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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning
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1. What are the inputs to the task - Assess Organizational Readiness?
Decision Analysis - Estimation - Metrics & KPIs - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Implementation SME
Enterprise Architecture - Solution Scope - Solution (Designed) - Stakeholder Concerns
Business Need
2. 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
Problem or Vision Statement
Root Cause Analysis
Requirements (Maintained and Reusable)
Customer
3. What are the strategies for a positive risk?
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Required Capabilities
Share - Enhance - Exploit
Business Case - Business Need - Requirements - Requirements Management Plan - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Requirements (Traced)
4. Are used to describe the scope of analysis or the scope of a solution. Serve as a basis for defining and delimiting the scope of business analysis and project work. Allow the definition of a "complete" scope—that is - the boundaries of the scope corr
Requirements Package
Scope Modeling
Ethics
Ethics - Trustworthiness - Personal Organization
5. Two techniques used in Root Cause Analysis?
Dependencies
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements
Primary stakeholders in the Organize Requirements task
Fishbone Diagram - Five Whys
6. What are the strategies for a negative risk?
Facilitation & Negotiation - Leadership & Influencing - Teamwork
Acceptance - Transfer - Avoidance - Mitigation
Requirements - Requirements Management Plan
Solution Knowledge
7. 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.
Industry Knowledge
Ethics - Trustworthiness - Personal Organization
Requirements Analysis
Organizational Knowledge
8. To identify and manage areas of uncertainty that can impact an initiative - solution - or organization.
Decision Analysis
Risk Analysis
Allocate Requirements
Requirements Workshop - Structured Walkthrough
9. What is the output of the task - Define Assumptions & Constraints?
Define Business Need - Access Capability Gaps - Determine Solution Approach - Define Solution Scope - Define Business Case
Assumptions & Constraints
Decision Analysis - Risk Analysis - MoSCoW Analysis - Timeboxing/Budgeting - Voting
Requirements Documentation - Requirements for Vendor Selection
10. 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.
Scenarios & Use Cases
Solution (Constructed) - Requirements (Prioritized and Validated)
Interviews - Lessons Learned Process - Metrics and KPIs - Problem Tracking - Process Modeling - Root Cause Analysis - Survey/Questionnaire - Variance Analysis
Decision Analysis
11. A good indicator has 5 characteristics:
Industry Knowledge
Confirm Elicitation Results
Clear - Relevant - Economical - Adequate - Quantifiable
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Business Rules Analysis - Focus Groups - Functional Decomposition - Root Cause Analysis
12. A means to elicit requirements by studying available documentation on existing and comparable solutions and identifying relevant information. - Not starting from a blank page.- Leveraging existing materials to discover and/or confirm requirements. -
Business Analysis Communication Plan
Elicitation Results
Acceptance Criteria
Document Analysis
13. Two types of conflict.
Emotional and Cognitive
Facilitation & Negotiation - Leadership & Influencing - Teamwork
Reliability - Performance Efficiency - Operability - Security - Compatibility - Maintainability - Transferability
Business Case - Business Need - Requirements - Requirements Management Plan - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
14. A diagram indicating how involved the stakeholder is with the solution.
Evaluate Solution Performance
Onion Diagram
Visual Learner - Auditory Learner - Kinesthetic Learner
Business Need - Expert Judgment - Organizational Process Assets
15. What are the inputs for the task Prepare for Elicitation?
Decision Making
Business Need - Solution Scope & Business Case - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Business Principals
Business Case - Business Need - Requirements - Requirements Management Plan - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
16. What are some of the key variables used in determining the priority of a requirement?
User Classes - Profiles or Roles; Concepts & Relationships - Events - Processes - Rules
Business Value - Business or Technical Risk - Implementation Difficulty - Likelihood of Success - Regulatory or Policy Compliance - Relationship to Other Requirements - Stakeholder Agreement - Urgency
Functions - Markets - Matrix
Requirements (Verified)
17. Is generally understood to describe just one way that an actor can accomplish a particular goal
Requirements (Traced)
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Business Rules Analysis - Decision Analysis - Functional Decomposition - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases
Assessment of Proposed Solution
Scenario
18. 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.
