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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A continuous process of collecting data to determine how well a solution has been implemented compared to expected results.
Interviews - Lessons Learned Process - Metrics and KPIs - Problem Tracking - Process Modeling - Root Cause Analysis - Survey/Questionnaire - Variance Analysis
Solution Performance Assessment
Monitoring
Goals
2. What are the Primitive Data Elements?
Name - Aliases - Values/Meanings - Description
Validate Solution
Functional Decomposition - Interface Analysis - Scope Modeling - User Stories - Problem or Vision Statement
Estimation
3. Two effective trade-off methods.
Focus Group
Confirm Elicitation Results
Prototyping
Elimination of Dominated Alternative - Ranking Objects on a Similar Scale
4. What is the output of the task - Determine Solution Approach?
Name - Aliases - Values/Meanings - Description
All
Delphi Estimation
Solution Approach
5. Two types of conflict.
Allocate Requirements
Emotional and Cognitive
SWOT Analysis
Requirements Analysis
6. 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
All
Cognitive Conflict
Requirements Management & Communication
Observation
7. 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
Advantages of Document Analysis
Solution Scope Definition - Implementation Approach - Dependencies
Requirements Structure
8. This knowledge area involves analyzing stakeholder needs to define solutions that meet those needs - assessing the current state of the business to identify and recommend improvements and the verification and validation of the resulting requirements.
Requirements Analysis
Solution Knowledge
Necessity - Effort - Subset - Cover - Value
Responsible - Accountable - Consulted - Informed
9. What are the inputs to the task - Communicate Requirements?
Enterprise Analysis
Prioritize Requirements - Organize Requirements - Specify & Model Requirements - Define Assumptions & Constraints - Verify Requirements - Validate Requirements
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Brainstorming - Interviews - Organizational Modeling - Process Modeling - Requirements Workshop - Risk Analysis - Scenarios & Use Cases - User Stories - Scope Modeling - Survey/Questionnaire - RACI Matrix
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Requirements - Requirements Package
10. What are the characteristics of quality for a requirements?
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Problem Tracking - Structured Walkthrough - Checklists
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Business Rules Analysis - Decision Analysis - Functional Decomposition - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases
User Classes - Profiles or Roles; Concepts & Relationships - Events - Processes - Rules
Cohesive - Complete - Consistent - Correct - Feasible - Modifiable - Unambiguous - Testable
11. What are the factors of influence by stakeholders on a project?
Influence on the project - organizational - project health and other stakeholders
Automate or Simplify Work - Improve Access to Information - Reduce Complexity of Interfaces - Increase Consistency of Behavior - Eliminate Redundancy
Risk - assumptions - constraints - etc.
Prioritize Requirements - Organize Requirements - Specify & Model Requirements - Define Assumptions & Constraints - Verify Requirements - Validate Requirements
12. Used to describe the roles - responsibilities and reporting structures that exist within an organization and to align those structures with the organization's goals.
Transition Requirements
Organization Modeling
Elicitation
Prepare for Elicitation - Conduct Elicitation Activity - Document Elicitation Results - Confirm Elicitation Results
13. What is the output of the task - Define Assumptions & Constraints?
Vendor Assessment
Assumptions & Constraints
General Purpose Applications & Specialized Applications
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
14. Characteristics that are common to all organizations with a similar purpose and structure - whether or not the are in the same industry.
Business Principals
Reliability - Performance Efficiency - Operability - Security - Compatibility - Maintainability - Transferability
To record the conflict in the Requirements Issues Log.
Problem Tracking
15. What are the inputs to the task Conduct Stakeholder Analysis?
Communicated Requirements
Data - Ongoing Work - Organizational Change
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Organizational Process Assets
Interviews - Observation
16. Define requirements for capabilities needed to move from an existing solution to a new solution.
Operative Rules
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
Reliability - Performance Efficiency - Operability - Security - Compatibility - Maintainability - Transferability
Define Transitional Requirements
17. What techniques are used in the task Manage Requirements Traceability?
Coverage Matrix - Table or spreadsheet used to manage tracing.
