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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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1. When a requirement is changed - the BA can easily review all the related requirements and software components in order to understand the impact of the change.
Impact Analysis
Organizational Readiness Assessment - Requirements (Stated) - Solution (Deployed) - Solution (Designed)
Acceptance & Evaluation Technique
Benchmarking

2. Name some commonly used financial valuation techniques.
Influence on the project - organizational - project health and other stakeholders
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Problem Tracking - Root Cause Analysis
Business Policy
Discounted Cash Flow - Net Present Value - Internal Rate of Return - Average Rate of Return - Pay Back Period - Cost-Benefit Analysis

3. Rules that the organization chooses to enforce as a matter of policy. They are intended to guide the actions of people working within the organization. They may oblige people to take certain actions - prevent people from taking actions - or prescribe
Operative Rules
Transition Requirements
Business Analysis Approach
Key Performance Indicator (KPI )

4. What are the inputs to the task Manage Business Analysis Performance?
Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis
Enterprise Analysis
Business Analysis Performance Metrics - Business Analysis Plan - Organization Performance Standards - Requirements Management Plan
Unique Number - Activity Description - Assumptions - Dependencies - Milestones

5. What are the techniques used in the task Manage Solution Scope & Requirements?
Discounted Cash Flow - Net Present Value - Internal Rate of Return - Average Rate of Return - Pay Back Period - Cost-Benefit Analysis
Requirements Structure
Problem Tracking - Baselining - Signoff
Ongoing Cost versus Initial Investment - Opportunity Costs - Necessity - Sunk Costs

6. What are the inputs to the task Manage Requirements Traceability?
Solution Assessment & Validation
Requirements - Requirements Management Plan
Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution (Designed) - Solution Scope
Assumptions & Constraints - Required Capabilities - Solution Approach

7. What are the inputs to the task Conduct Elicitation Activity?
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements Management Plan - Scheduled Resources - Solution Scope & Business Case - Supporting Materials
Structured Walkthrough
Underlying Competencies
Decision Analysis

8. Communication of requirements does what for stakeholders?
Brings them to a Communication on understanding
Problem or Vision Statement
Prioritize Requirements - Organize Requirements - Specify & Model Requirements - Define Assumptions & Constraints - Verify Requirements - Validate Requirements
Allocate Requirements

9. What are the inputs to the task - Determine Solution Approach?
Throw-away Prototype
User Classes - Profiles or Roles; Concepts & Relationships - Events - Processes - Rules
Verify Requirements
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Required Capabilities

10. What is the output of the task - Define Assumptions & Constraints?
Assumptions & Constraints
Key Performance Indicator (KPI )
Activity List
Requirements Package

11. Two techniques used in Root Cause Analysis?
Organizational Readiness Assessment
Repository - Traceability - Requirement Attributes - Prioritization Process - Change Management - Tailoring the Requirements Management Process
Document Elicitation Results task
Fishbone Diagram - Five Whys

12. 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.
Organization Modeling
Requirements Documentation - Requirements for Vendor Selection
Analogous Estimation
Enterprise Analysis - often the starting point for initiating a new project

13. What are the inputs to the task - Validate Solution?
Metrics & KPIs
Cohesive - Complete - Consistent - Correct - Feasible - Modifiable - Unambiguous - Testable
Goals
Solution (Constructed) - Requirements (Prioritized and Validated)

14. Set of requirements that will be used to choose between multiple solutions.
Define Business Case
Reliability - Validity - Timeliness
Assess Proposed Solution - Allocate Requirements - Assess Organizational Readiness - Define Transition Requirements - Validate Solution - Evaluate Solution Performance
Evaluation Criteria

15. What is the output of the task Conduct Stakeholder Analysis?
Metrics & KPIs
Requirements (Prioritized)
Requirements Structure
Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities

