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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. This knowledge area describes the problem definition and analysis - business case development - feasibility studies and the definition of solution scope.
Enterprise Analysis
Primary stakeholders in the Organize Requirements task
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving - Behavioral Characteristics - Business Knowledge - Communication Skills - Interaction Skills - Software Application
Functions - Markets - Matrix
2. The purpose is to describe the required qualities of a system - such as its usability and performance characteristics.
Requirements (Validated)
Non-functional Requirements Analysis
Industry Knowledge
Decision Analysis
3. Involved motivating people to act in ways that enable them to work together to achieve shared goals and objectives.
Leadership
Scheduled Resources - Supporting Materials
Underlying Competencies
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements (Stated) - Solution Scope
4. What are the techniques used in the task - Determine Solution Approach?
Business Analysis Performance Metrics - Business Analysis Plan - Organization Performance Standards - Requirements Management Plan
Decision Analysis - Estimation - Metrics & KPIs - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Problem or Vision Statement
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Decision Analysis - Estimation - SWOT Analysis - Feasibility Analysis
5. 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.
Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring
Impact Analysis
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Business Rules Analysis - Focus Groups - Functional Decomposition - Root Cause Analysis
Scenario
6. What are the classifications used to describe requirements
Determine the Process - Who will Authorize Changes - Impact Analysis - Wording of the Request - Coordinate Prioritization of Change
Business Analysis Approach
Business Requirements - Stakeholder Requirements - Solution Requirements - Transition Requirements
Three-point Estimation
7. Ability to find information - on-time completion of tasks - efficiency in the completion of work - ability to easily identify all outstanding work and the status of each work item.
Business Case; Stakeholder - Solution or Transition Requirements (Verified)
Business Requirements - Identified Defects - Solution Performance Metrics - Solution (Deployed)
Personal Organization
Interviews
8. What techniques are used in the task Prepare for Elicitation?
Assessment of Proposed Solution
Confirm Elicitation Results
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Determine the Process - Who will Authorize Changes - Impact Analysis - Wording of the Request - Coordinate Prioritization of Change
9. What are the inputs to the task - Communicate Requirements?
The Sponsor
Assessment of Proposed Solution
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Requirements - Requirements Package
Budgeting
10. 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.
Advantages of Document Analysis
Advantages of a Data Dictionary & Glossary
Business Case
Solution Performance Assessment
11. What are the strategies for a positive risk?
Discounted Cash Flow - Net Present Value - Internal Rate of Return - Average Rate of Return - Pay Back Period - Cost-Benefit Analysis
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Parametric Estimation
Share - Enhance - Exploit
12. 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
Requirements Management & Communication
Requirements (Analyzed)
Enterprise Analysis
13. Measures progress towards a strategic goal or objective.
Solution Performance Assessment
Key Performance Indicator (KPI )
Reliability - Validity - Timeliness
A statement of the needs of a particular stakeholder or class of stakeholders
14. What are the Cultural diversity issues that should be taken into account when planning communication?
Cultural Assessment - Operational or Technical Assessment - Stakeholder Impact Analysis
Relationship to Time - Relationship to Task Completion - Relationship to Contracts - Relationships to Formal and Informal Authority
Solution (Constructed) - Requirements (Prioritized and Validated)
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Modeling - Organization Modeling - Data Modeling
15. What are the elements of the task Plan Requirements Management Process?
Solution Scope
Identified Defects - Mitigating Actions - Solution Validation Assessment
Define Transitional Requirements
Repository - Traceability - Requirement Attributes - Prioritization Process - Change Management - Tailoring the Requirements Management Process
16. What stakeholder receives noticeable negative impact if information is incorrectly transferred from the old to new solution?
Glossary
Scope Modeling
Customer
The Business Analysis Communication Plan
17. Understanding of the business architecture of the organization that is being analyzed. Understanding business models (generates profit) - org structure - relationships between business units and the persons who occupy key stakeholder positions.
Systems Thinking
Bottom-up Estimation
Business Principals
Organizational Knowledge
18. A requirement that does not deliver direct or indirect value to a stakeholder is a strong candidate for what?
Assumptions & Constraints - Business Need - Solution Scope - Stakeholder Concerns
Organizational Knowledge
Elimination
Business Principles & Practices
19. What are the inputs to the task - Specify & Model Requirements?
Document Analysis - SWOT Analysis
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Organizational Process Assets
Requirements (Stated) - Requirements Structure
Evaluation
20. What is the output of the task Prepare for Elicitation?
Historic Analysis
Throw-away Prototype
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Problem Tracking - Root Cause Analysis
Scheduled Resources - Supporting Materials
21. 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.
Lessons Learned Process
Automate or Simplify Work - Improve Access to Information - Reduce Complexity of Interfaces - Increase Consistency of Behavior - Eliminate Redundancy
Share - Enhance - Exploit
Interviews
22. What is the output of the task Manage Solution Scope & Requirements?
Requirements (Approved)
Lessons Learned Process
Data Flow Diagrams
General Purpose Applications & Specialized Applications
23. What is the output of the task - Assess Proposed Solution?
Assessment of Proposed Solution
Reporting
Requirements Analysis
Define Business Need - Access Capability Gaps - Determine Solution Approach - Define Solution Scope - Define Business Case
24. What are the Behavioral Characteristics a BA should exhibit?
Define Transitional Requirements
Creative Thinking - Decision Making - Learning - Problem Solving - Systems Thinking
Ethics - Trustworthiness - Personal Organization
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
25. What are the inputs to the task - Validate Solution?
Solution (Constructed) - Requirements (Prioritized and Validated)
Business Policy
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
A statement of the needs of a particular stakeholder or class of stakeholders
26. Estimating relies on the expertise of those who have performed the work in the past. These experts can be internal or external to the project team or to the organization.
