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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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1. What are the inputs to the task Conduct Stakeholder Analysis?
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Organizational Process Assets
That they understand them and the current state the requirements are in
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Organizational Readiness Assessment

2. Long-term - ongoing and qualitative statements of a state or condition that the organization is seeking to establish and maintain.
Facilitation
Goals
Reliability - Validity - Timeliness
Requirements (Verified)

3. What are the elements of Communication Skills?
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Models - Focus Groups - Interviews - Survey/Questionnaire - Organizational Modeling - Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Force Field Analysis
A statement of the needs of a particular stakeholder or class of stakeholders
Formal requirements presentation to stakeholders
Oral Communications - Teaching - Written Communication

4. A structured examination of the aspects of a situation to establish the root causes and resulting effects of the problem. A critical element is to ensure that the current business thinking and processes are challenged. The purpose is to determine the
Requirements Workshop
Benchmarking
Transition Requirements
Root Cause Analysis

5. 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
Observation
Requirements Structure
Budgeting
Requirements (Validated)

6. Performed to communicate - verify and validate requirements. Is a working session where invited participants review and discuss a set of requirements
Business Analysis Plan
Expert Judgment
Structured Walkthrough
Assumptions & Constraints - Business Need - Solution Scope - Stakeholder Concerns

7. What is the output of the task - Define Business Case?
Business Principals
Reliability - Performance Efficiency - Operability - Security - Compatibility - Maintainability - Transferability
Business Case
Evolutionary or Functional Prototype

8. What is the output of the task Manage Solution Scope & Requirements?
Requirements (Approved)
Evaluation Criteria
Brings them to a Communication on understanding
Business Requirements - Stakeholder Requirements - Solution Requirements - Transition Requirements

9. How is the Operational Support stakeholder utilized in the Evaluate Solution Performance task?
Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring
This person will be involved in monitoring the performance and effectiveness of a solution or its components.
Define Business Case
Ethics

10. What is the output of the task Prepare for Elicitation?
Problem Solving
Scheduled Resources - Supporting Materials
Industry Knowledge
Structured Walkthrough

11. What are the inputs for the task - Define Solution Scope?
Assumptions & Constraints - Required Capabilities - Solution Approach
Ongoing Cost versus Initial Investment - Opportunity Costs - Necessity - Sunk Costs
Identified Defects - Mitigating Actions - Solution Validation Assessment
Manage Solution Scope & Requirements - Manage Requirements Traceability - Maintain Requirements for Re-use - Prepare Requirements Package - Communicate Requirements

12. What does RACI stand for?
Functional Decomposition - Interface Analysis - Scope Modeling - User Stories - Problem or Vision Statement
Responsible - Accountable - Consulted - Informed
Requirements Structure
All

13. What are the inputs to the task - Communicate Requirements?
Relationship to Time - Relationship to Task Completion - Relationship to Contracts - Relationships to Formal and Informal Authority
Define Business Case
Term and Fact Model
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Requirements - Requirements Package

14. A package should contain a consistent - cohesive and coherent set of requirements. This describes the ____________.
Business Analysis Plan
Solution (Constructed) - Requirements (Prioritized and Validated)
Verify Requirements
Requirements Structure

15. What stakeholder receives noticeable negative impact if information is incorrectly transferred from the old to new solution?
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements
Business Analysis Performance Metrics - Business Analysis Plan - Organization Performance Standards - Requirements Management Plan
Data Dictionary & Glossary - Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshops - Survey/Questionnaire
Customer

16. Corrective or preventative measures uncovered while performing a Business Analysis Performance Assessment will result in changes to what plan?
Underlying Competencies
Operative Rules
Business Analysis Plan
Requirements - Requirements Management Plan

17. Investigating how a solution is actually used after it is deployed and assessing the effect it has had - both positive and negative.
Solution Scope
Evaluate Solution Performance
Reporting
Requirements Management Plan - Solution Scope - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities - Stakeholder/Solution or Transition Requirements (Communicated or Traced)

