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BABOK Enterprise Analysis
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The Requirements Elicitation Task
Future Course of an Enterprise
Provide Management with Info
ER: Elicit Requirements
Internal interest only
2. In the EA Activity - Feasibility Studies - who is the owner?
Relevant stakeholders
Business Circumstances and Needs
Business Analyst
Fixed deadline. no flexibility
3. In the EA Activity - Managing Projects for Value - BAs (1) Works in Partnership with PM to Update Business Case at key checkpoint control gate reviews to ________________ to Help Determine whether to Continue to Invest in Project.
UTRP: Understand Team Roles for the Project
Strategic Plan
Business Analyst
Provide Management with Info
4. 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)
DA: Document Analysis
Enterprise Analysis Activites
Sponsor
Long term goals/objectives
5. Investigative - Feasibility - or Business Architecture Endeavor; Managed as Stand-Alone Project.
Collaborate with SME
Business Stakeholders
Enterprise Analysis in large organizations
Business Architecture
6. In the EA Activity - _______________ - what are the Deliverables? (1) Executive Prsentation; (2) Decision Package
Determine Most Viable Option
New Project Proposal
Executive Team
Solution Assessment and Validation Activities
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
UTRP: Understand Team Roles for the Project
Facilitate Strategic Goal Setting Sessions
Enterprise Analysis
Enterprise Analysis Activites
8. Information Compiled as a Result of Enterprise Analysis Facilitates: _____________ that Manifest themselves in Programs and Supporting Projects.
Maintenance of Current and Future State Business Architecture
Increase the Value Projects Bring to the Organization
Investment Decisions
Relevant stakeholders
9. (1) Invest in most Valuable Projects; (2) Planning - Executing - Controlling project Activities to Attain The Business Value As Early As Possible.
Project Plan
Organization's Reason for Being
Initiatives realized by Organizations
Maintenance of Current and Future State Business Architecture
10. In the EA Activity - Selecting and Prioritizing New Business Opportunities - who is the owner?
Managing Projects has 2 initiatives
Internal interest only
Enterprise Governance Body
Enterprise Analysis in large organizations
11. In the EA Activity - New Project Proposal - who is the owner?
Sr. BAs
Business Sponsor
Balanced Scorecard Reports
Organization's Future
12. In the Activity - Strategic Goal Development - Sr. BA's _______________
UTRP: Understand Team Roles for the Project
New Project Proposal
Facilitate Strategic Goal Setting Sessions
Fixed deadline. no flexibility
13. Why are Companies adopting the practice of Professional Business Analysis? To ___________.
Business Architecture
Determine Most Viable Option
Enterprise Analysis Activites
Increase the Value Projects Bring to the Organization
14. 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
Business Architecture
CMBA: Creating and Maintaining The Business Architecture
Selecting and Prioritizing New Business Opportunities
SRP: Structure Requirements Packages
15. In the EA Activity - Business Architecture Development - the BAs (1) Use Information from Strategic Plan and Goals (2) Lead Development and ________________.
Solution Assessment and Validation Activities
Application
New Project Proposal
Maintenance of Current and Future State Business Architecture
16. The Activities in Enterprise Analysis: (1) Strategic Plan Development; (2) ______________ (3) Business Architecture Developoment; (4) Feasibility Studies; (5) Business Case Development; (6) New Project Proposal; (7) Selecting and Prioritizing New Bus
Maintenance of Current and Future State Business Architecture
Organization's Future
Strategic Goal Development
Measured and Analyzed
17. Living - Breathing Document that Changes as Business Needs Evolve.
Measured and Analyzed
Small - Low-Risk project
Strategic Plan
Enterprise Analysis Activities
18. 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
Owner
Strategic Plan Document
New Project Proposal
Internal interest only
19. 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
6 - 12 months
Business Requirements
Enterprise Analysis Activites
Collaborate with SME
20. As PM matures into Critical Management Discipline - Orgs realize that _______.
Business Architecture
Future Course of an Enterprise
Managing Projects has 2 initiatives
Strategic Goals - Themes - and Measures
21. In the EA Activity - Business Architecture Development - what are the Deliverables?
Business Architecture
Propose New Programs
Organization's Future
Future Course of an Enterprise
22. Higher-level statements of Goals - Objectives - Needs of Enterprise.
Managing Projects has 2 initiatives
Requirements Communications Tasks
Feasibility Study Report
Business Requirements
23. In the EA Activity - Strategic Plan Development - who is the owner?
Inputs
ER: Elicit Requirements
Executive Team
Enterprise Governance Body
24. The Enterprise Analysis Activities? 1) _______________; 2) CFS: Conducting Feasibility Studies; 3) DPS: Determining Project Scope; 4) PBC: Preparing ttheeh Business Case; 5) CIRA: Conducting the Initial Risk Assessment; 6) PDP: Preparing theDecision
Unified structure and context
CMBA: Creating and Maintaining The Business Architecture
Inputs
Application
25. In the EA Activity - Strategic Goal Development - what are the Deliverables?
Significant - High-Risk project
Solution Assessment and Validation Activities
Investment Decisions
Strategic Goals - Themes - and Measures
26. Outputs from Enterprise Analysis will become ________ to: a) Requirements Planning and Management; b) Requirements Elicitation/Gathering; c) Requirements Communication.
