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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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1. Ability to find information - on-time completion of tasks - efficiency in the completion of work - ability to easily identify all outstanding work and the status of each work item.
Personal Organization
Requirements (Approved)
Interviews - Lessons Learned Process - Metrics and KPIs - Problem Tracking - Process Modeling - Root Cause Analysis - Survey/Questionnaire - Variance Analysis
A statement of the needs of a particular stakeholder or class of stakeholders

2. The purpose of _______________ is to ensure that a stakeholder's actual underlying needs are understood - rather than the their stated or superficial desires.
BABOK
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Organizational Process Assets
Elicitation
Term and Fact Model

3. Techniques used in the task Plan Requirements Management Process.
That they understand them and the current state the requirements are in
Estimation
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
Decision Analysis - Problem Tacking - Risk Analysis

4. Divides requirements into 4 categories - Must - Should - Could - Won't
Implementation Approach
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Solution Performance Assessment
MoSCoW Analysis
Interviews - Observation

5. What is the output of the task - Allocate Resources?
Requirements (Allocated)
Transition Requirements
Benchmarking
Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution (Designed) - Solution Scope

6. Rules that are intended to help determine when something is or is not true - or when things fall into a specific category. They are expressed as rules because they describe categorizations that may change over time.
Horizontal Prototype
Organization Modeling
Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis
Structural Rules

7. What are the techniques used in the task - Validate Requirements?
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements (Stated) - Solution Scope
Verify Requirements
Organization Modeling
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Metrics & KPIs - Prototyping - Risk Analysis - Structured Walkthrough

8. What are the inputs to the task - Define Business Need?
A statement of the needs of a particular stakeholder or class of stakeholders
Business Goals & Objectives - Requirements (Stated)
That they understand them and the current state the requirements are in
Reliability - Validity - Timeliness

9. A specific - actionable - testable directive that is under the control of an organization and supports a business policy.
Business Rule
Business Analysis Approach
Enterprise Analysis
Clear - Relevant - Economical - Adequate - Quantifiable

10. Used to describe the roles - responsibilities and reporting structures that exist within an organization and to align those structures with the organization's goals.
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Requirements - Requirements Package
Interviews - Lessons Learned Process - Metrics and KPIs - Problem Tracking - Process Modeling - Root Cause Analysis - Survey/Questionnaire - Variance Analysis
Organization Modeling
Data Dictionary

11. What are the inputs to the task - Validate Requirements?
Business Case; Stakeholder - Solution or Transition Requirements (Verified)
Scheduled Resources - Supporting Materials
Vendor Assessment
Necessity - Effort - Subset - Cover - Value

12. What are stakeholder requirements?
They describe what a solution must be capable of doing to meet the needs of one or more stakeholder groups
Relationship to Time - Relationship to Task Completion - Relationship to Contracts - Relationships to Formal and Informal Authority
Identified Defects - Mitigating Actions - Solution Validation Assessment
Define Transitional Requirements

13. What are the techniques used in the task - Assess Capability Gaps?
Requirements Management Plan - Solution Scope - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities - Stakeholder/Solution or Transition Requirements (Communicated or Traced)
Activity List
Organizational Readiness Assessment - Requirements (Stated) - Solution (Deployed) - Solution (Designed)
Document Analysis - SWOT Analysis

14. What are the general modeling concepts that are relevant to business analysis?
Business Analysis Plan
User Classes - Profiles or Roles; Concepts & Relationships - Events - Processes - Rules
Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring
Expert Judgment

15. Most optimistic estimate; most pessimistic estimate; most likely estimate
Three-point Estimation
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Problem Tracking - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Impact Analysis
Sequences - Repetitions - Optional Elements

16. What are the inputs for the task - Define Transitional Requirements?
Brings them to a Communication on understanding
Requirements Management & Communication
Organizational Readiness Assessment - Requirements (Stated) - Solution (Deployed) - Solution (Designed)
Repository - Traceability - Requirement Attributes - Prioritization Process - Change Management - Tailoring the Requirements Management Process

