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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What are the techniques used in the task - Allocate Resources?
Decision Analysis - Focus Groups - Observation - Survey/Questionnaire
State Diagrams
Opportunity Cost
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Business Rules Analysis - Decision Analysis - Functional Decomposition - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases
2. What is the output of the task - Define Assumptions & Constraints?
Assumptions & Constraints
Share - Enhance - Exploit
Cultural Assessment - Operational or Technical Assessment - Stakeholder Impact Analysis
Requirements (Approved)
3. What are the inputs for the task Prepare for Elicitation?
Dependencies
Business Need - Solution Scope & Business Case - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Interviews - Observation
Formal requirements presentation to stakeholders
4. What is the output of the task - Define Business Need?
Implementation SME
Prioritize Requirements - Organize Requirements - Specify & Model Requirements - Define Assumptions & Constraints - Verify Requirements - Validate Requirements
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements Management Plan - Scheduled Resources - Solution Scope & Business Case - Supporting Materials
Business Need
5. Organizational culture - Stakeholder preference - complexity - organizational maturity and availability of resources are all factors used to do what?
Perform tailoring exercises
Automate or Simplify Work - Improve Access to Information - Reduce Complexity of Interfaces - Increase Consistency of Behavior - Eliminate Redundancy
Data Dictionary & Glossary
Stakeholder Matrix - Onion Diagram
6. What is the output of the task Plan Requirements Management Process?
Requirements Management Plan
Structured Walkthrough
Solution Assessment & Validation
Necessity - Effort - Subset - Cover - Value
7. What are the underlying competencies a BA should possess?
Sequence Diagrams
Assessment of Proposed Solution
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving - Behavioral Characteristics - Business Knowledge - Communication Skills - Interaction Skills - Software Application
Key Performance Indicator (KPI )
8. Used to describe the roles - responsibilities and reporting structures that exist within an organization and to align those structures with the organization's goals.
Relationship to Time - Relationship to Task Completion - Relationship to Contracts - Relationships to Formal and Informal Authority
Scenarios & Use Cases
Organization Modeling
User Classes - Profiles or Roles; Concepts & Relationships - Events - Processes - Rules
9. According to the BABOK 2.0 - what type of analysis generates STAKEHOLDER requirements?
Business Principles & Practices
Clear - Relevant - Economical - Adequate - Quantifiable
Requirements Analysis
Estimation - Functional Decomposition - Risk Analysis
10. Prioritizes requirements based on a allocated fixed amount of money.
Budgeting
Communicated Requirements
Strengths - Weaknesses
Necessity - Effort - Subset - Cover - Value
11. Useful for ensuring that all stakeholders are in agreement on the format and content of relevant information. Capturing these definitions in a single model ensures that these terms will be used consistently.
Tracing Requirements
Advantages of a Data Dictionary & Glossary
Share - Enhance - Exploit
Three-point Estimation
12. Define the requirements that must be met in order for a solution to be considered acceptable to key stakeholders.
Acceptance & Evaluation Technique
Requirements (Allocated)
User Classes - Profiles or Roles; Concepts & Relationships - Events - Processes - Rules
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Solution Performance Assessment
13. The process of informing stakeholders of metrics of indicators in specified formats at specified intervals.
Data - Ongoing Work - Organizational Change
Parametric Estimation
Share - Enhance - Exploit
Reporting
14. What are the elements of the task Plan Requirements Management Process?
Repository - Traceability - Requirement Attributes - Prioritization Process - Change Management - Tailoring the Requirements Management Process
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Business Rules Analysis - Focus Groups - Functional Decomposition - Root Cause Analysis
Assumptions & Constraints - Business Need - Solution Scope - Stakeholder Concerns
Requirements (Verified)
15. What techniques are used in the task - Prepare Requirements Package?
Underlying Competencies
Solution Approach
Requirements Documentation - Requirements for Vendor Selection
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements
16. Combination of expert judgment and history. Individual estimates - sharing the estimates with experts - and having several rounds until consensus is reached. An average of the three estimates is used
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements (Stated) - Solution Scope
Delphi Estimation
Decision Analysis
17. Name the 2 types of Software categories that assist in BA productivity.
Data Dictionary & Glossary
Business Analysis Plan
Conduct Elicitation Activity
General Purpose Applications & Specialized Applications
18. What are the inputs for the task - Define Transitional Requirements?
Organizational Readiness Assessment - Requirements (Stated) - Solution (Deployed) - Solution (Designed)
Scenario
Reliability - Performance Efficiency - Operability - Security - Compatibility - Maintainability - Transferability
Solution Knowledge
19. What are the likely sources of transition requirements?
Sequences - Repetitions - Optional Elements
BABOK
Data - Ongoing Work - Organizational Change
Coverage Matrix - Table or spreadsheet used to manage tracing.
