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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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1. 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
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements (Stated) - Solution Scope
Root Cause Analysis
Business Need
Solution Assessment & Validation

2. What are the tasks in the knowledge area - Enterprise Analysis?
Requirements Analysis
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements (Stated) - Solution Scope
Define Business Need - Access Capability Gaps - Determine Solution Approach - Define Solution Scope - Define Business Case
Scenarios & Use Cases

3. 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.
System
Structural Rules
Assess Organization Readiness
Term and Fact Model

4. What is the output of the task - Organize Requirements?
Decision Analysis - Risk Analysis - MoSCoW Analysis - Timeboxing/Budgeting - Voting
Necessity - Effort - Subset - Cover - Value
Structured Walkthrough
Requirements Structure

5. Requires the team to focus on examining the premises - assumptions - observations and expectations of the team members. This type of conflict can have a beneficial effect of strengthening the foundations of the analysis and the solution.
Cognitive Conflict
Parametric Estimation
Requirements Package
Requirements Management Plan - Solution Scope - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities - Stakeholder/Solution or Transition Requirements (Communicated or Traced)

6. What are the techniques used in the task - Define Transition Requirements?
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets
Elimination of Dominated Alternative - Ranking Objects on a Similar Scale
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Modeling - Organization Modeling - Data Modeling
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements Management Plan - Scheduled Resources - Solution Scope & Business Case - Supporting Materials

7. Business rules require a defined glossary of terms and an understanding of the relationships between them - this is known as:
Organizational Readiness Assessment
Allocate Requirements
Term and Fact Model
Business Case; Stakeholder - Solution or Transition Requirements (Verified)

8. Revised process and templates for BA deliverables should be analyzed and documented and lessons learned should be recorded.
Document Analysis - SWOT Analysis
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Models - Focus Groups - Interviews - Survey/Questionnaire - Organizational Modeling - Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Force Field Analysis
Business Analysis Process Assets
Business Case - Business Need - Requirements - Requirements Management Plan - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities

9. 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
Sequences - Repetitions - Optional Elements
Non-functional Requirements Analysis
A statement of the needs of a particular stakeholder or class of stakeholders

10. What are the internal factors in a SWOT Analysis?
Description - Raised by - Date Identified - Impact - Priority - Need by Date - Owner - Status - Action Needed to be Resolved - Responsible for Action - Completion Date of Action - Outcome
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Models - Focus Groups - Interviews - Survey/Questionnaire - Organizational Modeling - Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Force Field Analysis
Strengths - Weaknesses
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Business Rules Analysis - Decision Analysis - Functional Decomposition - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases

11. What is the output of the task - Maintain Requirements for Re-use?
Evaluate Solution Performance
Requirements (Maintained and Reusable)
Elimination of Dominated Alternative - Ranking Objects on a Similar Scale
Business Case; Stakeholder - Solution or Transition Requirements (Verified)

12. What are the general modeling concepts that are relevant to business analysis?
Prepare for Elicitation - Conduct Elicitation Activity - Document Elicitation Results - Confirm Elicitation Results
User Classes - Profiles or Roles; Concepts & Relationships - Events - Processes - Rules
Assumptions & Constraints - Business Need - Solution Scope - Stakeholder Concerns
Parametric Estimation

13. The goal of this task is to ensure that all requirements support the delivery of value to the business - fulfill its goal and objectives and meet a stakeholder need.
Conduct Elicitation Activity
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Required Capabilities
Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Validate Requirements

14. When a requirement is changed - the BA can easily review all the related requirements and software components in order to understand the impact of the change.
Interface Analysis
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
Define Transitional Requirements
Impact Analysis

15. What is the output of the task Plan Requirements Management Process?
Requirements Workshop - Structured Walkthrough
Decision Analysis - Risk Analysis - MoSCoW Analysis - Timeboxing/Budgeting - Voting
Business Need
Requirements Management Plan

