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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning
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1. What are the elements of Communication Skills?
Responsible - Accountable - Consulted - Informed
Reliability - Validity - Timeliness
Oral Communications - Teaching - Written Communication
Trustworthiness
2. Describes all the possible outcomes of an attempt to accomplish a particular goal that the solution will support.
Business Rules Analysis
Assess Proposed Solution - Allocate Requirements - Assess Organizational Readiness - Define Transition Requirements - Validate Solution - Evaluate Solution Performance
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Problem Tracking - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Use Case
3. 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
Prepare Requirements Package
Vendor Assessment
Relationship to Time - Relationship to Task Completion - Relationship to Contracts - Relationships to Formal and Informal Authority
That they understand them and the current state the requirements are in
4. What are the factors of influence by stakeholders on a project?
Ethics
Use Case
Functional Decomposition - Interface Analysis - Scope Modeling - User Stories - Problem or Vision Statement
Influence on the project - organizational - project health and other stakeholders
5. An important tool in defining the scope of work and developing estimates. Decomposes the project scope into smaller and smaller pieces - creating a hierarchy of work.
MoSCoW Analysis
Implementation SME
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Problem Tracking - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
6. What are the inputs for the task Confirm Elicitation Results?
Interviews - Observation
Tracing Requirements
Requirements (Stated - Unconfirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Unconfirmed)
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Problem Tracking - Structured Walkthrough - Checklists
7. What is the output of the task - Specify & Model Requirements?
Stakeholder Matrix
Enterprise Analysis
Requirements (Analyzed)
Vertical Prototype
8. What are the techniques used in the task - Define Assumptions & Constraints?
Business Need - Expert Judgment - Organizational Process Assets
Key Performance Indicator (KPI )
Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis
Assess Organization Readiness
9. 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.
Analogous Estimation
Monitoring
Requirements Analysis
Requirements Structure
10. When performing root cause analysis as part of the Validate Solution task - what stakeholder may be involved?
Impact Analysis - Requirements Coverage - Requirements Allocation
Decision Analysis - Estimation - Metrics & KPIs - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Implementation SME
Reliability - Validity - Timeliness
11. What are the Cultural diversity issues that should be taken into account when planning communication?
Requirements (Stated) - Requirements Structure
Relationship to Time - Relationship to Task Completion - Relationship to Contracts - Relationships to Formal and Informal Authority
Learning
Business Analysis Approach
12. Is generally understood to describe just one way that an actor can accomplish a particular goal
Business Need - Expert Judgment - Organizational Process Assets
Leadership
Analogous Estimation
Scenario
13. What are the techniques used in the task - Validate Requirements?
Formal requirements presentation to stakeholders
Requirements Package
Business Analysis Plan
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Metrics & KPIs - Prototyping - Risk Analysis - Structured Walkthrough
14. This technique shows how information is input - processed - stored and output from a system in a visual representation.
Define Transitional Requirements
Requirements Workshop
Onion Diagram
Data Flow Diagrams
15. Ensure that the solution meets the business need and determine the most appropriate response to identified defects.
Solution (Constructed) - Requirements (Prioritized and Validated)
Solution Scope Definition - Implementation Approach - Dependencies
Validate Solution
Business Need - Solution Scope & Business Case - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
16. What are the attributes of a Data Model?
Name - Value/Meanings - Description
Organizational Readiness Assessment - Requirements (Stated) - Solution (Deployed) - Solution (Designed)
Data Dictionary
Personal Organization
17. 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.
Problem Tracking
Decision Analysis - Process Modeling - Structured Walkthrough
Cognitive Conflict
Repository - Traceability - Requirement Attributes - Prioritization Process - Change Management - Tailoring the Requirements Management Process
18. The purpose of _______________ is to ensure that a stakeholder's actual underlying needs are understood - rather than the their stated or superficial desires.
Solution Scope Definition - Implementation Approach - Dependencies
Lessons Learned Process
Solution Approach
Elicitation
19. What are the techniques used in the task - Define Business Case?
Vendor Assessment
Solution Assessment & Validation
Scope Modeling
Decision Analysis - Estimation - Metrics & KPIs - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Vendor Assessment
20. This knowledge area describes the behaviors - knowledge and other characteristics that support the effective performance of a BA.
Underlying Competencies
Enterprise Analysis
Data Dictionary & Glossary - Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshops - Survey/Questionnaire
Prototyping
21. Used to describe the roles - responsibilities and reporting structures that exist within an organization and to align those structures with the organization's goals.
Relationships - Impact Analysis - Configuration Management System
Learning
Structural Rules
Organization Modeling
22. Defines what must be delivered in order to meet the business need - and the effect of the proposed change initiation on the business and technology operations and infrastructure.
Requirements (Traced)
Enterprise Analysis - often the starting point for initiating a new project
Solution Scope
Solution Performance Assessment
23. Are written to describe how an actor interacts with a solution to accomplish one or more of that actor's goals - or to respond to an event.
Scenarios & Use Cases
SWOT Analysis
Solution Approach
Unique Number - Activity Description - Assumptions - Dependencies - Milestones
24. 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.
User Story
Evaluation
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving
Rolling Wave
25. What are the inputs to the task - Validate Solution?
Solution (Constructed) - Requirements (Prioritized and Validated)
Metrics & KPIs
Industry Knowledge
Reliability - Performance Efficiency - Operability - Security - Compatibility - Maintainability - Transferability
26. The goal of this task is to create a set of views of the requirements for the new business solution that are comprehensive - complete - consistent and understood from all stakeholder perspectives.
