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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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1. An excellent way to foster creative thinking about a problem. The goal is to produce numerous new ideas and to derive themes for further analysis. - Ability to elicit many ideas in a short time period. - - Non-judgmental environment enables creative
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving - Behavioral Characteristics - Business Knowledge - Communication Skills - Interaction Skills - Software Application
Focus Group
Brainstorming
Operative Rules

2. What are the techniques for the task - Verify Requirements?
The Sponsor
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Problem Tracking - Structured Walkthrough - Checklists
Business Rule
Document Analysis - SWOT Analysis

3. 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
Requirements Workshop - Structured Walkthrough
User Story
Systems Thinking
Decision Making

4. What are the techniques used in the task Conduct Elicitation Activity?
Learning
Business Analysis Plan
Business Need
Data Dictionary & Glossary - Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshops - Survey/Questionnaire

5. Characteristics that are common to all organizations with a similar purpose and structure - whether or not the are in the same industry.
Personal Organization
Timeboxing
Data - Ongoing Work - Organizational Change
Business Principals

6. This knowledge area involves analyzing stakeholder needs to define solutions that meet those needs - assessing the current state of the business to identify and recommend improvements and the verification and validation of the resulting requirements.
Data Modeling
Elimination of Dominated Alternative - Ranking Objects on a Similar Scale
Business Principals
Requirements Analysis

7. What is the output of the task Document Elicitation Results?
Vendor Assessment
Requirements (Stated) - Stakeholder Concerns
Evaluate Solution Performance
Advantages of Document Analysis

8. Three key factors when assessing the quality of indicators and their metrics
Coverage Matrix - Table or spreadsheet used to manage tracing.
Reliability - Validity - Timeliness
State Diagrams
Visual Learner - Auditory Learner - Kinesthetic Learner

9. Familiarity with the range of commercially available solutions or suppliers can assist with the identification of possible alternatives.
Problem or Vision Statement
Analogous Estimation
The Sponsor
Solution Knowledge

10. 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
Communicated Requirements
Prepare Requirements Package
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements
Business Case - Business Need - Requirements - Requirements Management Plan - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities

11. What is the output of the task - Manage Requirements Traceability?
Operative Rules
Requirements (Traced)
Cohesive - Complete - Consistent - Correct - Feasible - Modifiable - Unambiguous - Testable
Requirements (Allocated)

12. Approach to decision making that examines and models the possible consequences of different decisions. Make an optimal decision under conditions of uncertainty.
Reporting
Decision Analysis
Survey/Questionnaire
Industry Knowledge

13. What is the output of the task - Assess Organizational Readiness?
Requirements Structure
Organizational Readiness Assessment
Prioritize Requirements - Organize Requirements - Specify & Model Requirements - Define Assumptions & Constraints - Verify Requirements - Validate Requirements
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements Management Plan - Scheduled Resources - Solution Scope & Business Case - Supporting Materials

14. What are the inputs for the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?
Business Requirements - Identified Defects - Solution Performance Metrics - Solution (Deployed)
Benchmarking
Glossary
Elicitation

15. A means of eliciting requirements by conducting an assessment of the stakeholder's work environment. This technique is appropriate when documenting details about current processes or if the project is intended to enhance or change a current process.
Decision Analysis - Focus Groups - Observation - Survey/Questionnaire
Prepare for Elicitation - Conduct Elicitation Activity - Document Elicitation Results - Confirm Elicitation Results
Observation
Brings them to a Communication on understanding

16. Issues that may influence the replacement or elimination decision of a system include:
Requirements (Allocated)
Requirements (Stated) - Requirements Structure
Requirements (Maintained and Reusable)
Ongoing Cost versus Initial Investment - Opportunity Costs - Necessity - Sunk Costs

17. What are the inputs to the task - Assess Proposed Solution?
Historic Analysis
Assumptions & Constraints - Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution Options
Determine the Process - Who will Authorize Changes - Impact Analysis - Wording of the Request - Coordinate Prioritization of Change
Business Analysis Communication Plan

18. To identify and manage areas of uncertainty that can impact an initiative - solution - or organization.
State Diagrams
Define Business Need - Access Capability Gaps - Determine Solution Approach - Define Solution Scope - Define Business Case
Requirements Structure
Risk Analysis

19. Investigating how a solution is actually used after it is deployed and assessing the effect it has had - both positive and negative.
Root Cause Analysis
Functional Decomposition
Structured Walkthrough
Evaluate Solution Performance

20. The purpose is to describe the required qualities of a system - such as its usability and performance characteristics.
Trustworthiness
Requirements (Allocated)
Non-functional Requirements Analysis
Implementation Approach

21. What is the output of the task - Define Assumptions & Constraints?
Elimination of Dominated Alternative - Ranking Objects on a Similar Scale
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
Assumptions & Constraints
Structured Walkthrough

22. What are the classifications used to describe requirements
Monitoring
Business Requirements - Stakeholder Requirements - Solution Requirements - Transition Requirements
Key Performance Indicator (KPI )
Reporting

23. The purpose is to compile and document successes - opportunities for improvement - failures - and recommendations for improving the performance of future projects or project phases
Coverage Matrix - Table or spreadsheet used to manage tracing.
Estimation - Functional Decomposition - Risk Analysis
Lessons Learned Process
Prototyping

24. What are the techniques used in the task Document Elicitation Results?
Enterprise Architecture - Solution Scope - Solution (Designed) - Stakeholder Concerns
Sequence Diagrams
Requirements Workshop - Structured Walkthrough
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Problem Tracking - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire

25. 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.
Relationship to Time - Relationship to Task Completion - Relationship to Contracts - Relationships to Formal and Informal Authority
To record the conflict in the Requirements Issues Log.
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Problem Tracking - Structured Walkthrough - Checklists
Scenarios & Use Cases

