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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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1. An important tool in defining the scope of work and developing estimates. Decomposes the project scope into smaller and smaller pieces - creating a hierarchy of work.
Problem Tracking
Term and Fact Model
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
Enterprise Analysis

2. What is the output of the task - Validate Requirements?
Scenario
Requirements (Validated)
Requirements Documentation - Requirements for Vendor Selection
Decision Analysis

3. What is the output of the Manage Business Analysis Performance task?
Expert Judgment
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
Primary stakeholders in the Organize Requirements task
Confirm Elicitation Results

4. What are the classifications used to describe requirements
Requirements Structure
Decision Analysis - Estimation - Metrics & KPIs - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Business Requirements - Stakeholder Requirements - Solution Requirements - Transition Requirements
Data Dictionary & Glossary

5. What are the inputs to the task - Specify & Model Requirements?
Requirements (Stated) - Requirements Structure
Requirements Workshop
Decision Analysis - Estimation - Metrics & KPIs - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Requirements Management & Communication

6. A package should contain a consistent - cohesive and coherent set of requirements. This describes the ____________.
Bottom-up Estimation
Decision Making
Requirements Structure
Structured Walkthrough

7. What techniques are used in the task Manage Requirements Traceability?
Problem Tracking - Baselining - Signoff
Decision Analysis
Validate Requirements
Coverage Matrix - Table or spreadsheet used to manage tracing.

8. What are the techniques used in the task - Assess Proposed Solution?
Business Case; Stakeholder - Solution or Transition Requirements (Verified)
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Decision Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Delphi Estimation
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire

9. The goal of this task is validate that the stated requirements expressed by the stakeholder match the stakeholder's understanding of the problem and the stakeholder's needs. Analyst's understanding conforms to the actual desire or intentions of the s
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Problem Tracking - Root Cause Analysis
Confirm Elicitation Results
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
Business Analysis Approach - BA Performance Assessment - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities

10. Elicitation Results are the inputs for the ____________
Business Analysis Approach
Document Elicitation Results task
Requirements Workshop - Structured Walkthrough
Risk - assumptions - constraints - etc.

11. 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.
Repository - Traceability - Requirement Attributes - Prioritization Process - Change Management - Tailoring the Requirements Management Process
Transition Requirements
Manage Solution Scope & Requirements - Manage Requirements Traceability - Maintain Requirements for Re-use - Prepare Requirements Package - Communicate Requirements
Personal Organization

12. States the business need - identifies key stakeholders and briefly describes the positive impact that meeting the business need will have on those stakeholders.
Responsible - Accountable - Consulted - Informed
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Models - Focus Groups - Interviews - Survey/Questionnaire - Organizational Modeling - Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Force Field Analysis
Problem or Vision Statement
Assumptions & Constraints

13. What are the elements of the task Plan Requirements Management Process?
Throw-away Prototype
Repository - Traceability - Requirement Attributes - Prioritization Process - Change Management - Tailoring the Requirements Management Process
Trustworthiness
Activity List

14. What are the underlying competencies a BA should possess?
Perform tailoring exercises
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving - Behavioral Characteristics - Business Knowledge - Communication Skills - Interaction Skills - Software Application
Confirm Elicitation Results
Throw-away Prototype

15. What is the output of the task Plan Requirements Management Process?
Requirements Workshop - Structured Walkthrough
Impact Analysis
Elicitation
Requirements Management Plan

16. A diagram indicating how involved the stakeholder is with the solution.
Onion Diagram
Organizational Readiness Assessment - Requirements (Stated) - Solution (Deployed) - Solution (Designed)
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
Advantages of a Data Dictionary & Glossary

17. What are the techniques used in the task - Allocate Resources?
Opportunity Cost
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Business Rules Analysis - Decision Analysis - Functional Decomposition - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases
Business Principals
Enterprise Analysis

18. What are the inputs for the task - Maintain Requirements for Re-use?
Evolutionary or Functional Prototype
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements Management Plan - Scheduled Resources - Solution Scope & Business Case - Supporting Materials
Ethics
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements

19. Name some commonly used financial valuation techniques.
Specific - Measurable - Achievable - Relevant - Time-bound Objectives must be SMART.
Discounted Cash Flow - Net Present Value - Internal Rate of Return - Average Rate of Return - Pay Back Period - Cost-Benefit Analysis
Elicitation Results
Solution Assessment & Validation

20. 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.
Impact Analysis
Sequences - Repetitions - Optional Elements
Necessity - Effort - Subset - Cover - Value
Document Elicitation Results task

21. Two techniques used in Root Cause Analysis?
Personal Organization
Requirements (Stated - Unconfirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Unconfirmed)
Fishbone Diagram - Five Whys
Opportunity Cost

22. What are the techniques used in the task - Define Assumptions & Constraints?
Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis
Parametric Estimation
Non-functional Requirements Analysis
Throw-away Prototype

23. What are the techniques used in Plan Business Analysis Approach?
Identified Defects - Mitigating Actions - Solution Validation Assessment
Decision Analysis
Decision Analysis - Process Modeling - Structured Walkthrough
Strengths - Weaknesses

24. What is the output of the task - Maintain Requirements for Re-use?
Business Analysis Approach - BA Performance Assessment - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Requirements (Maintained and Reusable)
Requirements (Prioritized)
Estimation - Functional Decomposition - Risk Analysis

25. What are the techniques for the task - Verify Requirements?
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Problem Tracking - Structured Walkthrough - Checklists
Systems Thinking
User Classes - Profiles or Roles; Concepts & Relationships - Events - Processes - Rules
To record the conflict in the Requirements Issues Log.

