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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning
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1. What are the inputs for the task Plan Business Analysis Activities?
Business Analysis Approach - BA Performance Assessment - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Business Requirements - Stakeholder Requirements - Solution Requirements - Transition Requirements
Requirements (Verified)
Solution Assessment & Validation
2. What are the techniques used in the task Manage Solution Scope & Requirements?
Problem Tracking - Baselining - Signoff
Learning
Transition Requirements
Acceptance - Transfer - Avoidance - Mitigation
3. 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.
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving
Validate Requirements
Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Business Principals
4. Communicated Requirements mean what to stakeholders?
Assessment of Proposed Solution
Implementation Approach
Decision Making
That they understand them and the current state the requirements are in
5. What are the inputs to the task - Prioritize Requirements?
Business Case - Business Need - Requirements - Requirements Management Plan - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Share - Enhance - Exploit
The Business Analysis Communication Plan
Enterprise Analysis
6. What are some of the key variables used in determining the priority of a requirement?
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Models - Focus Groups - Interviews - Survey/Questionnaire - Organizational Modeling - Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Force Field Analysis
Focus Group
Solution (Constructed) - Requirements (Prioritized and Validated)
Business Value - Business or Technical Risk - Implementation Difficulty - Likelihood of Success - Regulatory or Policy Compliance - Relationship to Other Requirements - Stakeholder Agreement - Urgency
7. What are the likely sources of transition requirements?
Data - Ongoing Work - Organizational Change
Industry Knowledge
Enterprise Analysis
Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
8. A package should contain a consistent - cohesive and coherent set of requirements. This describes the ____________.
Vertical Prototype
Business Principals
Term and Fact Model
Requirements Structure
9. What are the techniques used in the task - Validate Solution?
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Problem Tracking - Root Cause Analysis
Requirements (Verified)
Systems Thinking
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Models - Focus Groups - Interviews - Survey/Questionnaire - Organizational Modeling - Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Force Field Analysis
10. The knowledge area that covers how BAs determine which activities are necessary in order to complete a business analysis effort.
Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring
Requirements - Requirements Management Plan
Root Cause Analysis
System
11. 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?
Data Dictionary & Glossary - Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshops - Survey/Questionnaire
Perform tailoring exercises
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Required Capabilities
Impact Analysis - Requirements Coverage - Requirements Allocation
12. What are the tasks in the knowledge area - Requirements Analysis?
Requirements (Maintained and Reusable)
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
Prioritize Requirements - Organize Requirements - Specify & Model Requirements - Define Assumptions & Constraints - Verify Requirements - Validate Requirements
Determine the Process - Who will Authorize Changes - Impact Analysis - Wording of the Request - Coordinate Prioritization of Change
13. This knowledge area describes the problem definition and analysis - business case development - feasibility studies and the definition of solution scope.
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Solution Performance Assessment
Evaluation
Enterprise Analysis
Root Cause Analysis
14. What are the inputs to the task - Define Business Need?
Implementation SME
Business Value - Business or Technical Risk - Implementation Difficulty - Likelihood of Success - Regulatory or Policy Compliance - Relationship to Other Requirements - Stakeholder Agreement - Urgency
Business Goals & Objectives - Requirements (Stated)
Personal Organization
15. To identify interfaces between solutions and/or solution components and define requirements that describe how they will interact.
Interface Analysis
Throw-away Prototype
Requirements Management & Communication
Elimination
16. According to the BABOK 2.0 - what type of analysis generates STAKEHOLDER requirements?
Estimation - Functional Decomposition - Risk Analysis
Business Requirements - Identified Defects - Solution Performance Metrics - Solution (Deployed)
Vertical Prototype
Requirements Analysis
17. What are the Behavioral Characteristics a BA should exhibit?
Leadership
Ethics - Trustworthiness - Personal Organization
Dependencies
Onion Diagram
18. What are the inputs to the task - Allocate Resources?
Relationships - Impact Analysis - Configuration Management System
Unique Number - Activity Description - Assumptions - Dependencies - Milestones
Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution (Designed) - Solution Scope
19. Measures progress towards a strategic goal or objective.
To record the conflict in the Requirements Issues Log.
