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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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1. Issues that may influence the replacement or elimination decision of a system include:
Reliability - Performance Efficiency - Operability - Security - Compatibility - Maintainability - Transferability
Evaluation
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Decision Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Ongoing Cost versus Initial Investment - Opportunity Costs - Necessity - Sunk Costs

2. What are the techniques used in the task - Organize Requirements?
Business Requirements - Identified Defects - Solution Performance Metrics - Solution (Deployed)
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Data Modeling - Functional Decomposition - Organizational Modeling - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases - Scope Modeling - User Stories
Primary stakeholders in the Organize Requirements task
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving

3. What should be considered when establishing a Change Management process?
Validate Requirements
Evaluation
Brings them to a Communication on understanding
Determine the Process - Who will Authorize Changes - Impact Analysis - Wording of the Request - Coordinate Prioritization of Change

4. Define the requirements that must be met in order for a solution to be considered acceptable to key stakeholders.
Formal Documentation - Presentation - Model
This person will be involved in monitoring the performance and effectiveness of a solution or its components.
Acceptance & Evaluation Technique
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Problem Tracking - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire

5. Includes the standard definition of data elements - their meanings and allowable values.
Primary stakeholders in the Organize Requirements task
Data Dictionary
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Formal Documentation - Presentation - Model

6. Provides an organized approach to tracking - management - and resolution of defects - issues - problems - and risks throughout business analysis activities. Management of issues is important so that they can be resolved in a timely manner to ensure s
Assumptions & Constraints - Business Need - Solution Scope - Stakeholder Concerns
Compliance with regulatory or other standards
Problem Tracking
Data Dictionary & Glossary

7. What are the techniques used in Plan Business Analysis Approach?
Underlying Competencies
Assess Proposed Solution - Allocate Requirements - Assess Organizational Readiness - Define Transition Requirements - Validate Solution - Evaluate Solution Performance
Decision Analysis - Process Modeling - Structured Walkthrough
Prepare Requirements Package

8. What are the inputs to the task - Define Business Need?
Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis
This person will be involved in monitoring the performance and effectiveness of a solution or its components.
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements Management Plan - Scheduled Resources - Solution Scope & Business Case - Supporting Materials
Business Goals & Objectives - Requirements (Stated)

9. Estimating relies on the expertise of those who have performed the work in the past. These experts can be internal or external to the project team or to the organization.
Formal requirements presentation to stakeholders
Assess Proposed Solution - Allocate Requirements - Assess Organizational Readiness - Define Transition Requirements - Validate Solution - Evaluate Solution Performance
Budgeting
Expert Judgment

10. Use of parameters - multiplied by the number of hours. (COCOMO II - Function Point Counting - Use Case Points - and Story Points)
Risk Analysis
Parametric Estimation
Requirements (Allocated)
Relationships - Impact Analysis - Configuration Management System

11. A structured way to capture requirements. May be used to scope - discover - define - prioritize and reach closure on requirements for the target system. Considered one of the most effective ways to deliver high quality requirements quickly.
General Purpose Applications & Specialized Applications
Specific - Measurable - Achievable - Relevant - Time-bound Objectives must be SMART.
Requirements Workshop
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Business Rules Analysis - Decision Analysis - Functional Decomposition - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases

12. What are the inputs of the task Plan Business Analysis Communication?
Brings them to a Communication on understanding
Decision Analysis - Problem Tacking - Risk Analysis
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Rolling Wave

13. What are the tasks in the knowledge area - Requirements Analysis?
Relationships - Impact Analysis - Configuration Management System
Requirements Structure
Prioritize Requirements - Organize Requirements - Specify & Model Requirements - Define Assumptions & Constraints - Verify Requirements - Validate Requirements
Assumptions & Constraints

14. What are the inputs to the task - Define Assumption & Constraints?
Coverage Matrix - Table or spreadsheet used to manage tracing.
Business Principles & Practices
Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Stakeholder Concerns

