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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning
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1. Performed to communicate - verify and validate requirements. Is a working session where invited participants review and discuss a set of requirements
Structured Walkthrough
Manage Solution Scope & Requirements - Manage Requirements Traceability - Maintain Requirements for Re-use - Prepare Requirements Package - Communicate Requirements
Stakeholder Concerns
Decision Analysis - Problem Tacking - Risk Analysis
2. The purpose of _______________ is to ensure that a stakeholder's actual underlying needs are understood - rather than the their stated or superficial desires.
Problem Tracking - Baselining - Signoff
Leadership
Elicitation
Implementation SME
3. What is the output of the task - Verify Requirements?
Stakeholder Matrix - Onion Diagram
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Organizational Process Assets
Requirements (Verified)
Benchmarking
4. A systematic approach designed to elicit information from a person or group of people in an informal or formal setting by talking to an interviewee - asking relevant questions and documenting the responses.
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
Interviews
Structural Rules
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets
5. Techniques used in the task Plan Requirements Management Process.
Decision Analysis - Problem Tacking - Risk Analysis
Metrics & KPIs
Prioritize Requirements - Organize Requirements - Specify & Model Requirements - Define Assumptions & Constraints - Verify Requirements - Validate Requirements
Impact Analysis
6. The knowledge area that covers how BAs determine which activities are necessary in order to complete a business analysis effort.
Problem or Vision Statement
Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Organizational Process Assets
Prepare for Elicitation - Conduct Elicitation Activity - Document Elicitation Results - Confirm Elicitation Results
7. What are the inputs for the task - Maintain Requirements for Re-use?
General Purpose Applications & Specialized Applications
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements
Requirements Management & Communication
Enterprise Analysis
8. What are the inputs for the task - Prepare Requirements Package?
Requirements (Stated - Unconfirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Unconfirmed)
Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution (Designed) - Solution Scope
Elimination
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements - Requirements Structure
9. What are the techniques used in Plan Business Analysis Approach?
Discounted Cash Flow - Net Present Value - Internal Rate of Return - Average Rate of Return - Pay Back Period - Cost-Benefit Analysis
Decision Analysis - Process Modeling - Structured Walkthrough
Necessity - Effort - Subset - Cover - Value
Organizational Readiness Assessment
10. What are the classifications used to describe requirements
Requirements Analysis
Requirements Management Plan - Solution Scope - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities - Stakeholder/Solution or Transition Requirements (Communicated or Traced)
Business Policy
Business Requirements - Stakeholder Requirements - Solution Requirements - Transition Requirements
11. 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.
Assumptions & Constraints - Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution Options
Structured Walkthrough
Document Analysis
User Story
12. This task describes the work required to decide which formats are appropriate for a particular project and its stakeholders. The requirements must be clear - concise - accurate and at the appropriate level of detail to assure clear understanding by t
Business Analysis Approach - BA Performance Assessment - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Activity List
Prepare Requirements Package
Assumptions & Constraints - Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution Options
13. 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
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Models - Focus Groups - Interviews - Survey/Questionnaire - Organizational Modeling - Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Force Field Analysis
Requirements Analysis
Business Analysis Performance Metrics - Business Analysis Plan - Organization Performance Standards - Requirements Management Plan
14. Define the requirements that must be met in order for a solution to be considered acceptable to key stakeholders.
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Models - Focus Groups - Interviews - Survey/Questionnaire - Organizational Modeling - Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Force Field Analysis
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements - Requirements Structure
Acceptance & Evaluation Technique
Enterprise Analysis - often the starting point for initiating a new project
15. What are some examples of stakeholder concerns?
Business Principles & Practices
Impact Analysis
Interviews - Observation
Risk - assumptions - constraints - etc.
