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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning
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1. What are the inputs to the task - Verify Requirements?
Observation
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements (Stated) - Solution Scope
Historic Analysis
Requirements (Any Except Stated)
2. What is the output of the task - Allocate Resources?
Requirements Structure
Requirements (Allocated)
Facilitation & Negotiation - Leadership & Influencing - Teamwork
Elicitation Results
3. What factors guide technique selection?
A statement of the needs of a particular stakeholder or class of stakeholders
The Sponsor
Business Domain - Corporate Culture & Environment - Skills of the Analyst - Requirement Deliverable
Ethics - Trustworthiness - Personal Organization
4. What is the output of the task - Define Transition Requirements?
Transition Requirements
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Solution Performance Assessment
They describe what a solution must be capable of doing to meet the needs of one or more stakeholder groups
Define Business Need - Access Capability Gaps - Determine Solution Approach - Define Solution Scope - Define Business Case
5. The purpose is to describe the required qualities of a system - such as its usability and performance characteristics.
State Diagrams
Business Rules Analysis
Non-functional Requirements Analysis
Evolutionary or Functional Prototype
6. What are the characteristics of Interaction Skills?
Business Need - Solution Scope & Business Case - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Facilitation & Negotiation - Leadership & Influencing - Teamwork
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
Data Dictionary & Glossary
7. What is the output of the task Conduct Elicitation Activity?
Decision Making
Elicitation Results
Implementation SME
Business Analysis Approach
8. Used to describe the roles - responsibilities and reporting structures that exist within an organization and to align those structures with the organization's goals.
Ethics - Trustworthiness - Personal Organization
Organization Modeling
Clear - Relevant - Economical - Adequate - Quantifiable
Business Need
9. The purpose of _______________ is to ensure that a stakeholder's actual underlying needs are understood - rather than the their stated or superficial desires.
A statement of the needs of a particular stakeholder or class of stakeholders
Elicitation
Organizational Readiness Assessment
Identified Defects - Mitigating Actions - Solution Validation Assessment
10. What is the output of the task Prepare for Elicitation?
Scheduled Resources - Supporting Materials
Requirements (Stated - Unconfirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Unconfirmed)
Business Rules Analysis
Business Principals
11. Forecast the cost and effort involved in pursuing a course of action. Used to develop a better understanding of the possible range of costs and effort associated with any initiative
Requirements (Any Except Stated)
Business Case
Estimation
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
12. Two techniques used in Root Cause Analysis?
Define Business Need - Access Capability Gaps - Determine Solution Approach - Define Solution Scope - Define Business Case
Fishbone Diagram - Five Whys
Solution Assessment & Validation
Requirements (Allocated)
13. What are the strategies for a positive risk?
Verify Requirements
Share - Enhance - Exploit
Creative Thinking - Decision Making - Learning - Problem Solving - Systems Thinking
Prepare Requirements Package
14. 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.
Solution Scope
Throw-away Prototype
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements (Stated) - Solution Scope
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
15. A continuous process of collecting data to determine how well a solution has been implemented compared to expected results.
Absolute Reference - Author - Complexity - Ownership - Priority - Risks - Source - Stability - Status - Urgency
Monitoring
Activity List
Prepare Requirements Package
16. What are some of the key variables used in determining the priority of a requirement?
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Data Modeling - Functional Decomposition - Organizational Modeling - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases - Scope Modeling - User Stories
Business Case - Business Need - Requirements - Requirements Management Plan - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Business Value - Business or Technical Risk - Implementation Difficulty - Likelihood of Success - Regulatory or Policy Compliance - Relationship to Other Requirements - Stakeholder Agreement - Urgency
Required Capabilities
17. To define the rules that govern decisions in an organization and that define - constrain or enable organization operations.
