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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.
Operative Rules
Creative Thinking - Decision Making - Learning - Problem Solving - Systems Thinking
Conduct Elicitation Activity
Problem Tracking
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?
Define Business Case
Impact Analysis - Requirements Coverage - Requirements Allocation
Ongoing Cost versus Initial Investment - Opportunity Costs - Necessity - Sunk Costs
Requirements Management & Communication
3. Two effective trade-off methods.
Elimination of Dominated Alternative - Ranking Objects on a Similar Scale
Business Case; Stakeholder - Solution or Transition Requirements (Verified)
Organizational Readiness Assessment
Automate or Simplify Work - Improve Access to Information - Reduce Complexity of Interfaces - Increase Consistency of Behavior - Eliminate Redundancy
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
Decision Analysis - Estimation - Metrics & KPIs - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Estimation
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
Assumptions & Constraints
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.
Benchmarking
Evaluation
Identified Defects - Mitigating Actions - Solution Validation Assessment
Business Case; Stakeholder - Solution or Transition Requirements (Verified)
6. What are the techniques used in the task Manage Business Analysis Performance?
Interviews - Lessons Learned Process - Metrics and KPIs - Problem Tracking - Process Modeling - Root Cause Analysis - Survey/Questionnaire - Variance Analysis
Parametric Estimation
Elicitation Results
Solution Knowledge
7. What are the internal factors in a SWOT Analysis?
Requirements (Traced)
The Business Analysis Communication Plan
Relationships - Impact Analysis - Configuration Management System
Strengths - Weaknesses
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.
Analogous Estimation
System
Risk Analysis
Horizontal Prototype
9. What are the inputs to the task - Assess Proposed Solution?
Problem or Vision Statement
Assumptions & Constraints - Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution Options
Term and Fact Model
Facilitation & Negotiation - Leadership & Influencing - Teamwork
10. What is the output of the task - Define Transition Requirements?
Evaluation Criteria
Budgeting
Creative Thinking - Decision Making - Learning - Problem Solving - Systems Thinking
Transition Requirements
11. What is the output of the task Prepare for Elicitation?
Brings them to a Communication on understanding
Scheduled Resources - Supporting Materials
Problem Tracking - Baselining - Signoff
Structured Walkthrough
12. Ensure that the solution meets the business need and determine the most appropriate response to identified defects.
Validate Solution
Decision Analysis - Problem Tacking - Risk Analysis
Ethics - Trustworthiness - Personal Organization
Evolutionary or Functional Prototype
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
Compliance with regulatory or other standards
Decision Making
Monitoring
Enterprise Analysis - often the starting point for initiating a new project
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.
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
Operative Rules
Use Case
Scenarios & Use Cases
15. What are the techniques used in the task - Define Transition Requirements?
Relationships - Impact Analysis - Configuration Management System
Elimination of Dominated Alternative - Ranking Objects on a Similar Scale
Assumptions & Constraints - Required Capabilities - Solution Approach
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Modeling - Organization Modeling - Data Modeling
16. What are the strategies for a negative risk?
Requirements Workshop - Structured Walkthrough
Data - Ongoing Work - Organizational Change
Facilitation & Negotiation - Leadership & Influencing - Teamwork
Acceptance - Transfer - Avoidance - Mitigation
17. Techniques used in the task Plan Requirements Management Process.
SWOT Analysis
Decision Making
Decision Analysis - Problem Tacking - Risk Analysis
Decision Analysis - Risk Analysis - MoSCoW Analysis - Timeboxing/Budgeting - Voting
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.
Define Business Need - Access Capability Gaps - Determine Solution Approach - Define Solution Scope - Define Business Case
Solution Approach
Decision Analysis
Trustworthiness
19. Measures progress towards a strategic goal or objective.
Conduct Elicitation Activity
Key Performance Indicator (KPI )
Discounted Cash Flow - Net Present Value - Internal Rate of Return - Average Rate of Return - Pay Back Period - Cost-Benefit Analysis
Decision Analysis - Estimation - Metrics & KPIs - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Vendor Assessment
20. What are the inputs to the task - Validate Solution?
MoSCoW Analysis
Implementation SME
Requirements Management & Communication
Solution (Constructed) - Requirements (Prioritized and Validated)
21. Communication of requirements does what for stakeholders?
Specific - Measurable - Achievable - Relevant - Time-bound Objectives must be SMART.
Visual Learner - Auditory Learner - Kinesthetic Learner
Assumptions & Constraints
Brings them to a Communication on understanding
22. Strengths - Weaknesses - Opportunities - Threats - A valuable tool to quickly analyze various aspects of the current state of the business process undergoing change.
