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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning
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1. What are the inputs for the task - Define Transitional Requirements?
Goals
Requirements (Stated - Confirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Confirmed)
Organizational Readiness Assessment - Requirements (Stated) - Solution (Deployed) - Solution (Designed)
Evolutionary or Functional Prototype
2. States the business need - identifies key stakeholders and briefly describes the positive impact that meeting the business need will have on those stakeholders.
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Modeling - Organization Modeling - Data Modeling
Scenarios & Use Cases
Vendor Assessment
Problem or Vision Statement
3. What is the output of the task - Determine Solution Approach?
Data Dictionary & Glossary
Elicitation Results
Solution Approach
Reliability - Performance Efficiency - Operability - Security - Compatibility - Maintainability - Transferability
4. What factors guide technique selection?
Requirements Workshop - Structured Walkthrough
Business Case
Problem or Vision Statement
Business Domain - Corporate Culture & Environment - Skills of the Analyst - Requirement Deliverable
5. Issues that may influence the replacement or elimination decision of a system include:
Ongoing Cost versus Initial Investment - Opportunity Costs - Necessity - Sunk Costs
Solution Approach
Ethics
Stakeholder Matrix
6. 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.
Business Case
Confirm Elicitation Results
Requirements Analysis
Requirements (Stated - Unconfirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Unconfirmed)
7. What are the techniques used in the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?
Decision Analysis - Focus Groups - Observation - Survey/Questionnaire
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Problem Tracking - Structured Walkthrough - Checklists
Use Case
General Purpose Applications & Specialized Applications
8. What are the inputs for the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?
Cultural Assessment - Operational or Technical Assessment - Stakeholder Impact Analysis
Use Case
Business Requirements - Identified Defects - Solution Performance Metrics - Solution (Deployed)
To record the conflict in the Requirements Issues Log.
9. 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.
Requirements Structure
Advantages of a Data Dictionary & Glossary
Bottom-up Estimation
Business Case
10. Investigating how a solution is actually used after it is deployed and assessing the effect it has had - both positive and negative.
Evaluate Solution Performance
Industry Knowledge
Data Dictionary & Glossary - Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshops - Survey/Questionnaire
Business Case - Business Need - Requirements - Requirements Management Plan - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
11. What is the output to the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?
Solution Performance Assessment
Advantages of Document Analysis
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Requirements - Requirements Package
Reliability - Performance Efficiency - Operability - Security - Compatibility - Maintainability - Transferability
12. 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.
Decision Analysis - Problem Tacking - Risk Analysis
Organizational Knowledge
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets
Cohesive - Complete - Consistent - Correct - Feasible - Modifiable - Unambiguous - Testable
13. Creates a conceptual model of the work that needs to be completed to deliver the new business solution.
Budgeting
Enterprise Analysis - often the starting point for initiating a new project
Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring
Functional Decomposition
14. What are the techniques used in the task - Communicate Requirements?
General Purpose Applications & Specialized Applications
Solution Scope
Requirements Structure
Requirements Workshop - Structured Walkthrough
15. The goal of this task is to create a set of views of the requirements for the new business solution that are comprehensive - complete - consistent and understood from all stakeholder perspectives.
Organize Requirements
Relationship to Time - Relationship to Task Completion - Relationship to Contracts - Relationships to Formal and Informal Authority
Requirements Structure
Business Case
16. This prototype extends the initial interface requirements into a fully functioning system and requires a specialized prototyping tool or language.
Solution Assessment & Validation
The Sponsor
Evolutionary or Functional Prototype
Data Modeling
17. What are the tasks in the knowledge area - Requirements Analysis?
Business Case
Fishbone Diagram - Five Whys
Requirements Analysis
Prioritize Requirements - Organize Requirements - Specify & Model Requirements - Define Assumptions & Constraints - Verify Requirements - Validate Requirements
