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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning
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1. What are the inputs to the task - Prioritize Requirements?
Throw-away Prototype
Evaluate Solution Performance
Stakeholder Concerns
Business Case - Business Need - Requirements - Requirements Management Plan - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
2. What are some of the commonly used requirement attributes?
Facilitation & Negotiation - Leadership & Influencing - Teamwork
Requirements Management Plan - Solution Scope - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities - Stakeholder/Solution or Transition Requirements (Communicated or Traced)
Benefits - Costs - Risk Assessment - Results Measurement
Absolute Reference - Author - Complexity - Ownership - Priority - Risks - Source - Stability - Status - Urgency
3. 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.
All
Business Requirements - Identified Defects - Solution Performance Metrics - Solution (Deployed)
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Business Rules Analysis - Focus Groups - Functional Decomposition - Root Cause Analysis
Learning
4. What are the inputs to the task - Communicate Requirements?
Brainstorming
Business Analysis Process Assets
Organizational Readiness Assessment - Requirements (Stated) - Solution (Deployed) - Solution (Designed)
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Requirements - Requirements Package
5. What are the elements of the task - Define Solution Scope?
Name - Aliases - Values/Meanings - Description
General Purpose Applications & Specialized Applications
Business Policy
Solution Scope Definition - Implementation Approach - Dependencies
6. What is the output of the task Manage Solution Scope & Requirements?
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Business Rules Analysis - Focus Groups - Functional Decomposition - Root Cause Analysis
Business Analysis Plan
Requirements (Approved)
Relationship to Time - Relationship to Task Completion - Relationship to Contracts - Relationships to Formal and Informal Authority
7. Useful for ensuring that all stakeholders are in agreement on the format and content of relevant information. Capturing these definitions in a single model ensures that these terms will be used consistently.
Advantages of a Data Dictionary & Glossary
Relationship to Time - Relationship to Task Completion - Relationship to Contracts - Relationships to Formal and Informal Authority
Requirements Structure
Cultural Assessment - Operational or Technical Assessment - Stakeholder Impact Analysis
8. What are the techniques used in the task - Assess Proposed Solution?
Requirements Structure
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Decision Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Root Cause Analysis
Requirements (Traced)
9. The knowledge area that covers how BAs determine which activities are necessary in order to complete a business analysis effort.
Historic Analysis
Solution Knowledge
Specific - Measurable - Achievable - Relevant - Time-bound Objectives must be SMART.
Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring
10. What stakeholder receives noticeable negative impact if information is incorrectly transferred from the old to new solution?
Evaluation Criteria
Evolutionary or Functional Prototype
Customer
Observation
11. To define the rules that govern decisions in an organization and that define - constrain or enable organization operations.
Underlying Competencies
Business Rules Analysis
Solution Performance Assessment
Scenarios & Use Cases
12. The decomposition of activities and tasks creates?
Required Capabilities
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Activity List
Brings them to a Communication on understanding
13. What factors guide technique selection?
Business Domain - Corporate Culture & Environment - Skills of the Analyst - Requirement Deliverable
Requirements - Requirements Management Plan
Requirements Package
Cognitive Conflict
14. What does RACI stand for?
Business Principles & Practices
System
Reporting
Responsible - Accountable - Consulted - Informed
15. What are the likely sources of transition requirements?
Data - Ongoing Work - Organizational Change
Survey/Questionnaire
Problem or Vision Statement
Acceptance Criteria
16. Communicated Requirements mean what to stakeholders?
Activity List
Business Analysis Approach
Vendor Assessment
That they understand them and the current state the requirements are in
17. What techniques are used in the task - Define Solution Scope?
Structured Walkthrough
Business Goals & Objectives - Requirements (Stated)
Functional Decomposition - Interface Analysis - Scope Modeling - User Stories - Problem or Vision Statement
Decision Analysis - Focus Groups - Observation - Survey/Questionnaire
18. Most optimistic estimate; most pessimistic estimate; most likely estimate
Prepare Requirements Package
Three-point Estimation
Learning
Historic Analysis
19. 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
Sequences - Repetitions - Optional Elements
Acceptance & Evaluation Technique
Prepare Requirements Package
Key Performance Indicator (KPI )
20. What techniques are used in the task Prepare for Elicitation?
Assumptions & Constraints - Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution Options
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Assumptions & Constraints - Required Capabilities - Solution Approach
Acceptance Criteria
21. What is the output of the task - Prioritize Requirements?
Assumptions & Constraints - Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution Options
Requirements (Prioritized)
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements - Requirements Structure
Name - Aliases - Values/Meanings - Description
22. 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
Conduct Elicitation Activity
Problem Tracking - Baselining - Signoff
Rolling Wave
Cultural Assessment - Operational or Technical Assessment - Stakeholder Impact Analysis
23. What are the Composite Data Elements?
Sequences - Repetitions - Optional Elements
Requirements Workshop - Structured Walkthrough
Requirements (Analyzed)
Dependencies
24. This knowledge area describes the behaviors - knowledge and other characteristics that support the effective performance of a BA.
Data Dictionary & Glossary - Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshops - Survey/Questionnaire
The Business Analysis Communication Plan
Underlying Competencies
Solution Scope
25. What are the techniques used in Plan Business Analysis Activities?
Estimation - Functional Decomposition - Risk Analysis
Assumptions & Constraints - Required Capabilities - Solution Approach
Risk Analysis
Conduct Elicitation Activity
26. 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.
Key Performance Indicator (KPI )
Historic Analysis
Formal Documentation - Presentation - Model
Required Capabilities
27. Investigating how a solution is actually used after it is deployed and assessing the effect it has had - both positive and negative.
