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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning
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1. What are the strategies for a negative risk?
Organizational Readiness Assessment
Acceptance - Transfer - Avoidance - Mitigation
Define Business Need - Access Capability Gaps - Determine Solution Approach - Define Solution Scope - Define Business Case
Evaluation
2. What are the general modeling concepts that are relevant to business analysis?
Organizational Readiness Assessment
Elimination
User Classes - Profiles or Roles; Concepts & Relationships - Events - Processes - Rules
Business Analysis Communication Plan
3. 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
Lessons Learned Process
Analogous Estimation
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements - Requirements Structure
4. Corrective or preventative measures uncovered while performing a Business Analysis Performance Assessment will result in changes to what plan?
Scenario
Customer
Enterprise Analysis
Business Analysis Plan
5. This prototype extends the initial interface requirements into a fully functioning system and requires a specialized prototyping tool or language.
Requirements (Stated - Unconfirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Unconfirmed)
Visual Learner - Auditory Learner - Kinesthetic Learner
Evolutionary or Functional Prototype
Define Business Need - Access Capability Gaps - Determine Solution Approach - Define Solution Scope - Define Business Case
6. 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.
Scheduled Resources - Supporting Materials
Prepare Requirements Package
Analogous Estimation
Opportunity Cost
7. The knowledge area that covers how BAs determine which activities are necessary in order to complete a business analysis effort.
Requirements (Approved)
Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring
Necessity - Effort - Subset - Cover - Value
Solution Knowledge
8. What are the techniques used in Plan Business Analysis Approach?
Reliability - Validity - Timeliness
To record the conflict in the Requirements Issues Log.
Solution Scope Definition - Implementation Approach - Dependencies
Decision Analysis - Process Modeling - Structured Walkthrough
9. What are the elements of Communication Skills?
Data Flow Diagrams
Functions - Markets - Matrix
Oral Communications - Teaching - Written Communication
Solution Assessment & Validation
10. What is the output of the task - Specify & Model Requirements?
Decision Analysis - Focus Groups - Observation - Survey/Questionnaire
Metrics & KPIs
Problem Tracking - Baselining - Signoff
Requirements (Analyzed)
11. Two techniques used in Root Cause Analysis?
Decision Analysis - Estimation - Metrics & KPIs - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Non-functional Requirements Analysis
Fishbone Diagram - Five Whys
Requirements (Stated) - Stakeholder Concerns
12. Most optimistic estimate; most pessimistic estimate; most likely estimate
Ethics
Brings them to a Communication on understanding
Expert Judgment
Three-point Estimation
13. What are the inputs to the task - Define Business Case?
Assumptions & Constraints - Business Need - Solution Scope - Stakeholder Concerns
Business Need - Solution Scope & Business Case - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Elicitation
Interviews - Lessons Learned Process - Metrics and KPIs - Problem Tracking - Process Modeling - Root Cause Analysis - Survey/Questionnaire - Variance Analysis
14. What are the inputs for the task - Prepare Requirements Package?
Business Domain - Corporate Culture & Environment - Skills of the Analyst - Requirement Deliverable
Metrics & KPIs
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements - Requirements Structure
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Metrics & KPIs - Prototyping - Risk Analysis - Structured Walkthrough
15. A diagram indicating how involved the stakeholder is with the solution.
Onion Diagram
Solution Scope Definition - Implementation Approach - Dependencies
General Purpose Applications & Specialized Applications
Stakeholder Matrix
16. Provides an organized approach to tracking - management - and resolution of defects - issues - problems - and risks throughout business analysis activities. Management of issues is important so that they can be resolved in a timely manner to ensure s
Stakeholder Matrix
Requirements (Any Except Stated)
Problem Tracking
Document Analysis - SWOT Analysis
17. 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
Scope Modeling
Requirements (Stated) - Requirements Structure
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Business Rules Analysis - Decision Analysis - Functional Decomposition - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases
Compliance with regulatory or other standards
18. A formal written specification with possible walk-thru - an informal one is possibly verbal or email Communication
Requirements (Prioritized)
Formal requirements presentation to stakeholders
Requirements (Verified)
