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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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1. What are the internal factors in a SWOT Analysis?
Strengths - Weaknesses
Elimination
Lessons Learned Process
Decision Making

2. Using this technique the business analyst has collected the deliverables - activities - tasks - and estimates from all the involved stakeholders and rolls them up to get a total for all the activities and tasks.
Structured Walkthrough
Requirements Analysis
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Problem Tracking - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Bottom-up Estimation

3. Performed to communicate - verify and validate requirements. Is a working session where invited participants review and discuss a set of requirements
Business Need - Solution Scope & Business Case - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Structured Walkthrough
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Models - Focus Groups - Interviews - Survey/Questionnaire - Organizational Modeling - Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Force Field Analysis
Survey/Questionnaire

4. Provides an organized approach to tracking - management - and resolution of defects - issues - problems - and risks throughout business analysis activities. Management of issues is important so that they can be resolved in a timely manner to ensure s
Problem Tracking
Systems Thinking
Define Transitional Requirements
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Required Capabilities

5. What are the classifications used to describe requirements
Decision Analysis
Throw-away Prototype
Business Requirements - Stakeholder Requirements - Solution Requirements - Transition Requirements
Solution (Constructed) - Requirements (Prioritized and Validated)

6. What are the tasks in Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring?
Analogous Estimation
Delphi Estimation
Plan Business Analysis Approach - Conduct Stakeholder Analysis - Plan Business Analysis Activities - Plan Business Analysis Communication - Plan Requirements Management Process - Manage BA Performance
Assumptions & Constraints - Business Need - Solution Scope - Stakeholder Concerns

7. List 3 possible forms of a requirements packages.
Formal Documentation - Presentation - Model
Solution Performance Assessment
Requirements Analysis
Throw-away Prototype

8. What are the techniques used in the task Define Business Need?
Visual Learner - Auditory Learner - Kinesthetic Learner
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Business Rules Analysis - Focus Groups - Functional Decomposition - Root Cause Analysis
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements - Requirements Structure
Data Flow Diagrams

9. Two techniques used in Root Cause Analysis?
Identified Defects - Mitigating Actions - Solution Validation Assessment
Business Principles & Practices
Fishbone Diagram - Five Whys
Repository - Traceability - Requirement Attributes - Prioritization Process - Change Management - Tailoring the Requirements Management Process

10. What are the techniques used in the task - Assess Capability Gaps?
Assumptions & Constraints - Business Need - Solution Scope - Stakeholder Concerns
Elimination
Document Analysis - SWOT Analysis
Share - Enhance - Exploit

11. What are the techniques used in the task - Define Transition Requirements?
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Modeling - Organization Modeling - Data Modeling
Underlying Competencies
Facilitation
Organize Requirements

12. What are the general modeling concepts that are relevant to business analysis?
User Classes - Profiles or Roles; Concepts & Relationships - Events - Processes - Rules
Business Case; Stakeholder - Solution or Transition Requirements (Verified)
Elicitation
Three-point Estimation

13. Includes the standard definition of data elements - their meanings and allowable values.
Business Need
Brings them to a Communication on understanding
Data Dictionary
Business Analysis Plan

14. What are the inputs for the task - Define Solution Scope?
Glossary
Assumptions & Constraints - Required Capabilities - Solution Approach
Requirements Package
Requirements Structure

15. 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.
Historic Analysis
Use Case
Formal Documentation - Presentation - Model
Prioritize Requirements - Organize Requirements - Specify & Model Requirements - Define Assumptions & Constraints - Verify Requirements - Validate Requirements

16. 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.
Share - Enhance - Exploit
Solution Assessment & Validation
Define Transitional Requirements
Requirements Analysis

17. 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.
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 Workshop
Business Analysis Communication Plan
The Business Analysis Communication Plan

18. What are the inputs for the task Prepare for Elicitation?
Enterprise Architecture - Solution Scope - Solution (Designed) - Stakeholder Concerns
Business Need - Solution Scope & Business Case - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements
Requirements (Validated)

