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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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1. Prioritizes requirements based on the amount of work that the project team is capable of delivering in a set period of time. Approaches include: All-in - All Out - Selective
Timeboxing
Define Business Case
Assumptions & Constraints - Business Need - Solution Scope - Stakeholder Concerns
Trustworthiness

2. Limited to "as-is" perspective. - Existing documentation may not be up-to-date or valid. - Can be a time-consuming and even tedious process to locate the relevant information
Estimation
Advantages of Document Analysis
Coverage Matrix - Table or spreadsheet used to manage tracing.
All

3. What is the output of the task - Verify Requirements?
Stakeholder Matrix
Requirements (Verified)
Root Cause Analysis
Assess Organization Readiness

4. Knowing the dependencies and relationships between requirements helps when determining the sequence in which requirements are to be addressed. Common relations are:
Interviews
Necessity - Effort - Subset - Cover - Value
Influence on the project - organizational - project health and other stakeholders
Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis

5. What are the factors of influence by stakeholders on a project?
Advantages of Document Analysis
Benchmarking
Influence on the project - organizational - project health and other stakeholders
Decision Analysis

6. Requires the team to focus on examining the premises - assumptions - observations and expectations of the team members. This type of conflict can have a beneficial effect of strengthening the foundations of the analysis and the solution.
Business Rule
Lessons Learned Process
Underlying Competencies
Cognitive Conflict

7. Gathering information relevant to a decision - breaking down the information relevant to a decision - making comparisons and tradeoffs between similar and dissimilar options and identifying the option that is most desirable.
Organizational Knowledge
Industry Knowledge
Prioritize Requirements - Organize Requirements - Specify & Model Requirements - Define Assumptions & Constraints - Verify Requirements - Validate Requirements
Decision Analysis

8. What are the inputs for the task Prepare for Elicitation?
Automate or Simplify Work - Improve Access to Information - Reduce Complexity of Interfaces - Increase Consistency of Behavior - Eliminate Redundancy
Business Need - Solution Scope & Business Case - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Specific - Measurable - Achievable - Relevant - Time-bound Objectives must be SMART.
Requirements (Stated - Unconfirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Unconfirmed)

9. What is the output of the Plan Business Analysis Approach?
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements Management Plan - Scheduled Resources - Solution Scope & Business Case - Supporting Materials
Requirements Management & Communication
Business Analysis Approach
Horizontal Prototype

10. Long-term - ongoing and qualitative statements of a state or condition that the organization is seeking to establish and maintain.
Influence on the project - organizational - project health and other stakeholders
Goals
Cognitive Conflict
Interviews - Lessons Learned Process - Metrics and KPIs - Problem Tracking - Process Modeling - Root Cause Analysis - Survey/Questionnaire - Variance Analysis

11. What are the inputs to the task - Organize Requirements?
Business Analysis Approach
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements (Stated) - Solution Scope
Decision Analysis
Define Business Need - Access Capability Gaps - Determine Solution Approach - Define Solution Scope - Define Business Case

12. Approach to decision making that examines and models the possible consequences of different decisions. Make an optimal decision under conditions of uncertainty.
Decision Analysis
Perform tailoring exercises
Three-point Estimation
Requirements Analysis

13. What are the likely sources of transition requirements?
User Story
Define Transitional Requirements
Lessons Learned Process
Data - Ongoing Work - Organizational Change

14. Are written to describe how an actor interacts with a solution to accomplish one or more of that actor's goals - or to respond to an event.
All
Elicitation Results
Scenarios & Use Cases
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Problem Tracking - Root Cause Analysis

15. To define the rules that govern decisions in an organization and that define - constrain or enable organization operations.
Data Modeling
Requirements (Stated - Confirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Confirmed)
That they understand them and the current state the requirements are in
Business Rules Analysis

16. 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
Non-functional Requirements Analysis
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Decision Analysis - Estimation - SWOT Analysis - Feasibility Analysis
Operative Rules
A statement of the needs of a particular stakeholder or class of stakeholders

