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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Investigating how a solution is actually used after it is deployed and assessing the effect it has had - both positive and negative.
Advantages of Document Analysis
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Decision Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Observation
Evaluate Solution Performance
2. What are the inputs to the task - Verify Requirements?
Business Case
Cultural Assessment - Operational or Technical Assessment - Stakeholder Impact Analysis
Prioritize Requirements - Organize Requirements - Specify & Model Requirements - Define Assumptions & Constraints - Verify Requirements - Validate Requirements
Requirements (Any Except Stated)
3. What techniques are used in the task - Define Solution Scope?
Organizational Knowledge
Functional Decomposition - Interface Analysis - Scope Modeling - User Stories - Problem or Vision Statement
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Problem Tracking - Structured Walkthrough - Checklists
Parametric Estimation
4. When a conflict arises between stakeholders on one or more documented requirements - the first thing that needs to take place is what?
To record the conflict in the Requirements Issues Log.
Prototyping
Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Identified Defects - Mitigating Actions - Solution Validation Assessment
5. A package should contain a consistent - cohesive and coherent set of requirements. This describes the ____________.
Advantages of Document Analysis
SWOT Analysis
Requirements Structure
Assessment of Proposed Solution
6. What is the output of the task - Determine Solution Approach?
Business Need - Solution Scope & Business Case - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Solution Approach
Relationship to Time - Relationship to Task Completion - Relationship to Contracts - Relationships to Formal and Informal Authority
That they understand them and the current state the requirements are in
7. This knowledge area involves analyzing stakeholder needs to define solutions that meet those needs - assessing the current state of the business to identify and recommend improvements and the verification and validation of the resulting requirements.
Requirements Analysis
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Business Rules Analysis - Focus Groups - Functional Decomposition - Root Cause Analysis
The Business Analysis Communication Plan
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements Management Plan - Scheduled Resources - Solution Scope & Business Case - Supporting Materials
8. 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
Prepare Requirements Package
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Decision Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Vendor Assessment
Verify Requirements
9. What are the inputs for the task - Prepare Requirements Package?
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements - Requirements Structure
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Organizational Process Assets
Business Analysis Process Assets
Compliance with regulatory or other standards
10. Knowing the dependencies and relationships between requirements helps when determining the sequence in which requirements are to be addressed. Common relations are:
BABOK
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Requirements - Requirements Package
Facilitation & Negotiation - Leadership & Influencing - Teamwork
Necessity - Effort - Subset - Cover - Value
11. According to the BABOK 2.0 - what type of analysis generates STAKEHOLDER requirements?
Data Dictionary & Glossary
Evolutionary or Functional Prototype
Evaluate Solution Performance
Requirements Analysis
12. 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.
Impact Analysis
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Requirements - Requirements Package
Glossary
Verify Requirements
13. What are stakeholder requirements?
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
Requirements Workshop
Structured Walkthrough
They describe what a solution must be capable of doing to meet the needs of one or more stakeholder groups
14. 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
Assess Organization Readiness
Confirm Elicitation Results
Requirements (Prioritized)
Facilitation & Negotiation - Leadership & Influencing - Teamwork
15. What techniques are used in the task - Prepare Requirements Package?
Conduct Elicitation Activity
Requirements Documentation - Requirements for Vendor Selection
Decision Analysis - Estimation - Metrics & KPIs - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Functions - Markets - Matrix
16. A continuous process of collecting data to determine how well a solution has been implemented compared to expected results.
Risk Analysis
Coverage Matrix - Table or spreadsheet used to manage tracing.
Monitoring
Decision Analysis - Estimation - Metrics & KPIs - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Vendor Assessment
17. This task determines if an organization can justify the investment required to deliver a proposed solution.
Decision Analysis - Risk Analysis - MoSCoW Analysis - Timeboxing/Budgeting - Voting
Business Analysis Performance Metrics - Business Analysis Plan - Organization Performance Standards - Requirements Management Plan
Define Business Case
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
18. What are the characteristics of Interaction Skills?
Requirements (Stated) - Stakeholder Concerns
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Organizational Process Assets
Facilitation & Negotiation - Leadership & Influencing - Teamwork
Business Rule
19. Define the requirements that must be met in order for a solution to be considered acceptable to key stakeholders.
Facilitation
Elicitation Results
Acceptance & Evaluation Technique
Repository - Traceability - Requirement Attributes - Prioritization Process - Change Management - Tailoring the Requirements Management Process
20. What does RACI stand for?
Business Analysis Approach
Problem Tracking - Baselining - Signoff
Responsible - Accountable - Consulted - Informed
Estimation
21. Creates a conceptual model of the work that needs to be completed to deliver the new business solution.
Root Cause Analysis
Specific - Measurable - Achievable - Relevant - Time-bound Objectives must be SMART.
Functional Decomposition
Document Analysis
22. What are the inputs to the task - Assess Proposed Solution?
Tracing Requirements
Requirements Management Plan - Solution Scope - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities - Stakeholder/Solution or Transition Requirements (Communicated or Traced)
Acceptance Criteria
Assumptions & Constraints - Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution Options
23. 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.
