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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning
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1. 7 knowledge areas of ________ : Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring - Elicitation - Requirements Management & Communication - Enterprise Analysis - Requirements Analysis - Solution Assessment & Validation - Underlying Competencies
Expert Judgment
Define Transitional Requirements
Customer
BABOK
2. What are the techniques used in the task - Organize Requirements?
Organizational Readiness Assessment - Requirements (Stated) - Solution (Deployed) - Solution (Designed)
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Data Modeling - Functional Decomposition - Organizational Modeling - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases - Scope Modeling - User Stories
Requirements Structure
Operative Rules
3. The people involved - the interactions between them - the external forces affecting their behavior and all other relevant elements and factors.
System
Scheduled Resources - Supporting Materials
Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution (Designed) - Solution Scope
Decision Analysis
4. What are the techniques used in Plan Business Analysis Approach?
Decision Analysis - Process Modeling - Structured Walkthrough
Timeboxing
Acceptance & Evaluation Technique
Delphi Estimation
5. What are the inputs to the task - Prioritize Requirements?
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements (Stated) - Solution Scope
Timeboxing
Business Case - Business Need - Requirements - Requirements Management Plan - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements Management Plan - Scheduled Resources - Solution Scope & Business Case - Supporting Materials
6. To define the rules that govern decisions in an organization and that define - constrain or enable organization operations.
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Problem Tracking - Root Cause Analysis
General Purpose Applications & Specialized Applications
Business Rules Analysis
Transition Requirements
7. To identify interfaces between solutions and/or solution components and define requirements that describe how they will interact.
All
Decision Analysis - Process Modeling - Structured Walkthrough
Historic Analysis
Interface Analysis
8. What is the output of the task - Assess Proposed Solution?
Assessment of Proposed Solution
Business Domain - Corporate Culture & Environment - Skills of the Analyst - Requirement Deliverable
Validate Requirements
Formal Documentation - Presentation - Model
9. Ensure that the solution meets the business need and determine the most appropriate response to identified defects.
User Story
A statement of the needs of a particular stakeholder or class of stakeholders
Validate Solution
Stakeholder Matrix
10. Organizational culture - Stakeholder preference - complexity - organizational maturity and availability of resources are all factors used to do what?
Perform tailoring exercises
Ongoing Cost versus Initial Investment - Opportunity Costs - Necessity - Sunk Costs
Compliance with regulatory or other standards
Vendor Assessment
11. 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
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements (Stated) - Solution Scope
Operative Rules
Throw-away Prototype
Requirements Documentation - Requirements for Vendor Selection
12. What is the output of the task Prepare for Elicitation?
Decision Analysis
Scheduled Resources - Supporting Materials
Observation
Interviews - Observation
13. Measures progress towards a strategic goal or objective.
Automate or Simplify Work - Improve Access to Information - Reduce Complexity of Interfaces - Increase Consistency of Behavior - Eliminate Redundancy
This person will be involved in monitoring the performance and effectiveness of a solution or its components.
Key Performance Indicator (KPI )
Data Dictionary
14. What are the inputs to the task - Define Business Need?
Repository - Traceability - Requirement Attributes - Prioritization Process - Change Management - Tailoring the Requirements Management Process
Business Goals & Objectives - Requirements (Stated)
Discounted Cash Flow - Net Present Value - Internal Rate of Return - Average Rate of Return - Pay Back Period - Cost-Benefit Analysis
Business Need - Solution Scope & Business Case - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
15. Familiarity with the range of commercially available solutions or suppliers can assist with the identification of possible alternatives.
Solution Knowledge
Share - Enhance - Exploit
Prepare Requirements Package
Cohesive - Complete - Consistent - Correct - Feasible - Modifiable - Unambiguous - Testable