16. What techniques are used in the task Prepare for Elicitation?
Business Domain - Corporate Culture & Environment - Skills of the Analyst - Requirement Deliverable
Requirements Analysis
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Elicitation
17. What are the tasks in the knowledge area - Requirements Analysis?
Organizational Readiness Assessment
Solution Knowledge
Requirements (Maintained and Reusable)
Prioritize Requirements - Organize Requirements - Specify & Model Requirements - Define Assumptions & Constraints - Verify Requirements - Validate Requirements
18. What is the output of the task - Define Business Case?
Business Case
State Diagrams
Compliance with regulatory or other standards
Business Analysis Process Assets
19. What are the inputs to the task Conduct Elicitation Activity?
Fishbone Diagram - Five Whys
Organizational Readiness Assessment
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Organizational Process Assets
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements Management Plan - Scheduled Resources - Solution Scope & Business Case - Supporting Materials
20. Gathering information relevant to a decision - breaking down the information relevant to a decision - making comparisons and tradeoffs between similar and dissimilar options and identifying the option that is most desirable.
Risk - assumptions - constraints - etc.
Requirements Management & Communication
Decision Analysis
Decision Analysis - Process Modeling - Structured Walkthrough
21. Name the 2 types of Software categories that assist in BA productivity.
Assess Proposed Solution - Allocate Requirements - Assess Organizational Readiness - Define Transition Requirements - Validate Solution - Evaluate Solution Performance
Requirements (Validated)
General Purpose Applications & Specialized Applications
Advantages of a Data Dictionary & Glossary
22. 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.
Requirements Workshop - Structured Walkthrough
Implementation Approach
Interviews - Lessons Learned Process - Metrics and KPIs - Problem Tracking - Process Modeling - Root Cause Analysis - Survey/Questionnaire - Variance Analysis
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Data Modeling - Functional Decomposition - Organizational Modeling - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases - Scope Modeling - User Stories
23. What are some of the commonly used requirement attributes?
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Ongoing Cost versus Initial Investment - Opportunity Costs - Necessity - Sunk Costs
Absolute Reference - Author - Complexity - Ownership - Priority - Risks - Source - Stability - Status - Urgency
Interface Analysis
24. What are the inputs to the task Manage Solution Scope & Requirements?
Requirements Management Plan - Solution Scope - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities - Stakeholder/Solution or Transition Requirements (Communicated or Traced)
Prepare for Elicitation - Conduct Elicitation Activity - Document Elicitation Results - Confirm Elicitation Results
Data Dictionary & Glossary - Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshops - Survey/Questionnaire
Ongoing Cost versus Initial Investment - Opportunity Costs - Necessity - Sunk Costs
25. What are the inputs to the task - Assess Proposed Solution?
Organizational Readiness Assessment
Decision Making
Learning
Assumptions & Constraints - Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution Options
26. Technique involving refinement of estimates. Estimate the details for activities in the current iteration or increment and provide an analogous estimate for the entire scope of work. As the end of the iteration approaches - estimates for the next ite
Identified Defects - Mitigating Actions - Solution Validation Assessment
Rolling Wave
Leadership
Systems Thinking
27. What is the output of the task - Define Assumptions & Constraints?
Clear - Relevant - Economical - Adequate - Quantifiable
Assumptions & Constraints
Interviews
MoSCoW Analysis
28. What are the inputs for the task Plan Business Analysis Activities?
Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Decision Analysis
Business Analysis Approach - BA Performance Assessment - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Decision Analysis - Process Modeling - Structured Walkthrough
29. Characteristics that are common to all organizations with a similar purpose and structure - whether or not the are in the same industry.
Business Principals
Advantages of a Data Dictionary & Glossary
Evaluation Criteria
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Business Rules Analysis - Focus Groups - Functional Decomposition - Root Cause Analysis
30. A means to elicit ideas and attitudes about a specific product - service or opportunity in an interactive group environment. The participants share their impressions - preferences and needs - guided by a moderator. - Effective for learning people's a
Focus Group
Elimination of Dominated Alternative - Ranking Objects on a Similar Scale
Scope Modeling
Influence on the project - organizational - project health and other stakeholders
31. 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.
Requirements (Stated - Unconfirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Unconfirmed)
Decision Analysis - Risk Analysis - MoSCoW Analysis - Timeboxing/Budgeting - Voting
Bottom-up Estimation
Dependencies
32. This knowledge area describes the tasks that are performed in order to ensure that solutions meet the business need and to facilitate successful implementation.
