Test your basic knowledge |

CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

Subjects : certifications, business-skills

Instructions:

Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.

1. What are the techniques used in the task Manage Business Analysis Performance?
Scenario
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 Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets
Interviews - Lessons Learned Process - Metrics and KPIs - Problem Tracking - Process Modeling - Root Cause Analysis - Survey/Questionnaire - Variance Analysis

2. What are the inputs to the task - Verify Requirements?
Absolute Reference - Author - Complexity - Ownership - Priority - Risks - Source - Stability - Status - Urgency
Share - Enhance - Exploit
Requirements (Stated) - Stakeholder Concerns
Requirements (Any Except Stated)

3. What are the techniques used in Plan Business Analysis Activities?
Decision Analysis - Estimation - Metrics & KPIs - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Survey/Questionnaire
Estimation - Functional Decomposition - Risk Analysis
Reliability - Validity - Timeliness

4. Use of a similar project as the basis for developing estimates for the current project. Also known as "top-down" estimating. This is usually done at the beginning of the project or project phase and more detailed estimates follow as more is known.
Elicitation Results
Analogous Estimation
Functions - Markets - Matrix
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets

5. 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
Prioritize Requirements - Organize Requirements - Specify & Model Requirements - Define Assumptions & Constraints - Verify Requirements - Validate Requirements
Ethics - Trustworthiness - Personal Organization
Root Cause Analysis

6. What are the inputs for the task - Maintain Requirements for Re-use?
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements
Document Elicitation Results task
BABOK
Three-point Estimation

7. What are the inputs to the task Manage Business Analysis Performance?
Business Analysis Performance Metrics - Business Analysis Plan - Organization Performance Standards - Requirements Management Plan
Problem Tracking - Baselining - Signoff
Key Performance Indicator (KPI )
Perform tailoring exercises

8. What are the techniques used in the task - Assess Proposed Solution?
Business Need - Expert Judgment - Organizational Process Assets
Onion Diagram
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Decision Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Organizational Knowledge

9. This prototype seeks to quickly uncover and clarify interface requirements using simple tools - sometimes just paper and pencil. The focus is on functionality that is not easily elicited by other techniques - has conflicting viewpoints - or is diffic
Throw-away Prototype
Formal requirements presentation to stakeholders
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Decision Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Term and Fact Model

10. What are the techniques used in the task - Communicate Requirements?
Analogous Estimation
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Modeling - Organization Modeling - Data Modeling
Requirements Workshop - Structured Walkthrough
Decision Analysis - Focus Groups - Observation - Survey/Questionnaire

11. Used to describe the roles - responsibilities and reporting structures that exist within an organization and to align those structures with the organization's goals.
Organization Modeling
Structured Walkthrough
Systems Thinking
Advantages of a Data Dictionary & Glossary

12. 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
Leadership
Requirements Management & Communication
Analogous Estimation
Budgeting

13. What are the inputs to the task - Assess Proposed Solution?
Learning
Business Need
Document Elicitation Results task
Assumptions & Constraints - Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution Options

14. What are the inputs to the task Manage Requirements Traceability?
Onion Diagram
Requirements (Allocated)
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Problem Tracking - Root Cause Analysis
Requirements - Requirements Management Plan

15. Who is the primary stakeholder in the Define Business Case task?
Data Flow Diagrams
The Sponsor
Decision Analysis
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities

16. What are the elements to the task - Define Business Case?
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Requirements - Requirements Package
Reporting
Share - Enhance - Exploit
Benefits - Costs - Risk Assessment - Results Measurement

17. What are the techniques used in the task - Prioritize Requirements?
Name - Aliases - Values/Meanings - Description
Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis
Lessons Learned Process
Decision Analysis - Risk Analysis - MoSCoW Analysis - Timeboxing/Budgeting - Voting

18. What is the output of the task - Prioritize Requirements?
Requirements (Prioritized)
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Modeling - Organization Modeling - Data Modeling
Validate Solution
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)

19. What are some of the ways a BA can help to improve the operations of a business? Acceptance and Evaluation Criteria Definition - Business Rules Analysis - Data Dictionary and Glossary - Data Flow Diagrams - Data Modeling - Functional Decomposition -
Automate or Simplify Work - Improve Access to Information - Reduce Complexity of Interfaces - Increase Consistency of Behavior - Eliminate Redundancy
Requirements (Analyzed)
This person will be involved in monitoring the performance and effectiveness of a solution or its components.
Problem Solving

20. Benefits that could have been achieved with an alternative investment rather than this one.
Assumptions & Constraints - Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution Options
Opportunity Cost
Requirements Workshop - Structured Walkthrough
Business Principals

21. Prioritizes requirements based on a allocated fixed amount of money.
Ethics
Assumptions & Constraints - Required Capabilities - Solution Approach
Data Flow Diagrams
Budgeting

22. The people involved - the interactions between them - the external forces affecting their behavior and all other relevant elements and factors.
Manage Solution Scope & Requirements - Manage Requirements Traceability - Maintain Requirements for Re-use - Prepare Requirements Package - Communicate Requirements
System
Data Dictionary & Glossary - Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshops - Survey/Questionnaire
Decision Analysis - Problem Tacking - Risk Analysis

23. The minimum set of requirements that must be met in order for a particular solution to be worth implementing.
Acceptance Criteria
Unique Number - Activity Description - Assumptions - Dependencies - Milestones
Name - Value/Meanings - Description
Elicitation