Transition Requirements
19. What are the techniques used in the task - Prioritize Requirements?
Influence on the project - organizational - project health and other stakeholders
Description - Raised by - Date Identified - Impact - Priority - Need by Date - Owner - Status - Action Needed to be Resolved - Responsible for Action - Completion Date of Action - Outcome
Decision Analysis - Risk Analysis - MoSCoW Analysis - Timeboxing/Budgeting - Voting
Operative Rules
20. What are the inputs to the task - Validate Requirements?
To record the conflict in the Requirements Issues Log.
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Decision Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Business Value - Business or Technical Risk - Implementation Difficulty - Likelihood of Success - Regulatory or Policy Compliance - Relationship to Other Requirements - Stakeholder Agreement - Urgency
Business Case; Stakeholder - Solution or Transition Requirements (Verified)
21. A non-actionable directive that supports a business goal.
Business Policy
Survey/Questionnaire
Prototyping
Monitoring
22. 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
Creative Thinking - Decision Making - Learning - Problem Solving - Systems Thinking
Requirements Structure
Operative Rules
Evolutionary or Functional Prototype
23. What are the tasks in Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring?
Plan Business Analysis Approach - Conduct Stakeholder Analysis - Plan Business Analysis Activities - Plan Business Analysis Communication - Plan Requirements Management Process - Manage BA Performance
Opportunity Cost
Perform tailoring exercises
Facilitation & Negotiation - Leadership & Influencing - Teamwork
24. 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.
Impact Analysis
Requirements Workshop
Business Rules Analysis
Business Analysis Performance Assessment - Business Analysis Process Assets - Includes a comparison of planned versus actual performance - understanding the root cause of variances from the plan and other information to help understand the level of
25. What is the output of the task - Assess Proposed Solution?
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements Management Plan - Scheduled Resources - Solution Scope & Business Case - Supporting Materials
Requirements (Maintained and Reusable)
Metrics & KPIs
Assessment of Proposed Solution
26. What is the output of the task Confirm Elicitation Results?
Requirements Management & Communication
Requirements Structure
MoSCoW Analysis
Requirements (Stated - Confirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Confirmed)
27. Elements identified for each activity and task.
Structural Rules
Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis
Organizational Knowledge
Unique Number - Activity Description - Assumptions - Dependencies - Milestones
28. A requirement that does not deliver direct or indirect value to a stakeholder is a strong candidate for what?
Elimination
Requirements Package
Customer
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving
29. What are the techniques used in the task Define Business Need?
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Business Rules Analysis - Focus Groups - Functional Decomposition - Root Cause Analysis
Evaluation Criteria
Onion Diagram
Elimination
30. The knowledge area that describes how a BA manages conflicts - issues and changes in order to ensure that stakeholders and the project team remain in agreement on the solution scope - how requirements are communicated to stakeholders and how knowledg
Brainstorming
Glossary
Requirements Management & Communication
To record the conflict in the Requirements Issues Log.
31. What are the techniques used in the task - Communicate Requirements?
Decision Analysis - Focus Groups - Observation - Survey/Questionnaire
Requirements Workshop - Structured Walkthrough
To record the conflict in the Requirements Issues Log.
Systems Thinking
32. Checklist of characteristics to consider when considering non-functional requirements.
Business Analysis Process Assets
Absolute Reference - Author - Complexity - Ownership - Priority - Risks - Source - Stability - Status - Urgency
Reliability - Performance Efficiency - Operability - Security - Compatibility - Maintainability - Transferability
Solution Assessment & Validation
33. 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.
