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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning
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1. Techniques used in the task Plan Requirements Management Process.
Emotional and Cognitive
Oral Communications - Teaching - Written Communication
Decision Analysis - Problem Tacking - Risk Analysis
Opportunity Cost
2. What are the factors of influence by stakeholders on a project?
Business Principles & Practices
Business Goals & Objectives - Requirements (Stated)
Influence on the project - organizational - project health and other stakeholders
Requirements Analysis
3. Strengths - Weaknesses - Opportunities - Threats - A valuable tool to quickly analyze various aspects of the current state of the business process undergoing change.
SWOT Analysis
Analogous Estimation
Leadership
Requirements (Any Except Stated)
4. Define requirements for capabilities needed to move from an existing solution to a new solution.
Requirements Workshop
Organizational Readiness Assessment - Requirements (Stated) - Solution (Deployed) - Solution (Designed)
Define Transitional Requirements
Visual Learner - Auditory Learner - Kinesthetic Learner
5. What are the inputs to the Plan Business Analysis Approach?
Business Need - Expert Judgment - Organizational Process Assets
Elicitation
Scenarios & Use Cases
Fishbone Diagram - Five Whys
6. 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.
Requirements Documentation - Requirements for Vendor Selection
Business Analysis Performance Metrics - Business Analysis Plan - Organization Performance Standards - Requirements Management Plan
Industry Knowledge
Formal Documentation - Presentation - Model
7. What are the inputs to the task - Validate Solution?
Solution (Constructed) - Requirements (Prioritized and Validated)
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements Management Plan - Scheduled Resources - Solution Scope & Business Case - Supporting Materials
Observation
Decision Making
8. 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
Requirements Management & Communication
Assumptions & Constraints - Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution Options
Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Define Business Case
9. What are the techniques used in the task - Validate Requirements?
Define Business Case
Problem or Vision Statement
Business Domain - Corporate Culture & Environment - Skills of the Analyst - Requirement Deliverable
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Metrics & KPIs - Prototyping - Risk Analysis - Structured Walkthrough
10. What is the output of the Manage Business Analysis Performance task?
Requirements (Maintained and Reusable)
Reporting
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
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
11. 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.
Evaluation
Evaluate Solution Performance
Requirements (Validated)
Sequence Diagrams
12. Who is the primary stakeholder in the Define Business Case task?
Evaluation Criteria
Impact Analysis - Requirements Coverage - Requirements Allocation
Scope Modeling
The Sponsor
13. What is the output of the task - Assess Proposed Solution?
Transition Requirements
Assessment of Proposed Solution
Requirements (Stated - Unconfirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Unconfirmed)
Business Value - Business or Technical Risk - Implementation Difficulty - Likelihood of Success - Regulatory or Policy Compliance - Relationship to Other Requirements - Stakeholder Agreement - Urgency
14. When a requirement is changed - the BA can easily review all the related requirements and software components in order to understand the impact of the change.
Impact Analysis
Name - Value/Meanings - Description
Historic Analysis
Elimination of Dominated Alternative - Ranking Objects on a Similar Scale
15. What should be considered when establishing a Change Management process?
Determine the Process - Who will Authorize Changes - Impact Analysis - Wording of the Request - Coordinate Prioritization of Change
Horizontal Prototype
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Decision Analysis - Estimation - SWOT Analysis - Feasibility Analysis
Requirements (Stated - Confirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Confirmed)
16. A means of eliciting requirements by conducting an assessment of the stakeholder's work environment. This technique is appropriate when documenting details about current processes or if the project is intended to enhance or change a current process.
Elicitation Results
General Purpose Applications & Specialized Applications
Observation
Cognitive Conflict
17. 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.
Cultural Assessment - Operational or Technical Assessment - Stakeholder Impact Analysis
Scheduled Resources - Supporting Materials
Organizational Readiness Assessment
Primary stakeholders in the Organize Requirements task
18. What are the techniques used in the task - Allocate Resources?
Learning
Requirements Analysis
Prepare Requirements Package
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Business Rules Analysis - Decision Analysis - Functional Decomposition - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases
19. What are the characteristics of quality for a requirements?
Cohesive - Complete - Consistent - Correct - Feasible - Modifiable - Unambiguous - Testable
Brainstorming
Primary stakeholders in the Organize Requirements task
Fishbone Diagram - Five Whys
20. 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
Ethics
Evaluation
Timeboxing
Organization Modeling
21. Three types of organizational structures
Functions - Markets - Matrix
Compliance with regulatory or other standards
Assess Proposed Solution - Allocate Requirements - Assess Organizational Readiness - Define Transition Requirements - Validate Solution - Evaluate Solution Performance
Validate Solution
22. What techniques are used in the task Manage Requirements Traceability?
Delphi Estimation
Stakeholder Matrix - Onion Diagram
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Business Rules Analysis - Focus Groups - Functional Decomposition - Root Cause Analysis
Coverage Matrix - Table or spreadsheet used to manage tracing.
