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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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1. What are the inputs for the task - Define Transitional Requirements?






2. List 3 possible forms of a requirements packages.






3. What are the elements of the task Plan Requirements Management Process?






4. Maps the level of stakeholder influence and interest in a project.






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






6. What are the techniques used in the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?






7. What are the techniques used in the task - Define Business Case?






8. Three types of organizational structures






9. What are the classifications used to describe requirements






10. This technique shows how information is input - processed - stored and output from a system in a visual representation.






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






12. What are the techniques used in the task Confirm Elicitation Results?






13. What are the inputs to the task - Define Business Need?






14. Elements identified for each activity and task.






15. What is the output of the task - Manage Requirements Traceability?






16. What are the techniques used in the task Conduct Stakeholder Analysis?






17. Is generally understood to describe just one way that an actor can accomplish a particular goal






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






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






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






21. Includes the standard definition of data elements - their meanings and allowable values.






22. 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






23. What is the output of the Manage Business Analysis Performance task?






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






25. What techniques are used in the task Manage Requirements Traceability?






26. Are written to describe how an actor interacts with a solution to accomplish one or more of that actor's goals - or to respond to an event.






27. 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






28. 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 -






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






30. 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.






31. What are the Primitive Data Elements?






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






33. 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.






34. To identify interfaces between solutions and/or solution components and define requirements that describe how they will interact.






35. Elements of a Requirements Management Plan include?






36. What is the output of the task - Assess Proposed Solution?






37. This knowledge area describes the tasks that are performed in order to ensure that solutions meet the business need and to facilitate successful implementation.






38. What are the inputs to the task Manage Requirements Traceability?






39. What are the tasks in Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring?






40. What are the tasks of the Elicitation Knowledge Area?






41. Using this technique the business analyst has collected the deliverables - activities - tasks - and estimates from all the involved stakeholders and rolls them up to get a total for all the activities and tasks.






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






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






44. Decisions are made with the interest of all stakeholders considered - reasons for a decision are cleared articulated - prompt and full disclosure of conflicts of interest - honesty regarding one's abilities and the performance of one's work.






45. A diagram indicating how involved the stakeholder is with the solution.






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






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






48. What are the inputs of the task Plan Business Analysis Communication?






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






50. A structured way to capture requirements. May be used to scope - discover - define - prioritize and reach closure on requirements for the target system. Considered one of the most effective ways to deliver high quality requirements quickly.