26. Are used to model the logic of usage scenarios - by showing the information passed between objects in the system through the execution of the scenario. Shows how classes and objects interact during a scenario.
Sequence Diagrams
Confirm Elicitation Results
Business Need - Expert Judgment - Organizational Process Assets
Primary stakeholders in the Organize Requirements task

27. 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.
Solution Approach
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Solution Performance Assessment
Trustworthiness
Solution Assessment & Validation

28. Shows how the behavior of a concept - entity or object changes in response to events during its lifetime - and defines which events cause a transition between those states.
Assumptions & Constraints - Business Need - Solution Scope - Stakeholder Concerns
Business Analysis Process Assets
State Diagrams
Solution (Constructed) - Requirements (Prioritized and Validated)

29. This knowledge area describes the problem definition and analysis - business case development - feasibility studies and the definition of solution scope.
Facilitation & Negotiation - Leadership & Influencing - Teamwork
Three-point Estimation
Analogous Estimation
Enterprise Analysis

30. What is the output of the task Plan Business Analysis Activities?
Business Analysis Plan
Requirements (Stated - Confirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Confirmed)
Assessment of Proposed Solution
Key Performance Indicator (KPI )

31. 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
Problem Tracking
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets
Sequence Diagrams
Decision Making

32. What is the output to the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?
Implementation Approach
Business Case - Business Need - Requirements - Requirements Management Plan - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Solution Performance Assessment
Interviews

33. Models a shallow - and possibly wide view of the system's functionality. It typically does not have any business logic running behind the visualization.
Absolute Reference - Author - Complexity - Ownership - Priority - Risks - Source - Stability - Status - Urgency
Horizontal Prototype
Document Analysis
Data Dictionary & Glossary - Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshops - Survey/Questionnaire

34. 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
Advantages of a Data Dictionary & Glossary
Business Value - Business or Technical Risk - Implementation Difficulty - Likelihood of Success - Regulatory or Policy Compliance - Relationship to Other Requirements - Stakeholder Agreement - Urgency
Decision Analysis - Process Modeling - Structured Walkthrough
Throw-away Prototype

35. What are the inputs to the task - Validate Requirements?
Business Case; Stakeholder - Solution or Transition Requirements (Verified)
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
Validate Requirements
Activity List

36. 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.
Trustworthiness
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets
To record the conflict in the Requirements Issues Log.
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Problem Tracking - Root Cause Analysis

37. Are used to describe the scope of analysis or the scope of a solution. Serve as a basis for defining and delimiting the scope of business analysis and project work. Allow the definition of a "complete" scope—that is - the boundaries of the scope corr
Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis
Determine the Process - Who will Authorize Changes - Impact Analysis - Wording of the Request - Coordinate Prioritization of Change
Scope Modeling
A statement of the needs of a particular stakeholder or class of stakeholders

38. 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
Analogous Estimation
Advantages of Document Analysis
Key Performance Indicator (KPI )
Survey/Questionnaire

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.
Oral Communications - Teaching - Written Communication
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving - Behavioral Characteristics - Business Knowledge - Communication Skills - Interaction Skills - Software Application
Organization Modeling
Elimination of Dominated Alternative - Ranking Objects on a Similar Scale

40. What are the inputs to the task Conduct Stakeholder Analysis?
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Organizational Process Assets
Benchmarking
Goals
Structured Walkthrough

41. 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
Root Cause Analysis
Business Analysis Performance Metrics - Business Analysis Plan - Organization Performance Standards - Requirements Management Plan
Business Case; Stakeholder - Solution or Transition Requirements (Verified)
Stakeholder Matrix - Onion Diagram

42. What are the likely sources of transition requirements?
Name - Value/Meanings - Description
Data - Ongoing Work - Organizational Change
Customer
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements

43. What are the inputs for the task Plan Business Analysis Activities?
Business Policy
Business Case - Business Need - Requirements - Requirements Management Plan - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Document Elicitation Results task
Business Analysis Approach - BA Performance Assessment - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities

44. What are the output(s) of the task - Validate Solution?
Unique Number - Activity Description - Assumptions - Dependencies - Milestones
Identified Defects - Mitigating Actions - Solution Validation Assessment
Metrics & KPIs
Monitoring

45. What are the tasks in the knowledge area - Requirements Analysis?
Coverage Matrix - Table or spreadsheet used to manage tracing.
Prioritize Requirements - Organize Requirements - Specify & Model Requirements - Define Assumptions & Constraints - Verify Requirements - Validate Requirements
Verify Requirements
Business Analysis Approach

46. Revised process and templates for BA deliverables should be analyzed and documented and lessons learned should be recorded.
Interviews - Lessons Learned Process - Metrics and KPIs - Problem Tracking - Process Modeling - Root Cause Analysis - Survey/Questionnaire - Variance Analysis
Business Analysis Plan
Clear - Relevant - Economical - Adequate - Quantifiable
Business Analysis Process Assets

47. What are the techniques used in the task - Validate Requirements?
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Metrics & KPIs - Prototyping - Risk Analysis - Structured Walkthrough
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets
Decision Analysis - Focus Groups - Observation - Survey/Questionnaire

48. What are the tasks for the knowledge area - Requirements Management & Communication?
Tracing Requirements
Organizational Knowledge
Requirements (Stated) - Requirements Structure
Manage Solution Scope & Requirements - Manage Requirements Traceability - Maintain Requirements for Re-use - Prepare Requirements Package - Communicate Requirements

49. 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
Interviews - Lessons Learned Process - Metrics and KPIs - Problem Tracking - Process Modeling - Root Cause Analysis - Survey/Questionnaire - Variance Analysis
Solution Assessment & Validation
All

50. Name the 2 types of Stakeholder maps.
Stakeholder Matrix - Onion Diagram
Personal Organization
Benefits - Costs - Risk Assessment - Results Measurement
Requirements (Maintained and Reusable)