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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning
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1. What are the techniques used in Plan Business Analysis Communication?
Survey/Questionnaire
Responsible - Accountable - Consulted - Informed
Structured Walkthrough
Cognitive Conflict
2. What are the techniques for the task - Verify Requirements?
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Problem Tracking - Structured Walkthrough - Checklists
Solution Approach
User Classes - Profiles or Roles; Concepts & Relationships - Events - Processes - Rules
Prioritize Requirements - Organize Requirements - Specify & Model Requirements - Define Assumptions & Constraints - Verify Requirements - Validate Requirements
3. Use of a similar project as the basis for developing estimates for the current project. Also known as "top-down" estimating. This is usually done at the beginning of the project or project phase and more detailed estimates follow as more is known.
Analogous Estimation
Document Elicitation Results task
Assessment of Proposed Solution
Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring
4. What are the techniques used in the task - Define Assumptions & Constraints?
Requirements (Any Except Stated)
Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements - Requirements Structure
Requirements (Stated - Unconfirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Unconfirmed)
5. 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
Fishbone Diagram - Five Whys
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets
Operative Rules
Lessons Learned Process
6. 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
Decision Making
Ethics
Business Requirements - Stakeholder Requirements - Solution Requirements - Transition Requirements
Data Dictionary
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.
Business Analysis Communication Plan
Sequences - Repetitions - Optional Elements
Decision Analysis
Evaluate Solution Performance
8. What are the inputs to the task - Determine Solution Approach?
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Solution Performance Assessment
Discounted Cash Flow - Net Present Value - Internal Rate of Return - Average Rate of Return - Pay Back Period - Cost-Benefit Analysis
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Required Capabilities
Trustworthiness
9. What are the inputs to the task - Assess Organizational Readiness?
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Metrics & KPIs - Prototyping - Risk Analysis - Structured Walkthrough
Enterprise Architecture - Solution Scope - Solution (Designed) - Stakeholder Concerns
Problem Tracking - Baselining - Signoff
Business Analysis Plan
10. Checklist of characteristics to consider when considering non-functional requirements.
Estimation - Functional Decomposition - Risk Analysis
Requirements Workshop
Impact Analysis
Reliability - Performance Efficiency - Operability - Security - Compatibility - Maintainability - Transferability
11. Industry Knowledge - Organization Knowledge - Solution Knowledge What are the elements of Business Knowledge?
Validate Solution
Structural Rules
Business Principles & Practices
Business Need
12. What are the factors of influence by stakeholders on a project?
Influence on the project - organizational - project health and other stakeholders
Data Dictionary
Horizontal Prototype
Risk Analysis
13. Divides requirements into 4 categories - Must - Should - Could - Won't
Requirements Structure
Historic Analysis
MoSCoW Analysis
Structured Walkthrough
14. Business rules require a defined glossary of terms and an understanding of the relationships between them - this is known as:
Term and Fact Model
Dependencies
BABOK
Evolutionary or Functional Prototype
15. Name the 2 types of Software categories that assist in BA productivity.
General Purpose Applications & Specialized Applications
Impact Analysis - Requirements Coverage - Requirements Allocation
Problem Tracking
Data Dictionary & Glossary - Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshops - Survey/Questionnaire
16. 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.
Elimination
Required Capabilities
Validate Solution
Requirements Workshop
17. What are the techniques used in the task Confirm Elicitation Results?
Interviews - Observation
Rolling Wave
Delphi Estimation
Requirements Analysis
18. What techniques are used in the task - Prepare Requirements Package?
Influence on the project - organizational - project health and other stakeholders
Formal Documentation - Presentation - Model
Prepare Requirements Package
Requirements Documentation - Requirements for Vendor Selection
19. What are the tasks of the Elicitation Knowledge Area?
Analogous Estimation
Prepare for Elicitation - Conduct Elicitation Activity - Document Elicitation Results - Confirm Elicitation Results
Decision Making
Requirements (Stated - Confirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Confirmed)
20. What is the output of the task Prepare for Elicitation?
Survey/Questionnaire
Emotional and Cognitive
Scheduled Resources - Supporting Materials
Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis
21. Measures progress towards a strategic goal or objective.
BABOK
System
Key Performance Indicator (KPI )
Implementation Approach
22. Name some commonly used financial valuation techniques.
Data Dictionary
Business Principles & Practices
Discounted Cash Flow - Net Present Value - Internal Rate of Return - Average Rate of Return - Pay Back Period - Cost-Benefit Analysis
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements (Stated) - Solution Scope
23. 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?
Oral Communications - Teaching - Written Communication
Impact Analysis - Requirements Coverage - Requirements Allocation
Risk - assumptions - constraints - etc.
Identified Defects - Mitigating Actions - Solution Validation Assessment
24. Three key factors when assessing the quality of indicators and their metrics
Organizational Knowledge
Reliability - Validity - Timeliness
Formal requirements presentation to stakeholders
Automate or Simplify Work - Improve Access to Information - Reduce Complexity of Interfaces - Increase Consistency of Behavior - Eliminate Redundancy
25. What are the inputs to the task - Allocate Resources?
Evolutionary or Functional Prototype
Conduct Elicitation Activity
Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution (Designed) - Solution Scope
Name - Aliases - Values/Meanings - Description
26. Provides an organized approach to tracking - management - and resolution of defects - issues - problems - and risks throughout business analysis activities. Management of issues is important so that they can be resolved in a timely manner to ensure s
Problem Tracking
Sequences - Repetitions - Optional Elements
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
The Business Analysis Communication Plan
27. What is the output of the task - Organize Requirements?
Learning
Requirements Structure
Evaluation Criteria
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Problem Tracking - Structured Walkthrough - Checklists
28. Elicitation Results are the inputs for the ____________
Requirements Documentation - Requirements for Vendor Selection
Data Flow Diagrams
Document Elicitation Results task
Business Analysis Plan
29. Who is the primary stakeholder in the Define Business Case task?
Business Rule
The Business Analysis Communication Plan
The Sponsor
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Solution Performance Assessment
30. Organizational culture - Stakeholder preference - complexity - organizational maturity and availability of resources are all factors used to do what?
