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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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1. Elicitation Results are the inputs for the ____________
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements (Stated) - Solution Scope
Expert Judgment
Document Elicitation Results task
Throw-away Prototype

2. Understanding of how a change to a component affects the system as a whole - identification of reinforcing and compensating feedback loops - understanding of how systems adapt to external pressures and changes - A system as a whole will have properti
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Data Modeling - Functional Decomposition - Organizational Modeling - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases - Scope Modeling - User Stories
Systems Thinking
Structural Rules
Discounted Cash Flow - Net Present Value - Internal Rate of Return - Average Rate of Return - Pay Back Period - Cost-Benefit Analysis

3. What is the output of the task Conduct Stakeholder Analysis?
Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Enterprise Analysis
Stakeholder Matrix - Onion Diagram
Responsible - Accountable - Consulted - Informed

4. This knowledge area describes the problem definition and analysis - business case development - feasibility studies and the definition of solution scope.
Cultural Assessment - Operational or Technical Assessment - Stakeholder Impact Analysis
Lessons Learned Process
Enterprise Analysis
Term and Fact Model

5. 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.
Define Transitional Requirements
Scenario
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving
Benchmarking

6. What are the inputs for the task Confirm Elicitation Results?
Historic Analysis
Requirements (Stated - Unconfirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Unconfirmed)
Requirements Documentation - Requirements for Vendor Selection
General Purpose Applications & Specialized Applications

7. What are the inputs to the task - Allocate Resources?
Business Need - Expert Judgment - Organizational Process Assets
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Problem Tracking - Root Cause Analysis
Leadership
Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution (Designed) - Solution Scope

8. What are the inputs for the task Prepare for Elicitation?
Business Need - Solution Scope & Business Case - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Requirements (Validated)
Confirm Elicitation Results
Scheduled Resources - Supporting Materials

9. This knowledge area describes the tasks that are performed in order to ensure that solutions meet the business need and to facilitate successful implementation.
Business Value - Business or Technical Risk - Implementation Difficulty - Likelihood of Success - Regulatory or Policy Compliance - Relationship to Other Requirements - Stakeholder Agreement - Urgency
Solution Scope
Requirements (Allocated)
Solution Assessment & Validation

10. 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.
Discounted Cash Flow - Net Present Value - Internal Rate of Return - Average Rate of Return - Pay Back Period - Cost-Benefit Analysis
Assess Organization Readiness
Solution Assessment & Validation
Requirements Workshop - Structured Walkthrough

11. A diagram indicating how involved the stakeholder is with the solution.
Business Case; Stakeholder - Solution or Transition Requirements (Verified)
Onion Diagram
Industry Knowledge
Decision Analysis - Estimation - Metrics & KPIs - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Vendor Assessment

12. What is the output of the task - Organize Requirements?
Evaluation Criteria
Historic Analysis
Solution (Constructed) - Requirements (Prioritized and Validated)
Requirements Structure

13. What are some of the key variables used in determining the priority of a requirement?
Business Value - Business or Technical Risk - Implementation Difficulty - Likelihood of Success - Regulatory or Policy Compliance - Relationship to Other Requirements - Stakeholder Agreement - Urgency
Stakeholder Matrix - Onion Diagram
Elimination of Dominated Alternative - Ranking Objects on a Similar Scale
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Modeling - Organization Modeling - Data Modeling

14. The systematic and objective assessment of a solution to determine its status and efficacy in meeting objectives over time - and to identify ways to improve the solution to better meet objectives.
Clear - Relevant - Economical - Adequate - Quantifiable
Evaluation
Business Analysis Plan
Requirements (Stated - Confirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Confirmed)

15. This will impose constraints to the effort to deploy the solution - including relationships that may exist between solution components.
Ethics - Trustworthiness - Personal Organization
Estimation
Dependencies
Business Goals & Objectives - Requirements (Stated)

16. The minimum set of requirements that must be met in order for a particular solution to be worth implementing.
Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
User Classes - Profiles or Roles; Concepts & Relationships - Events - Processes - Rules
Acceptance Criteria
Requirements (Traced)

17. Elements of a Requirements Management Plan include?
Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring
Relationships - Impact Analysis - Configuration Management System
Creative Thinking - Decision Making - Learning - Problem Solving - Systems Thinking
That they understand them and the current state the requirements are in

