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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning
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1. A brief description of functionality that users need from a solution to meet a business objective. The goal they are trying to accomplish - and any additional information that may be critical to understanding the scope of the story.
User Story
Activity List
Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution (Designed) - Solution Scope
Tracing Requirements
2. The purpose is to describe the required qualities of a system - such as its usability and performance characteristics.
Non-functional Requirements Analysis
Communicated Requirements
Business Principals
Solution Approach
3. The process of informing stakeholders of metrics of indicators in specified formats at specified intervals.
Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Reporting
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Organizational Process Assets
Oral Communications - Teaching - Written Communication
4. 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.
Tracing Requirements
Stakeholder Matrix - Onion Diagram
Business Analysis Communication Plan
Benchmarking
5. What are the inputs to the task Conduct Elicitation Activity?
Business Need - Expert Judgment - Organizational Process Assets
Responsible - Accountable - Consulted - Informed
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements Management Plan - Scheduled Resources - Solution Scope & Business Case - Supporting Materials
Facilitation
6. Benefits that could have been achieved with an alternative investment rather than this one.
BABOK
Decision Making
Stakeholder Matrix - Onion Diagram
Opportunity Cost
7. What is the output of the task - Assess Capability Gaps?
Requirements Management Plan - Solution Scope - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities - Stakeholder/Solution or Transition Requirements (Communicated or Traced)
Identified Defects - Mitigating Actions - Solution Validation Assessment
Required Capabilities
Implementation Approach
8. What are the inputs to the task - Assess Proposed Solution?
Lessons Learned Process
Scope Modeling
Parametric Estimation
Assumptions & Constraints - Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution Options
9. What are the attributes of a Data Model?
Functional Decomposition - Interface Analysis - Scope Modeling - User Stories - Problem or Vision Statement
Name - Value/Meanings - Description
Survey/Questionnaire
Horizontal Prototype
10. What are the techniques used in the task Conduct Stakeholder Analysis?
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 - Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Validate Solution
Requirements (Stated - Confirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Confirmed)
11. What techniques are used in the task - Define Solution Scope?
Absolute Reference - Author - Complexity - Ownership - Priority - Risks - Source - Stability - Status - Urgency
Timeboxing
Business Case - Business Need - Requirements - Requirements Management Plan - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Functional Decomposition - Interface Analysis - Scope Modeling - User Stories - Problem or Vision Statement
12. What are the underlying competencies a BA should possess?
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving - Behavioral Characteristics - Business Knowledge - Communication Skills - Interaction Skills - Software Application
Benchmarking
Business Principals
Functional Decomposition - Interface Analysis - Scope Modeling - User Stories - Problem or Vision Statement
13. Who is the primary stakeholder in the Define Business Case task?
Cultural Assessment - Operational or Technical Assessment - Stakeholder Impact Analysis
Scope Modeling
User Classes - Profiles or Roles; Concepts & Relationships - Events - Processes - Rules
The Sponsor
14. What are the inputs of the task Plan Business Analysis Communication?
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Modeling - Organization Modeling - Data Modeling
Requirements (Stated) - Stakeholder Concerns
Organization Modeling
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
15. The decomposition of activities and tasks creates?
Name - Aliases - Values/Meanings - Description
Activity List
Functions - Markets - Matrix
Cultural Assessment - Operational or Technical Assessment - Stakeholder Impact Analysis
16. What is the output of the task - Manage Requirements Traceability?
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Decision Analysis - Estimation - SWOT Analysis - Feasibility Analysis
Requirements (Traced)
Stakeholder Matrix - Onion Diagram
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements
17. The purpose is to compile and document successes - opportunities for improvement - failures - and recommendations for improving the performance of future projects or project phases
Reliability - Performance Efficiency - Operability - Security - Compatibility - Maintainability - Transferability
Implementation Approach
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Required Capabilities
Lessons Learned Process
18. 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 -
Benchmarking
Requirements (Stated) - Stakeholder Concerns
Automate or Simplify Work - Improve Access to Information - Reduce Complexity of Interfaces - Increase Consistency of Behavior - Eliminate Redundancy
State Diagrams
19. What is the output of the task - Define Assumptions & Constraints?
Assumptions & Constraints
Requirements (Stated - Unconfirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Unconfirmed)
Name - Value/Meanings - Description
Non-functional Requirements Analysis
20. Most optimistic estimate; most pessimistic estimate; most likely estimate
Enterprise Analysis
Risk - assumptions - constraints - etc.
Vertical Prototype
Three-point Estimation
21. What is the output of the task - Allocate Resources?
Enterprise Analysis - often the starting point for initiating a new project
Survey/Questionnaire
Requirements (Allocated)
Requirements Structure
22. What is the output of the task - Determine Solution Approach?
All
Solution Approach
Business Need - Expert Judgment - Organizational Process Assets
Define Business Case
23. Maps the level of stakeholder influence and interest in a project.
Business Value - Business or Technical Risk - Implementation Difficulty - Likelihood of Success - Regulatory or Policy Compliance - Relationship to Other Requirements - Stakeholder Agreement - Urgency
Prototyping
Stakeholder Matrix
Cohesive - Complete - Consistent - Correct - Feasible - Modifiable - Unambiguous - Testable
24. What are the inputs to the task Conduct Stakeholder Analysis?
Requirements Structure
Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution (Designed) - Solution Scope
Requirements (Prioritized)
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Organizational Process Assets
25. Define the requirements that must be met in order for a solution to be considered acceptable to key stakeholders.
Relationships - Impact Analysis - Configuration Management System
Problem Tracking
Acceptance & Evaluation Technique
Elicitation Results
26. What is the output of the task - Assess Organizational Readiness?
Assess Organization Readiness
Organizational Readiness Assessment
System
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Decision Analysis - Vendor Assessment
27. States the business need - identifies key stakeholders and briefly describes the positive impact that meeting the business need will have on those stakeholders.
