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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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1. What are the inputs for the task - Maintain Requirements for Re-use?






2. 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.






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






4. What are the techniques used in Plan Business Analysis Activities?






5. What is the output of the task - Specify & Model Requirements?






6. Communication of requirements does what for stakeholders?






7. 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?






8. The BA is a stakeholder in ______ business analysis activities.






9. Models a deep - and usually narrow slice of the entire system's functionality.






10. What are the techniques used in the task - Assess Organizational Readiness?






11. 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.






12. What is the output of the task Conduct Elicitation Activity?






13. Performed to communicate - verify and validate requirements. Is a working session where invited participants review and discuss a set of requirements






14. What are the inputs to the task - Define Business Case?






15. Benefits that could have been achieved with an alternative investment rather than this one.






16. What are the underlying competencies a BA should possess?






17. Gathering information relevant to a decision - breaking down the information relevant to a decision - making comparisons and tradeoffs between similar and dissimilar options and identifying the option that is most desirable.






18. What is the output of the task Confirm Elicitation Results?






19. What are the Cultural diversity issues that should be taken into account when planning communication?






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






21. What are the elements of the task Plan Requirements Management Process?






22. 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.






23. 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






24. This knowledge area describes the tasks that are performed in order to ensure that solutions meet the business need and to facilitate successful implementation.






25. Is generally understood to describe just one way that an actor can accomplish a particular goal






26. Long-term - ongoing and qualitative statements of a state or condition that the organization is seeking to establish and maintain.






27. What are the strategies for a negative risk?






28. What is the output of the task - Validate Requirements?






29. A package should contain a consistent - cohesive and coherent set of requirements. This describes the ____________.






30. What are the inputs to the task Plan Requirements Management Process?






31. 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.






32. Shows how the behavior of a concept - entity or object changes in response to events during its lifetime - and defines which events cause a transition between those states.






33. What techniques are used in the task - Define Solution Scope?






34. What is the output of the task - Maintain Requirements for Re-use?






35. This will impose constraints to the effort to deploy the solution - including relationships that may exist between solution components.






36. What are the inputs to the task - Verify Requirements?






37. What is the output of the task - Organize Requirements?






38. What is the output of the task Plan Business Analysis Activities?






39. Elements identified for each activity and task.






40. Who is the primary stakeholder in the Define Business Case task?






41. Creates a conceptual model of the work that needs to be completed to deliver the new business solution.






42. This task ensures that requirement specifications and models meet the necessary standard of quality to allow them to be used effectively to guide further work. Requirements have been defined correctly.






43. 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.






44. How is the Operational Support stakeholder utilized in the Evaluate Solution Performance task?






45. Checklist of characteristics to consider when considering non-functional requirements.






46. This task determines if an organization can justify the investment required to deliver a proposed solution.






47. What is the output of the task - Assess Proposed Solution?






48. The people involved - the interactions between them - the external forces affecting their behavior and all other relevant elements and factors.






49. 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.






50. Describes all the possible outcomes of an attempt to accomplish a particular goal that the solution will support.