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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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1. What are the tasks in the knowledge area - Enterprise Analysis?






2. What are the inputs to the task Manage Solution Scope & Requirements?






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






4. What are the techniques used in Plan Business Analysis Approach?






5. Ensure that the solution meets the business need and determine the most appropriate response to identified defects.






6. 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.






7. What is the output of the task - Define Business Need?






8. Prioritizes requirements based on the amount of work that the project team is capable of delivering in a set period of time. Approaches include: All-in - All Out - Selective






9. What are the techniques used in the task - Organize Requirements?






10. 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.






11. What are the likely sources of transition requirements?






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






13. What techniques are used in the task Manage Requirements Traceability?






14. 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.






15. What are the inputs to the task - Allocate Resources?






16. What are the techniques used in the task - Assess Capability Gaps?






17. What is the output to the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?






18. What are the Primitive Data Elements?






19. What is the output of the task - Determine Solution Approach?






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






21. What are the inputs for the task - Maintain Requirements for Re-use?






22. To define the rules that govern decisions in an organization and that define - constrain or enable organization operations.






23. Is generally understood to describe just one way that an actor can accomplish a particular goal






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






25. Strengths - Weaknesses - Opportunities - Threats - A valuable tool to quickly analyze various aspects of the current state of the business process undergoing change.






26. What are the different types of learning styles?






27. The knowledge area that covers how BAs determine which activities are necessary in order to complete a business analysis effort.






28. What are the inputs for the task Prepare for Elicitation?






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






30. Elements identified for each activity and task.






31. What are the classifications used to describe requirements






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






33. Defines what must be delivered in order to meet the business need - and the effect of the proposed change initiation on the business and technology operations and infrastructure.






34. What is the output of the task Conduct Elicitation Activity?






35. What is the output of the task Plan Business Analysis Communication?






36. To identify interfaces between solutions and/or solution components and define requirements that describe how they will interact.






37. A good indicator has 5 characteristics:






38. This technique shows how information is input - processed - stored and output from a system in a visual representation.






39. 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.






40. The purpose of _______________ is to ensure that a stakeholder's actual underlying needs are understood - rather than the their stated or superficial desires.






41. 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?






42. 7 knowledge areas of ________ : Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring - Elicitation - Requirements Management & Communication - Enterprise Analysis - Requirements Analysis - Solution Assessment & Validation - Underlying Competencies






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






44. What should be considered when establishing a Change Management process?






45. What are the inputs to the task - Validate Requirements?






46. What are the techniques used in the task Conduct Stakeholder Analysis?






47. What are the inputs to the task Plan Requirements Management Process?






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






49. What is the output of the task - Specify & Model Requirements?






50. What describes how - when and why the business analyst will work with stakeholders?