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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 inputs for the task - Define Transitional Requirements?
Evaluate Solution Performance
Organizational Readiness Assessment - Requirements (Stated) - Solution (Deployed) - Solution (Designed)
Cognitive Conflict
Organization Modeling
2. What are the inputs to the task - Assess Capability Gaps?
Assumptions & Constraints - Business Need - Solution Scope - Stakeholder Concerns
Systems Thinking
Evaluation
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Solution Performance Assessment
3. 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.
Risk Analysis
Industry Knowledge
Acceptance Criteria
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving
4. What are the classifications used to describe requirements
Activity List
Business Requirements - Stakeholder Requirements - Solution Requirements - Transition Requirements
Decision Analysis - Estimation - Metrics & KPIs - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Risk - assumptions - constraints - etc.
5. Prioritizes requirements based on a allocated fixed amount of money.
Three-point Estimation
Budgeting
Industry Knowledge
Manage Solution Scope & Requirements - Manage Requirements Traceability - Maintain Requirements for Re-use - Prepare Requirements Package - Communicate Requirements
6. This task determines if an organization can justify the investment required to deliver a proposed solution.
Repository - Traceability - Requirement Attributes - Prioritization Process - Change Management - Tailoring the Requirements Management Process
Define Business Case
Responsible - Accountable - Consulted - Informed
Formal requirements presentation to stakeholders
7. What are the techniques used in the task - Validate Solution?
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Problem Tracking - Root Cause Analysis
Define Transitional Requirements
Parametric Estimation
Data Dictionary & Glossary
8. Checklist of characteristics to consider when considering non-functional requirements.
Manage Solution Scope & Requirements - Manage Requirements Traceability - Maintain Requirements for Re-use - Prepare Requirements Package - Communicate Requirements
Timeboxing
Reliability - Performance Efficiency - Operability - Security - Compatibility - Maintainability - Transferability
Requirements (Stated - Unconfirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Unconfirmed)
9. Confidence in the problem solving process that a selected solution is correct - new solution options can be evaluated effectively using the problem solving framework - selected solutions meet the defined objectives and solve the underlying problem -
Business Case; Stakeholder - Solution or Transition Requirements (Verified)
Business Analysis Approach
Problem Solving
Benchmarking
10. Describes all the possible outcomes of an attempt to accomplish a particular goal that the solution will support.
Cognitive Conflict
Use Case
Scenarios & Use Cases
All
11. States the business need - identifies key stakeholders and briefly describes the positive impact that meeting the business need will have on those stakeholders.
Lessons Learned Process
Problem or Vision Statement
Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring
Decision Analysis - Estimation - Metrics & KPIs - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Vendor Assessment
12. Strengths - Weaknesses - Opportunities - Threats - A valuable tool to quickly analyze various aspects of the current state of the business process undergoing change.
SWOT Analysis
Business Analysis Approach - BA Performance Assessment - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Ethics
Creative Thinking - Decision Making - Learning - Problem Solving - Systems Thinking
13. What are stakeholder requirements?
Requirements (Maintained and Reusable)
Facilitation
They describe what a solution must be capable of doing to meet the needs of one or more stakeholder groups
Term and Fact Model
14. Name the 2 types of Software categories that assist in BA productivity.
Term and Fact Model
Assumptions & Constraints - Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution Options
Evolutionary or Functional Prototype
General Purpose Applications & Specialized Applications
15. Techniques used in the task Plan Requirements Management Process.
Interviews - Lessons Learned Process - Metrics and KPIs - Problem Tracking - Process Modeling - Root Cause Analysis - Survey/Questionnaire - Variance Analysis
Decision Analysis - Problem Tacking - Risk Analysis
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Problem Tracking - Structured Walkthrough - Checklists
Solution Assessment & Validation
16. What is the output of the task - Define Business Need?
Influence on the project - organizational - project health and other stakeholders
Business Need
Automate or Simplify Work - Improve Access to Information - Reduce Complexity of Interfaces - Increase Consistency of Behavior - Eliminate Redundancy
Scenarios & Use Cases
17. What knowledge area discusses the business analysis activities necessary to identify a business need - problem or opportunity - define the capture of the solution and justify the investment necessary to deliver the solution.
