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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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1. Performed to communicate - verify and validate requirements. Is a working session where invited participants review and discuss a set of requirements






2. The purpose of _______________ is to ensure that a stakeholder's actual underlying needs are understood - rather than the their stated or superficial desires.






3. What is the output of the task - Verify Requirements?






4. 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.






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






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






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






8. What are the inputs for the task - Prepare Requirements Package?






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






10. What are the classifications used to describe requirements






11. 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.






12. 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






13. Are used to model the logic of usage scenarios - by showing the information passed between objects in the system through the execution of the scenario. Shows how classes and objects interact during a scenario.






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






15. What are some examples of stakeholder concerns?






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






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






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






19. What are the inputs to the task Conduct Elicitation Activity?






20. Gathering information relevant to a decision - breaking down the information relevant to a decision - making comparisons and tradeoffs between similar and dissimilar options and identifying the option that is most desirable.






21. Name the 2 types of Software categories that assist in BA productivity.






22. 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.






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






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






25. What are the inputs to the task - Assess Proposed Solution?






26. Technique involving refinement of estimates. Estimate the details for activities in the current iteration or increment and provide an analogous estimate for the entire scope of work. As the end of the iteration approaches - estimates for the next ite






27. What is the output of the task - Define Assumptions & Constraints?






28. What are the inputs for the task Plan Business Analysis Activities?






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






30. 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






31. 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.






32. This knowledge area describes the tasks that are performed in order to ensure that solutions meet the business need and to facilitate successful implementation.






33. What is the output of the task - Specify & Model Requirements?






34. An important tool in defining the scope of work and developing estimates. Decomposes the project scope into smaller and smaller pieces - creating a hierarchy of work.






35. This knowledge area describes the behaviors - knowledge and other characteristics that support the effective performance of a BA.






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






37. What are the inputs to the task - Determine Solution Approach?






38. What are the strategies for a positive risk?






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






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






41. What factors guide technique selection?






42. What stakeholder receives noticeable negative impact if information is incorrectly transferred from the old to new solution?






43. 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.






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






45. Rules that are intended to help determine when something is or is not true - or when things fall into a specific category. They are expressed as rules because they describe categorizations that may change over time.






46. Forecast the cost and effort involved in pursuing a course of action. Used to develop a better understanding of the possible range of costs and effort associated with any initiative






47. 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.






48. What are the techniques used in the task - Assess Organizational Readiness?






49. What are the inputs to the Plan Business Analysis Approach?






50. What is the output of the task - Manage Requirements Traceability?