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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning
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1. This knowledge area describes how the BA assesses proposed solutions and determines which solution best fits the business need - identifies gaps and shortcomings to solutions and determines necessary workarounds or changes to the solution.
Solution Assessment & Validation
Validate Solution
Delphi Estimation
To record the conflict in the Requirements Issues Log.
2. Maps the level of stakeholder influence and interest in a project.
Risk Analysis
Assess Organization Readiness
Stakeholder Matrix
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Data Modeling - Functional Decomposition - Organizational Modeling - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases - Scope Modeling - User Stories
3. What are the techniques used in the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?
Decision Analysis - Focus Groups - Observation - Survey/Questionnaire
Decision Analysis
Solution (Constructed) - Requirements (Prioritized and Validated)
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Decision Analysis - Vendor Assessment
4. What are the strategies for a positive risk?
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving - Behavioral Characteristics - Business Knowledge - Communication Skills - Interaction Skills - Software Application
Share - Enhance - Exploit
Decision Making
Requirements Analysis
5. According to the BABOK 2.0 - what type of analysis generates STAKEHOLDER requirements?
Requirements Analysis
Influence on the project - organizational - project health and other stakeholders
Systems Thinking
Estimation - Functional Decomposition - Risk Analysis
6. What are the Behavioral Characteristics a BA should exhibit?
Ethics - Trustworthiness - Personal Organization
Vertical Prototype
Acceptance & Evaluation Technique
Estimation - Functional Decomposition - Risk Analysis
7. What is the output of the task Conduct Stakeholder Analysis?
Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Business Case - Business Need - Requirements - Requirements Management Plan - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Decision Analysis - Process Modeling - Structured Walkthrough
Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis
8. Ability to find information - on-time completion of tasks - efficiency in the completion of work - ability to easily identify all outstanding work and the status of each work item.
Trustworthiness
Specific - Measurable - Achievable - Relevant - Time-bound Objectives must be SMART.
Business Analysis Approach
Personal Organization
9. What is the output of the task - Manage Requirements Traceability?
Requirements (Traced)
Glossary
Use Case
Functions - Markets - Matrix
10. Involves assessing a situation - understanding it as fully as possible - and making judgments about possible solutions to the problem.
Confirm Elicitation Results
Analogous Estimation
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving
Impact Analysis
11. What are the elements of the task - Define Solution Scope?
Solution Scope Definition - Implementation Approach - Dependencies
Define Business Need - Access Capability Gaps - Determine Solution Approach - Define Solution Scope - Define Business Case
Throw-away Prototype
Oral Communications - Teaching - Written Communication
12. This prototype extends the initial interface requirements into a fully functioning system and requires a specialized prototyping tool or language.
Facilitation
Organizational Readiness Assessment
Data Dictionary & Glossary - Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshops - Survey/Questionnaire
Evolutionary or Functional Prototype
13. What are the inputs to the task - Validate Solution?
Requirements Structure
Solution (Constructed) - Requirements (Prioritized and Validated)
Description - Raised by - Date Identified - Impact - Priority - Need by Date - Owner - Status - Action Needed to be Resolved - Responsible for Action - Completion Date of Action - Outcome
Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
14. What is the output of the Plan Business Analysis Approach?
Business Analysis Approach
Description - Raised by - Date Identified - Impact - Priority - Need by Date - Owner - Status - Action Needed to be Resolved - Responsible for Action - Completion Date of Action - Outcome
Transition Requirements
Assessment of Proposed Solution
15. This will impose constraints to the effort to deploy the solution - including relationships that may exist between solution components.
Dependencies
Data - Ongoing Work - Organizational Change
To record the conflict in the Requirements Issues Log.
Interviews - Lessons Learned Process - Metrics and KPIs - Problem Tracking - Process Modeling - Root Cause Analysis - Survey/Questionnaire - Variance Analysis
16. Involved motivating people to act in ways that enable them to work together to achieve shared goals and objectives.
Requirements (Prioritized)
Decision Analysis
Brings them to a Communication on understanding
Leadership
17. This knowledge area describes the problem definition and analysis - business case development - feasibility studies and the definition of solution scope.
