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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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1. What are the techniques used in the task - Communicate Requirements?
Verify Requirements
Ongoing Cost versus Initial Investment - Opportunity Costs - Necessity - Sunk Costs
The Business Analysis Communication Plan
Requirements Workshop - Structured Walkthrough

2. What is the output of the task Conduct Elicitation Activity?
Evolutionary or Functional Prototype
Requirements Management Plan
Required Capabilities
Elicitation Results

3. Investigating how a solution is actually used after it is deployed and assessing the effect it has had - both positive and negative.
Industry Knowledge
Evaluate Solution Performance
Survey/Questionnaire
Requirements Structure

4. 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.
Risk Analysis
Implementation Approach
Acceptance - Transfer - Avoidance - Mitigation
Interviews

5. Means of eliciting information from many people - sometimes anonymously - in a relatively short period of time
Scenario
Transition Requirements
Survey/Questionnaire
System

6. What are some of the key variables used in determining the priority of a requirement?
Business Value - Business or Technical Risk - Implementation Difficulty - Likelihood of Success - Regulatory or Policy Compliance - Relationship to Other Requirements - Stakeholder Agreement - Urgency
Acceptance Criteria
General Purpose Applications & Specialized Applications
Visual Learner - Auditory Learner - Kinesthetic Learner

7. Define requirements for capabilities needed to move from an existing solution to a new solution.
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving
Formal Documentation - Presentation - Model
Define Transitional Requirements
Primary stakeholders in the Organize Requirements task

8. What describes how - when and why the business analyst will work with stakeholders?
Underlying Competencies
The Business Analysis Communication Plan
Decision Analysis - Process Modeling - Structured Walkthrough
Requirements (Verified)

9. What techniques are used in the task Prepare for Elicitation?
Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Emotional and Cognitive
Evolutionary or Functional Prototype

10. 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.
Opportunity Cost
Interviews
Requirements Package
Stakeholder Concerns

11. 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.
Solution Assessment & Validation
Brainstorming
Allocate Requirements
Ethics - Trustworthiness - Personal Organization

12. What is the output of the task Prepare for Elicitation?
Scheduled Resources - Supporting Materials
Organization Modeling
Use Case
Identified Defects - Mitigating Actions - Solution Validation Assessment

13. What factors guide technique selection?
Three-point Estimation
Business Domain - Corporate Culture & Environment - Skills of the Analyst - Requirement Deliverable
Solution Assessment & Validation
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire

14. Name the 2 types of Software categories that assist in BA productivity.
Enterprise Architecture - Solution Scope - Solution (Designed) - Stakeholder Concerns
General Purpose Applications & Specialized Applications
Cognitive Conflict
Business Policy

15. Used to describe the roles - responsibilities and reporting structures that exist within an organization and to align those structures with the organization's goals.
Decision Making
Organization Modeling
User Classes - Profiles or Roles; Concepts & Relationships - Events - Processes - Rules
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements

16. Measures progress towards a strategic goal or objective.
Risk - assumptions - constraints - etc.
Horizontal Prototype
Communicated Requirements
Key Performance Indicator (KPI )

17. An excellent way to foster creative thinking about a problem. The goal is to produce numerous new ideas and to derive themes for further analysis. - Ability to elicit many ideas in a short time period. - - Non-judgmental environment enables creative
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Problem or Vision Statement
Define Business Case
Brainstorming

18. 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.
Data - Ongoing Work - Organizational Change
Validate Requirements
Requirements (Validated)
Business Domain - Corporate Culture & Environment - Skills of the Analyst - Requirement Deliverable

19. What are the inputs for the task - Prepare Requirements Package?
Benchmarking
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements - Requirements Structure
Requirements (Stated) - Stakeholder Concerns
Structural Rules

20. What are the elements of the task - Define Solution Scope?
Expert Judgment
Solution Scope Definition - Implementation Approach - Dependencies
Requirements Structure
Cognitive Conflict

21. What does SMART stand for?
Assumptions & Constraints - Required Capabilities - Solution Approach
Solution Knowledge
Impact Analysis
Specific - Measurable - Achievable - Relevant - Time-bound Objectives must be SMART.

22. Use of parameters - multiplied by the number of hours. (COCOMO II - Function Point Counting - Use Case Points - and Story Points)
Decision Analysis
Formal requirements presentation to stakeholders
Parametric Estimation
Bottom-up Estimation

23. The purpose is to describe the required qualities of a system - such as its usability and performance characteristics.
Non-functional Requirements Analysis
Requirements Management Plan - Solution Scope - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities - Stakeholder/Solution or Transition Requirements (Communicated or Traced)
Description - Raised by - Date Identified - Impact - Priority - Need by Date - Owner - Status - Action Needed to be Resolved - Responsible for Action - Completion Date of Action - Outcome
Unique Number - Activity Description - Assumptions - Dependencies - Milestones

24. What are the factors of influence by stakeholders on a project?
Share - Enhance - Exploit
Influence on the project - organizational - project health and other stakeholders
Coverage Matrix - Table or spreadsheet used to manage tracing.
Business Requirements - Identified Defects - Solution Performance Metrics - Solution (Deployed)

25. An important tool in defining the scope of work and developing estimates. Decomposes the project scope into smaller and smaller pieces - creating a hierarchy of work.
Requirements Structure
Opportunity Cost
Validate Solution
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)