Throw-away Prototype
Name - Value/Meanings - Description
Requirements - Requirements Management Plan
Personal Organization
19. A formal written specification with possible walk-thru - an informal one is possibly verbal or email Communication
Evolutionary or Functional Prototype
User Classes - Profiles or Roles; Concepts & Relationships - Events - Processes - Rules
Formal requirements presentation to stakeholders
Benchmarking
20. What techniques are used in the task Prepare for Elicitation?
The Business Analysis Communication Plan
Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Estimation - Functional Decomposition - Risk Analysis
21. What is a STAKEHOLDER requirement - according to the BABOK 2.0?
A statement of the needs of a particular stakeholder or class of stakeholders
Unique Number - Activity Description - Assumptions - Dependencies - Milestones
Elicitation Results
Reliability - Validity - Timeliness
22. What is the output of the Manage Business Analysis Performance task?
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Scheduled Resources - Supporting Materials
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
Enterprise Architecture - Solution Scope - Solution (Designed) - Stakeholder Concerns
23. Strengths - Weaknesses - Opportunities - Threats - A valuable tool to quickly analyze various aspects of the current state of the business process undergoing change.
Solution Performance Assessment
Learning
Business Principals
SWOT Analysis
24. What is the output of the task - Validate Requirements?
BABOK
Requirements (Validated)
Business Analysis Plan
Allocate Requirements
25. What is the output of the task Manage Solution Scope & Requirements?
Requirements Management Plan - Solution Scope - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities - Stakeholder/Solution or Transition Requirements (Communicated or Traced)
Data Modeling
Requirements (Approved)
Formal Documentation - Presentation - Model
26. What techniques are used in the task - Prepare Requirements Package?
Requirements Documentation - Requirements for Vendor Selection
Bottom-up Estimation
Conduct Elicitation Activity
Requirements (Prioritized)
27. What is the output of the task Conduct Stakeholder Analysis?
Advantages of a Data Dictionary & Glossary
Problem or Vision Statement
Evolutionary or Functional Prototype
Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
28. 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.
Leadership
Evaluation
Define Business Case
Solution (Constructed) - Requirements (Prioritized and Validated)
29. This knowledge area describes the problem definition and analysis - business case development - feasibility studies and the definition of solution scope.
Trustworthiness
Observation
Enterprise Analysis
Metrics & KPIs
30. Details user interface requirements and integrates them with other requirements such as use cases - scenarios - data and business rules. Stakeholders often find this to be a concrete means of identifying - describing and validating their interface ne
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets
Requirements Workshop - Structured Walkthrough
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Metrics & KPIs - Prototyping - Risk Analysis - Structured Walkthrough
Prototyping
31. What are the elements of the area - Analytical Thinking and Problem Solving - Successful generation of new ideas - application of new ideas to resolve existing problems - willingness of stakeholders to accept new approaches.
Required Capabilities
Relationship to Time - Relationship to Task Completion - Relationship to Contracts - Relationships to Formal and Informal Authority
Creative Thinking - Decision Making - Learning - Problem Solving - Systems Thinking
Relationships - Impact Analysis - Configuration Management System
32. What are the techniques used in the task Document Elicitation Results?
Formal Documentation - Presentation - Model
Operative Rules
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Problem Tracking - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Personal Organization
33. What are the characteristics of Interaction Skills?
Brings them to a Communication on understanding
Organize Requirements
Interviews
Facilitation & Negotiation - Leadership & Influencing - Teamwork
34. What does SMART stand for?
Specific - Measurable - Achievable - Relevant - Time-bound Objectives must be SMART.
