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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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1. The decomposition of activities and tasks creates?






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






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






4. What is the output of the task - Define Assumptions & Constraints?






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






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






7. Involved motivating people to act in ways that enable them to work together to achieve shared goals and objectives.






8. Business value can be delivered through requirements that support _______________ - alignment with internal standards or policies of the organization - or increased satisfaction for stakeholders - even if those things do not have a direct measurable






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






10. What are the inputs to the task - Define Business Need?






11. 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.






12. The people involved - the interactions between them - the external forces affecting their behavior and all other relevant elements and factors.






13. What are the tasks for the knowledge area - Requirements Management & Communication?






14. This task determines if an organization can justify the investment required to deliver a proposed solution.






15. 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.






16. Knowing the dependencies and relationships between requirements helps when determining the sequence in which requirements are to be addressed. Common relations are:






17. Investigating how a solution is actually used after it is deployed and assessing the effect it has had - both positive and negative.






18. 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.






19. Business rules require a defined glossary of terms and an understanding of the relationships between them - this is known as:






20. What are the inputs to the task - Verify Requirements?






21. Provides an organized approach to tracking - management - and resolution of defects - issues - problems - and risks throughout business analysis activities. Management of issues is important so that they can be resolved in a timely manner to ensure s






22. What are the attributes of a Data Model?






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






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






25. Corrective or preventative measures uncovered while performing a Business Analysis Performance Assessment will result in changes to what plan?






26. 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.






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






28. Divides requirements into 4 categories - Must - Should - Could - Won't






29. What is the output of the task - Define Transition Requirements?






30. What are the inputs for the task Plan Business Analysis Activities?






31. 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.






32. The BA is a stakeholder in ______ business analysis activities.






33. 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.






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






35. What are the techniques used in the task Manage Business Analysis Performance?






36. Set of requirements that will be used to choose between multiple solutions.






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






38. What does SMART stand for?






39. What are the classifications used to describe requirements






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






41. List 3 possible forms of a requirements packages.






42. Organizational culture - Stakeholder preference - complexity - organizational maturity and availability of resources are all factors used to do what?






43. 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.






44. 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.






45. The skill of moderating discussions among a group or enable all participants to effectively articulate their views on a topic under discussion and to further ensure that participants in the discussion are able to recognize and appreciate the differin






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






47. What are the tasks of the Elicitation Knowledge Area?






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






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






50. What are some examples of stakeholder concerns?