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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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1. What is the output of the task Prepare for Elicitation?
Verify Requirements
Assess Organization Readiness
Scheduled Resources - Supporting Materials
Decision Analysis - Problem Tacking - Risk Analysis

2. What is the output of the task - Verify Requirements?
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving - Behavioral Characteristics - Business Knowledge - Communication Skills - Interaction Skills - Software Application
Assessment of Proposed Solution
Requirements (Verified)
Brainstorming

3. 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?
Business Principles & Practices
Identified Defects - Mitigating Actions - Solution Validation Assessment
Horizontal Prototype
Impact Analysis - Requirements Coverage - Requirements Allocation

4. Define the requirements that must be met in order for a solution to be considered acceptable to key stakeholders.
Acceptance & Evaluation Technique
Business Requirements - Identified Defects - Solution Performance Metrics - Solution (Deployed)
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets
Problem Tracking - Baselining - Signoff

5. What are the inputs for the task Confirm Elicitation Results?
Required Capabilities
Acceptance & Evaluation Technique
System
Requirements (Stated - Unconfirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Unconfirmed)

6. The decomposition of activities and tasks creates?
Activity List
Business Value - Business or Technical Risk - Implementation Difficulty - Likelihood of Success - Regulatory or Policy Compliance - Relationship to Other Requirements - Stakeholder Agreement - Urgency
System
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Models - Focus Groups - Interviews - Survey/Questionnaire - Organizational Modeling - Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Force Field Analysis

7. The purpose is to measure the performance of solutions - solution components - and other matters of interest to stakeholders.
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
Metrics & KPIs
Discounted Cash Flow - Net Present Value - Internal Rate of Return - Average Rate of Return - Pay Back Period - Cost-Benefit Analysis
MoSCoW Analysis

8. 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.
Coverage Matrix - Table or spreadsheet used to manage tracing.
Monitoring
Transition Requirements
Impact Analysis

9. What are the techniques used in the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?
Functions - Markets - Matrix
Delphi Estimation
Business Requirements - Stakeholder Requirements - Solution Requirements - Transition Requirements
Decision Analysis - Focus Groups - Observation - Survey/Questionnaire

10. Elicitation Results are the inputs for the ____________
Requirements Analysis
Document Elicitation Results task
Business Rule
Decision Making

11. A means to elicit ideas and attitudes about a specific product - service or opportunity in an interactive group environment. The participants share their impressions - preferences and needs - guided by a moderator. - Effective for learning people's a
Solution Scope Definition - Implementation Approach - Dependencies
Advantages of a Data Dictionary & Glossary
Focus Group
Decision Analysis - Estimation - Metrics & KPIs - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Vendor Assessment

12. A non-actionable directive that supports a business goal.
Enterprise Architecture - Solution Scope - Solution (Designed) - Stakeholder Concerns
Assess Proposed Solution - Allocate Requirements - Assess Organizational Readiness - Define Transition Requirements - Validate Solution - Evaluate Solution Performance
Business Policy
Organize Requirements

13. What are the inputs to the task - Validate Solution?
Assess Organization Readiness
Organization Modeling
System
Solution (Constructed) - Requirements (Prioritized and Validated)

14. What are the elements to the task - Define Business Case?
Brainstorming
Benefits - Costs - Risk Assessment - Results Measurement
Evaluation
Interviews - Observation

15. What is the output of the task Manage Solution Scope & Requirements?
Requirements (Approved)
Reliability - Validity - Timeliness
Influence on the project - organizational - project health and other stakeholders
Personal Organization

16. 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.
Validate Requirements
Bottom-up Estimation
Name - Aliases - Values/Meanings - Description
Focus Group

17. Two effective trade-off methods.
Prioritize Requirements - Organize Requirements - Specify & Model Requirements - Define Assumptions & Constraints - Verify Requirements - Validate Requirements
Business Analysis Performance Metrics - Business Analysis Plan - Organization Performance Standards - Requirements Management Plan
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
Elimination of Dominated Alternative - Ranking Objects on a Similar Scale

