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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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1. What are the techniques used in the task - Determine Solution Approach?






2. Gathering information relevant to a decision - breaking down the information relevant to a decision - making comparisons and tradeoffs between similar and dissimilar options and identifying the option that is most desirable.






3. Rules that the organization chooses to enforce as a matter of policy. They are intended to guide the actions of people working within the organization. They may oblige people to take certain actions - prevent people from taking actions - or prescribe






4. What knowledge area discusses the business analysis activities necessary to identify a business need - problem or opportunity - define the capture of the solution and justify the investment necessary to deliver the solution.






5. Includes the standard definition of data elements - their meanings and allowable values.






6. When a conflict arises between stakeholders on one or more documented requirements - the first thing that needs to take place is what?






7. 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.






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






9. The goal of this task is to create a set of views of the requirements for the new business solution that are comprehensive - complete - consistent and understood from all stakeholder perspectives.






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






11. What are the inputs for the task Confirm Elicitation Results?






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






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






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






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






16. What are the Cultural diversity issues that should be taken into account when planning communication?






17. While eliciting requirements it is important to guard against scope creep - This activity will ensure that the requirements should be included since they meet the business goal/objectives.






18. Estimating relies on the expertise of those who have performed the work in the past. These experts can be internal or external to the project team or to the organization.






19. What is a STAKEHOLDER requirement - according to the BABOK 2.0?






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






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






22. What are the factors of influence by stakeholders on a project?






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






24. What are the classifications used to describe requirements






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






26. Checklist of characteristics to consider when considering non-functional requirements.






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






28. A means of eliciting requirements by conducting an assessment of the stakeholder's work environment. This technique is appropriate when documenting details about current processes or if the project is intended to enhance or change a current process.






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






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






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






32. Knowing the dependencies and relationships between requirements helps when determining the sequence in which requirements are to be addressed. Common relations are:






33. 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.






34. The BA is a stakeholder in ______ business analysis activities.






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






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






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






38. What are the inputs to the task - Communicate Requirements?






39. 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.






40. 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






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






42. What is the output of the Manage Business Analysis Performance task?






43. Agreement by stakeholders that analysis models effectively and completely describe the domain - identification of related problems or issues from multiple areas in the domain - rapid absorption of new information or new domain.






44. What are the inputs for the task Plan Business Analysis Activities?






45. What are the techniques used in the task - Validate Solution?






46. What are the techniques used in the task Conduct Elicitation Activity?






47. What are the techniques used in the task - Assess Organizational Readiness?






48. 7 knowledge areas of ________ : Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring - Elicitation - Requirements Management & Communication - Enterprise Analysis - Requirements Analysis - Solution Assessment & Validation - Underlying Competencies






49. Domain SME - End User - Implementation SME - and Sponsor: They Affected by analysis techniques used to organize requirements since they need to verify and validate the requirements.






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