Interviews - Lessons Learned Process - Metrics and KPIs - Problem Tracking - Process Modeling - Root Cause Analysis - Survey/Questionnaire - Variance Analysis
Reliability - Performance Efficiency - Operability - Security - Compatibility - Maintainability - Transferability
Compliance with regulatory or other standards
18. What is the output of the task - Define Business Need?
Business Need
Opportunity Cost
Transition Requirements
Scheduled Resources - Supporting Materials
19. What are the techniques used in the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?
Assess Proposed Solution - Allocate Requirements - Assess Organizational Readiness - Define Transition Requirements - Validate Solution - Evaluate Solution Performance
Elimination of Dominated Alternative - Ranking Objects on a Similar Scale
Requirements Workshop - Structured Walkthrough
Decision Analysis - Focus Groups - Observation - Survey/Questionnaire
20. 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.
Decision Analysis - Estimation - Metrics & KPIs - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Learning
Document Elicitation Results task
Benefits - Costs - Risk Assessment - Results Measurement
21. The skill of moderating discussions among a group or enable all participants to effectively articulate their views on a topic under discussion and to further ensure that participants in the discussion are able to recognize and appreciate the differin
MoSCoW Analysis
Facilitation
Name - Value/Meanings - Description
Brainstorming
22. A diagram indicating how involved the stakeholder is with the solution.
Validate Requirements
Business Goals & Objectives - Requirements (Stated)
Delphi Estimation
Onion Diagram
23. Models a deep - and usually narrow slice of the entire system's functionality.
Advantages of a Data Dictionary & Glossary
Vertical Prototype
Three-point Estimation
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Problem Tracking - Structured Walkthrough - Checklists
24. What are the inputs for the task Plan Business Analysis Activities?
Organizational Knowledge
Business Analysis Approach - BA Performance Assessment - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
SWOT Analysis
Define Business Case
25. To define the rules that govern decisions in an organization and that define - constrain or enable organization operations.
Organize Requirements
Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Business Rules Analysis
Business Case; Stakeholder - Solution or Transition Requirements (Verified)
26. The people involved - the interactions between them - the external forces affecting their behavior and all other relevant elements and factors.
Define Business Case
System
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Organizational Process Assets
Determine the Process - Who will Authorize Changes - Impact Analysis - Wording of the Request - Coordinate Prioritization of Change
27. What are the inputs to the task - Define Assumption & Constraints?
Estimation - Functional Decomposition - Risk Analysis
Assumptions & Constraints - Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution Options
Term and Fact Model
Stakeholder Concerns
28. What are the techniques used in Plan Business Analysis Communication?
Structured Walkthrough
Stakeholder Concerns
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Business Rules Analysis - Decision Analysis - Functional Decomposition - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases
Organize Requirements
29. What are the elements to the task - Define Business Case?
Evaluate Solution Performance
Requirements (Stated) - Stakeholder Concerns
Benefits - Costs - Risk Assessment - Results Measurement
Expert Judgment
30. The purpose of _______________ is to ensure that a stakeholder's actual underlying needs are understood - rather than the their stated or superficial desires.
Requirements (Stated) - Stakeholder Concerns
Implementation Approach
Facilitation & Negotiation - Leadership & Influencing - Teamwork
Elicitation
31. Who is the primary stakeholder in the Define Business Case task?
Requirements (Analyzed)
Metrics & KPIs
The Sponsor
Requirements Structure
32. Confidence in the decision analysis process that a decision is correct - new information or alternative that cause a decision to be revisited are new and not simply overlooked - decisions are effective in addressing underlying problem - impact of unc
Data - Ongoing Work - Organizational Change
Decision Making
Organize Requirements
Prioritize Requirements - Organize Requirements - Specify & Model Requirements - Define Assumptions & Constraints - Verify Requirements - Validate Requirements
33. What is the output of the task - Manage Requirements Traceability?
Business Need - Solution Scope & Business Case - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving - Behavioral Characteristics - Business Knowledge - Communication Skills - Interaction Skills - Software Application
Business Value - Business or Technical Risk - Implementation Difficulty - Likelihood of Success - Regulatory or Policy Compliance - Relationship to Other Requirements - Stakeholder Agreement - Urgency
Requirements (Traced)
34. Divides requirements into 4 categories - Must - Should - Could - Won't
Use Case
MoSCoW Analysis
Requirements Management & Communication
Clear - Relevant - Economical - Adequate - Quantifiable
35. 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.