18. To identify interfaces between solutions and/or solution components and define requirements that describe how they will interact.
Interface Analysis
Prepare Requirements Package
The Sponsor
Estimation - Functional Decomposition - Risk Analysis

19. What are the inputs for the task - Maintain Requirements for Re-use?
Analogous Estimation
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements (Stated) - Solution Scope
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Business Rules Analysis - Focus Groups - Functional Decomposition - Root Cause Analysis
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements

20. 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
Enterprise Architecture - Solution Scope - Solution (Designed) - Stakeholder Concerns
Requirements (Any Except Stated)
Enterprise Analysis - often the starting point for initiating a new project
Operative Rules

21. A continuous process of collecting data to determine how well a solution has been implemented compared to expected results.
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
Monitoring
Requirements Package
Interviews - Lessons Learned Process - Metrics and KPIs - Problem Tracking - Process Modeling - Root Cause Analysis - Survey/Questionnaire - Variance Analysis

22. Techniques used in the task Plan Requirements Management Process.
Define Business Case
Decision Analysis - Problem Tacking - Risk Analysis
Vendor Assessment
Business Domain - Corporate Culture & Environment - Skills of the Analyst - Requirement Deliverable

23. The process of informing stakeholders of metrics of indicators in specified formats at specified intervals.
Solution Assessment & Validation
A statement of the needs of a particular stakeholder or class of stakeholders
Reporting
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving

24. Elements of a Requirements Management Plan include?
Relationships - Impact Analysis - Configuration Management System
Solution (Constructed) - Requirements (Prioritized and Validated)
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Required Capabilities
Requirements (Prioritized)

25. What is the output of the Plan Business Analysis Approach?
Problem Tracking - Baselining - Signoff
Business Analysis Approach
Requirements Structure
Identified Defects - Mitigating Actions - Solution Validation Assessment

26. What describes how - when and why the business analyst will work with stakeholders?
The Business Analysis Communication Plan
Business Analysis Performance Metrics - Business Analysis Plan - Organization Performance Standards - Requirements Management Plan
Requirements (Stated) - Stakeholder Concerns
Organizational Readiness Assessment - Requirements (Stated) - Solution (Deployed) - Solution (Designed)

27. What are the techniques used in Plan Business Analysis Activities?
Estimation - Functional Decomposition - Risk Analysis
Prototyping
Root Cause Analysis
All

28. Describes the effect a new solution will have on an organization and whether the organization is prepared for the organizational change the solution implementation will cause.
Opportunity Cost
Assess Organization Readiness
Elimination
Data Dictionary & Glossary - Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshops - Survey/Questionnaire

29. 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.
General Purpose Applications & Specialized Applications
Specific - Measurable - Achievable - Relevant - Time-bound Objectives must be SMART.
Ethics
Problem or Vision Statement

30. What are the inputs to the task - Assess Organizational Readiness?
Business Analysis Plan
Responsible - Accountable - Consulted - Informed
Metrics & KPIs
Enterprise Architecture - Solution Scope - Solution (Designed) - Stakeholder Concerns

31. What are the tasks in Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring?
General Purpose Applications & Specialized Applications
Plan Business Analysis Approach - Conduct Stakeholder Analysis - Plan Business Analysis Activities - Plan Business Analysis Communication - Plan Requirements Management Process - Manage BA Performance
Ongoing Cost versus Initial Investment - Opportunity Costs - Necessity - Sunk Costs
Business Rule

32. What are the inputs to the task Conduct Stakeholder Analysis?
BABOK
SWOT Analysis
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Organizational Process Assets
Enterprise Analysis

33. The systematic and objective assessment of a solution to determine its status and efficacy in meeting objectives over time - and to identify ways to improve the solution to better meet objectives.
Solution Knowledge
Evaluation
Underlying Competencies
Requirements (Any Except Stated)

34. What techniques are used in the task - Define Solution Scope?
Business Need
Analogous Estimation
Functional Decomposition - Interface Analysis - Scope Modeling - User Stories - Problem or Vision Statement
Estimation