16. How is the Operational Support stakeholder utilized in the Evaluate Solution Performance task?
Functional Decomposition - Interface Analysis - Scope Modeling - User Stories - Problem or Vision Statement
This person will be involved in monitoring the performance and effectiveness of a solution or its components.
Business Principals
Requirements Structure

17. 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
Data Modeling
Acceptance Criteria
Decision Making
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Decision Analysis - Vendor Assessment

18. What are the inputs to the task - Prioritize Requirements?
Interviews
Data - Ongoing Work - Organizational Change
Decision Analysis - Focus Groups - Observation - Survey/Questionnaire
Business Case - Business Need - Requirements - Requirements Management Plan - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities

19. 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 Knowledge
Data - Ongoing Work - Organizational Change
Solution Scope
Key Performance Indicator (KPI )

20. To identify and manage areas of uncertainty that can impact an initiative - solution - or organization.
Reporting
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Business Rules Analysis - Focus Groups - Functional Decomposition - Root Cause Analysis
Risk Analysis
Delphi Estimation

21. 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.
Business Rules Analysis
Expert Judgment
Business Need
Requirements Management & Communication

22. Describes the effect a new solution will have on an organization and whether the organization is prepared for the organizational change the solution implementation will cause.
Assess Organization Readiness
Allocate Requirements
Horizontal Prototype
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Required Capabilities

23. What are the likely sources of transition requirements?
Clear - Relevant - Economical - Adequate - Quantifiable
Metrics & KPIs
Data - Ongoing Work - Organizational Change
Requirements Structure

24. What is the output of the task Plan Requirements Management Process?
Opportunity Cost
Decision Analysis - Process Modeling - Structured Walkthrough
Stakeholder Concerns
Requirements Management Plan

25. Elicitation Results are the inputs for the ____________
Business Rule
Survey/Questionnaire
Document Elicitation Results task
Requirements Management Plan - Solution Scope - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities - Stakeholder/Solution or Transition Requirements (Communicated or Traced)

26. Who is the primary stakeholder in the Define Business Case task?
Prioritize Requirements - Organize Requirements - Specify & Model Requirements - Define Assumptions & Constraints - Verify Requirements - Validate Requirements
Oral Communications - Teaching - Written Communication
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements
The Sponsor

27. What are the inputs for the task Confirm Elicitation Results?
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets
Requirements (Stated - Unconfirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Unconfirmed)
Business Need - Expert Judgment - Organizational Process Assets
Requirements Structure

28. What are the characteristics of Interaction Skills?
Plan Business Analysis Approach - Conduct Stakeholder Analysis - Plan Business Analysis Activities - Plan Business Analysis Communication - Plan Requirements Management Process - Manage BA Performance
Facilitation & Negotiation - Leadership & Influencing - Teamwork
Emotional and Cognitive
Solution Scope

29. What are the techniques used in the task - Validate Requirements?
Formal requirements presentation to stakeholders
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements - Requirements Structure
Business Need
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Metrics & KPIs - Prototyping - Risk Analysis - Structured Walkthrough

30. What are the techniques used in the task - Define Assumptions & Constraints?
Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis
Requirements (Validated)
Scope Modeling
Problem Solving

31. Revised process and templates for BA deliverables should be analyzed and documented and lessons learned should be recorded.
Business Analysis Process Assets
Opportunity Cost
Confirm Elicitation Results
Ethics - Trustworthiness - Personal Organization

32. What are the inputs to the task - Allocate Resources?
Structured Walkthrough
User Story
Business Principles & Practices
Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution (Designed) - Solution Scope

33. Issues that may influence the replacement or elimination decision of a system include:
Repository - Traceability - Requirement Attributes - Prioritization Process - Change Management - Tailoring the Requirements Management Process
Trustworthiness
Ongoing Cost versus Initial Investment - Opportunity Costs - Necessity - Sunk Costs
System

34. What are the inputs for the task - Maintain Requirements for Re-use?
Requirements Analysis
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements
Business Analysis Plan
Budgeting

