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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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1. What are the characteristics of Interaction Skills?






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






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






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






5. Used to describe the roles - responsibilities and reporting structures that exist within an organization and to align those structures with the organization's goals.






6. Defines the key terms and data relevant to a business domain.






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?






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






9. Using this technique the business analyst has collected the deliverables - activities - tasks - and estimates from all the involved stakeholders and rolls them up to get a total for all the activities and tasks.






10. What are the inputs to the task - Validate Solution?






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






12. This knowledge area describes the tasks that are performed in order to ensure that solutions meet the business need and to facilitate successful implementation.






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






14. Familiarity with the range of commercially available solutions or suppliers can assist with the identification of possible alternatives.






15. This prototype extends the initial interface requirements into a fully functioning system and requires a specialized prototyping tool or language.






16. Models a shallow - and possibly wide view of the system's functionality. It typically does not have any business logic running behind the visualization.






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






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






19. 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.






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






21. What are the inputs of the task Plan Business Analysis Communication?






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






23. This technique represents the types of peoples - places - things and concepts that are important to the business - attributes associated with them and the significant business relationships among them.






24. 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.






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






26. What is the output of the task - Prepare Requirements Package?






27. 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.






28. Measures progress towards a strategic goal or objective.






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






30. States the business need - identifies key stakeholders and briefly describes the positive impact that meeting the business need will have on those stakeholders.






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






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






33. A specific - actionable - testable directive that is under the control of an organization and supports a business policy.






34. Means of eliciting information from many people - sometimes anonymously - in a relatively short period of time






35. What stakeholder receives noticeable negative impact if information is incorrectly transferred from the old to new solution?






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






37. Communicated Requirements mean what to stakeholders?






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






39. What is the output of the task - Organize Requirements?






40. What does RACI stand for?






41. 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






42. What are the strategies for a positive risk?






43. What are stakeholder requirements?






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






45. What are the Primitive Data Elements?






46. 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.






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






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






49. How is the Operational Support stakeholder utilized in the Evaluate Solution Performance task?






50. What are the inputs to the task Conduct Stakeholder Analysis?