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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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1. 7 knowledge areas of ________ : Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring - Elicitation - Requirements Management & Communication - Enterprise Analysis - Requirements Analysis - Solution Assessment & Validation - Underlying Competencies






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






3. The people involved - the interactions between them - the external forces affecting their behavior and all other relevant elements and factors.






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






5. What are the inputs to the task - Prioritize Requirements?






6. To define the rules that govern decisions in an organization and that define - constrain or enable organization operations.






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






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






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






10. Organizational culture - Stakeholder preference - complexity - organizational maturity and availability of resources are all factors used to do what?






11. 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






12. What is the output of the task Prepare for Elicitation?






13. Measures progress towards a strategic goal or objective.






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






15. Familiarity with the range of commercially available solutions or suppliers can assist with the identification of possible alternatives.






16. What are the different types of learning styles?






17. What is the output of the task - Assess Capability Gaps?






18. What is the output of the task - Define Transition Requirements?






19. What are the Behavioral Characteristics a BA should exhibit?






20. What are the inputs for the task - Define Solution Scope?






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






22. Elicitation Results are the inputs for the ____________






23. What are the classifications used to describe requirements






24. A requirement that does not deliver direct or indirect value to a stakeholder is a strong candidate for what?






25. The purpose is to measure the performance of solutions - solution components - and other matters of interest to stakeholders.






26. List 3 possible forms of a requirements packages.






27. What are the techniques used in Plan Business Analysis Communication?






28. Models a shallow - and possibly wide view of the system's functionality. It typically does not have any business logic running behind the visualization.






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






30. Two techniques used in Root Cause Analysis?






31. 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 -






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






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






34. 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.






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






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






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






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






39. What is the output of the task - Determine Solution Approach?






40. What are the inputs for the task - Maintain Requirements for Re-use?






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






42. What are the inputs to the task Plan Requirements Management Process?






43. What are the likely sources of transition requirements?






44. 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.






45. The goal of tracing is to ensure that requirements are linked back to a business objective. Creation of this relationship helps in what other traceability activities?






46. When a conflict arises between stakeholders on one or more documented requirements - the first thing that needs to take place is what?






47. What are the techniques used in the task - Validate Requirements?






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






49. Name the 2 types of Stakeholder maps.






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