17. Characteristics that are common to all organizations with a similar purpose and structure - whether or not the are in the same industry.
Advantages of a Data Dictionary & Glossary
Prepare Requirements Package
Business Principals
Transition Requirements

18. How is the Operational Support stakeholder utilized in the Evaluate Solution Performance task?
Clear - Relevant - Economical - Adequate - Quantifiable
User Classes - Profiles or Roles; Concepts & Relationships - Events - Processes - Rules
This person will be involved in monitoring the performance and effectiveness of a solution or its components.
Goals

19. What are the elements of the task - Define Solution Scope?
Repository - Traceability - Requirement Attributes - Prioritization Process - Change Management - Tailoring the Requirements Management Process
Expert Judgment
Visual Learner - Auditory Learner - Kinesthetic Learner
Solution Scope Definition - Implementation Approach - Dependencies

20. What is the output of the task Confirm Elicitation Results?
Business Analysis Communication Plan
Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis
Requirements (Stated - Confirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Confirmed)
Organization Modeling

21. What is the output of the task - Determine Solution Approach?
Solution Approach
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
Requirements Management Plan
Use Case

22. Benefits that could have been achieved with an alternative investment rather than this one.
Business Need - Expert Judgment - Organizational Process Assets
Data - Ongoing Work - Organizational Change
Problem Solving
Opportunity Cost

23. Technique involving refinement of estimates. Estimate the details for activities in the current iteration or increment and provide an analogous estimate for the entire scope of work. As the end of the iteration approaches - estimates for the next ite
Requirements (Stated) - Requirements Structure
Structured Walkthrough
Rolling Wave
All

24. What are the tasks in Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring?
Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis
Evolutionary or Functional Prototype
Plan Business Analysis Approach - Conduct Stakeholder Analysis - Plan Business Analysis Activities - Plan Business Analysis Communication - Plan Requirements Management Process - Manage BA Performance
Requirements (Stated - Unconfirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Unconfirmed)

25. What are some examples of stakeholder concerns?
Risk - assumptions - constraints - etc.
Ethics
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Business Rules Analysis - Decision Analysis - Functional Decomposition - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases
Operative Rules

26. What are the techniques used in the task - Prioritize Requirements?
Decision Analysis - Risk Analysis - MoSCoW Analysis - Timeboxing/Budgeting - Voting
Requirements - Requirements Management Plan
Oral Communications - Teaching - Written Communication
Industry Knowledge

27. What are the techniques used in the task Document Elicitation Results?
Structural Rules
Customer
Business Analysis Plan
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Problem Tracking - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire

28. What is the output of the task - Prioritize Requirements?
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Requirements - Requirements Package
Advantages of Document Analysis
Requirements (Prioritized)
Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution (Designed) - Solution Scope

29. What is the output of the task Manage Solution Scope & Requirements?
Requirements Analysis
Tracing Requirements
Business Case; Stakeholder - Solution or Transition Requirements (Verified)
Requirements (Approved)

30. The people involved - the interactions between them - the external forces affecting their behavior and all other relevant elements and factors.
Non-functional Requirements Analysis
Requirements (Stated) - Stakeholder Concerns
System
Compliance with regulatory or other standards

31. The purpose is to compile and document successes - opportunities for improvement - failures - and recommendations for improving the performance of future projects or project phases
User Classes - Profiles or Roles; Concepts & Relationships - Events - Processes - Rules
Lessons Learned Process
Business Need
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Required Capabilities

32. What does RACI stand for?
Dependencies
Plan Business Analysis Approach - Conduct Stakeholder Analysis - Plan Business Analysis Activities - Plan Business Analysis Communication - Plan Requirements Management Process - Manage BA Performance
Responsible - Accountable - Consulted - Informed
Systems Thinking

33. List 3 possible forms of a requirements packages.
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
Formal Documentation - Presentation - Model
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets
Assessment of Proposed Solution

34. What are the techniques used in the task - Define Transition Requirements?
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Modeling - Organization Modeling - Data Modeling
Estimation
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving - Behavioral Characteristics - Business Knowledge - Communication Skills - Interaction Skills - Software Application
Requirements (Verified)