Business Need - Expert Judgment - Organizational Process Assets
Scenario
Business Analysis Performance Metrics - Business Analysis Plan - Organization Performance Standards - Requirements Management Plan
Enterprise Analysis - often the starting point for initiating a new project
18. What are the techniques used in the task Manage Solution Scope & Requirements?
Organize Requirements
Leadership
Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Problem Tracking - Baselining - Signoff
19. What are the techniques used in the task Manage Business Analysis Performance?
Assumptions & Constraints
Interviews - Lessons Learned Process - Metrics and KPIs - Problem Tracking - Process Modeling - Root Cause Analysis - Survey/Questionnaire - Variance Analysis
Leadership
Business Analysis Plan
20. When performing root cause analysis as part of the Validate Solution task - what stakeholder may be involved?
Decision Analysis
Business Analysis Approach
Business Analysis Plan
Implementation SME
21. Rules that are intended to help determine when something is or is not true - or when things fall into a specific category. They are expressed as rules because they describe categorizations that may change over time.
Validate Solution
Business Analysis Communication Plan
Structural Rules
Business Analysis Performance Metrics - Business Analysis Plan - Organization Performance Standards - Requirements Management Plan
22. Knowing the dependencies and relationships between requirements helps when determining the sequence in which requirements are to be addressed. Common relations are:
Underlying Competencies
Allocate Requirements
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements
Necessity - Effort - Subset - Cover - Value
23. What are the strategies for a positive risk?
Organization Modeling
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Decision Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Share - Enhance - Exploit
Business Need
24. 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
Scope Modeling
Dependencies
Delphi Estimation
Learning
25. What are the techniques used in the task Define Business Need?
Requirements Management & Communication
Advantages of Document Analysis
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Business Rules Analysis - Focus Groups - Functional Decomposition - Root Cause Analysis
Discounted Cash Flow - Net Present Value - Internal Rate of Return - Average Rate of Return - Pay Back Period - Cost-Benefit Analysis
26. The purpose is to compile and document successes - opportunities for improvement - failures - and recommendations for improving the performance of future projects or project phases
Rolling Wave
Oral Communications - Teaching - Written Communication
Lessons Learned Process
Vendor Assessment
27. What are the inputs to the task - Assess Organizational Readiness?
Decision Analysis - Process Modeling - Structured Walkthrough
Business Analysis Communication Plan
Enterprise Architecture - Solution Scope - Solution (Designed) - Stakeholder Concerns
Requirements (Prioritized)
28. According to the BABOK 2.0 - what type of analysis generates STAKEHOLDER requirements?
Requirements (Approved)
Benefits - Costs - Risk Assessment - Results Measurement
Facilitation & Negotiation - Leadership & Influencing - Teamwork
Requirements Analysis
29. 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
Enterprise Analysis
Trustworthiness
Solution Approach
30. Define requirements for capabilities needed to move from an existing solution to a new solution.
Creative Thinking - Decision Making - Learning - Problem Solving - Systems Thinking
Name - Aliases - Values/Meanings - Description
Define Transitional Requirements
Data - Ongoing Work - Organizational Change
31. What are the inputs for the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?
Business Requirements - Identified Defects - Solution Performance Metrics - Solution (Deployed)
Elimination
Validate Requirements
Brainstorming
32. What are the inputs to the task - Verify Requirements?
Use Case
Elicitation Results
Elimination of Dominated Alternative - Ranking Objects on a Similar Scale
Requirements (Any Except Stated)
33. What is the output of the task Conduct Elicitation Activity?
Three-point Estimation
Requirements (Analyzed)
