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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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1. 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.






2. Name the 2 types of Stakeholder maps.






3. 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.






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






5. 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.






6. Confidence in the problem solving process that a selected solution is correct - new solution options can be evaluated effectively using the problem solving framework - selected solutions meet the defined objectives and solve the underlying problem -






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






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






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






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






11. 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.






12. What are the attributes of a Data Model?






13. Elements identified for each activity and task.






14. The decomposition of activities and tasks creates?






15. A good indicator has 5 characteristics:






16. Knowing the dependencies and relationships between requirements helps when determining the sequence in which requirements are to be addressed. Common relations are:






17. Are used to model the logic of usage scenarios - by showing the information passed between objects in the system through the execution of the scenario. Shows how classes and objects interact during a scenario.






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






19. 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.






20. This task determines if an organization can justify the investment required to deliver a proposed solution.






21. To assess the ability of a potential vendor to meet commitments regarding a product or service






22. What are the inputs to the task Manage Solution Scope & Requirements?






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






24. 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






25. Documents terms unique to a domain.






26. What are the techniques used in the task - Organize Requirements?






27. What are the inputs to the task - Define Assumption & Constraints?






28. 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.






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






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






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






32. What is the output of the task Conduct Elicitation Activity?






33. This prototype extends the initial interface requirements into a fully functioning system and requires a specialized prototyping tool or language.






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






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






36. What are some examples of stakeholder concerns?






37. 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






38. 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.






39. Ensure that the solution meets the business need and determine the most appropriate response to identified defects.






40. What are the inputs to the task Conduct Stakeholder Analysis?






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






42. States the business need - identifies key stakeholders and briefly describes the positive impact that meeting the business need will have on those stakeholders.






43. 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.






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






45. 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






46. What are the inputs to the task - Organize Requirements?






47. This technique represents the types of peoples - places - things and concepts that are important to the business - attributes associated with them and the significant business relationships among them.






48. What are the techniques used in the task - Allocate Resources?






49. The skill of moderating discussions among a group or enable all participants to effectively articulate their views on a topic under discussion and to further ensure that participants in the discussion are able to recognize and appreciate the differin






50. What describes how - when and why the business analyst will work with stakeholders?