18. What is the output of the Plan Business Analysis Approach?
Implementation Approach
State Diagrams
Business Analysis Approach
Scenarios & Use Cases

19. What is a STAKEHOLDER requirement - according to the BABOK 2.0?
Discounted Cash Flow - Net Present Value - Internal Rate of Return - Average Rate of Return - Pay Back Period - Cost-Benefit Analysis
Observation
A statement of the needs of a particular stakeholder or class of stakeholders
Business Analysis Plan

20. States the business need - identifies key stakeholders and briefly describes the positive impact that meeting the business need will have on those stakeholders.
Communicated Requirements
Automate or Simplify Work - Improve Access to Information - Reduce Complexity of Interfaces - Increase Consistency of Behavior - Eliminate Redundancy
Problem or Vision Statement
Acceptance - Transfer - Avoidance - Mitigation

21. What are the inputs of the task Plan Business Analysis Communication?
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Determine the Process - Who will Authorize Changes - Impact Analysis - Wording of the Request - Coordinate Prioritization of Change
Observation
Conduct Elicitation Activity

22. What are the inputs for the task - Prepare Requirements Package?
Prepare Requirements Package
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements - Requirements Structure
Interviews
Strengths - Weaknesses

23. 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.
Acceptance - Transfer - Avoidance - Mitigation
Decision Analysis - Risk Analysis - MoSCoW Analysis - Timeboxing/Budgeting - Voting
Throw-away Prototype
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)

24. A structured way to capture requirements. May be used to scope - discover - define - prioritize and reach closure on requirements for the target system. Considered one of the most effective ways to deliver high quality requirements quickly.
Requirements Workshop
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets
Scope Modeling
Vertical Prototype

25. What are the inputs for the task - Define Transitional Requirements?
Business Analysis Plan
Organizational Readiness Assessment - Requirements (Stated) - Solution (Deployed) - Solution (Designed)
Scope Modeling
Share - Enhance - Exploit

26. Ensure that the solution meets the business need and determine the most appropriate response to identified defects.
Formal requirements presentation to stakeholders
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Metrics & KPIs - Prototyping - Risk Analysis - Structured Walkthrough
Risk Analysis
Validate Solution

27. Models a shallow - and possibly wide view of the system's functionality. It typically does not have any business logic running behind the visualization.
Prepare Requirements Package
Scheduled Resources - Supporting Materials
Stakeholder Matrix
Horizontal Prototype

28. Approach to decision making that examines and models the possible consequences of different decisions. Make an optimal decision under conditions of uncertainty.
Vertical Prototype
Business Need - Solution Scope & Business Case - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Reliability - Validity - Timeliness
Decision Analysis

29. 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
Estimation
Ongoing Cost versus Initial Investment - Opportunity Costs - Necessity - Sunk Costs
Document Elicitation Results task
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving - Behavioral Characteristics - Business Knowledge - Communication Skills - Interaction Skills - Software Application

30. What is the output of the task - Manage Requirements Traceability?
Tracing Requirements
Requirements (Traced)
Acceptance - Transfer - Avoidance - Mitigation
Risk Analysis

31. What are the techniques used in the task - Organize Requirements?
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements
Advantages of Document Analysis
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Data Modeling - Functional Decomposition - Organizational Modeling - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases - Scope Modeling - User Stories
Relationships - Impact Analysis - Configuration Management System

32. What are the techniques used in the task Document Elicitation Results?
Enterprise Analysis - often the starting point for initiating a new project
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Problem Tracking - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Activity List
Structural Rules

33. Is generally understood to describe just one way that an actor can accomplish a particular goal
Underlying Competencies
Evaluation Criteria
Scenario
Organizational Readiness Assessment - Requirements (Stated) - Solution (Deployed) - Solution (Designed)

