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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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1. Organizational culture - Stakeholder preference - complexity - organizational maturity and availability of resources are all factors used to do what?






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. What are the tasks in the knowledge area - Enterprise Analysis?






4. What are the inputs to the task Manage Requirements Traceability?






5. Long-term - ongoing and qualitative statements of a state or condition that the organization is seeking to establish and maintain.






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






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






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






9. A structured examination of the aspects of a situation to establish the root causes and resulting effects of the problem. A critical element is to ensure that the current business thinking and processes are challenged. The purpose is to determine the






10. 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






11. To identify and manage areas of uncertainty that can impact an initiative - solution - or organization.






12. What is the output of the task - Prioritize Requirements?






13. Prioritizes requirements based on the amount of work that the project team is capable of delivering in a set period of time. Approaches include: All-in - All Out - Selective






14. Technique involving refinement of estimates. Estimate the details for activities in the current iteration or increment and provide an analogous estimate for the entire scope of work. As the end of the iteration approaches - estimates for the next ite






15. The goal of this task is to ensure that all requirements support the delivery of value to the business - fulfill its goal and objectives and meet a stakeholder need.






16. Models a shallow - and possibly wide view of the system's functionality. It typically does not have any business logic running behind the visualization.






17. What is the output of the task - Assess Proposed Solution?






18. Describes all the possible outcomes of an attempt to accomplish a particular goal that the solution will support.






19. The purpose is to compile and document successes - opportunities for improvement - failures - and recommendations for improving the performance of future projects or project phases






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






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






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






23. What are the techniques used in the task - Allocate Resources?






24. Decisions are made with the interest of all stakeholders considered - reasons for a decision are cleared articulated - prompt and full disclosure of conflicts of interest - honesty regarding one's abilities and the performance of one's work.






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






26. What are the inputs for the task Prepare for Elicitation?






27. 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.






28. Rules that are intended to help determine when something is or is not true - or when things fall into a specific category. They are expressed as rules because they describe categorizations that may change over time.






29. What are the inputs for the task - Define Transitional Requirements?






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






31. What are the techniques used in the task Conduct Stakeholder Analysis?






32. Are used to describe the scope of analysis or the scope of a solution. Serve as a basis for defining and delimiting the scope of business analysis and project work. Allow the definition of a "complete" scope—that is - the boundaries of the scope corr






33. What are the internal factors in a SWOT Analysis?






34. Three key factors when assessing the quality of indicators and their metrics






35. What are the inputs to the Plan Business Analysis Approach?






36. What are the techniques used in the task Manage Solution Scope & Requirements?






37. Combination of expert judgment and history. Individual estimates - sharing the estimates with experts - and having several rounds until consensus is reached. An average of the three estimates is used






38. Characteristics that are common to all organizations with a similar purpose and structure - whether or not the are in the same industry.






39. 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.






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






41. What should be considered when establishing a Change Management process?






42. This task describes the work required to decide which formats are appropriate for a particular project and its stakeholders. The requirements must be clear - concise - accurate and at the appropriate level of detail to assure clear understanding by t






43. This prototype extends the initial interface requirements into a fully functioning system and requires a specialized prototyping tool or language.






44. What does SMART stand for?






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






46. What is the output of the task - Define Assumptions & Constraints?






47. Two effective trade-off methods.






48. Defines what must be delivered in order to meet the business need - and the effect of the proposed change initiation on the business and technology operations and infrastructure.






49. What are the techniques used in the task - Assess Capability Gaps?






50. Creates a conceptual model of the work that needs to be completed to deliver the new business solution.