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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning
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1. What are the inputs to the task Manage Solution Scope & Requirements?
Requirements Management Plan - Solution Scope - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities - Stakeholder/Solution or Transition Requirements (Communicated or Traced)
Requirements Structure
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements (Stated) - Solution Scope
Relationships - Impact Analysis - Configuration Management System
2. 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.
Business Rule
Stakeholder Matrix - Onion Diagram
Business Principles & Practices
Implementation Approach
3. What are the inputs to the task - Organize Requirements?
Interviews - Observation
Define Business Need - Access Capability Gaps - Determine Solution Approach - Define Solution Scope - Define Business Case
Brainstorming
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements (Stated) - Solution Scope
4. 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.
Trustworthiness
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Problem Tracking - Root Cause Analysis
User Story
Functional Decomposition - Interface Analysis - Scope Modeling - User Stories - Problem or Vision Statement
5. What are the techniques used in the task - Assess Proposed Solution?
Validate Solution
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Decision Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Plan Business Analysis Approach - Conduct Stakeholder Analysis - Plan Business Analysis Activities - Plan Business Analysis Communication - Plan Requirements Management Process - Manage BA Performance
Benchmarking
6. Organizational culture - Stakeholder preference - complexity - organizational maturity and availability of resources are all factors used to do what?
Perform tailoring exercises
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Decision Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Decision Analysis
Interviews - Lessons Learned Process - Metrics and KPIs - Problem Tracking - Process Modeling - Root Cause Analysis - Survey/Questionnaire - Variance Analysis
7. What are the techniques used in the task Conduct Elicitation Activity?
Prototyping
Data Dictionary & Glossary - Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshops - Survey/Questionnaire
Structural Rules
Cultural Assessment - Operational or Technical Assessment - Stakeholder Impact Analysis
8. What are the general modeling concepts that are relevant to business analysis?
Facilitation & Negotiation - Leadership & Influencing - Teamwork
Underlying Competencies
Repository - Traceability - Requirement Attributes - Prioritization Process - Change Management - Tailoring the Requirements Management Process
User Classes - Profiles or Roles; Concepts & Relationships - Events - Processes - Rules
9. Maps the level of stakeholder influence and interest in a project.
SWOT Analysis
Business Rule
Stakeholder Matrix
Ethics
10. What is the output of the task Conduct Stakeholder Analysis?
Emotional and Cognitive
Identified Defects - Mitigating Actions - Solution Validation Assessment
Enterprise Analysis - often the starting point for initiating a new project
Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
11. What are the tasks in the knowledge area - Requirements Analysis?
Reliability - Performance Efficiency - Operability - Security - Compatibility - Maintainability - Transferability
Business Case; Stakeholder - Solution or Transition Requirements (Verified)
Prioritize Requirements - Organize Requirements - Specify & Model Requirements - Define Assumptions & Constraints - Verify Requirements - Validate Requirements
Risk Analysis
12. What are the inputs of the task Plan Business Analysis Communication?
Creative Thinking - Decision Making - Learning - Problem Solving - Systems Thinking
Perform tailoring exercises
Requirements (Analyzed)
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
13. Revised process and templates for BA deliverables should be analyzed and documented and lessons learned should be recorded.
Budgeting
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Modeling - Organization Modeling - Data Modeling
Business Analysis Process Assets
Business Case - Business Need - Requirements - Requirements Management Plan - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
14. According to the BABOK 2.0 - what type of analysis generates STAKEHOLDER requirements?
Requirements Analysis
Requirements (Analyzed)
Structured Walkthrough
Business Rules Analysis
15. What are the techniques used in the task Manage Business Analysis Performance?
Requirements Workshop
Business Principals
Strengths - Weaknesses
Interviews - Lessons Learned Process - Metrics and KPIs - Problem Tracking - Process Modeling - Root Cause Analysis - Survey/Questionnaire - Variance Analysis
16. Use of parameters - multiplied by the number of hours. (COCOMO II - Function Point Counting - Use Case Points - and Story Points)