Stakeholder Matrix
Facilitation & Negotiation - Leadership & Influencing - Teamwork
Vertical Prototype
Organize Requirements
24. Defines the key terms and data relevant to a business domain.
Data Dictionary & Glossary
Decision Making
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
Stakeholder Matrix - Onion Diagram
25. What is the output of the task Confirm Elicitation Results?
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Decision Analysis - Estimation - SWOT Analysis - Feasibility Analysis
Validate Solution
Business Case; Stakeholder - Solution or Transition Requirements (Verified)
Requirements (Stated - Confirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Confirmed)
26. Elicitation Results are the inputs for the ____________
System
User Story
Business Case; Stakeholder - Solution or Transition Requirements (Verified)
Document Elicitation Results task
27. Corrective or preventative measures uncovered while performing a Business Analysis Performance Assessment will result in changes to what plan?
Structural Rules
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Decision Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Business Analysis Plan
Requirements Documentation - Requirements for Vendor Selection
28. Industry Knowledge - Organization Knowledge - Solution Knowledge What are the elements of Business Knowledge?
Requirements (Prioritized)
BABOK
Business Principles & Practices
Organizational Knowledge
29. What are the inputs to the task Conduct Elicitation Activity?
Facilitation & Negotiation - Leadership & Influencing - Teamwork
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements Management Plan - Scheduled Resources - Solution Scope & Business Case - Supporting Materials
Trustworthiness
Business Need - Solution Scope & Business Case - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
30. Organizational culture - Stakeholder preference - complexity - organizational maturity and availability of resources are all factors used to do what?
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Decision Analysis - Estimation - SWOT Analysis - Feasibility Analysis
Assessment of Proposed Solution
Requirements Workshop
Perform tailoring exercises
31. What is the output of the task - Organize Requirements?
Solution Approach
Requirements Structure
Metrics & KPIs
The Sponsor
32. What is the output of the task Plan Business Analysis Activities?
Requirements Structure
Facilitation
Survey/Questionnaire
Business Analysis Plan
33. Documents terms unique to a domain.
Glossary
Leadership
Solution Knowledge
Relationships - Impact Analysis - Configuration Management System
34. Elements identified for each activity and task.
Analogous Estimation
Cognitive Conflict
Unique Number - Activity Description - Assumptions - Dependencies - Milestones
Elimination
35. What are the techniques used in the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?
Decision Analysis - Focus Groups - Observation - Survey/Questionnaire
System
Facilitation & Negotiation - Leadership & Influencing - Teamwork
Scope Modeling
36. What is the output of the task - Validate Requirements?
Requirements (Validated)
Verify Requirements
Dependencies
Requirements (Prioritized)
37. What is the output of the task Document Elicitation Results?
To record the conflict in the Requirements Issues Log.
Evaluate Solution Performance
Requirements (Stated) - Stakeholder Concerns
Learning
38. 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.
Tracing Requirements
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements
Bottom-up Estimation
Identified Defects - Mitigating Actions - Solution Validation Assessment
39. What are the inputs of the task Plan Business Analysis Communication?
Stakeholder Matrix - Onion Diagram
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
Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
40. To define the rules that govern decisions in an organization and that define - constrain or enable organization operations.
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
Business Rules Analysis
Problem Tracking - Baselining - Signoff
Requirements Management & Communication
41. What is the output of the task - Allocate Resources?
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets
Necessity - Effort - Subset - Cover - Value
Requirements (Allocated)
Validate Requirements
42. What is the output of the task Plan Requirements Management Process?
Business Case - Business Need - Requirements - Requirements Management Plan - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Business Need - Solution Scope & Business Case - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Facilitation & Negotiation - Leadership & Influencing - Teamwork
Requirements Management Plan
43. Business rules require a defined glossary of terms and an understanding of the relationships between them - this is known as:
Business Case
Term and Fact Model
Elimination
Fishbone Diagram - Five Whys
44. What is the output of the task - Specify & Model Requirements?
Requirements (Analyzed)
Prioritize Requirements - Organize Requirements - Specify & Model Requirements - Define Assumptions & Constraints - Verify Requirements - Validate Requirements
Solution Assessment & Validation
Solution (Constructed) - Requirements (Prioritized and Validated)
45. Involved motivating people to act in ways that enable them to work together to achieve shared goals and objectives.
Evolutionary or Functional Prototype
Decision Making
Leadership
Parametric Estimation
46. What are the techniques used in the task - Assess Organizational Readiness?
Throw-away Prototype
The Sponsor
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Models - Focus Groups - Interviews - Survey/Questionnaire - Organizational Modeling - Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Force Field Analysis
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Business Rules Analysis - Focus Groups - Functional Decomposition - Root Cause Analysis
47. Two effective trade-off methods.
Name - Aliases - Values/Meanings - Description
Cultural Assessment - Operational or Technical Assessment - Stakeholder Impact Analysis
Elimination of Dominated Alternative - Ranking Objects on a Similar Scale
Visual Learner - Auditory Learner - Kinesthetic Learner
48. A specific - actionable - testable directive that is under the control of an organization and supports a business policy.
Assumptions & Constraints - Required Capabilities - Solution Approach
Requirements Structure
Business Rule
Document Analysis
49. What are the inputs to the task - Define Business Case?
Elimination
Assumptions & Constraints - Business Need - Solution Scope - Stakeholder Concerns
Document Elicitation Results task
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Modeling - Organization Modeling - Data Modeling
50. Name the 2 types of Software categories that assist in BA productivity.
Relationship to Time - Relationship to Task Completion - Relationship to Contracts - Relationships to Formal and Informal Authority
General Purpose Applications & Specialized Applications
Customer
Delphi Estimation