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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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1. What are the underlying competencies a BA should possess?
Primary stakeholders in the Organize Requirements task
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving - Behavioral Characteristics - Business Knowledge - Communication Skills - Interaction Skills - Software Application
Assumptions & Constraints - Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution Options
Absolute Reference - Author - Complexity - Ownership - Priority - Risks - Source - Stability - Status - Urgency

2. What knowledge area discusses the business analysis activities necessary to identify a business need - problem or opportunity - define the capture of the solution and justify the investment necessary to deliver the solution.
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Business Rules Analysis - Focus Groups - Functional Decomposition - Root Cause Analysis
Specific - Measurable - Achievable - Relevant - Time-bound Objectives must be SMART.
Responsible - Accountable - Consulted - Informed
Enterprise Analysis - often the starting point for initiating a new project

3. Corrective or preventative measures uncovered while performing a Business Analysis Performance Assessment will result in changes to what plan?
Business Analysis Plan
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Required Capabilities
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
Learning

4. Performed to communicate - verify and validate requirements. Is a working session where invited participants review and discuss a set of requirements
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements
Decision Analysis - Problem Tacking - Risk Analysis
Structured Walkthrough
Strengths - Weaknesses

5. What describes how - when and why the business analyst will work with stakeholders?
Requirements - Requirements Management Plan
Evaluation
Clear - Relevant - Economical - Adequate - Quantifiable
The Business Analysis Communication Plan

6. What should be considered when establishing a Change Management process?
Functional Decomposition
Risk - assumptions - constraints - etc.
Determine the Process - Who will Authorize Changes - Impact Analysis - Wording of the Request - Coordinate Prioritization of Change
Prepare Requirements Package

7. 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.
Requirements Workshop
Benchmarking
Requirements (Prioritized)
Root Cause Analysis

8. Communicated Requirements mean what to stakeholders?
Industry Knowledge
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
Customer
That they understand them and the current state the requirements are in

9. Long-term - ongoing and qualitative statements of a state or condition that the organization is seeking to establish and maintain.
Goals
Advantages of a Data Dictionary & Glossary
Acceptance Criteria
Functions - Markets - Matrix

10. What are the techniques used in the task - Define Assumptions & Constraints?
Onion Diagram
To record the conflict in the Requirements Issues Log.
Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis
Decision Analysis - Problem Tacking - Risk Analysis

11. According to the BABOK 2.0 - what type of analysis generates STAKEHOLDER requirements?
Requirements Analysis
Automate or Simplify Work - Improve Access to Information - Reduce Complexity of Interfaces - Increase Consistency of Behavior - Eliminate Redundancy
Assess Organization Readiness
Influence on the project - organizational - project health and other stakeholders

12. 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. -
Document Analysis
Learning
Determine the Process - Who will Authorize Changes - Impact Analysis - Wording of the Request - Coordinate Prioritization of Change
Customer

13. What are the likely sources of transition requirements?
Scope Modeling
Data - Ongoing Work - Organizational Change
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Required Capabilities
Evolutionary or Functional Prototype

14. Are used to describe the scope of analysis or the scope of a solution. Serve as a basis for defining and delimiting the scope of business analysis and project work. Allow the definition of a "complete" scope—that is - the boundaries of the scope corr
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving - Behavioral Characteristics - Business Knowledge - Communication Skills - Interaction Skills - Software Application
Structural Rules
Scope Modeling
Decision Analysis - Risk Analysis - MoSCoW Analysis - Timeboxing/Budgeting - Voting

15. What are the techniques used in the task - Define Transition Requirements?
Structural Rules
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Modeling - Organization Modeling - Data Modeling
Organize Requirements
Horizontal Prototype

16. 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
Business Domain - Corporate Culture & Environment - Skills of the Analyst - Requirement Deliverable
Root Cause Analysis
Historic Analysis

