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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning
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1. A means to elicit ideas and attitudes about a specific product - service or opportunity in an interactive group environment. The participants share their impressions - preferences and needs - guided by a moderator. - Effective for learning people's a
Focus Group
Plan Business Analysis Approach - Conduct Stakeholder Analysis - Plan Business Analysis Activities - Plan Business Analysis Communication - Plan Requirements Management Process - Manage BA Performance
Solution Performance Assessment
Decision Analysis - Process Modeling - Structured Walkthrough
2. What are the characteristics of quality for a requirements?
Cohesive - Complete - Consistent - Correct - Feasible - Modifiable - Unambiguous - Testable
Relationship to Time - Relationship to Task Completion - Relationship to Contracts - Relationships to Formal and Informal Authority
Requirements (Prioritized)
Business Analysis Approach
3. Describes all the possible outcomes of an attempt to accomplish a particular goal that the solution will support.
Interface Analysis
Use Case
Horizontal Prototype
Acceptance - Transfer - Avoidance - Mitigation
4. What are the inputs to the task Manage Solution Scope & Requirements?
Requirements Management Plan - Solution Scope - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities - Stakeholder/Solution or Transition Requirements (Communicated or Traced)
Requirements (Verified)
Organizational Knowledge
Business Analysis Process Assets
5. What are stakeholder requirements?
They describe what a solution must be capable of doing to meet the needs of one or more stakeholder groups
Requirements Package
Focus Group
Unique Number - Activity Description - Assumptions - Dependencies - Milestones
6. What are the techniques used in the task Define Business Need?
Stakeholder Matrix - Onion Diagram
That they understand them and the current state the requirements are in
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Business Rules Analysis - Focus Groups - Functional Decomposition - Root Cause Analysis
Assumptions & Constraints - Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution Options
7. What are the internal factors in a SWOT Analysis?
Focus Group
Estimation
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Decision Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Strengths - Weaknesses
8. This knowledge area describes the behaviors - knowledge and other characteristics that support the effective performance of a BA.
Evaluation
Clear - Relevant - Economical - Adequate - Quantifiable
Underlying Competencies
Decision Analysis
9. 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 -
Customer
Ethics - Trustworthiness - Personal Organization
Problem Solving
Business Analysis Process Assets
10. What are the inputs for the task Prepare for Elicitation?
Relationships - Impact Analysis - Configuration Management System
Requirements Management Plan
Business Need - Solution Scope & Business Case - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Business Rule
11. Benefits that could have been achieved with an alternative investment rather than this one.
Interviews - Lessons Learned Process - Metrics and KPIs - Problem Tracking - Process Modeling - Root Cause Analysis - Survey/Questionnaire - Variance Analysis
Decision Analysis - Focus Groups - Observation - Survey/Questionnaire
Opportunity Cost
Name - Value/Meanings - Description
12. What are the Composite Data Elements?
Enterprise Analysis - often the starting point for initiating a new project
Data Dictionary
Requirements (Maintained and Reusable)
Sequences - Repetitions - Optional Elements
13. What is the output of the task - Specify & Model Requirements?
Oral Communications - Teaching - Written Communication
Requirements (Analyzed)
Decision Analysis - Estimation - Metrics & KPIs - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Implementation Approach
14. What are the Behavioral Characteristics a BA should exhibit?
Ethics - Trustworthiness - Personal Organization
Stakeholder Matrix
Implementation Approach
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
15. Two effective trade-off methods.
Structured Walkthrough
This person will be involved in monitoring the performance and effectiveness of a solution or its components.
Elimination of Dominated Alternative - Ranking Objects on a Similar Scale
Business Case; Stakeholder - Solution or Transition Requirements (Verified)
16. Domain SME - End User - Implementation SME - and Sponsor: They Affected by analysis techniques used to organize requirements since they need to verify and validate the requirements.
