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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning
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1. A means to elicit requirements by studying available documentation on existing and comparable solutions and identifying relevant information. - Not starting from a blank page.- Leveraging existing materials to discover and/or confirm requirements. -
Automate or Simplify Work - Improve Access to Information - Reduce Complexity of Interfaces - Increase Consistency of Behavior - Eliminate Redundancy
Ongoing Cost versus Initial Investment - Opportunity Costs - Necessity - Sunk Costs
Document Analysis
Organize Requirements
2. Industry Knowledge - Organization Knowledge - Solution Knowledge What are the elements of Business Knowledge?
Prototyping
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
Business Principles & Practices
Scope Modeling
3. Use of a similar project as the basis for developing estimates for the current project. Also known as "top-down" estimating. This is usually done at the beginning of the project or project phase and more detailed estimates follow as more is known.
Cognitive Conflict
Data Dictionary
Throw-away Prototype
Analogous Estimation
4. A specific - actionable - testable directive that is under the control of an organization and supports a business policy.
Business Rule
Assess Proposed Solution - Allocate Requirements - Assess Organizational Readiness - Define Transition Requirements - Validate Solution - Evaluate Solution Performance
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Problem Tracking - Structured Walkthrough - Checklists
Decision Analysis - Problem Tacking - Risk Analysis
5. Issues that may influence the replacement or elimination decision of a system include:
Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis
Ongoing Cost versus Initial Investment - Opportunity Costs - Necessity - Sunk Costs
Stakeholder Matrix
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Required Capabilities
6. Gathering information relevant to a decision - breaking down the information relevant to a decision - making comparisons and tradeoffs between similar and dissimilar options and identifying the option that is most desirable.
Decision Analysis
Requirements (Any Except Stated)
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Business Rules Analysis - Focus Groups - Functional Decomposition - Root Cause Analysis
Assumptions & Constraints
7. What are some of the commonly used requirement attributes?
Functional Decomposition
Absolute Reference - Author - Complexity - Ownership - Priority - Risks - Source - Stability - Status - Urgency
Business Case - Business Need - Requirements - Requirements Management Plan - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Business Analysis Plan
8. What are the Behavioral Characteristics a BA should exhibit?
Cohesive - Complete - Consistent - Correct - Feasible - Modifiable - Unambiguous - Testable
Business Need - Expert Judgment - Organizational Process Assets
Ethics - Trustworthiness - Personal Organization
Sequence Diagrams
9. 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 -
Automate or Simplify Work - Improve Access to Information - Reduce Complexity of Interfaces - Increase Consistency of Behavior - Eliminate Redundancy
Formal requirements presentation to stakeholders
Required Capabilities
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
10. What are the techniques used in the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?
Business Analysis Plan
Decision Analysis - Focus Groups - Observation - Survey/Questionnaire
Timeboxing
Assumptions & Constraints - Required Capabilities - Solution Approach
11. What describes how - when and why the business analyst will work with stakeholders?
The Business Analysis Communication Plan
Specific - Measurable - Achievable - Relevant - Time-bound Objectives must be SMART.
Tracing Requirements
Trustworthiness
12. The purpose of _______________ is to ensure that a stakeholder's actual underlying needs are understood - rather than the their stated or superficial desires.
MoSCoW Analysis
Verify Requirements
Business Case - Business Need - Requirements - Requirements Management Plan - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Elicitation
13. What does SMART stand for?
Specific - Measurable - Achievable - Relevant - Time-bound Objectives must be SMART.
Historic Analysis
Organization Modeling
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Problem Tracking - Root Cause Analysis
14. What are the inputs to the task - Define Business Need?
Assumptions & Constraints - Business Need - Solution Scope - Stakeholder Concerns
Business Goals & Objectives - Requirements (Stated)
Responsible - Accountable - Consulted - Informed
Observation
15. What are the inputs to the task - Define Business Case?
Decision Analysis
Assumptions & Constraints - Business Need - Solution Scope - Stakeholder Concerns
Decision Analysis - Risk Analysis - MoSCoW Analysis - Timeboxing/Budgeting - Voting
Visual Learner - Auditory Learner - Kinesthetic Learner
16. What are the inputs to the task - Define Assumption & Constraints?
Root Cause Analysis
Decision Analysis - Estimation - Metrics & KPIs - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Goals
Stakeholder Concerns
17. 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
Reliability - Performance Efficiency - Operability - Security - Compatibility - Maintainability - Transferability
User Story
Brainstorming
Advantages of Document Analysis
18. 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
Scheduled Resources - Supporting Materials
Focus Group
Structured Walkthrough
19. What are the techniques used in the task - Prioritize Requirements?
Business Analysis Plan
Document Analysis - SWOT Analysis
Decision Analysis - Risk Analysis - MoSCoW Analysis - Timeboxing/Budgeting - Voting
Absolute Reference - Author - Complexity - Ownership - Priority - Risks - Source - Stability - Status - Urgency
20. What are the inputs to the Plan Business Analysis Approach?
Acceptance - Transfer - Avoidance - Mitigation
Onion Diagram
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving - Behavioral Characteristics - Business Knowledge - Communication Skills - Interaction Skills - Software Application
Business Need - Expert Judgment - Organizational Process Assets
21. 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.