Elicitation Results
Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
34. Documents terms unique to a domain.
Prepare Requirements Package
Glossary
Vendor Assessment
Requirements (Stated) - Stakeholder Concerns
35. What are the general modeling concepts that are relevant to business analysis?
Focus Group
Interviews - Lessons Learned Process - Metrics and KPIs - Problem Tracking - Process Modeling - Root Cause Analysis - Survey/Questionnaire - Variance Analysis
User Classes - Profiles or Roles; Concepts & Relationships - Events - Processes - Rules
Plan Business Analysis Approach - Conduct Stakeholder Analysis - Plan Business Analysis Activities - Plan Business Analysis Communication - Plan Requirements Management Process - Manage BA Performance
36. What are some examples of stakeholder concerns?
Risk - assumptions - constraints - etc.
Requirements (Prioritized)
Observation
Define Business Case
37. What stakeholder receives noticeable negative impact if information is incorrectly transferred from the old to new solution?
Customer
Assumptions & Constraints - Business Need - Solution Scope - Stakeholder Concerns
Business Analysis Plan
Requirements - Requirements Management Plan
38. What is the output of the Plan Business Analysis Approach?
Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Data - Ongoing Work - Organizational Change
Business Analysis Approach
Implementation Approach
39. What are the factors of influence by stakeholders on a project?
Acceptance - Transfer - Avoidance - Mitigation
Validate Solution
Requirements (Stated - Confirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Confirmed)
Influence on the project - organizational - project health and other stakeholders
40. What are the inputs to the task Manage Solution Scope & Requirements?
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements Management Plan - Scheduled Resources - Solution Scope & Business Case - Supporting Materials
Requirements Management Plan - Solution Scope - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities - Stakeholder/Solution or Transition Requirements (Communicated or Traced)
Assumptions & Constraints - Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution Options
Assess Organization Readiness
41. A good indicator has 5 characteristics:
Requirements Workshop - Structured Walkthrough
Implementation Approach
Scope Modeling
Clear - Relevant - Economical - Adequate - Quantifiable
42. 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.
Customer
Advantages of a Data Dictionary & Glossary
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements - Requirements Structure
Decision Analysis - Estimation - Metrics & KPIs - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Vendor Assessment
43. Uses history as a basis for estimating. It is similar to analogous estimation - but is used not only for the top-down estimate - but for the detailed tasks as well.
Sequence Diagrams
Formal requirements presentation to stakeholders
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements - Requirements Structure
Historic Analysis
44. What factors guide technique selection?
Business Domain - Corporate Culture & Environment - Skills of the Analyst - Requirement Deliverable
Evaluation Criteria
Evolutionary or Functional Prototype
Rolling Wave
45. Creates a conceptual model of the work that needs to be completed to deliver the new business solution.
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements (Stated) - Solution Scope
Functional Decomposition
The Business Analysis Communication Plan
Learning
46. 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.
Stakeholder Matrix - Onion Diagram
Term and Fact Model
MoSCoW Analysis
Impact Analysis
47. The goal of tracing is to ensure that requirements are linked back to a business objective. Creation of this relationship helps in what other traceability activities?
Impact Analysis - Requirements Coverage - Requirements Allocation
Interviews
Enterprise Analysis - often the starting point for initiating a new project
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Solution Performance Assessment
48. What are the techniques used in the task - Determine Solution Approach?
Data Dictionary & Glossary - Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshops - Survey/Questionnaire
Repository - Traceability - Requirement Attributes - Prioritization Process - Change Management - Tailoring the Requirements Management Process
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Decision Analysis - Estimation - SWOT Analysis - Feasibility Analysis
Requirements (Prioritized)
49. What are the strategies for a negative risk?
Requirements Management Plan - Solution Scope - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities - Stakeholder/Solution or Transition Requirements (Communicated or Traced)
Data Dictionary & Glossary - Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshops - Survey/Questionnaire
Horizontal Prototype
Acceptance - Transfer - Avoidance - Mitigation
50. What are the inputs to the task - Define Business Need?
Prepare Requirements Package
Business Goals & Objectives - Requirements (Stated)
Business Principals
Budgeting