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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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1. What are some of the ways a BA can help to improve the operations of a business? Acceptance and Evaluation Criteria Definition - Business Rules Analysis - Data Dictionary and Glossary - Data Flow Diagrams - Data Modeling - Functional Decomposition -






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






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






4. What are the tasks in the knowledge area - Solution Assessment & Validation?






5. To assess the ability of a potential vendor to meet commitments regarding a product or service






6. Elicitation Results are the inputs for the ____________






7. What are the Behavioral Characteristics a BA should exhibit?






8. 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?






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






10. 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






11. The knowledge area that covers how BAs determine which activities are necessary in order to complete a business analysis effort.






12. What are the techniques used in the task - Organize Requirements?






13. What techniques are used in the task - Prepare Requirements Package?






14. This knowledge area describes the problem definition and analysis - business case development - feasibility studies and the definition of solution scope.






15. What are the internal factors in a SWOT Analysis?






16. What techniques are used in the task Prepare for Elicitation?






17. While eliciting requirements it is important to guard against scope creep - This activity will ensure that the requirements should be included since they meet the business goal/objectives.






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






19. Stakeholders involved the BA in decision making - acceptance of the BA's recommendations - willingness to discuss difficult or controversial topics with the BA - stakeholders willing to support or defend the BA when problems occur.






20. Communication of requirements does what for stakeholders?






21. Are used to model the logic of usage scenarios - by showing the information passed between objects in the system through the execution of the scenario. Shows how classes and objects interact during a scenario.






22. What are the inputs to the task - Assess Capability Gaps?






23. What are the inputs to the task Manage Requirements Traceability?






24. This knowledge area describes how the BA assesses proposed solutions and determines which solution best fits the business need - identifies gaps and shortcomings to solutions and determines necessary workarounds or changes to the solution.






25. What are the techniques used in the task - Define Assumptions & Constraints?






26. What are the techniques used in the task - Communicate Requirements?






27. The purpose is to describe the required qualities of a system - such as its usability and performance characteristics.






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






29. What stakeholder receives noticeable negative impact if information is incorrectly transferred from the old to new solution?






30. What are the inputs for the task Prepare for Elicitation?






31. Measures progress towards a strategic goal or objective.






32. The objective of this technique is to determine how companies achieve their superior performance levels and use that information to design projects to improve operations of the enterprise.






33. Estimating relies on the expertise of those who have performed the work in the past. These experts can be internal or external to the project team or to the organization.






34. 7 knowledge areas of ________ : Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring - Elicitation - Requirements Management & Communication - Enterprise Analysis - Requirements Analysis - Solution Assessment & Validation - Underlying Competencies






35. Documents terms unique to a domain.






36. Approach to decision making that examines and models the possible consequences of different decisions. Make an optimal decision under conditions of uncertainty.






37. What is the output of the task Document Elicitation Results?






38. Confidence in the problem solving process that a selected solution is correct - new solution options can be evaluated effectively using the problem solving framework - selected solutions meet the defined objectives and solve the underlying problem -






39. Organizational culture - Stakeholder preference - complexity - organizational maturity and availability of resources are all factors used to do what?






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






41. Involves assessing a situation - understanding it as fully as possible - and making judgments about possible solutions to the problem.






42. This prototype seeks to quickly uncover and clarify interface requirements using simple tools - sometimes just paper and pencil. The focus is on functionality that is not easily elicited by other techniques - has conflicting viewpoints - or is diffic






43. What are the techniques used in the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?






44. Elements identified for each activity and task.






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






46. The goal of this task is to ensure that all requirements support the delivery of value to the business - fulfill its goal and objectives and meet a stakeholder need.






47. What are the inputs to the task - Assess Proposed Solution?






48. What are the inputs to the task - Communicate Requirements?






49. 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.






50. This technique represents the types of peoples - places - things and concepts that are important to the business - attributes associated with them and the significant business relationships among them.