24. 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.
Underlying Competencies
Organize Requirements
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Business Rules Analysis - Focus Groups - Functional Decomposition - Root Cause Analysis
Acceptance - Transfer - Avoidance - Mitigation

25. Defines the key terms and data relevant to a business domain.
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements
Business Analysis Plan
Data Dictionary & Glossary
Requirements - Requirements Management Plan

26. What is the output of the task - Define Transition Requirements?
Transition Requirements
Interviews - Lessons Learned Process - Metrics and KPIs - Problem Tracking - Process Modeling - Root Cause Analysis - Survey/Questionnaire - Variance Analysis
Unique Number - Activity Description - Assumptions - Dependencies - Milestones
BABOK

27. Elements of a Requirements Management Plan include?
User Story
Budgeting
Brings them to a Communication on understanding
Relationships - Impact Analysis - Configuration Management System

28. 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 (Verified)
Define Business Case
Requirements Structure

29. 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.
Solution Scope
Functional Decomposition
Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Reporting

30. This will impose constraints to the effort to deploy the solution - including relationships that may exist between solution components.
Problem Tracking
Dependencies
All
Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities

31. Is generally understood to describe just one way that an actor can accomplish a particular goal
Requirements Documentation - Requirements for Vendor Selection
Data Flow Diagrams
Scenario
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Metrics & KPIs - Prototyping - Risk Analysis - Structured Walkthrough

32. What techniques are used in the task Manage Requirements Traceability?
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements - Requirements Structure
Ethics - Trustworthiness - Personal Organization
Requirements (Analyzed)
Coverage Matrix - Table or spreadsheet used to manage tracing.

33. What are the tasks for the knowledge area - Requirements Management & Communication?
Vendor Assessment
Glossary
Manage Solution Scope & Requirements - Manage Requirements Traceability - Maintain Requirements for Re-use - Prepare Requirements Package - Communicate Requirements
Prepare Requirements Package

34. What are the techniques used in the task Confirm Elicitation Results?
Monitoring
Interviews - Observation
Perform tailoring exercises
Brainstorming

35. Set of requirements that will be used to choose between multiple solutions.
Evaluation Criteria
Requirements Workshop - Structured Walkthrough
Risk Analysis
Requirements (Prioritized)

36. What are the inputs for the task Prepare for Elicitation?
Unique Number - Activity Description - Assumptions - Dependencies - Milestones
Functional Decomposition - Interface Analysis - Scope Modeling - User Stories - Problem or Vision Statement
Business Need - Solution Scope & Business Case - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Stakeholder Concerns

37. Measures progress towards a strategic goal or objective.
Plan Business Analysis Approach - Conduct Stakeholder Analysis - Plan Business Analysis Activities - Plan Business Analysis Communication - Plan Requirements Management Process - Manage BA Performance
Stakeholder Matrix - Onion Diagram
Key Performance Indicator (KPI )
Oral Communications - Teaching - Written Communication

38. What are the inputs to the task - Assess Capability Gaps?
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Solution Performance Assessment
Transition Requirements
Business Need - Solution Scope & Business Case - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Stakeholder Concerns

39. This task determines if an organization can justify the investment required to deliver a proposed solution.
Sequence Diagrams
Define Business Case
Problem Solving
Business Case - Business Need - Requirements - Requirements Management Plan - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities

40. What are the Primitive Data Elements?
Requirements Structure
Name - Aliases - Values/Meanings - Description
Observation
Coverage Matrix - Table or spreadsheet used to manage tracing.

41. What does RACI stand for?
Validate Requirements
Responsible - Accountable - Consulted - Informed
Benefits - Costs - Risk Assessment - Results Measurement
Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis

42. 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
Conduct Elicitation Activity
Problem Tracking
Validate Solution
Prepare for Elicitation - Conduct Elicitation Activity - Document Elicitation Results - Confirm Elicitation Results

43. The purpose of _______________ is to ensure that a stakeholder's actual underlying needs are understood - rather than the their stated or superficial desires.
Structured Walkthrough
Organization Modeling
Elicitation
Decision Analysis

44. The decomposition of activities and tasks creates?
Activity List
Requirements (Traced)
Facilitation
Reliability - Validity - Timeliness

45. What is the output of the task Prepare for Elicitation?
Assessment of Proposed Solution
Scheduled Resources - Supporting Materials
Name - Value/Meanings - Description
Solution Scope

46. What is the output of the task Document Elicitation Results?
Requirements (Stated) - Stakeholder Concerns
Learning
Requirements Workshop - Structured Walkthrough
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements

47. What is the output of the task - Communicate Requirements?
Communicated Requirements
Cultural Assessment - Operational or Technical Assessment - Stakeholder Impact Analysis
Data Modeling
Business Goals & Objectives - Requirements (Stated)

48. Business rules require a defined glossary of terms and an understanding of the relationships between them - this is known as:
Operative Rules
Business Requirements - Stakeholder Requirements - Solution Requirements - Transition Requirements
Document Elicitation Results task
Term and Fact Model

49. What is the output of the task - Define Assumptions & Constraints?
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Problem Tracking - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Assumptions & Constraints
Business Analysis Plan
Prototyping

50. A specific - actionable - testable directive that is under the control of an organization and supports a business policy.
Requirements (Validated)
Business Rule
Primary stakeholders in the Organize Requirements task
Relationships - Impact Analysis - Configuration Management System