20. What are the inputs for the task Plan Business Analysis Activities?
Business Analysis Approach - BA Performance Assessment - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Requirements (Validated)
Problem Tracking - Baselining - Signoff
Repository - Traceability - Requirement Attributes - Prioritization Process - Change Management - Tailoring the Requirements Management Process
21. 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.
Organizational Knowledge
Requirements (Stated - Unconfirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Unconfirmed)
Allocate Requirements
Requirements (Stated - Confirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Confirmed)
22. Name some commonly used financial valuation techniques.
Emotional and Cognitive
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Decision Analysis - Estimation - SWOT Analysis - Feasibility Analysis
Requirements Management & Communication
Discounted Cash Flow - Net Present Value - Internal Rate of Return - Average Rate of Return - Pay Back Period - Cost-Benefit Analysis
23. What is the output to the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?
Functional Decomposition - Interface Analysis - Scope Modeling - User Stories - Problem or Vision Statement
Prioritize Requirements - Organize Requirements - Specify & Model Requirements - Define Assumptions & Constraints - Verify Requirements - Validate Requirements
Solution Performance Assessment
Problem Tracking - Baselining - Signoff
24. Issues that may influence the replacement or elimination decision of a system include:
Ongoing Cost versus Initial Investment - Opportunity Costs - Necessity - Sunk Costs
Acceptance - Transfer - Avoidance - Mitigation
Plan Business Analysis Approach - Conduct Stakeholder Analysis - Plan Business Analysis Activities - Plan Business Analysis Communication - Plan Requirements Management Process - Manage BA Performance
Estimation - Functional Decomposition - Risk Analysis
25. What are the inputs to the task Manage Business Analysis Performance?
Requirements (Any Except Stated)
Automate or Simplify Work - Improve Access to Information - Reduce Complexity of Interfaces - Increase Consistency of Behavior - Eliminate Redundancy
Business Analysis Performance Metrics - Business Analysis Plan - Organization Performance Standards - Requirements Management Plan
Goals
26. The purpose of _______________ is to ensure that a stakeholder's actual underlying needs are understood - rather than the their stated or superficial desires.
Elimination
Requirements Documentation - Requirements for Vendor Selection
Requirements Workshop - Structured Walkthrough
Elicitation
27. Communication of requirements does what for stakeholders?
Scenario
Brings them to a Communication on understanding
Requirements (Stated) - Requirements Structure
User Story
28. A good indicator has 5 characteristics:
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements - Requirements Structure
Business Rule
Problem Tracking - Baselining - Signoff
Clear - Relevant - Economical - Adequate - Quantifiable
29. What are the techniques used in the task - Assess Organizational Readiness?
Requirements Analysis
Advantages of Document Analysis
Evaluation
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Models - Focus Groups - Interviews - Survey/Questionnaire - Organizational Modeling - Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Force Field Analysis
30. Ensure that the solution meets the business need and determine the most appropriate response to identified defects.
Elimination
Enterprise Analysis
Validate Solution
Enterprise Architecture - Solution Scope - Solution (Designed) - Stakeholder Concerns
31. Models a shallow - and possibly wide view of the system's functionality. It typically does not have any business logic running behind the visualization.
Horizontal Prototype
Personal Organization
Implementation Approach
Parametric Estimation
32. An organized structure for the requirements and a documented set of relationships between them. Is used so the analyst and stakeholders know where a specific requirement should be found. Should have a clear implicit scope (clear to the stakeholders w
Requirements Structure
Problem or Vision Statement
Bottom-up Estimation
Assumptions & Constraints - Required Capabilities - Solution Approach
33. What are the characteristics of quality for a requirements?
Business Requirements - Stakeholder Requirements - Solution Requirements - Transition Requirements
Formal requirements presentation to stakeholders
Business Need - Solution Scope & Business Case - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Cohesive - Complete - Consistent - Correct - Feasible - Modifiable - Unambiguous - Testable
34. What are the Behavioral Characteristics a BA should exhibit?
Ethics - Trustworthiness - Personal Organization
Advantages of Document Analysis
Requirements (Analyzed)
Decision Analysis - Estimation - Metrics & KPIs - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Vendor Assessment
35. 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.
