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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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1. What techniques are used in the task - Prepare Requirements Package?
Enterprise Analysis - often the starting point for initiating a new project
Use Case
Requirements Documentation - Requirements for Vendor Selection
Requirements Package

2. A non-actionable directive that supports a business goal.
Business Policy
Requirements (Stated) - Requirements Structure
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Problem Tracking - Structured Walkthrough - Checklists
Allocate Requirements

3. The skill of moderating discussions among a group or enable all participants to effectively articulate their views on a topic under discussion and to further ensure that participants in the discussion are able to recognize and appreciate the differin
Requirements (Stated) - Stakeholder Concerns
Expert Judgment
Organizational Knowledge
Facilitation

4. Name some commonly used financial valuation techniques.
Stakeholder Matrix - Onion Diagram
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Organizational Process Assets
Data Dictionary & Glossary - Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshops - Survey/Questionnaire
Discounted Cash Flow - Net Present Value - Internal Rate of Return - Average Rate of Return - Pay Back Period - Cost-Benefit Analysis

5. What are the inputs to the task - Assess Capability Gaps?
Discounted Cash Flow - Net Present Value - Internal Rate of Return - Average Rate of Return - Pay Back Period - Cost-Benefit Analysis
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Solution Performance Assessment
Validate Solution
Business Policy

6. What are the techniques used in the task - Determine Solution Approach?
Requirements (Stated) - Stakeholder Concerns
Advantages of a Data Dictionary & Glossary
Cultural Assessment - Operational or Technical Assessment - Stakeholder Impact Analysis
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Decision Analysis - Estimation - SWOT Analysis - Feasibility Analysis

7. What is the output of the task - Manage Requirements Traceability?
Determine the Process - Who will Authorize Changes - Impact Analysis - Wording of the Request - Coordinate Prioritization of Change
Requirements (Traced)
Decision Making
Evaluation

8. What are the techniques for the task - Verify Requirements?
Document Elicitation Results task
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Problem Tracking - Structured Walkthrough - Checklists
Business Case
Evaluate Solution Performance

9. A means to elicit ideas and attitudes about a specific product - service or opportunity in an interactive group environment. The participants share their impressions - preferences and needs - guided by a moderator. - Effective for learning people's a
Focus Group
Organizational Readiness Assessment - Requirements (Stated) - Solution (Deployed) - Solution (Designed)
Primary stakeholders in the Organize Requirements task
Repository - Traceability - Requirement Attributes - Prioritization Process - Change Management - Tailoring the Requirements Management Process

10. Two techniques used in Root Cause Analysis?
Functions - Markets - Matrix
Decision Analysis - Problem Tacking - Risk Analysis
Fishbone Diagram - Five Whys
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Business Rules Analysis - Decision Analysis - Functional Decomposition - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases

11. Technique involving refinement of estimates. Estimate the details for activities in the current iteration or increment and provide an analogous estimate for the entire scope of work. As the end of the iteration approaches - estimates for the next ite
Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution (Designed) - Solution Scope
Rolling Wave
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
Vendor Assessment

12. A continuous process of collecting data to determine how well a solution has been implemented compared to expected results.
Industry Knowledge
Monitoring
Metrics & KPIs
Horizontal Prototype

13. Models a shallow - and possibly wide view of the system's functionality. It typically does not have any business logic running behind the visualization.
Requirements Management Plan
Horizontal Prototype
Elimination of Dominated Alternative - Ranking Objects on a Similar Scale
Budgeting

14. What is the output of the task - Define Business Case?
Expert Judgment
Business Case
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements
Assumptions & Constraints - Required Capabilities - Solution Approach

15. 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.
Glossary
Decision Analysis
Necessity - Effort - Subset - Cover - Value
Specific - Measurable - Achievable - Relevant - Time-bound Objectives must be SMART.