17. This knowledge area describes the problem definition and analysis - business case development - feasibility studies and the definition of solution scope.
Business Principals
Decision Analysis - Estimation - Metrics & KPIs - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Enterprise Analysis
Acceptance - Transfer - Avoidance - Mitigation

18. What are the strategies for a positive risk?
The Sponsor
Scenarios & Use Cases
Share - Enhance - Exploit
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements (Stated) - Solution Scope

19. A package should contain a consistent - cohesive and coherent set of requirements. This describes the ____________.
Business Domain - Corporate Culture & Environment - Skills of the Analyst - Requirement Deliverable
Cognitive Conflict
Decision Analysis
Requirements Structure

20. What techniques are used in the task Prepare for Elicitation?
Structured Walkthrough
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Assumptions & Constraints - Required Capabilities - Solution Approach
Business Requirements - Stakeholder Requirements - Solution Requirements - Transition Requirements

21. What techniques are used in the task - Prepare Requirements Package?
Requirements (Stated - Unconfirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Unconfirmed)
Requirements (Approved)
Requirements Documentation - Requirements for Vendor Selection
Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities

22. What is the output of the task Plan Business Analysis Activities?
Structural Rules
Data Modeling
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 Plan

23. What are the techniques used in the task - Validate Solution?
Elicitation Results
Decision Analysis - Risk Analysis - MoSCoW Analysis - Timeboxing/Budgeting - Voting
Prepare Requirements Package
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Problem Tracking - Root Cause Analysis

24. This knowledge area describes the tasks that are performed in order to ensure that solutions meet the business need and to facilitate successful implementation.
Requirements (Allocated)
Allocate Requirements
Solution Assessment & Validation
Scope Modeling

25. The minimum set of requirements that must be met in order for a particular solution to be worth implementing.
Organizational Readiness Assessment
Responsible - Accountable - Consulted - Informed
Data Modeling
Acceptance Criteria

26. What are stakeholder requirements?
Conduct Elicitation Activity
Acceptance - Transfer - Avoidance - Mitigation
They describe what a solution must be capable of doing to meet the needs of one or more stakeholder groups
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Data Modeling - Functional Decomposition - Organizational Modeling - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases - Scope Modeling - User Stories

27. What is the output of the task - Assess Proposed Solution?
Glossary
Decision Analysis
Assessment of Proposed Solution
Benefits - Costs - Risk Assessment - Results Measurement

28. 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.
Data Modeling
Organization Modeling
Onion Diagram
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Modeling - Organization Modeling - Data Modeling

29. What are the inputs of the task Plan Business Analysis Communication?
Elimination
Requirements Analysis
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Scenario

30. What are the elements of the task - Define Solution Scope?
Solution Scope Definition - Implementation Approach - Dependencies
MoSCoW Analysis
Interviews - Observation
Influence on the project - organizational - project health and other stakeholders

31. 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.
Creative Thinking - Decision Making - Learning - Problem Solving - Systems Thinking
Use Case
Unique Number - Activity Description - Assumptions - Dependencies - Milestones
Prepare Requirements Package

32. What are the inputs to the task - Assess Capability Gaps?
Risk - assumptions - constraints - etc.
Business Need - Expert Judgment - Organizational Process Assets
Focus Group
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Solution Performance Assessment

33. What is the output of the task - Allocate Resources?
Solution Scope Definition - Implementation Approach - Dependencies
Requirements (Allocated)
Business Value - Business or Technical Risk - Implementation Difficulty - Likelihood of Success - Regulatory or Policy Compliance - Relationship to Other Requirements - Stakeholder Agreement - Urgency
Business Case; Stakeholder - Solution or Transition Requirements (Verified)

34. Investigating how a solution is actually used after it is deployed and assessing the effect it has had - both positive and negative.
Evaluate Solution Performance
Opportunity Cost
Prioritize Requirements - Organize Requirements - Specify & Model Requirements - Define Assumptions & Constraints - Verify Requirements - Validate Requirements
Business Domain - Corporate Culture & Environment - Skills of the Analyst - Requirement Deliverable