34. 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
Requirements (Traced)
Name - Value/Meanings - Description
Operative Rules
Root Cause Analysis

35. What is the output of the task Plan Requirements Management Process?
Share - Enhance - Exploit
Confirm Elicitation Results
Requirements Management Plan
Interface Analysis

36. What are the tasks in the knowledge area - Solution Assessment & Validation?
Requirements Workshop - Structured Walkthrough
Budgeting
Assess Proposed Solution - Allocate Requirements - Assess Organizational Readiness - Define Transition Requirements - Validate Solution - Evaluate Solution Performance
Decision Making

37. Characteristics that are common to all organizations with a similar purpose and structure - whether or not the are in the same industry.
Identified Defects - Mitigating Actions - Solution Validation Assessment
Business Analysis Plan
Business Requirements - Stakeholder Requirements - Solution Requirements - Transition Requirements
Business Principals

38. What techniques are used in the task Manage Requirements Traceability?
Oral Communications - Teaching - Written Communication
Vertical Prototype
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Problem Tracking - Structured Walkthrough - Checklists
Coverage Matrix - Table or spreadsheet used to manage tracing.

39. List 3 possible forms of a requirements packages.
Prototyping
Formal Documentation - Presentation - Model
Lessons Learned Process
Business Domain - Corporate Culture & Environment - Skills of the Analyst - Requirement Deliverable

40. Industry Knowledge - Organization Knowledge - Solution Knowledge What are the elements of Business Knowledge?
Business Analysis Approach - BA Performance Assessment - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Focus Group
Business Principles & Practices
A statement of the needs of a particular stakeholder or class of stakeholders

41. Useful for ensuring that all stakeholders are in agreement on the format and content of relevant information. Capturing these definitions in a single model ensures that these terms will be used consistently.
Advantages of a Data Dictionary & Glossary
Problem Tracking
Requirements - Requirements Management Plan
Data Dictionary

42. Models a deep - and usually narrow slice of the entire system's functionality.
Risk Analysis
Confirm Elicitation Results
Vertical Prototype
Functions - Markets - Matrix

43. What are the inputs to the task - Assess Proposed Solution?
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Problem Tracking - Root Cause Analysis
Acceptance - Transfer - Avoidance - Mitigation
Organization Modeling
Assumptions & Constraints - Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution Options

44. What techniques are used in the task - Define Solution Scope?
Functional Decomposition - Interface Analysis - Scope Modeling - User Stories - Problem or Vision Statement
Customer
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Modeling - Organization Modeling - Data Modeling
Operative Rules

45. 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.
Verify Requirements
Functional Decomposition
Ethics - Trustworthiness - Personal Organization
Stakeholder Matrix - Onion Diagram

46. Involves assessing a situation - understanding it as fully as possible - and making judgments about possible solutions to the problem.
Acceptance Criteria
Tracing Requirements
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements Management Plan - Scheduled Resources - Solution Scope & Business Case - Supporting Materials
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving

47. The skill of moderating discussions among a group or enable all participants to effectively articulate their views on a topic under discussion and to further ensure that participants in the discussion are able to recognize and appreciate the differin
Facilitation
Decision Analysis - Estimation - Metrics & KPIs - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Relationship to Time - Relationship to Task Completion - Relationship to Contracts - Relationships to Formal and Informal Authority
Data - Ongoing Work - Organizational Change

48. 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.
Analogous Estimation
Organizational Knowledge
Business Need - Solution Scope & Business Case - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Specific - Measurable - Achievable - Relevant - Time-bound Objectives must be SMART.

49. This knowledge area describes the tasks that are performed in order to ensure that solutions meet the business need and to facilitate successful implementation.
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements
Stakeholder Matrix - Onion Diagram
Risk - assumptions - constraints - etc.
Solution Assessment & Validation

50. What are the inputs for the task - Maintain Requirements for Re-use?
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements
Advantages of Document Analysis
Data Flow Diagrams
Cognitive Conflict