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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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1. Measures progress towards a strategic goal or objective.






2. What are the strategies for a positive risk?






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






4. 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.






5. Investigating how a solution is actually used after it is deployed and assessing the effect it has had - both positive and negative.






6. Communicated Requirements mean what to stakeholders?






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






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






9. List 3 possible forms of a requirements packages.






10. What is the output of the task Prepare for Elicitation?






11. What are stakeholder requirements?






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






13. 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






14. Define the requirements that must be met in order for a solution to be considered acceptable to key stakeholders.






15. This prototype seeks to quickly uncover and clarify interface requirements using simple tools - sometimes just paper and pencil. The focus is on functionality that is not easily elicited by other techniques - has conflicting viewpoints - or is diffic






16. 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.






17. This knowledge area describes the tasks that are performed in order to ensure that solutions meet the business need and to facilitate successful implementation.






18. What are the Primitive Data Elements?






19. What are some of the key variables used in determining the priority of a requirement?






20. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






27. What are the techniques used in Plan Business Analysis Communication?






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






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






30. What are the inputs to the task - Assess Capability Gaps?






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






32. To define the rules that govern decisions in an organization and that define - constrain or enable organization operations.






33. 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






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






35. The purpose is to measure the performance of solutions - solution components - and other matters of interest to stakeholders.






36. 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






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






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






39. What is the output of the task - Maintain Requirements for Re-use?






40. 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






41. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






47. The goal of this task is validate that the stated requirements expressed by the stakeholder match the stakeholder's understanding of the problem and the stakeholder's needs. Analyst's understanding conforms to the actual desire or intentions of the s






48. What are the inputs to the task - Define Business Case?






49. 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.






50. What are the techniques used in Plan Business Analysis Approach?