15. What are the factors of influence by stakeholders on a project?
Decision Analysis
Requirements (Stated) - Requirements Structure
Influence on the project - organizational - project health and other stakeholders
Data Flow Diagrams

16. What are the inputs to the task - Communicate Requirements?
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Requirements - Requirements Package
Implementation Approach
Facilitation & Negotiation - Leadership & Influencing - Teamwork
They describe what a solution must be capable of doing to meet the needs of one or more stakeholder groups

17. What are the techniques used in the task - Assess Organizational Readiness?
Horizontal Prototype
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Models - Focus Groups - Interviews - Survey/Questionnaire - Organizational Modeling - Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Force Field Analysis
Decision Analysis - Process Modeling - Structured Walkthrough
Prepare Requirements Package

18. Defines the key terms and data relevant to a business domain.
Business Need - Expert Judgment - Organizational Process Assets
Risk - assumptions - constraints - etc.
Term and Fact Model
Data Dictionary & Glossary

19. Understanding of how a change to a component affects the system as a whole - identification of reinforcing and compensating feedback loops - understanding of how systems adapt to external pressures and changes - A system as a whole will have properti
Systems Thinking
Three-point Estimation
Term and Fact Model
MoSCoW Analysis

20. 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.
Requirements Management & Communication
Business Case - Business Need - Requirements - Requirements Management Plan - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Dependencies
Creative Thinking - Decision Making - Learning - Problem Solving - Systems Thinking

21. Models a shallow - and possibly wide view of the system's functionality. It typically does not have any business logic running behind the visualization.
Prepare Requirements Package
Parametric Estimation
Horizontal Prototype
Structured Walkthrough

22. 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.
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements
Name - Value/Meanings - Description
Industry Knowledge
Data Dictionary & Glossary - Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshops - Survey/Questionnaire

23. 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
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements - Requirements Structure
Rolling Wave
Facilitation
Strengths - Weaknesses

24. What is the output of the task Manage Solution Scope & 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 (Approved)
Personal Organization
Customer

25. What techniques are used in the task Manage Requirements Traceability?
Coverage Matrix - Table or spreadsheet used to manage tracing.
Automate or Simplify Work - Improve Access to Information - Reduce Complexity of Interfaces - Increase Consistency of Behavior - Eliminate Redundancy
Organization Modeling
Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities

26. Stakeholders involved the BA in decision making - acceptance of the BA's recommendations - willingness to discuss difficult or controversial topics with the BA - stakeholders willing to support or defend the BA when problems occur.
Decision Analysis - Estimation - Metrics & KPIs - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Monitoring
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements - Requirements Structure
Trustworthiness

27. 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. -
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
Determine the Process - Who will Authorize Changes - Impact Analysis - Wording of the Request - Coordinate Prioritization of Change
Observation
Document Analysis

28. What is the output of the task - Prioritize Requirements?
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 Classes - Profiles or Roles; Concepts & Relationships - Events - Processes - Rules
Requirements (Prioritized)
Functional Decomposition

29. A requirement that does not deliver direct or indirect value to a stakeholder is a strong candidate for what?
Elimination
Vertical Prototype
Stakeholder Matrix
Validate Solution

30. What are the inputs for the task Prepare for Elicitation?
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Prioritize Requirements - Organize Requirements - Specify & Model Requirements - Define Assumptions & Constraints - Verify Requirements - Validate Requirements
Business Need - Solution Scope & Business Case - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Requirements Structure

31. What is the output of the task Prepare for Elicitation?
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Data Modeling - Functional Decomposition - Organizational Modeling - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases - Scope Modeling - User Stories
Scheduled Resources - Supporting Materials
Requirements Management Plan - Solution Scope - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities - Stakeholder/Solution or Transition Requirements (Communicated or Traced)
Three-point Estimation