18. Using this technique the business analyst has collected the deliverables - activities - tasks - and estimates from all the involved stakeholders and rolls them up to get a total for all the activities and tasks.
Requirements (Allocated)
Bottom-up Estimation
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements - Requirements Structure
Identified Defects - Mitigating Actions - Solution Validation Assessment

19. 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
Root Cause Analysis
Cohesive - Complete - Consistent - Correct - Feasible - Modifiable - Unambiguous - Testable
Leadership
Plan Business Analysis Approach - Conduct Stakeholder Analysis - Plan Business Analysis Activities - Plan Business Analysis Communication - Plan Requirements Management Process - Manage BA Performance

20. What are the output(s) of the task - Validate Solution?
Facilitation
Identified Defects - Mitigating Actions - Solution Validation Assessment
Business Value - Business or Technical Risk - Implementation Difficulty - Likelihood of Success - Regulatory or Policy Compliance - Relationship to Other Requirements - Stakeholder Agreement - Urgency
Plan Business Analysis Approach - Conduct Stakeholder Analysis - Plan Business Analysis Activities - Plan Business Analysis Communication - Plan Requirements Management Process - Manage BA Performance

21. What does SMART stand for?
Decision Making
Requirements Structure
Specific - Measurable - Achievable - Relevant - Time-bound Objectives must be SMART.
Communicated Requirements

22. Long-term - ongoing and qualitative statements of a state or condition that the organization is seeking to establish and maintain.
Data Modeling
Risk Analysis
Solution Assessment & Validation
Goals

23. Three types of organizational structures
Functions - Markets - Matrix
Strengths - Weaknesses
Automate or Simplify Work - Improve Access to Information - Reduce Complexity of Interfaces - Increase Consistency of Behavior - Eliminate Redundancy
Requirements Analysis

24. Elements identified for each activity and task.
Necessity - Effort - Subset - Cover - Value
Unique Number - Activity Description - Assumptions - Dependencies - Milestones
That they understand them and the current state the requirements are in
Glossary

25. The goal of this task is to meet with stakeholder(s) to gather information regarding their needs.
Systems Thinking
Conduct Elicitation Activity
Responsible - Accountable - Consulted - Informed
Coverage Matrix - Table or spreadsheet used to manage tracing.

26. Creates a conceptual model of the work that needs to be completed to deliver the new business solution.
Budgeting
Requirements Management Plan - Solution Scope - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities - Stakeholder/Solution or Transition Requirements (Communicated or Traced)
Assumptions & Constraints - Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution Options
Functional Decomposition

27. What are the inputs to the task - Assess Capability Gaps?
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Solution Performance Assessment
Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Requirements Management Plan
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements - Requirements Structure

28. Characteristics that are common to all organizations with a similar purpose and structure - whether or not the are in the same industry.
Non-functional Requirements Analysis
Estimation
Business Goals & Objectives - Requirements (Stated)
Business Principals

29. Means of eliciting information from many people - sometimes anonymously - in a relatively short period of time
Perform tailoring exercises
Business Case; Stakeholder - Solution or Transition Requirements (Verified)
Advantages of a Data Dictionary & Glossary
Survey/Questionnaire

30. What are the techniques used in the task - Validate Requirements?
Coverage Matrix - Table or spreadsheet used to manage tracing.
Structured Walkthrough
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Metrics & KPIs - Prototyping - Risk Analysis - Structured Walkthrough
Bottom-up Estimation

31. The people involved - the interactions between them - the external forces affecting their behavior and all other relevant elements and factors.
Leadership
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Business Rules Analysis - Focus Groups - Functional Decomposition - Root Cause Analysis
Underlying Competencies
System

32. What are the techniques used in the task - Define Business Case?
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
Decision Analysis - Estimation - Metrics & KPIs - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Business Analysis Plan
Business Case - Business Need - Requirements - Requirements Management Plan - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities

33. Use of parameters - multiplied by the number of hours. (COCOMO II - Function Point Counting - Use Case Points - and Story Points)
Specific - Measurable - Achievable - Relevant - Time-bound Objectives must be SMART.
Compliance with regulatory or other standards
Document Analysis
Parametric Estimation