Decision-Support Information
Enterprise Analysis in large organizations
Inputs
Business Requirements
27. 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
Initiatives realized by Organizations
Fixed deadline. no flexibility
Support PM in Initiating/ Planning New Project
Actual vs. Expected Benefits
28. 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
UTRP: Understand Team Roles for the Project
Executive Team
6 - 12 months
Support PM in Initiating/ Planning New Project
29. In the EA Activity - Tracking Project Benefits - who is the owner? Business ___________
Business Architecture
UTRP: Understand Team Roles for the Project
Owner
Sponsor
30. 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
Sponsor
CMBA: Creating and Maintaining The Business Architecture
Significant - High-Risk project
Enterprise Analysis
31. (1) Why a Project is Initiated; (2) What a Project will Achieve; (3) Metrics used to Measure Success.
Future Course of an Enterprise
Project Manager
Business Requirements descriptions
Balanced Scorecard Reports
32. 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
Selecting and Prioritizing New Business Opportunities
Executive Team
Business Architecture
6 - 12 months
33. In the EA Activity - Selecting and Prioritizing New Business Opportunities - Sr. BAs (1) ________________; (2) Present Proposal for New Projects.
Selecting and Prioritizing New Business Opportunities
Plan and Facilitate Portfolio Management Meetings
New Project Proposal
Support PM in Initiating/ Planning New Project
34. What does the Business Architecture define?
Relevant stakeholders
UTRP: Understand Team Roles for the Project
Sponsor
6 - 12 months
35. In the EA Activity - Feasibility Studies - what are the Deliverables?
CMBA: Creating and Maintaining The Business Architecture
Sponsor
Feasibility Study Report
Owner
36. Things defined in the Strategic Planning Role: _______________ in Terms of (1) Vision - (2) Mission - (3) Strategic Goals.
37. In the EA Activity - Managing Projects for Value - what are the Deliverables?
Provide Executive Presentation
Updated Business Case at Key Control Gates
Strategic asset
Plan and Facilitate Portfolio Management Meetings
38. In the EA Activity Business Case Development - who is the ______? Business Analyst
Business Analyst
Owner
Unified structure and context
Updated Business Case at Key Control Gates
39. 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
Solution Assessment and Validation Activities
Actual vs. Expected Benefits
Sr. BAs
Business Circumstances and Needs
40. Business Architecture provides ____________ that guides selection and management of programs/projects.
Requirements Communications Tasks
Unified structure and context
Maintenance of Current and Future State Business Architecture
Project Manager
41. Business Analyst collaborates with ____________ to build a Strong Relationship between the Business and Technical Communities when Implementing a New IT-Enabled Business Solution.
New Project Proposal
UTRP: Understand Team Roles for the Project
Selecting and Prioritizing New Business Opportunities
Business Stakeholders
42. 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) _______________
Determine Most Viable Option
Business Architecture
Enterprise Analysis in large organizations
DA: Document Analysis
43. In the EA Activity - Launching New Projects - who is the owner?
Sponsor
Increase the Value Projects Bring to the Organization
Maintenance of Current and Future State Business Architecture
Project Manager
44. The Business Architecture describes: 1) Business Strategy; 2) ___________________; 3) High level business environment through process or functional view; 4) Technological environment; 5) External environment.
CMBA: Creating and Maintaining The Business Architecture
Long term goals/objectives
SRP: Structure Requirements Packages
Enterprise Analysis
45. For Management to _____________ they need: 1) Accurate - (2) Consistent - (3) Useful Information about new ventures and currently funded ventures.
Business Analyst
Invest in Most Valuable Projects
ER: Elicit Requirements
Executive Team
46. In the EA Activity - Launching New Project - what are the Deliverables?
Project Plan
Managing Projects has 2 initiatives
New Project Proposal
Executive Team
47. The 3 ____________________ Techniques: 1) DBM: Data and Behavior Models; 2) P/FM: Process / Flow Models; 3) UM: Usage Models
Strategic asset
Selecting and Prioritizing New Business Opportunities
Low-to-Moderate Risk project
Requirements Analysis and Documentation
48. Business Requirements for future project investments which are also Documented.
Managing Projects for Value
Business Case Document
Identified during Enterprise Analysis Activities
Business Requirements descriptions
49. Business Architecture considered to be: __________ used to understand the current state and plans for the future state of the enterprise.
Strategic asset
Requirements Communications Tasks
Owner
Unified structure and context
50. In the EA Strategic Planning - the BA needs to (1) ___________________; (2) Fully Understand Current Enterprise Strategies.
Business Circumstances and Needs
Invest in Most Valuable Projects
Fully Understand Strategic Planning Process
SRP: Structure Requirements Packages