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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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1. What are the inputs to the task - Define Business Need?
Onion Diagram
Business Goals & Objectives - Requirements (Stated)
Reliability - Performance Efficiency - Operability - Security - Compatibility - Maintainability - Transferability
Three-point Estimation

2. The knowledge area that covers how BAs determine which activities are necessary in order to complete a business analysis effort.
Necessity - Effort - Subset - Cover - Value
Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring
Data Dictionary & Glossary - Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshops - Survey/Questionnaire
Unique Number - Activity Description - Assumptions - Dependencies - Milestones

3. The process of informing stakeholders of metrics of indicators in specified formats at specified intervals.
Vendor Assessment
User Classes - Profiles or Roles; Concepts & Relationships - Events - Processes - Rules
Reporting
Requirements Management Plan - Solution Scope - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities - Stakeholder/Solution or Transition Requirements (Communicated or Traced)

4. 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.
Acceptance & Evaluation Technique
Historic Analysis
Learning
Impact Analysis - Requirements Coverage - Requirements Allocation

5. What are the inputs for the task Plan Business Analysis Activities?
Interviews - Lessons Learned Process - Metrics and KPIs - Problem Tracking - Process Modeling - Root Cause Analysis - Survey/Questionnaire - Variance Analysis
Ethics
Scenarios & Use Cases
Business Analysis Approach - BA Performance Assessment - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities

6. What are the elements of the task - Define Solution Scope?
Prioritize Requirements - Organize Requirements - Specify & Model Requirements - Define Assumptions & Constraints - Verify Requirements - Validate Requirements
Assess Proposed Solution - Allocate Requirements - Assess Organizational Readiness - Define Transition Requirements - Validate Solution - Evaluate Solution Performance
Solution Scope Definition - Implementation Approach - Dependencies
Structured Walkthrough

7. What are the techniques used in the task - Validate Requirements?
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Metrics & KPIs - Prototyping - Risk Analysis - Structured Walkthrough
Decision Making
Analogous Estimation
Business Analysis Plan

8. What are the tasks in the knowledge area - Enterprise Analysis?
Business Analysis Approach
Define Business Need - Access Capability Gaps - Determine Solution Approach - Define Solution Scope - Define Business Case
Operative Rules
Requirements (Stated - Unconfirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Unconfirmed)

9. What are the inputs to the task - Allocate Resources?
Business Need - Expert Judgment - Organizational Process Assets
Term and Fact Model
Data Dictionary & Glossary - Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshops - Survey/Questionnaire
Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution (Designed) - Solution Scope

10. What is the output of the task - Prioritize Requirements?
Scenarios & Use Cases
Relationship to Time - Relationship to Task Completion - Relationship to Contracts - Relationships to Formal and Informal Authority
Emotional and Cognitive
Requirements (Prioritized)

11. What is the output of the task - Assess Organizational Readiness?
Share - Enhance - Exploit
Organizational Readiness Assessment
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Formal requirements presentation to stakeholders

12. 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
Business Goals & Objectives - Requirements (Stated)
Determine the Process - Who will Authorize Changes - Impact Analysis - Wording of the Request - Coordinate Prioritization of Change
Problem Tracking
Solution Performance Assessment

13. Includes the standard definition of data elements - their meanings and allowable values.
Cognitive Conflict
Requirements (Stated) - Requirements Structure
Scenarios & Use Cases
Data Dictionary

14. 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
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements Management Plan - Scheduled Resources - Solution Scope & Business Case - Supporting Materials
Focus Group
Requirements Management & Communication
Plan Business Analysis Approach - Conduct Stakeholder Analysis - Plan Business Analysis Activities - Plan Business Analysis Communication - Plan Requirements Management Process - Manage BA Performance

15. Defines the key terms and data relevant to a business domain.
Business Rules Analysis
Scenarios & Use Cases
Data Dictionary & Glossary
Business Principles & Practices

16. Organizational culture - Stakeholder preference - complexity - organizational maturity and availability of resources are all factors used to do what?
Perform tailoring exercises
Compliance with regulatory or other standards
Requirements (Stated - Unconfirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Unconfirmed)
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Solution Performance Assessment

17. What does RACI stand for?
Advantages of Document Analysis
Business Need - Solution Scope & Business Case - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Responsible - Accountable - Consulted - Informed
Solution Scope Definition - Implementation Approach - Dependencies

18. Benefits that could have been achieved with an alternative investment rather than this one.
Opportunity Cost
Elimination
Data - Ongoing Work - Organizational Change
Reliability - Validity - Timeliness

19. 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.
Industry Knowledge
Evaluate Solution Performance
Enterprise Analysis - often the starting point for initiating a new project
Reliability - Performance Efficiency - Operability - Security - Compatibility - Maintainability - Transferability

20. What are the inputs for the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?
Elicitation
Primary stakeholders in the Organize Requirements task
User Classes - Profiles or Roles; Concepts & Relationships - Events - Processes - Rules
Business Requirements - Identified Defects - Solution Performance Metrics - Solution (Deployed)

21. A non-actionable directive that supports a business goal.
Business Policy
Bottom-up Estimation
Budgeting
Observation

22. What are the techniques used in the task Manage Business Analysis Performance?
Data Modeling
Interviews - Lessons Learned Process - Metrics and KPIs - Problem Tracking - Process Modeling - Root Cause Analysis - Survey/Questionnaire - Variance Analysis
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
Define Business Need - Access Capability Gaps - Determine Solution Approach - Define Solution Scope - Define Business Case

23. To assess the ability of a potential vendor to meet commitments regarding a product or service
Organize Requirements
Vendor Assessment
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Decision Analysis - Estimation - SWOT Analysis - Feasibility Analysis
Elimination