Define Business Case
Key Performance Indicator (KPI )
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
20. What are the inputs for the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?
Business Requirements - Identified Defects - Solution Performance Metrics - Solution (Deployed)
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Strengths - Weaknesses
Scope Modeling
21. What are the techniques used in the task - Prioritize Requirements?
Requirements (Traced)
Ongoing Cost versus Initial Investment - Opportunity Costs - Necessity - Sunk Costs
Business Analysis Approach - BA Performance Assessment - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Decision Analysis - Risk Analysis - MoSCoW Analysis - Timeboxing/Budgeting - Voting
22. What is the output of the task - Define Assumptions & Constraints?
Assumptions & Constraints
Formal requirements presentation to stakeholders
Business Goals & Objectives - Requirements (Stated)
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Solution Performance Assessment
23. Models a shallow - and possibly wide view of the system's functionality. It typically does not have any business logic running behind the visualization.
Horizontal Prototype
This person will be involved in monitoring the performance and effectiveness of a solution or its components.
Validate Solution
Historic Analysis
24. What is the output of the task - Specify & Model Requirements?
Vendor Assessment
Business Principles & Practices
Requirements (Analyzed)
Monitoring
25. What factors guide technique selection?
Business Domain - Corporate Culture & Environment - Skills of the Analyst - Requirement Deliverable
Systems Thinking
Decision Analysis - Estimation - Metrics & KPIs - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Trustworthiness
26. This knowledge area describes the behaviors - knowledge and other characteristics that support the effective performance of a BA.
Assumptions & Constraints - Required Capabilities - Solution Approach
Sequence Diagrams
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Underlying Competencies
27. A structured way to capture requirements. May be used to scope - discover - define - prioritize and reach closure on requirements for the target system. Considered one of the most effective ways to deliver high quality requirements quickly.
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 - Solution Scope & Business Case - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Requirements Workshop
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
28. The purpose is to compile and document successes - opportunities for improvement - failures - and recommendations for improving the performance of future projects or project phases
Decision Analysis - Problem Tacking - Risk Analysis
Lessons Learned Process
Oral Communications - Teaching - Written Communication
Document Elicitation Results task
29. What are the techniques used in the task - Assess Organizational Readiness?
Delphi Estimation
Learning
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Models - Focus Groups - Interviews - Survey/Questionnaire - Organizational Modeling - Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Force Field Analysis
Requirements Structure
30. Models a deep - and usually narrow slice of the entire system's functionality.
Vertical Prototype
Relationships - Impact Analysis - Configuration Management System
Reliability - Validity - Timeliness
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
31. What is the output to the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?
Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution (Designed) - Solution Scope
Three-point Estimation
Solution Performance Assessment
Requirements (Prioritized)
32. What are some of the commonly used requirement attributes?
Stakeholder Matrix
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
Absolute Reference - Author - Complexity - Ownership - Priority - Risks - Source - Stability - Status - Urgency
Solution Knowledge
33. How is the Operational Support stakeholder utilized in the Evaluate Solution Performance task?
Requirements Analysis
Facilitation & Negotiation - Leadership & Influencing - Teamwork
This person will be involved in monitoring the performance and effectiveness of a solution or its components.
Requirements - Requirements Management Plan
34. Strengths - Weaknesses - Opportunities - Threats - A valuable tool to quickly analyze various aspects of the current state of the business process undergoing change.
Trustworthiness
SWOT Analysis
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Business Analysis Plan
35. Name the 2 types of Stakeholder maps.
Stakeholder Matrix - Onion Diagram
Formal Documentation - Presentation - Model
Requirements (Stated) - Requirements Structure
Observation
36. 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
Term and Fact Model
Delphi Estimation
Requirements Management Plan - Solution Scope - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities - Stakeholder/Solution or Transition Requirements (Communicated or Traced)
Interviews
37. This technique represents the types of peoples - places - things and concepts that are important to the business - attributes associated with them and the significant business relationships among them.