Organize Requirements
Brings them to a Communication on understanding
All
Problem Tracking
27. Issues that may influence the replacement or elimination decision of a system include:
Ongoing Cost versus Initial Investment - Opportunity Costs - Necessity - Sunk Costs
Structured Walkthrough
Glossary
Elicitation Results
28. This task determines if an organization can justify the investment required to deliver a proposed solution.
Organizational Knowledge
Define Business Case
Expert Judgment
Validate Requirements
29. The decomposition of activities and tasks creates?
Activity List
Structured Walkthrough
Requirements (Analyzed)
Requirements Analysis
30. A formal written specification with possible walk-thru - an informal one is possibly verbal or email Communication
Decision Making
Analogous Estimation
Risk - assumptions - constraints - etc.
Formal requirements presentation to stakeholders
31. What are the techniques used in the task - Determine Solution Approach?
Compliance with regulatory or other standards
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Decision Analysis - Estimation - SWOT Analysis - Feasibility Analysis
Responsible - Accountable - Consulted - Informed
Risk - assumptions - constraints - etc.
32. What are some of the commonly used requirement attributes?
Absolute Reference - Author - Complexity - Ownership - Priority - Risks - Source - Stability - Status - Urgency
Business Goals & Objectives - Requirements (Stated)
Solution (Constructed) - Requirements (Prioritized and Validated)
Sequences - Repetitions - Optional Elements
33. States the business need - identifies key stakeholders and briefly describes the positive impact that meeting the business need will have on those stakeholders.
Problem or Vision Statement
Organizational Readiness Assessment - Requirements (Stated) - Solution (Deployed) - Solution (Designed)
Repository - Traceability - Requirement Attributes - Prioritization Process - Change Management - Tailoring the Requirements Management Process
Requirements (Stated) - Requirements Structure
34. What is the output of the task - Define Business Case?
Focus Group
Business Case
Glossary
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Required Capabilities
35. 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
Compliance with regulatory or other standards
Personal Organization
Document Analysis
Decision Making
36. Two techniques used in Root Cause Analysis?
Fishbone Diagram - Five Whys
Brings them to a Communication on understanding
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Modeling - Organization Modeling - Data Modeling
Data Flow Diagrams
37. What are the tasks in the knowledge area - Enterprise Analysis?
Define Business Need - Access Capability Gaps - Determine Solution Approach - Define Solution Scope - Define Business Case
Document Analysis
Problem Tracking - Baselining - Signoff
Coverage Matrix - Table or spreadsheet used to manage tracing.
38. Two types of conflict.
Emotional and Cognitive
Document Analysis
Required Capabilities
Non-functional Requirements Analysis
39. 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
Assess Organization Readiness
Focus Group
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Organizational Process Assets
Responsible - Accountable - Consulted - Informed
40. Includes the standard definition of data elements - their meanings and allowable values.
Learning
Business Goals & Objectives - Requirements (Stated)
Specific - Measurable - Achievable - Relevant - Time-bound Objectives must be SMART.
Data Dictionary
41. What are stakeholder requirements?
Ethics
They describe what a solution must be capable of doing to meet the needs of one or more stakeholder groups
Data Flow Diagrams
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Decision Analysis - Vendor Assessment
42. A package should contain a consistent - cohesive and coherent set of requirements. This describes the ____________.
Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Reliability - Validity - Timeliness
Requirements Structure
Document Elicitation Results task
43. What are the characteristics of Interaction Skills?
Facilitation
Root Cause Analysis
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Solution Performance Assessment
Facilitation & Negotiation - Leadership & Influencing - Teamwork
44. What are the techniques used in the task - Organize Requirements?
Requirements (Validated)
The Sponsor
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Data Modeling - Functional Decomposition - Organizational Modeling - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases - Scope Modeling - User Stories
Validate Requirements
45. What is the output to the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?
Timeboxing
General Purpose Applications & Specialized Applications
Emotional and Cognitive
Solution Performance Assessment
46. What are the inputs to the task Manage Solution Scope & Requirements?
Enterprise Architecture - Solution Scope - Solution (Designed) - Stakeholder Concerns
Requirements Management Plan - Solution Scope - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities - Stakeholder/Solution or Transition Requirements (Communicated or Traced)
Assessment of Proposed Solution
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements - Requirements Structure
47. What are the inputs to the task - Organize Requirements?
Requirements Analysis
Business Analysis Approach
Requirements (Approved)
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements (Stated) - Solution Scope
48. What is the output of the task - Validate Requirements?
Brings them to a Communication on understanding
Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring
Sequence Diagrams
Requirements (Validated)
49. Business rules require a defined glossary of terms and an understanding of the relationships between them - this is known as:
Coverage Matrix - Table or spreadsheet used to manage tracing.
Term and Fact Model
A statement of the needs of a particular stakeholder or class of stakeholders
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Decision Analysis - Vendor Assessment
50. 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.
Requirements Workshop
Formal requirements presentation to stakeholders
Business Analysis Performance Metrics - Business Analysis Plan - Organization Performance Standards - Requirements Management Plan
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Data Modeling - Functional Decomposition - Organizational Modeling - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases - Scope Modeling - User Stories