Timeboxing
Expert Judgment
Business Rules Analysis
Business Rule
27. Includes the standard definition of data elements - their meanings and allowable values.
Data Dictionary
Business Case - Business Need - Requirements - Requirements Management Plan - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
User Classes - Profiles or Roles; Concepts & Relationships - Events - Processes - Rules
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements
28. 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
Enterprise Architecture - Solution Scope - Solution (Designed) - Stakeholder Concerns
Benefits - Costs - Risk Assessment - Results Measurement
Prepare Requirements Package
Clear - Relevant - Economical - Adequate - Quantifiable
29. The systematic and objective assessment of a solution to determine its status and efficacy in meeting objectives over time - and to identify ways to improve the solution to better meet objectives.
Relationships - Impact Analysis - Configuration Management System
Evaluation
Requirements Package
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Problem Tracking - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
30. Business rules require a defined glossary of terms and an understanding of the relationships between them - this is known as:
Decision Making
Brainstorming
Repository - Traceability - Requirement Attributes - Prioritization Process - Change Management - Tailoring the Requirements Management Process
Term and Fact Model
31. The goal of this task is to meet with stakeholder(s) to gather information regarding their needs.
SWOT Analysis
To record the conflict in the Requirements Issues Log.
Conduct Elicitation Activity
Glossary
32. 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
Strengths - Weaknesses
Focus Group
Enterprise Analysis
General Purpose Applications & Specialized Applications
33. What is the output of the task - Define Assumptions & Constraints?
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
Assumptions & Constraints
Estimation - Functional Decomposition - Risk Analysis
Document Elicitation Results task
34. 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
Business Rules Analysis
Personal Organization
Throw-away Prototype
Goals
35. What are the inputs for the task - Maintain Requirements for Re-use?
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements
Decision Analysis - Focus Groups - Observation - Survey/Questionnaire
Compliance with regulatory or other standards
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Metrics & KPIs - Prototyping - Risk Analysis - Structured Walkthrough
36. 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.
Elicitation
Opportunity Cost
Decision Analysis
Data Dictionary
37. What are the techniques used in the task Confirm Elicitation Results?
Facilitation & Negotiation - Leadership & Influencing - Teamwork
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Interviews - Observation
Decision Analysis - Problem Tacking - Risk Analysis
38. A brief description of functionality that users need from a solution to meet a business objective. The goal they are trying to accomplish - and any additional information that may be critical to understanding the scope of the story.
Underlying Competencies
Assumptions & Constraints - Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution Options
Oral Communications - Teaching - Written Communication
User Story
39. The knowledge area that covers how BAs determine which activities are necessary in order to complete a business analysis effort.
Business Rule
Data Dictionary
Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring
A statement of the needs of a particular stakeholder or class of stakeholders
40. What are the different types of learning styles?
Expert Judgment
Business Need - Solution Scope & Business Case - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements
Visual Learner - Auditory Learner - Kinesthetic Learner
41. What are the inputs to the task - Assess Organizational Readiness?
Verify Requirements
Enterprise Architecture - Solution Scope - Solution (Designed) - Stakeholder Concerns
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements
Implementation Approach
42. What are the techniques for the task - Verify Requirements?
Requirements (Validated)
Acceptance & Evaluation Technique
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Problem Tracking - Structured Walkthrough - Checklists
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Modeling - Organization Modeling - Data Modeling
43. This will impose constraints to the effort to deploy the solution - including relationships that may exist between solution components.
Dependencies
Impact Analysis - Requirements Coverage - Requirements Allocation
Evaluation
Advantages of Document Analysis
44. Characteristics that are common to all organizations with a similar purpose and structure - whether or not the are in the same industry.
Vertical Prototype
Business Principals
Requirements - Requirements Management Plan
Allocate Requirements
45. What is the output of the task - Assess Organizational Readiness?
Tracing Requirements
Interviews - Lessons Learned Process - Metrics and KPIs - Problem Tracking - Process Modeling - Root Cause Analysis - Survey/Questionnaire - Variance Analysis
Organizational Readiness Assessment
Ethics
46. Define requirements for capabilities needed to move from an existing solution to a new solution.
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Organizational Readiness Assessment - Requirements (Stated) - Solution (Deployed) - Solution (Designed)
Business Need - Solution Scope & Business Case - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Define Transitional Requirements
47. 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.
Enterprise Analysis - often the starting point for initiating a new project
Plan Business Analysis Approach - Conduct Stakeholder Analysis - Plan Business Analysis Activities - Plan Business Analysis Communication - Plan Requirements Management Process - Manage BA Performance
Leadership
Implementation Approach
48. States the business need - identifies key stakeholders and briefly describes the positive impact that meeting the business need will have on those stakeholders.
Problem or Vision Statement
Creative Thinking - Decision Making - Learning - Problem Solving - Systems Thinking
Throw-away Prototype
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Problem Tracking - Structured Walkthrough - Checklists
49. What are the underlying competencies a BA should possess?
Business Analysis Performance Metrics - Business Analysis Plan - Organization Performance Standards - Requirements Management Plan
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving - Behavioral Characteristics - Business Knowledge - Communication Skills - Interaction Skills - Software Application
Scheduled Resources - Supporting Materials
Formal requirements presentation to stakeholders
50. What are the 3 elements in the Assess Organizational Readiness?
Structured Walkthrough
Cultural Assessment - Operational or Technical Assessment - Stakeholder Impact Analysis
Define Transitional Requirements
Requirements Workshop