32. What are the tasks in Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring?
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Problem Tracking - Root Cause Analysis
Plan Business Analysis Approach - Conduct Stakeholder Analysis - Plan Business Analysis Activities - Plan Business Analysis Communication - Plan Requirements Management Process - Manage BA Performance
Identified Defects - Mitigating Actions - Solution Validation Assessment
Lessons Learned Process

33. What is the output of the task Plan Business Analysis Communication?
Root Cause Analysis
Requirements Management & Communication
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving
Business Analysis Communication Plan

34. Involved motivating people to act in ways that enable them to work together to achieve shared goals and objectives.
Throw-away Prototype
Learning
Decision Making
Leadership

35. What are the inputs to the task - Assess Capability Gaps?
Non-functional Requirements Analysis
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Problem Tracking - Structured Walkthrough - Checklists
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Solution Performance Assessment
Document Analysis

36. What does SMART stand for?
Non-functional Requirements Analysis
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Models - Focus Groups - Interviews - Survey/Questionnaire - Organizational Modeling - Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Force Field Analysis
Assumptions & Constraints - Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution Options
Specific - Measurable - Achievable - Relevant - Time-bound Objectives must be SMART.

37. 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.
Stakeholder Matrix - Onion Diagram
Allocate Requirements
Observation
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Requirements - Requirements Package

38. What are the techniques used in the task - Prioritize Requirements?
Learning
User Story
Cohesive - Complete - Consistent - Correct - Feasible - Modifiable - Unambiguous - Testable
Decision Analysis - Risk Analysis - MoSCoW Analysis - Timeboxing/Budgeting - Voting

39. What are the inputs to the task - Assess Organizational Readiness?
Formal requirements presentation to stakeholders
Clear - Relevant - Economical - Adequate - Quantifiable
Solution Assessment & Validation
Enterprise Architecture - Solution Scope - Solution (Designed) - Stakeholder Concerns

40. What are the techniques used in the task Confirm Elicitation Results?
Define Transitional Requirements
Interviews - Observation
Facilitation & Negotiation - Leadership & Influencing - Teamwork
Elicitation Results

41. 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.
Business Analysis Communication Plan
Organizational Readiness Assessment - Requirements (Stated) - Solution (Deployed) - Solution (Designed)
Focus Group
Benchmarking

42. 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 -
Problem Solving
Prototyping
Name - Aliases - Values/Meanings - Description
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Problem Tracking - Structured Walkthrough - Checklists

43. What are the internal factors in a SWOT Analysis?
Strengths - Weaknesses
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Modeling - Organization Modeling - Data Modeling
All
Formal requirements presentation to stakeholders

44. 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
Root Cause Analysis
Advantages of Document Analysis
Tracing Requirements
Document Analysis - SWOT Analysis

45. What are the inputs for the task Confirm Elicitation Results?
Observation
Cultural Assessment - Operational or Technical Assessment - Stakeholder Impact Analysis
Requirements (Stated - Unconfirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Unconfirmed)
Transition Requirements

46. What is the output of the task - Assess Organizational Readiness?
Rolling Wave
Industry Knowledge
Organizational Readiness Assessment
Bottom-up Estimation

47. What is the output of the task - Communicate Requirements?
Implementation Approach
Business Case
Operative Rules
Communicated Requirements

48. What is the output of the task - Verify Requirements?
Leadership
Evolutionary or Functional Prototype
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Metrics & KPIs - Prototyping - Risk Analysis - Structured Walkthrough
Requirements (Verified)

49. What describes how - when and why the business analyst will work with stakeholders?
Organization Modeling
The Business Analysis Communication Plan
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
Timeboxing

50. This knowledge area describes how the BA assesses proposed solutions and determines which solution best fits the business need - identifies gaps and shortcomings to solutions and determines necessary workarounds or changes to the solution.
Solution Assessment & Validation
System
Manage Solution Scope & Requirements - Manage Requirements Traceability - Maintain Requirements for Re-use - Prepare Requirements Package - Communicate Requirements
Estimation - Functional Decomposition - Risk Analysis