16. What factors guide technique selection?
Business Domain - Corporate Culture & Environment - Skills of the Analyst - Requirement Deliverable
Validate Requirements
Emotional and Cognitive
Unique Number - Activity Description - Assumptions - Dependencies - Milestones

17. A diagram indicating how involved the stakeholder is with the solution.
Onion Diagram
Perform tailoring exercises
Acceptance - Transfer - Avoidance - Mitigation
Decision Analysis - Risk Analysis - MoSCoW Analysis - Timeboxing/Budgeting - Voting

18. Benefits that could have been achieved with an alternative investment rather than this one.
Requirements Structure
Communicated Requirements
Organize Requirements
Opportunity Cost

19. Characteristics that are common to all organizations with a similar purpose and structure - whether or not the are in the same industry.
Business Principals
All
Interviews
Requirements Analysis

20. The decomposition of activities and tasks creates?
Evaluate Solution Performance
Assess Proposed Solution - Allocate Requirements - Assess Organizational Readiness - Define Transition Requirements - Validate Solution - Evaluate Solution Performance
Activity List
Business Domain - Corporate Culture & Environment - Skills of the Analyst - Requirement Deliverable

21. What are the tasks in the knowledge area - Requirements Analysis?
Throw-away Prototype
Requirements - Requirements Management Plan
Prioritize Requirements - Organize Requirements - Specify & Model Requirements - Define Assumptions & Constraints - Verify Requirements - Validate Requirements
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements (Stated) - Solution Scope

22. What are the inputs to the Plan Business Analysis Approach?
Functions - Markets - Matrix
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Metrics & KPIs - Prototyping - Risk Analysis - Structured Walkthrough
Coverage Matrix - Table or spreadsheet used to manage tracing.
Business Need - Expert Judgment - Organizational Process Assets

23. What is the output of the task - Specify & Model Requirements?
Facilitation & Negotiation - Leadership & Influencing - Teamwork
Validate Solution
Business Policy
Requirements (Analyzed)

24. A means to elicit requirements by studying available documentation on existing and comparable solutions and identifying relevant information. - Not starting from a blank page.- Leveraging existing materials to discover and/or confirm requirements. -
Bottom-up Estimation
Relationship to Time - Relationship to Task Completion - Relationship to Contracts - Relationships to Formal and Informal Authority
Assumptions & Constraints - Required Capabilities - Solution Approach
Document Analysis

25. What are the inputs to the task - Define Assumption & Constraints?
Stakeholder Concerns
Solution Assessment & Validation
Ethics
Functional Decomposition - Interface Analysis - Scope Modeling - User Stories - Problem or Vision Statement

26. This knowledge area describes the problem definition and analysis - business case development - feasibility studies and the definition of solution scope.
Business Analysis Plan
Brainstorming
Observation
Enterprise Analysis

27. This prototype extends the initial interface requirements into a fully functioning system and requires a specialized prototyping tool or language.
Identified Defects - Mitigating Actions - Solution Validation Assessment
Evolutionary or Functional Prototype
SWOT Analysis
Decision Analysis

28. What are the inputs to the task - Define Business Case?
Assumptions & Constraints - Business Need - Solution Scope - Stakeholder Concerns
Solution Scope
Problem Tracking
Validate Solution

29. What are the techniques used in the task Confirm Elicitation Results?
Evaluation
Opportunity Cost
Interviews - Observation
Reliability - Performance Efficiency - Operability - Security - Compatibility - Maintainability - Transferability

30. 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
Risk - assumptions - constraints - etc.
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Decision Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Automate or Simplify Work - Improve Access to Information - Reduce Complexity of Interfaces - Increase Consistency of Behavior - Eliminate Redundancy
Operative Rules

31. What are the inputs for the task Confirm Elicitation Results?
Requirements (Stated - Unconfirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Unconfirmed)
Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution (Designed) - Solution Scope
Requirements Management Plan
Identified Defects - Mitigating Actions - Solution Validation Assessment

32. Agreement by stakeholders that analysis models effectively and completely describe the domain - identification of related problems or issues from multiple areas in the domain - rapid absorption of new information or new domain.
Discounted Cash Flow - Net Present Value - Internal Rate of Return - Average Rate of Return - Pay Back Period - Cost-Benefit Analysis
Learning
Sequence Diagrams
Systems Thinking

33. Name the 2 types of Software categories that assist in BA productivity.
Relationships - Impact Analysis - Configuration Management System
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Models - Focus Groups - Interviews - Survey/Questionnaire - Organizational Modeling - Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Force Field Analysis
General Purpose Applications & Specialized Applications
SWOT Analysis

