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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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1. What are the techniques used in Plan Business Analysis Communication?






2. 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.






3. What are the inputs for the task - Prepare Requirements Package?






4. To assess the ability of a potential vendor to meet commitments regarding a product or service






5. What are the inputs to the task Manage Requirements Traceability?






6. 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.






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






8. 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.






9. What is the output of the task - Prioritize Requirements?






10. What is the output of the task - Define Business Case?






11. What is a STAKEHOLDER requirement - according to the BABOK 2.0?






12. 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.






13. What is the output of the task Manage Solution Scope & Requirements?






14. What are the underlying competencies a BA should possess?






15. 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






16. Who is the primary stakeholder in the Define Business Case task?






17. 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






18. This will impose constraints to the effort to deploy the solution - including relationships that may exist between solution components.






19. 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.






20. An organized structure for the requirements and a documented set of relationships between them. Is used so the analyst and stakeholders know where a specific requirement should be found. Should have a clear implicit scope (clear to the stakeholders w






21. What are the techniques used in the task - Allocate Resources?






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






23. What are some of the key variables used in determining the priority of a requirement?






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






25. What are the inputs to the task - Assess Capability Gaps?






26. Three key factors when assessing the quality of indicators and their metrics






27. The goal of this task is validate that the stated requirements expressed by the stakeholder match the stakeholder's understanding of the problem and the stakeholder's needs. Analyst's understanding conforms to the actual desire or intentions of the s






28. 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.






29. 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.






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






31. 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.






32. A continuous process of collecting data to determine how well a solution has been implemented compared to expected results.






33. Name the 2 types of Stakeholder maps.






34. What are the techniques used in the task - Determine Solution Approach?






35. What are the techniques used in the task - Validate Solution?






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






37. Ability to find information - on-time completion of tasks - efficiency in the completion of work - ability to easily identify all outstanding work and the status of each work item.






38. What are the inputs to the task - Define Assumption & Constraints?






39. Approach to decision making that examines and models the possible consequences of different decisions. Make an optimal decision under conditions of uncertainty.






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






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






42. What are the techniques used in the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?






43. What are the techniques used in the task - Define Business Case?






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






45. According to the BABOK 2.0 - what type of analysis generates STAKEHOLDER requirements?






46. Stakeholders involved the BA in decision making - acceptance of the BA's recommendations - willingness to discuss difficult or controversial topics with the BA - stakeholders willing to support or defend the BA when problems occur.






47. What are the classifications used to describe requirements






48. Communicated Requirements mean what to stakeholders?






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






50. 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.