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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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1. What is the output of the Manage Business Analysis Performance task?






2. What techniques are used in the task - Prepare Requirements Package?






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






4. Benefits that could have been achieved with an alternative investment rather than this one.






5. 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.






6. What does RACI stand for?






7. A structured examination of the aspects of a situation to establish the root causes and resulting effects of the problem. A critical element is to ensure that the current business thinking and processes are challenged. The purpose is to determine the






8. 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






9. What are the inputs for the task Prepare for Elicitation?






10. Understanding of the business architecture of the organization that is being analyzed. Understanding business models (generates profit) - org structure - relationships between business units and the persons who occupy key stakeholder positions.






11. The process of informing stakeholders of metrics of indicators in specified formats at specified intervals.






12. What are the inputs to the task - Determine Solution Approach?






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






14. What are the Primitive Data Elements?






15. 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?






16. Involved motivating people to act in ways that enable them to work together to achieve shared goals and objectives.






17. Define the requirements that must be met in order for a solution to be considered acceptable to key stakeholders.






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






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






20. What is the output of the task - Validate Requirements?






21. What are the techniques used in the task - Define Transition Requirements?






22. 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






23. This will impose constraints to the effort to deploy the solution - including relationships that may exist between solution components.






24. Three types of organizational structures






25. Business rules require a defined glossary of terms and an understanding of the relationships between them - this is known as:






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






27. 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.






28. Communication of requirements does what for stakeholders?






29. What are the characteristics of Interaction Skills?






30. Revised process and templates for BA deliverables should be analyzed and documented and lessons learned should be recorded.






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






32. What is the output of the task Conduct Stakeholder Analysis?






33. This technique shows how information is input - processed - stored and output from a system in a visual representation.






34. The minimum set of requirements that must be met in order for a particular solution to be worth implementing.






35. What are the underlying competencies a BA should possess?






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






37. What are the inputs to the task - Validate Requirements?






38. What are the inputs to the task Plan Requirements Management Process?






39. The goal of this task is validate that the stated requirements expressed by the stakeholder match the stakeholder's understanding of the problem and the stakeholder's needs. Analyst's understanding conforms to the actual desire or intentions of the s






40. What are the inputs for the task Plan Business Analysis Activities?






41. Maps the level of stakeholder influence and interest in a project.






42. What is the output of the task - Maintain Requirements for Re-use?






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






44. What are the inputs for the task - Define Solution Scope?






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






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






47. What are the elements of the area - Analytical Thinking and Problem Solving - Successful generation of new ideas - application of new ideas to resolve existing problems - willingness of stakeholders to accept new approaches.






48. What are the inputs to the task - Organize Requirements?






49. What are the techniques used in the task - Assess Organizational Readiness?






50. 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.