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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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






2. Communicated Requirements mean what to stakeholders?






3. 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 -






4. What are the inputs for the task Prepare for Elicitation?






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






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






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






8. What are the factors of influence by stakeholders on a project?






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






10. 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.






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 to the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?






13. What are the tasks in the knowledge area - Enterprise Analysis?






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






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






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






17. What are stakeholder requirements?






18. What are the techniques used in the task - Assess Capability Gaps?






19. What is the output of the task - Assess Organizational Readiness?






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






21. The purpose is to compile and document successes - opportunities for improvement - failures - and recommendations for improving the performance of future projects or project phases






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






23. Two effective trade-off methods.






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






25. What is the output of the task Plan Business Analysis Communication?






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






27. 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






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






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






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






31. What are the inputs to the task - Communicate Requirements?






32. Measures progress towards a strategic goal or objective.






33. When a requirement is changed - the BA can easily review all the related requirements and software components in order to understand the impact of the change.






34. 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






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






36. 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.






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






38. 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.






39. 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.






40. What are the attributes of a Data Model?






41. This task ensures that requirement specifications and models meet the necessary standard of quality to allow them to be used effectively to guide further work. Requirements have been defined correctly.






42. When performing root cause analysis as part of the Validate Solution task - what stakeholder may be involved?






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






44. What does RACI stand for?






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






46. 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 -






47. What are some of the commonly used requirement attributes?






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






49. 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.






50. What does SMART stand for?