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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning
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1. This knowledge area describes the behaviors - knowledge and other characteristics that support the effective performance of a BA.
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Business Rules Analysis - Decision Analysis - Functional Decomposition - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases
Metrics & KPIs
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements - Requirements Structure
Underlying Competencies
2. A non-actionable directive that supports a business goal.
Estimation
Business Policy
Data Dictionary & Glossary - Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshops - Survey/Questionnaire
Business Rules Analysis
3. The people involved - the interactions between them - the external forces affecting their behavior and all other relevant elements and factors.
Assumptions & Constraints
System
Interface Analysis
Business Requirements - Stakeholder Requirements - Solution Requirements - Transition Requirements
4. 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.
Requirements (Traced)
Validate Requirements
User Classes - Profiles or Roles; Concepts & Relationships - Events - Processes - Rules
Leadership
5. What are the techniques used in the task Define Business Need?
Implementation Approach
Business Analysis Approach - BA Performance Assessment - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Requirements Structure
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Business Rules Analysis - Focus Groups - Functional Decomposition - Root Cause Analysis
6. What are the inputs for the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?
Prepare Requirements Package
Solution Scope
Business Requirements - Identified Defects - Solution Performance Metrics - Solution (Deployed)
Use Case
7. An excellent way to foster creative thinking about a problem. The goal is to produce numerous new ideas and to derive themes for further analysis. - Ability to elicit many ideas in a short time period. - - Non-judgmental environment enables creative
Acceptance Criteria
Personal Organization
Relationship to Time - Relationship to Task Completion - Relationship to Contracts - Relationships to Formal and Informal Authority
Brainstorming
8. What are the techniques used in Plan Business Analysis Communication?
Manage Solution Scope & Requirements - Manage Requirements Traceability - Maintain Requirements for Re-use - Prepare Requirements Package - Communicate Requirements
Business Principles & Practices
Structured Walkthrough
Repository - Traceability - Requirement Attributes - Prioritization Process - Change Management - Tailoring the Requirements Management Process
9. 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
Bottom-up Estimation
Facilitation
Allocate Requirements
Stakeholder Matrix - Onion Diagram
10. What are the characteristics of Interaction Skills?
Facilitation & Negotiation - Leadership & Influencing - Teamwork
Decision Analysis - Estimation - Metrics & KPIs - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Business Goals & Objectives - Requirements (Stated)
Cultural Assessment - Operational or Technical Assessment - Stakeholder Impact Analysis
11. 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
Data Dictionary & Glossary
Identified Defects - Mitigating Actions - Solution Validation Assessment
Share - Enhance - Exploit
Delphi Estimation
12. To identify and manage areas of uncertainty that can impact an initiative - solution - or organization.
All
Risk Analysis
Interviews - Observation
Estimation
13. 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
Assumptions & Constraints - Business Need - Solution Scope - Stakeholder Concerns
Requirements Structure
Facilitation
Solution Scope
14. What are the likely sources of transition requirements?
Customer
Stakeholder Concerns
Required Capabilities
Data - Ongoing Work - Organizational Change
15. Business value can be delivered through requirements that support _______________ - alignment with internal standards or policies of the organization - or increased satisfaction for stakeholders - even if those things do not have a direct measurable
Enterprise Analysis - often the starting point for initiating a new project
Prioritize Requirements - Organize Requirements - Specify & Model Requirements - Define Assumptions & Constraints - Verify Requirements - Validate Requirements
Compliance with regulatory or other standards
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving
16. What is the output of the task - Specify & Model Requirements?
Requirements (Analyzed)
Evaluation Criteria
Absolute Reference - Author - Complexity - Ownership - Priority - Risks - Source - Stability - Status - Urgency
Business Case; Stakeholder - Solution or Transition Requirements (Verified)
17. Involved motivating people to act in ways that enable them to work together to achieve shared goals and objectives.
Estimation - Functional Decomposition - Risk Analysis
Solution Performance Assessment
Leadership
Timeboxing
18. What are the 3 elements in the Assess Organizational Readiness?
Business Domain - Corporate Culture & Environment - Skills of the Analyst - Requirement Deliverable
Budgeting
Name - Value/Meanings - Description
Cultural Assessment - Operational or Technical Assessment - Stakeholder Impact Analysis
19. What are the inputs to the task - Validate Requirements?
Business Case; Stakeholder - Solution or Transition Requirements (Verified)
Advantages of a Data Dictionary & Glossary
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Solution Performance Assessment
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
20. 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
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
User Story
Business Analysis Approach
21. Performed to communicate - verify and validate requirements. Is a working session where invited participants review and discuss a set of requirements
Acceptance & Evaluation Technique
Structured Walkthrough
Vendor Assessment
State Diagrams
22. What are the inputs to the task - Define Business Need?
Business Goals & Objectives - Requirements (Stated)
Elicitation
Prototyping
Opportunity Cost
23. What is the output of the Plan Business Analysis Approach?
Focus Group
Estimation
Business Analysis Plan
Business Analysis Approach
24. A means of eliciting requirements by conducting an assessment of the stakeholder's work environment. This technique is appropriate when documenting details about current processes or if the project is intended to enhance or change a current process.
User Story
Structured Walkthrough
Observation
Business Analysis Performance Metrics - Business Analysis Plan - Organization Performance Standards - Requirements Management Plan
25. Investigating how a solution is actually used after it is deployed and assessing the effect it has had - both positive and negative.
Assumptions & Constraints - Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution Options
Influence on the project - organizational - project health and other stakeholders
Evaluate Solution Performance
Business Analysis Plan
26. 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.