Business Rules Analysis
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Brainstorming - Interviews - Organizational Modeling - Process Modeling - Requirements Workshop - Risk Analysis - Scenarios & Use Cases - User Stories - Scope Modeling - Survey/Questionnaire - RACI Matrix
Scheduled Resources - Supporting Materials
Transition Requirements
18. Divides requirements into 4 categories - Must - Should - Could - Won't
Requirements Workshop - Structured Walkthrough
Estimation - Functional Decomposition - Risk Analysis
MoSCoW Analysis
Decision Analysis - Focus Groups - Observation - Survey/Questionnaire
19. What are the elements of the task Plan Requirements Management Process?
Elimination of Dominated Alternative - Ranking Objects on a Similar Scale
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Business Rules Analysis - Decision Analysis - Functional Decomposition - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases
Repository - Traceability - Requirement Attributes - Prioritization Process - Change Management - Tailoring the Requirements Management Process
Organizational Knowledge
20. A requirement that does not deliver direct or indirect value to a stakeholder is a strong candidate for what?
User Story
Elimination
Verify Requirements
Estimation
21. What are the Behavioral Characteristics a BA should exhibit?
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving - Behavioral Characteristics - Business Knowledge - Communication Skills - Interaction Skills - Software Application
Decision Analysis - Process Modeling - Structured Walkthrough
Interviews
Ethics - Trustworthiness - Personal Organization
22. Set of requirements that will be used to choose between multiple solutions.
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements (Stated) - Solution Scope
Enterprise Analysis - often the starting point for initiating a new project
Business Rule
Evaluation Criteria
23. What is the output of the task - Maintain Requirements for Re-use?
Data Modeling
Requirements Analysis
Requirements (Maintained and Reusable)
Requirements (Stated - Confirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Confirmed)
24. Means of eliciting information from many people - sometimes anonymously - in a relatively short period of time
Requirements Management Plan - Solution Scope - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities - Stakeholder/Solution or Transition Requirements (Communicated or Traced)
Requirements (Allocated)
Vertical Prototype
Survey/Questionnaire
25. What are the inputs for the task - Define Solution Scope?
Share - Enhance - Exploit
Assumptions & Constraints - Required Capabilities - Solution Approach
Validate Solution
Transition Requirements
26. What are the inputs for the task - Define Transitional Requirements?
Requirements Structure
Benefits - Costs - Risk Assessment - Results Measurement
Organizational Readiness Assessment - Requirements (Stated) - Solution (Deployed) - Solution (Designed)
Assumptions & Constraints - Required Capabilities - Solution Approach
27. Name some commonly used financial valuation techniques.
Primary stakeholders in the Organize Requirements task
Discounted Cash Flow - Net Present Value - Internal Rate of Return - Average Rate of Return - Pay Back Period - Cost-Benefit Analysis
This person will be involved in monitoring the performance and effectiveness of a solution or its components.
Business Case - Business Need - Requirements - Requirements Management Plan - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
28. A non-actionable directive that supports a business goal.
Elimination
Tracing Requirements
Business Policy
Cultural Assessment - Operational or Technical Assessment - Stakeholder Impact Analysis
29. Define requirements for capabilities needed to move from an existing solution to a new solution.
Define Transitional Requirements
Organize Requirements
Requirements Management Plan
Prepare for Elicitation - Conduct Elicitation Activity - Document Elicitation Results - Confirm Elicitation Results
30. What are the tasks in Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring?
Requirements (Verified)
Stakeholder Concerns
Plan Business Analysis Approach - Conduct Stakeholder Analysis - Plan Business Analysis Activities - Plan Business Analysis Communication - Plan Requirements Management Process - Manage BA Performance
Leadership
31. What is the output of the task - Prepare Requirements Package?
Business Goals & Objectives - Requirements (Stated)
Decision Analysis - Problem Tacking - Risk Analysis
Solution Scope
Requirements Package
32. 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?
Business Case; Stakeholder - Solution or Transition Requirements (Verified)
Goals
Underlying Competencies
Impact Analysis - Requirements Coverage - Requirements Allocation
33. What are the Composite Data Elements?
Reliability - Validity - Timeliness
Responsible - Accountable - Consulted - Informed
Sequences - Repetitions - Optional Elements
Ethics - Trustworthiness - Personal Organization
34. What is the output of the task - Organize Requirements?
Requirements Management & Communication
Rolling Wave
Requirements Structure
Facilitation
35. 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.
Requirements Workshop - Structured Walkthrough
Prototyping
Requirements (Allocated)
Industry Knowledge
36. When a conflict arises between stakeholders on one or more documented requirements - the first thing that needs to take place is what?
