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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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1. What are the inputs to the task - Prioritize Requirements?






2. What are some of the commonly used requirement attributes?






3. Agreement by stakeholders that analysis models effectively and completely describe the domain - identification of related problems or issues from multiple areas in the domain - rapid absorption of new information or new domain.






4. What are the inputs to the task - Communicate Requirements?






5. What are the elements of the task - Define Solution Scope?






6. What is the output of the task Manage Solution Scope & Requirements?






7. 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.






8. What are the techniques used in the task - Assess Proposed Solution?






9. The knowledge area that covers how BAs determine which activities are necessary in order to complete a business analysis effort.






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






11. To define the rules that govern decisions in an organization and that define - constrain or enable organization operations.






12. The decomposition of activities and tasks creates?






13. What factors guide technique selection?






14. What does RACI stand for?






15. What are the likely sources of transition requirements?






16. Communicated Requirements mean what to stakeholders?






17. What techniques are used in the task - Define Solution Scope?






18. Most optimistic estimate; most pessimistic estimate; most likely estimate






19. 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






20. What techniques are used in the task Prepare for Elicitation?






21. What is the output of the task - Prioritize Requirements?






22. 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






23. What are the Composite Data Elements?






24. This knowledge area describes the behaviors - knowledge and other characteristics that support the effective performance of a BA.






25. What are the techniques used in Plan Business Analysis Activities?






26. 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.






27. Investigating how a solution is actually used after it is deployed and assessing the effect it has had - both positive and negative.






28. What are the inputs to the task - Allocate Resources?






29. 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.






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






31. 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.






32. 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.






33. What are the inputs for the task - Maintain Requirements for Re-use?






34. What are the tasks in the knowledge area - Requirements Analysis?






35. Two techniques used in Root Cause Analysis?






36. Involves assessing a situation - understanding it as fully as possible - and making judgments about possible solutions to the problem.






37. This knowledge area describes the tasks that are performed in order to ensure that solutions meet the business need and to facilitate successful implementation.






38. What is the output of the task Prepare for Elicitation?






39. When a conflict arises between stakeholders on one or more documented requirements - the first thing that needs to take place is what?






40. 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.






41. What are stakeholder requirements?






42. What is the output of the task - Assess Organizational Readiness?






43. This knowledge area describes the problem definition and analysis - business case development - feasibility studies and the definition of solution scope.






44. Two effective trade-off methods.






45. Three key factors when assessing the quality of indicators and their metrics






46. What is the output of the task - Determine Solution Approach?






47. What is the output of the task - Define Business Case?






48. A specific - actionable - testable directive that is under the control of an organization and supports a business policy.






49. What is the output of the task - Communicate Requirements?






50. What are the inputs for the task - Prepare Requirements Package?