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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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1. Familiarity with the range of commercially available solutions or suppliers can assist with the identification of possible alternatives.






2. Long-term - ongoing and qualitative statements of a state or condition that the organization is seeking to establish and maintain.






3. What are the inputs to the task - Assess Organizational Readiness?






4. Set of requirements that will be used to choose between multiple solutions.






5. What are the techniques used in the task - Define Transition Requirements?






6. What are the tasks in the knowledge area - Solution Assessment & Validation?






7. What are the inputs to the task - Specify & Model Requirements?






8. What are the techniques used in the task - Determine Solution Approach?






9. Define requirements for capabilities needed to move from an existing solution to a new solution.






10. 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






11. The purpose is to describe the required qualities of a system - such as its usability and performance characteristics.






12. Most optimistic estimate; most pessimistic estimate; most likely estimate






13. What are the inputs for the task - Define Solution Scope?






14. What is the output of the task - Allocate Resources?






15. 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






16. Means of eliciting information from many people - sometimes anonymously - in a relatively short period of time






17. This prototype extends the initial interface requirements into a fully functioning system and requires a specialized prototyping tool or language.






18. What is the output of the task Prepare for Elicitation?






19. What are the likely sources of transition requirements?






20. Models a deep - and usually narrow slice of the entire system's functionality.






21. Maps the level of stakeholder influence and interest in a project.






22. 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.






23. Communication of requirements does what for stakeholders?






24. What techniques are used in the task - Define Solution Scope?






25. 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






26. What is the output of the task - Communicate Requirements?






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.






28. Prioritizes requirements based on a allocated fixed amount of money.






29. What are the output(s) of the task - Validate Solution?






30. 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.






31. A good indicator has 5 characteristics:






32. Describes the effect a new solution will have on an organization and whether the organization is prepared for the organizational change the solution implementation will cause.






33. Characteristics that are common to all organizations with a similar purpose and structure - whether or not the are in the same industry.






34. Used to describe the roles - responsibilities and reporting structures that exist within an organization and to align those structures with the organization's goals.






35. 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.






36. Creates a conceptual model of the work that needs to be completed to deliver the new business solution.






37. States the business need - identifies key stakeholders and briefly describes the positive impact that meeting the business need will have on those stakeholders.






38. Involved motivating people to act in ways that enable them to work together to achieve shared goals and objectives.






39. The goal of this task is to meet with stakeholder(s) to gather information regarding their needs.






40. What is the output of the Manage Business Analysis Performance task?






41. What are the techniques used in the task - Validate Requirements?






42. What are the inputs to the task - Define Business Case?






43. Benefits that could have been achieved with an alternative investment rather than this one.






44. Performed to communicate - verify and validate requirements. Is a working session where invited participants review and discuss a set of requirements






45. 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






46. What are the inputs to the task Conduct Stakeholder Analysis?






47. Divides requirements into 4 categories - Must - Should - Could - Won't






48. Two techniques used in Root Cause Analysis?






49. What are the strategies for a positive risk?






50. What are the techniques used in the task - Define Business Case?