Requirements Structure
Required Capabilities
Document Analysis - SWOT Analysis
Parametric Estimation
17. Ensure that the solution meets the business need and determine the most appropriate response to identified defects.
Requirements Management & Communication
Validate Solution
Functions - Markets - Matrix
Responsible - Accountable - Consulted - Informed
18. The knowledge area that describes how a BA manages conflicts - issues and changes in order to ensure that stakeholders and the project team remain in agreement on the solution scope - how requirements are communicated to stakeholders and how knowledg
Leadership
BABOK
MoSCoW Analysis
Requirements Management & Communication
19. Two effective trade-off methods.
Business Analysis Plan
Elimination of Dominated Alternative - Ranking Objects on a Similar Scale
Observation
Requirements (Analyzed)
20. Stakeholders involved the BA in decision making - acceptance of the BA's recommendations - willingness to discuss difficult or controversial topics with the BA - stakeholders willing to support or defend the BA when problems occur.
Reporting
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Models - Focus Groups - Interviews - Survey/Questionnaire - Organizational Modeling - Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Force Field Analysis
Business Analysis Process Assets
Trustworthiness
21. What are the inputs for the task Plan Business Analysis Activities?
Parametric Estimation
Business Analysis Approach - BA Performance Assessment - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Solution Performance Assessment
Implementation SME
22. 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 -
Parametric Estimation
Problem Solving
Root Cause Analysis
Prepare for Elicitation - Conduct Elicitation Activity - Document Elicitation Results - Confirm Elicitation Results
23. Familiarity with the range of commercially available solutions or suppliers can assist with the identification of possible alternatives.
Analogous Estimation
Solution Knowledge
Decision Analysis - Estimation - Metrics & KPIs - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Solution Scope Definition - Implementation Approach - Dependencies
24. What are the techniques used in the task Confirm Elicitation Results?
Decision Making
A statement of the needs of a particular stakeholder or class of stakeholders
Interviews - Observation
To record the conflict in the Requirements Issues Log.
25. What are the techniques used in the task Conduct Stakeholder Analysis?
Metrics & KPIs
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Brainstorming - Interviews - Organizational Modeling - Process Modeling - Requirements Workshop - Risk Analysis - Scenarios & Use Cases - User Stories - Scope Modeling - Survey/Questionnaire - RACI Matrix
Term and Fact Model
Evaluate Solution Performance
26. What is the output of the task - Assess Proposed Solution?
Assessment of Proposed Solution
Data Modeling
Reliability - Performance Efficiency - Operability - Security - Compatibility - Maintainability - Transferability
Perform tailoring exercises
27. A means of eliciting requirements by conducting an assessment of the stakeholder's work environment. This technique is appropriate when documenting details about current processes or if the project is intended to enhance or change a current process.
Assumptions & Constraints - Business Need - Solution Scope - Stakeholder Concerns
Prototyping
Requirements Package
Observation
28. What are the techniques used in the task - Assess Capability Gaps?
Operative Rules
Document Analysis - SWOT Analysis
Emotional and Cognitive
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Brainstorming - Interviews - Organizational Modeling - Process Modeling - Requirements Workshop - Risk Analysis - Scenarios & Use Cases - User Stories - Scope Modeling - Survey/Questionnaire - RACI Matrix
29. Used to describe the roles - responsibilities and reporting structures that exist within an organization and to align those structures with the organization's goals.
Parametric Estimation
Organization Modeling
Business Goals & Objectives - Requirements (Stated)
Use Case
30. What are the different types of learning styles?
User Story
Document Elicitation Results task
Visual Learner - Auditory Learner - Kinesthetic Learner
Underlying Competencies
31. What is the output of the task - Define Assumptions & Constraints?
Requirements (Traced)
Assumptions & Constraints
Benchmarking
Data Flow Diagrams
32. 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.
Tracing Requirements
Estimation
Industry Knowledge
Business Goals & Objectives - Requirements (Stated)
33. What is the output of the task Document Elicitation Results?
They describe what a solution must be capable of doing to meet the needs of one or more stakeholder groups
Automate or Simplify Work - Improve Access to Information - Reduce Complexity of Interfaces - Increase Consistency of Behavior - Eliminate Redundancy
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Business Rules Analysis - Decision Analysis - Functional Decomposition - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases
Requirements (Stated) - Stakeholder Concerns
34. Approach to decision making that examines and models the possible consequences of different decisions. Make an optimal decision under conditions of uncertainty.
