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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning
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1. 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
Facilitation
Assumptions & Constraints - Required Capabilities - Solution Approach
Relationships - Impact Analysis - Configuration Management System
Requirements (Stated - Confirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Confirmed)
2. To identify and manage areas of uncertainty that can impact an initiative - solution - or organization.
Focus Group
Scope Modeling
They describe what a solution must be capable of doing to meet the needs of one or more stakeholder groups
Risk Analysis
3. Ability to find information - on-time completion of tasks - efficiency in the completion of work - ability to easily identify all outstanding work and the status of each work item.
Requirements Structure
Elicitation Results
Solution Assessment & Validation
Personal Organization
4. What stakeholder receives noticeable negative impact if information is incorrectly transferred from the old to new solution?
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving - Behavioral Characteristics - Business Knowledge - Communication Skills - Interaction Skills - Software Application
Key Performance Indicator (KPI )
Interviews
Customer
5. What are the inputs to the task Conduct Stakeholder Analysis?
Requirements (Traced)
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Organizational Process Assets
Requirements Structure
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Decision Analysis - Vendor Assessment
6. What are the inputs of the task Plan Business Analysis Communication?
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Data Dictionary & Glossary
Implementation Approach
Define Business Case
7. What is the output of the task - Validate Requirements?
Assess Proposed Solution - Allocate Requirements - Assess Organizational Readiness - Define Transition Requirements - Validate Solution - Evaluate Solution Performance
Requirements (Validated)
Solution Assessment & Validation
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
8. What are the inputs to the task - Define Assumption & Constraints?
Non-functional Requirements Analysis
Stakeholder Concerns
Document Analysis - SWOT Analysis
Benefits - Costs - Risk Assessment - Results Measurement
9. What are the inputs for the task Plan Business Analysis Activities?
Requirements Management Plan - Solution Scope - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities - Stakeholder/Solution or Transition Requirements (Communicated or Traced)
Business Analysis Approach - BA Performance Assessment - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Strengths - Weaknesses
Evolutionary or Functional Prototype
10. Who is the primary stakeholder in the Define Business Case task?
Functional Decomposition
The Sponsor
Business Need - Expert Judgment - Organizational Process Assets
Timeboxing
11. What is the output of the task - Prioritize Requirements?
To record the conflict in the Requirements Issues Log.
Learning
Requirements (Prioritized)
Plan Business Analysis Approach - Conduct Stakeholder Analysis - Plan Business Analysis Activities - Plan Business Analysis Communication - Plan Requirements Management Process - Manage BA Performance
12. What are stakeholder requirements?
Discounted Cash Flow - Net Present Value - Internal Rate of Return - Average Rate of Return - Pay Back Period - Cost-Benefit Analysis
Ethics - Trustworthiness - Personal Organization
They describe what a solution must be capable of doing to meet the needs of one or more stakeholder groups
Business Case - Business Need - Requirements - Requirements Management Plan - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
13. States the business need - identifies key stakeholders and briefly describes the positive impact that meeting the business need will have on those stakeholders.
Problem or Vision Statement
Coverage Matrix - Table or spreadsheet used to manage tracing.
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements Management Plan - Scheduled Resources - Solution Scope & Business Case - Supporting Materials
14. Describes all the possible outcomes of an attempt to accomplish a particular goal that the solution will support.
Use Case
Requirements Workshop
Facilitation
User Story
15. Investigating how a solution is actually used after it is deployed and assessing the effect it has had - both positive and negative.
Determine the Process - Who will Authorize Changes - Impact Analysis - Wording of the Request - Coordinate Prioritization of Change
Business Requirements - Stakeholder Requirements - Solution Requirements - Transition Requirements
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Requirements - Requirements Package
Evaluate Solution Performance
16. 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.
