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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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1. 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.






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






3. 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.






4. What are the techniques used in the task - Define Transition Requirements?






5. A structured way to capture requirements. May be used to scope - discover - define - prioritize and reach closure on requirements for the target system. Considered one of the most effective ways to deliver high quality requirements quickly.






6. What are the inputs to the task - Validate Requirements?






7. What are the strategies for a positive risk?






8. What are the techniques used in the task Confirm Elicitation Results?






9. What are the elements of Communication Skills?






10. What techniques are used in the task - Prepare Requirements Package?






11. What are some of the ways a BA can help to improve the operations of a business? Acceptance and Evaluation Criteria Definition - Business Rules Analysis - Data Dictionary and Glossary - Data Flow Diagrams - Data Modeling - Functional Decomposition -






12. 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.






13. This technique shows how information is input - processed - stored and output from a system in a visual representation.






14. What are some of the commonly used requirement attributes?






15. What techniques are used in the task Prepare for Elicitation?






16. What are the techniques used in the task - Organize Requirements?






17. The knowledge area that covers how BAs determine which activities are necessary in order to complete a business analysis effort.






18. The skill of moderating discussions among a group or enable all participants to effectively articulate their views on a topic under discussion and to further ensure that participants in the discussion are able to recognize and appreciate the differin






19. What is the output of the task - Communicate Requirements?






20. What are the inputs to the task - Specify & Model Requirements?






21. Provides an organized approach to tracking - management - and resolution of defects - issues - problems - and risks throughout business analysis activities. Management of issues is important so that they can be resolved in a timely manner to ensure s






22. What are the techniques used in the task - Validate Solution?






23. Investigating how a solution is actually used after it is deployed and assessing the effect it has had - both positive and negative.






24. What is the output of the task - Assess Proposed Solution?






25. What are the inputs for the task - Maintain Requirements for Re-use?






26. What are the inputs to the task Plan Requirements Management Process?






27. Measures progress towards a strategic goal or objective.






28. What are the elements to the task - Define Business Case?






29. 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






30. What is the output of the task - Allocate Resources?






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






32. 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.






33. An excellent way to foster creative thinking about a problem. The goal is to produce numerous new ideas and to derive themes for further analysis. - Ability to elicit many ideas in a short time period. - - Non-judgmental environment enables creative






34. What are the inputs for the task - Prepare Requirements Package?






35. What are the factors of influence by stakeholders on a project?






36. Documents terms unique to a domain.






37. What is the output of the task Conduct Elicitation Activity?






38. What are the general modeling concepts that are relevant to business analysis?






39. What are the Cultural diversity issues that should be taken into account when planning communication?






40. List 3 possible forms of a requirements packages.






41. Checklist of characteristics to consider when considering non-functional requirements.






42. Communicated Requirements mean what to stakeholders?






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. This knowledge area describes the tasks that are performed in order to ensure that solutions meet the business need and to facilitate successful implementation.






45. This task ensures that requirement specifications and models meet the necessary standard of quality to allow them to be used effectively to guide further work. Requirements have been defined correctly.






46. What are the characteristics of quality for a requirements?






47. 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.






48. What are the inputs to the task - Assess Capability Gaps?






49. What are the techniques used in the task Define Business Need?






50. What are the inputs to the task Manage Solution Scope & Requirements?