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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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1. 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.






2. Divides requirements into 4 categories - Must - Should - Could - Won't






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






4. Understanding of the competitive forces that shape an industry - understand the various customer segments that the industry services and the demographic or other characteristics common to that segment.






5. What is the output of the task - Assess Proposed Solution?






6. Models a shallow - and possibly wide view of the system's functionality. It typically does not have any business logic running behind the visualization.






7. What knowledge area discusses the business analysis activities necessary to identify a business need - problem or opportunity - define the capture of the solution and justify the investment necessary to deliver the solution.






8. Ensure that the solution meets the business need and determine the most appropriate response to identified defects.






9. What are the Cultural diversity issues that should be taken into account when planning communication?






10. What are the inputs for the task - Maintain Requirements for Re-use?






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






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






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






14. What is the output of the Plan Business Analysis Approach?






15. Three types of organizational structures






16. 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.






17. What are the techniques used in Plan Business Analysis Activities?






18. What are the techniques used in the task - Validate Solution?






19. Elicitation Results are the inputs for the ____________






20. This will impose constraints to the effort to deploy the solution - including relationships that may exist between solution components.






21. The goal of this task is to meet with stakeholder(s) to gather information regarding their needs.






22. Describes the effect a new solution will have on an organization and whether the organization is prepared for the organizational change the solution implementation will cause.






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






24. Name the 2 types of Software categories that assist in BA productivity.






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






26. What is the output of the task - Define Transition Requirements?






27. What are the techniques used in the task Confirm Elicitation Results?






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






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






30. What is the output of the task - Communicate Requirements?






31. The goal of tracing is to ensure that requirements are linked back to a business objective. Creation of this relationship helps in what other traceability activities?






32. 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.






33. This knowledge area describes the tasks that are performed in order to ensure that solutions meet the business need and to facilitate successful implementation.






34. Includes the standard definition of data elements - their meanings and allowable values.






35. When a conflict arises between stakeholders on one or more documented requirements - the first thing that needs to take place is what?






36. Investigating how a solution is actually used after it is deployed and assessing the effect it has had - both positive and negative.






37. What are the techniques used in the task - Validate Requirements?






38. What is the output of the task - Validate Requirements?






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






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






41. What are the tasks for the knowledge area - Requirements Management & Communication?






42. What are the elements to the task - Define Business Case?






43. 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






44. Communicated Requirements mean what to stakeholders?






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






46. 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.






47. What are the characteristics of quality for a requirements?






48. What are the inputs for the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?






49. Performed to communicate - verify and validate requirements. Is a working session where invited participants review and discuss a set of requirements






50. What are the techniques used in the task - Determine Solution Approach?