Sequence Diagrams
Vertical Prototype
Data Modeling
Relationships - Impact Analysis - Configuration Management System
38. To assess the ability of a potential vendor to meet commitments regarding a product or service
Structured Walkthrough
Requirements (Stated) - Stakeholder Concerns
Vendor Assessment
Functional Decomposition
39. What are the strategies for a negative risk?
Acceptance - Transfer - Avoidance - Mitigation
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Decision Analysis - Estimation - SWOT Analysis - Feasibility Analysis
Required Capabilities
Problem Tracking - Baselining - Signoff
40. What does SMART stand for?
Solution (Constructed) - Requirements (Prioritized and Validated)
Specific - Measurable - Achievable - Relevant - Time-bound Objectives must be SMART.
Rolling Wave
Data Dictionary & Glossary - Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshops - Survey/Questionnaire
41. Documents terms unique to a domain.
Glossary
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Problem Tracking - Structured Walkthrough - Checklists
State Diagrams
Decision Analysis - Process Modeling - Structured Walkthrough
42. The people involved - the interactions between them - the external forces affecting their behavior and all other relevant elements and factors.
Brings them to a Communication on understanding
They describe what a solution must be capable of doing to meet the needs of one or more stakeholder groups
Business Analysis Approach - BA Performance Assessment - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
System
43. What are the techniques used in the task - Define Transition Requirements?
Document Elicitation Results task
Elimination of Dominated Alternative - Ranking Objects on a Similar Scale
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Modeling - Organization Modeling - Data Modeling
Business Value - Business or Technical Risk - Implementation Difficulty - Likelihood of Success - Regulatory or Policy Compliance - Relationship to Other Requirements - Stakeholder Agreement - Urgency
44. Approach to decision making that examines and models the possible consequences of different decisions. Make an optimal decision under conditions of uncertainty.
Decision Analysis
Systems Thinking
Formal requirements presentation to stakeholders
Solution Scope
45. What are the inputs to the task - Define Assumption & Constraints?
Business Analysis Plan
Stakeholder Concerns
Assumptions & Constraints
Assumptions & Constraints - Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution Options
46. Ability to find information - on-time completion of tasks - efficiency in the completion of work - ability to easily identify all outstanding work and the status of each work item.
Requirements Analysis
Structured Walkthrough
BABOK
Personal Organization
47. Gathering information relevant to a decision - breaking down the information relevant to a decision - making comparisons and tradeoffs between similar and dissimilar options and identifying the option that is most desirable.
Data Dictionary & Glossary - Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshops - Survey/Questionnaire
Decision Analysis
Business Case; Stakeholder - Solution or Transition Requirements (Verified)
Requirements Documentation - Requirements for Vendor Selection
48. What are the techniques used in the task - Allocate Resources?
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Business Rules Analysis - Decision Analysis - Functional Decomposition - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases
Scenarios & Use Cases
Solution Scope Definition - Implementation Approach - Dependencies
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Modeling - Organization Modeling - Data Modeling
49. 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.
Industry Knowledge
Share - Enhance - Exploit
Cohesive - Complete - Consistent - Correct - Feasible - Modifiable - Unambiguous - Testable
Decision Analysis - Focus Groups - Observation - Survey/Questionnaire
50. Using this technique the business analyst has collected the deliverables - activities - tasks - and estimates from all the involved stakeholders and rolls them up to get a total for all the activities and tasks.
Bottom-up Estimation
Assess Proposed Solution - Allocate Requirements - Assess Organizational Readiness - Define Transition Requirements - Validate Solution - Evaluate Solution Performance
System
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Business Rules Analysis - Focus Groups - Functional Decomposition - Root Cause Analysis