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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

Subjects : certifications, business-skills

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1. Investigating how a solution is actually used after it is deployed and assessing the effect it has had - both positive and negative.
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Organizational Process Assets
Scope Modeling
Evaluate Solution Performance
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements Management Plan - Scheduled Resources - Solution Scope & Business Case - Supporting Materials

2. Knowing the dependencies and relationships between requirements helps when determining the sequence in which requirements are to be addressed. Common relations are:
Necessity - Effort - Subset - Cover - Value
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Metrics & KPIs - Prototyping - Risk Analysis - Structured Walkthrough
Leadership
Historic Analysis

3. A brief description of functionality that users need from a solution to meet a business objective. The goal they are trying to accomplish - and any additional information that may be critical to understanding the scope of the story.
User Story
Enterprise Analysis - often the starting point for initiating a new project
Decision Analysis
BABOK

4. What are the inputs for the task - Define Solution Scope?
Assumptions & Constraints - Required Capabilities - Solution Approach
Problem Tracking
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Data Modeling - Functional Decomposition - Organizational Modeling - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases - Scope Modeling - User Stories
Document Analysis

5. What should be considered when establishing a Change Management process?
Leadership
Determine the Process - Who will Authorize Changes - Impact Analysis - Wording of the Request - Coordinate Prioritization of Change
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Models - Focus Groups - Interviews - Survey/Questionnaire - Organizational Modeling - Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Force Field Analysis
Business Domain - Corporate Culture & Environment - Skills of the Analyst - Requirement Deliverable

6. What are the inputs to the task - Allocate Resources?
Business Requirements - Stakeholder Requirements - Solution Requirements - Transition Requirements
BABOK
Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution (Designed) - Solution Scope
Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring

7. 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.
Bottom-up Estimation
Requirements Management Plan
Historic Analysis
Business Rule

8. What are the inputs to the task Manage Requirements Traceability?
Define Transitional Requirements
Requirements (Approved)
BABOK
Requirements - Requirements Management Plan

9. What are the factors of influence by stakeholders on a project?
Impact Analysis
Influence on the project - organizational - project health and other stakeholders
Creative Thinking - Decision Making - Learning - Problem Solving - Systems Thinking
Primary stakeholders in the Organize Requirements task

10. What are the techniques used in Plan Business Analysis Activities?
Identified Defects - Mitigating Actions - Solution Validation Assessment
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Solution Performance Assessment
Estimation - Functional Decomposition - Risk Analysis
All

11. Characteristics that are common to all organizations with a similar purpose and structure - whether or not the are in the same industry.
Decision Making
Requirements Workshop
Business Principals
Share - Enhance - Exploit

12. What are the elements of Communication Skills?
Define Business Case
Oral Communications - Teaching - Written Communication
Decision Analysis - Risk Analysis - MoSCoW Analysis - Timeboxing/Budgeting - Voting
Data - Ongoing Work - Organizational Change

13. What are the inputs to the task - Define Business Need?
Evaluation Criteria
Tracing Requirements
Business Goals & Objectives - Requirements (Stated)
Advantages of Document Analysis

14. The goal of this task is to create a set of views of the requirements for the new business solution that are comprehensive - complete - consistent and understood from all stakeholder perspectives.
Organize Requirements
Acceptance - Transfer - Avoidance - Mitigation
Tracing Requirements
Data Modeling

15. Approach to decision making that examines and models the possible consequences of different decisions. Make an optimal decision under conditions of uncertainty.
Description - Raised by - Date Identified - Impact - Priority - Need by Date - Owner - Status - Action Needed to be Resolved - Responsible for Action - Completion Date of Action - Outcome
Vertical Prototype
Leadership
Decision Analysis

16. What are the techniques used in the task Manage Solution Scope & Requirements?
Requirements Workshop - Structured Walkthrough
Problem Tracking - Baselining - Signoff
Business Analysis Process Assets
Solution Approach

17. What are the techniques used in the task - Define Assumptions & Constraints?
Business Case; Stakeholder - Solution or Transition Requirements (Verified)
Historic Analysis
Requirements Management Plan - Solution Scope - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities - Stakeholder/Solution or Transition Requirements (Communicated or Traced)
Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis

18. Details user interface requirements and integrates them with other requirements such as use cases - scenarios - data and business rules. Stakeholders often find this to be a concrete means of identifying - describing and validating their interface ne
Solution Assessment & Validation
Learning
Business Need - Expert Judgment - Organizational Process Assets
Prototyping

19. Means of eliciting information from many people - sometimes anonymously - in a relatively short period of time
Data Dictionary & Glossary
Decision Making
Cultural Assessment - Operational or Technical Assessment - Stakeholder Impact Analysis
Survey/Questionnaire

20. To assess the ability of a potential vendor to meet commitments regarding a product or service
Reporting
Validate Solution
Vendor Assessment
Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis

21. What is the output of the task Conduct Elicitation Activity?
Elicitation Results
Plan Business Analysis Approach - Conduct Stakeholder Analysis - Plan Business Analysis Activities - Plan Business Analysis Communication - Plan Requirements Management Process - Manage BA Performance
Enterprise Analysis
Business Analysis Plan

22. What is the output of the task Manage Solution Scope & Requirements?
Solution Scope Definition - Implementation Approach - Dependencies
Business Domain - Corporate Culture & Environment - Skills of the Analyst - Requirement Deliverable
Requirements (Approved)
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Problem Tracking - Structured Walkthrough - Checklists

23. 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.
Assess Proposed Solution - Allocate Requirements - Assess Organizational Readiness - Define Transition Requirements - Validate Solution - Evaluate Solution Performance
Focus Group
Organizational Knowledge
Problem Tracking - Baselining - Signoff

24. Who is the primary stakeholder in the Define Business Case task?
Business Analysis Approach - BA Performance Assessment - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Requirements Package
The Sponsor
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Data Modeling - Functional Decomposition - Organizational Modeling - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases - Scope Modeling - User Stories

25. 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.
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements - Requirements Structure
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Requirements - Requirements Package
Onion Diagram
Interviews

26. Communicated Requirements mean what to stakeholders?
The Sponsor
Stakeholder Matrix - Onion Diagram
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
That they understand them and the current state the requirements are in

27. What is the output to the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?
Solution (Constructed) - Requirements (Prioritized and Validated)
Solution Performance Assessment
Requirements (Verified)
Functions - Markets - Matrix

28. Limited to "as-is" perspective. - Existing documentation may not be up-to-date or valid. - Can be a time-consuming and even tedious process to locate the relevant information
Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis
Name - Aliases - Values/Meanings - Description
Cohesive - Complete - Consistent - Correct - Feasible - Modifiable - Unambiguous - Testable
Advantages of Document Analysis

29. Set of requirements that will be used to choose between multiple solutions.
Identified Defects - Mitigating Actions - Solution Validation Assessment
Interviews - Observation
Evaluation Criteria
Survey/Questionnaire

30. What are stakeholder requirements?
Solution Performance Assessment
Onion Diagram
They describe what a solution must be capable of doing to meet the needs of one or more stakeholder groups
Stakeholder Matrix - Onion Diagram

31. What are the tasks in the knowledge area - Requirements Analysis?
Prioritize Requirements - Organize Requirements - Specify & Model Requirements - Define Assumptions & Constraints - Verify Requirements - Validate Requirements
Assumptions & Constraints - Required Capabilities - Solution Approach
Data - Ongoing Work - Organizational Change
Root Cause Analysis

32. What are the inputs to the task - Organize Requirements?
Acceptance Criteria
Data Flow Diagrams
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements (Stated) - Solution Scope
To record the conflict in the Requirements Issues Log.

