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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What is the output of the task - Maintain Requirements for Re-use?
Business Case
Unique Number - Activity Description - Assumptions - Dependencies - Milestones
Ongoing Cost versus Initial Investment - Opportunity Costs - Necessity - Sunk Costs
Requirements (Maintained and Reusable)

2. Three key factors when assessing the quality of indicators and their metrics
Reliability - Validity - Timeliness
Analogous Estimation
Business Need
Prototyping

3. Use of parameters - multiplied by the number of hours. (COCOMO II - Function Point Counting - Use Case Points - and Story Points)
Parametric Estimation
Define Transitional Requirements
Root Cause Analysis
Use Case

4. What is the output of the task - Prepare Requirements Package?
Requirements Package
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Models - Focus Groups - Interviews - Survey/Questionnaire - Organizational Modeling - Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Force Field Analysis
Business Need - Expert Judgment - Organizational Process Assets
Impact Analysis

5. While eliciting requirements it is important to guard against scope creep - This activity will ensure that the requirements should be included since they meet the business goal/objectives.
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Requirements - Requirements Package
Requirements Management & Communication
Tracing Requirements
Interviews - Observation

6. 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.
Business Analysis Process Assets
Stakeholder Matrix - Onion Diagram
Requirements Analysis
Document Analysis

7. Involves assessing a situation - understanding it as fully as possible - and making judgments about possible solutions to the problem.
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving
Prototyping
Ethics
Elicitation

8. Ensure that the solution meets the business need and determine the most appropriate response to identified defects.
Problem Solving
Opportunity Cost
Bottom-up Estimation
Validate Solution

9. Maps the level of stakeholder influence and interest in a project.
Stakeholder Matrix
Monitoring
Systems Thinking
Tracing Requirements

10. When performing root cause analysis as part of the Validate Solution task - what stakeholder may be involved?
Evolutionary or Functional Prototype
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Business Rules Analysis - Focus Groups - Functional Decomposition - Root Cause Analysis
Business Analysis Process Assets
Implementation SME

11. Shows how the behavior of a concept - entity or object changes in response to events during its lifetime - and defines which events cause a transition between those states.
Business Analysis Process Assets
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Requirements - Requirements Package
State Diagrams
Organizational Readiness Assessment - Requirements (Stated) - Solution (Deployed) - Solution (Designed)

12. 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.
Requirements (Prioritized)
Organize Requirements
Emotional and Cognitive
Requirements Analysis

13. 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.
Problem Tracking - Baselining - Signoff
Evaluation
Requirements (Traced)
Benchmarking

14. The people involved - the interactions between them - the external forces affecting their behavior and all other relevant elements and factors.
Estimation - Functional Decomposition - Risk Analysis
System
State Diagrams
Assessment of Proposed Solution

15. Confidence in the problem solving process that a selected solution is correct - new solution options can be evaluated effectively using the problem solving framework - selected solutions meet the defined objectives and solve the underlying problem -
Personal Organization
Problem Solving
Requirements (Validated)
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements Management Plan - Scheduled Resources - Solution Scope & Business Case - Supporting Materials

16. Models a deep - and usually narrow slice of the entire system's functionality.
Solution Knowledge
Business Rule
Vertical Prototype
Functional Decomposition - Interface Analysis - Scope Modeling - User Stories - Problem or Vision Statement

17. Is generally understood to describe just one way that an actor can accomplish a particular goal
Scenario
Business Goals & Objectives - Requirements (Stated)
Term and Fact Model
Business Analysis Process Assets

18. 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
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets
Strengths - Weaknesses
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Decision Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Compliance with regulatory or other standards

19. What is the output of the task - Communicate Requirements?
Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring
Manage Solution Scope & Requirements - Manage Requirements Traceability - Maintain Requirements for Re-use - Prepare Requirements Package - Communicate Requirements
Communicated Requirements
Perform tailoring exercises

20. Estimating relies on the expertise of those who have performed the work in the past. These experts can be internal or external to the project team or to the organization.
To record the conflict in the Requirements Issues Log.
Requirements Structure
Assumptions & Constraints - Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution Options
Expert Judgment

21. What are the characteristics of a Problem Record?
Enterprise Analysis - often the starting point for initiating a new project
Decision Analysis - Estimation - Metrics & KPIs - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Description - Raised by - Date Identified - Impact - Priority - Need by Date - Owner - Status - Action Needed to be Resolved - Responsible for Action - Completion Date of Action - Outcome
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving - Behavioral Characteristics - Business Knowledge - Communication Skills - Interaction Skills - Software Application

22. What are the inputs to the task Manage Requirements Traceability?
Impact Analysis
Facilitation
Requirements - Requirements Management Plan
User Story

23. What are the inputs of the task Plan Business Analysis Communication?
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Requirements Documentation - Requirements for Vendor Selection
Business Analysis Plan
Interviews - Lessons Learned Process - Metrics and KPIs - Problem Tracking - Process Modeling - Root Cause Analysis - Survey/Questionnaire - Variance Analysis

24. Communication of requirements does what for stakeholders?
Data - Ongoing Work - Organizational Change
Brings them to a Communication on understanding
Decision Analysis - Risk Analysis - MoSCoW Analysis - Timeboxing/Budgeting - Voting
Business Policy