Underlying Competencies
Creative Thinking - Decision Making - Learning - Problem Solving - Systems Thinking
Validate Solution
Requirements (Verified)
17. What are the techniques used in the task - Allocate Resources?
Document Analysis - SWOT Analysis
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Business Rules Analysis - Decision Analysis - Functional Decomposition - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases
Cognitive Conflict
Business Analysis Plan
18. Defines what must be delivered in order to meet the business need - and the effect of the proposed change initiation on the business and technology operations and infrastructure.
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving
Define Business Need - Access Capability Gaps - Determine Solution Approach - Define Solution Scope - Define Business Case
Vertical Prototype
Solution Scope
19. This knowledge area describes the behaviors - knowledge and other characteristics that support the effective performance of a BA.
Underlying Competencies
Influence on the project - organizational - project health and other stakeholders
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Problem Tracking - Root Cause Analysis
Data Dictionary & Glossary - Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshops - Survey/Questionnaire
20. A continuous process of collecting data to determine how well a solution has been implemented compared to expected results.
Requirements (Analyzed)
Elicitation
Monitoring
State Diagrams
21. The goal of this task is to meet with stakeholder(s) to gather information regarding their needs.
Impact Analysis
Relationship to Time - Relationship to Task Completion - Relationship to Contracts - Relationships to Formal and Informal Authority
Conduct Elicitation Activity
Clear - Relevant - Economical - Adequate - Quantifiable
22. What are the techniques used in the task - Assess Proposed Solution?
Business Policy
Problem Tracking
Prepare Requirements Package
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Decision Analysis - Vendor Assessment
23. According to the BABOK 2.0 - what type of analysis generates STAKEHOLDER requirements?
Influence on the project - organizational - project health and other stakeholders
Requirements (Verified)
Requirements Analysis
Validate Requirements
24. 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?
Ethics - Trustworthiness - Personal Organization
Benefits - Costs - Risk Assessment - Results Measurement
Impact Analysis - Requirements Coverage - Requirements Allocation
Data Modeling
25. 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.
Operative Rules
Requirements Analysis
To record the conflict in the Requirements Issues Log.
Problem Solving
26. This knowledge area describes the tasks that are performed in order to ensure that solutions meet the business need and to facilitate successful implementation.
Business Goals & Objectives - Requirements (Stated)
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
Solution Assessment & Validation
Impact Analysis - Requirements Coverage - Requirements Allocation
27. 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.
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Solution Performance Assessment
Required Capabilities
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving - Behavioral Characteristics - Business Knowledge - Communication Skills - Interaction Skills - Software Application
Allocate Requirements
28. A means to elicit ideas and attitudes about a specific product - service or opportunity in an interactive group environment. The participants share their impressions - preferences and needs - guided by a moderator. - Effective for learning people's a
Survey/Questionnaire
Focus Group
All
Elimination
29. Domain SME - End User - Implementation SME - and Sponsor: They Affected by analysis techniques used to organize requirements since they need to verify and validate the requirements.
Leadership
Estimation
Use Case
Primary stakeholders in the Organize Requirements task
30. Models a shallow - and possibly wide view of the system's functionality. It typically does not have any business logic running behind the visualization.
Horizontal Prototype
Prototyping
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Requirements - Requirements Package
Evaluate Solution Performance
31. What are the inputs for the task - Define Solution Scope?
Key Performance Indicator (KPI )
Assumptions & Constraints - Required Capabilities - Solution Approach
Enterprise Architecture - Solution Scope - Solution (Designed) - Stakeholder Concerns
System
32. Most optimistic estimate; most pessimistic estimate; most likely estimate
Facilitation & Negotiation - Leadership & Influencing - Teamwork
Confirm Elicitation Results
Problem Tracking
Three-point Estimation
33. Two techniques used in Root Cause Analysis?
Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring
Fishbone Diagram - Five Whys
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Business Rules Analysis - Decision Analysis - Functional Decomposition - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases
