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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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1. What are the inputs to the task - Validate Requirements?






2. What is the output of the task - Define Business Case?






3. 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.






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






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






6. What are the techniques used in the task Manage Business Analysis Performance?






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






8. What is the output of the task - Allocate Resources?






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






10. Name some commonly used financial valuation techniques.






11. 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.






12. What are the inputs for the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?






13. 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.






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






15. Rules that the organization chooses to enforce as a matter of policy. They are intended to guide the actions of people working within the organization. They may oblige people to take certain actions - prevent people from taking actions - or prescribe






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






17. Prioritizes requirements based on the amount of work that the project team is capable of delivering in a set period of time. Approaches include: All-in - All Out - Selective






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






19. What are the inputs to the task - Assess Organizational Readiness?






20. What is the output of the task - Define Business Need?






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






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






23. What techniques are used in the task Prepare for Elicitation?






24. What are the output(s) of the task - Validate Solution?






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






26. What are the techniques used in the task Manage Solution Scope & Requirements?






27. What are the characteristics of a Problem Record?






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






29. 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.






30. List 3 possible forms of a requirements packages.






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






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






33. What are the tasks in the knowledge area - Requirements Analysis?






34. Elements identified for each activity and task.






35. What are the characteristics of Interaction Skills?






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






37. Two effective trade-off methods.






38. What techniques are used in the task - Define Solution Scope?






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






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






41. 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.






42. What are the Composite Data Elements?






43. Corrective or preventative measures uncovered while performing a Business Analysis Performance Assessment will result in changes to what plan?






44. What is the output of the task - Validate Requirements?






45. 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.






46. Revised process and templates for BA deliverables should be analyzed and documented and lessons learned should be recorded.






47. What is the output of the task - Prioritize Requirements?






48. Useful for ensuring that all stakeholders are in agreement on the format and content of relevant information. Capturing these definitions in a single model ensures that these terms will be used consistently.






49. Understanding of the business architecture of the organization that is being analyzed. Understanding business models (generates profit) - org structure - relationships between business units and the persons who occupy key stakeholder positions.






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