Discounted Cash Flow - Net Present Value - Internal Rate of Return - Average Rate of Return - Pay Back Period - Cost-Benefit Analysis
Functional Decomposition - Interface Analysis - Scope Modeling - User Stories - Problem or Vision Statement
Absolute Reference - Author - Complexity - Ownership - Priority - Risks - Source - Stability - Status - Urgency
35. Elements identified for each activity and task.
Impact Analysis
Business Need
Visual Learner - Auditory Learner - Kinesthetic Learner
Unique Number - Activity Description - Assumptions - Dependencies - Milestones
36. What is the output of the task - Organize Requirements?
Cognitive Conflict
Organizational Readiness Assessment
Requirements Structure
Horizontal Prototype
37. The skill of moderating discussions among a group or enable all participants to effectively articulate their views on a topic under discussion and to further ensure that participants in the discussion are able to recognize and appreciate the differin
Ethics - Trustworthiness - Personal Organization
Identified Defects - Mitigating Actions - Solution Validation Assessment
Facilitation
Business Analysis Plan
38. Defines what must be delivered in order to meet the business need - and the effect of the proposed change initiation on the business and technology operations and infrastructure.
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Required Capabilities
Primary stakeholders in the Organize Requirements task
Glossary
Solution Scope
39. What are the likely sources of transition requirements?
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements - Requirements Structure
Opportunity Cost
Data - Ongoing Work - Organizational Change
Data Dictionary & Glossary
40. The goal of this task is to create a set of views of the requirements for the new business solution that are comprehensive - complete - consistent and understood from all stakeholder perspectives.
Organize Requirements
Name - Aliases - Values/Meanings - Description
Confirm Elicitation Results
Onion Diagram
41. What are the inputs to the task - Verify Requirements?
Requirements (Any Except Stated)
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Data Modeling - Functional Decomposition - Organizational Modeling - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases - Scope Modeling - User Stories
Assessment of Proposed Solution
Requirements Structure
42. Issues that may influence the replacement or elimination decision of a system include:
Estimation - Functional Decomposition - Risk Analysis
Allocate Requirements
Monitoring
Ongoing Cost versus Initial Investment - Opportunity Costs - Necessity - Sunk Costs
43. What are the techniques used in the task - Prioritize Requirements?
Required Capabilities
Requirements Workshop - Structured Walkthrough
Business Requirements - Stakeholder Requirements - Solution Requirements - Transition Requirements
Decision Analysis - Risk Analysis - MoSCoW Analysis - Timeboxing/Budgeting - Voting
44. What are the different types of learning styles?
Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring
Business Goals & Objectives - Requirements (Stated)
Visual Learner - Auditory Learner - Kinesthetic Learner
Unique Number - Activity Description - Assumptions - Dependencies - Milestones
45. Knowing the dependencies and relationships between requirements helps when determining the sequence in which requirements are to be addressed. Common relations are:
Necessity - Effort - Subset - Cover - Value
Requirements Workshop
Unique Number - Activity Description - Assumptions - Dependencies - Milestones
Requirements Structure
46. The goal of this task is validate that the stated requirements expressed by the stakeholder match the stakeholder's understanding of the problem and the stakeholder's needs. Analyst's understanding conforms to the actual desire or intentions of the s
Confirm Elicitation Results
Define Business Case
Enterprise Analysis
Requirements (Analyzed)
47. What is the output of the task - Define Business Need?
Business Need
Interviews - Observation
Requirements (Traced)
Requirements Management Plan
48. Investigating how a solution is actually used after it is deployed and assessing the effect it has had - both positive and negative.
User Classes - Profiles or Roles; Concepts & Relationships - Events - Processes - Rules
Benchmarking
Evaluate Solution Performance
Implementation SME
49. What are the techniques used in the task - Define Business Case?
Requirements Structure
Decision Analysis - Estimation - Metrics & KPIs - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Necessity - Effort - Subset - Cover - Value
Problem or Vision Statement
50. What are the tasks in the knowledge area - Enterprise Analysis?
Define Business Need - Access Capability Gaps - Determine Solution Approach - Define Solution Scope - Define Business Case
Parametric Estimation
Ethics - Trustworthiness - Personal Organization
Decision Analysis