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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning
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1. What are the inputs for the task - Maintain Requirements for Re-use?
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Data Modeling - Functional Decomposition - Organizational Modeling - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases - Scope Modeling - User Stories
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Decision Analysis - Estimation - SWOT Analysis - Feasibility Analysis
2. 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.
Benchmarking
Facilitation
Share - Enhance - Exploit
Assumptions & Constraints - Business Need - Solution Scope - Stakeholder Concerns
3. What are the inputs to the task - Assess Capability Gaps?
Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Solution Performance Assessment
Visual Learner - Auditory Learner - Kinesthetic Learner
Requirements (Stated - Unconfirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Unconfirmed)
4. What are the techniques used in Plan Business Analysis Activities?
Business Analysis Plan
Estimation - Functional Decomposition - Risk Analysis
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Problem Tracking - Root Cause Analysis
Impact Analysis
5. What is the output of the task - Specify & Model Requirements?
Business Need - Expert Judgment - Organizational Process Assets
Requirements (Validated)
Learning
Requirements (Analyzed)
6. Communication of requirements does what for stakeholders?
Brings them to a Communication on understanding
Business Need
Plan Business Analysis Approach - Conduct Stakeholder Analysis - Plan Business Analysis Activities - Plan Business Analysis Communication - Plan Requirements Management Process - Manage BA Performance
Organizational Readiness Assessment - Requirements (Stated) - Solution (Deployed) - Solution (Designed)
7. The goal of tracing is to ensure that requirements are linked back to a business objective. Creation of this relationship helps in what other traceability activities?
Impact Analysis - Requirements Coverage - Requirements Allocation
Name - Aliases - Values/Meanings - Description
Customer
Elimination
8. The BA is a stakeholder in ______ business analysis activities.
All
Business Analysis Plan
Assess Organization Readiness
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements Management Plan - Scheduled Resources - Solution Scope & Business Case - Supporting Materials
9. Models a deep - and usually narrow slice of the entire system's functionality.
Plan Business Analysis Approach - Conduct Stakeholder Analysis - Plan Business Analysis Activities - Plan Business Analysis Communication - Plan Requirements Management Process - Manage BA Performance
Functional Decomposition
Reporting
Vertical Prototype
10. What are the techniques used in the task - Assess Organizational Readiness?
Visual Learner - Auditory Learner - Kinesthetic Learner
Elicitation
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Models - Focus Groups - Interviews - Survey/Questionnaire - Organizational Modeling - Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Force Field Analysis
Onion Diagram
11. While eliciting requirements it is important to guard against scope creep - This activity will ensure that the requirements should be included since they meet the business goal/objectives.
Structured Walkthrough
Requirements Workshop
Tracing Requirements
Solution Assessment & Validation
12. What is the output of the task Conduct Elicitation Activity?
They describe what a solution must be capable of doing to meet the needs of one or more stakeholder groups
Sequences - Repetitions - Optional Elements
Elicitation Results
Solution Performance Assessment
13. Performed to communicate - verify and validate requirements. Is a working session where invited participants review and discuss a set of requirements
Requirements Management Plan - Solution Scope - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities - Stakeholder/Solution or Transition Requirements (Communicated or Traced)
Identified Defects - Mitigating Actions - Solution Validation Assessment
Requirements Workshop
Structured Walkthrough
14. What are the inputs to the task - Define Business Case?
Reliability - Performance Efficiency - Operability - Security - Compatibility - Maintainability - Transferability
Assumptions & Constraints - Business Need - Solution Scope - Stakeholder Concerns
Business Principals
Requirements (Maintained and Reusable)
15. Benefits that could have been achieved with an alternative investment rather than this one.
Repository - Traceability - Requirement Attributes - Prioritization Process - Change Management - Tailoring the Requirements Management Process
Communicated Requirements
Opportunity Cost
Requirements Package
16. What are the underlying competencies a BA should possess?
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving - Behavioral Characteristics - Business Knowledge - Communication Skills - Interaction Skills - Software Application
System
Stakeholder Matrix
Evaluation
17. 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.
Non-functional Requirements Analysis
Organizational Readiness Assessment - Requirements (Stated) - Solution (Deployed) - Solution (Designed)
Decision Analysis
Benchmarking
18. What is the output of the task Confirm Elicitation Results?
Risk - assumptions - constraints - etc.
Requirements (Stated - Confirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Confirmed)
Acceptance & Evaluation Technique
Implementation SME
19. What are the Cultural diversity issues that should be taken into account when planning communication?
Functional Decomposition
Business Analysis Approach - BA Performance Assessment - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution (Designed) - Solution Scope
Relationship to Time - Relationship to Task Completion - Relationship to Contracts - Relationships to Formal and Informal Authority
20. What are the techniques used in the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?
BABOK
Decision Analysis - Focus Groups - Observation - Survey/Questionnaire
Structured Walkthrough
Elimination
21. What are the elements of the task Plan Requirements Management Process?
Solution Assessment & Validation
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Required Capabilities
Repository - Traceability - Requirement Attributes - Prioritization Process - Change Management - Tailoring the Requirements Management Process
Onion Diagram
22. Are written to describe how an actor interacts with a solution to accomplish one or more of that actor's goals - or to respond to an event.
Personal Organization
Scenarios & Use Cases
Oral Communications - Teaching - Written Communication
Name - Value/Meanings - Description
23. 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
Decision Analysis
Throw-away Prototype
Automate or Simplify Work - Improve Access to Information - Reduce Complexity of Interfaces - Increase Consistency of Behavior - Eliminate Redundancy
Survey/Questionnaire
24. This knowledge area describes the tasks that are performed in order to ensure that solutions meet the business need and to facilitate successful implementation.