19. Models a shallow - and possibly wide view of the system's functionality. It typically does not have any business logic running behind the visualization.
Horizontal Prototype
Requirements - Requirements Management Plan
Repository - Traceability - Requirement Attributes - Prioritization Process - Change Management - Tailoring the Requirements Management Process
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements Management Plan - Scheduled Resources - Solution Scope & Business Case - Supporting Materials

20. What are the inputs to the task - Define Assumption & Constraints?
Analogous Estimation
Stakeholder Concerns
Business Analysis Approach - BA Performance Assessment - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
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

21. 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.
Business Case - Business Need - Requirements - Requirements Management Plan - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Solution Scope Definition - Implementation Approach - Dependencies
Analogous Estimation
Personal Organization

22. What are stakeholder requirements?
They describe what a solution must be capable of doing to meet the needs of one or more stakeholder groups
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Business Rules Analysis - Decision Analysis - Functional Decomposition - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases
User Classes - Profiles or Roles; Concepts & Relationships - Events - Processes - Rules
Scope Modeling

23. What are the tasks in the knowledge area - Enterprise Analysis?
Specific - Measurable - Achievable - Relevant - Time-bound Objectives must be SMART.
Scheduled Resources - Supporting Materials
Industry Knowledge
Define Business Need - Access Capability Gaps - Determine Solution Approach - Define Solution Scope - Define Business Case

24. What should be considered when establishing a Change Management process?
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving - Behavioral Characteristics - Business Knowledge - Communication Skills - Interaction Skills - Software Application
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Required Capabilities
Customer
Determine the Process - Who will Authorize Changes - Impact Analysis - Wording of the Request - Coordinate Prioritization of Change

25. Describes all the possible outcomes of an attempt to accomplish a particular goal that the solution will support.
Use Case
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements (Stated) - Solution Scope
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Modeling - Organization Modeling - Data Modeling
Prioritize Requirements - Organize Requirements - Specify & Model Requirements - Define Assumptions & Constraints - Verify Requirements - Validate Requirements

26. What is the output of the task Manage Solution Scope & Requirements?
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Modeling - Organization Modeling - Data Modeling
Evaluation
Requirements (Approved)
Plan Business Analysis Approach - Conduct Stakeholder Analysis - Plan Business Analysis Activities - Plan Business Analysis Communication - Plan Requirements Management Process - Manage BA Performance

27. What are the inputs to the task - Validate Solution?
Solution (Constructed) - Requirements (Prioritized and Validated)
Impact Analysis
Acceptance - Transfer - Avoidance - Mitigation
Monitoring

28. What are the inputs for the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?
Business Requirements - Identified Defects - Solution Performance Metrics - Solution (Deployed)
Estimation - Functional Decomposition - Risk Analysis
Organization Modeling
Requirements Documentation - Requirements for Vendor Selection

29. Organizational culture - Stakeholder preference - complexity - organizational maturity and availability of resources are all factors used to do what?
Advantages of Document Analysis
Relationships - Impact Analysis - Configuration Management System
Perform tailoring exercises
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Decision Analysis - Estimation - SWOT Analysis - Feasibility Analysis

30. What are the Primitive Data Elements?
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Required Capabilities
Functional Decomposition - Interface Analysis - Scope Modeling - User Stories - Problem or Vision Statement
Name - Aliases - Values/Meanings - Description
SWOT Analysis

31. What are the techniques used in the task - Assess Organizational Readiness?
Elicitation
Data Dictionary & Glossary
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Models - Focus Groups - Interviews - Survey/Questionnaire - Organizational Modeling - Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Force Field Analysis
Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities

32. What are the techniques used in the task Document Elicitation Results?
Advantages of Document Analysis
Validate Solution
Delphi Estimation
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Problem Tracking - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire

33. 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.
Observation
Term and Fact Model
Requirements (Stated - Confirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Confirmed)
Cognitive Conflict

34. Defines the key terms and data relevant to a business domain.
Data Dictionary & Glossary
Business Rules Analysis
Estimation
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements - Requirements Structure