35. A requirement that does not deliver direct or indirect value to a stakeholder is a strong candidate for what?
Requirements (Stated - Unconfirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Unconfirmed)
Functions - Markets - Matrix
Elimination
Analogous Estimation

36. 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.
Implementation Approach
Industry Knowledge
Solution Approach
Compliance with regulatory or other standards

37. What are the Primitive Data Elements?
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Modeling - Organization Modeling - Data Modeling
Name - Aliases - Values/Meanings - Description
Automate or Simplify Work - Improve Access to Information - Reduce Complexity of Interfaces - Increase Consistency of Behavior - Eliminate Redundancy
Data Modeling

38. Business rules require a defined glossary of terms and an understanding of the relationships between them - this is known as:
Assumptions & Constraints
Term and Fact Model
Dependencies
Requirements Workshop - Structured Walkthrough

39. Decisions are made with the interest of all stakeholders considered - reasons for a decision are cleared articulated - prompt and full disclosure of conflicts of interest - honesty regarding one's abilities and the performance of one's work.
Ethics
Interviews - Lessons Learned Process - Metrics and KPIs - Problem Tracking - Process Modeling - Root Cause Analysis - Survey/Questionnaire - Variance Analysis
Evaluate Solution Performance
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities

40. 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
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Decision Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Trustworthiness
Stakeholder Matrix - Onion Diagram

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.
Risk - assumptions - constraints - etc.
Creative Thinking - Decision Making - Learning - Problem Solving - Systems Thinking
Underlying Competencies
Business Value - Business or Technical Risk - Implementation Difficulty - Likelihood of Success - Regulatory or Policy Compliance - Relationship to Other Requirements - Stakeholder Agreement - Urgency

42. What describes how - when and why the business analyst will work with stakeholders?
User Story
The Business Analysis Communication Plan
Focus Group
Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis

43. Two effective trade-off methods.
Decision Analysis - Focus Groups - Observation - Survey/Questionnaire
Elimination of Dominated Alternative - Ranking Objects on a Similar Scale
Use Case
Functional Decomposition - Interface Analysis - Scope Modeling - User Stories - Problem or Vision Statement

44. When a conflict arises between stakeholders on one or more documented requirements - the first thing that needs to take place is what?
Survey/Questionnaire
To record the conflict in the Requirements Issues Log.
Industry Knowledge
Requirements Workshop - Structured Walkthrough

45. What are the techniques used in the task - Validate Solution?
Visual Learner - Auditory Learner - Kinesthetic Learner
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Problem Tracking - Root Cause Analysis
Decision Analysis - Estimation - Metrics & KPIs - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Stakeholder Concerns

46. 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.
Define Business Case
Requirements Management Plan - Solution Scope - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities - Stakeholder/Solution or Transition Requirements (Communicated or Traced)
Validate Requirements
Functional Decomposition

47. A good indicator has 5 characteristics:
Assumptions & Constraints - Business Need - Solution Scope - Stakeholder Concerns
Clear - Relevant - Economical - Adequate - Quantifiable
Interface Analysis
Risk - assumptions - constraints - etc.

48. What are the inputs to the task - Define Business Case?
Assumptions & Constraints - Business Need - Solution Scope - Stakeholder Concerns
Necessity - Effort - Subset - Cover - Value
Business Principles & Practices
SWOT Analysis

49. What are the tasks of the Elicitation Knowledge Area?
Relationship to Time - Relationship to Task Completion - Relationship to Contracts - Relationships to Formal and Informal Authority
Problem Solving
Business Need - Expert Judgment - Organizational Process Assets
Prepare for Elicitation - Conduct Elicitation Activity - Document Elicitation Results - Confirm Elicitation Results

50. What are the techniques used in the task - Assess Proposed Solution?
Formal requirements presentation to stakeholders
Reliability - Performance Efficiency - Operability - Security - Compatibility - Maintainability - Transferability
Problem Tracking
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Decision Analysis - Vendor Assessment