Decision Analysis
Relationship to Time - Relationship to Task Completion - Relationship to Contracts - Relationships to Formal and Informal Authority
Name - Aliases - Values/Meanings - Description
Functional Decomposition - Interface Analysis - Scope Modeling - User Stories - Problem or Vision Statement
35. The decomposition of activities and tasks creates?
Compliance with regulatory or other standards
Activity List
Business Requirements - Identified Defects - Solution Performance Metrics - Solution (Deployed)
Requirements (Allocated)
36. What are the techniques used in the task - Organize Requirements?
Business Analysis Plan
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Data Modeling - Functional Decomposition - Organizational Modeling - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases - Scope Modeling - User Stories
Name - Aliases - Values/Meanings - Description
Estimation - Functional Decomposition - Risk Analysis
37. 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 -
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets
Requirements Management Plan
Learning
Automate or Simplify Work - Improve Access to Information - Reduce Complexity of Interfaces - Increase Consistency of Behavior - Eliminate Redundancy
38. This technique shows how information is input - processed - stored and output from a system in a visual representation.
Requirements Structure
Data Flow Diagrams
Problem Tracking - Baselining - Signoff
Budgeting
39. Investigating how a solution is actually used after it is deployed and assessing the effect it has had - both positive and negative.
Evaluate Solution Performance
Analogous Estimation
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Data Modeling - Functional Decomposition - Organizational Modeling - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases - Scope Modeling - User Stories
Metrics & KPIs
40. What are the techniques used in the task - Allocate Resources?
Requirements (Allocated)
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Business Rules Analysis - Decision Analysis - Functional Decomposition - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases
Decision Analysis
Stakeholder Matrix - Onion Diagram
41. 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.
Requirements (Approved)
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements (Stated) - Solution Scope
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Decision Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Data Modeling
42. 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
Requirements Management Plan - Solution Scope - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities - Stakeholder/Solution or Transition Requirements (Communicated or Traced)
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Models - Focus Groups - Interviews - Survey/Questionnaire - Organizational Modeling - Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Force Field Analysis
Prepare Requirements Package
Requirements (Approved)
43. Name the 2 types of Software categories that assist in BA productivity.
Trustworthiness
General Purpose Applications & Specialized Applications
Requirements (Verified)
Rolling Wave
44. What are the underlying competencies a BA should possess?
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving - Behavioral Characteristics - Business Knowledge - Communication Skills - Interaction Skills - Software Application
To record the conflict in the Requirements Issues Log.
Business Goals & Objectives - Requirements (Stated)
Glossary
45. What are the inputs to the task Manage Requirements Traceability?
Requirements - Requirements Management Plan
Responsible - Accountable - Consulted - Informed
Requirements (Stated) - Requirements Structure
Data Dictionary
46. 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
Focus Group
Decision Analysis - Risk Analysis - MoSCoW Analysis - Timeboxing/Budgeting - Voting
Interviews - Observation
Horizontal Prototype
47. 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.
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Problem Tracking - Root Cause Analysis
Structural Rules
Facilitation
Solution Assessment & Validation
48. What are the inputs to the task - Define Assumption & Constraints?
Observation
Assumptions & Constraints - Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution Options
Stakeholder Concerns
Business Analysis Plan
49. What are the tasks in the knowledge area - Enterprise Analysis?
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Business Rules Analysis - Decision Analysis - Functional Decomposition - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases
Visual Learner - Auditory Learner - Kinesthetic Learner
Define Business Need - Access Capability Gaps - Determine Solution Approach - Define Solution Scope - Define Business Case
Solution (Constructed) - Requirements (Prioritized and Validated)
50. Shows how the behavior of a concept - entity or object changes in response to events during its lifetime - and defines which events cause a transition between those states.
State Diagrams
Assumptions & Constraints
Glossary
Solution Performance Assessment