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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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1. The goal of this task is to meet with stakeholder(s) to gather information regarding their needs.






2. 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?






3. Two effective trade-off methods.






4. 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






5. 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.






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






7. What are the internal factors in a SWOT Analysis?






8. 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.






9. What are the inputs to the task - Assess Proposed Solution?






10. What is the output of the task - Define Transition Requirements?






11. What is the output of the task Prepare for Elicitation?






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






13. 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






14. 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.






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






16. What are the strategies for a negative risk?






17. Techniques used in the task Plan Requirements Management Process.






18. 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.






19. Measures progress towards a strategic goal or objective.






20. What are the inputs to the task - Validate Solution?






21. Communication of requirements does what for stakeholders?






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






23. Use of parameters - multiplied by the number of hours. (COCOMO II - Function Point Counting - Use Case Points - and Story Points)






24. What are the techniques used in the task - Organize Requirements?






25. Name the 2 types of Software categories that assist in BA productivity.






26. List 3 possible forms of a requirements packages.






27. What is the output of the task - Allocate Resources?






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






29. What is the output of the task Plan Business Analysis Activities?






30. The people involved - the interactions between them - the external forces affecting their behavior and all other relevant elements and factors.






31. Limited to "as-is" perspective. - Existing documentation may not be up-to-date or valid. - Can be a time-consuming and even tedious process to locate the relevant information






32. 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






33. What are the inputs to the task Manage Solution Scope & Requirements?






34. Issues that may influence the replacement or elimination decision of a system include:






35. What are the inputs to the task - Organize Requirements?






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






37. What are the tasks in the knowledge area - Requirements Analysis?






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






39. 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.






40. What is the output of the task - Validate Requirements?






41. Involved motivating people to act in ways that enable them to work together to achieve shared goals and objectives.






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






43. What are the elements of Communication Skills?






44. Understanding of the competitive forces that shape an industry - understand the various customer segments that the industry services and the demographic or other characteristics common to that segment.






45. A formal written specification with possible walk-thru - an informal one is possibly verbal or email Communication






46. Long-term - ongoing and qualitative statements of a state or condition that the organization is seeking to establish and maintain.






47. What is the output of the task Confirm Elicitation Results?






48. What does SMART stand for?






49. What are the characteristics of a Problem Record?






50. 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.