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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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1. This technique shows how information is input - processed - stored and output from a system in a visual representation.






2. What is the output of the task Plan Business Analysis Activities?






3. Define the requirements that must be met in order for a solution to be considered acceptable to key stakeholders.






4. 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.






5. Understanding of the competitive forces that shape an industry - understand the various customer segments that the industry services and the demographic or other characteristics common to that segment.






6. 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.






7. What is the output of the task - Maintain Requirements for Re-use?






8. 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.






9. What are the techniques used in the task - Prioritize Requirements?






10. Communicated Requirements mean what to stakeholders?






11. What techniques are used in the task - Define Solution Scope?






12. Defines the key terms and data relevant to a business domain.






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






14. What are the inputs to the task - Allocate Resources?






15. According to the BABOK 2.0 - what type of analysis generates STAKEHOLDER requirements?






16. What are the techniques used in the task Define Business Need?






17. What are the tasks in the knowledge area - Enterprise Analysis?






18. What are the different types of learning styles?






19. 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






20. What are the classifications used to describe requirements






21. This will impose constraints to the effort to deploy the solution - including relationships that may exist between solution components.






22. This knowledge area describes the problem definition and analysis - business case development - feasibility studies and the definition of solution scope.






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






24. What are the Behavioral Characteristics a BA should exhibit?






25. What are the inputs to the task - Determine Solution Approach?






26. What is the output of the task Conduct Stakeholder Analysis?






27. What are the inputs to the task Manage Requirements Traceability?






28. A non-actionable directive that supports a business goal.






29. What are the inputs to the task Plan Requirements Management Process?






30. What factors guide technique selection?






31. 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.






32. Details user interface requirements and integrates them with other requirements such as use cases - scenarios - data and business rules. Stakeholders often find this to be a concrete means of identifying - describing and validating their interface ne






33. This knowledge area describes how the BA assesses proposed solutions and determines which solution best fits the business need - identifies gaps and shortcomings to solutions and determines necessary workarounds or changes to the solution.






34. What are the strategies for a positive risk?






35. The knowledge area that covers how BAs determine which activities are necessary in order to complete a business analysis effort.






36. Who is the primary stakeholder in the Define Business Case task?






37. Allocate stakeholder and solution requirements among solution components and releases in order to maximize the possible business value given the options and alternatives generated by the design team.






38. Performed to communicate - verify and validate requirements. Is a working session where invited participants review and discuss a set of requirements






39. What is the output of the task Plan Business Analysis Communication?






40. What are the techniques used in the task - Validate Solution?






41. What are the inputs to the task - Assess Capability Gaps?






42. Issues that may influence the replacement or elimination decision of a system include:






43. What are the inputs to the task - Validate Solution?






44. What are the inputs to the task - Specify & Model Requirements?






45. What are the inputs to the task - Communicate Requirements?






46. What techniques are used in the task Manage Requirements Traceability?






47. What are the techniques used in the task Confirm Elicitation Results?






48. What are the techniques used in the task - Assess Organizational Readiness?






49. 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.






50. Means of eliciting information from many people - sometimes anonymously - in a relatively short period of time