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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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1. What are the general modeling concepts that are relevant to business analysis?






2. What are the techniques used in the task - Define Business Case?






3. This will impose constraints to the effort to deploy the solution - including relationships that may exist between solution components.






4. 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.






5. Rules that the organization chooses to enforce as a matter of policy. They are intended to guide the actions of people working within the organization. They may oblige people to take certain actions - prevent people from taking actions - or prescribe






6. What are the techniques used in the task Conduct Elicitation Activity?






7. A good indicator has 5 characteristics:






8. Two effective trade-off methods.






9. 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.






10. Allocate stakeholder and solution requirements among solution components and releases in order to maximize the possible business value given the options and alternatives generated by the design team.






11. The minimum set of requirements that must be met in order for a particular solution to be worth implementing.






12. What are the inputs to the task - Assess Capability Gaps?






13. Define requirements for capabilities needed to move from an existing solution to a new solution.






14. This knowledge area describes the behaviors - knowledge and other characteristics that support the effective performance of a BA.






15. What is the output of the task Prepare for Elicitation?






16. What are the inputs to the task - Specify & Model Requirements?






17. Benefits that could have been achieved with an alternative investment rather than this one.






18. Involves assessing a situation - understanding it as fully as possible - and making judgments about possible solutions to the problem.






19. 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






20. What are the strategies for a negative risk?






21. What are the techniques used in the task Conduct Stakeholder Analysis?






22. What are the techniques used in Plan Business Analysis Approach?






23. What are the inputs to the task - Determine Solution Approach?






24. What are the techniques used in Plan Business Analysis Activities?






25. What should be considered when establishing a Change Management process?






26. 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.






27. 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.






28. This knowledge area describes the tasks that are performed in order to ensure that solutions meet the business need and to facilitate successful implementation.






29. What are the inputs to the task Conduct Elicitation Activity?






30. What are the tasks in the knowledge area - Solution Assessment & Validation?






31. What are the 3 elements in the Assess Organizational Readiness?






32. Checklist of characteristics to consider when considering non-functional requirements.






33. What are the inputs to the task Plan Requirements Management Process?






34. Communication of requirements does what for stakeholders?






35. This technique represents the types of peoples - places - things and concepts that are important to the business - attributes associated with them and the significant business relationships among them.






36. This task ensures that requirement specifications and models meet the necessary standard of quality to allow them to be used effectively to guide further work. Requirements have been defined correctly.






37. What describes how - when and why the business analyst will work with stakeholders?






38. This prototype extends the initial interface requirements into a fully functioning system and requires a specialized prototyping tool or language.






39. 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






40. What are the attributes of a Data Model?






41. Confidence in the decision analysis process that a decision is correct - new information or alternative that cause a decision to be revisited are new and not simply overlooked - decisions are effective in addressing underlying problem - impact of unc






42. What are the underlying competencies a BA should possess?






43. What are stakeholder requirements?






44. What are the output(s) of the task - Validate Solution?






45. What are the techniques used in the task - Define Assumptions & Constraints?






46. The knowledge area that describes how a BA manages conflicts - issues and changes in order to ensure that stakeholders and the project team remain in agreement on the solution scope - how requirements are communicated to stakeholders and how knowledg






47. 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.






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.






49. What is the output of the task Confirm Elicitation Results?






50. What are the Primitive Data Elements?