Elicitation Results
Problem or Vision Statement
Scenario
Business Analysis Approach
28. What are some of the key variables used in determining the priority of a requirement?
Business Value - Business or Technical Risk - Implementation Difficulty - Likelihood of Success - Regulatory or Policy Compliance - Relationship to Other Requirements - Stakeholder Agreement - Urgency
Formal Documentation - Presentation - Model
Business Analysis Plan
Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis
29. 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.
Stakeholder Matrix
Dependencies
State Diagrams
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Solution Performance Assessment
30. What are the internal factors in a SWOT Analysis?
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements (Stated) - Solution Scope
Underlying Competencies
Document Elicitation Results task
Strengths - Weaknesses
31. An important tool in defining the scope of work and developing estimates. Decomposes the project scope into smaller and smaller pieces - creating a hierarchy of work.
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
Emotional and Cognitive
Business Rule
Throw-away Prototype
32. 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
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving - Behavioral Characteristics - Business Knowledge - Communication Skills - Interaction Skills - Software Application
Rolling Wave
Timeboxing
Requirements (Traced)
33. What are the inputs for the task - Prepare Requirements Package?
Verify Requirements
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements - Requirements Structure
Observation
Data Dictionary
34. 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
Unique Number - Activity Description - Assumptions - Dependencies - Milestones
Activity List
Scenario
35. Confidence in the decision analysis process that a decision is correct - new information or alternative that cause a decision to be revisited are new and not simply overlooked - decisions are effective in addressing underlying problem - impact of unc
Business Principles & Practices
Decision Making
Vertical Prototype
Opportunity Cost
36. 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.
Plan Business Analysis Approach - Conduct Stakeholder Analysis - Plan Business Analysis Activities - Plan Business Analysis Communication - Plan Requirements Management Process - Manage BA Performance
Elicitation Results
Organize Requirements
Structured Walkthrough
37. Describes all the possible outcomes of an attempt to accomplish a particular goal that the solution will support.
Use Case
Brainstorming
Facilitation
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
38. What is the output of the task Conduct Elicitation Activity?
Elicitation Results
Acceptance & Evaluation Technique
Solution Scope Definition - Implementation Approach - Dependencies
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
39. 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.
Elimination of Dominated Alternative - Ranking Objects on a Similar Scale
Activity List
Structural Rules
Problem Solving
40. Techniques used in the task Plan Requirements Management Process.
Delphi Estimation
Organize Requirements
Glossary
Decision Analysis - Problem Tacking - Risk Analysis
41. Communicated Requirements mean what to stakeholders?
That they understand them and the current state the requirements are in
Relationships - Impact Analysis - Configuration Management System
Data Modeling
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements (Stated) - Solution Scope
42. What are the elements of Communication Skills?
A statement of the needs of a particular stakeholder or class of stakeholders
Oral Communications - Teaching - Written Communication
To record the conflict in the Requirements Issues Log.
Strengths - Weaknesses
43. Defines the key terms and data relevant to a business domain.
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Problem Tracking - Structured Walkthrough - Checklists
Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution (Designed) - Solution Scope
Data Dictionary & Glossary
Benefits - Costs - Risk Assessment - Results Measurement
44. A good indicator has 5 characteristics:
Clear - Relevant - Economical - Adequate - Quantifiable
Assumptions & Constraints - Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution Options
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements - Requirements Structure
A statement of the needs of a particular stakeholder or class of stakeholders
45. What are the inputs to the task - Prioritize Requirements?
Stakeholder Matrix
Assess Proposed Solution - Allocate Requirements - Assess Organizational Readiness - Define Transition Requirements - Validate Solution - Evaluate Solution Performance
Vertical Prototype
Business Case - Business Need - Requirements - Requirements Management Plan - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
46. Elements of a Requirements Management Plan include?
Relationships - Impact Analysis - Configuration Management System
Clear - Relevant - Economical - Adequate - Quantifiable
System
Requirements (Validated)
47. What stakeholder receives noticeable negative impact if information is incorrectly transferred from the old to new solution?
Three-point Estimation
Business Analysis Plan
Implementation SME
Customer
48. 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.
Analogous Estimation
Business Analysis Performance Metrics - Business Analysis Plan - Organization Performance Standards - Requirements Management Plan
Relationship to Time - Relationship to Task Completion - Relationship to Contracts - Relationships to Formal and Informal Authority
Cognitive Conflict
49. What are the inputs to the task - Allocate Resources?
Assumptions & Constraints
Requirements - Requirements Management Plan
Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution (Designed) - Solution Scope
Prototyping
50. According to the BABOK 2.0 - what type of analysis generates STAKEHOLDER requirements?
Requirements Analysis
Name - Value/Meanings - Description
Business Analysis Process Assets
Observation