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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning
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1. What are the different types of learning styles?
Assess Proposed Solution - Allocate Requirements - Assess Organizational Readiness - Define Transition Requirements - Validate Solution - Evaluate Solution Performance
Ethics
Survey/Questionnaire
Visual Learner - Auditory Learner - Kinesthetic Learner
2. Corrective or preventative measures uncovered while performing a Business Analysis Performance Assessment will result in changes to what plan?
Data Flow Diagrams
Business Analysis Plan
Facilitation & Negotiation - Leadership & Influencing - Teamwork
Relationship to Time - Relationship to Task Completion - Relationship to Contracts - Relationships to Formal and Informal Authority
3. What are the techniques used in Plan Business Analysis Approach?
Requirements Analysis
SWOT Analysis
Decision Analysis - Process Modeling - Structured Walkthrough
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Business Rules Analysis - Decision Analysis - Functional Decomposition - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases
4. 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.
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Decision Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Strengths - Weaknesses
Organization Modeling
5. What are the Primitive Data Elements?
Name - Aliases - Values/Meanings - Description
Requirements (Allocated)
Business Rules Analysis
Compliance with regulatory or other standards
6. 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.
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Required Capabilities
Horizontal Prototype
State Diagrams
Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution (Designed) - Solution Scope
7. The goal of this task is validate that the stated requirements expressed by the stakeholder match the stakeholder's understanding of the problem and the stakeholder's needs. Analyst's understanding conforms to the actual desire or intentions of the s
Interviews - Lessons Learned Process - Metrics and KPIs - Problem Tracking - Process Modeling - Root Cause Analysis - Survey/Questionnaire - Variance Analysis
Scope Modeling
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Models - Focus Groups - Interviews - Survey/Questionnaire - Organizational Modeling - Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Force Field Analysis
Confirm Elicitation Results
8. What are the inputs for the task Plan Business Analysis Activities?
Validate Solution
Business Analysis Approach - BA Performance Assessment - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Required Capabilities
Impact Analysis
9. The process of informing stakeholders of metrics of indicators in specified formats at specified intervals.
Reporting
Requirements Documentation - Requirements for Vendor Selection
Facilitation
Focus Group
10. What are the elements of the area - Analytical Thinking and Problem Solving - Successful generation of new ideas - application of new ideas to resolve existing problems - willingness of stakeholders to accept new approaches.
Requirements Package
Creative Thinking - Decision Making - Learning - Problem Solving - Systems Thinking
Data Dictionary & Glossary
Non-functional Requirements Analysis
11. Checklist of characteristics to consider when considering non-functional requirements.
Reliability - Performance Efficiency - Operability - Security - Compatibility - Maintainability - Transferability
Solution Knowledge
Systems Thinking
Data Dictionary & Glossary - Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshops - Survey/Questionnaire
12. Define requirements for capabilities needed to move from an existing solution to a new solution.
Requirements Workshop - Structured Walkthrough
Organizational Knowledge
Requirements - Requirements Management Plan
Define Transitional Requirements
13. What are some examples of stakeholder concerns?
Risk - assumptions - constraints - etc.
Business Case
User Story
Define Transitional Requirements
14. 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.
Analogous Estimation
Data - Ongoing Work - Organizational Change
Delphi Estimation
Decision Analysis - Risk Analysis - MoSCoW Analysis - Timeboxing/Budgeting - Voting
15. What are the techniques used in the task - Prioritize Requirements?
Bottom-up Estimation
Structured Walkthrough
Decision Analysis - Risk Analysis - MoSCoW Analysis - Timeboxing/Budgeting - Voting
Organizational Knowledge
16. Two effective trade-off methods.
Requirements (Analyzed)
Elimination of Dominated Alternative - Ranking Objects on a Similar Scale
Brings them to a Communication on understanding
Use Case
17. What are the inputs to the task - Validate Requirements?
Business Analysis Performance Metrics - Business Analysis Plan - Organization Performance Standards - Requirements Management Plan
Business Case; Stakeholder - Solution or Transition Requirements (Verified)
Customer
Evaluate Solution Performance
18. Three types of organizational structures
Verify Requirements
Enterprise Analysis - often the starting point for initiating a new project
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements (Stated) - Solution Scope
Functions - Markets - Matrix
19. Defines the key terms and data relevant to a business domain.
Data Dictionary & Glossary
Organization Modeling
Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring
Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
20. What are the inputs to the task - Define Business Case?
Define Transitional Requirements
SWOT Analysis
Interface Analysis
Assumptions & Constraints - Business Need - Solution Scope - Stakeholder Concerns
21. What is the output of the task Manage Solution Scope & Requirements?
Data Flow Diagrams
Requirements (Approved)
Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Business Analysis Performance Metrics - Business Analysis Plan - Organization Performance Standards - Requirements Management Plan
22. What techniques are used in the task - Define Solution Scope?
Requirements (Validated)
Functional Decomposition - Interface Analysis - Scope Modeling - User Stories - Problem or Vision Statement
Business Case - Business Need - Requirements - Requirements Management Plan - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Relationships - Impact Analysis - Configuration Management System
23. 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.
Term and Fact Model
To record the conflict in the Requirements Issues Log.
Interviews
Historic Analysis
24. What are some of the key variables used in determining the priority of a requirement?
Elimination
Requirements Management Plan
Business Value - Business or Technical Risk - Implementation Difficulty - Likelihood of Success - Regulatory or Policy Compliance - Relationship to Other Requirements - Stakeholder Agreement - Urgency
Fishbone Diagram - Five Whys
25. This knowledge area involves analyzing stakeholder needs to define solutions that meet those needs - assessing the current state of the business to identify and recommend improvements and the verification and validation of the resulting requirements.
