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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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1. What are the tasks in the knowledge area - Enterprise Analysis?
Define Business Need - Access Capability Gaps - Determine Solution Approach - Define Solution Scope - Define Business Case
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Requirements (Prioritized)
This person will be involved in monitoring the performance and effectiveness of a solution or its components.

2. What are the inputs to the task Manage Solution Scope & Requirements?
General Purpose Applications & Specialized Applications
Repository - Traceability - Requirement Attributes - Prioritization Process - Change Management - Tailoring the Requirements Management Process
Requirements Management Plan - Solution Scope - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities - Stakeholder/Solution or Transition Requirements (Communicated or Traced)
Name - Value/Meanings - Description

3. Prioritizes requirements based on a allocated fixed amount of money.
Implementation Approach
Industry Knowledge
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Modeling - Organization Modeling - Data Modeling
Budgeting

4. What are the techniques used in Plan Business Analysis Approach?
Risk - assumptions - constraints - etc.
Decision Analysis - Process Modeling - Structured Walkthrough
Decision Making
Requirements (Verified)

5. Ensure that the solution meets the business need and determine the most appropriate response to identified defects.
Brainstorming
Business Need
Validate Solution
Prototyping

6. This describes how the chosen solution will deliver the solution scope - may break delivery down into releases or provide a roadmap that indicates the timeframe in which a capability is expected.
Requirements (Stated - Unconfirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Unconfirmed)
Rolling Wave
Visual Learner - Auditory Learner - Kinesthetic Learner
Implementation Approach

7. What is the output of the task - Define Business Need?
Business Need
Requirements (Traced)
Advantages of a Data Dictionary & Glossary
Reliability - Performance Efficiency - Operability - Security - Compatibility - Maintainability - Transferability

8. Prioritizes requirements based on the amount of work that the project team is capable of delivering in a set period of time. Approaches include: All-in - All Out - Selective
Requirements (Verified)
Requirements Management Plan
SWOT Analysis
Timeboxing

9. What are the techniques used in the task - Organize Requirements?
This person will be involved in monitoring the performance and effectiveness of a solution or its components.
The Sponsor
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Data Modeling - Functional Decomposition - Organizational Modeling - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases - Scope Modeling - User Stories
Requirements Structure

10. 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.
Estimation
Advantages of Document Analysis
Organizational Knowledge
Reliability - Performance Efficiency - Operability - Security - Compatibility - Maintainability - Transferability

11. What are the likely sources of transition requirements?
Data Dictionary & Glossary
Business Principles & Practices
Primary stakeholders in the Organize Requirements task
Data - Ongoing Work - Organizational Change

12. Benefits that could have been achieved with an alternative investment rather than this one.
Opportunity Cost
Benchmarking
Requirements (Verified)
Data Dictionary & Glossary - Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshops - Survey/Questionnaire

13. What techniques are used in the task Manage Requirements Traceability?
Coverage Matrix - Table or spreadsheet used to manage tracing.
Acceptance - Transfer - Avoidance - Mitigation
Functional Decomposition - Interface Analysis - Scope Modeling - User Stories - Problem or Vision Statement
Interviews - Lessons Learned Process - Metrics and KPIs - Problem Tracking - Process Modeling - Root Cause Analysis - Survey/Questionnaire - Variance Analysis

14. 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.
Interviews
This person will be involved in monitoring the performance and effectiveness of a solution or its components.
Horizontal Prototype
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements Management Plan - Scheduled Resources - Solution Scope & Business Case - Supporting Materials

15. What are the inputs to the task - Allocate Resources?
To record the conflict in the Requirements Issues Log.
Requirements Analysis
Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution (Designed) - Solution Scope
Data Dictionary & Glossary - Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshops - Survey/Questionnaire

16. What are the techniques used in the task - Assess Capability Gaps?
Validate Solution
Business Principals
Document Analysis - SWOT Analysis
Unique Number - Activity Description - Assumptions - Dependencies - Milestones

17. What is the output to the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?
Enterprise Analysis
Identified Defects - Mitigating Actions - Solution Validation Assessment
Influence on the project - organizational - project health and other stakeholders
Solution Performance Assessment

18. What are the Primitive Data Elements?
The Sponsor
Business Analysis Approach
System
Name - Aliases - Values/Meanings - Description

19. What is the output of the task - Determine Solution Approach?
Bottom-up Estimation
Advantages of Document Analysis
Solution Approach
Organization Modeling

20. Divides requirements into 4 categories - Must - Should - Could - Won't
Enterprise Analysis
MoSCoW Analysis
Business Analysis Approach - BA Performance Assessment - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
To record the conflict in the Requirements Issues Log.

21. What are the inputs for the task - Maintain Requirements for Re-use?
Dependencies
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements
Requirements (Stated) - Requirements Structure
Root Cause Analysis

22. To define the rules that govern decisions in an organization and that define - constrain or enable organization operations.
Business Analysis Communication Plan
Business Rules Analysis
Facilitation & Negotiation - Leadership & Influencing - Teamwork
Name - Aliases - Values/Meanings - Description

23. Is generally understood to describe just one way that an actor can accomplish a particular goal
Data - Ongoing Work - Organizational Change
Necessity - Effort - Subset - Cover - Value
Determine the Process - Who will Authorize Changes - Impact Analysis - Wording of the Request - Coordinate Prioritization of Change
Scenario

24. What are the output(s) of the task - Validate Solution?
Allocate Requirements
Requirements Workshop - Structured Walkthrough
Identified Defects - Mitigating Actions - Solution Validation Assessment
Timeboxing