26. What are the inputs for the task - Define Transitional Requirements?
Glossary
Organizational Readiness Assessment - Requirements (Stated) - Solution (Deployed) - Solution (Designed)
Reliability - Performance Efficiency - Operability - Security - Compatibility - Maintainability - Transferability
Activity List

27. What is the output of the Manage Business Analysis Performance task?
Necessity - Effort - Subset - Cover - Value
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
This person will be involved in monitoring the performance and effectiveness of a solution or its components.
Business Analysis Approach

28. 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.
Reporting
Influence on the project - organizational - project health and other stakeholders
Problem Solving
Primary stakeholders in the Organize Requirements task

29. Understanding of how a change to a component affects the system as a whole - identification of reinforcing and compensating feedback loops - understanding of how systems adapt to external pressures and changes - A system as a whole will have properti
Ethics
Requirements - Requirements Management Plan
Repository - Traceability - Requirement Attributes - Prioritization Process - Change Management - Tailoring the Requirements Management Process
Systems Thinking

30. This knowledge area describes the problem definition and analysis - business case development - feasibility studies and the definition of solution scope.
Risk Analysis
Define Business Need - Access Capability Gaps - Determine Solution Approach - Define Solution Scope - Define Business Case
Enterprise Analysis
Business Case; Stakeholder - Solution or Transition Requirements (Verified)

31. What is the output of the task Confirm Elicitation Results?
Creative Thinking - Decision Making - Learning - Problem Solving - Systems Thinking
MoSCoW Analysis
Requirements (Stated - Confirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Confirmed)
Validate Requirements

32. The decomposition of activities and tasks creates?
Reliability - Validity - Timeliness
Activity List
Assumptions & Constraints
Evaluation Criteria

33. Models a deep - and usually narrow slice of the entire system's functionality.
Vertical Prototype
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Metrics & KPIs - Prototyping - Risk Analysis - Structured Walkthrough
Business Goals & Objectives - Requirements (Stated)
Leadership

34. What are the output(s) of the task - Validate Solution?
Identified Defects - Mitigating Actions - Solution Validation Assessment
Requirements Workshop
Vendor Assessment
Requirements (Analyzed)

35. What is the output of the task - Communicate Requirements?
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements - Requirements Structure
Opportunity Cost
Communicated Requirements
Elicitation

36. 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.
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
Ethics - Trustworthiness - Personal Organization
Creative Thinking - Decision Making - Learning - Problem Solving - Systems Thinking
Focus Group

37. What is the output of the task - Prepare Requirements Package?
Influence on the project - organizational - project health and other stakeholders
Rolling Wave
Sequences - Repetitions - Optional Elements
Requirements Package

38. What are the techniques used in the task - Define Transition Requirements?
Business Case - Business Need - Requirements - Requirements Management Plan - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
They describe what a solution must be capable of doing to meet the needs of one or more stakeholder groups
Key Performance Indicator (KPI )
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Modeling - Organization Modeling - Data Modeling

39. Means of eliciting information from many people - sometimes anonymously - in a relatively short period of time
Business Goals & Objectives - Requirements (Stated)
Survey/Questionnaire
Assess Organization Readiness
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Required Capabilities

40. Elicitation Results are the inputs for the ____________
SWOT Analysis
Automate or Simplify Work - Improve Access to Information - Reduce Complexity of Interfaces - Increase Consistency of Behavior - Eliminate Redundancy
Business Value - Business or Technical Risk - Implementation Difficulty - Likelihood of Success - Regulatory or Policy Compliance - Relationship to Other Requirements - Stakeholder Agreement - Urgency
Document Elicitation Results task

41. 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.
Fishbone Diagram - Five Whys
Enterprise Analysis - often the starting point for initiating a new project
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Business Rules Analysis - Decision Analysis - Functional Decomposition - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases
Rolling Wave

42. What are the techniques used in the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?
Business Requirements - Stakeholder Requirements - Solution Requirements - Transition Requirements
Evaluate Solution Performance
Decision Analysis - Focus Groups - Observation - Survey/Questionnaire
Compliance with regulatory or other standards

43. The knowledge area that describes how a BA manages conflicts - issues and changes in order to ensure that stakeholders and the project team remain in agreement on the solution scope - how requirements are communicated to stakeholders and how knowledg
System
Rolling Wave
Requirements Management & Communication
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Requirements - Requirements Package

44. What are the different types of learning styles?
Confirm Elicitation Results
Risk - assumptions - constraints - etc.
Emotional and Cognitive
Visual Learner - Auditory Learner - Kinesthetic Learner

45. What techniques are used in the task Prepare for Elicitation?
Data - Ongoing Work - Organizational Change
Requirements (Stated) - Stakeholder Concerns
Required Capabilities
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire

46. What is the output of the task - Define Transition Requirements?
Requirements Structure
Transition Requirements
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Organizational Process Assets
Prepare Requirements Package

47. 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.
Reporting
Evaluate Solution Performance
Sequence Diagrams
Learning

48. Corrective or preventative measures uncovered while performing a Business Analysis Performance Assessment will result in changes to what plan?
Cognitive Conflict
Business Analysis Plan
Communicated Requirements
Clear - Relevant - Economical - Adequate - Quantifiable

49. 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.
Cognitive Conflict
Description - Raised by - Date Identified - Impact - Priority - Need by Date - Owner - Status - Action Needed to be Resolved - Responsible for Action - Completion Date of Action - Outcome
Business Requirements - Identified Defects - Solution Performance Metrics - Solution (Deployed)
Industry Knowledge

50. Is generally understood to describe just one way that an actor can accomplish a particular goal
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets
Structured Walkthrough
Scenario
Clear - Relevant - Economical - Adequate - Quantifiable