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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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1. Models a deep - and usually narrow slice of the entire system's functionality.
Assumptions & Constraints - Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution Options
Business Requirements - Identified Defects - Solution Performance Metrics - Solution (Deployed)
Vertical Prototype
Data Dictionary & Glossary - Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshops - Survey/Questionnaire

2. Understanding of how a change to a component affects the system as a whole - identification of reinforcing and compensating feedback loops - understanding of how systems adapt to external pressures and changes - A system as a whole will have properti
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Systems Thinking
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Business Rules Analysis - Focus Groups - Functional Decomposition - Root Cause Analysis
Requirements Management Plan - Solution Scope - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities - Stakeholder/Solution or Transition Requirements (Communicated or Traced)

3. This knowledge area describes the problem definition and analysis - business case development - feasibility studies and the definition of solution scope.
Enterprise Analysis
Estimation
Problem Solving
Relationship to Time - Relationship to Task Completion - Relationship to Contracts - Relationships to Formal and Informal Authority

4. Who is the primary stakeholder in the Define Business Case task?
Requirements Documentation - Requirements for Vendor Selection
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Organizational Process Assets
The Sponsor
MoSCoW Analysis

5. What are the techniques used in the task - Validate Solution?
Decision Analysis - Risk Analysis - MoSCoW Analysis - Timeboxing/Budgeting - Voting
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements - Requirements Structure
Advantages of Document Analysis
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Problem Tracking - Root Cause Analysis

6. What are the inputs to the task - Communicate Requirements?
Business Case - Business Need - Requirements - Requirements Management Plan - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Requirements - Requirements Package
Business Analysis Process Assets
Clear - Relevant - Economical - Adequate - Quantifiable

7. What is the output of the task - Manage Requirements Traceability?
Cognitive Conflict
Allocate Requirements
Requirements (Traced)
Verify Requirements

8. 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
Term and Fact Model
Business Value - Business or Technical Risk - Implementation Difficulty - Likelihood of Success - Regulatory or Policy Compliance - Relationship to Other Requirements - Stakeholder Agreement - Urgency
Business Case; Stakeholder - Solution or Transition Requirements (Verified)
Requirements Management & Communication

9. What are the inputs to the task - Prioritize Requirements?
Business Case - Business Need - Requirements - Requirements Management Plan - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Vendor Assessment
Solution Performance Assessment
Elicitation Results

10. A brief description of functionality that users need from a solution to meet a business objective. The goal they are trying to accomplish - and any additional information that may be critical to understanding the scope of the story.
Enterprise Analysis
Dependencies
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Organizational Process Assets
User Story

11. 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.
BABOK
Organization Modeling
Sequence Diagrams
Bottom-up Estimation

12. What is the output of the task - Determine Solution Approach?
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Problem Solving
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements Management Plan - Scheduled Resources - Solution Scope & Business Case - Supporting Materials
Solution Approach

13. 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
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements
Requirements Management Plan - Solution Scope - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities - Stakeholder/Solution or Transition Requirements (Communicated or Traced)
Decision Making
Decision Analysis

14. What is the output of the task - Prioritize Requirements?
Ongoing Cost versus Initial Investment - Opportunity Costs - Necessity - Sunk Costs
Visual Learner - Auditory Learner - Kinesthetic Learner
Requirements (Prioritized)
Requirements (Stated) - Requirements Structure

15. 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.
Benchmarking
Requirements (Stated - Confirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Confirmed)
Requirements (Analyzed)
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Required Capabilities

16. This technique shows how information is input - processed - stored and output from a system in a visual representation.
Decision Analysis - Focus Groups - Observation - Survey/Questionnaire
Impact Analysis
Identified Defects - Mitigating Actions - Solution Validation Assessment
Data Flow Diagrams

17. What is the output of the task Conduct Stakeholder Analysis?
Interviews
Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Functional Decomposition
Organize Requirements

18. What are the characteristics of a Problem Record?
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
State Diagrams
Responsible - Accountable - Consulted - Informed
Opportunity Cost

19. What are the inputs for the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?
Business Requirements - Identified Defects - Solution Performance Metrics - Solution (Deployed)
Business Analysis Process Assets
Influence on the project - organizational - project health and other stakeholders
Organizational Knowledge

20. Organizational culture - Stakeholder preference - complexity - organizational maturity and availability of resources are all factors used to do what?
Requirements (Allocated)
Perform tailoring exercises
System
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

21. What are the inputs to the task - Verify Requirements?
Data Dictionary & Glossary
Activity List
Requirements (Any Except Stated)
Cognitive Conflict

22. To define the rules that govern decisions in an organization and that define - constrain or enable organization operations.
Transition Requirements
System
Elicitation
Business Rules Analysis

23. This task determines if an organization can justify the investment required to deliver a proposed solution.
MoSCoW Analysis
Solution Performance Assessment
Industry Knowledge
Define Business Case

24. What are the techniques used in the task Define Business Need?
Organize Requirements
MoSCoW Analysis
Organization Modeling
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Business Rules Analysis - Focus Groups - Functional Decomposition - Root Cause Analysis

25. What are the techniques used in Plan Business Analysis Approach?
Brainstorming
Decision Analysis - Process Modeling - Structured Walkthrough
Interviews - Observation
Oral Communications - Teaching - Written Communication

26. What are the inputs to the task Manage Solution Scope & Requirements?
Evaluate Solution Performance
Requirements Management Plan - Solution Scope - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities - Stakeholder/Solution or Transition Requirements (Communicated or Traced)
Requirements Structure
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements (Stated) - Solution Scope

27. What is the output of the task - Define Business Need?
Business Need
Customer
Organizational Knowledge
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements

28. While eliciting requirements it is important to guard against scope creep - This activity will ensure that the requirements should be included since they meet the business goal/objectives.
Impact Analysis - Requirements Coverage - Requirements Allocation
Onion Diagram
Tracing Requirements
Structured Walkthrough

29. What are some examples of stakeholder concerns?
Business Rule
Requirements Documentation - Requirements for Vendor Selection
Functions - Markets - Matrix
Risk - assumptions - constraints - etc.