This person will be involved in monitoring the performance and effectiveness of a solution or its components.
Requirements Management & Communication
Reliability - Performance Efficiency - Operability - Security - Compatibility - Maintainability - Transferability
Benchmarking
36. The systematic and objective assessment of a solution to determine its status and efficacy in meeting objectives over time - and to identify ways to improve the solution to better meet objectives.
Automate or Simplify Work - Improve Access to Information - Reduce Complexity of Interfaces - Increase Consistency of Behavior - Eliminate Redundancy
Evaluation
Document Analysis - SWOT Analysis
Conduct Elicitation Activity
37. 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
Ethics
Parametric Estimation
Influence on the project - organizational - project health and other stakeholders
Compliance with regulatory or other standards
38. What are some of the ways a BA can help to improve the operations of a business? Acceptance and Evaluation Criteria Definition - Business Rules Analysis - Data Dictionary and Glossary - Data Flow Diagrams - Data Modeling - Functional Decomposition -
Automate or Simplify Work - Improve Access to Information - Reduce Complexity of Interfaces - Increase Consistency of Behavior - Eliminate Redundancy
Prototyping
Onion Diagram
Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring
39. What are the elements of Communication Skills?
Interviews
Reliability - Validity - Timeliness
Sequences - Repetitions - Optional Elements
Oral Communications - Teaching - Written Communication
40. This knowledge area describes the tasks that are performed in order to ensure that solutions meet the business need and to facilitate successful implementation.
Solution Assessment & Validation
User Story
Problem Solving
Organize Requirements
41. What is the output of the task - Verify Requirements?
Lessons Learned Process
Prepare for Elicitation - Conduct Elicitation Activity - Document Elicitation Results - Confirm Elicitation Results
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving - Behavioral Characteristics - Business Knowledge - Communication Skills - Interaction Skills - Software Application
Requirements (Verified)
42. Involves assessing a situation - understanding it as fully as possible - and making judgments about possible solutions to the problem.
Transition Requirements
Acceptance - Transfer - Avoidance - Mitigation
Solution Assessment & Validation
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving
43. 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
Ethics
Functional Decomposition - Interface Analysis - Scope Modeling - User Stories - Problem or Vision Statement
Requirements Structure
Reliability - Validity - Timeliness
44. Revised process and templates for BA deliverables should be analyzed and documented and lessons learned should be recorded.
Vendor Assessment
Decision Analysis
Define Business Case
Business Analysis Process Assets
45. Name the 2 types of Software categories that assist in BA productivity.
Non-functional Requirements Analysis
General Purpose Applications & Specialized Applications
Systems Thinking
Business Analysis Plan
46. What are the elements of the task - Define Solution Scope?
Solution Scope Definition - Implementation Approach - Dependencies
Confirm Elicitation Results
Data - Ongoing Work - Organizational Change
Implementation Approach
47. What are the Composite Data Elements?
Solution Approach
Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis
Sequences - Repetitions - Optional Elements
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets
48. What are the inputs to the task - Assess Proposed Solution?
Business Domain - Corporate Culture & Environment - Skills of the Analyst - Requirement Deliverable
Solution Assessment & Validation
Acceptance & Evaluation Technique
Assumptions & Constraints - Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution Options
49. What are some of the commonly used requirement attributes?
Systems Thinking
Decision Analysis - Problem Tacking - Risk Analysis
Define Business Need - Access Capability Gaps - Determine Solution Approach - Define Solution Scope - Define Business Case
Absolute Reference - Author - Complexity - Ownership - Priority - Risks - Source - Stability - Status - Urgency
50. What are the inputs to the task - Validate Requirements?
Requirements Structure
Required Capabilities
Functional Decomposition - Interface Analysis - Scope Modeling - User Stories - Problem or Vision Statement
Business Case; Stakeholder - Solution or Transition Requirements (Verified)