Ethics - Trustworthiness - Personal Organization
State Diagrams
Primary stakeholders in the Organize Requirements task
Business Need - Expert Judgment - Organizational Process Assets
17. What are the techniques used in the task - Assess Capability Gaps?
They describe what a solution must be capable of doing to meet the needs of one or more stakeholder groups
Document Analysis - SWOT Analysis
Decision Making
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Decision Analysis - Vendor Assessment
18. What is the output of the task - Organize Requirements?
Data Dictionary & Glossary
Requirements Structure
State Diagrams
Business Analysis Plan
19. What is the output of the task - Validate Requirements?
Elimination
Requirements (Validated)
Requirements (Stated - Unconfirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Unconfirmed)
Verify Requirements
20. 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.
Elicitation Results
Trustworthiness
Ethics
Strengths - Weaknesses
21. What are the tasks in the knowledge area - Enterprise Analysis?
Share - Enhance - Exploit
Acceptance - Transfer - Avoidance - Mitigation
Define Business Need - Access Capability Gaps - Determine Solution Approach - Define Solution Scope - Define Business Case
Name - Value/Meanings - Description
22. An organized structure for the requirements and a documented set of relationships between them. Is used so the analyst and stakeholders know where a specific requirement should be found. Should have a clear implicit scope (clear to the stakeholders w
Root Cause Analysis
Requirements Structure
Relationship to Time - Relationship to Task Completion - Relationship to Contracts - Relationships to Formal and Informal Authority
That they understand them and the current state the requirements are in
23. What is the output of the task - Assess Proposed Solution?
Assessment of Proposed Solution
Strengths - Weaknesses
Allocate Requirements
Structured Walkthrough
24. Checklist of characteristics to consider when considering non-functional requirements.
Reliability - Performance Efficiency - Operability - Security - Compatibility - Maintainability - Transferability
Advantages of Document Analysis
Confirm Elicitation Results
Enterprise Analysis - often the starting point for initiating a new project
25. What are the different types of learning styles?
Elimination
Risk Analysis
Visual Learner - Auditory Learner - Kinesthetic Learner
Key Performance Indicator (KPI )
26. What are some of the key variables used in determining the priority of a requirement?
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Problem Tracking - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Budgeting
Business Value - Business or Technical Risk - Implementation Difficulty - Likelihood of Success - Regulatory or Policy Compliance - Relationship to Other Requirements - Stakeholder Agreement - Urgency
Formal requirements presentation to stakeholders
27. What are the techniques used in the task Conduct Stakeholder Analysis?
Business Analysis Performance Metrics - Business Analysis Plan - Organization Performance Standards - Requirements Management Plan
Use Case
Organize Requirements
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
28. What are the inputs to the task - Determine Solution Approach?
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Required Capabilities
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements (Stated) - Solution Scope
Decision Analysis - Problem Tacking - Risk Analysis
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements - Requirements Structure
29. What techniques are used in the task - Prepare Requirements Package?
Impact Analysis
Automate or Simplify Work - Improve Access to Information - Reduce Complexity of Interfaces - Increase Consistency of Behavior - Eliminate Redundancy
Visual Learner - Auditory Learner - Kinesthetic Learner
Requirements Documentation - Requirements for Vendor Selection
30. An excellent way to foster creative thinking about a problem. The goal is to produce numerous new ideas and to derive themes for further analysis. - Ability to elicit many ideas in a short time period. - - Non-judgmental environment enables creative
Underlying Competencies
Business Analysis Performance Assessment - Business Analysis Process Assets - Includes a comparison of planned versus actual performance - understanding the root cause of variances from the plan and other information to help understand the level of
Brainstorming
Formal Documentation - Presentation - Model
31. What are the inputs to the task - Define Business Need?
Cohesive - Complete - Consistent - Correct - Feasible - Modifiable - Unambiguous - Testable
Business Goals & Objectives - Requirements (Stated)
Assessment of Proposed Solution
Visual Learner - Auditory Learner - Kinesthetic Learner
32. A formal written specification with possible walk-thru - an informal one is possibly verbal or email Communication
Observation
Formal requirements presentation to stakeholders
Required Capabilities
Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis
33. 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.
Brainstorming
They describe what a solution must be capable of doing to meet the needs of one or more stakeholder groups
Learning
Data - Ongoing Work - Organizational Change
34. This technique shows how information is input - processed - stored and output from a system in a visual representation.
