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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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






2. What is the output of the task Manage Solution Scope & Requirements?






3. Models a deep - and usually narrow slice of the entire system's functionality.






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






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






6. This technique shows how information is input - processed - stored and output from a system in a visual representation.






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






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






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






10. A package should contain a consistent - cohesive and coherent set of requirements. This describes the ____________.






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






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






13. To assess the ability of a potential vendor to meet commitments regarding a product or service






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






15. 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.






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






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






18. What describes how - when and why the business analyst will work with stakeholders?






19. 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.






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






21. What are the techniques used in the task Confirm Elicitation Results?






22. 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.






23. 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.






24. What are the characteristics of a Problem Record?






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






26. 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.






27. What are the inputs for the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?






28. Approach to decision making that examines and models the possible consequences of different decisions. Make an optimal decision under conditions of uncertainty.






29. Details user interface requirements and integrates them with other requirements such as use cases - scenarios - data and business rules. Stakeholders often find this to be a concrete means of identifying - describing and validating their interface ne






30. What techniques are used in the task - Prepare Requirements Package?






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






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






33. 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.






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






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






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






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






38. What are the elements of the area - Analytical Thinking and Problem Solving - Successful generation of new ideas - application of new ideas to resolve existing problems - willingness of stakeholders to accept new approaches.






39. The decomposition of activities and tasks creates?






40. 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.






41. What are the inputs to the task - Define Assumption & Constraints?






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






43. What are the techniques used in the task - Assess Proposed Solution?






44. Define requirements for capabilities needed to move from an existing solution to a new solution.






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






46. What are the techniques for the task - Verify Requirements?






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






48. What are the inputs to the task - Allocate Resources?






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






50. Confidence in the problem solving process that a selected solution is correct - new solution options can be evaluated effectively using the problem solving framework - selected solutions meet the defined objectives and solve the underlying problem -