Solution (Constructed) - Requirements (Prioritized and Validated)
Requirements (Analyzed)
Organizational Readiness Assessment
SWOT Analysis
23. Use of parameters - multiplied by the number of hours. (COCOMO II - Function Point Counting - Use Case Points - and Story Points)
Parametric Estimation
Creative Thinking - Decision Making - Learning - Problem Solving - Systems Thinking
Organizational Readiness Assessment - Requirements (Stated) - Solution (Deployed) - Solution (Designed)
Organization Modeling
24. What are the techniques used in the task - Organize Requirements?
Verify Requirements
Ethics
Prepare for Elicitation - Conduct Elicitation Activity - Document Elicitation Results - Confirm Elicitation Results
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Data Modeling - Functional Decomposition - Organizational Modeling - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases - Scope Modeling - User Stories
25. Name the 2 types of Software categories that assist in BA productivity.
Transition Requirements
Impact Analysis - Requirements Coverage - Requirements Allocation
Requirements (Allocated)
General Purpose Applications & Specialized Applications
26. List 3 possible forms of a requirements packages.
Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution (Designed) - Solution Scope
Elimination
Historic Analysis
Formal Documentation - Presentation - Model
27. What is the output of the task - Allocate Resources?
Use Case
Requirements (Allocated)
Evaluate Solution Performance
Necessity - Effort - Subset - Cover - Value
28. Set of requirements that will be used to choose between multiple solutions.
Assumptions & Constraints
Evaluation Criteria
Personal Organization
Data Flow Diagrams
29. What is the output of the task Plan Business Analysis Activities?
User Story
Business Analysis Plan
Requirements (Stated - Confirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Confirmed)
Lessons Learned Process
30. The people involved - the interactions between them - the external forces affecting their behavior and all other relevant elements and factors.
Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution (Designed) - Solution Scope
Business Case - Business Need - Requirements - Requirements Management Plan - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
System
Tracing Requirements
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
Business Need
Advantages of Document Analysis
Organizational Knowledge
Data Dictionary & Glossary
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
Decision Analysis - Focus Groups - Observation - Survey/Questionnaire
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
Requirements (Prioritized)
Focus Group
33. What are the inputs to the task Manage Solution Scope & Requirements?
Conduct Elicitation Activity
Functional Decomposition
Name - Value/Meanings - Description
Requirements Management Plan - Solution Scope - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities - Stakeholder/Solution or Transition Requirements (Communicated or Traced)
34. Issues that may influence the replacement or elimination decision of a system include:
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements
Ongoing Cost versus Initial Investment - Opportunity Costs - Necessity - Sunk Costs
Influence on the project - organizational - project health and other stakeholders
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
35. What are the inputs to the task - Organize Requirements?
General Purpose Applications & Specialized Applications
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements (Stated) - Solution Scope
Verify Requirements
Decision Making
36. Means of eliciting information from many people - sometimes anonymously - in a relatively short period of time
Requirements Analysis
Impact Analysis
Elicitation
Survey/Questionnaire
37. What are the tasks in the knowledge area - Requirements Analysis?
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Problem Tracking - Structured Walkthrough - Checklists
Business Need - Expert Judgment - Organizational Process Assets
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Data Modeling - Functional Decomposition - Organizational Modeling - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases - Scope Modeling - User Stories
Prioritize Requirements - Organize Requirements - Specify & Model Requirements - Define Assumptions & Constraints - Verify Requirements - Validate Requirements
38. What are the techniques used in the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?
Functional Decomposition - Interface Analysis - Scope Modeling - User Stories - Problem or Vision Statement
Strengths - Weaknesses
Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis
Decision Analysis - Focus Groups - Observation - Survey/Questionnaire
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.
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
Requirements Documentation - Requirements for Vendor Selection
Name - Value/Meanings - Description
Define Business Need - Access Capability Gaps - Determine Solution Approach - Define Solution Scope - Define Business Case
40. What is the output of the task - Validate Requirements?
Solution (Constructed) - Requirements (Prioritized and Validated)
Requirements (Validated)
Creative Thinking - Decision Making - Learning - Problem Solving - Systems Thinking
Business Analysis Plan
41. Involved motivating people to act in ways that enable them to work together to achieve shared goals and objectives.
Requirements (Traced)
Leadership
Requirements (Any Except Stated)
Organization Modeling
42. What are the tasks in the knowledge area - Enterprise Analysis?
Brings them to a Communication on understanding
Assess Organization Readiness
Define Business Need - Access Capability Gaps - Determine Solution Approach - Define Solution Scope - Define Business Case
Problem Tracking - Baselining - Signoff
43. What are the elements of Communication Skills?
Oral Communications - Teaching - Written Communication
Transition Requirements
Compliance with regulatory or other standards
Key Performance Indicator (KPI )
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.
Industry Knowledge
Tracing Requirements
Leadership
Document Analysis
45. A formal written specification with possible walk-thru - an informal one is possibly verbal or email Communication
Formal requirements presentation to stakeholders
Three-point Estimation
Focus Group
Survey/Questionnaire
46. Long-term - ongoing and qualitative statements of a state or condition that the organization is seeking to establish and maintain.
Elimination of Dominated Alternative - Ranking Objects on a Similar Scale
Assumptions & Constraints
Focus Group
Goals
47. What is the output of the task Confirm Elicitation Results?
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements (Stated) - Solution Scope
Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring
Requirements (Stated - Confirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Confirmed)
Business Need
48. What does SMART stand for?
Specific - Measurable - Achievable - Relevant - Time-bound Objectives must be SMART.
Expert Judgment
Absolute Reference - Author - Complexity - Ownership - Priority - Risks - Source - Stability - Status - Urgency
Visual Learner - Auditory Learner - Kinesthetic Learner
49. What are the characteristics of a Problem Record?
Name - Aliases - Values/Meanings - Description
Interviews - Observation
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
Business Value - Business or Technical Risk - Implementation Difficulty - Likelihood of Success - Regulatory or Policy Compliance - Relationship to Other Requirements - Stakeholder Agreement - Urgency
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.
Elimination
Solution Assessment & Validation
Sequence Diagrams
Historic Analysis