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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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1. What are the characteristics of Interaction Skills?






2. What are the inputs for the task Confirm Elicitation Results?






3. Corrective or preventative measures uncovered while performing a Business Analysis Performance Assessment will result in changes to what plan?






4. 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.






5. What are the techniques used in the task Manage Business Analysis Performance?






6. What are the techniques used in the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?






7. Useful for ensuring that all stakeholders are in agreement on the format and content of relevant information. Capturing these definitions in a single model ensures that these terms will be used consistently.






8. What are the tasks of the Elicitation Knowledge Area?






9. 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.






10. Name the 2 types of Stakeholder maps.






11. What are some of the commonly used requirement attributes?






12. What are the techniques used in Plan Business Analysis Communication?






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






14. 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






15. A diagram indicating how involved the stakeholder is with the solution.






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






17. What is the output to the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?






18. 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






19. What are the techniques used in the task - Assess Capability Gaps?






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






21. What are the tasks in the knowledge area - Solution Assessment & Validation?






22. A good indicator has 5 characteristics:






23. What are some examples of stakeholder concerns?






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






25. Three key factors when assessing the quality of indicators and their metrics






26. What is the output of the task Conduct Elicitation Activity?






27. Is generally understood to describe just one way that an actor can accomplish a particular goal






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






29. What is the output of the task - Prepare Requirements Package?






30. The BA is a stakeholder in ______ business analysis activities.






31. What is the output of the task - Organize Requirements?






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






33. 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.






34. Documents terms unique to a domain.






35. A requirement that does not deliver direct or indirect value to a stakeholder is a strong candidate for what?






36. This prototype seeks to quickly uncover and clarify interface requirements using simple tools - sometimes just paper and pencil. The focus is on functionality that is not easily elicited by other techniques - has conflicting viewpoints - or is diffic






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






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






39. What are the different types of learning styles?






40. The purpose is to measure the performance of solutions - solution components - and other matters of interest to stakeholders.






41. What are the inputs to the task - Assess Organizational Readiness?






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






43. Using this technique the business analyst has collected the deliverables - activities - tasks - and estimates from all the involved stakeholders and rolls them up to get a total for all the activities and tasks.






44. Most optimistic estimate; most pessimistic estimate; most likely estimate






45. 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.






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






47. What are the attributes of a Data Model?






48. 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.






49. 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






50. What are the elements of the task - Define Solution Scope?