25. What are the inputs to the task - Assess Capability Gaps?
Personal Organization
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
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Solution Performance Assessment
Analogous Estimation

26. What is the output of the Manage Business Analysis Performance task?
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
Requirements (Approved)
System
Interviews

27. Techniques used in the task Plan Requirements Management Process.
Business Analysis Approach
Decision Analysis - Problem Tacking - Risk Analysis
Requirements (Traced)
Business Analysis Approach - BA Performance Assessment - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities

28. What is the output of the task Document Elicitation Results?
All
Solution Approach
Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Requirements (Stated) - Stakeholder Concerns

29. What are the general modeling concepts that are relevant to business analysis?
Bottom-up Estimation
Industry Knowledge
Problem or Vision Statement
User Classes - Profiles or Roles; Concepts & Relationships - Events - Processes - Rules

30. What is the output of the task Prepare for Elicitation?
Onion Diagram
Interviews
Scheduled Resources - Supporting Materials
Opportunity Cost

31. What are the inputs to the task - Allocate Resources?
SWOT Analysis
System
Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution (Designed) - Solution Scope
Formal requirements presentation to stakeholders

32. Allocate stakeholder and solution requirements among solution components and releases in order to maximize the possible business value given the options and alternatives generated by the design team.
Requirements (Analyzed)
Reliability - Performance Efficiency - Operability - Security - Compatibility - Maintainability - Transferability
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Business Rules Analysis - Focus Groups - Functional Decomposition - Root Cause Analysis
Allocate Requirements

33. What is the output of the task - Assess Proposed Solution?
Dependencies
Decision Analysis - Estimation - Metrics & KPIs - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Responsible - Accountable - Consulted - Informed
Assessment of Proposed Solution

34. What are the techniques used in the task - Define Assumptions & Constraints?
Ethics - Trustworthiness - Personal Organization
Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis
Problem Tracking - Baselining - Signoff
Elimination

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 Documentation - Requirements for Vendor Selection
Industry Knowledge
Reporting
User Classes - Profiles or Roles; Concepts & Relationships - Events - Processes - Rules

36. What are the inputs to the task - Validate Solution?
Document Analysis - SWOT Analysis
Decision Analysis - Focus Groups - Observation - Survey/Questionnaire
Underlying Competencies
Solution (Constructed) - Requirements (Prioritized and Validated)

37. A diagram indicating how involved the stakeholder is with the solution.
Vertical Prototype
Requirements Analysis
Onion Diagram
Elicitation Results

38. What are the tasks for the knowledge area - Requirements Management & Communication?
Manage Solution Scope & Requirements - Manage Requirements Traceability - Maintain Requirements for Re-use - Prepare Requirements Package - Communicate Requirements
Customer
Operative Rules
Confirm Elicitation Results

39. The knowledge area that covers how BAs determine which activities are necessary in order to complete a business analysis effort.
Business Case; Stakeholder - Solution or Transition Requirements (Verified)
Industry Knowledge
Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring
Define Transitional Requirements

40. 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.
Sequence Diagrams
Bottom-up Estimation
Enterprise Analysis
Coverage Matrix - Table or spreadsheet used to manage tracing.

41. Elicitation Results are the inputs for the ____________
Business Rule
Document Elicitation Results task
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Models - Focus Groups - Interviews - Survey/Questionnaire - Organizational Modeling - Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Force Field Analysis
Data - Ongoing Work - Organizational Change

42. 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.
Validate Solution
Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring
Observation
Risk - assumptions - constraints - etc.

43. 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
Business Requirements - Identified Defects - Solution Performance Metrics - Solution (Deployed)
Requirements Structure
Share - Enhance - Exploit
This person will be involved in monitoring the performance and effectiveness of a solution or its components.

44. Set of requirements that will be used to choose between multiple solutions.
That they understand them and the current state the requirements are in
Risk - assumptions - constraints - etc.
Evaluation Criteria
Onion Diagram

45. What are the Cultural diversity issues that should be taken into account when planning communication?
System
Rolling Wave
Assumptions & Constraints - Business Need - Solution Scope - Stakeholder Concerns
Relationship to Time - Relationship to Task Completion - Relationship to Contracts - Relationships to Formal and Informal Authority

46. Three types of organizational structures
Functions - Markets - Matrix
Business Analysis Performance Metrics - Business Analysis Plan - Organization Performance Standards - Requirements Management Plan
Bottom-up Estimation
Prepare for Elicitation - Conduct Elicitation Activity - Document Elicitation Results - Confirm Elicitation Results

47. What are some examples of stakeholder concerns?
Requirements Documentation - Requirements for Vendor Selection
Requirements Workshop - Structured Walkthrough
Risk - assumptions - constraints - etc.
Learning

48. The BA is a stakeholder in ______ business analysis activities.
All
They describe what a solution must be capable of doing to meet the needs of one or more stakeholder groups
Identified Defects - Mitigating Actions - Solution Validation Assessment
Functional Decomposition

49. 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.
Validate Requirements
Acceptance - Transfer - Avoidance - Mitigation
Business Analysis Plan
Opportunity Cost

50. What is the output of the task - Manage Requirements Traceability?
Implementation Approach
Clear - Relevant - Economical - Adequate - Quantifiable
Requirements (Traced)
Data Modeling