30. Performed to communicate - verify and validate requirements. Is a working session where invited participants review and discuss a set of requirements
Influence on the project - organizational - project health and other stakeholders
General Purpose Applications & Specialized Applications
Requirements (Stated - Unconfirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Unconfirmed)
Structured Walkthrough

31. What are the elements of the task Plan Requirements Management Process?
Assumptions & Constraints
Repository - Traceability - Requirement Attributes - Prioritization Process - Change Management - Tailoring the Requirements Management Process
Cognitive Conflict
Requirements (Prioritized)

32. 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
Focus Group
Required Capabilities
Ethics
Brainstorming

33. Prioritizes requirements based on a allocated fixed amount of money.
Problem Tracking - Baselining - Signoff
Analogous Estimation
Budgeting
Business Requirements - Stakeholder Requirements - Solution Requirements - Transition Requirements

34. The BA is a stakeholder in ______ business analysis activities.
All
Interface Analysis
Cultural Assessment - Operational or Technical Assessment - Stakeholder Impact Analysis
Parametric Estimation

35. What are the inputs to the task - Validate Requirements?
Validate Solution
Enterprise Analysis
Requirements (Allocated)
Business Case; Stakeholder - Solution or Transition Requirements (Verified)

36. What are the factors of influence by stakeholders on a project?
Expert Judgment
Influence on the project - organizational - project health and other stakeholders
Budgeting
Define Business Need - Access Capability Gaps - Determine Solution Approach - Define Solution Scope - Define Business Case

37. Means of eliciting information from many people - sometimes anonymously - in a relatively short period of time
Survey/Questionnaire
All
Brings them to a Communication on understanding
Requirements (Approved)

38. Define requirements for capabilities needed to move from an existing solution to a new solution.
Define Transitional Requirements
Ongoing Cost versus Initial Investment - Opportunity Costs - Necessity - Sunk Costs
Define Business Need - Access Capability Gaps - Determine Solution Approach - Define Solution Scope - Define Business Case
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Problem Tracking - Structured Walkthrough - Checklists

39. 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
All
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Models - Focus Groups - Interviews - Survey/Questionnaire - Organizational Modeling - Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Force Field Analysis
Lessons Learned Process

40. What are the techniques used in the task - Communicate Requirements?
Observation
Requirements Workshop - Structured Walkthrough
Determine the Process - Who will Authorize Changes - Impact Analysis - Wording of the Request - Coordinate Prioritization of Change
Rolling Wave

41. Describes all the possible outcomes of an attempt to accomplish a particular goal that the solution will support.
Brainstorming
Relationships - Impact Analysis - Configuration Management System
Strengths - Weaknesses
Use Case

42. What is the output of the task - Assess Organizational Readiness?
To record the conflict in the Requirements Issues Log.
Organizational Readiness Assessment
A statement of the needs of a particular stakeholder or class of stakeholders
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Problem Tracking - Root Cause Analysis

43. According to the BABOK 2.0 - what type of analysis generates STAKEHOLDER requirements?
Advantages of a Data Dictionary & Glossary
Influence on the project - organizational - project health and other stakeholders
Coverage Matrix - Table or spreadsheet used to manage tracing.
Requirements Analysis

44. Name some commonly used financial valuation techniques.
Discounted Cash Flow - Net Present Value - Internal Rate of Return - Average Rate of Return - Pay Back Period - Cost-Benefit Analysis
Manage Solution Scope & Requirements - Manage Requirements Traceability - Maintain Requirements for Re-use - Prepare Requirements Package - Communicate Requirements
Organization Modeling
Requirements Workshop

45. Three key factors when assessing the quality of indicators and their metrics
Metrics & KPIs
Reliability - Validity - Timeliness
Requirements Analysis
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Business Rules Analysis - Decision Analysis - Functional Decomposition - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases

46. 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
Structural Rules
Stakeholder Matrix
Requirements (Maintained and Reusable)
Timeboxing

47. What are the attributes of a Data Model?
Name - Value/Meanings - Description
Structured Walkthrough
BABOK
Benchmarking

48. What are the techniques used in Plan Business Analysis Activities?
Enterprise Analysis
System
Business Analysis Communication Plan
Estimation - Functional Decomposition - Risk Analysis

49. What are the underlying competencies a BA should possess?
Creative Thinking - Decision Making - Learning - Problem Solving - Systems Thinking
Relationship to Time - Relationship to Task Completion - Relationship to Contracts - Relationships to Formal and Informal Authority
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
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving - Behavioral Characteristics - Business Knowledge - Communication Skills - Interaction Skills - Software Application

50. What are the techniques used in the task - Assess Proposed Solution?
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Requirements - Requirements Package
Allocate Requirements
Personal Organization
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Decision Analysis - Vendor Assessment