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BABOK Enterprise Analysis
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1. The 10 Requirements Analysis and Documentation Tasks:: 1) ______________; 2) CBDM: Create Business Domain Model; 3) AUR: Analyze User Requirements; 4) AFR: Analyze Functional Requirements; 5) AQSR: Analyze Quality of Service Requirements; 6) DAC: Det
Balanced Scorecard Reports
Unified structure and context
Managing Projects for Value
SRP: Structure Requirements Packages
2. In the EA Activity - New Project Proposal - BAs (1) Collect relevant Info about Proposed new Project; (2) _________________; (3) Provide Decision Package to Business Sponsor to propose New Project to Organizational Project Investment Governance Body.
Requirements Communications Tasks
Business Requirements descriptions
Strategic Plan Document
Provide Executive Presentation
3. The attributes of a small - low risk project type: 1) < 6 months; 2) Schedule is flexible; 3) Not complex: easily understood/solution readily available; 4) ________________; 5) Impacts a single bu; 6) No major dependencies/inter-related projects
SRP: Structure Requirements Packages
Organization's Future
Long term goals/objectives
Internal interest only
4. In the EA Activity - Launching New Project - the BAs (1) ___________________. (2) During Project Initiation/Planning Processes - Elicit - Analyze - Document - Validate business Requirements AND Collaborate with System Architect during Intiial Design
Future Course of an Enterprise
Strategic Plan
Low-to-Moderate Risk project
Support PM in Initiating/ Planning New Project
5. In the Activity - Strategic Goal Development - Sr. BA's _______________
Balanced Scorecard Reports
Facilitate Strategic Goal Setting Sessions
Organization's Reason for Being
Invest in Most Valuable Projects
6. What does Strategic Planning Serve to Establish?
Future Course of an Enterprise
Provide Executive Presentation
Business Architecture
6 - 12 months
7. KA of BABOK that Describes Business Analysis Activities need for organizations to (1) Identify Business Opportunities - (2) Build Business Architecture Framework - (3) Determine Optimum Project Investment Path - including New Business and Technical S
Identified during Enterprise Analysis Activities
Enterprise Analysis
Inputs
Managing Projects for Value
8. What does the Business Architecture define?
SRP: Structure Requirements Packages
Relevant stakeholders
Enterprise Governance Body
Investment Decisions
9. The Business Architecture describes: 1) Business Strategy; 2) ___________________; 3) High level business environment through process or functional view; 4) Technological environment; 5) External environment.
Long term goals/objectives
Organization's Reason for Being
Solution Assessment and Validation Activities
UTRP: Understand Team Roles for the Project
10. Business Architecture considered to be: __________ used to understand the current state and plans for the future state of the enterprise.
Strategic Goal Development
Collaborate with SME
Strategic asset
Determine Most Viable Option
11. In the EA Activity - Feasibility Studies - BAs (1) Collaborate with SME; (2) Facilitate team to (a) Identify Solutions; (b) Examine Feasibility of Each Option; (c) _______________
Significant - High-Risk project
Owner
Propose New Programs
Determine Most Viable Option
12. The attributes of a significant - high risk project type: 1) 12 - 24 months; 2) _____________; 3) Problem and solution difficult to define/understand and solution difficult to achieve; 4) Affects core service delivery or directly relates to key initi
UTRP: Understand Team Roles for the Project
Executive Team
Fixed deadline. no flexibility
Balanced Scorecard Reports
13. For Management to _____________ they need: 1) Accurate - (2) Consistent - (3) Useful Information about new ventures and currently funded ventures.
Business Analyst
Investment Decisions
Invest in Most Valuable Projects
Decision-Support Information
14. In the EA Activity - Strategic Goal Development - who is the owner?
Fixed deadline. no flexibility
Executive Team
Business Case Document
Support PM in Initiating/ Planning New Project
15. Living - Breathing Document that Changes as Business Needs Evolve.
Small - Low-Risk project
Collaborate with SME
Strategic Goal Development
Strategic Plan
16. In the EA Strategic Planning - the BA needs to (1) ___________________; (2) Fully Understand Current Enterprise Strategies.