SWOT Analysis
Industry Knowledge
Business Analysis Performance Metrics - Business Analysis Plan - Organization Performance Standards - Requirements Management Plan
Sequences - Repetitions - Optional Elements
34. What is the output of the task - Define Business Need?
Business Need
Solution Performance Assessment
Ethics
Ongoing Cost versus Initial Investment - Opportunity Costs - Necessity - Sunk Costs
35. Shows how the behavior of a concept - entity or object changes in response to events during its lifetime - and defines which events cause a transition between those states.
State Diagrams
Monitoring
Visual Learner - Auditory Learner - Kinesthetic Learner
Business Analysis Approach - BA Performance Assessment - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
36. 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
Metrics & KPIs
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements
Estimation
Cultural Assessment - Operational or Technical Assessment - Stakeholder Impact Analysis
37. What is the output of the task Conduct Stakeholder Analysis?
Prepare Requirements Package
Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Assumptions & Constraints - Business Need - Solution Scope - Stakeholder Concerns
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
38. Communicated Requirements mean what to stakeholders?
Requirements (Validated)
Advantages of a Data Dictionary & Glossary
That they understand them and the current state the requirements are in
Timeboxing
39. Are used to model the logic of usage scenarios - by showing the information passed between objects in the system through the execution of the scenario. Shows how classes and objects interact during a scenario.
Requirements (Stated) - Requirements Structure
Responsible - Accountable - Consulted - Informed
Assumptions & Constraints
Sequence Diagrams
40. What describes how - when and why the business analyst will work with stakeholders?
Decision Analysis - Estimation - Metrics & KPIs - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Requirements Workshop
That they understand them and the current state the requirements are in
The Business Analysis Communication Plan
41. To define the rules that govern decisions in an organization and that define - constrain or enable organization operations.
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets
MoSCoW Analysis
Automate or Simplify Work - Improve Access to Information - Reduce Complexity of Interfaces - Increase Consistency of Behavior - Eliminate Redundancy
Business Rules Analysis
42. 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.
Strengths - Weaknesses
Requirements (Prioritized)
Impact Analysis - Requirements Coverage - Requirements Allocation
Scenarios & Use Cases
43. According to the BABOK 2.0 - what type of analysis generates STAKEHOLDER requirements?
Opportunity Cost
Formal requirements presentation to stakeholders
Requirements Analysis
Requirements Management Plan - Solution Scope - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities - Stakeholder/Solution or Transition Requirements (Communicated or Traced)
44. List 3 possible forms of a requirements packages.
Formal Documentation - Presentation - Model
Structural Rules
Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution (Designed) - Solution Scope
Solution Scope
45. 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.
Dependencies
Historic Analysis
Absolute Reference - Author - Complexity - Ownership - Priority - Risks - Source - Stability - Status - Urgency
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements (Stated) - Solution Scope
46. What are the techniques used in the task Manage Business Analysis Performance?
Structural Rules
Interviews - Lessons Learned Process - Metrics and KPIs - Problem Tracking - Process Modeling - Root Cause Analysis - Survey/Questionnaire - Variance Analysis
Functional Decomposition
This person will be involved in monitoring the performance and effectiveness of a solution or its components.
47. The people involved - the interactions between them - the external forces affecting their behavior and all other relevant elements and factors.
Prepare Requirements Package
System
Automate or Simplify Work - Improve Access to Information - Reduce Complexity of Interfaces - Increase Consistency of Behavior - Eliminate Redundancy
Specific - Measurable - Achievable - Relevant - Time-bound Objectives must be SMART.
48. 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.
Impact Analysis
Facilitation
Data Dictionary & Glossary
Solution Assessment & Validation
49. What are the inputs to the task - Prioritize Requirements?
Business Case - Business Need - Requirements - Requirements Management Plan - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Requirements - Requirements Package
Advantages of a Data Dictionary & Glossary
Decision Analysis - Focus Groups - Observation - Survey/Questionnaire
50. This knowledge area describes the behaviors - knowledge and other characteristics that support the effective performance of a BA.
Requirements (Any Except Stated)
Underlying Competencies
Expert Judgment
Requirements Structure
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