34. 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 -
Assess Proposed Solution - Allocate Requirements - Assess Organizational Readiness - Define Transition Requirements - Validate Solution - Evaluate Solution Performance
Reliability - Validity - Timeliness
Automate or Simplify Work - Improve Access to Information - Reduce Complexity of Interfaces - Increase Consistency of Behavior - Eliminate Redundancy
Share - Enhance - Exploit

35. The objective of this technique is to determine how companies achieve their superior performance levels and use that information to design projects to improve operations of the enterprise.
Focus Group
Term and Fact Model
Automate or Simplify Work - Improve Access to Information - Reduce Complexity of Interfaces - Increase Consistency of Behavior - Eliminate Redundancy
Benchmarking

36. Uses history as a basis for estimating. It is similar to analogous estimation - but is used not only for the top-down estimate - but for the detailed tasks as well.
Responsible - Accountable - Consulted - Informed
Strengths - Weaknesses
Requirements (Approved)
Historic Analysis

37. What are the techniques used in the task Conduct Elicitation Activity?
Term and Fact Model
Perform tailoring exercises
Data Dictionary
Data Dictionary & Glossary - Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshops - Survey/Questionnaire

38. What are the inputs of the task Plan Business Analysis Communication?
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Business Rules Analysis - Decision Analysis - Functional Decomposition - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Requirements Structure
Oral Communications - Teaching - Written Communication

39. What is the output of the task Conduct Elicitation Activity?
Evaluate Solution Performance
MoSCoW Analysis
Elicitation Results
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire

40. What are the techniques used in the task - Organize Requirements?
Impact Analysis
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving
Coverage Matrix - Table or spreadsheet used to manage tracing.
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Data Modeling - Functional Decomposition - Organizational Modeling - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases - Scope Modeling - User Stories

41. What are the Cultural diversity issues that should be taken into account when planning communication?
Relationship to Time - Relationship to Task Completion - Relationship to Contracts - Relationships to Formal and Informal Authority
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Data Modeling - Functional Decomposition - Organizational Modeling - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases - Scope Modeling - User Stories
Implementation SME
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets

42. What is the output of the task - Determine Solution Approach?
Fishbone Diagram - Five Whys
Solution Approach
Ethics - Trustworthiness - Personal Organization
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Business Rules Analysis - Decision Analysis - Functional Decomposition - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases

43. What is the output of the task Document Elicitation Results?
Data Flow Diagrams
Determine the Process - Who will Authorize Changes - Impact Analysis - Wording of the Request - Coordinate Prioritization of Change
Requirements (Stated) - Stakeholder Concerns
Communicated Requirements

44. What are the inputs to the task - Assess Proposed Solution?
Assumptions & Constraints - Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution Options
Requirements Management & Communication
Requirements (Verified)
Requirements Workshop - Structured Walkthrough

45. Maps the level of stakeholder influence and interest in a project.
Requirements - Requirements Management Plan
Requirements (Verified)
Data Dictionary
Stakeholder Matrix

46. 7 knowledge areas of ________ : Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring - Elicitation - Requirements Management & Communication - Enterprise Analysis - Requirements Analysis - Solution Assessment & Validation - Underlying Competencies
BABOK
Solution Performance Assessment
Decision Analysis
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Problem Tracking - Root Cause Analysis

47. Performed to communicate - verify and validate requirements. Is a working session where invited participants review and discuss a set of requirements
Structured Walkthrough
Business Need - Expert Judgment - Organizational Process Assets
Lessons Learned Process
Requirements Workshop - Structured Walkthrough

48. What are stakeholder requirements?
Define Business Need - Access Capability Gaps - Determine Solution Approach - Define Solution Scope - Define Business Case
They describe what a solution must be capable of doing to meet the needs of one or more stakeholder groups
Prioritize Requirements - Organize Requirements - Specify & Model Requirements - Define Assumptions & Constraints - Verify Requirements - Validate Requirements
Throw-away Prototype

49. What are the internal factors in a SWOT Analysis?
Strengths - Weaknesses
Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring
Data Dictionary & Glossary
Ethics

50. What are the elements of Communication Skills?
Enterprise Architecture - Solution Scope - Solution (Designed) - Stakeholder Concerns
Oral Communications - Teaching - Written Communication
Functions - Markets - Matrix
Business Need