Solution Assessment & Validation
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements (Stated) - Solution Scope
Decision Analysis - Estimation - Metrics & KPIs - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Emotional and Cognitive
25. Is generally understood to describe just one way that an actor can accomplish a particular goal
Determine the Process - Who will Authorize Changes - Impact Analysis - Wording of the Request - Coordinate Prioritization of Change
Scenario
Timeboxing
The Business Analysis Communication Plan
26. Long-term - ongoing and qualitative statements of a state or condition that the organization is seeking to establish and maintain.
Cultural Assessment - Operational or Technical Assessment - Stakeholder Impact Analysis
Goals
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
Use Case
27. What are the strategies for a negative risk?
Evolutionary or Functional Prototype
Interviews - Observation
Acceptance - Transfer - Avoidance - Mitigation
Manage Solution Scope & Requirements - Manage Requirements Traceability - Maintain Requirements for Re-use - Prepare Requirements Package - Communicate Requirements
28. What is the output of the task - Validate Requirements?
Leadership
Stakeholder Concerns
Requirements Analysis
Requirements (Validated)
29. A package should contain a consistent - cohesive and coherent set of requirements. This describes the ____________.
Formal Documentation - Presentation - Model
Facilitation & Negotiation - Leadership & Influencing - Teamwork
Elicitation Results
Requirements Structure
30. What are the inputs to the task Plan Requirements Management Process?
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Required Capabilities
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Business Rules Analysis - Focus Groups - Functional Decomposition - Root Cause Analysis
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets
Define Business Need - Access Capability Gaps - Determine Solution Approach - Define Solution Scope - Define Business Case
31. 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.
Business Need - Expert Judgment - Organizational Process Assets
Historic Analysis
Requirements (Stated - Confirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Confirmed)
Name - Aliases - Values/Meanings - Description
32. 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.
Business Analysis Process Assets
Requirements Analysis
Data - Ongoing Work - Organizational Change
State Diagrams
33. What techniques are used in the task - Define Solution Scope?
Data Dictionary & Glossary
Delphi Estimation
Business Need
Functional Decomposition - Interface Analysis - Scope Modeling - User Stories - Problem or Vision Statement
34. What is the output of the task - Maintain Requirements for Re-use?
Requirements Package
Organizational Readiness Assessment
Requirements (Maintained and Reusable)
Activity List
35. This will impose constraints to the effort to deploy the solution - including relationships that may exist between solution components.
Solution (Constructed) - Requirements (Prioritized and Validated)
Elimination of Dominated Alternative - Ranking Objects on a Similar Scale
Cohesive - Complete - Consistent - Correct - Feasible - Modifiable - Unambiguous - Testable
Dependencies
36. What are the inputs to the task - Verify Requirements?
Requirements Structure
Transition Requirements
Requirements Package
Requirements (Any Except Stated)
37. What is the output of the task - Organize Requirements?
Interviews
Requirements Structure
Organizational Readiness Assessment
Assumptions & Constraints - Required Capabilities - Solution Approach
38. What is the output of the task Plan Business Analysis Activities?
Business Analysis Plan
Business Need - Solution Scope & Business Case - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Document Analysis
Evaluation Criteria
39. Elements identified for each activity and task.
Business Analysis Process Assets
Benchmarking
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Modeling - Organization Modeling - Data Modeling
Unique Number - Activity Description - Assumptions - Dependencies - Milestones
40. Who is the primary stakeholder in the Define Business Case task?
Leadership
Scheduled Resources - Supporting Materials
The Sponsor
Enterprise Analysis - often the starting point for initiating a new project
41. Creates a conceptual model of the work that needs to be completed to deliver the new business solution.
Cognitive Conflict
Functional Decomposition
Decision Making
Organizational Readiness Assessment - Requirements (Stated) - Solution (Deployed) - Solution (Designed)
42. 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.
Industry Knowledge
Verify Requirements
Conduct Elicitation Activity
Evaluation
43. Understanding of the competitive forces that shape an industry - understand the various customer segments that the industry services and the demographic or other characteristics common to that segment.
Industry Knowledge
Business Analysis Plan
Organizational Knowledge
Requirements (Prioritized)
44. How is the Operational Support stakeholder utilized in the Evaluate Solution Performance task?
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Models - Focus Groups - Interviews - Survey/Questionnaire - Organizational Modeling - Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Force Field Analysis
Decision Making
Evaluation Criteria
This person will be involved in monitoring the performance and effectiveness of a solution or its components.
45. Checklist of characteristics to consider when considering non-functional requirements.
Reliability - Performance Efficiency - Operability - Security - Compatibility - Maintainability - Transferability
Solution Assessment & Validation
Business Value - Business or Technical Risk - Implementation Difficulty - Likelihood of Success - Regulatory or Policy Compliance - Relationship to Other Requirements - Stakeholder Agreement - Urgency
Document Analysis - SWOT Analysis
46. This task determines if an organization can justify the investment required to deliver a proposed solution.
Business Rule
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Modeling - Organization Modeling - Data Modeling
Name - Value/Meanings - Description
Define Business Case
47. What is the output of the task - Assess Proposed Solution?
Use Case
Expert Judgment
Share - Enhance - Exploit
Assessment of Proposed Solution
48. The people involved - the interactions between them - the external forces affecting their behavior and all other relevant elements and factors.
Delphi Estimation
Advantages of Document Analysis
Parametric Estimation
System
49. 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.
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements (Stated) - Solution Scope
Solution Scope
Organize Requirements
Sequence Diagrams
50. Describes all the possible outcomes of an attempt to accomplish a particular goal that the solution will support.
Business Need - Expert Judgment - Organizational Process Assets
Acceptance & Evaluation Technique
Requirements Workshop - Structured Walkthrough
Use Case