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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning
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1. What are the characteristics of Interaction Skills?
Requirements Structure
Facilitation & Negotiation - Leadership & Influencing - Teamwork
Enterprise Analysis - often the starting point for initiating a new project
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Organizational Process Assets
2. What is the output of the task - Verify Requirements?
Opportunity Cost
Document Analysis - SWOT Analysis
Requirements (Verified)
Scenario
3. Maps the level of stakeholder influence and interest in a project.
Advantages of Document Analysis
Stakeholder Matrix
Benefits - Costs - Risk Assessment - Results Measurement
Description - Raised by - Date Identified - Impact - Priority - Need by Date - Owner - Status - Action Needed to be Resolved - Responsible for Action - Completion Date of Action - Outcome
4. The purpose is to describe the required qualities of a system - such as its usability and performance characteristics.
Non-functional Requirements Analysis
Budgeting
Business Principals
Business Analysis Plan
5. Used to describe the roles - responsibilities and reporting structures that exist within an organization and to align those structures with the organization's goals.
Requirements Analysis
Visual Learner - Auditory Learner - Kinesthetic Learner
Underlying Competencies
Organization Modeling
6. Defines the key terms and data relevant to a business domain.
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Data Modeling - Functional Decomposition - Organizational Modeling - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases - Scope Modeling - User Stories
Data Dictionary & Glossary
Glossary
Delphi Estimation
7. 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?
Formal requirements presentation to stakeholders
Elimination of Dominated Alternative - Ranking Objects on a Similar Scale
Impact Analysis - Requirements Coverage - Requirements Allocation
Visual Learner - Auditory Learner - Kinesthetic Learner
8. What are the inputs for the task - Prepare Requirements Package?
Requirements (Any Except Stated)
Evaluate Solution Performance
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements - Requirements Structure
Analogous Estimation
9. 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.
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Problem Tracking - Root Cause Analysis
Functions - Markets - Matrix
Bottom-up Estimation
That they understand them and the current state the requirements are in
10. What are the inputs to the task - Validate Solution?
Ethics - Trustworthiness - Personal Organization
Solution (Constructed) - Requirements (Prioritized and Validated)
Survey/Questionnaire
Oral Communications - Teaching - Written Communication
11. The knowledge area that covers how BAs determine which activities are necessary in order to complete a business analysis effort.
Requirements (Stated - Unconfirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Unconfirmed)
Tracing Requirements
Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring
Business Case; Stakeholder - Solution or Transition Requirements (Verified)
12. This knowledge area describes the tasks that are performed in order to ensure that solutions meet the business need and to facilitate successful implementation.
State Diagrams
Solution Assessment & Validation
Acceptance - Transfer - Avoidance - Mitigation
Vertical Prototype
13. To identify interfaces between solutions and/or solution components and define requirements that describe how they will interact.
Interface Analysis
Metrics & KPIs
Responsible - Accountable - Consulted - Informed
Define Transitional Requirements
14. Familiarity with the range of commercially available solutions or suppliers can assist with the identification of possible alternatives.
Evaluation
Solution Knowledge
Manage Solution Scope & Requirements - Manage Requirements Traceability - Maintain Requirements for Re-use - Prepare Requirements Package - Communicate Requirements
Required Capabilities
15. This prototype extends the initial interface requirements into a fully functioning system and requires a specialized prototyping tool or language.
Evolutionary or Functional Prototype
Decision Analysis - Process Modeling - Structured Walkthrough
Sequences - Repetitions - Optional Elements
Ongoing Cost versus Initial Investment - Opportunity Costs - Necessity - Sunk Costs
16. Models a shallow - and possibly wide view of the system's functionality. It typically does not have any business logic running behind the visualization.
Scenarios & Use Cases
Functions - Markets - Matrix
Horizontal Prototype
Business Case
17. Approach to decision making that examines and models the possible consequences of different decisions. Make an optimal decision under conditions of uncertainty.
All
Decision Analysis
Validate Solution
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
18. Prioritizes requirements based on a allocated fixed amount of money.
Data Dictionary & Glossary - Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshops - Survey/Questionnaire
Survey/Questionnaire
Budgeting
System
19. The goal of this task is to ensure that all requirements support the delivery of value to the business - fulfill its goal and objectives and meet a stakeholder need.
Estimation - Functional Decomposition - Risk Analysis
Validate Requirements
Requirements Analysis
Solution Knowledge
20. What are the inputs to the task - Define Assumption & Constraints?
Stakeholder Concerns
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Required Capabilities
Horizontal Prototype
Prepare Requirements Package
21. What are the inputs of the task Plan Business Analysis Communication?
Business Analysis Approach
Activity List
Requirements Structure
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
22. What are the inputs for the task - Maintain Requirements for Re-use?
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements
Strengths - Weaknesses
Creative Thinking - Decision Making - Learning - Problem Solving - Systems Thinking
Communicated Requirements
23. 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.
Solution (Constructed) - Requirements (Prioritized and Validated)
Prepare Requirements Package
Requirements (Prioritized)
Data Modeling
24. 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.