Validate Requirements
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Data Modeling - Functional Decomposition - Organizational Modeling - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases - Scope Modeling - User Stories
Responsible - Accountable - Consulted - Informed
Non-functional Requirements Analysis
36. What are the inputs to the task Manage Solution Scope & Requirements?
Relationship to Time - Relationship to Task Completion - Relationship to Contracts - Relationships to Formal and Informal Authority
Interviews
Requirements Management Plan - Solution Scope - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities - Stakeholder/Solution or Transition Requirements (Communicated or Traced)
Assumptions & Constraints - Business Need - Solution Scope - Stakeholder Concerns
37. What are the Primitive Data Elements?
Name - Aliases - Values/Meanings - Description
Requirements Management Plan - Solution Scope - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities - Stakeholder/Solution or Transition Requirements (Communicated or Traced)
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements (Stated) - Solution Scope
Scenario
38. A formal written specification with possible walk-thru - an informal one is possibly verbal or email Communication
Requirements (Verified)
Document Analysis
Acceptance & Evaluation Technique
Formal requirements presentation to stakeholders
39. This task describes the work required to decide which formats are appropriate for a particular project and its stakeholders. The requirements must be clear - concise - accurate and at the appropriate level of detail to assure clear understanding by t
Impact Analysis
Prepare Requirements Package
Data Dictionary
Rolling Wave
40. What are the different types of learning styles?
Assumptions & Constraints - Required Capabilities - Solution Approach
Stakeholder Concerns
Visual Learner - Auditory Learner - Kinesthetic Learner
Stakeholder Matrix - Onion Diagram
41. What does SMART stand for?
Clear - Relevant - Economical - Adequate - Quantifiable
Define Business Need - Access Capability Gaps - Determine Solution Approach - Define Solution Scope - Define Business Case
Visual Learner - Auditory Learner - Kinesthetic Learner
Specific - Measurable - Achievable - Relevant - Time-bound Objectives must be SMART.
42. What are the techniques used in the task - Define Transition Requirements?
Risk - assumptions - constraints - etc.
Formal Documentation - Presentation - Model
Stakeholder Concerns
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Modeling - Organization Modeling - Data Modeling
43. The knowledge area that describes how a BA manages conflicts - issues and changes in order to ensure that stakeholders and the project team remain in agreement on the solution scope - how requirements are communicated to stakeholders and how knowledg
Requirements Management & Communication
Document Analysis - SWOT Analysis
Oral Communications - Teaching - Written Communication
Interviews - Lessons Learned Process - Metrics and KPIs - Problem Tracking - Process Modeling - Root Cause Analysis - Survey/Questionnaire - Variance Analysis
44. What are the inputs for the task - Maintain Requirements for Re-use?
Structured Walkthrough
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements (Stated) - Solution Scope
Business Need - Solution Scope & Business Case - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements
45. Rules that the organization chooses to enforce as a matter of policy. They are intended to guide the actions of people working within the organization. They may oblige people to take certain actions - prevent people from taking actions - or prescribe
Define Transitional Requirements
Name - Value/Meanings - Description
Operative Rules
Risk Analysis
46. Revised process and templates for BA deliverables should be analyzed and documented and lessons learned should be recorded.
System
Business Principals
Business Analysis Process Assets
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Required Capabilities
47. The purpose is to measure the performance of solutions - solution components - and other matters of interest to stakeholders.
Use Case
Metrics & KPIs
User Classes - Profiles or Roles; Concepts & Relationships - Events - Processes - Rules
The Business Analysis Communication Plan
48. What are the techniques used in the task Conduct Elicitation Activity?
Data Dictionary & Glossary - Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshops - Survey/Questionnaire
Ongoing Cost versus Initial Investment - Opportunity Costs - Necessity - Sunk Costs
Delphi Estimation
Implementation Approach
49. Models a deep - and usually narrow slice of the entire system's functionality.
Survey/Questionnaire
Requirements - Requirements Management Plan
Vertical Prototype
Decision Analysis - Estimation - Metrics & KPIs - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Vendor Assessment
50. What are the inputs for the task - Define Solution Scope?
Assumptions & Constraints - Required Capabilities - Solution Approach
Business Analysis Process Assets
Business Analysis Plan
Sequences - Repetitions - Optional Elements