Evaluation
Throw-away Prototype
Assess Organization Readiness
User Story
27. What are the underlying competencies a BA should possess?
Lessons Learned Process
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving - Behavioral Characteristics - Business Knowledge - Communication Skills - Interaction Skills - Software Application
Functional Decomposition
Term and Fact Model
28. How is the Operational Support stakeholder utilized in the Evaluate Solution Performance task?
Functions - Markets - Matrix
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Models - Focus Groups - Interviews - Survey/Questionnaire - Organizational Modeling - Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Force Field Analysis
Plan Business Analysis Approach - Conduct Stakeholder Analysis - Plan Business Analysis Activities - Plan Business Analysis Communication - Plan Requirements Management Process - Manage BA Performance
This person will be involved in monitoring the performance and effectiveness of a solution or its components.
29. What is the output of the task Prepare for Elicitation?
Scheduled Resources - Supporting Materials
Organization Modeling
Compliance with regulatory or other standards
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Business Rules Analysis - Focus Groups - Functional Decomposition - Root Cause Analysis
30. Use of parameters - multiplied by the number of hours. (COCOMO II - Function Point Counting - Use Case Points - and Story Points)
Assumptions & Constraints - Business Need - Solution Scope - Stakeholder Concerns
Cohesive - Complete - Consistent - Correct - Feasible - Modifiable - Unambiguous - Testable
Structured Walkthrough
Parametric Estimation
31. Three types of organizational structures
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Organizational Process Assets
Functions - Markets - Matrix
Timeboxing
Identified Defects - Mitigating Actions - Solution Validation Assessment
32. Ensure that the solution meets the business need and determine the most appropriate response to identified defects.
Problem Tracking - Baselining - Signoff
Evolutionary or Functional Prototype
Elicitation Results
Validate Solution
33. What are the inputs for the task Plan Business Analysis Activities?
Expert Judgment
Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Structural Rules
Business Analysis Approach - BA Performance Assessment - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
34. Define requirements for capabilities needed to move from an existing solution to a new solution.
Unique Number - Activity Description - Assumptions - Dependencies - Milestones
Determine the Process - Who will Authorize Changes - Impact Analysis - Wording of the Request - Coordinate Prioritization of Change
Data Modeling
Define Transitional Requirements
35. Who is the primary stakeholder in the Define Business Case task?
Primary stakeholders in the Organize Requirements task
Metrics & KPIs
Ethics
The Sponsor
36. A package should contain a consistent - cohesive and coherent set of requirements. This describes the ____________.
Requirements Management Plan
Requirements Structure
Systems Thinking
Three-point Estimation
37. What are the tasks in the knowledge area - Solution Assessment & Validation?
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving - Behavioral Characteristics - Business Knowledge - Communication Skills - Interaction Skills - Software Application
Assess Proposed Solution - Allocate Requirements - Assess Organizational Readiness - Define Transition Requirements - Validate Solution - Evaluate Solution Performance
Analogous Estimation
Monitoring
38. Communicated Requirements mean what to stakeholders?
Business Need
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Metrics & KPIs - Prototyping - Risk Analysis - Structured Walkthrough
Stakeholder Concerns
That they understand them and the current state the requirements are in
39. What is the output of the task - Manage Requirements Traceability?
Specific - Measurable - Achievable - Relevant - Time-bound Objectives must be SMART.
Clear - Relevant - Economical - Adequate - Quantifiable
Requirements (Traced)
Lessons Learned Process
40. 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
Organizational Readiness Assessment
Stakeholder Concerns
Prepare Requirements Package
Goals
41. What are the techniques used in Plan Business Analysis Approach?
Scope Modeling
Decision Analysis - Process Modeling - Structured Walkthrough
Estimation - Functional Decomposition - Risk Analysis
Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution (Designed) - Solution Scope
42. The purpose is to compile and document successes - opportunities for improvement - failures - and recommendations for improving the performance of future projects or project phases
Problem Tracking
Lessons Learned Process
Requirements Structure
Solution Scope
43. Understanding of the competitive forces that shape an industry - understand the various customer segments that the industry services and the demographic or other characteristics common to that segment.
Evaluation Criteria
Required Capabilities
Requirements (Validated)
Industry Knowledge
44. Business rules require a defined glossary of terms and an understanding of the relationships between them - this is known as:
Organizational Readiness Assessment - Requirements (Stated) - Solution (Deployed) - Solution (Designed)
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets
Term and Fact Model
Advantages of Document Analysis
45. What are the Primitive Data Elements?
Discounted Cash Flow - Net Present Value - Internal Rate of Return - Average Rate of Return - Pay Back Period - Cost-Benefit Analysis
Name - Aliases - Values/Meanings - Description
Glossary
Requirements Workshop
46. What are the inputs for the task Prepare for Elicitation?
Horizontal Prototype
Business Need - Solution Scope & Business Case - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Dependencies
Elimination
47. Approach to decision making that examines and models the possible consequences of different decisions. Make an optimal decision under conditions of uncertainty.
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Business Rules Analysis - Decision Analysis - Functional Decomposition - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases
Necessity - Effort - Subset - Cover - Value
Decision Analysis
Term and Fact Model
48. The objective of this technique is to determine how companies achieve their superior performance levels and use that information to design projects to improve operations of the enterprise.
Visual Learner - Auditory Learner - Kinesthetic Learner
Benefits - Costs - Risk Assessment - Results Measurement
Benchmarking
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Organizational Process Assets
49. Limited to "as-is" perspective. - Existing documentation may not be up-to-date or valid. - Can be a time-consuming and even tedious process to locate the relevant information
Requirements Structure
Advantages of Document Analysis
Implementation Approach
Requirements Management Plan
50. What are the inputs to the task - Define Assumption & Constraints?
Repository - Traceability - Requirement Attributes - Prioritization Process - Change Management - Tailoring the Requirements Management Process
Stakeholder Concerns
Evaluation Criteria
Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring