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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What are the underlying competencies a BA should possess?
Estimation - Functional Decomposition - Risk Analysis
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements
Activity List
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving - Behavioral Characteristics - Business Knowledge - Communication Skills - Interaction Skills - Software Application
2. What is the output of the task - Define Business Case?
Acceptance & Evaluation Technique
Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution (Designed) - Solution Scope
Name - Aliases - Values/Meanings - Description
Business Case
3. What are the inputs to the task - Organize Requirements?
Estimation
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements (Stated) - Solution Scope
Requirements Package
Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring
4. What are the tasks in the knowledge area - Enterprise Analysis?
Business Analysis Performance Metrics - Business Analysis Plan - Organization Performance Standards - Requirements Management Plan
Define Business Need - Access Capability Gaps - Determine Solution Approach - Define Solution Scope - Define Business Case
Formal Documentation - Presentation - Model
Expert Judgment
5. What are the inputs to the task Manage Business Analysis Performance?
Problem or Vision Statement
Emotional and Cognitive
Business Analysis Performance Metrics - Business Analysis Plan - Organization Performance Standards - Requirements Management Plan
Facilitation
6. What is the output of the task - Manage Requirements Traceability?
Decision Analysis
Requirements (Traced)
This person will be involved in monitoring the performance and effectiveness of a solution or its components.
The Business Analysis Communication Plan
7. What are the inputs to the task - Verify Requirements?
Requirements (Any Except Stated)
Elicitation Results
Requirements (Verified)
Requirements (Allocated)
8. Corrective or preventative measures uncovered while performing a Business Analysis Performance Assessment will result in changes to what plan?
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements - Requirements Structure
Business Analysis Plan
Brainstorming
BABOK
9. What are the techniques used in the task Define Business Need?
Customer
SWOT Analysis
Learning
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Business Rules Analysis - Focus Groups - Functional Decomposition - Root Cause Analysis
10. Elements identified for each activity and task.
Assumptions & Constraints - Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution Options
Acceptance Criteria
Unique Number - Activity Description - Assumptions - Dependencies - Milestones
Business Need
11. What are the techniques used in the task Conduct Stakeholder Analysis?
Sequences - Repetitions - Optional Elements
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Brainstorming - Interviews - Organizational Modeling - Process Modeling - Requirements Workshop - Risk Analysis - Scenarios & Use Cases - User Stories - Scope Modeling - Survey/Questionnaire - RACI Matrix
Prepare Requirements Package
Requirements (Stated) - Stakeholder Concerns
12. What is the output of the task - Assess Proposed Solution?
Coverage Matrix - Table or spreadsheet used to manage tracing.
Assessment of Proposed Solution
Implementation Approach
Prototyping
13. Uses history as a basis for estimating. It is similar to analogous estimation - but is used not only for the top-down estimate - but for the detailed tasks as well.
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements - Requirements Structure
Business Case
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Solution Performance Assessment
Historic Analysis
14. What are the inputs for the task - Define Transitional Requirements?
Business Principals
Reporting
Organizational Readiness Assessment - Requirements (Stated) - Solution (Deployed) - Solution (Designed)
Requirements (Maintained and Reusable)
15. What are the elements to the task - Define Business Case?
Benefits - Costs - Risk Assessment - Results Measurement
Requirements Workshop - Structured Walkthrough
Ongoing Cost versus Initial Investment - Opportunity Costs - Necessity - Sunk Costs
SWOT Analysis
16. What are the Primitive Data Elements?
Evaluate Solution Performance
Solution Assessment & Validation
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Business Rules Analysis - Decision Analysis - Functional Decomposition - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases
Name - Aliases - Values/Meanings - Description
17. What are the techniques used in the task - Validate Solution?
Three-point Estimation
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Problem Tracking - Structured Walkthrough - Checklists
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Problem Tracking - Root Cause Analysis
Elimination of Dominated Alternative - Ranking Objects on a Similar Scale
18. What is the output of the task - Define Assumptions & Constraints?
Expert Judgment
They describe what a solution must be capable of doing to meet the needs of one or more stakeholder groups
Assumptions & Constraints
Bottom-up Estimation
19. A good indicator has 5 characteristics:
Requirements Management Plan - Solution Scope - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities - Stakeholder/Solution or Transition Requirements (Communicated or Traced)
SWOT Analysis
Clear - Relevant - Economical - Adequate - Quantifiable
Problem Tracking - Baselining - Signoff
20. Involves assessing a situation - understanding it as fully as possible - and making judgments about possible solutions to the problem.
Data Flow Diagrams
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving
Verify Requirements
Benchmarking
21. 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.
Functional Decomposition
Organizational Knowledge
Requirements Workshop
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Problem Tracking - Root Cause Analysis
22. What is the output of the task Plan Business Analysis Communication?
State Diagrams
Formal Documentation - Presentation - Model
Business Analysis Communication Plan
Prepare for Elicitation - Conduct Elicitation Activity - Document Elicitation Results - Confirm Elicitation Results
23. 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.