New Project Proposal
Collaborate with SME
Fully Understand Strategic Planning Process
Executive Team
17. The 8 S________________: 1) DAS: Develop Alternate Solutions; 2) ETO: Evaluate Technology Options; 3) FSS: Facilitate the Selection of a Solution: 4) EUS: Ensure the Usability of theSolution; 5) SQAP: Support theQuality Assurance Process; 6) SIS: Sup
Updated Business Case at Key Control Gates
Organization's Reason for Being
Business Circumstances and Needs
Solution Assessment and Validation Activities
18. Enterprise Analysis Activities continue until Information is gathered to ___________ and Supporting Projects to Management for go/no go Decision to (1) Select - (2) Prioritize - (3) Fund new project.
Propose New Programs
Unified structure and context
Invest in Most Valuable Projects
Inputs
19. The Enterprise Architecture consists of five architectures: 1) Business Architecture; 2) Information Architecture; 3) ____________ Architecture; 4) Technology Architecture; 5) Security Architecture
Application
Business Circumstances and Needs
Business Sponsor
ER: Elicit Requirements
20. The 10 Requirements Elicitation Techniques: 1) BS: Brainstorming; 2) _______________; 3) FG: Focus Group; 4) IA: Interface Analysis; 5) I: Interview; 6) O: Observation; 7) P: Prototyping; 8) RW: Requirements Workshop; 9) RE: Reverse Engineering; 10)
Managing Projects for Value
Business Analyst
DA: Document Analysis
Relevant stakeholders
21. Begin fter Executive Team Develops Strategic Plans and Goals
Enterprise Analysis Activites
Low-to-Moderate Risk project
Business Requirements
Provide Executive Presentation
22. Why are Companies adopting the practice of Professional Business Analysis? To ___________.
Low-to-Moderate Risk project
Executive Team
Invest in Most Valuable Projects
Increase the Value Projects Bring to the Organization
23. In the EA Activity - Strategic Plan Development - what are the Deliverables?
Business Circumstances and Needs
Business Requirements descriptions
Facilitate Strategic Goal Setting Sessions
Strategic Plan Document
24. n the EA Activity - Tracking Project Benefits - BAs (1) Ensure Metrics and Measurements are in place; (2) Ensure Metrics and Measurements have been Analyzed and Reported to Business Sponsor to Track ____________________ as Documented in the Business
Actual vs. Expected Benefits
DA: Document Analysis
6 - 12 months
Feasibility Study Report
25. _________________________- considered during the Strategic Planning Process: (1) Investigate Current Strategy as related to Environmental and Market Trends; (2) Assess Current Technology Structure and Strategies to Ensure Fit with Business Vison; (3)
Business Circumstances and Needs
Future Course of an Enterprise
Investment Decisions
CMBA: Creating and Maintaining The Business Architecture
26. In the EA Activity - Strategic Goal Development - what are the Deliverables?
Solution Assessment and Validation Activities
Business Analyst
Strategic Goal Development
Strategic Goals - Themes - and Measures
27. Through Business Analysis Practices - _____________ is: (1) Gathered - (2) Analyzed - (3) Prepared in form of Decision Package for new projects.
Strategic Goal Development
New Project Proposal
Sponsor
Decision-Support Information
28. Enterprise Analysis Activities end after benefits of Project Outcomes are _______________.
Fully Understand Strategic Planning Process
Measured and Analyzed
Strategic Plan
Business Circumstances and Needs
29. The level of enterprise analysis needed for a ____________: 1) Simplified set of enterprise analysis deliverables: a) Simplified Business Case; b) some Business Architecture to provide context.
Plan and Facilitate Portfolio Management Meetings
Small - Low-Risk project
Solution Assessment and Validation Activities
Executive Team
30. In the EA Activity Business Case Development - BAs (1) ____________ - Business sponsor - Business Representatives - IT Management; (2) Scope proposed project; (3) Make Time and cost Estimates; (4) Quantify Business Benefits; (5) Prepare Business Cas
Business Architecture
Maintenance of Current and Future State Business Architecture
Collaborate with SME
Selecting and Prioritizing New Business Opportunities
31. In the EA Activity - Tracking Project Benefits - what are the Deliverables?
Business Stakeholders
Managing Projects has 2 initiatives
Balanced Scorecard Reports
Sr. BAs
32. In the EA Activity - Business Architecture Development - who is the Owner?
New Project Proposal
Business Stakeholders
Enterprise Governance Body
Business Analyst
33. In the EA Activity - Business Architecture Development - the BAs (1) Use Information from Strategic Plan and Goals (2) Lead Development and ________________.
