What are the techniques used in Plan Business Analysis Approach?
Budgeting
Facilitation
Data Dictionary
Decision Analysis - Process Modeling - Structured Walkthrough

41. Communicated Requirements mean what to stakeholders?
That they understand them and the current state the requirements are in
Cohesive - Complete - Consistent - Correct - Feasible - Modifiable - Unambiguous - Testable
Decision Analysis - Process Modeling - Structured Walkthrough
They describe what a solution must be capable of doing to meet the needs of one or more stakeholder groups

42. The minimum set of requirements that must be met in order for a particular solution to be worth implementing.
Acceptance Criteria
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets
Historic Analysis
Requirements (Prioritized)

43. What are the elements to the task - Define Business Case?
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Required Capabilities
Benefits - Costs - Risk Assessment - Results Measurement
Decision Analysis
Problem Solving

44. Two techniques used in Root Cause Analysis?
Fishbone Diagram - Five Whys
Estimation - Functional Decomposition - Risk Analysis
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Requirements - Requirements Package
Facilitation

45. What are the inputs for the task - Prepare Requirements Package?
Business Rule
Survey/Questionnaire
Business Analysis Performance Metrics - Business Analysis Plan - Organization Performance Standards - Requirements Management Plan
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements - Requirements Structure

46. What is the output of the task Plan Requirements Management Process?
Define Business Need - Access Capability Gaps - Determine Solution Approach - Define Solution Scope - Define Business Case
Formal requirements presentation to stakeholders
Estimation - Functional Decomposition - Risk Analysis
Requirements Management Plan

47. What are the tasks for the knowledge area - Requirements Management & Communication?
Decision Analysis - Problem Tacking - Risk Analysis
Business Analysis Approach
Manage Solution Scope & Requirements - Manage Requirements Traceability - Maintain Requirements for Re-use - Prepare Requirements Package - Communicate Requirements
Decision Analysis - Focus Groups - Observation - Survey/Questionnaire

48. 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.
Sequence Diagrams
Required Capabilities
Cognitive Conflict
Business Analysis Plan

49. 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
Systems Thinking
Three-point Estimation
Problem Tracking - Baselining - Signoff

50. 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.
Solution (Constructed) - Requirements (Prioritized and Validated)
Historic Analysis
Decision Analysis - Process Modeling - Structured Walkthrough
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements (Stated) - Solution Scope