16. This prototype extends the initial interface requirements into a fully functioning system and requires a specialized prototyping tool or language.
Evolutionary or Functional Prototype
General Purpose Applications & Specialized Applications
Root Cause Analysis
Requirements Analysis

17. What is a STAKEHOLDER requirement - according to the BABOK 2.0?
Stakeholder Matrix - Onion Diagram
A statement of the needs of a particular stakeholder or class of stakeholders
Solution Assessment & Validation
Assess Proposed Solution - Allocate Requirements - Assess Organizational Readiness - Define Transition Requirements - Validate Solution - Evaluate Solution Performance

18. Name some commonly used financial valuation techniques.
Discounted Cash Flow - Net Present Value - Internal Rate of Return - Average Rate of Return - Pay Back Period - Cost-Benefit Analysis
Key Performance Indicator (KPI )
Sequences - Repetitions - Optional Elements
Coverage Matrix - Table or spreadsheet used to manage tracing.

19. What is the output of the task Prepare for Elicitation?
Requirements Management Plan
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Metrics & KPIs - Prototyping - Risk Analysis - Structured Walkthrough
Interface Analysis
Scheduled Resources - Supporting Materials

20. 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.
Decision Analysis
Discounted Cash Flow - Net Present Value - Internal Rate of Return - Average Rate of Return - Pay Back Period - Cost-Benefit Analysis
Acceptance - Transfer - Avoidance - Mitigation
Problem or Vision Statement

21. What are some examples of stakeholder concerns?
Risk - assumptions - constraints - etc.
To record the conflict in the Requirements Issues Log.
Functional Decomposition - Interface Analysis - Scope Modeling - User Stories - Problem or Vision Statement
Elimination of Dominated Alternative - Ranking Objects on a Similar Scale

22. Allocate stakeholder and solution requirements among solution components and releases in order to maximize the possible business value given the options and alternatives generated by the design team.
Requirements (Analyzed)
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements Management Plan - Scheduled Resources - Solution Scope & Business Case - Supporting Materials
Allocate Requirements
Timeboxing

23. The purpose of _______________ is to ensure that a stakeholder's actual underlying needs are understood - rather than the their stated or superficial desires.
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Business Rules Analysis - Focus Groups - Functional Decomposition - Root Cause Analysis
Elicitation Results
Data - Ongoing Work - Organizational Change
Elicitation

24. What is the output of the task - Define Assumptions & Constraints?
Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Assumptions & Constraints
Business Need - Expert Judgment - Organizational Process Assets
Solution (Constructed) - Requirements (Prioritized and Validated)

25. Define the requirements that must be met in order for a solution to be considered acceptable to key stakeholders.
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Business Rules Analysis - Decision Analysis - Functional Decomposition - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases
Requirements Package
Acceptance & Evaluation Technique
Business Case

26. Means of eliciting information from many people - sometimes anonymously - in a relatively short period of time
Requirements (Approved)
Survey/Questionnaire
Delphi Estimation
Requirements (Any Except Stated)

27. 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.
State Diagrams
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets
Decision Analysis - Process Modeling - Structured Walkthrough
Systems Thinking

28. A continuous process of collecting data to determine how well a solution has been implemented compared to expected results.
Scope Modeling
Document Analysis - SWOT Analysis
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements - Requirements Structure
Monitoring

29. What are the inputs for the task Plan Business Analysis Activities?
Functional Decomposition - Interface Analysis - Scope Modeling - User Stories - Problem or Vision Statement
Business Analysis Approach - BA Performance Assessment - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Name - Value/Meanings - Description
Benchmarking

30. What are the inputs to the task - Communicate Requirements?
Lessons Learned Process
User Story
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Requirements - Requirements Package
A statement of the needs of a particular stakeholder or class of stakeholders

31. What are the inputs to the task Manage Requirements Traceability?
Data Dictionary
A statement of the needs of a particular stakeholder or class of stakeholders
Vendor Assessment
Requirements - Requirements Management Plan

32. Benefits that could have been achieved with an alternative investment rather than this one.
Expert Judgment
Verify Requirements
Identified Defects - Mitigating Actions - Solution Validation Assessment
Opportunity Cost