Document Elicitation Results task
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Brainstorming - Interviews - Organizational Modeling - Process Modeling - Requirements Workshop - Risk Analysis - Scenarios & Use Cases - User Stories - Scope Modeling - Survey/Questionnaire - RACI Matrix
Learning
Reliability - Validity - Timeliness
24. What are the techniques used in Plan Business Analysis Activities?
Estimation - Functional Decomposition - Risk Analysis
Elimination
Data - Ongoing Work - Organizational Change
Interface Analysis
25. Use of parameters - multiplied by the number of hours. (COCOMO II - Function Point Counting - Use Case Points - and Story Points)
Business Analysis Approach
Parametric Estimation
Key Performance Indicator (KPI )
Discounted Cash Flow - Net Present Value - Internal Rate of Return - Average Rate of Return - Pay Back Period - Cost-Benefit Analysis
26. What are the techniques used in the task Manage Business Analysis Performance?
Bottom-up Estimation
Interviews - Lessons Learned Process - Metrics and KPIs - Problem Tracking - Process Modeling - Root Cause Analysis - Survey/Questionnaire - Variance Analysis
Requirements (Prioritized)
Specific - Measurable - Achievable - Relevant - Time-bound Objectives must be SMART.
27. Who is the primary stakeholder in the Define Business Case task?
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
Define Business Need - Access Capability Gaps - Determine Solution Approach - Define Solution Scope - Define Business Case
Scheduled Resources - Supporting Materials
The Sponsor
28. Elements of a Requirements Management Plan include?
Perform tailoring exercises
Reliability - Validity - Timeliness
Document Elicitation Results task
Relationships - Impact Analysis - Configuration Management System
29. To identify interfaces between solutions and/or solution components and define requirements that describe how they will interact.
Requirements Structure
Problem Tracking
Functional Decomposition - Interface Analysis - Scope Modeling - User Stories - Problem or Vision Statement
Interface Analysis
30. What are the inputs for the task - Maintain Requirements for Re-use?
Activity List
Industry Knowledge
Allocate Requirements
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements
31. What are the different types of learning styles?
Historic Analysis
Visual Learner - Auditory Learner - Kinesthetic Learner
Data Dictionary
Ethics
32. The knowledge area that covers how BAs determine which activities are necessary in order to complete a business analysis effort.
Structured Walkthrough
Stakeholder Matrix
User Classes - Profiles or Roles; Concepts & Relationships - Events - Processes - Rules
Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring
33. Define requirements for capabilities needed to move from an existing solution to a new solution.
Three-point Estimation
Impact Analysis
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets
Define Transitional Requirements
34. What are the techniques used in the task - Define Assumptions & Constraints?
All
BABOK
Use Case
Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis
35. What is the output of the task - Validate Requirements?
Organizational Readiness Assessment - Requirements (Stated) - Solution (Deployed) - Solution (Designed)
Requirements (Validated)
The Business Analysis Communication Plan
State Diagrams
36. 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
Requirements Structure
Survey/Questionnaire
Enterprise Analysis
Requirements (Any Except Stated)
37. 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
Requirements (Any Except Stated)
Plan Business Analysis Approach - Conduct Stakeholder Analysis - Plan Business Analysis Activities - Plan Business Analysis Communication - Plan Requirements Management Process - Manage BA Performance
Business Rules Analysis
Estimation
38. List 3 possible forms of a requirements packages.
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Problem or Vision Statement
Formal Documentation - Presentation - Model
SWOT Analysis
39. Three types of organizational structures
Acceptance & Evaluation Technique
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Required Capabilities
Functions - Markets - Matrix
Scheduled Resources - Supporting Materials
40. What is the output of the task - Determine Solution Approach?
Solution Approach
Creative Thinking - Decision Making - Learning - Problem Solving - Systems Thinking
Decision Analysis
Requirements - Requirements Management Plan
41. The purpose of _______________ is to ensure that a stakeholder's actual underlying needs are understood - rather than the their stated or superficial desires.
Decision Analysis - Problem Tacking - Risk Analysis
Elicitation
Problem Tracking
Strengths - Weaknesses
42. What are the techniques used in the task Document Elicitation Results?
To record the conflict in the Requirements Issues Log.
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Problem Tracking - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Sequence Diagrams
Validate Solution
43. What is the output to the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?
Functional Decomposition
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements (Stated) - Solution Scope
Solution Performance Assessment
Cohesive - Complete - Consistent - Correct - Feasible - Modifiable - Unambiguous - Testable
44. Name the 2 types of Software categories that assist in BA productivity.
Requirements Documentation - Requirements for Vendor Selection
Decision Analysis - Focus Groups - Observation - Survey/Questionnaire
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements - Requirements Structure
General Purpose Applications & Specialized Applications
45. What are the inputs to the Plan Business Analysis Approach?
Formal Documentation - Presentation - Model
Business Need - Expert Judgment - Organizational Process Assets
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Data Modeling - Functional Decomposition - Organizational Modeling - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases - Scope Modeling - User Stories
Functional Decomposition
46. 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
Risk Analysis
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements Management Plan - Scheduled Resources - Solution Scope & Business Case - Supporting Materials
Operative Rules
Throw-away Prototype
47. The people involved - the interactions between them - the external forces affecting their behavior and all other relevant elements and factors.
System
Systems Thinking
Business Need - Expert Judgment - Organizational Process Assets
Delphi Estimation
48. 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.
Functional Decomposition
Compliance with regulatory or other standards
Impact Analysis
Primary stakeholders in the Organize Requirements task
49. This will impose constraints to the effort to deploy the solution - including relationships that may exist between solution components.
Dependencies
Estimation - Functional Decomposition - Risk Analysis
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Business Rules Analysis - Decision Analysis - Functional Decomposition - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases
Underlying Competencies
50. Elicitation Results are the inputs for the ____________
Document Elicitation Results task
Problem Tracking
State Diagrams
Primary stakeholders in the Organize Requirements task