Document Analysis
Evaluate Solution Performance
Requirements Structure
Focus Group
28. What are the inputs to the task - Allocate Resources?
Requirements - Requirements Management Plan
Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution (Designed) - Solution Scope
Interviews - Lessons Learned Process - Metrics and KPIs - Problem Tracking - Process Modeling - Root Cause Analysis - Survey/Questionnaire - Variance Analysis
Business Analysis Plan
29. Understanding of the competitive forces that shape an industry - understand the various customer segments that the industry services and the demographic or other characteristics common to that segment.
Document Analysis
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
Requirements (Allocated)
Industry Knowledge
30. Checklist of characteristics to consider when considering non-functional requirements.
Business Policy
Reliability - Performance Efficiency - Operability - Security - Compatibility - Maintainability - Transferability
Document Analysis - SWOT Analysis
Requirements (Maintained and Reusable)
31. 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.
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Modeling - Organization Modeling - Data Modeling
Bottom-up Estimation
Learning
Stakeholder Concerns
32. A brief description of functionality that users need from a solution to meet a business objective. The goal they are trying to accomplish - and any additional information that may be critical to understanding the scope of the story.
Trustworthiness
User Story
Cultural Assessment - Operational or Technical Assessment - Stakeholder Impact Analysis
Stakeholder Concerns
33. What are the inputs for the task - Maintain Requirements for Re-use?
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Vendor Assessment
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Models - Focus Groups - Interviews - Survey/Questionnaire - Organizational Modeling - Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Force Field Analysis
34. What are the tasks in the knowledge area - Requirements Analysis?
Vertical Prototype
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving
Impact Analysis - Requirements Coverage - Requirements Allocation
Prioritize Requirements - Organize Requirements - Specify & Model Requirements - Define Assumptions & Constraints - Verify Requirements - Validate Requirements
35. Two techniques used in Root Cause Analysis?
Structured Walkthrough
Fishbone Diagram - Five Whys
Functions - Markets - Matrix
Monitoring
36. Involves assessing a situation - understanding it as fully as possible - and making judgments about possible solutions to the problem.
Observation
Timeboxing
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving
Requirements (Allocated)
37. This knowledge area describes the tasks that are performed in order to ensure that solutions meet the business need and to facilitate successful implementation.
Prepare Requirements Package
Glossary
Business Goals & Objectives - Requirements (Stated)
Solution Assessment & Validation
38. What is the output of the task Prepare for Elicitation?
Decision Analysis
Scheduled Resources - Supporting Materials
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving
Vendor Assessment
39. When a conflict arises between stakeholders on one or more documented requirements - the first thing that needs to take place is what?
Scheduled Resources - Supporting Materials
To record the conflict in the Requirements Issues Log.
Manage Solution Scope & Requirements - Manage Requirements Traceability - Maintain Requirements for Re-use - Prepare Requirements Package - Communicate Requirements
Validate Requirements
40. A structured way to capture requirements. May be used to scope - discover - define - prioritize and reach closure on requirements for the target system. Considered one of the most effective ways to deliver high quality requirements quickly.
Reporting
Requirements Workshop
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Organizational Process Assets
Scenario
41. What are stakeholder requirements?
Elicitation
A statement of the needs of a particular stakeholder or class of stakeholders
All
They describe what a solution must be capable of doing to meet the needs of one or more stakeholder groups
42. What is the output of the task - Assess Organizational Readiness?
Business Need - Expert Judgment - Organizational Process Assets
Organizational Readiness Assessment
Facilitation & Negotiation - Leadership & Influencing - Teamwork
Business Case; Stakeholder - Solution or Transition Requirements (Verified)
43. This knowledge area describes the problem definition and analysis - business case development - feasibility studies and the definition of solution scope.
Budgeting
Enterprise Analysis
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Business Rules Analysis - Decision Analysis - Functional Decomposition - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases
Requirements Management Plan - Solution Scope - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities - Stakeholder/Solution or Transition Requirements (Communicated or Traced)
44. Two effective trade-off methods.
Impact Analysis
Implementation Approach
Requirements (Stated - Unconfirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Unconfirmed)
Elimination of Dominated Alternative - Ranking Objects on a Similar Scale
45. Three key factors when assessing the quality of indicators and their metrics
Business Analysis Performance Assessment - Business Analysis Process Assets - Includes a comparison of planned versus actual performance - understanding the root cause of variances from the plan and other information to help understand the level of
Reliability - Validity - Timeliness
Evaluation Criteria
Organizational Readiness Assessment
46. What is the output of the task - Determine Solution Approach?
Business Analysis Process Assets
Systems Thinking
Solution Approach
Requirements Management Plan - Solution Scope - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities - Stakeholder/Solution or Transition Requirements (Communicated or Traced)
47. What is the output of the task - Define Business Case?
Learning
Elimination of Dominated Alternative - Ranking Objects on a Similar Scale
Business Case
Assumptions & Constraints - Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution Options
48. A specific - actionable - testable directive that is under the control of an organization and supports a business policy.
Parametric Estimation
Business Analysis Approach - BA Performance Assessment - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Business Rule
Requirements (Verified)
49. What is the output of the task - Communicate Requirements?
Name - Aliases - Values/Meanings - Description
Structured Walkthrough
Solution Knowledge
Communicated Requirements
50. What are the inputs for the task - Prepare Requirements Package?
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements - Requirements Structure
Visual Learner - Auditory Learner - Kinesthetic Learner
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets
Data Dictionary