24. What is the output of the task Plan Requirements Management Process?
Implementation SME
Organizational Readiness Assessment
Requirements Management Plan
Structured Walkthrough

25. 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.
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving - Behavioral Characteristics - Business Knowledge - Communication Skills - Interaction Skills - Software Application
Coverage Matrix - Table or spreadsheet used to manage tracing.
Requirements Workshop
Opportunity Cost

26. A specific - actionable - testable directive that is under the control of an organization and supports a business policy.
Reporting
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Scenario
Business Rule

27. What are the inputs to the task - Prioritize Requirements?
Business Case - Business Need - Requirements - Requirements Management Plan - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Absolute Reference - Author - Complexity - Ownership - Priority - Risks - Source - Stability - Status - Urgency
Prioritize Requirements - Organize Requirements - Specify & Model Requirements - Define Assumptions & Constraints - Verify Requirements - Validate Requirements
Name - Value/Meanings - Description

28. What is the output of the task - Verify Requirements?
Automate or Simplify Work - Improve Access to Information - Reduce Complexity of Interfaces - Increase Consistency of Behavior - Eliminate Redundancy
Non-functional Requirements Analysis
Requirements (Verified)
General Purpose Applications & Specialized Applications

29. What are some examples of stakeholder concerns?
Risk - assumptions - constraints - etc.
Assess Organization Readiness
Scenario
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Modeling - Organization Modeling - Data Modeling

30. What are the inputs to the task - Determine Solution Approach?
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Required Capabilities
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Metrics & KPIs - Prototyping - Risk Analysis - Structured Walkthrough
Sequence Diagrams
Risk Analysis

31. What are the inputs for the task - Maintain Requirements for Re-use?
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements
Business Policy
Underlying Competencies
Vendor Assessment

32. Are used to model the logic of usage scenarios - by showing the information passed between objects in the system through the execution of the scenario. Shows how classes and objects interact during a scenario.
Solution Approach
Survey/Questionnaire
To record the conflict in the Requirements Issues Log.
Sequence Diagrams

33. Corrective or preventative measures uncovered while performing a Business Analysis Performance Assessment will result in changes to what plan?
Business Analysis Plan
Survey/Questionnaire
Acceptance - Transfer - Avoidance - Mitigation
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Data Modeling - Functional Decomposition - Organizational Modeling - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases - Scope Modeling - User Stories

34. A package should contain a consistent - cohesive and coherent set of requirements. This describes the ____________.
Requirements Structure
Interviews
Business Requirements - Identified Defects - Solution Performance Metrics - Solution (Deployed)
Risk Analysis

35. Stakeholders involved the BA in decision making - acceptance of the BA's recommendations - willingness to discuss difficult or controversial topics with the BA - stakeholders willing to support or defend the BA when problems occur.
Focus Group
Data Flow Diagrams
Trustworthiness
Evaluate Solution Performance

36. Divides requirements into 4 categories - Must - Should - Could - Won't
Requirements Workshop
Decision Analysis
MoSCoW Analysis
Decision Analysis - Estimation - Metrics & KPIs - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Vendor Assessment

37. 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.
Decision Analysis
Rolling Wave
Requirements Structure
Budgeting

38. 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
Monitoring
Timeboxing
Cultural Assessment - Operational or Technical Assessment - Stakeholder Impact Analysis
Prioritize Requirements - Organize Requirements - Specify & Model Requirements - Define Assumptions & Constraints - Verify Requirements - Validate Requirements

39. 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.
Structural Rules
A statement of the needs of a particular stakeholder or class of stakeholders
Solution Performance Assessment
Scenarios & Use Cases

40. 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
Requirements (Verified)
Requirements (Any Except Stated)
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
Confirm Elicitation Results

41. Business value can be delivered through requirements that support _______________ - alignment with internal standards or policies of the organization - or increased satisfaction for stakeholders - even if those things do not have a direct measurable
Acceptance - Transfer - Avoidance - Mitigation
Decision Analysis
Scenario
Compliance with regulatory or other standards

42. A requirement that does not deliver direct or indirect value to a stakeholder is a strong candidate for what?
Requirements (Approved)
Requirements Workshop
Elimination
Organizational Knowledge

43. What are the inputs to the task - Communicate Requirements?
Implementation SME
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Requirements - Requirements Package
Decision Analysis
Evolutionary or Functional Prototype

44. 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
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements (Stated) - Solution Scope
Requirements (Verified)
Estimation
Requirements Workshop

45. Business rules require a defined glossary of terms and an understanding of the relationships between them - this is known as:
Term and Fact Model
Requirements (Allocated)
Decision Making
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire

46. Knowing the dependencies and relationships between requirements helps when determining the sequence in which requirements are to be addressed. Common relations are:
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Validate Requirements
Enterprise Analysis - often the starting point for initiating a new project
Necessity - Effort - Subset - Cover - Value

47. Three types of organizational structures
Expert Judgment
Structural Rules
Functions - Markets - Matrix
Relationship to Time - Relationship to Task Completion - Relationship to Contracts - Relationships to Formal and Informal Authority

48. Define requirements for capabilities needed to move from an existing solution to a new solution.
Define Transitional Requirements
Scheduled Resources - Supporting Materials
Ethics - Trustworthiness - Personal Organization
Implementation Approach

49. What are the techniques used in the task Conduct Stakeholder Analysis?
Fishbone Diagram - Five Whys
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
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
Requirements Structure

50. What are the elements to the task - Define Business Case?
Business Analysis Plan
Budgeting
Benefits - Costs - Risk Assessment - Results Measurement
Cultural Assessment - Operational or Technical Assessment - Stakeholder Impact Analysis