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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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1. A formal written specification with possible walk-thru - an informal one is possibly verbal or email Communication






2. What are the techniques used in the task Conduct Elicitation Activity?






3. This task ensures that requirement specifications and models meet the necessary standard of quality to allow them to be used effectively to guide further work. Requirements have been defined correctly.






4. Long-term - ongoing and qualitative statements of a state or condition that the organization is seeking to establish and maintain.






5. What are the techniques used in the task Document Elicitation Results?






6. Combination of expert judgment and history. Individual estimates - sharing the estimates with experts - and having several rounds until consensus is reached. An average of the three estimates is used






7. List 3 possible forms of a requirements packages.






8. What are the 3 elements in the Assess Organizational Readiness?






9. What is the output of the task Plan Business Analysis Communication?






10. 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.






11. 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.






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






13. When performing root cause analysis as part of the Validate Solution task - what stakeholder may be involved?






14. What are the techniques used in the task - Communicate Requirements?






15. The people involved - the interactions between them - the external forces affecting their behavior and all other relevant elements and factors.






16. Two techniques used in Root Cause Analysis?






17. The knowledge area that describes how a BA manages conflicts - issues and changes in order to ensure that stakeholders and the project team remain in agreement on the solution scope - how requirements are communicated to stakeholders and how knowledg






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






19. What are the techniques used in the task - Assess Capability Gaps?






20. 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.






21. 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 -






22. Communicated Requirements mean what to stakeholders?






23. 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






24. Set of requirements that will be used to choose between multiple solutions.






25. Two effective trade-off methods.






26. Business rules require a defined glossary of terms and an understanding of the relationships between them - this is known as:






27. Agreement by stakeholders that analysis models effectively and completely describe the domain - identification of related problems or issues from multiple areas in the domain - rapid absorption of new information or new domain.






28. Requires the team to focus on examining the premises - assumptions - observations and expectations of the team members. This type of conflict can have a beneficial effect of strengthening the foundations of the analysis and the solution.






29. What are the tasks of the Elicitation Knowledge Area?






30. Industry Knowledge - Organization Knowledge - Solution Knowledge What are the elements of Business Knowledge?






31. Involves assessing a situation - understanding it as fully as possible - and making judgments about possible solutions to the problem.






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






33. What are the techniques used in the task - Organize Requirements?






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






35. What describes how - when and why the business analyst will work with stakeholders?






36. Models a deep - and usually narrow slice of the entire system's functionality.






37. 7 knowledge areas of ________ : Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring - Elicitation - Requirements Management & Communication - Enterprise Analysis - Requirements Analysis - Solution Assessment & Validation - Underlying Competencies






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






39. What are the elements of the task - Define Solution Scope?






40. What are the characteristics of Interaction Skills?






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






42. 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.






43. 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.






44. What is the output of the task Conduct Stakeholder Analysis?






45. A package should contain a consistent - cohesive and coherent set of requirements. This describes the ____________.






46. What are the inputs for the task - Define Transitional Requirements?






47. To identify and manage areas of uncertainty that can impact an initiative - solution - or organization.






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






49. Strengths - Weaknesses - Opportunities - Threats - A valuable tool to quickly analyze various aspects of the current state of the business process undergoing change.






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