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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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1. What are the inputs to the task Manage Requirements Traceability?
Historic Analysis
Scenario
Use Case
Requirements - Requirements Management Plan

2. What are the tasks in Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring?
Organizational Readiness Assessment - Requirements (Stated) - Solution (Deployed) - Solution (Designed)
Estimation - Functional Decomposition - Risk Analysis
Plan Business Analysis Approach - Conduct Stakeholder Analysis - Plan Business Analysis Activities - Plan Business Analysis Communication - Plan Requirements Management Process - Manage BA Performance
General Purpose Applications & Specialized Applications

3. Involves assessing a situation - understanding it as fully as possible - and making judgments about possible solutions to the problem.
Reporting
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving
Focus Group
Vertical Prototype

4. Elements identified for each activity and task.
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements (Stated) - Solution Scope
Business Value - Business or Technical Risk - Implementation Difficulty - Likelihood of Success - Regulatory or Policy Compliance - Relationship to Other Requirements - Stakeholder Agreement - Urgency
Unique Number - Activity Description - Assumptions - Dependencies - Milestones
Assumptions & Constraints

5. What are the techniques used in the task - Define Transition Requirements?
The Business Analysis Communication Plan
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Requirements - Requirements Package
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Modeling - Organization Modeling - Data Modeling
General Purpose Applications & Specialized Applications

6. What stakeholder receives noticeable negative impact if information is incorrectly transferred from the old to new solution?
Decision Analysis - Focus Groups - Observation - Survey/Questionnaire
Customer
Survey/Questionnaire
Observation

7. What are the techniques used in the task - Define Assumptions & Constraints?
Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis
Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution (Designed) - Solution Scope
Determine the Process - Who will Authorize Changes - Impact Analysis - Wording of the Request - Coordinate Prioritization of Change
Sequence Diagrams

8. What is the output of the task - Determine Solution Approach?
Solution Approach
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
Determine the Process - Who will Authorize Changes - Impact Analysis - Wording of the Request - Coordinate Prioritization of Change
Requirements Management Plan

9. What are the techniques used in Plan Business Analysis Communication?
Structured Walkthrough
Document Analysis - SWOT Analysis
Horizontal Prototype
Assumptions & Constraints - Required Capabilities - Solution Approach

10. What are the inputs to the task - Validate Requirements?
Coverage Matrix - Table or spreadsheet used to manage tracing.
Business Case; Stakeholder - Solution or Transition Requirements (Verified)
Impact Analysis
Business Rule

11. What factors guide technique selection?
Business Requirements - Identified Defects - Solution Performance Metrics - Solution (Deployed)
Requirements Workshop - Structured Walkthrough
Business Domain - Corporate Culture & Environment - Skills of the Analyst - Requirement Deliverable
Decision Making

12. What are the 3 elements in the Assess Organizational Readiness?
Cultural Assessment - Operational or Technical Assessment - Stakeholder Impact Analysis
Oral Communications - Teaching - Written Communication
Business Analysis Plan
Focus Group

13. Familiarity with the range of commercially available solutions or suppliers can assist with the identification of possible alternatives.
Enterprise Analysis - often the starting point for initiating a new project
All
Solution Knowledge
Relationship to Time - Relationship to Task Completion - Relationship to Contracts - Relationships to Formal and Informal Authority

14. What are the techniques used in the task Manage Business Analysis Performance?
Monitoring
Interviews - Lessons Learned Process - Metrics and KPIs - Problem Tracking - Process Modeling - Root Cause Analysis - Survey/Questionnaire - Variance Analysis
Evaluation Criteria
Business Case - Business Need - Requirements - Requirements Management Plan - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities

15. What are the classifications used to describe requirements
Allocate Requirements
Use Case
Business Requirements - Stakeholder Requirements - Solution Requirements - Transition Requirements
Requirements (Stated) - Requirements Structure

16. What are the different types of learning styles?
Confirm Elicitation Results
Manage Solution Scope & Requirements - Manage Requirements Traceability - Maintain Requirements for Re-use - Prepare Requirements Package - Communicate Requirements
Estimation - Functional Decomposition - Risk Analysis
Visual Learner - Auditory Learner - Kinesthetic Learner

