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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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1. 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.






2. What are the techniques used in the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?






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






4. What are the techniques used in the task - Define Business Case?






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






6. What are the strategies for a positive risk?






7. What are the inputs to the task - Assess Proposed Solution?






8. 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.






9. What are the likely sources of transition requirements?






10. 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






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






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






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






14. What are the inputs to the task - Specify & Model Requirements?






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






16. What should be considered when establishing a Change Management process?






17. What techniques are used in the task - Prepare Requirements Package?






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






19. What techniques are used in the task Prepare for Elicitation?






20. Revised process and templates for BA deliverables should be analyzed and documented and lessons learned should be recorded.






21. 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






22. What techniques are used in the task Manage Requirements Traceability?






23. What is the output of the task - Assess Organizational Readiness?






24. To assess the ability of a potential vendor to meet commitments regarding a product or service






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






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






27. What are the techniques used in the task - Assess Capability Gaps?






28. A package should contain a consistent - cohesive and coherent set of requirements. This describes the ____________.






29. Use of parameters - multiplied by the number of hours. (COCOMO II - Function Point Counting - Use Case Points - and Story Points)






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






31. The decomposition of activities and tasks creates?






32. 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






33. 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.






34. What is the output of the task - Prioritize Requirements?






35. What are the characteristics of quality for a requirements?






36. What are the attributes of a Data Model?






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






38. What are the techniques used in the task - Assess Proposed Solution?






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






40. What are the characteristics of Interaction Skills?






41. What are the elements of the area - Analytical Thinking and Problem Solving - Successful generation of new ideas - application of new ideas to resolve existing problems - willingness of stakeholders to accept new approaches.






42. Rules that are intended to help determine when something is or is not true - or when things fall into a specific category. They are expressed as rules because they describe categorizations that may change over time.






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






45. 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.






46. What does RACI stand for?






47. What does SMART stand for?






48. What techniques are used in the task - Define Solution Scope?






49. What are the inputs for the task - Define Transitional Requirements?






50. 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.