17. What are the techniques used in the task Manage Business Analysis Performance?
All
Requirements (Verified)
Historic Analysis
Interviews - Lessons Learned Process - Metrics and KPIs - Problem Tracking - Process Modeling - Root Cause Analysis - Survey/Questionnaire - Variance Analysis

18. Name some commonly used financial valuation techniques.
Business Analysis Approach - BA Performance Assessment - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Discounted Cash Flow - Net Present Value - Internal Rate of Return - Average Rate of Return - Pay Back Period - Cost-Benefit Analysis
Requirements Package
Rolling Wave

19. This knowledge area describes the tasks that are performed in order to ensure that solutions meet the business need and to facilitate successful implementation.
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving
Solution Assessment & Validation
Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution (Designed) - Solution Scope
Lessons Learned Process

20. What should be considered when establishing a Change Management process?
Business Rules Analysis
Assumptions & Constraints - Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution Options
Determine the Process - Who will Authorize Changes - Impact Analysis - Wording of the Request - Coordinate Prioritization of Change
Business Requirements - Stakeholder Requirements - Solution Requirements - Transition Requirements

21. This knowledge area describes the problem definition and analysis - business case development - feasibility studies and the definition of solution scope.
Assumptions & Constraints
Enterprise Analysis
Rolling Wave
Functions - Markets - Matrix

22. Issues that may influence the replacement or elimination decision of a system include:
Business Domain - Corporate Culture & Environment - Skills of the Analyst - Requirement Deliverable
Ongoing Cost versus Initial Investment - Opportunity Costs - Necessity - Sunk Costs
Business Analysis Approach - BA Performance Assessment - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Bottom-up Estimation

23. Two techniques used in Root Cause Analysis?
Formal Documentation - Presentation - Model
Cohesive - Complete - Consistent - Correct - Feasible - Modifiable - Unambiguous - Testable
Fishbone Diagram - Five Whys
Business Requirements - Identified Defects - Solution Performance Metrics - Solution (Deployed)

24. A formal written specification with possible walk-thru - an informal one is possibly verbal or email Communication
Data Dictionary
Formal requirements presentation to stakeholders
Reporting
Business Policy

25. What is the output of the task Conduct Elicitation Activity?
Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Problem Tracking - Structured Walkthrough - Checklists
Elicitation Results
Budgeting

26. What are the strategies for a negative risk?
A statement of the needs of a particular stakeholder or class of stakeholders
Define Business Case
Acceptance - Transfer - Avoidance - Mitigation
Requirements (Any Except Stated)

27. What are the techniques used in the task Manage Solution Scope & Requirements?
Non-functional Requirements Analysis
Structured Walkthrough
User Classes - Profiles or Roles; Concepts & Relationships - Events - Processes - Rules
Problem Tracking - Baselining - Signoff

28. What are the inputs to the task - Assess Proposed Solution?
Solution Assessment & Validation
Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis
Opportunity Cost
Assumptions & Constraints - Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution Options

29. 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.
Bottom-up Estimation
Advantages of a Data Dictionary & Glossary
Business Case - Business Need - Requirements - Requirements Management Plan - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Requirements (Approved)

30. What are the tasks in the knowledge area - Enterprise Analysis?
Non-functional Requirements Analysis
Functional Decomposition - Interface Analysis - Scope Modeling - User Stories - Problem or Vision Statement
Define Business Need - Access Capability Gaps - Determine Solution Approach - Define Solution Scope - Define Business Case
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving - Behavioral Characteristics - Business Knowledge - Communication Skills - Interaction Skills - Software Application

31. What are the techniques used in the task Document Elicitation Results?
Activity List
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Problem Tracking - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements Management Plan - Scheduled Resources - Solution Scope & Business Case - Supporting Materials
Business Rules Analysis

32. Creates a conceptual model of the work that needs to be completed to deliver the new business solution.
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Modeling - Organization Modeling - Data Modeling
Evaluation
Decision Analysis
Functional Decomposition