25. Strengths - Weaknesses - Opportunities - Threats - A valuable tool to quickly analyze various aspects of the current state of the business process undergoing change.
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Prepare Requirements Package
SWOT Analysis
Underlying Competencies

26. What are the different types of learning styles?
Visual Learner - Auditory Learner - Kinesthetic Learner
Onion Diagram
Strengths - Weaknesses
Requirements Structure

27. The knowledge area that covers how BAs determine which activities are necessary in order to complete a business analysis effort.
Term and Fact Model
Business Analysis Performance Metrics - Business Analysis Plan - Organization Performance Standards - Requirements Management Plan
Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring
Interviews

28. What are the inputs for the task Prepare for Elicitation?
Assess Proposed Solution - Allocate Requirements - Assess Organizational Readiness - Define Transition Requirements - Validate Solution - Evaluate Solution Performance
Relationship to Time - Relationship to Task Completion - Relationship to Contracts - Relationships to Formal and Informal Authority
Business Analysis Plan
Business Need - Solution Scope & Business Case - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities

29. Set of requirements that will be used to choose between multiple solutions.
Evaluation Criteria
Compliance with regulatory or other standards
Data Flow Diagrams
Advantages of Document Analysis

30. Elements identified for each activity and task.
Unique Number - Activity Description - Assumptions - Dependencies - Milestones
Scheduled Resources - Supporting Materials
Leadership
Focus Group

31. What are the classifications used to describe requirements
Responsible - Accountable - Consulted - Informed
Solution Performance Assessment
Requirements (Traced)
Business Requirements - Stakeholder Requirements - Solution Requirements - Transition Requirements

32. Creates a conceptual model of the work that needs to be completed to deliver the new business solution.
Functional Decomposition
Benefits - Costs - Risk Assessment - Results Measurement
Business Need - Solution Scope & Business Case - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Historic Analysis

33. 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.
Glossary
Reliability - Validity - Timeliness
Solution Scope
Requirements (Approved)

34. What is the output of the task Conduct Elicitation Activity?
Requirements Documentation - Requirements for Vendor Selection
Elicitation Results
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements (Stated) - Solution Scope
Impact Analysis - Requirements Coverage - Requirements Allocation

35. What is the output of the task Plan Business Analysis Communication?
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Required Capabilities
Evaluation
Business Analysis Communication Plan
Requirements (Maintained and Reusable)

36. To identify interfaces between solutions and/or solution components and define requirements that describe how they will interact.
Acceptance Criteria
Interface Analysis
Decision Analysis - Problem Tacking - Risk Analysis
Allocate Requirements

37. A good indicator has 5 characteristics:
Solution Scope Definition - Implementation Approach - Dependencies
Clear - Relevant - Economical - Adequate - Quantifiable
Transition Requirements
Throw-away Prototype

38. This technique shows how information is input - processed - stored and output from a system in a visual representation.
Data Flow Diagrams
Term and Fact Model
Brings them to a Communication on understanding
Throw-away Prototype

39. 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.
Decision Analysis - Estimation - Metrics & KPIs - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Primary stakeholders in the Organize Requirements task
Budgeting
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements (Stated) - Solution Scope

40. The purpose of _______________ is to ensure that a stakeholder's actual underlying needs are understood - rather than the their stated or superficial desires.
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving
Requirements Management & Communication
Share - Enhance - Exploit
Elicitation

41. 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?
Name - Aliases - Values/Meanings - Description
Goals
Metrics & KPIs
Impact Analysis - Requirements Coverage - Requirements Allocation

42. 7 knowledge areas of ________ : Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring - Elicitation - Requirements Management & Communication - Enterprise Analysis - Requirements Analysis - Solution Assessment & Validation - Underlying Competencies
BABOK
Solution Scope Definition - Implementation Approach - Dependencies
Requirements Workshop - Structured Walkthrough
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

43. What is the output of the task - Validate Requirements?
Impact Analysis - Requirements Coverage - Requirements Allocation
Scope Modeling
Requirements (Validated)
Business Principals

44. What should be considered when establishing a Change Management process?
Historic Analysis
Solution Scope
Problem Tracking - Baselining - Signoff
Determine the Process - Who will Authorize Changes - Impact Analysis - Wording of the Request - Coordinate Prioritization of Change

45. What are the inputs to the task - Validate Requirements?
Implementation Approach
Term and Fact Model
Interface Analysis
Business Case; Stakeholder - Solution or Transition Requirements (Verified)

46. What are the techniques used in the task Conduct Stakeholder Analysis?
Emotional and Cognitive
Organizational Readiness Assessment
Share - Enhance - Exploit
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

47. What are the inputs to the task Plan Requirements Management Process?
Survey/Questionnaire
Industry Knowledge
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets
Monitoring

48. The purpose is to describe the required qualities of a system - such as its usability and performance characteristics.
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Business Rules Analysis - Decision Analysis - Functional Decomposition - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases
Non-functional Requirements Analysis
Repository - Traceability - Requirement Attributes - Prioritization Process - Change Management - Tailoring the Requirements Management Process
Business Case - Business Need - Requirements - Requirements Management Plan - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities

49. What is the output of the task - Specify & Model Requirements?
Requirements (Analyzed)
Fishbone Diagram - Five Whys
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets
Monitoring

50. What describes how - when and why the business analyst will work with stakeholders?
The Business Analysis Communication Plan
Business Need - Expert Judgment - Organizational Process Assets
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Problem Tracking - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Scope Modeling