Requirements Analysis
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Organizational Process Assets
Manage Solution Scope & Requirements - Manage Requirements Traceability - Maintain Requirements for Re-use - Prepare Requirements Package - Communicate Requirements
Transition Requirements
26. What are the techniques used in the task Confirm Elicitation Results?
Stakeholder Matrix - Onion Diagram
Requirements Workshop
Elicitation
Interviews - Observation
27. What are the inputs to the task Plan Requirements Management Process?
Business Policy
Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis
Document Analysis
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets
28. What are the Behavioral Characteristics a BA should exhibit?
Business Case; Stakeholder - Solution or Transition Requirements (Verified)
Decision Analysis
Assumptions & Constraints - Business Need - Solution Scope - Stakeholder Concerns
Ethics - Trustworthiness - Personal Organization
29. Strengths - Weaknesses - Opportunities - Threats - A valuable tool to quickly analyze various aspects of the current state of the business process undergoing change.
Brainstorming
SWOT Analysis
Requirements (Stated) - Stakeholder Concerns
Three-point Estimation
30. Communication of requirements does what for stakeholders?
Prepare for Elicitation - Conduct Elicitation Activity - Document Elicitation Results - Confirm Elicitation Results
Prototyping
Define Business Need - Access Capability Gaps - Determine Solution Approach - Define Solution Scope - Define Business Case
Brings them to a Communication on understanding
31. Are used to describe the scope of analysis or the scope of a solution. Serve as a basis for defining and delimiting the scope of business analysis and project work. Allow the definition of a "complete" scope—that is - the boundaries of the scope corr
Problem Solving
User Classes - Profiles or Roles; Concepts & Relationships - Events - Processes - Rules
Scope Modeling
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Business Rules Analysis - Decision Analysis - Functional Decomposition - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases
32. What are the inputs to the task - Verify Requirements?
A statement of the needs of a particular stakeholder or class of stakeholders
Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring
Requirements (Any Except Stated)
Ethics
33. The purpose is to describe the required qualities of a system - such as its usability and performance characteristics.
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Estimation
Manage Solution Scope & Requirements - Manage Requirements Traceability - Maintain Requirements for Re-use - Prepare Requirements Package - Communicate Requirements
Non-functional Requirements Analysis
34. What are the inputs to the task - Assess Organizational Readiness?
Business Analysis Approach - BA Performance Assessment - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Elicitation
Enterprise Architecture - Solution Scope - Solution (Designed) - Stakeholder Concerns
Creative Thinking - Decision Making - Learning - Problem Solving - Systems Thinking
35. A diagram indicating how involved the stakeholder is with the solution.
Enterprise Analysis
Organization Modeling
Document Analysis - SWOT Analysis
Onion Diagram
36. What are the inputs of the task Plan Business Analysis Communication?
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Requirements Management Plan
Evaluate Solution Performance
Requirements (Verified)
37. Used to describe the roles - responsibilities and reporting structures that exist within an organization and to align those structures with the organization's goals.
Requirements (Stated) - Stakeholder Concerns
Organization Modeling
Requirements - Requirements Management Plan
User Story
38. What techniques are used in the task - Prepare Requirements Package?
Structured Walkthrough
Requirements Documentation - Requirements for Vendor Selection
Key Performance Indicator (KPI )
Scheduled Resources - Supporting Materials
39. What are the inputs to the task - Prioritize Requirements?
Business Case - Business Need - Requirements - Requirements Management Plan - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Problem or Vision Statement
Business Need
Implementation SME
40. What does SMART stand for?
Specific - Measurable - Achievable - Relevant - Time-bound Objectives must be SMART.
Problem Solving
Expert Judgment
Organizational Readiness Assessment - Requirements (Stated) - Solution (Deployed) - Solution (Designed)
41. To identify and manage areas of uncertainty that can impact an initiative - solution - or organization.
Risk Analysis
Opportunity Cost
Assumptions & Constraints - Business Need - Solution Scope - Stakeholder Concerns
Formal requirements presentation to stakeholders
42. What are the techniques used in the task Manage Solution Scope & Requirements?
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Modeling - Organization Modeling - Data Modeling
Validate Solution
Problem Tracking - Baselining - Signoff
Timeboxing
43. What are the inputs to the task - Assess Proposed Solution?
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Problem Tracking - Structured Walkthrough - Checklists
Requirements Management Plan - Solution Scope - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities - Stakeholder/Solution or Transition Requirements (Communicated or Traced)
Business Analysis Approach
Assumptions & Constraints - Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution Options
44. What are the techniques used in the task Conduct Stakeholder Analysis?
Root Cause Analysis
Coverage Matrix - Table or spreadsheet used to manage tracing.
Customer
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
45. Two types of conflict.
Requirements (Approved)
Acceptance - Transfer - Avoidance - Mitigation
Delphi Estimation
Emotional and Cognitive
46. This technique shows how information is input - processed - stored and output from a system in a visual representation.
Benchmarking
Data Flow Diagrams
Requirements Package
Data - Ongoing Work - Organizational Change
47. What is the output of the task - Assess Organizational Readiness?
Discounted Cash Flow - Net Present Value - Internal Rate of Return - Average Rate of Return - Pay Back Period - Cost-Benefit Analysis
Transition Requirements
Solution Knowledge
Organizational Readiness Assessment
48. 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 Structure
Solution Performance Assessment
Estimation
Organize Requirements
49. 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
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements - Requirements Structure
Interface Analysis
Discounted Cash Flow - Net Present Value - Internal Rate of Return - Average Rate of Return - Pay Back Period - Cost-Benefit Analysis
Root Cause Analysis
50. 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.
Structural Rules
Non-functional Requirements Analysis
Business Analysis Plan
A statement of the needs of a particular stakeholder or class of stakeholders