33. What are the inputs to the task - Specify & Model Requirements?
Requirements (Validated)
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Models - Focus Groups - Interviews - Survey/Questionnaire - Organizational Modeling - Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Force Field Analysis
Fishbone Diagram - Five Whys
Requirements (Stated) - Requirements Structure

34. What are the inputs to the task Plan Requirements Management Process?
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets
Elicitation Results
Personal Organization
Requirements Analysis

35. What are the techniques used in the task Define Business Need?
Activity List
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Business Rules Analysis - Focus Groups - Functional Decomposition - Root Cause Analysis
Requirements Structure
Solution (Constructed) - Requirements (Prioritized and Validated)

36. Who is the primary stakeholder in the Define Business Case task?
MoSCoW Analysis
BABOK
Bottom-up Estimation
The Sponsor

37. States the business need - identifies key stakeholders and briefly describes the positive impact that meeting the business need will have on those stakeholders.
Interviews
Scheduled Resources - Supporting Materials
Manage Solution Scope & Requirements - Manage Requirements Traceability - Maintain Requirements for Re-use - Prepare Requirements Package - Communicate Requirements
Problem or Vision Statement

38. What are the techniques used in Plan Business Analysis Activities?
Estimation - Functional Decomposition - Risk Analysis
Solution Knowledge
Decision Making
Industry Knowledge

39. What are the inputs to the task - Define Business Case?
Evaluation Criteria
Assumptions & Constraints - Business Need - Solution Scope - Stakeholder Concerns
Business Value - Business or Technical Risk - Implementation Difficulty - Likelihood of Success - Regulatory or Policy Compliance - Relationship to Other Requirements - Stakeholder Agreement - Urgency
Document Analysis

40. Understanding of the business architecture of the organization that is being analyzed. Understanding business models (generates profit) - org structure - relationships between business units and the persons who occupy key stakeholder positions.
Evolutionary or Functional Prototype
Organizational Knowledge
Creative Thinking - Decision Making - Learning - Problem Solving - Systems Thinking
Requirements Workshop - Structured Walkthrough

41. Means of eliciting information from many people - sometimes anonymously - in a relatively short period of time
Scenario
Decision Making
Survey/Questionnaire
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving - Behavioral Characteristics - Business Knowledge - Communication Skills - Interaction Skills - Software Application

42. Measures progress towards a strategic goal or objective.
Assess Proposed Solution - Allocate Requirements - Assess Organizational Readiness - Define Transition Requirements - Validate Solution - Evaluate Solution Performance
Key Performance Indicator (KPI )
Risk - assumptions - constraints - etc.
Stakeholder Matrix - Onion Diagram

43. Business rules require a defined glossary of terms and an understanding of the relationships between them - this is known as:
Term and Fact Model
Data Dictionary
Implementation SME
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements

44. 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.
Required Capabilities
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
Assess Organization Readiness
Opportunity Cost

45. The minimum set of requirements that must be met in order for a particular solution to be worth implementing.
Non-functional Requirements Analysis
Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring
Acceptance Criteria
Requirements (Maintained and Reusable)

46. Describes all the possible outcomes of an attempt to accomplish a particular goal that the solution will support.
Use Case
Decision Analysis - Focus Groups - Observation - Survey/Questionnaire
Decision Making
Requirements (Traced)

47. 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.
Decision Analysis - Focus Groups - Observation - Survey/Questionnaire
Scenarios & Use Cases
MoSCoW Analysis
Solution Approach

48. What is the output of the task Prepare for Elicitation?
Scheduled Resources - Supporting Materials
Communicated Requirements
Requirements Analysis
Validate Solution

49. This knowledge area describes how the BA assesses proposed solutions and determines which solution best fits the business need - identifies gaps and shortcomings to solutions and determines necessary workarounds or changes to the solution.
Industry Knowledge
Solution Assessment & Validation
Requirements Structure
Focus Group

50. What techniques are used in the task Manage Requirements Traceability?
Decision Analysis
Requirements Structure
Responsible - Accountable - Consulted - Informed
Coverage Matrix - Table or spreadsheet used to manage tracing.