35. What is the output of the task - Assess Organizational Readiness?
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Solution Performance Assessment
SWOT Analysis
Requirements (Allocated)
Organizational Readiness Assessment

36. The purpose is to describe the required qualities of a system - such as its usability and performance characteristics.
Responsible - Accountable - Consulted - Informed
Non-functional Requirements Analysis
Stakeholder Concerns
Acceptance & Evaluation Technique

37. Two effective trade-off methods.
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Decision Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Requirements (Stated) - Requirements Structure
Elimination of Dominated Alternative - Ranking Objects on a Similar Scale
Requirements Analysis

38. What is the output of the task - Specify & Model Requirements?
Parametric Estimation
Organization Modeling
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Decision Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Requirements (Analyzed)

39. To assess the ability of a potential vendor to meet commitments regarding a product or service
Acceptance Criteria
Systems Thinking
Requirements Documentation - Requirements for Vendor Selection
Vendor Assessment

40. To define the rules that govern decisions in an organization and that define - constrain or enable organization operations.
Confirm Elicitation Results
Solution Assessment & Validation
Business Rules Analysis
Scenarios & Use Cases

41. What are the 3 elements in the Assess Organizational Readiness?
This person will be involved in monitoring the performance and effectiveness of a solution or its components.
Cultural Assessment - Operational or Technical Assessment - Stakeholder Impact Analysis
Enterprise Architecture - Solution Scope - Solution (Designed) - Stakeholder Concerns
Influence on the project - organizational - project health and other stakeholders

42. A package should contain a consistent - cohesive and coherent set of requirements. This describes the ____________.
Strengths - Weaknesses
Requirements Structure
Transition Requirements
Discounted Cash Flow - Net Present Value - Internal Rate of Return - Average Rate of Return - Pay Back Period - Cost-Benefit Analysis

43. What are the techniques used in the task - Assess Proposed Solution?
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Decision Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Impact Analysis - Requirements Coverage - Requirements Allocation
Clear - Relevant - Economical - Adequate - Quantifiable
Ethics - Trustworthiness - Personal Organization

44. Involved motivating people to act in ways that enable them to work together to achieve shared goals and objectives.
Leadership
Business Analysis Approach - BA Performance Assessment - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Data Modeling - Functional Decomposition - Organizational Modeling - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases - Scope Modeling - User Stories
Evaluate Solution Performance

45. This describes how the chosen solution will deliver the solution scope - may break delivery down into releases or provide a roadmap that indicates the timeframe in which a capability is expected.
Implementation Approach
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Organizational Process Assets
Solution Performance Assessment
Risk Analysis

46. What is the output of the task - Assess Capability Gaps?
Fishbone Diagram - Five Whys
Required Capabilities
Sequence Diagrams
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving - Behavioral Characteristics - Business Knowledge - Communication Skills - Interaction Skills - Software Application

47. What are the techniques used in the task Conduct Stakeholder Analysis?
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
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Modeling - Organization Modeling - Data Modeling
All
Opportunity Cost

48. What are the strategies for a negative risk?
Acceptance - Transfer - Avoidance - Mitigation
Acceptance Criteria
Requirements Management Plan - Solution Scope - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities - Stakeholder/Solution or Transition Requirements (Communicated or Traced)
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)

49. What are the inputs to the task - Validate Requirements?
Business Case; Stakeholder - Solution or Transition Requirements (Verified)
Evolutionary or Functional Prototype
Cohesive - Complete - Consistent - Correct - Feasible - Modifiable - Unambiguous - Testable
Solution Scope Definition - Implementation Approach - Dependencies

50. What are the inputs to the task Plan Requirements Management Process?
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets
Key Performance Indicator (KPI )
Business Value - Business or Technical Risk - Implementation Difficulty - Likelihood of Success - Regulatory or Policy Compliance - Relationship to Other Requirements - Stakeholder Agreement - Urgency
Formal requirements presentation to stakeholders