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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning
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1. What is the output of the task - Define Assumptions & Constraints?
Timeboxing
Assumptions & Constraints
Implementation SME
Data Dictionary
2. According to the BABOK 2.0 - what type of analysis generates STAKEHOLDER requirements?
Problem Tracking - Baselining - Signoff
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Problem Tracking - Root Cause Analysis
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Decision Analysis - Estimation - SWOT Analysis - Feasibility Analysis
Requirements Analysis
3. What is the output of the task - Assess Proposed Solution?
Solution Scope
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
Acceptance Criteria
Assessment of Proposed Solution
4. 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
Advantages of Document Analysis
Interviews - Lessons Learned Process - Metrics and KPIs - Problem Tracking - Process Modeling - Root Cause Analysis - Survey/Questionnaire - Variance Analysis
Determine the Process - Who will Authorize Changes - Impact Analysis - Wording of the Request - Coordinate Prioritization of Change
Creative Thinking - Decision Making - Learning - Problem Solving - Systems Thinking
5. Set of requirements that will be used to choose between multiple solutions.
Underlying Competencies
Evaluation Criteria
The Sponsor
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements (Stated) - Solution Scope
6. 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.
All
Primary stakeholders in the Organize Requirements task
Determine the Process - Who will Authorize Changes - Impact Analysis - Wording of the Request - Coordinate Prioritization of Change
Problem Tracking
7. What does RACI stand for?
Decision Analysis
Responsible - Accountable - Consulted - Informed
Business Analysis Plan
Horizontal Prototype
8. 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?
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Problem Tracking - Structured Walkthrough - Checklists
Expert Judgment
Business Principles & Practices
Impact Analysis - Requirements Coverage - Requirements Allocation
9. What should be considered when establishing a Change Management process?
Business Analysis Approach - BA Performance Assessment - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Problem Tracking - Root Cause Analysis
Determine the Process - Who will Authorize Changes - Impact Analysis - Wording of the Request - Coordinate Prioritization of Change
Define Business Case
10. 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
Business Need
Requirements Management & Communication
Brings them to a Communication on understanding
Scenario
11. What is the output of the task - Prepare Requirements Package?
Elicitation
Coverage Matrix - Table or spreadsheet used to manage tracing.
Requirements Documentation - Requirements for Vendor Selection
Requirements Package
12. 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.
Business Principles & Practices
Expert Judgment
Automate or Simplify Work - Improve Access to Information - Reduce Complexity of Interfaces - Increase Consistency of Behavior - Eliminate Redundancy
Business Rule
13. What is the output of the task - Organize Requirements?
System
Perform tailoring exercises
Requirements Structure
Monitoring
14. Define requirements for capabilities needed to move from an existing solution to a new solution.
Define Transitional Requirements
Observation
Brings them to a Communication on understanding
Requirements Documentation - Requirements for Vendor Selection
15. 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.
Scenario
Enterprise Analysis - often the starting point for initiating a new project
Interviews
Requirements (Allocated)
16. Means of eliciting information from many people - sometimes anonymously - in a relatively short period of time
Reliability - Validity - Timeliness
Non-functional Requirements Analysis
Survey/Questionnaire
Specific - Measurable - Achievable - Relevant - Time-bound Objectives must be SMART.
17. What are the techniques used in the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?
Conduct Elicitation Activity
Decision Analysis - Focus Groups - Observation - Survey/Questionnaire
Non-functional Requirements Analysis
Visual Learner - Auditory Learner - Kinesthetic Learner
18. Understanding of the business architecture of the organization that is being analyzed. Understanding business models (generates profit) - org structure - relationships between business units and the persons who occupy key stakeholder positions.
Organizational Knowledge
Facilitation & Negotiation - Leadership & Influencing - Teamwork
Requirements (Approved)
Prototyping
19. 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.
Prioritize Requirements - Organize Requirements - Specify & Model Requirements - Define Assumptions & Constraints - Verify Requirements - Validate Requirements
Ethics
Evaluation Criteria
A statement of the needs of a particular stakeholder or class of stakeholders
20. What are the likely sources of transition requirements?
Data - Ongoing Work - Organizational Change
Ongoing Cost versus Initial Investment - Opportunity Costs - Necessity - Sunk Costs
Interviews - Lessons Learned Process - Metrics and KPIs - Problem Tracking - Process Modeling - Root Cause Analysis - Survey/Questionnaire - Variance Analysis
Dependencies
21. What are the inputs to the task - Define Assumption & Constraints?
Business Analysis Approach
Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution (Designed) - Solution Scope
Stakeholder Concerns
Advantages of Document Analysis
22. Measures progress towards a strategic goal or objective.
Decision Analysis - Risk Analysis - MoSCoW Analysis - Timeboxing/Budgeting - Voting
Key Performance Indicator (KPI )
Scenario
Requirements (Analyzed)
23. Define the requirements that must be met in order for a solution to be considered acceptable to key stakeholders.
Personal Organization
Transition Requirements
Acceptance - Transfer - Avoidance - Mitigation
Acceptance & Evaluation Technique
24. What are the techniques used in Plan Business Analysis Approach?
Fishbone Diagram - Five Whys
Oral Communications - Teaching - Written Communication
Interface Analysis
Decision Analysis - Process Modeling - Structured Walkthrough
25. What techniques are used in the task - Define Solution Scope?
Scenarios & Use Cases
Solution Scope Definition - Implementation Approach - Dependencies
Functional Decomposition - Interface Analysis - Scope Modeling - User Stories - Problem or Vision Statement
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Required Capabilities
26. 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.