Feasibility Study Report
Maintenance of Current and Future State Business Architecture
Organization's Reason for Being
Facilitate Strategic Goal Setting Sessions
34. Business Architecture provides ____________ that guides selection and management of programs/projects.
Requirements Analysis and Documentation
Long term goals/objectives
Enterprise Analysis
Unified structure and context
35. Business Analyst collaborates with ____________ to build a Strong Relationship between the Business and Technical Communities when Implementing a New IT-Enabled Business Solution.
Business Stakeholders
SRP: Structure Requirements Packages
Updated Business Case at Key Control Gates
Future Course of an Enterprise
36. The 3 ____________________ Techniques: 1) DBM: Data and Behavior Models; 2) P/FM: Process / Flow Models; 3) UM: Usage Models
CMBA: Creating and Maintaining The Business Architecture
Requirements Analysis and Documentation
DA: Document Analysis
Relevant stakeholders
37. What is the level of enterprise analysis needed for a _______________: 1) Modified set of enterprise analysis deliverables: a) Minimally a full Business Case; b) some Business Architecture activities
Low-to-Moderate Risk project
Significant - High-Risk project
Executive Team
Organization's Future
38. In the EA Activity Business Case Development - who is the ______? Business Analyst
Enterprise Analysis Activites
Owner
Internal interest only
Significant - High-Risk project
39. The Strategic Planning Focus: _______________ AND Provide Foundation to Select/Prioritize Programs/Projects.
40. The Requirements Planning and Management Activities: 1) ____________; 2) DBAWDS: Define Business Analyst Work Division Strategy; 3) DRRA: Define Requirements Risk Approach; 4) DPC: Determine Planning Considerations; 5) SRA: Select Requirements Activi
Requirements Analysis and Documentation
UTRP: Understand Team Roles for the Project
Managing Projects has 2 initiatives
Enterprise Governance Body
41. Set of documentation that defines an organization's current and future capabilities;
Small - Low-Risk project
Identified during Enterprise Analysis Activities
Strategic asset
Business Architecture
42. Higher-level statements of Goals - Objectives - Needs of Enterprise.
Business Analyst
Requirements Analysis and Documentation
Business Requirements
Sponsor
43. Outputs from Enterprise Analysis will become ________ to: a) Requirements Planning and Management; b) Requirements Elicitation/Gathering; c) Requirements Communication.
ER: Elicit Requirements
Enterprise Analysis Activities
Strategic Plan
Inputs
44. In the EA Activity - _________________ - what are the Deliverables? (1) Project Selection; (2) Project Priority; (3) Project Charter
Selecting and Prioritizing New Business Opportunities
Updated Business Case at Key Control Gates
Business Stakeholders
New Project Proposal
45. Business Requirements for future project investments which are also Documented.
SRP: Structure Requirements Packages
Identified during Enterprise Analysis Activities
Maintenance of Current and Future State Business Architecture
Enterprise Analysis in large organizations
46. The level of enterprise analysis needed for a ______________: 1) Full set of enterprise analysis deliverables: a) Business Architecture; b) Feasibility Study; c) Business Case; d) Risk Rating; e) Decision Package
Fixed deadline. no flexibility
Fully Understand Strategic Planning Process
Significant - High-Risk project
Requirements Communications Tasks
47. In the EA Activity - New Project Proposal - who is the owner?
Business Sponsor
Identified during Enterprise Analysis Activities
Business Architecture
ER: Elicit Requirements
48. In the EA Activity - _________________ - who is the owner? Business Analyst
Managing Projects for Value
Actual vs. Expected Benefits
Inputs
Identified during Enterprise Analysis Activities
49. The attributes of a low-to-moderate risk project type: 1) ______________; 2) Schedule undergos variations - but deadlines are firm; 3) Complexity small: difficult to understand or solution is difficult to achieve/unclear; 4) Some direct business impa
Business Architecture
Unified structure and context
6 - 12 months
Long term goals/objectives
50. In the EA Activity - Selecting and Prioritizing New Business Opportunities - Sr. BAs (1) ________________; (2) Present Proposal for New Projects.
Relevant stakeholders
Organization's Reason for Being
Plan and Facilitate Portfolio Management Meetings
Future Course of an Enterprise