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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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1. 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.






2. The purpose of _______________ is to ensure that a stakeholder's actual underlying needs are understood - rather than the their stated or superficial desires.






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






4. Divides requirements into 4 categories - Must - Should - Could - Won't






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






6. 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.






7. What are the techniques used in the task - Validate Requirements?






8. What are the inputs to the task - Define Business Need?






9. A specific - actionable - testable directive that is under the control of an organization and supports a business policy.






10. Used to describe the roles - responsibilities and reporting structures that exist within an organization and to align those structures with the organization's goals.






11. What are the inputs to the task - Validate Requirements?






12. What are stakeholder requirements?






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






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






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






16. What are the inputs for the task - Define Transitional Requirements?






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






18. Name some commonly used financial valuation techniques.






19. This knowledge area describes the tasks that are performed in order to ensure that solutions meet the business need and to facilitate successful implementation.






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






21. This knowledge area describes the problem definition and analysis - business case development - feasibility studies and the definition of solution scope.






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






23. Two techniques used in Root Cause Analysis?






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






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






26. What are the strategies for a negative risk?






27. What are the techniques used in the task Manage Solution Scope & Requirements?






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






29. 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.






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






31. What are the techniques used in the task Document Elicitation Results?






32. Creates a conceptual model of the work that needs to be completed to deliver the new business solution.






33. What are the inputs to the task - Specify & Model Requirements?






34. What are the inputs to the task Plan Requirements Management Process?






35. What are the techniques used in the task Define Business Need?






36. Who is the primary stakeholder in the Define Business Case task?






37. States the business need - identifies key stakeholders and briefly describes the positive impact that meeting the business need will have on those stakeholders.






38. What are the techniques used in Plan Business Analysis Activities?






39. What are the inputs to the task - Define Business Case?






40. 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.






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






42. Measures progress towards a strategic goal or objective.






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






44. Describes the effect a new solution will have on an organization and whether the organization is prepared for the organizational change the solution implementation will cause.






45. The minimum set of requirements that must be met in order for a particular solution to be worth implementing.






46. Describes all the possible outcomes of an attempt to accomplish a particular goal that the solution will support.






47. 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.






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






49. This knowledge area describes how the BA assesses proposed solutions and determines which solution best fits the business need - identifies gaps and shortcomings to solutions and determines necessary workarounds or changes to the solution.






50. What techniques are used in the task Manage Requirements Traceability?