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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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






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






3. What are the tasks in the knowledge area - Solution Assessment & Validation?






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






5. What is the output of the task - Prepare Requirements Package?






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






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






8. Characteristics that are common to all organizations with a similar purpose and structure - whether or not the are in the same industry.






9. How is the Operational Support stakeholder utilized in the Evaluate Solution Performance task?






10. What are the techniques used in the task - Define Transition Requirements?






11. Understanding of how a change to a component affects the system as a whole - identification of reinforcing and compensating feedback loops - understanding of how systems adapt to external pressures and changes - A system as a whole will have properti






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






13. This knowledge area involves analyzing stakeholder needs to define solutions that meet those needs - assessing the current state of the business to identify and recommend improvements and the verification and validation of the resulting requirements.






14. What are the attributes of a Data Model?






15. What techniques are used in the task - Prepare Requirements Package?






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






17. 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.






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






19. A structured examination of the aspects of a situation to establish the root causes and resulting effects of the problem. A critical element is to ensure that the current business thinking and processes are challenged. The purpose is to determine the






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






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






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






23. Techniques used in the task Plan Requirements Management Process.






24. 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.






25. Investigating how a solution is actually used after it is deployed and assessing the effect it has had - both positive and negative.






26. Approach to decision making that examines and models the possible consequences of different decisions. Make an optimal decision under conditions of uncertainty.






27. What should be considered when establishing a Change Management process?






28. Name the 2 types of Software categories that assist in BA productivity.






29. Rules that the organization chooses to enforce as a matter of policy. They are intended to guide the actions of people working within the organization. They may oblige people to take certain actions - prevent people from taking actions - or prescribe






30. What are the 3 elements in the Assess Organizational Readiness?






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






32. To identify and manage areas of uncertainty that can impact an initiative - solution - or organization.






33. What are the inputs to the Plan Business Analysis Approach?






34. While eliciting requirements it is important to guard against scope creep - This activity will ensure that the requirements should be included since they meet the business goal/objectives.






35. 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.






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






37. Domain SME - End User - Implementation SME - and Sponsor: They Affected by analysis techniques used to organize requirements since they need to verify and validate the requirements.






38. What are the inputs to the task - Assess Proposed Solution?






39. Used to describe the roles - responsibilities and reporting structures that exist within an organization and to align those structures with the organization's goals.






40. What are the techniques used in Plan Business Analysis Approach?






41. Communicated Requirements mean what to stakeholders?






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






43. What are the elements to the task - Define Business Case?






44. Two techniques used in Root Cause Analysis?






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






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






47. What are the tasks for the knowledge area - Requirements Management & Communication?






48. Requires the team to focus on examining the premises - assumptions - observations and expectations of the team members. This type of conflict can have a beneficial effect of strengthening the foundations of the analysis and the solution.






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






50. Uses history as a basis for estimating. It is similar to analogous estimation - but is used not only for the top-down estimate - but for the detailed tasks as well.