33. The decomposition of activities and tasks creates?
Activity List
Business Analysis Plan
Glossary
Requirements Documentation - Requirements for Vendor Selection

34. The process of informing stakeholders of metrics of indicators in specified formats at specified intervals.
Reporting
Vendor Assessment
Requirements (Maintained and Reusable)
Root Cause Analysis

35. What is the output of the task - Allocate Resources?
Required Capabilities
Requirements (Allocated)
Solution Knowledge
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire

36. 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.
Evaluation
Historic Analysis
Requirements (Approved)
Customer

37. Defines the key terms and data relevant to a business domain.
Data Dictionary & Glossary
Term and Fact Model
Define Transitional Requirements
Timeboxing

38. What are the techniques used in the task - Define Business Case?
Solution Scope
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Modeling - Organization Modeling - Data Modeling
Decision Analysis - Estimation - Metrics & KPIs - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Advantages of Document Analysis

39. What is the output of the task - Communicate Requirements?
Opportunity Cost
Communicated Requirements
Ethics - Trustworthiness - Personal Organization
They describe what a solution must be capable of doing to meet the needs of one or more stakeholder groups

40. The purpose is to compile and document successes - opportunities for improvement - failures - and recommendations for improving the performance of future projects or project phases
MoSCoW Analysis
Lessons Learned Process
System
Problem Solving

41. Who is the primary stakeholder in the Define Business Case task?
Underlying Competencies
The Sponsor
Metrics & KPIs
Requirements - Requirements Management Plan

42. 7 knowledge areas of ________ : Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring - Elicitation - Requirements Management & Communication - Enterprise Analysis - Requirements Analysis - Solution Assessment & Validation - Underlying Competencies
BABOK
Implementation SME
Identified Defects - Mitigating Actions - Solution Validation Assessment
Prototyping

43. Agreement by stakeholders that analysis models effectively and completely describe the domain - identification of related problems or issues from multiple areas in the domain - rapid absorption of new information or new domain.
Lessons Learned Process
Decision Analysis - Process Modeling - Structured Walkthrough
Estimation - Functional Decomposition - Risk Analysis
Learning

44. Measures progress towards a strategic goal or objective.
Decision Analysis
Sequences - Repetitions - Optional Elements
Elicitation
Key Performance Indicator (KPI )

45. Investigating how a solution is actually used after it is deployed and assessing the effect it has had - both positive and negative.
Scheduled Resources - Supporting Materials
Evaluate Solution Performance
Data Dictionary & Glossary - Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshops - Survey/Questionnaire
Prepare for Elicitation - Conduct Elicitation Activity - Document Elicitation Results - Confirm Elicitation Results

46. The purpose is to describe the required qualities of a system - such as its usability and performance characteristics.
Decision Analysis - Risk Analysis - MoSCoW Analysis - Timeboxing/Budgeting - Voting
Non-functional Requirements Analysis
Horizontal Prototype
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements

47. What are the tasks in the knowledge area - Solution Assessment & Validation?
Requirements (Stated) - Stakeholder Concerns
Assess Proposed Solution - Allocate Requirements - Assess Organizational Readiness - Define Transition Requirements - Validate Solution - Evaluate Solution Performance
Cohesive - Complete - Consistent - Correct - Feasible - Modifiable - Unambiguous - Testable
Advantages of a Data Dictionary & Glossary

48. Techniques used in the task Plan Requirements Management Process.
Timeboxing
Benefits - Costs - Risk Assessment - Results Measurement
To record the conflict in the Requirements Issues Log.
Decision Analysis - Problem Tacking - Risk Analysis

49. Maps the level of stakeholder influence and interest in a project.
Stakeholder Matrix
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Assumptions & Constraints - Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution Options

50. What are the techniques used in the task - Allocate Resources?
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Business Rules Analysis - Decision Analysis - Functional Decomposition - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Problem Tracking - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Parametric Estimation
Communicated Requirements