35. Strengths - Weaknesses - Opportunities - Threats - A valuable tool to quickly analyze various aspects of the current state of the business process undergoing change.
SWOT Analysis
Decision Analysis - Process Modeling - Structured Walkthrough
Acceptance & Evaluation Technique
Reporting

36. What are the inputs for the task Confirm Elicitation Results?
Reliability - Performance Efficiency - Operability - Security - Compatibility - Maintainability - Transferability
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Modeling - Organization Modeling - Data Modeling
Requirements (Stated - Unconfirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Unconfirmed)
Assessment of Proposed Solution

37. What are the techniques used in the task Conduct Elicitation Activity?
To record the conflict in the Requirements Issues Log.
Data Dictionary & Glossary - Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshops - Survey/Questionnaire
Solution Approach
Enterprise Analysis

38. Two techniques used in Root Cause Analysis?
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements (Stated) - Solution Scope
Solution Assessment & Validation
Fishbone Diagram - Five Whys
Business Case

39. Benefits that could have been achieved with an alternative investment rather than this one.
Necessity - Effort - Subset - Cover - Value
Opportunity Cost
Lessons Learned Process
That they understand them and the current state the requirements are in

40. What are the inputs to the task - Determine Solution Approach?
Ethics - Trustworthiness - Personal Organization
Data Flow Diagrams
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Modeling - Organization Modeling - Data Modeling
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Required Capabilities

41. When performing root cause analysis as part of the Validate Solution task - what stakeholder may be involved?
State Diagrams
Implementation SME
Visual Learner - Auditory Learner - Kinesthetic Learner
Specific - Measurable - Achievable - Relevant - Time-bound Objectives must be SMART.

42. Divides requirements into 4 categories - Must - Should - Could - Won't
Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis
Decision Making
Repository - Traceability - Requirement Attributes - Prioritization Process - Change Management - Tailoring the Requirements Management Process
MoSCoW Analysis

43. What techniques are used in the task - Define Solution Scope?
Business Requirements - Stakeholder Requirements - Solution Requirements - Transition Requirements
Functional Decomposition - Interface Analysis - Scope Modeling - User Stories - Problem or Vision Statement
Functional Decomposition
Requirements Management & Communication

44. What are the inputs to the task Manage Business Analysis Performance?
Business Analysis Performance Metrics - Business Analysis Plan - Organization Performance Standards - Requirements Management Plan
Ongoing Cost versus Initial Investment - Opportunity Costs - Necessity - Sunk Costs
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
Document Analysis

45. What are the elements of Communication Skills?
Budgeting
Scope Modeling
Oral Communications - Teaching - Written Communication
Business Goals & Objectives - Requirements (Stated)

46. What is the output of the task - Define Transition Requirements?
Repository - Traceability - Requirement Attributes - Prioritization Process - Change Management - Tailoring the Requirements Management Process
Elicitation
Business Goals & Objectives - Requirements (Stated)
Transition Requirements

47. List 3 possible forms of a requirements packages.
Enterprise Architecture - Solution Scope - Solution (Designed) - Stakeholder Concerns
Non-functional Requirements Analysis
Formal Documentation - Presentation - Model
Organizational Readiness Assessment

48. What are the techniques used in Plan Business Analysis Approach?
Emotional and Cognitive
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Problem Tracking - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Decision Analysis - Process Modeling - Structured Walkthrough
Requirements Management & Communication

49. 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
Facilitation
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
Sequences - Repetitions - Optional Elements
MoSCoW Analysis

50. What are the techniques used in the task - Define Business Case?
Decision Analysis - Estimation - Metrics & KPIs - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Vendor Assessment
This person will be involved in monitoring the performance and effectiveness of a solution or its components.
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Modeling - Organization Modeling - Data Modeling
Data Dictionary & Glossary - Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshops - Survey/Questionnaire