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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning
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1. What are the Composite Data Elements?
The Sponsor
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Problem Tracking - Root Cause Analysis
Use Case
Sequences - Repetitions - Optional Elements
2. 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
Survey/Questionnaire
Organize Requirements
Requirements Analysis
Decision Making
3. What are the inputs of the task Plan Business Analysis Communication?
Name - Value/Meanings - Description
Industry Knowledge
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Verify Requirements
4. 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.
Trustworthiness
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Metrics & KPIs - Prototyping - Risk Analysis - Structured Walkthrough
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
Define Business Need - Access Capability Gaps - Determine Solution Approach - Define Solution Scope - Define Business Case
5. What are the inputs to the task Manage Requirements Traceability?
Requirements Workshop
Requirements - Requirements Management Plan
Requirements Documentation - Requirements for Vendor Selection
Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
6. What are the classifications used to describe requirements
Compliance with regulatory or other standards
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Solution Performance Assessment
Business Requirements - Stakeholder Requirements - Solution Requirements - Transition Requirements
Acceptance & Evaluation Technique
7. What is the output of the task - Verify Requirements?
All
Stakeholder Concerns
Requirements (Verified)
Elicitation
8. 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.
Formal Documentation - Presentation - Model
Requirements Workshop
Risk - assumptions - constraints - etc.
Validate Requirements
9. What are the inputs to the task - Organize Requirements?
Business Case; Stakeholder - Solution or Transition Requirements (Verified)
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements (Stated) - Solution Scope
State Diagrams
10. What are the inputs to the task Manage Solution Scope & Requirements?
Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring
Requirements Management Plan - Solution Scope - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities - Stakeholder/Solution or Transition Requirements (Communicated or Traced)
Enterprise Analysis
The Sponsor
11. Strengths - Weaknesses - Opportunities - Threats - A valuable tool to quickly analyze various aspects of the current state of the business process undergoing change.
Ethics - Trustworthiness - Personal Organization
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements - Requirements Structure
SWOT Analysis
Elimination
12. What is the output to the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?
Assess Proposed Solution - Allocate Requirements - Assess Organizational Readiness - Define Transition Requirements - Validate Solution - Evaluate Solution Performance
Data Dictionary
Evaluate Solution Performance
Solution Performance Assessment
13. 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
Business Analysis Plan
Data Modeling
Cultural Assessment - Operational or Technical Assessment - Stakeholder Impact Analysis
Advantages of Document Analysis
14. This knowledge area involves analyzing stakeholder needs to define solutions that meet those needs - assessing the current state of the business to identify and recommend improvements and the verification and validation of the resulting requirements.
Solution Assessment & Validation
Use Case
Requirements Analysis
Assumptions & Constraints - Business Need - Solution Scope - Stakeholder Concerns
15. What are the techniques used in the task - Assess Capability Gaps?
Requirements Workshop - Structured Walkthrough
Business Case
Document Analysis - SWOT Analysis
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Problem Tracking - Root Cause Analysis
16. What is the output of the task - Organize Requirements?
Requirements Structure
Reporting
Primary stakeholders in the Organize Requirements task
Interface Analysis
17. What techniques are used in the task Prepare for Elicitation?
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Decision Analysis
Data Flow Diagrams
Business Need
18. 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
Impact Analysis
Timeboxing
Requirements Package
Organization Modeling
19. 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.
Underlying Competencies
Organizational Readiness Assessment - Requirements (Stated) - Solution (Deployed) - Solution (Designed)
Bottom-up Estimation
Reliability - Performance Efficiency - Operability - Security - Compatibility - Maintainability - Transferability
20. The objective of this technique is to determine how companies achieve their superior performance levels and use that information to design projects to improve operations of the enterprise.
Business Analysis Process Assets
Benchmarking
Risk - assumptions - constraints - etc.
Solution Performance Assessment
21. 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
Scope Modeling
Business Analysis Communication Plan
Advantages of Document Analysis
Solution Assessment & Validation
22. 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.
Assumptions & Constraints - Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution Options
Structural Rules
Leadership
Prototyping
23. Includes the standard definition of data elements - their meanings and allowable values.
Data Dictionary
Sequence Diagrams
Name - Value/Meanings - Description
Absolute Reference - Author - Complexity - Ownership - Priority - Risks - Source - Stability - Status - Urgency
24. What is the output of the task Conduct Elicitation Activity?
Business Analysis Plan
Elicitation
Business Need - Solution Scope & Business Case - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Elicitation Results
25. Define requirements for capabilities needed to move from an existing solution to a new solution.
Define Transitional Requirements
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets
Dependencies
Business Analysis Performance Metrics - Business Analysis Plan - Organization Performance Standards - Requirements Management Plan
26. Measures progress towards a strategic goal or objective.
Risk - assumptions - constraints - etc.
Key Performance Indicator (KPI )
Business Rule
Business Analysis Approach - BA Performance Assessment - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
27. 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
Vertical Prototype
Scope Modeling
Elicitation
Requirements Structure
28. Characteristics that are common to all organizations with a similar purpose and structure - whether or not the are in the same industry.
