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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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1. This task determines if an organization can justify the investment required to deliver a proposed solution.






2. 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






3. What are the tasks for the knowledge area - Requirements Management & Communication?






4. 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.






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






6. Business rules require a defined glossary of terms and an understanding of the relationships between them - this is known as:






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






8. 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.






9. What knowledge area discusses the business analysis activities necessary to identify a business need - problem or opportunity - define the capture of the solution and justify the investment necessary to deliver the solution.






10. 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.






11. What is the output of the task Plan Requirements Management Process?






12. The decomposition of activities and tasks creates?






13. A requirement that does not deliver direct or indirect value to a stakeholder is a strong candidate for what?






14. Allocate stakeholder and solution requirements among solution components and releases in order to maximize the possible business value given the options and alternatives generated by the design team.






15. What are the inputs to the task - Organize Requirements?






16. What are the techniques used in the task - Communicate Requirements?






17. What are the inputs to the task - Define Business Need?






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






19. 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.






20. What are some examples of stakeholder concerns?






21. What are the factors of influence by stakeholders on a project?






22. What are the techniques used in the task - Define Assumptions & Constraints?






23. What factors guide technique selection?






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






25. The objective of this technique is to determine how companies achieve their superior performance levels and use that information to design projects to improve operations of the enterprise.






26. What is the output of the task - Define Assumptions & Constraints?






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. A formal written specification with possible walk-thru - an informal one is possibly verbal or email Communication






29. What are the inputs to the task Manage Business Analysis Performance?






30. What are the different types of learning styles?






31. What are the inputs for the task - Define Transitional Requirements?






32. What are the likely sources of transition requirements?






33. 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






34. What is the output of the Plan Business Analysis Approach?






35. What is the output of the task - Validate Requirements?






36. What are the techniques used in the task Confirm Elicitation Results?






37. 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.






38. What are the elements of the task Plan Requirements Management Process?






39. What are the characteristics of a Problem Record?






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






41. What are the techniques used in Plan Business Analysis Activities?






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






43. What are the elements of the area - Analytical Thinking and Problem Solving - Successful generation of new ideas - application of new ideas to resolve existing problems - willingness of stakeholders to accept new approaches.






44. Organizational culture - Stakeholder preference - complexity - organizational maturity and availability of resources are all factors used to do what?






45. Checklist of characteristics to consider when considering non-functional requirements.






46. What are the techniques used in the task Define Business Need?






47. 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






48. Use of parameters - multiplied by the number of hours. (COCOMO II - Function Point Counting - Use Case Points - and Story Points)






49. Describes all the possible outcomes of an attempt to accomplish a particular goal that the solution will support.






50. What is the output of the task - Verify Requirements?