18. What are the 3 elements in the Assess Organizational Readiness?
Business Case; Stakeholder - Solution or Transition Requirements (Verified)
Business Analysis Performance Metrics - Business Analysis Plan - Organization Performance Standards - Requirements Management Plan
Cultural Assessment - Operational or Technical Assessment - Stakeholder Impact Analysis
Name - Value/Meanings - Description
19. What are the classifications used to describe requirements
Business Requirements - Stakeholder Requirements - Solution Requirements - Transition Requirements
Relationship to Time - Relationship to Task Completion - Relationship to Contracts - Relationships to Formal and Informal Authority
Share - Enhance - Exploit
Prioritize Requirements - Organize Requirements - Specify & Model Requirements - Define Assumptions & Constraints - Verify Requirements - Validate Requirements
20. What describes how - when and why the business analyst will work with stakeholders?
Visual Learner - Auditory Learner - Kinesthetic Learner
Reliability - Performance Efficiency - Operability - Security - Compatibility - Maintainability - Transferability
The Business Analysis Communication Plan
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Business Rules Analysis - Focus Groups - Functional Decomposition - Root Cause Analysis
21. How is the Operational Support stakeholder utilized in the Evaluate Solution Performance task?
This person will be involved in monitoring the performance and effectiveness of a solution or its components.
Requirements Management Plan
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Modeling - Organization Modeling - Data Modeling
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
22. Understanding of how a change to a component affects the system as a whole - identification of reinforcing and compensating feedback loops - understanding of how systems adapt to external pressures and changes - A system as a whole will have properti
Customer
Systems Thinking
Requirements Management & Communication
Decision Analysis
23. Details user interface requirements and integrates them with other requirements such as use cases - scenarios - data and business rules. Stakeholders often find this to be a concrete means of identifying - describing and validating their interface ne
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements - Requirements Structure
Prototyping
Prepare for Elicitation - Conduct Elicitation Activity - Document Elicitation Results - Confirm Elicitation Results
Horizontal Prototype
24. A specific - actionable - testable directive that is under the control of an organization and supports a business policy.
Observation
Business Rule
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
Relationships - Impact Analysis - Configuration Management System
25. Involved motivating people to act in ways that enable them to work together to achieve shared goals and objectives.
Evaluation
Leadership
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving - Behavioral Characteristics - Business Knowledge - Communication Skills - Interaction Skills - Software Application
Requirements Workshop
26. Defines the key terms and data relevant to a business domain.
Discounted Cash Flow - Net Present Value - Internal Rate of Return - Average Rate of Return - Pay Back Period - Cost-Benefit Analysis
Assumptions & Constraints - Business Need - Solution Scope - Stakeholder Concerns
Implementation SME
Data Dictionary & Glossary
27. What are the inputs to the task - Determine Solution Approach?
Root Cause Analysis
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Required Capabilities
Organization Modeling
Observation
28. 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.
Data - Ongoing Work - Organizational Change
Acceptance Criteria
Structural Rules
Requirements Workshop
29. The purpose is to compile and document successes - opportunities for improvement - failures - and recommendations for improving the performance of future projects or project phases
Requirements (Stated - Confirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Confirmed)
Assumptions & Constraints - Required Capabilities - Solution Approach
Lessons Learned Process
Activity List
30. What are the techniques used in the task - Define Business Case?
Decision Analysis - Estimation - Metrics & KPIs - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Customer
Define Transitional Requirements
Implementation Approach
31. Allocate stakeholder and solution requirements among solution components and releases in order to maximize the possible business value given the options and alternatives generated by the design team.
MoSCoW Analysis
Allocate Requirements
Stakeholder Concerns
Business Rule
32. 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.
Problem Tracking - Baselining - Signoff
Requirements (Stated) - Stakeholder Concerns
Creative Thinking - Decision Making - Learning - Problem Solving - Systems Thinking
Throw-away Prototype
33. What are the techniques used in the task - Validate Requirements?
Required Capabilities
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Metrics & KPIs - Prototyping - Risk Analysis - Structured Walkthrough
Requirements Management & Communication
Decision Analysis - Problem Tacking - Risk Analysis
34. What are the inputs to the task - Validate Solution?
Solution (Constructed) - Requirements (Prioritized and Validated)
Business Need
Requirements Management Plan - Solution Scope - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities - Stakeholder/Solution or Transition Requirements (Communicated or Traced)
Brings them to a Communication on understanding
35. Strengths - Weaknesses - Opportunities - Threats - A valuable tool to quickly analyze various aspects of the current state of the business process undergoing change.