Visual Learner - Auditory Learner - Kinesthetic Learner
Glossary
Requirements (Validated)
Solution Assessment & Validation
33. What is the output of the task - Specify & Model Requirements?
Evaluation Criteria
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Problem Tracking - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
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 (Analyzed)
34. 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.
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
Creative Thinking - Decision Making - Learning - Problem Solving - Systems Thinking
Reporting
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Models - Focus Groups - Interviews - Survey/Questionnaire - Organizational Modeling - Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Force Field Analysis
35. This knowledge area describes the behaviors - knowledge and other characteristics that support the effective performance of a BA.
Clear - Relevant - Economical - Adequate - Quantifiable
SWOT Analysis
Underlying Competencies
Requirements (Stated) - Stakeholder Concerns
36. What are the inputs to the task - Prioritize Requirements?
Customer
Business Case - Business Need - Requirements - Requirements Management Plan - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Solution Approach
Structural Rules
37. What are the inputs to the task - Determine Solution Approach?
Organize Requirements
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Required Capabilities
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements Management Plan - Scheduled Resources - Solution Scope & Business Case - Supporting Materials
38. What are the strategies for a positive risk?
Share - Enhance - Exploit
Decision Analysis - Risk Analysis - MoSCoW Analysis - Timeboxing/Budgeting - Voting
Risk Analysis
This person will be involved in monitoring the performance and effectiveness of a solution or its components.
39. What are the inputs for the task - Define Solution Scope?
Business Principals
Acceptance & Evaluation Technique
Assumptions & Constraints - Required Capabilities - Solution Approach
Parametric Estimation
40. What are the inputs to the task Plan Requirements Management Process?
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets
Requirements Workshop - Structured Walkthrough
Evolutionary or Functional Prototype
Business Case
41. What factors guide technique selection?
Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution (Designed) - Solution Scope
Business Domain - Corporate Culture & Environment - Skills of the Analyst - Requirement Deliverable
Budgeting
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Problem Tracking - Root Cause Analysis
42. What stakeholder receives noticeable negative impact if information is incorrectly transferred from the old to new solution?
Reliability - Performance Efficiency - Operability - Security - Compatibility - Maintainability - Transferability
Customer
Prioritize Requirements - Organize Requirements - Specify & Model Requirements - Define Assumptions & Constraints - Verify Requirements - Validate Requirements
Enterprise Architecture - Solution Scope - Solution (Designed) - Stakeholder Concerns
43. 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.
Cognitive Conflict
Validate Requirements
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
Three-point Estimation
44. Most optimistic estimate; most pessimistic estimate; most likely estimate
Three-point Estimation
Scenario
Problem or Vision Statement
Requirements (Stated) - Stakeholder Concerns
45. Rules that are intended to help determine when something is or is not true - or when things fall into a specific category. They are expressed as rules because they describe categorizations that may change over time.
Goals
Requirements (Validated)
Solution Performance Assessment
Structural Rules
46. Forecast the cost and effort involved in pursuing a course of action. Used to develop a better understanding of the possible range of costs and effort associated with any initiative
Functions - Markets - Matrix
Requirements (Approved)
Estimation
Problem Solving
47. 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.
Primary stakeholders in the Organize Requirements task
Evaluation
Onion Diagram
Name - Aliases - Values/Meanings - Description
48. What are the techniques used in the task - Assess Organizational Readiness?
That they understand them and the current state the requirements are in
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Models - Focus Groups - Interviews - Survey/Questionnaire - Organizational Modeling - Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Force Field Analysis
Elicitation
Requirements Structure
49. What are the inputs to the Plan Business Analysis Approach?
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Models - Focus Groups - Interviews - Survey/Questionnaire - Organizational Modeling - Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Force Field Analysis
Business Need - Expert Judgment - Organizational Process Assets
Document Analysis - SWOT Analysis
50. What is the output of the task - Manage Requirements Traceability?
Requirements (Analyzed)
Stakeholder Concerns
Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis
Requirements (Traced)