Throw-away Prototype
To record the conflict in the Requirements Issues Log.
Evolutionary or Functional Prototype
Organizational Readiness Assessment
37. 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.
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Solution Performance Assessment
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Problem Tracking - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Benchmarking
Decision Analysis - Risk Analysis - MoSCoW Analysis - Timeboxing/Budgeting - Voting
38. This prototype extends the initial interface requirements into a fully functioning system and requires a specialized prototyping tool or language.
Evolutionary or Functional Prototype
Decision Analysis - Risk Analysis - MoSCoW Analysis - Timeboxing/Budgeting - Voting
Requirements Workshop
Visual Learner - Auditory Learner - Kinesthetic Learner
39. Characteristics that are common to all organizations with a similar purpose and structure - whether or not the are in the same industry.
Business Principals
The Sponsor
Problem Tracking - Baselining - Signoff
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Brainstorming - Interviews - Organizational Modeling - Process Modeling - Requirements Workshop - Risk Analysis - Scenarios & Use Cases - User Stories - Scope Modeling - Survey/Questionnaire - RACI Matrix
40. What are the techniques used in the task - Determine Solution Approach?
Survey/Questionnaire
Reporting
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Decision Analysis - Estimation - SWOT Analysis - Feasibility Analysis
Requirements (Stated) - Requirements Structure
41. 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.
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Business Rules Analysis - Decision Analysis - Functional Decomposition - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases
Verify Requirements
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements Management Plan - Scheduled Resources - Solution Scope & Business Case - Supporting Materials
Activity List
42. Defines the key terms and data relevant to a business domain.
Stakeholder Concerns
Data Dictionary & Glossary
Share - Enhance - Exploit
Clear - Relevant - Economical - Adequate - Quantifiable
43. What is the output of the task - Communicate Requirements?
Communicated Requirements
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Brainstorming - Interviews - Organizational Modeling - Process Modeling - Requirements Workshop - Risk Analysis - Scenarios & Use Cases - User Stories - Scope Modeling - Survey/Questionnaire - RACI Matrix
Impact Analysis - Requirements Coverage - Requirements Allocation
Historic Analysis
44. What are the techniques used in the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?
Acceptance - Transfer - Avoidance - Mitigation
Decision Analysis - Focus Groups - Observation - Survey/Questionnaire
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Business Rules Analysis - Focus Groups - Functional Decomposition - Root Cause Analysis
45. Elements identified for each activity and task.
Risk Analysis
Requirements Analysis
Activity List
Unique Number - Activity Description - Assumptions - Dependencies - Milestones
46. A means to elicit ideas and attitudes about a specific product - service or opportunity in an interactive group environment. The participants share their impressions - preferences and needs - guided by a moderator. - Effective for learning people's a
Influence on the project - organizational - project health and other stakeholders
Coverage Matrix - Table or spreadsheet used to manage tracing.
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Metrics & KPIs - Prototyping - Risk Analysis - Structured Walkthrough
Focus Group
47. Combination of expert judgment and history. Individual estimates - sharing the estimates with experts - and having several rounds until consensus is reached. An average of the three estimates is used
Delphi Estimation
Scenarios & Use Cases
Clear - Relevant - Economical - Adequate - Quantifiable
Ethics - Trustworthiness - Personal Organization
48. What is the output of the task - Prioritize Requirements?
Business Need - Expert Judgment - Organizational Process Assets
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements
Organizational Readiness Assessment - Requirements (Stated) - Solution (Deployed) - Solution (Designed)
Requirements (Prioritized)
49. What are the tasks in the knowledge area - Solution Assessment & Validation?
Evaluate Solution Performance
Elicitation
Prioritize Requirements - Organize Requirements - Specify & Model Requirements - Define Assumptions & Constraints - Verify Requirements - Validate Requirements
Assess Proposed Solution - Allocate Requirements - Assess Organizational Readiness - Define Transition Requirements - Validate Solution - Evaluate Solution Performance
50. Maps the level of stakeholder influence and interest in a project.
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Problem Tracking - Root Cause Analysis
Data - Ongoing Work - Organizational Change
Stakeholder Matrix
Requirements - Requirements Management Plan