Business Requirements - Stakeholder Requirements - Solution Requirements - Transition Requirements
Business Principals
Business Case
Cultural Assessment - Operational or Technical Assessment - Stakeholder Impact Analysis
29. What are the techniques used in the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?
Enterprise Analysis - often the starting point for initiating a new project
Business Principals
Requirements (Allocated)
Decision Analysis - Focus Groups - Observation - Survey/Questionnaire
30. Familiarity with the range of commercially available solutions or suppliers can assist with the identification of possible alternatives.
Unique Number - Activity Description - Assumptions - Dependencies - Milestones
Business Case
Solution Knowledge
Define Business Need - Access Capability Gaps - Determine Solution Approach - Define Solution Scope - Define Business Case
31. What are the tasks for the knowledge area - Requirements Management & Communication?
Manage Solution Scope & Requirements - Manage Requirements Traceability - Maintain Requirements for Re-use - Prepare Requirements Package - Communicate Requirements
Relationships - Impact Analysis - Configuration Management System
Structured Walkthrough
The Business Analysis Communication Plan
32. What is the output of the Plan Business Analysis Approach?
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Problem Tracking - Root Cause Analysis
Business Analysis Approach
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Organizational Process Assets
To record the conflict in the Requirements Issues Log.
33. What are the tasks in Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring?
Business Case; Stakeholder - Solution or Transition Requirements (Verified)
Plan Business Analysis Approach - Conduct Stakeholder Analysis - Plan Business Analysis Activities - Plan Business Analysis Communication - Plan Requirements Management Process - Manage BA Performance
Business Rules Analysis
Facilitation & Negotiation - Leadership & Influencing - Teamwork
34. What are the inputs for the task Confirm Elicitation Results?
Requirements (Validated)
Acceptance - Transfer - Avoidance - Mitigation
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Data Modeling - Functional Decomposition - Organizational Modeling - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases - Scope Modeling - User Stories
Requirements (Stated - Unconfirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Unconfirmed)
35. 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.
Evaluation
Primary stakeholders in the Organize Requirements task
Prototyping
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Decision Analysis - Vendor Assessment
36. 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.
Trustworthiness
Industry Knowledge
Assumptions & Constraints - Required Capabilities - Solution Approach
Scope Modeling
37. What are the tasks in the knowledge area - Requirements Analysis?
Oral Communications - Teaching - Written Communication
Prioritize Requirements - Organize Requirements - Specify & Model Requirements - Define Assumptions & Constraints - Verify Requirements - Validate Requirements
Prepare for Elicitation - Conduct Elicitation Activity - Document Elicitation Results - Confirm Elicitation Results
Conduct Elicitation Activity
38. What are the inputs to the task - Assess Capability Gaps?
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Solution Performance Assessment
Document Analysis - SWOT Analysis
Business Rule
Assumptions & Constraints
39. What are the inputs to the task Conduct Stakeholder Analysis?
Enterprise Architecture - Solution Scope - Solution (Designed) - Stakeholder Concerns
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements - Requirements Structure
Visual Learner - Auditory Learner - Kinesthetic Learner
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Organizational Process Assets
40. The purpose is to describe the required qualities of a system - such as its usability and performance characteristics.
Non-functional Requirements Analysis
Cognitive Conflict
Sequence Diagrams
Requirements Structure
41. This knowledge area describes the behaviors - knowledge and other characteristics that support the effective performance of a BA.
Underlying Competencies
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets
Organizational Knowledge
Confirm Elicitation Results
42. Two types of conflict.
Confirm Elicitation Results
Requirements - Requirements Management Plan
Clear - Relevant - Economical - Adequate - Quantifiable
Emotional and Cognitive
43. Issues that may influence the replacement or elimination decision of a system include:
Decision Analysis - Problem Tacking - Risk Analysis
Requirements Management Plan - Solution Scope - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities - Stakeholder/Solution or Transition Requirements (Communicated or Traced)
Dependencies
Ongoing Cost versus Initial Investment - Opportunity Costs - Necessity - Sunk Costs
44. 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.
Data Modeling
Expert Judgment
Vendor Assessment
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
45. A good indicator has 5 characteristics:
Clear - Relevant - Economical - Adequate - Quantifiable
Business Goals & Objectives - Requirements (Stated)
Requirements (Analyzed)
Solution Assessment & Validation
46. What are stakeholder requirements?
They describe what a solution must be capable of doing to meet the needs of one or more stakeholder groups
Impact Analysis
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Decision Analysis - Vendor Assessment
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
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Problem Tracking - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Confirm Elicitation Results
Structured Walkthrough
Functional Decomposition
48. What are the inputs to the task Plan Requirements Management Process?
Benchmarking
Vertical Prototype
Estimation - Functional Decomposition - Risk Analysis
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets
49. What are the output(s) of the task - Validate Solution?
Identified Defects - Mitigating Actions - Solution Validation Assessment
To record the conflict in the Requirements Issues Log.
Ongoing Cost versus Initial Investment - Opportunity Costs - Necessity - Sunk Costs
Organizational Readiness Assessment - Requirements (Stated) - Solution (Deployed) - Solution (Designed)
50. This knowledge area describes the tasks that are performed in order to ensure that solutions meet the business need and to facilitate successful implementation.
Solution Assessment & Validation
Coverage Matrix - Table or spreadsheet used to manage tracing.
Data - Ongoing Work - Organizational Change
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