17. What are some of the ways a BA can help to improve the operations of a business? Acceptance and Evaluation Criteria Definition - Business Rules Analysis - Data Dictionary and Glossary - Data Flow Diagrams - Data Modeling - Functional Decomposition -
Strengths - Weaknesses
Automate or Simplify Work - Improve Access to Information - Reduce Complexity of Interfaces - Increase Consistency of Behavior - Eliminate Redundancy
Enterprise Analysis - often the starting point for initiating a new project
Business Principles & Practices

18. A systematic approach designed to elicit information from a person or group of people in an informal or formal setting by talking to an interviewee - asking relevant questions and documenting the responses.
Evaluate Solution Performance
Stakeholder Matrix
Business Case; Stakeholder - Solution or Transition Requirements (Verified)
Interviews

19. Issues that may influence the replacement or elimination decision of a system include:
Assessment of Proposed Solution
Term and Fact Model
Advantages of a Data Dictionary & Glossary
Ongoing Cost versus Initial Investment - Opportunity Costs - Necessity - Sunk Costs

20. Means of eliciting information from many people - sometimes anonymously - in a relatively short period of time
Plan Business Analysis Approach - Conduct Stakeholder Analysis - Plan Business Analysis Activities - Plan Business Analysis Communication - Plan Requirements Management Process - Manage BA Performance
Business Principles & Practices
Survey/Questionnaire
Business Analysis Approach - BA Performance Assessment - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities

21. What are the inputs to the task Manage Solution Scope & Requirements?
Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring
Plan Business Analysis Approach - Conduct Stakeholder Analysis - Plan Business Analysis Activities - Plan Business Analysis Communication - Plan Requirements Management Process - Manage BA Performance
Requirements Management Plan - Solution Scope - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities - Stakeholder/Solution or Transition Requirements (Communicated or Traced)
Facilitation

22. 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
Compliance with regulatory or other standards
Scheduled Resources - Supporting Materials
Name - Aliases - Values/Meanings - Description
Structural Rules

23. The purpose is to measure the performance of solutions - solution components - and other matters of interest to stakeholders.
Elimination of Dominated Alternative - Ranking Objects on a Similar Scale
Activity List
Requirements (Validated)
Metrics & KPIs

24. Define requirements for capabilities needed to move from an existing solution to a new solution.
Solution Performance Assessment
Define Transitional Requirements
Organization Modeling
All

25. 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.
Advantages of a Data Dictionary & Glossary
Relationships - Impact Analysis - Configuration Management System
Lessons Learned Process
Identified Defects - Mitigating Actions - Solution Validation Assessment

26. 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?
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Impact Analysis - Requirements Coverage - Requirements Allocation
Scenario
Reliability - Validity - Timeliness

27. A specific - actionable - testable directive that is under the control of an organization and supports a business policy.
Business Rule
Organization Modeling
Absolute Reference - Author - Complexity - Ownership - Priority - Risks - Source - Stability - Status - Urgency
Scenario

28. What is the output of the task Confirm Elicitation Results?
User Story
Requirements Package
Facilitation & Negotiation - Leadership & Influencing - Teamwork
Requirements (Stated - Confirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Confirmed)

29. What techniques are used in the task - Prepare Requirements Package?
Absolute Reference - Author - Complexity - Ownership - Priority - Risks - Source - Stability - Status - Urgency
Formal Documentation - Presentation - Model
Requirements Documentation - Requirements for Vendor Selection
Determine the Process - Who will Authorize Changes - Impact Analysis - Wording of the Request - Coordinate Prioritization of Change

30. 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.
State Diagrams
Interface Analysis
Brainstorming
Solution Approach

31. Industry Knowledge - Organization Knowledge - Solution Knowledge What are the elements of Business Knowledge?
Requirements Management Plan
Cohesive - Complete - Consistent - Correct - Feasible - Modifiable - Unambiguous - Testable
Evolutionary or Functional Prototype
Business Principles & Practices