35. What are the techniques used in the task - Prioritize Requirements?
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Requirements - Requirements Package
Requirements (Allocated)
Decision Analysis - Risk Analysis - MoSCoW Analysis - Timeboxing/Budgeting - Voting
Organizational Knowledge

36. What are the inputs to the task - Specify & Model Requirements?
Survey/Questionnaire
Decision Analysis - Risk Analysis - MoSCoW Analysis - Timeboxing/Budgeting - Voting
Requirements (Stated) - Requirements Structure
Requirements (Prioritized)

37. What are the characteristics of quality for a requirements?
Data Dictionary & Glossary
Functional Decomposition - Interface Analysis - Scope Modeling - User Stories - Problem or Vision Statement
Cohesive - Complete - Consistent - Correct - Feasible - Modifiable - Unambiguous - Testable
Underlying Competencies

38. 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.
Organizational Knowledge
Leadership
Requirements Management Plan - Solution Scope - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities - Stakeholder/Solution or Transition Requirements (Communicated or Traced)
Business Analysis Process Assets

39. What are the inputs to the task - Assess Proposed Solution?
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
MoSCoW Analysis
Assumptions & Constraints - Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution Options
Organizational Readiness Assessment

40. This knowledge area describes how the BA assesses proposed solutions and determines which solution best fits the business need - identifies gaps and shortcomings to solutions and determines necessary workarounds or changes to the solution.
User Story
User Classes - Profiles or Roles; Concepts & Relationships - Events - Processes - Rules
Solution Assessment & Validation
Decision Analysis

41. Models a deep - and usually narrow slice of the entire system's functionality.
Formal Documentation - Presentation - Model
Goals
Enterprise Analysis - often the starting point for initiating a new project
Vertical Prototype

42. What is the output of the task - Define Business Need?
Business Need
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Decision Analysis - Estimation - SWOT Analysis - Feasibility Analysis
Requirements (Approved)
Reporting

43. Three key factors when assessing the quality of indicators and their metrics
Business Rule
Evaluate Solution Performance
Reliability - Validity - Timeliness
Business Analysis Process Assets

44. The minimum set of requirements that must be met in order for a particular solution to be worth implementing.
Risk Analysis
Acceptance Criteria
Clear - Relevant - Economical - Adequate - Quantifiable
Advantages of Document Analysis

45. What are the tasks in the knowledge area - Requirements Analysis?
Goals
Reliability - Validity - Timeliness
Prioritize Requirements - Organize Requirements - Specify & Model Requirements - Define Assumptions & Constraints - Verify Requirements - Validate Requirements
Elimination of Dominated Alternative - Ranking Objects on a Similar Scale

46. What are some of the key variables used in determining the priority of a requirement?
Business Policy
Conduct Elicitation Activity
Business Value - Business or Technical Risk - Implementation Difficulty - Likelihood of Success - Regulatory or Policy Compliance - Relationship to Other Requirements - Stakeholder Agreement - Urgency
Data - Ongoing Work - Organizational Change

47. What are the 3 elements in the Assess Organizational Readiness?
Onion Diagram
Assessment of Proposed Solution
Business Case - Business Need - Requirements - Requirements Management Plan - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Cultural Assessment - Operational or Technical Assessment - Stakeholder Impact Analysis

48. What are the factors of influence by stakeholders on a project?
Evaluation Criteria
Influence on the project - organizational - project health and other stakeholders
Strengths - Weaknesses
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets

49. An organized structure for the requirements and a documented set of relationships between them. Is used so the analyst and stakeholders know where a specific requirement should be found. Should have a clear implicit scope (clear to the stakeholders w
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Decision Analysis - Estimation - SWOT Analysis - Feasibility Analysis
Business Case
Emotional and Cognitive
Requirements Structure

50. What techniques are used in the task Prepare for Elicitation?
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Prototyping
MoSCoW Analysis
Stakeholder Matrix