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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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






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






3. What are the techniques used in the task - Assess Organizational Readiness?






4. 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






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






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






7. A formal written specification with possible walk-thru - an informal one is possibly verbal or email Communication






8. What are some examples of stakeholder concerns?






9. What are the factors of influence by stakeholders on a project?






10. What are the inputs for the task - Define Solution Scope?






11. Performed to communicate - verify and validate requirements. Is a working session where invited participants review and discuss a set of requirements






12. 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






13. What is the output of the Manage Business Analysis Performance task?






14. 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






15. 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






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






17. What are the inputs to the Plan Business Analysis Approach?






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






19. What are the characteristics of a Problem Record?






20. What are the classifications used to describe requirements






21. This knowledge area describes how the BA assesses proposed solutions and determines which solution best fits the business need - identifies gaps and shortcomings to solutions and determines necessary workarounds or changes to the solution.






22. What are the elements of the task - Define Solution Scope?






23. Elements identified for each activity and task.






24. Industry Knowledge - Organization Knowledge - Solution Knowledge What are the elements of Business Knowledge?






25. Models a deep - and usually narrow slice of the entire system's functionality.






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






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






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






29. A non-actionable directive that supports a business goal.






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






31. Describes the effect a new solution will have on an organization and whether the organization is prepared for the organizational change the solution implementation will cause.






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






33. What are the inputs to the task Manage Business Analysis Performance?






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






35. The goal of this task is to create a set of views of the requirements for the new business solution that are comprehensive - complete - consistent and understood from all stakeholder perspectives.






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






37. 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.






38. Name the 2 types of Software categories that assist in BA productivity.






39. What are the elements to the task - Define Business Case?






40. When a requirement is changed - the BA can easily review all the related requirements and software components in order to understand the impact of the change.






41. 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.






42. 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.






43. 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.






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






45. Decisions are made with the interest of all stakeholders considered - reasons for a decision are cleared articulated - prompt and full disclosure of conflicts of interest - honesty regarding one's abilities and the performance of one's work.






46. Long-term - ongoing and qualitative statements of a state or condition that the organization is seeking to establish and maintain.






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






48. What is the output of the Plan Business Analysis Approach?






49. What is the output of the task - Maintain Requirements for Re-use?






50. What are some of the commonly used requirement attributes?