23. 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
Root Cause Analysis
Compliance with regulatory or other standards
Decision Analysis - Estimation - Metrics & KPIs - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Clear - Relevant - Economical - Adequate - Quantifiable
24. Elements of a Requirements Management Plan include?
Business Analysis Process Assets
Relationships - Impact Analysis - Configuration Management System
Stakeholder Concerns
Decision Analysis - Problem Tacking - Risk Analysis
25. What are the techniques used in Plan Business Analysis Approach?
Assumptions & Constraints - Required Capabilities - Solution Approach
Benchmarking
Decision Analysis - Process Modeling - Structured Walkthrough
Structured Walkthrough
26. What are the inputs to the task Manage Solution Scope & Requirements?
Compliance with regulatory or other standards
Requirements (Analyzed)
Solution Scope
Requirements Management Plan - Solution Scope - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities - Stakeholder/Solution or Transition Requirements (Communicated or Traced)
27. What are the techniques used in the task - Define Transition Requirements?
Business Analysis Plan
Monitoring
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Modeling - Organization Modeling - Data Modeling
28. Organizational culture - Stakeholder preference - complexity - organizational maturity and availability of resources are all factors used to do what?
Assessment of Proposed Solution
Perform tailoring exercises
Emotional and Cognitive
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Requirements - Requirements Package
29. Models a deep - and usually narrow slice of the entire system's functionality.
Vertical Prototype
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Models - Focus Groups - Interviews - Survey/Questionnaire - Organizational Modeling - Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Force Field Analysis
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving
Evaluation
30. What are the elements of the task - Define Solution Scope?
Interviews - Lessons Learned Process - Metrics and KPIs - Problem Tracking - Process Modeling - Root Cause Analysis - Survey/Questionnaire - Variance Analysis
Solution Scope Definition - Implementation Approach - Dependencies
Stakeholder Concerns
Learning
31. What is the output of the task - Define Business Need?
Name - Value/Meanings - Description
Benchmarking
Monitoring
Business Need
32. What is the output of the task Conduct Stakeholder Analysis?
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Modeling - Organization Modeling - Data Modeling
Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Prepare for Elicitation - Conduct Elicitation Activity - Document Elicitation Results - Confirm Elicitation Results
Validate Requirements
33. What are the inputs for the task - Define Transitional Requirements?
Organizational Readiness Assessment - Requirements (Stated) - Solution (Deployed) - Solution (Designed)
Name - Aliases - Values/Meanings - Description
Sequence Diagrams
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Business Rules Analysis - Focus Groups - Functional Decomposition - Root Cause Analysis
34. Means of eliciting information from many people - sometimes anonymously - in a relatively short period of time
Survey/Questionnaire
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Problem Tracking - Root Cause Analysis
SWOT Analysis
Cultural Assessment - Operational or Technical Assessment - Stakeholder Impact Analysis
35. 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
Decision Making
Perform tailoring exercises
Enterprise Analysis
Interviews
36. What are the elements of Communication Skills?
Oral Communications - Teaching - Written Communication
Requirements Workshop
All
Learning
37. 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.
Document Analysis
All
Throw-away Prototype
Expert Judgment
38. What are some of the key variables used in determining the priority of a requirement?
Business Value - Business or Technical Risk - Implementation Difficulty - Likelihood of Success - Regulatory or Policy Compliance - Relationship to Other Requirements - Stakeholder Agreement - Urgency
Decision Analysis - Risk Analysis - MoSCoW Analysis - Timeboxing/Budgeting - Voting
Assumptions & Constraints
Name - Aliases - Values/Meanings - Description
39. Documents terms unique to a domain.
Facilitation
Business Goals & Objectives - Requirements (Stated)
Glossary
Requirements Structure
40. What is the output to the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?
Opportunity Cost
Elimination
Solution Performance Assessment
Reliability - Performance Efficiency - Operability - Security - Compatibility - Maintainability - Transferability
41. The BA is a stakeholder in ______ business analysis activities.
Bottom-up Estimation
All
Stakeholder Matrix - Onion Diagram
Impact Analysis
42. What are the inputs to the task - Specify & Model Requirements?
Solution Approach
Requirements (Stated) - Requirements Structure
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Decision Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Facilitation
43. 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
Estimation
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
Requirements (Stated) - Stakeholder Concerns
Evaluation Criteria
44. What is the output of the task - Manage Requirements Traceability?
Sequence Diagrams
Requirements (Traced)
Organizational Readiness Assessment - Requirements (Stated) - Solution (Deployed) - Solution (Designed)
Timeboxing
45. What are the inputs to the task - Determine Solution Approach?
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Required Capabilities
Facilitation
Industry Knowledge
Solution (Constructed) - Requirements (Prioritized and Validated)
46. Most optimistic estimate; most pessimistic estimate; most likely estimate
Evolutionary or Functional Prototype
Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Business Value - Business or Technical Risk - Implementation Difficulty - Likelihood of Success - Regulatory or Policy Compliance - Relationship to Other Requirements - Stakeholder Agreement - Urgency
Three-point Estimation
47. What is the output of the task - Verify Requirements?
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Modeling - Organization Modeling - Data Modeling
Requirements (Verified)
Brainstorming
This person will be involved in monitoring the performance and effectiveness of a solution or its components.
48. The purpose is to measure the performance of solutions - solution components - and other matters of interest to stakeholders.
Underlying Competencies
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Decision Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Metrics & KPIs
Business Goals & Objectives - Requirements (Stated)
49. What is the output of the task Plan Business Analysis Communication?
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving
Business Analysis Communication Plan
Underlying Competencies
Interviews - Lessons Learned Process - Metrics and KPIs - Problem Tracking - Process Modeling - Root Cause Analysis - Survey/Questionnaire - Variance Analysis
50. Name the 2 types of Stakeholder maps.
Stakeholder Concerns
Data Dictionary
Business Need
Stakeholder Matrix - Onion Diagram