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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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1. 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.






2. 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






3. 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






4. What should be considered when establishing a Change Management process?






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






6. When performing root cause analysis as part of the Validate Solution task - what stakeholder may be involved?






7. An organized structure for the requirements and a documented set of relationships between them. Is used so the analyst and stakeholders know where a specific requirement should be found. Should have a clear implicit scope (clear to the stakeholders w






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






9. Strengths - Weaknesses - Opportunities - Threats - A valuable tool to quickly analyze various aspects of the current state of the business process undergoing change.






10. What are the inputs to the Plan Business Analysis Approach?






11. Two effective trade-off methods.






12. Characteristics that are common to all organizations with a similar purpose and structure - whether or not the are in the same industry.






13. What are the general modeling concepts that are relevant to business analysis?






14. 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






15. When a requirement is changed - the BA can easily review all the related requirements and software components in order to understand the impact of the change.






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






17. Familiarity with the range of commercially available solutions or suppliers can assist with the identification of possible alternatives.






18. The skill of moderating discussions among a group or enable all participants to effectively articulate their views on a topic under discussion and to further ensure that participants in the discussion are able to recognize and appreciate the differin






19. The goal of this task is to ensure that all requirements support the delivery of value to the business - fulfill its goal and objectives and meet a stakeholder need.






20. Prioritizes requirements based on a allocated fixed amount of money.






21. According to the BABOK 2.0 - what type of analysis generates STAKEHOLDER requirements?






22. What are the inputs to the task Manage Business Analysis Performance?






23. 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






24. Are used to describe the scope of analysis or the scope of a solution. Serve as a basis for defining and delimiting the scope of business analysis and project work. Allow the definition of a "complete" scope—that is - the boundaries of the scope corr






25. What are the techniques used in the task - Define Business Case?






26. 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.






27. 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.






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






29. Includes the standard definition of data elements - their meanings and allowable values.






30. What are the tasks in the knowledge area - Enterprise Analysis?






31. Set of requirements that will be used to choose between multiple solutions.






32. Means of eliciting information from many people - sometimes anonymously - in a relatively short period of time






33. Two techniques used in Root Cause Analysis?






34. What are the tasks for the knowledge area - Requirements Management & Communication?






35. Communication of requirements does what for stakeholders?






36. What is the output of the task - Specify & Model Requirements?






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






38. What is the output of the task - Define Assumptions & Constraints?






39. Defines the key terms and data relevant to a business domain.






40. What are the characteristics of Interaction Skills?






41. A systematic approach designed to elicit information from a person or group of people in an informal or formal setting by talking to an interviewee - asking relevant questions and documenting the responses.






42. Industry Knowledge - Organization Knowledge - Solution Knowledge What are the elements of Business Knowledge?






43. What are the elements to the task - Define Business Case?






44. Performed to communicate - verify and validate requirements. Is a working session where invited participants review and discuss a set of requirements






45. The purpose is to compile and document successes - opportunities for improvement - failures - and recommendations for improving the performance of future projects or project phases






46. 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.






47. Measures progress towards a strategic goal or objective.






48. A non-actionable directive that supports a business goal.






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






50. Ensure that the solution meets the business need and determine the most appropriate response to identified defects.