Three-point Estimation
34. The process of informing stakeholders of metrics of indicators in specified formats at specified intervals.
Focus Group
Enterprise Analysis - often the starting point for initiating a new project
Monitoring
Reporting
35. What should be considered when establishing a Change Management process?
Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution (Designed) - Solution Scope
Onion Diagram
Requirements Package
Determine the Process - Who will Authorize Changes - Impact Analysis - Wording of the Request - Coordinate Prioritization of Change
36. 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. -
Evaluation
Transition Requirements
Solution (Constructed) - Requirements (Prioritized and Validated)
Document Analysis
37. What are the inputs to the task - Assess Organizational Readiness?
Implementation Approach
Interviews
Solution Assessment & Validation
Enterprise Architecture - Solution Scope - Solution (Designed) - Stakeholder Concerns
38. Communication of requirements does what for stakeholders?
Requirements Structure
Decision Analysis - Focus Groups - Observation - Survey/Questionnaire
Brings them to a Communication on understanding
Solution Assessment & Validation
39. When a conflict arises between stakeholders on one or more documented requirements - the first thing that needs to take place is what?
Requirements Workshop - Structured Walkthrough
To record the conflict in the Requirements Issues Log.
Data Flow Diagrams
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Business Rules Analysis - Focus Groups - Functional Decomposition - Root Cause Analysis
40. What is a STAKEHOLDER requirement - according to the BABOK 2.0?
Requirements (Allocated)
A statement of the needs of a particular stakeholder or class of stakeholders
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements Management Plan - Scheduled Resources - Solution Scope & Business Case - Supporting Materials
Solution Assessment & Validation
41. What is the output of the task - Prepare Requirements Package?
Name - Value/Meanings - Description
Elicitation
Requirements Package
Facilitation & Negotiation - Leadership & Influencing - Teamwork
42. Maps the level of stakeholder influence and interest in a project.
They describe what a solution must be capable of doing to meet the needs of one or more stakeholder groups
Stakeholder Matrix
Onion Diagram
Leadership
43. This task determines if an organization can justify the investment required to deliver a proposed solution.
Estimation - Functional Decomposition - Risk Analysis
Enterprise Analysis - often the starting point for initiating a new project
Define Business Case
Learning
44. Elements of a Requirements Management Plan include?
Requirements Structure
Decision Analysis - Problem Tacking - Risk Analysis
Business Analysis Approach
Relationships - Impact Analysis - Configuration Management System
45. Shows how the behavior of a concept - entity or object changes in response to events during its lifetime - and defines which events cause a transition between those states.
Personal Organization
State Diagrams
Strengths - Weaknesses
Decision Analysis - Risk Analysis - MoSCoW Analysis - Timeboxing/Budgeting - Voting
46. What are the techniques for the task - Verify Requirements?
Business Rule
Reliability - Performance Efficiency - Operability - Security - Compatibility - Maintainability - Transferability
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Problem Tracking - Structured Walkthrough - Checklists
Horizontal Prototype
47. What is the output of the task Plan Business Analysis Communication?
Evaluation
Business Policy
Business Analysis Communication Plan
Organization Modeling
48. What is the output of the task - Maintain Requirements for Re-use?
Confirm Elicitation Results
Requirements (Maintained and Reusable)
Delphi Estimation
Interviews - Lessons Learned Process - Metrics and KPIs - Problem Tracking - Process Modeling - Root Cause Analysis - Survey/Questionnaire - Variance Analysis
49. Decisions are made with the interest of all stakeholders considered - reasons for a decision are cleared articulated - prompt and full disclosure of conflicts of interest - honesty regarding one's abilities and the performance of one's work.
Enterprise Architecture - Solution Scope - Solution (Designed) - Stakeholder Concerns
System
Ethics
Interviews - Lessons Learned Process - Metrics and KPIs - Problem Tracking - Process Modeling - Root Cause Analysis - Survey/Questionnaire - Variance Analysis
50. Approach to decision making that examines and models the possible consequences of different decisions. Make an optimal decision under conditions of uncertainty.
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Data Modeling - Functional Decomposition - Organizational Modeling - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases - Scope Modeling - User Stories
Decision Analysis
Requirements (Traced)
Decision Analysis - Problem Tacking - Risk Analysis