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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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1. 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.






2. The process of informing stakeholders of metrics of indicators in specified formats at specified intervals.






3. 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.






4. 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.






5. The minimum set of requirements that must be met in order for a particular solution to be worth implementing.






6. What are the inputs for the task - Maintain Requirements for Re-use?






7. 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






8. A diagram indicating how involved the stakeholder is with the solution.






9. A formal written specification with possible walk-thru - an informal one is possibly verbal or email Communication






10. Combination of expert judgment and history. Individual estimates - sharing the estimates with experts - and having several rounds until consensus is reached. An average of the three estimates is used






11. Useful for ensuring that all stakeholders are in agreement on the format and content of relevant information. Capturing these definitions in a single model ensures that these terms will be used consistently.






12. When a conflict arises between stakeholders on one or more documented requirements - the first thing that needs to take place is what?






13. 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






14. What are some of the key variables used in determining the priority of a requirement?






15. What are the inputs for the task Confirm Elicitation Results?






16. This knowledge area describes the behaviors - knowledge and other characteristics that support the effective performance of a BA.






17. 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.






18. Creates a conceptual model of the work that needs to be completed to deliver the new business solution.






19. What is the output of the task - Communicate Requirements?






20. What is the output of the task - Assess Capability Gaps?






21. 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.






22. Long-term - ongoing and qualitative statements of a state or condition that the organization is seeking to establish and maintain.






23. What is the output of the task - Validate Requirements?






24. Models a deep - and usually narrow slice of the entire system's functionality.






25. Define requirements for capabilities needed to move from an existing solution to a new solution.






26. What is the output of the Plan Business Analysis Approach?






27. Communication of requirements does what for stakeholders?






28. Measures progress towards a strategic goal or objective.






29. 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. -






30. A systematic approach designed to elicit information from a person or group of people in an informal or formal setting by talking to an interviewee - asking relevant questions and documenting the responses.






31. Most optimistic estimate; most pessimistic estimate; most likely estimate






32. What are the techniques used in Plan Business Analysis Activities?






33. What are the techniques used in the task - Communicate Requirements?






34. What is the output of the task - Organize Requirements?






35. An organized structure for the requirements and a documented set of relationships between them. Is used so the analyst and stakeholders know where a specific requirement should be found. Should have a clear implicit scope (clear to the stakeholders w






36. Checklist of characteristics to consider when considering non-functional requirements.






37. What are the inputs for the task Plan Business Analysis Activities?






38. The BA is a stakeholder in ______ business analysis activities.






39. What are the inputs for the task - Prepare Requirements Package?






40. What techniques are used in the task Prepare for Elicitation?






41. What is the output of the task - Define Business Case?






42. When performing root cause analysis as part of the Validate Solution task - what stakeholder may be involved?






43. Strengths - Weaknesses - Opportunities - Threats - A valuable tool to quickly analyze various aspects of the current state of the business process undergoing change.






44. Documents terms unique to a domain.






45. The purpose is to measure the performance of solutions - solution components - and other matters of interest to stakeholders.






46. 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.






47. What is the output of the task Plan Requirements Management Process?






48. What is the output of the task - Assess Organizational Readiness?






49. What are the tasks in Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring?






50. What are the tasks in the knowledge area - Requirements Analysis?