Enterprise Analysis
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Business Rules Analysis - Decision Analysis - Functional Decomposition - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases
Business Analysis Communication Plan
Plan Business Analysis Approach - Conduct Stakeholder Analysis - Plan Business Analysis Activities - Plan Business Analysis Communication - Plan Requirements Management Process - Manage BA Performance
18. 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
Business Case - Business Need - Requirements - Requirements Management Plan - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Implementation Approach
To record the conflict in the Requirements Issues Log.
19. Who is the primary stakeholder in the Define Business Case task?
Business Analysis Communication Plan
The Sponsor
Cultural Assessment - Operational or Technical Assessment - Stakeholder Impact Analysis
Problem Tracking
20. Are written to describe how an actor interacts with a solution to accomplish one or more of that actor's goals - or to respond to an event.
Scenarios & Use Cases
Key Performance Indicator (KPI )
MoSCoW Analysis
Emotional and Cognitive
21. What are the inputs to the task - Communicate Requirements?
Requirements (Stated) - Stakeholder Concerns
Define Transitional Requirements
Organizational Knowledge
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Requirements - Requirements Package
22. A specific - actionable - testable directive that is under the control of an organization and supports a business policy.
Business Rule
Interviews - Observation
Evaluation
Scenarios & Use Cases
23. Defines what must be delivered in order to meet the business need - and the effect of the proposed change initiation on the business and technology operations and infrastructure.
User Story
Emotional and Cognitive
Solution Scope
Trustworthiness
24. 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
Timeboxing
Scope Modeling
Decision Analysis
Assess Proposed Solution - Allocate Requirements - Assess Organizational Readiness - Define Transition Requirements - Validate Solution - Evaluate Solution Performance
25. What are the general modeling concepts that are relevant to business analysis?
Reliability - Validity - Timeliness
User Classes - Profiles or Roles; Concepts & Relationships - Events - Processes - Rules
Estimation
Prepare Requirements Package
26. Are used to model the logic of usage scenarios - by showing the information passed between objects in the system through the execution of the scenario. Shows how classes and objects interact during a scenario.
They describe what a solution must be capable of doing to meet the needs of one or more stakeholder groups
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
Ethics - Trustworthiness - Personal Organization
Sequence Diagrams
27. What are the Cultural diversity issues that should be taken into account when planning communication?
Relationship to Time - Relationship to Task Completion - Relationship to Contracts - Relationships to Formal and Informal Authority
Compliance with regulatory or other standards
Data Dictionary & Glossary
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements - Requirements Structure
28. What are some examples of stakeholder concerns?
Underlying Competencies
Analogous Estimation
Risk - assumptions - constraints - etc.
Opportunity Cost
29. List 3 possible forms of a requirements packages.
Reliability - Performance Efficiency - Operability - Security - Compatibility - Maintainability - Transferability
Non-functional Requirements Analysis
Systems Thinking
Formal Documentation - Presentation - Model
30. Name the 2 types of Software categories that assist in BA productivity.
Personal Organization
Data Modeling
Enterprise Analysis - often the starting point for initiating a new project
General Purpose Applications & Specialized Applications
31. What are the inputs to the task - Assess Proposed Solution?
Assumptions & Constraints - Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution Options
Enterprise Analysis
Solution Approach
Communicated Requirements
32. What are the inputs for the task Plan Business Analysis Activities?
Throw-away Prototype
Business Analysis Approach - BA Performance Assessment - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
User Classes - Profiles or Roles; Concepts & Relationships - Events - Processes - Rules