32. This prototype seeks to quickly uncover and clarify interface requirements using simple tools - sometimes just paper and pencil. The focus is on functionality that is not easily elicited by other techniques - has conflicting viewpoints - or is diffic
Business Need - Solution Scope & Business Case - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Trustworthiness
Throw-away Prototype
Evaluation Criteria

33. To assess the ability of a potential vendor to meet commitments regarding a product or service
Historic Analysis
Visual Learner - Auditory Learner - Kinesthetic Learner
Name - Value/Meanings - Description
Vendor Assessment

34. What are the techniques used in the task Define Business Need?
Relationships - Impact Analysis - Configuration Management System
Data Dictionary
Structured Walkthrough
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Business Rules Analysis - Focus Groups - Functional Decomposition - Root Cause Analysis

35. What are the factors of influence by stakeholders on a project?
A statement of the needs of a particular stakeholder or class of stakeholders
Formal requirements presentation to stakeholders
Influence on the project - organizational - project health and other stakeholders
Conduct Elicitation Activity

36. A good indicator has 5 characteristics:
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Business Rules Analysis - Focus Groups - Functional Decomposition - Root Cause Analysis
Required Capabilities
Relationship to Time - Relationship to Task Completion - Relationship to Contracts - Relationships to Formal and Informal Authority
Clear - Relevant - Economical - Adequate - Quantifiable

37. What are the inputs to the task Conduct Elicitation Activity?
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements Management Plan - Scheduled Resources - Solution Scope & Business Case - Supporting Materials
Budgeting
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving - Behavioral Characteristics - Business Knowledge - Communication Skills - Interaction Skills - Software Application
Identified Defects - Mitigating Actions - Solution Validation Assessment

38. What is the output of the task - Prepare Requirements Package?
Scheduled Resources - Supporting Materials
Horizontal Prototype
Risk Analysis
Requirements Package

39. The purpose of _______________ is to ensure that a stakeholder's actual underlying needs are understood - rather than the their stated or superficial desires.
Dependencies
All
Facilitation
Elicitation

40. Describes all the possible outcomes of an attempt to accomplish a particular goal that the solution will support.
Share - Enhance - Exploit
The Sponsor
Use Case
That they understand them and the current state the requirements are in

41. Communication of requirements does what for stakeholders?
Requirements Management & Communication
Focus Group
Brings them to a Communication on understanding
Share - Enhance - Exploit

42. 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.
Impact Analysis
Scenarios & Use Cases
Requirements Analysis
State Diagrams

43. What is the output of the task - Communicate Requirements?
Name - Aliases - Values/Meanings - Description
User Story
Communicated Requirements
Document Elicitation Results task

44. What are some examples of stakeholder concerns?
Solution Scope Definition - Implementation Approach - Dependencies
Focus Group
Throw-away Prototype
Risk - assumptions - constraints - etc.

45. 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
Scheduled Resources - Supporting Materials
Prepare Requirements Package
Elimination
Solution (Constructed) - Requirements (Prioritized and Validated)

46. 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.
Data Dictionary & Glossary - Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshops - Survey/Questionnaire
Requirements Workshop
Benchmarking
Opportunity Cost

47. What is the output of the task Prepare for Elicitation?
Scheduled Resources - Supporting Materials
Data Dictionary
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving
Acceptance - Transfer - Avoidance - Mitigation

48. Forecast the cost and effort involved in pursuing a course of action. Used to develop a better understanding of the possible range of costs and effort associated with any initiative
Requirements Analysis
Estimation
Parametric Estimation
Primary stakeholders in the Organize Requirements task

49. The people involved - the interactions between them - the external forces affecting their behavior and all other relevant elements and factors.
System
Customer
Requirements (Maintained and Reusable)
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Requirements - Requirements Package

50. What are the internal factors in a SWOT Analysis?
Allocate Requirements
User Classes - Profiles or Roles; Concepts & Relationships - Events - Processes - Rules
Clear - Relevant - Economical - Adequate - Quantifiable
Strengths - Weaknesses