Business Case; Stakeholder - Solution or Transition Requirements (Verified)
Organization Modeling
Structural Rules
Requirements Management Plan
27. What are the factors of influence by stakeholders on a project?
Influence on the project - organizational - project health and other stakeholders
Assess Organization Readiness
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Prepare for Elicitation - Conduct Elicitation Activity - Document Elicitation Results - Confirm Elicitation Results
28. 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
Functions - Markets - Matrix
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Business Rules Analysis - Decision Analysis - Functional Decomposition - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases
Clear - Relevant - Economical - Adequate - Quantifiable
Compliance with regulatory or other standards
29. 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.
Formal Documentation - Presentation - Model
Solution Approach
Creative Thinking - Decision Making - Learning - Problem Solving - Systems Thinking
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements - Requirements Structure
30. An excellent way to foster creative thinking about a problem. The goal is to produce numerous new ideas and to derive themes for further analysis. - Ability to elicit many ideas in a short time period. - - Non-judgmental environment enables creative
Brainstorming
Requirements Management & Communication
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Requirements - Requirements Package
Evaluate Solution Performance
31. What are the inputs to the task Conduct Stakeholder Analysis?
Repository - Traceability - Requirement Attributes - Prioritization Process - Change Management - Tailoring the Requirements Management Process
Visual Learner - Auditory Learner - Kinesthetic Learner
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Organizational Process Assets
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets
32. What are the tasks in Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring?
Data Modeling
Structured Walkthrough
Business Need
Plan Business Analysis Approach - Conduct Stakeholder Analysis - Plan Business Analysis Activities - Plan Business Analysis Communication - Plan Requirements Management Process - Manage BA Performance
33. Elicitation Results are the inputs for the ____________
Parametric Estimation
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Business Rules Analysis - Decision Analysis - Functional Decomposition - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases
Document Elicitation Results task
BABOK
34. What are the inputs to the task Plan Requirements Management Process?
Bottom-up Estimation
Compliance with regulatory or other standards
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Decision Analysis - Vendor Assessment
35. Two techniques used in Root Cause Analysis?
Delphi Estimation
Fishbone Diagram - Five Whys
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Problem Tracking - Root Cause Analysis
36. 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
User Story
Requirements (Stated - Unconfirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Unconfirmed)
Organizational Readiness Assessment - Requirements (Stated) - Solution (Deployed) - Solution (Designed)
Estimation
37. Revised process and templates for BA deliverables should be analyzed and documented and lessons learned should be recorded.
Business Analysis Process Assets
Problem or Vision Statement
Budgeting
Implementation Approach
38. What are the inputs to the task - Assess Organizational Readiness?
Enterprise Architecture - Solution Scope - Solution (Designed) - Stakeholder Concerns
Business Need
Name - Aliases - Values/Meanings - Description
Fishbone Diagram - Five Whys
39. What are the inputs to the task - Validate Requirements?
Discounted Cash Flow - Net Present Value - Internal Rate of Return - Average Rate of Return - Pay Back Period - Cost-Benefit Analysis
Acceptance - Transfer - Avoidance - Mitigation
Business Case; Stakeholder - Solution or Transition Requirements (Verified)
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Business Rules Analysis - Focus Groups - Functional Decomposition - Root Cause Analysis
40. What is the output of the task - Prioritize Requirements?
Evaluate Solution Performance
Assumptions & Constraints - Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution Options
Specific - Measurable - Achievable - Relevant - Time-bound Objectives must be SMART.
Requirements (Prioritized)
41. The purpose of _______________ is to ensure that a stakeholder's actual underlying needs are understood - rather than the their stated or superficial desires.
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Decision Analysis - Estimation - SWOT Analysis - Feasibility Analysis
Dependencies
Elicitation
Ethics
42. What is the output of the task Prepare for Elicitation?
Scheduled Resources - Supporting Materials
Assess Organization Readiness
Opportunity Cost
Absolute Reference - Author - Complexity - Ownership - Priority - Risks - Source - Stability - Status - Urgency
43. A good indicator has 5 characteristics:
Requirements (Validated)
Clear - Relevant - Economical - Adequate - Quantifiable
Validate Solution
That they understand them and the current state the requirements are in
44. Most optimistic estimate; most pessimistic estimate; most likely estimate
Business Policy
Solution Scope
Name - Value/Meanings - Description
Three-point Estimation
45. Creates a conceptual model of the work that needs to be completed to deliver the new business solution.
Enterprise Analysis
Requirements Structure
Functional Decomposition
Brainstorming
46. This task determines if an organization can justify the investment required to deliver a proposed solution.
State Diagrams
Data Modeling
Facilitation & Negotiation - Leadership & Influencing - Teamwork
Define Business Case
47. What are the techniques used in the task Document Elicitation Results?
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Problem Tracking - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Data Modeling - Functional Decomposition - Organizational Modeling - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases - Scope Modeling - User Stories
Organizational Knowledge
Data Modeling
48. Name the 2 types of Stakeholder maps.
Business Analysis Plan
Functional Decomposition
Stakeholder Matrix - Onion Diagram
Lessons Learned Process
49. What are the attributes of a Data Model?
Assumptions & Constraints - Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution Options
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving - Behavioral Characteristics - Business Knowledge - Communication Skills - Interaction Skills - Software Application
Name - Value/Meanings - Description
Organizational Knowledge
50. Using this technique the business analyst has collected the deliverables - activities - tasks - and estimates from all the involved stakeholders and rolls them up to get a total for all the activities and tasks.
Organizational Knowledge
Requirements (Validated)
Bottom-up Estimation
Formal requirements presentation to stakeholders
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