16. What are the different types of learning styles?
Stakeholder Matrix
Visual Learner - Auditory Learner - Kinesthetic Learner
Business Principals
Data Dictionary
17. What is the output of the task - Assess Capability Gaps?
Relationships - Impact Analysis - Configuration Management System
Elicitation Results
Visual Learner - Auditory Learner - Kinesthetic Learner
Required Capabilities
18. What is the output of the task - Define Transition Requirements?
Absolute Reference - Author - Complexity - Ownership - Priority - Risks - Source - Stability - Status - Urgency
Requirements (Maintained and Reusable)
Allocate Requirements
Transition Requirements
19. What are the Behavioral Characteristics a BA should exhibit?
Enterprise Analysis - often the starting point for initiating a new project
Ethics - Trustworthiness - Personal Organization
Benefits - Costs - Risk Assessment - Results Measurement
Manage Solution Scope & Requirements - Manage Requirements Traceability - Maintain Requirements for Re-use - Prepare Requirements Package - Communicate Requirements
20. What are the inputs for the task - Define Solution Scope?
Three-point Estimation
Interface Analysis
Elicitation
Assumptions & Constraints - Required Capabilities - Solution Approach
21. What are the inputs of the task Plan Business Analysis Communication?
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements
Decision Analysis - Risk Analysis - MoSCoW Analysis - Timeboxing/Budgeting - Voting
Timeboxing
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
22. Elicitation Results are the inputs for the ____________
Parametric Estimation
Document Elicitation Results task
Repository - Traceability - Requirement Attributes - Prioritization Process - Change Management - Tailoring the Requirements Management Process
Historic Analysis
23. What are the classifications used to describe requirements
Delphi Estimation
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Ongoing Cost versus Initial Investment - Opportunity Costs - Necessity - Sunk Costs
Business Requirements - Stakeholder Requirements - Solution Requirements - Transition Requirements
24. A requirement that does not deliver direct or indirect value to a stakeholder is a strong candidate for what?
Structural Rules
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Problem Tracking - Root Cause Analysis
Elimination
Requirements Workshop - Structured Walkthrough
25. The purpose is to measure the performance of solutions - solution components - and other matters of interest to stakeholders.
Metrics & KPIs
Solution Assessment & Validation
Repository - Traceability - Requirement Attributes - Prioritization Process - Change Management - Tailoring the Requirements Management Process
Strengths - Weaknesses
26. List 3 possible forms of a requirements packages.
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Metrics & KPIs - Prototyping - Risk Analysis - Structured Walkthrough
Formal Documentation - Presentation - Model
Requirements Management Plan - Solution Scope - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities - Stakeholder/Solution or Transition Requirements (Communicated or Traced)
Cultural Assessment - Operational or Technical Assessment - Stakeholder Impact Analysis
27. What are the techniques used in Plan Business Analysis Communication?
Oral Communications - Teaching - Written Communication
Structured Walkthrough
Requirements (Prioritized)
Interviews - Lessons Learned Process - Metrics and KPIs - Problem Tracking - Process Modeling - Root Cause Analysis - Survey/Questionnaire - Variance Analysis
28. Models a shallow - and possibly wide view of the system's functionality. It typically does not have any business logic running behind the visualization.
Horizontal Prototype
Ethics - Trustworthiness - Personal Organization
All
Assumptions & Constraints - Required Capabilities - Solution Approach
29. What are the techniques used in the task - Define Transition Requirements?
Document Elicitation Results task
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Modeling - Organization Modeling - Data Modeling
Requirements - Requirements Management Plan
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
30. Two techniques used in Root Cause Analysis?
Solution Assessment & Validation
Ethics - Trustworthiness - Personal Organization
Requirements (Any Except Stated)
Fishbone Diagram - Five Whys
31. 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 -
Automate or Simplify Work - Improve Access to Information - Reduce Complexity of Interfaces - Increase Consistency of Behavior - Eliminate Redundancy
Vertical Prototype
Conduct Elicitation Activity
Solution Performance Assessment
32. Define the requirements that must be met in order for a solution to be considered acceptable to key stakeholders.
Dependencies
Acceptance & Evaluation Technique
Vertical Prototype
They describe what a solution must be capable of doing to meet the needs of one or more stakeholder groups
33. What are the tasks in Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring?
Document Analysis - SWOT Analysis
Dependencies
Define Business Need - Access Capability Gaps - Determine Solution Approach - Define Solution Scope - Define Business Case
Plan Business Analysis Approach - Conduct Stakeholder Analysis - Plan Business Analysis Activities - Plan Business Analysis Communication - Plan Requirements Management Process - Manage BA Performance
34. Allocate stakeholder and solution requirements among solution components and releases in order to maximize the possible business value given the options and alternatives generated by the design team.
