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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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1. What are the inputs for the task - Define Transitional Requirements?






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






3. 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.






4. What are the classifications used to describe requirements






5. Prioritizes requirements based on a allocated fixed amount of money.






6. This task determines if an organization can justify the investment required to deliver a proposed solution.






7. What are the techniques used in the task - Validate Solution?






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






9. 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 -






10. Describes all the possible outcomes of an attempt to accomplish a particular goal that the solution will support.






11. States the business need - identifies key stakeholders and briefly describes the positive impact that meeting the business need will have on those stakeholders.






12. Strengths - Weaknesses - Opportunities - Threats - A valuable tool to quickly analyze various aspects of the current state of the business process undergoing change.






13. What are stakeholder requirements?






14. Name the 2 types of Software categories that assist in BA productivity.






15. Techniques used in the task Plan Requirements Management Process.






16. What is the output of the task - Define Business Need?






17. What knowledge area discusses the business analysis activities necessary to identify a business need - problem or opportunity - define the capture of the solution and justify the investment necessary to deliver the solution.






18. What are the techniques used in the task Manage Solution Scope & Requirements?






19. What are the techniques used in the task Manage Business Analysis Performance?






20. When performing root cause analysis as part of the Validate Solution task - what stakeholder may be involved?






21. 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.






22. Knowing the dependencies and relationships between requirements helps when determining the sequence in which requirements are to be addressed. Common relations are:






23. What are the strategies for a positive risk?






24. Combination of expert judgment and history. Individual estimates - sharing the estimates with experts - and having several rounds until consensus is reached. An average of the three estimates is used






25. What are the techniques used in the task Define Business Need?






26. The purpose is to compile and document successes - opportunities for improvement - failures - and recommendations for improving the performance of future projects or project phases






27. What are the inputs to the task - Assess Organizational Readiness?






28. According to the BABOK 2.0 - what type of analysis generates STAKEHOLDER requirements?






29. 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.






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






31. What are the inputs for the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?






32. What are the inputs to the task - Verify Requirements?






33. What is the output of the task Conduct Elicitation Activity?






34. Documents terms unique to a domain.






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






36. What are some examples of stakeholder concerns?






37. What stakeholder receives noticeable negative impact if information is incorrectly transferred from the old to new solution?






38. What is the output of the Plan Business Analysis Approach?






39. What are the factors of influence by stakeholders on a project?






40. What are the inputs to the task Manage Solution Scope & Requirements?






41. A good indicator has 5 characteristics:






42. 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.






43. Uses history as a basis for estimating. It is similar to analogous estimation - but is used not only for the top-down estimate - but for the detailed tasks as well.






44. What factors guide technique selection?






45. Creates a conceptual model of the work that needs to be completed to deliver the new business solution.






46. When a requirement is changed - the BA can easily review all the related requirements and software components in order to understand the impact of the change.






47. 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?






48. What are the techniques used in the task - Determine Solution Approach?






49. What are the strategies for a negative risk?






50. What are the inputs to the task - Define Business Need?