33. What is the output of the task - Define Transition Requirements?
Customer
Transition Requirements
Analogous Estimation
Delphi Estimation

34. The purpose of _______________ is to ensure that a stakeholder's actual underlying needs are understood - rather than the their stated or superficial desires.
Validate Requirements
Elicitation
Enterprise Architecture - Solution Scope - Solution (Designed) - Stakeholder Concerns
Formal Documentation - Presentation - Model

35. Confidence in the decision analysis process that a decision is correct - new information or alternative that cause a decision to be revisited are new and not simply overlooked - decisions are effective in addressing underlying problem - impact of unc
Decision Making
Decision Analysis - Focus Groups - Observation - Survey/Questionnaire
Brings them to a Communication on understanding
Cohesive - Complete - Consistent - Correct - Feasible - Modifiable - Unambiguous - Testable

36. Two effective trade-off methods.
Elimination of Dominated Alternative - Ranking Objects on a Similar Scale
Specific - Measurable - Achievable - Relevant - Time-bound Objectives must be SMART.
Define Transitional Requirements
Evaluate Solution Performance

37. What are the techniques used in the task - Assess Proposed Solution?
Necessity - Effort - Subset - Cover - Value
Allocate Requirements
Metrics & KPIs
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Decision Analysis - Vendor Assessment

38. What are the characteristics of Interaction Skills?
Use Case
Facilitation & Negotiation - Leadership & Influencing - Teamwork
Business Rule
Decision Analysis - Estimation - Metrics & KPIs - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Vendor Assessment

39. To define the rules that govern decisions in an organization and that define - constrain or enable organization operations.
Prepare for Elicitation - Conduct Elicitation Activity - Document Elicitation Results - Confirm Elicitation Results
The Sponsor
Fishbone Diagram - Five Whys
Business Rules Analysis

40. What are the tasks in the knowledge area - Enterprise Analysis?
Define Business Need - Access Capability Gaps - Determine Solution Approach - Define Solution Scope - Define Business Case
Tracing Requirements
Define Business Case
Problem or Vision Statement

41. A continuous process of collecting data to determine how well a solution has been implemented compared to expected results.
Solution (Constructed) - Requirements (Prioritized and Validated)
All
Monitoring
Dependencies

42. 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.
Fishbone Diagram - Five Whys
Reliability - Performance Efficiency - Operability - Security - Compatibility - Maintainability - Transferability
Operative Rules
Industry Knowledge

43. What are the inputs to the task - Assess Organizational Readiness?
Ethics - Trustworthiness - Personal Organization
Enterprise Architecture - Solution Scope - Solution (Designed) - Stakeholder Concerns
Requirements Documentation - Requirements for Vendor Selection
Timeboxing

44. This will impose constraints to the effort to deploy the solution - including relationships that may exist between solution components.
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Organizational Process Assets
Business Analysis Approach
Dependencies
Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis

45. What are some of the key variables used in determining the priority of a requirement?
Business Domain - Corporate Culture & Environment - Skills of the Analyst - Requirement Deliverable
Business Value - Business or Technical Risk - Implementation Difficulty - Likelihood of Success - Regulatory or Policy Compliance - Relationship to Other Requirements - Stakeholder Agreement - Urgency
Budgeting
Metrics & KPIs

46. Revised process and templates for BA deliverables should be analyzed and documented and lessons learned should be recorded.
Functional Decomposition - Interface Analysis - Scope Modeling - User Stories - Problem or Vision Statement
Business Policy
Root Cause Analysis
Business Analysis Process Assets

47. Performed to communicate - verify and validate requirements. Is a working session where invited participants review and discuss a set of requirements
Allocate Requirements
Requirements - Requirements Management Plan
Structured Walkthrough
Requirements Workshop - Structured Walkthrough

48. What are the elements to the task - Define Business Case?
Interviews - Lessons Learned Process - Metrics and KPIs - Problem Tracking - Process Modeling - Root Cause Analysis - Survey/Questionnaire - Variance Analysis
Formal Documentation - Presentation - Model
Solution Scope
Benefits - Costs - Risk Assessment - Results Measurement

49. 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.
Impact Analysis
Business Analysis Communication Plan
Monitoring
Requirements Workshop - Structured Walkthrough

50. What are the inputs to the task Plan Requirements Management Process?
Evaluation Criteria
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets
Oral Communications - Teaching - Written Communication
Enterprise Analysis - often the starting point for initiating a new project