Allocate Requirements
Requirements (Allocated)
Absolute Reference - Author - Complexity - Ownership - Priority - Risks - Source - Stability - Status - Urgency
Requirements - Requirements Management Plan
35. What are the inputs to the task - Organize Requirements?
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Decision Analysis - Estimation - SWOT Analysis - Feasibility Analysis
Automate or Simplify Work - Improve Access to Information - Reduce Complexity of Interfaces - Increase Consistency of Behavior - Eliminate Redundancy
Personal Organization
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements (Stated) - Solution Scope
36. This task determines if an organization can justify the investment required to deliver a proposed solution.
Define Business Case
Goals
Dependencies
User Classes - Profiles or Roles; Concepts & Relationships - Events - Processes - Rules
37. Models a deep - and usually narrow slice of the entire system's functionality.
Rolling Wave
User Story
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Modeling - Organization Modeling - Data Modeling
Vertical Prototype
38. Techniques used in the task Plan Requirements Management Process.
Cohesive - Complete - Consistent - Correct - Feasible - Modifiable - Unambiguous - Testable
Decision Analysis - Problem Tacking - Risk Analysis
Stakeholder Matrix - Onion Diagram
Strengths - Weaknesses
39. What is the output of the task - Determine Solution Approach?
Requirements Documentation - Requirements for Vendor Selection
Requirements Structure
Solution Approach
Estimation
40. What are the inputs for the task - Maintain Requirements for Re-use?
Solution Approach
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements
Brainstorming
Prepare for Elicitation - Conduct Elicitation Activity - Document Elicitation Results - Confirm Elicitation Results
41. To identify and manage areas of uncertainty that can impact an initiative - solution - or organization.
Risk Analysis
Unique Number - Activity Description - Assumptions - Dependencies - Milestones
Impact Analysis - Requirements Coverage - Requirements Allocation
Document Analysis
42. What are the inputs to the task Plan Requirements Management Process?
This person will be involved in monitoring the performance and effectiveness of a solution or its components.
Estimation
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets
Cultural Assessment - Operational or Technical Assessment - Stakeholder Impact Analysis
43. What are the likely sources of transition requirements?
Data - Ongoing Work - Organizational Change
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Data Modeling - Functional Decomposition - Organizational Modeling - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases - Scope Modeling - User Stories
The Business Analysis Communication Plan
Solution Scope
44. Are written to describe how an actor interacts with a solution to accomplish one or more of that actor's goals - or to respond to an event.
Customer
Identified Defects - Mitigating Actions - Solution Validation Assessment
Scenarios & Use Cases
Reliability - Validity - Timeliness
45. 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?
Emotional and Cognitive
Impact Analysis - Requirements Coverage - Requirements Allocation
Prepare Requirements Package
Elicitation Results
46. When a conflict arises between stakeholders on one or more documented requirements - the first thing that needs to take place is what?
To record the conflict in the Requirements Issues Log.
Requirements (Verified)
Learning
Plan Business Analysis Approach - Conduct Stakeholder Analysis - Plan Business Analysis Activities - Plan Business Analysis Communication - Plan Requirements Management Process - Manage BA Performance
47. What are the techniques used in the task - Validate Requirements?
Personal Organization
Automate or Simplify Work - Improve Access to Information - Reduce Complexity of Interfaces - Increase Consistency of Behavior - Eliminate Redundancy
Business Analysis Communication Plan
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Metrics & KPIs - Prototyping - Risk Analysis - Structured Walkthrough
48. Investigating how a solution is actually used after it is deployed and assessing the effect it has had - both positive and negative.
Business Principals
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements Management Plan - Scheduled Resources - Solution Scope & Business Case - Supporting Materials
Implementation SME
Evaluate Solution Performance
49. Name the 2 types of Stakeholder maps.
Functions - Markets - Matrix
Manage Solution Scope & Requirements - Manage Requirements Traceability - Maintain Requirements for Re-use - Prepare Requirements Package - Communicate Requirements
Stakeholder Matrix - Onion Diagram
Business Goals & Objectives - Requirements (Stated)
50. Maps the level of stakeholder influence and interest in a project.
Verify Requirements
Stakeholder Matrix
Business Rules Analysis
Interviews - Observation