Risk Analysis
Cultural Assessment - Operational or Technical Assessment - Stakeholder Impact Analysis
SWOT Analysis
Scenario
36. What are the inputs to the task - Assess Organizational Readiness?
Name - Value/Meanings - Description
Term and Fact Model
Creative Thinking - Decision Making - Learning - Problem Solving - Systems Thinking
Enterprise Architecture - Solution Scope - Solution (Designed) - Stakeholder Concerns
37. Rules that the organization chooses to enforce as a matter of policy. They are intended to guide the actions of people working within the organization. They may oblige people to take certain actions - prevent people from taking actions - or prescribe
Operative Rules
Acceptance - Transfer - Avoidance - Mitigation
Requirements Analysis
Business Case; Stakeholder - Solution or Transition Requirements (Verified)
38. Approach to decision making that examines and models the possible consequences of different decisions. Make an optimal decision under conditions of uncertainty.
Scenario
They describe what a solution must be capable of doing to meet the needs of one or more stakeholder groups
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets
Decision Analysis
39. Describes all the possible outcomes of an attempt to accomplish a particular goal that the solution will support.
Use Case
Transition Requirements
Business Analysis Process Assets
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Modeling - Organization Modeling - Data Modeling
40. What are the inputs for the task - Prepare Requirements Package?
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements - Requirements Structure
Scenario
Elicitation
Share - Enhance - Exploit
41. This technique shows how information is input - processed - stored and output from a system in a visual representation.
Data Flow Diagrams
Key Performance Indicator (KPI )
Business Analysis Performance Metrics - Business Analysis Plan - Organization Performance Standards - Requirements Management Plan
Requirements (Approved)
42. Knowing the dependencies and relationships between requirements helps when determining the sequence in which requirements are to be addressed. Common relations are:
Formal requirements presentation to stakeholders
Decision Analysis
Necessity - Effort - Subset - Cover - Value
Enterprise Analysis - often the starting point for initiating a new project
43. This knowledge area describes the behaviors - knowledge and other characteristics that support the effective performance of a BA.
Underlying Competencies
Customer
Acceptance Criteria
Assumptions & Constraints - Business Need - Solution Scope - Stakeholder Concerns
44. What are the techniques used in Plan Business Analysis Communication?
Solution Scope
Business Requirements - Stakeholder Requirements - Solution Requirements - Transition Requirements
Key Performance Indicator (KPI )
Structured Walkthrough
45. What are the attributes of a Data Model?
Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution (Designed) - Solution Scope
Discounted Cash Flow - Net Present Value - Internal Rate of Return - Average Rate of Return - Pay Back Period - Cost-Benefit Analysis
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Organizational Process Assets
Name - Value/Meanings - Description
46. What are the techniques used in the task - Define Assumptions & Constraints?
Operative Rules
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Problem Tracking - Structured Walkthrough - Checklists
Assumptions & Constraints - Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution Options
Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis
47. Communication of requirements does what for stakeholders?
Brings them to a Communication on understanding
Name - Value/Meanings - Description
Fishbone Diagram - Five Whys
Throw-away Prototype
48. Documents terms unique to a domain.
Data Dictionary & Glossary
Decision Analysis - Process Modeling - Structured Walkthrough
Requirements Structure
Glossary
49. Confidence in the problem solving process that a selected solution is correct - new solution options can be evaluated effectively using the problem solving framework - selected solutions meet the defined objectives and solve the underlying problem -
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Required Capabilities
Expert Judgment
Problem Solving
Document Analysis
50. Name some commonly used financial valuation techniques.
Discounted Cash Flow - Net Present Value - Internal Rate of Return - Average Rate of Return - Pay Back Period - Cost-Benefit Analysis
Data Flow Diagrams
Elicitation
Requirements (Verified)
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