Data Flow Diagrams
Business Principles & Practices
Ongoing Cost versus Initial Investment - Opportunity Costs - Necessity - Sunk Costs
Absolute Reference - Author - Complexity - Ownership - Priority - Risks - Source - Stability - Status - Urgency
35. What are the likely sources of transition requirements?
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Organizational Process Assets
Reliability - Performance Efficiency - Operability - Security - Compatibility - Maintainability - Transferability
Interviews - Lessons Learned Process - Metrics and KPIs - Problem Tracking - Process Modeling - Root Cause Analysis - Survey/Questionnaire - Variance Analysis
Data - Ongoing Work - Organizational Change
36. Two techniques used in Root Cause Analysis?
Business Requirements - Stakeholder Requirements - Solution Requirements - Transition Requirements
Requirements (Stated) - Requirements Structure
Problem Solving
Fishbone Diagram - Five Whys
37. Name some commonly used financial valuation techniques.
Requirements (Stated - Unconfirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Unconfirmed)
Prioritize Requirements - Organize Requirements - Specify & Model Requirements - Define Assumptions & Constraints - Verify Requirements - Validate Requirements
Discounted Cash Flow - Net Present Value - Internal Rate of Return - Average Rate of Return - Pay Back Period - Cost-Benefit Analysis
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Problem Tracking - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
38. 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.
Systems Thinking
Business Analysis Communication Plan
Data Modeling
Cultural Assessment - Operational or Technical Assessment - Stakeholder Impact Analysis
39. The purpose of _______________ is to ensure that a stakeholder's actual underlying needs are understood - rather than the their stated or superficial desires.
Interface Analysis
Impact Analysis
Onion Diagram
Elicitation
40. The goal of this task is to meet with stakeholder(s) to gather information regarding their needs.
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
Conduct Elicitation Activity
Glossary
Reliability - Validity - Timeliness
41. This describes how the chosen solution will deliver the solution scope - may break delivery down into releases or provide a roadmap that indicates the timeframe in which a capability is expected.
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Models - Focus Groups - Interviews - Survey/Questionnaire - Organizational Modeling - Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Force Field Analysis
Implementation Approach
Decision Analysis - Estimation - Metrics & KPIs - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements Management Plan - Scheduled Resources - Solution Scope & Business Case - Supporting Materials
42. The minimum set of requirements that must be met in order for a particular solution to be worth implementing.
Acceptance - Transfer - Avoidance - Mitigation
Acceptance Criteria
BABOK
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
43. What is the output of the task Conduct Elicitation Activity?
Metrics & KPIs
Elicitation Results
Implementation Approach
Structured Walkthrough
44. 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
Document Analysis
Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Interface Analysis
45. Maps the level of stakeholder influence and interest in a project.
Parametric Estimation
Fishbone Diagram - Five Whys
Vertical Prototype
Stakeholder Matrix
46. What are the inputs for the task Confirm Elicitation Results?
Requirements (Stated - Unconfirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Unconfirmed)
Interface Analysis
Business Analysis Plan
Decision Analysis - Estimation - Metrics & KPIs - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Vendor Assessment
47. 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.
A statement of the needs of a particular stakeholder or class of stakeholders
This person will be involved in monitoring the performance and effectiveness of a solution or its components.
Data Flow Diagrams
Benchmarking
48. What are the inputs to the task - Validate Requirements?
Business Case; Stakeholder - Solution or Transition Requirements (Verified)
Creative Thinking - Decision Making - Learning - Problem Solving - Systems Thinking
Requirements (Stated - Unconfirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Unconfirmed)
Reliability - Validity - Timeliness
49. What is the output of the task - Maintain Requirements for Re-use?
Requirements (Maintained and Reusable)
Assumptions & Constraints - Required Capabilities - Solution Approach
Requirements (Stated) - Requirements Structure
Tracing Requirements
50. What are the techniques used in Plan Business Analysis Approach?
Decision Analysis - Process Modeling - Structured Walkthrough
Interface Analysis
Vertical Prototype
Business Principles & Practices