35. Define the requirements that must be met in order for a solution to be considered acceptable to key stakeholders.
Assumptions & Constraints
Acceptance & Evaluation Technique
Requirements Management Plan - Solution Scope - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities - Stakeholder/Solution or Transition Requirements (Communicated or Traced)
Requirements (Allocated)

36. What are the techniques used in the task Conduct Stakeholder Analysis?
Survey/Questionnaire
Scenarios & Use Cases
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
Decision Analysis - Focus Groups - Observation - Survey/Questionnaire

37. Communicated Requirements mean what to stakeholders?
Oral Communications - Teaching - Written Communication
Requirements (Traced)
Evolutionary or Functional Prototype
That they understand them and the current state the requirements are in

38. Techniques used in the task Plan Requirements Management Process.
Prioritize Requirements - Organize Requirements - Specify & Model Requirements - Define Assumptions & Constraints - Verify Requirements - Validate Requirements
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Modeling - Organization Modeling - Data Modeling
Decision Analysis - Problem Tacking - Risk Analysis
Verify Requirements

39. This technique shows how information is input - processed - stored and output from a system in a visual representation.
Relationship to Time - Relationship to Task Completion - Relationship to Contracts - Relationships to Formal and Informal Authority
Data Flow Diagrams
Analogous Estimation
Name - Aliases - Values/Meanings - Description

40. What are the inputs to the task - Allocate Resources?
Business Case; Stakeholder - Solution or Transition Requirements (Verified)
Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution (Designed) - Solution Scope
Business Case
Define Business Need - Access Capability Gaps - Determine Solution Approach - Define Solution Scope - Define Business Case

41. What is the output of the task - Maintain Requirements for Re-use?
Enterprise Analysis
Responsible - Accountable - Consulted - Informed
Business Analysis Plan
Requirements (Maintained and Reusable)

42. What are the techniques used in the task - Assess Proposed Solution?
Functions - Markets - Matrix
Business Analysis Approach
Enterprise Architecture - Solution Scope - Solution (Designed) - Stakeholder Concerns
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Decision Analysis - Vendor Assessment

43. What are the techniques used in the task - Communicate Requirements?
Repository - Traceability - Requirement Attributes - Prioritization Process - Change Management - Tailoring the Requirements Management Process
Creative Thinking - Decision Making - Learning - Problem Solving - Systems Thinking
Requirements Workshop - Structured Walkthrough
Requirements (Validated)

44. Performed to communicate - verify and validate requirements. Is a working session where invited participants review and discuss a set of requirements
Document Analysis - SWOT Analysis
Assessment of Proposed Solution
Structured Walkthrough
Relationships - Impact Analysis - Configuration Management System

45. What are the inputs to the task - Validate Requirements?
Key Performance Indicator (KPI )
Business Case; Stakeholder - Solution or Transition Requirements (Verified)
Business Analysis Approach - BA Performance Assessment - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Reliability - Validity - Timeliness

46. What are the inputs for the task Confirm Elicitation Results?
Visual Learner - Auditory Learner - Kinesthetic Learner
Requirements (Stated - Unconfirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Unconfirmed)
Sequence Diagrams
Solution Assessment & Validation

47. A formal written specification with possible walk-thru - an informal one is possibly verbal or email Communication
Decision Analysis - Problem Tacking - Risk Analysis
Business Analysis Process Assets
Scenario
Formal requirements presentation to stakeholders

48. Measures progress towards a strategic goal or objective.
Business Requirements - Identified Defects - Solution Performance Metrics - Solution (Deployed)
Business Principals
Acceptance - Transfer - Avoidance - Mitigation
Key Performance Indicator (KPI )

49. 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.
Prepare for Elicitation - Conduct Elicitation Activity - Document Elicitation Results - Confirm Elicitation Results
Solution Scope
Enterprise Architecture - Solution Scope - Solution (Designed) - Stakeholder Concerns
Risk - assumptions - constraints - etc.

50. Who is the primary stakeholder in the Define Business Case task?
The Sponsor
Term and Fact Model
Problem Solving
Validate Requirements