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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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1. 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.






2. The purpose is to describe the required qualities of a system - such as its usability and performance characteristics.






3. The process of informing stakeholders of metrics of indicators in specified formats at specified intervals.






4. 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.






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






6. Benefits that could have been achieved with an alternative investment rather than this one.






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






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






9. What are the attributes of a Data Model?






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






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






12. What are the underlying competencies a BA should possess?






13. Who is the primary stakeholder in the Define Business Case task?






14. What are the inputs of the task Plan Business Analysis Communication?






15. The decomposition of activities and tasks creates?






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






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






18. 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 -






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






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






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






22. What is the output of the task - Determine Solution Approach?






23. Maps the level of stakeholder influence and interest in a project.






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






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






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






27. States the business need - identifies key stakeholders and briefly describes the positive impact that meeting the business need will have on those stakeholders.






28. What are some of the key variables used in determining the priority of a requirement?






29. Shows how the behavior of a concept - entity or object changes in response to events during its lifetime - and defines which events cause a transition between those states.






30. What are the internal factors in a SWOT Analysis?






31. 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.






32. 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






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






34. Used to describe the roles - responsibilities and reporting structures that exist within an organization and to align those structures with the organization's goals.






35. Confidence in the decision analysis process that a decision is correct - new information or alternative that cause a decision to be revisited are new and not simply overlooked - decisions are effective in addressing underlying problem - impact of unc






36. The goal of this task is to create a set of views of the requirements for the new business solution that are comprehensive - complete - consistent and understood from all stakeholder perspectives.






37. Describes all the possible outcomes of an attempt to accomplish a particular goal that the solution will support.






38. What is the output of the task Conduct Elicitation Activity?






39. 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.






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






41. Communicated Requirements mean what to stakeholders?






42. What are the elements of Communication Skills?






43. Defines the key terms and data relevant to a business domain.






44. A good indicator has 5 characteristics:






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






46. Elements of a Requirements Management Plan include?






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






48. Use of a similar project as the basis for developing estimates for the current project. Also known as "top-down" estimating. This is usually done at the beginning of the project or project phase and more detailed estimates follow as more is known.






49. What are the inputs to the task - Allocate Resources?






50. According to the BABOK 2.0 - what type of analysis generates STAKEHOLDER requirements?