Perform tailoring exercises
Requirements (Analyzed)
Assumptions & Constraints - Business Need - Solution Scope - Stakeholder Concerns
Document Elicitation Results task
31. What are the attributes of a Data Model?
Requirements Workshop
Share - Enhance - Exploit
Name - Value/Meanings - Description
Requirements (Stated - Unconfirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Unconfirmed)
32. What is the output of the task - Communicate Requirements?
Delphi Estimation
Define Transitional Requirements
Business Analysis Performance Assessment - Business Analysis Process Assets - Includes a comparison of planned versus actual performance - understanding the root cause of variances from the plan and other information to help understand the level of
Communicated Requirements
33. Techniques used in the task Plan Requirements Management Process.
Survey/Questionnaire
Implementation Approach
Decision Analysis
Decision Analysis - Problem Tacking - Risk Analysis
34. Models a deep - and usually narrow slice of the entire system's functionality.
Vertical Prototype
Scheduled Resources - Supporting Materials
Decision Analysis - Risk Analysis - MoSCoW Analysis - Timeboxing/Budgeting - Voting
Decision Analysis - Process Modeling - Structured Walkthrough
35. What are the internal factors in a SWOT Analysis?
Communicated Requirements
Glossary
Strengths - Weaknesses
Evaluation
36. Involves assessing a situation - understanding it as fully as possible - and making judgments about possible solutions to the problem.
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving
Acceptance - Transfer - Avoidance - Mitigation
Assessment of Proposed Solution
Discounted Cash Flow - Net Present Value - Internal Rate of Return - Average Rate of Return - Pay Back Period - Cost-Benefit Analysis
37. What are some of the ways a BA can help to improve the operations of a business? Acceptance and Evaluation Criteria Definition - Business Rules Analysis - Data Dictionary and Glossary - Data Flow Diagrams - Data Modeling - Functional Decomposition -
Requirements Management Plan - Solution Scope - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities - Stakeholder/Solution or Transition Requirements (Communicated or Traced)
Organizational Readiness Assessment
Oral Communications - Teaching - Written Communication
Automate or Simplify Work - Improve Access to Information - Reduce Complexity of Interfaces - Increase Consistency of Behavior - Eliminate Redundancy
38. Ability to find information - on-time completion of tasks - efficiency in the completion of work - ability to easily identify all outstanding work and the status of each work item.
Assessment of Proposed Solution
Analogous Estimation
Personal Organization
Verify Requirements
39. 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.
Scenarios & Use Cases
Glossary
Cognitive Conflict
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements Management Plan - Scheduled Resources - Solution Scope & Business Case - Supporting Materials
40. What are the techniques used in the task - Assess Proposed Solution?
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Decision Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Requirements (Any Except Stated)
Compliance with regulatory or other standards
Required Capabilities
41. A formal written specification with possible walk-thru - an informal one is possibly verbal or email Communication
Assumptions & Constraints
Organizational Readiness Assessment
Formal requirements presentation to stakeholders
Solution Scope Definition - Implementation Approach - Dependencies
42. Two types of conflict.
Prepare Requirements Package
Business Requirements - Identified Defects - Solution Performance Metrics - Solution (Deployed)
Emotional and Cognitive
Business Policy
43. Knowing the dependencies and relationships between requirements helps when determining the sequence in which requirements are to be addressed. Common relations are:
Necessity - Effort - Subset - Cover - Value
Organizational Readiness Assessment
Business Analysis Approach - BA Performance Assessment - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Facilitation
44. What factors guide technique selection?
Business Domain - Corporate Culture & Environment - Skills of the Analyst - Requirement Deliverable
Assess Organization Readiness
Primary stakeholders in the Organize Requirements task
Survey/Questionnaire
45. This task ensures that requirement specifications and models meet the necessary standard of quality to allow them to be used effectively to guide further work. Requirements have been defined correctly.
Verify Requirements
Strengths - Weaknesses
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements - Requirements Structure
Perform tailoring exercises
46. How is the Operational Support stakeholder utilized in the Evaluate Solution Performance task?
This person will be involved in monitoring the performance and effectiveness of a solution or its components.
Solution Scope
Scheduled Resources - Supporting Materials
Decision Analysis - Estimation - Metrics & KPIs - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Vendor Assessment
47. 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.
Interviews
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements - Requirements Structure
Solution Performance Assessment
Benchmarking
48. Characteristics that are common to all organizations with a similar purpose and structure - whether or not the are in the same industry.
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Problem Tracking - Structured Walkthrough - Checklists
Metrics & KPIs
Operative Rules
Business Principals
49. 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.
Decision Analysis - Focus Groups - Observation - Survey/Questionnaire
Prioritize Requirements - Organize Requirements - Specify & Model Requirements - Define Assumptions & Constraints - Verify Requirements - Validate Requirements
Requirements Analysis
Business Need - Solution Scope & Business Case - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
50. What are the tasks in the knowledge area - Requirements Analysis?
Prioritize Requirements - Organize Requirements - Specify & Model Requirements - Define Assumptions & Constraints - Verify Requirements - Validate Requirements
Structural Rules
Requirements (Verified)
Key Performance Indicator (KPI )