34. What are the elements of Communication Skills?
Enterprise Analysis - often the starting point for initiating a new project
State Diagrams
Interviews - Observation
Oral Communications - Teaching - Written Communication

35. What are the techniques used in the task - Prioritize Requirements?
Acceptance Criteria
Decision Analysis - Risk Analysis - MoSCoW Analysis - Timeboxing/Budgeting - Voting
Business Analysis Approach - BA Performance Assessment - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Formal requirements presentation to stakeholders

36. Forecast the cost and effort involved in pursuing a course of action. Used to develop a better understanding of the possible range of costs and effort associated with any initiative
Estimation
Solution (Constructed) - Requirements (Prioritized and Validated)
Business Need
Plan Business Analysis Approach - Conduct Stakeholder Analysis - Plan Business Analysis Activities - Plan Business Analysis Communication - Plan Requirements Management Process - Manage BA Performance

37. A good indicator has 5 characteristics:
Solution Knowledge
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
Trustworthiness
Clear - Relevant - Economical - Adequate - Quantifiable

38. 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.
Expert Judgment
Advantages of a Data Dictionary & Glossary
Influence on the project - organizational - project health and other stakeholders
Repository - Traceability - Requirement Attributes - Prioritization Process - Change Management - Tailoring the Requirements Management Process

39. 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
Visual Learner - Auditory Learner - Kinesthetic Learner
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Data Modeling - Functional Decomposition - Organizational Modeling - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases - Scope Modeling - User Stories
Necessity - Effort - Subset - Cover - Value
Brainstorming

40. What are the techniques used in the task Define Business Need?
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Business Rules Analysis - Focus Groups - Functional Decomposition - Root Cause Analysis
Assess Organization Readiness
Business Goals & Objectives - Requirements (Stated)
Data Dictionary & Glossary - Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshops - Survey/Questionnaire

41. What are the techniques used in the task - Allocate Resources?
Requirements (Stated) - Requirements Structure
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Business Rules Analysis - Decision Analysis - Functional Decomposition - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases
Business Case
Rolling Wave

42. What is the output of the task Document Elicitation Results?
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Problem Tracking - Root Cause Analysis
Business Analysis Communication Plan
Requirements (Stated) - Stakeholder Concerns
Business Principals

43. What are the techniques used in the task - Communicate Requirements?
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Problem Tracking - Structured Walkthrough - Checklists
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Business Rules Analysis - Decision Analysis - Functional Decomposition - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases
Requirements Workshop - Structured Walkthrough
Validate Solution

44. What are the strategies for a negative risk?
Business Analysis Plan
Acceptance - Transfer - Avoidance - Mitigation
Necessity - Effort - Subset - Cover - Value
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets

45. What are the techniques used in the task - Determine Solution Approach?
Acceptance & Evaluation Technique
Learning
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Decision Analysis - Estimation - SWOT Analysis - Feasibility Analysis
Absolute Reference - Author - Complexity - Ownership - Priority - Risks - Source - Stability - Status - Urgency

46. What are the inputs to the Plan Business Analysis Approach?
Business Need - Expert Judgment - Organizational Process Assets
Stakeholder Concerns
Decision Analysis - Risk Analysis - MoSCoW Analysis - Timeboxing/Budgeting - Voting
Prototyping

47. Useful for ensuring that all stakeholders are in agreement on the format and content of relevant information. Capturing these definitions in a single model ensures that these terms will be used consistently.
Requirements Analysis
Advantages of a Data Dictionary & Glossary
Rolling Wave
Benchmarking

48. What is the output of the task - Maintain Requirements for Re-use?
Business Domain - Corporate Culture & Environment - Skills of the Analyst - Requirement Deliverable
All
Requirements (Maintained and Reusable)
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Problem Tracking - Structured Walkthrough - Checklists

49. This knowledge area involves analyzing stakeholder needs to define solutions that meet those needs - assessing the current state of the business to identify and recommend improvements and the verification and validation of the resulting requirements.
They describe what a solution must be capable of doing to meet the needs of one or more stakeholder groups
Requirements Analysis
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Problem Tracking - Structured Walkthrough - Checklists
Stakeholder Concerns

50. What is the output of the Manage Business Analysis Performance task?
Data Dictionary & Glossary
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
Throw-away Prototype
Sequence Diagrams