Root Cause Analysis
33. What are the techniques used in the task - Define Transition Requirements?
Historic Analysis
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Modeling - Organization Modeling - Data Modeling
Business Requirements - Identified Defects - Solution Performance Metrics - Solution (Deployed)
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements
34. Divides requirements into 4 categories - Must - Should - Could - Won't
Interviews - Lessons Learned Process - Metrics and KPIs - Problem Tracking - Process Modeling - Root Cause Analysis - Survey/Questionnaire - Variance Analysis
Elimination of Dominated Alternative - Ranking Objects on a Similar Scale
Interviews - Observation
MoSCoW Analysis
35. The minimum set of requirements that must be met in order for a particular solution to be worth implementing.
Decision Analysis - Process Modeling - Structured Walkthrough
Data Dictionary & Glossary - Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshops - Survey/Questionnaire
Brainstorming
Acceptance Criteria
36. To define the rules that govern decisions in an organization and that define - constrain or enable organization operations.
Business Rules Analysis
Parametric Estimation
Expert Judgment
Stakeholder Matrix - Onion Diagram
37. What are the tasks in Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring?
Organizational Readiness Assessment
Plan Business Analysis Approach - Conduct Stakeholder Analysis - Plan Business Analysis Activities - Plan Business Analysis Communication - Plan Requirements Management Process - Manage BA Performance
Organizational Readiness Assessment - Requirements (Stated) - Solution (Deployed) - Solution (Designed)
Organizational Knowledge
38. Use of parameters - multiplied by the number of hours. (COCOMO II - Function Point Counting - Use Case Points - and Story Points)
Functional Decomposition
Decision Analysis - Risk Analysis - MoSCoW Analysis - Timeboxing/Budgeting - Voting
Data Dictionary & Glossary - Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshops - Survey/Questionnaire
Parametric Estimation
39. The people involved - the interactions between them - the external forces affecting their behavior and all other relevant elements and factors.
Brainstorming
System
Assumptions & Constraints - Required Capabilities - Solution Approach
Prototyping
40. The purpose of _______________ is to ensure that a stakeholder's actual underlying needs are understood - rather than the their stated or superficial desires.
Structured Walkthrough
Elicitation
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Problem Tracking - Root Cause Analysis
Cohesive - Complete - Consistent - Correct - Feasible - Modifiable - Unambiguous - Testable
41. What are the inputs to the Plan Business Analysis Approach?
Problem or Vision Statement
Reporting
Evaluation Criteria
Business Need - Expert Judgment - Organizational Process Assets
42. 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.
Requirements Analysis
Evaluation
Solution Assessment & Validation
Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring
43. What is the output of the task - Define Business Need?
Share - Enhance - Exploit
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets
Organizational Readiness Assessment
Business Need
44. Two effective trade-off methods.
Solution (Constructed) - Requirements (Prioritized and Validated)
Monitoring
Elimination of Dominated Alternative - Ranking Objects on a Similar Scale
Requirements (Allocated)
45. What are stakeholder requirements?
The Business Analysis Communication Plan
Reliability - Validity - Timeliness
They describe what a solution must be capable of doing to meet the needs of one or more stakeholder groups
Industry Knowledge
46. Ensure that the solution meets the business need and determine the most appropriate response to identified defects.
Advantages of a Data Dictionary & Glossary
Enterprise Architecture - Solution Scope - Solution (Designed) - Stakeholder Concerns
Validate Solution
Business Rules Analysis
47. This knowledge area describes the behaviors - knowledge and other characteristics that support the effective performance of a BA.
Underlying Competencies
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Problem Tracking - Root Cause Analysis
SWOT Analysis
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Decision Analysis - Vendor Assessment
48. When a conflict arises between stakeholders on one or more documented requirements - the first thing that needs to take place is what?
Rolling Wave
To record the conflict in the Requirements Issues Log.
Business Case
General Purpose Applications & Specialized Applications
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 Requirements - Identified Defects - Solution Performance Metrics - Solution (Deployed)
Elimination of Dominated Alternative - Ranking Objects on a Similar Scale
Problem Solving
Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
50. Measures progress towards a strategic goal or objective.
Key Performance Indicator (KPI )
Functions - Markets - Matrix
Impact Analysis - Requirements Coverage - Requirements Allocation
Ongoing Cost versus Initial Investment - Opportunity Costs - Necessity - Sunk Costs