26. 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
Decision Making
Define Business Need - Access Capability Gaps - Determine Solution Approach - Define Solution Scope - Define Business Case
Requirements Structure
Requirements (Validated)

27. 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
The Business Analysis Communication Plan
Business Analysis Performance Metrics - Business Analysis Plan - Organization Performance Standards - Requirements Management Plan
Root Cause Analysis
Requirements Structure

28. 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 Case
Acceptance Criteria
Personal Organization

29. What does RACI stand for?
Stakeholder Matrix - Onion Diagram
Responsible - Accountable - Consulted - Informed
Data Dictionary & Glossary
Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities

30. Communicated Requirements mean what to stakeholders?
That they understand them and the current state the requirements are in
Advantages of a Data Dictionary & Glossary
Decision Analysis
Survey/Questionnaire

31. What is the output of the task - Define Assumptions & Constraints?
Data Dictionary & Glossary
Assumptions & Constraints
Underlying Competencies
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Required Capabilities

32. What are the techniques used in the task - Validate Solution?
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Problem Tracking - Root Cause Analysis
Requirements (Analyzed)
Enterprise Analysis
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Requirements - Requirements Package

33. This task describes the work required to decide which formats are appropriate for a particular project and its stakeholders. The requirements must be clear - concise - accurate and at the appropriate level of detail to assure clear understanding by t
Scenario
Identified Defects - Mitigating Actions - Solution Validation Assessment
Sequence Diagrams
Prepare Requirements Package

34. What are the inputs to the task Conduct Elicitation Activity?
Validate Requirements
Requirements (Validated)
Requirements Analysis
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements Management Plan - Scheduled Resources - Solution Scope & Business Case - Supporting Materials

35. Involved motivating people to act in ways that enable them to work together to achieve shared goals and objectives.
Observation
Acceptance & Evaluation Technique
Leadership
Functional Decomposition - Interface Analysis - Scope Modeling - User Stories - Problem or Vision Statement

36. Knowing the dependencies and relationships between requirements helps when determining the sequence in which requirements are to be addressed. Common relations are:
Root Cause Analysis
Formal Documentation - Presentation - Model
Necessity - Effort - Subset - Cover - Value
Validate Solution

37. 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.
Functional Decomposition
Industry Knowledge
Business Policy
Business Goals & Objectives - Requirements (Stated)

38. What are the techniques used in the task - Prioritize Requirements?
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Required Capabilities
Determine the Process - Who will Authorize Changes - Impact Analysis - Wording of the Request - Coordinate Prioritization of Change
Decision Analysis
Decision Analysis - Risk Analysis - MoSCoW Analysis - Timeboxing/Budgeting - Voting

39. The people involved - the interactions between them - the external forces affecting their behavior and all other relevant elements and factors.
Assess Proposed Solution - Allocate Requirements - Assess Organizational Readiness - Define Transition Requirements - Validate Solution - Evaluate Solution Performance
Requirements (Traced)
Decision Making
System

40. A formal written specification with possible walk-thru - an informal one is possibly verbal or email Communication
Functional Decomposition - Interface Analysis - Scope Modeling - User Stories - Problem or Vision Statement
Description - Raised by - Date Identified - Impact - Priority - Need by Date - Owner - Status - Action Needed to be Resolved - Responsible for Action - Completion Date of Action - Outcome
Formal requirements presentation to stakeholders
Trustworthiness

41. A continuous process of collecting data to determine how well a solution has been implemented compared to expected results.
Define Business Case
Organizational Knowledge
Goals
Monitoring

42. Who is the primary stakeholder in the Define Business Case task?
Business Analysis Communication Plan
The Sponsor
Non-functional Requirements Analysis
Budgeting

43. 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 -
Requirements Workshop - Structured Walkthrough
Implementation Approach
Monitoring
Automate or Simplify Work - Improve Access to Information - Reduce Complexity of Interfaces - Increase Consistency of Behavior - Eliminate Redundancy

44. What are the inputs to the task Plan Requirements Management Process?
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets
Goals
Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution (Designed) - Solution Scope
Transition Requirements

45. Prioritizes requirements based on a allocated fixed amount of money.
Budgeting
Assess Proposed Solution - Allocate Requirements - Assess Organizational Readiness - Define Transition Requirements - Validate Solution - Evaluate Solution Performance
Business Principals
Advantages of Document Analysis

46. What are the Behavioral Characteristics a BA should exhibit?
Risk Analysis
Impact Analysis - Requirements Coverage - Requirements Allocation
Ethics - Trustworthiness - Personal Organization
Onion Diagram

47. What are the classifications used to describe requirements
Solution Approach
Business Requirements - Stakeholder Requirements - Solution Requirements - Transition Requirements
Strengths - Weaknesses
Requirements (Prioritized)

48. List 3 possible forms of a requirements packages.
They describe what a solution must be capable of doing to meet the needs of one or more stakeholder groups
Lessons Learned Process
Document Analysis
Formal Documentation - Presentation - Model

49. 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.
All
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets
Creative Thinking - Decision Making - Learning - Problem Solving - Systems Thinking
Allocate Requirements

50. Business value can be delivered through requirements that support _______________ - alignment with internal standards or policies of the organization - or increased satisfaction for stakeholders - even if those things do not have a direct measurable
This person will be involved in monitoring the performance and effectiveness of a solution or its components.
Compliance with regulatory or other standards
Prototyping
Name - Aliases - Values/Meanings - Description