Decision Analysis
Solution Scope Definition - Implementation Approach - Dependencies
User Story
Organizational Knowledge
25. According to the BABOK 2.0 - what type of analysis generates STAKEHOLDER requirements?
Functional Decomposition - Interface Analysis - Scope Modeling - User Stories - Problem or Vision Statement
Requirements Analysis
General Purpose Applications & Specialized Applications
Requirements Structure
26. What is the output of the task - Prepare Requirements Package?
Scenario
Requirements Package
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Problem Tracking - Structured Walkthrough - Checklists
Document Analysis
27. A systematic approach designed to elicit information from a person or group of people in an informal or formal setting by talking to an interviewee - asking relevant questions and documenting the responses.
Creative Thinking - Decision Making - Learning - Problem Solving - Systems Thinking
Interviews
Validate Solution
Requirements (Stated - Confirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Confirmed)
28. Measures progress towards a strategic goal or objective.
Structured Walkthrough
Requirements Management Plan
Analogous Estimation
Key Performance Indicator (KPI )
29. What are the inputs to the task - Organize Requirements?
Enterprise Analysis - often the starting point for initiating a new project
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements (Stated) - Solution Scope
Business Analysis Plan
Opportunity Cost
30. States the business need - identifies key stakeholders and briefly describes the positive impact that meeting the business need will have on those stakeholders.
Timeboxing
Problem or Vision Statement
Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Specific - Measurable - Achievable - Relevant - Time-bound Objectives must be SMART.
31. What are the output(s) of the task - Validate Solution?
Acceptance Criteria
Assumptions & Constraints
Requirements (Stated) - Stakeholder Concerns
Identified Defects - Mitigating Actions - Solution Validation Assessment
32. Who is the primary stakeholder in the Define Business Case task?
Validate Requirements
Business Analysis Approach - BA Performance Assessment - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Identified Defects - Mitigating Actions - Solution Validation Assessment
The Sponsor
33. A specific - actionable - testable directive that is under the control of an organization and supports a business policy.
Plan Business Analysis Approach - Conduct Stakeholder Analysis - Plan Business Analysis Activities - Plan Business Analysis Communication - Plan Requirements Management Process - Manage BA Performance
Organize Requirements
Business Rule
Requirements Management & Communication
34. Means of eliciting information from many people - sometimes anonymously - in a relatively short period of time
Survey/Questionnaire
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Solution Performance Assessment
Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Problem Tracking - Baselining - Signoff
35. What stakeholder receives noticeable negative impact if information is incorrectly transferred from the old to new solution?
Customer
Implementation Approach
Requirements Structure
Business Analysis Performance Assessment - Business Analysis Process Assets - Includes a comparison of planned versus actual performance - understanding the root cause of variances from the plan and other information to help understand the level of
36. What are the techniques used in Plan Business Analysis Activities?
Delphi Estimation
Prepare for Elicitation - Conduct Elicitation Activity - Document Elicitation Results - Confirm Elicitation Results
Estimation - Functional Decomposition - Risk Analysis
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Modeling - Organization Modeling - Data Modeling
37. Communicated Requirements mean what to stakeholders?
That they understand them and the current state the requirements are in
Strengths - Weaknesses
Document Analysis
Clear - Relevant - Economical - Adequate - Quantifiable
38. Describes all the possible outcomes of an attempt to accomplish a particular goal that the solution will support.
Business Analysis Plan
Verify Requirements
Responsible - Accountable - Consulted - Informed
Use Case
39. What is the output of the task - Organize Requirements?
Requirements Structure
Business Requirements - Identified Defects - Solution Performance Metrics - Solution (Deployed)
Problem Tracking
Absolute Reference - Author - Complexity - Ownership - Priority - Risks - Source - Stability - Status - Urgency
40. What does RACI stand for?
Responsible - Accountable - Consulted - Informed
Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring
Sequences - Repetitions - Optional Elements
Observation
41. 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
Vertical Prototype
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements - Requirements Structure
Timeboxing
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
42. What are the strategies for a positive risk?
Benchmarking
Share - Enhance - Exploit
Fishbone Diagram - Five Whys
Industry Knowledge
43. What are stakeholder requirements?
Metrics & KPIs
They describe what a solution must be capable of doing to meet the needs of one or more stakeholder groups
Identified Defects - Mitigating Actions - Solution Validation Assessment
Focus Group
44. What are the inputs to the task - Communicate Requirements?
Data Dictionary
Name - Value/Meanings - Description
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Requirements - Requirements Package
Validate Solution
45. What are the Primitive Data Elements?
Requirements - Requirements Management Plan
Goals
Three-point Estimation
Name - Aliases - Values/Meanings - Description
46. The objective of this technique is to determine how companies achieve their superior performance levels and use that information to design projects to improve operations of the enterprise.
Business Need - Expert Judgment - Organizational Process Assets
Implementation SME
Requirements (Traced)
Benchmarking
47. What are the techniques used in Plan Business Analysis Approach?
Expert Judgment
Decision Analysis - Process Modeling - Structured Walkthrough
BABOK
Horizontal Prototype
48. What are the techniques used in the task - Allocate Resources?
Structural Rules
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Business Rules Analysis - Decision Analysis - Functional Decomposition - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases
Business Policy
Evaluate Solution Performance
49. How is the Operational Support stakeholder utilized in the Evaluate Solution Performance task?
Ethics - Trustworthiness - Personal Organization
Business Need - Solution Scope & Business Case - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
This person will be involved in monitoring the performance and effectiveness of a solution or its components.
MoSCoW Analysis
50. What are the inputs to the task Conduct Stakeholder Analysis?
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
Requirements Structure
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Organizational Process Assets
Data - Ongoing Work - Organizational Change