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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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1. 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.






2. What is the output of the task Confirm Elicitation Results?






3. Two techniques used in Root Cause Analysis?






4. To identify interfaces between solutions and/or solution components and define requirements that describe how they will interact.






5. What are the techniques used in the task - Define Business Case?






6. 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.






7. Three key factors when assessing the quality of indicators and their metrics






8. Requires the team to focus on examining the premises - assumptions - observations and expectations of the team members. This type of conflict can have a beneficial effect of strengthening the foundations of the analysis and the solution.






9. What is the output of the task Plan Requirements Management Process?






10. 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.






11. What are the techniques used in Plan Business Analysis Approach?






12. What is a STAKEHOLDER requirement - according to the BABOK 2.0?






13. Documents terms unique to a domain.






14. Organizational culture - Stakeholder preference - complexity - organizational maturity and availability of resources are all factors used to do what?






15. Describes the effect a new solution will have on an organization and whether the organization is prepared for the organizational change the solution implementation will cause.






16. What are the characteristics of Interaction Skills?






17. What are the elements of the task - Define Solution Scope?






18. Long-term - ongoing and qualitative statements of a state or condition that the organization is seeking to establish and maintain.






19. 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.






20. When a conflict arises between stakeholders on one or more documented requirements - the first thing that needs to take place is what?






21. 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.






22. 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.






23. 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






24. What are stakeholder requirements?






25. Define the requirements that must be met in order for a solution to be considered acceptable to key stakeholders.






26. What techniques are used in the task Manage Requirements Traceability?






27. The BA is a stakeholder in ______ business analysis activities.






28. Corrective or preventative measures uncovered while performing a Business Analysis Performance Assessment will result in changes to what plan?






29. What describes how - when and why the business analyst will work with stakeholders?






30. What are some examples of stakeholder concerns?






31. An important tool in defining the scope of work and developing estimates. Decomposes the project scope into smaller and smaller pieces - creating a hierarchy of work.






32. What are the techniques used in the task - Communicate Requirements?






33. What are the attributes of a Data Model?






34. What is the output of the Plan Business Analysis Approach?






35. 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.






36. What are the inputs to the task Manage Requirements Traceability?






37. Models a shallow - and possibly wide view of the system's functionality. It typically does not have any business logic running behind the visualization.






38. What is the output of the task - Manage Requirements Traceability?






39. 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.






40. 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.






41. What are the characteristics of a Problem Record?






42. A package should contain a consistent - cohesive and coherent set of requirements. This describes the ____________.






43. 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.






44. Means of eliciting information from many people - sometimes anonymously - in a relatively short period of time






45. What are the Composite Data Elements?






46. What are the inputs to the task Conduct Elicitation Activity?






47. What are the inputs to the task - Define Business Case?






48. 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 -






49. Prioritizes requirements based on a allocated fixed amount of money.






50. What are the inputs for the task - Define Transitional Requirements?