Observation
Tracing Requirements
Personal Organization
Implementation SME
22. What are the classifications used to describe requirements
They describe what a solution must be capable of doing to meet the needs of one or more stakeholder groups
Business Requirements - Stakeholder Requirements - Solution Requirements - Transition Requirements
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Requirements - Requirements Package
Name - Aliases - Values/Meanings - Description
23. 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.
Validate Requirements
Identified Defects - Mitigating Actions - Solution Validation Assessment
Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring
Define Business Need - Access Capability Gaps - Determine Solution Approach - Define Solution Scope - Define Business Case
24. 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
Observation
Requirements Structure
Required Capabilities
25. The purpose is to measure the performance of solutions - solution components - and other matters of interest to stakeholders.
Metrics & KPIs
Business Principals
Problem Solving
Responsible - Accountable - Consulted - Informed
26. This prototype seeks to quickly uncover and clarify interface requirements using simple tools - sometimes just paper and pencil. The focus is on functionality that is not easily elicited by other techniques - has conflicting viewpoints - or is diffic
Data Modeling
Evolutionary or Functional Prototype
Requirements Analysis
Throw-away Prototype
27. The minimum set of requirements that must be met in order for a particular solution to be worth implementing.
Assess Proposed Solution - Allocate Requirements - Assess Organizational Readiness - Define Transition Requirements - Validate Solution - Evaluate Solution Performance
Scenarios & Use Cases
Acceptance Criteria
Elicitation Results
28. Long-term - ongoing and qualitative statements of a state or condition that the organization is seeking to establish and maintain.
A statement of the needs of a particular stakeholder or class of stakeholders
Goals
All
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Problem Tracking - Structured Walkthrough - Checklists
29. What are the Composite Data Elements?
Requirements (Stated - Confirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Confirmed)
Functions - Markets - Matrix
Automate or Simplify Work - Improve Access to Information - Reduce Complexity of Interfaces - Increase Consistency of Behavior - Eliminate Redundancy
Sequences - Repetitions - Optional Elements
30. What are the techniques used in Plan Business Analysis Activities?
Estimation - Functional Decomposition - Risk Analysis
Oral Communications - Teaching - Written Communication
Implementation SME
Elicitation Results
31. Define the requirements that must be met in order for a solution to be considered acceptable to key stakeholders.
Solution Performance Assessment
Business Analysis Performance Metrics - Business Analysis Plan - Organization Performance Standards - Requirements Management Plan
Acceptance & Evaluation Technique
Functions - Markets - Matrix
32. 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.
Bottom-up Estimation
Business Analysis Plan
Name - Aliases - Values/Meanings - Description
Facilitation & Negotiation - Leadership & Influencing - Teamwork
33. What are the underlying competencies a BA should possess?
Business Need - Solution Scope & Business Case - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving - Behavioral Characteristics - Business Knowledge - Communication Skills - Interaction Skills - Software Application
Business Domain - Corporate Culture & Environment - Skills of the Analyst - Requirement Deliverable
34. 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.
Data Dictionary
Solution Scope
Three-point Estimation
Validate Solution
35. 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.
Compliance with regulatory or other standards
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Modeling - Organization Modeling - Data Modeling
Cognitive Conflict
Vendor Assessment
36. To identify and manage areas of uncertainty that can impact an initiative - solution - or organization.
Risk Analysis
Assumptions & Constraints - Business Need - Solution Scope - Stakeholder Concerns
Business Domain - Corporate Culture & Environment - Skills of the Analyst - Requirement Deliverable
Name - Aliases - Values/Meanings - Description
37. What is the output to the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?
Decision Analysis
Decision Making
Solution Performance Assessment
Elimination of Dominated Alternative - Ranking Objects on a Similar Scale
38. 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
Data Flow Diagrams
A statement of the needs of a particular stakeholder or class of stakeholders
Decision Making
Interface Analysis
39. 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.
Prototyping
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Solution Performance Assessment
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
Learning
40. Set of requirements that will be used to choose between multiple solutions.
Decision Analysis
Validate Solution
Evaluation Criteria
Requirements Analysis
41. Revised process and templates for BA deliverables should be analyzed and documented and lessons learned should be recorded.
Business Analysis Process Assets
Functional Decomposition - Interface Analysis - Scope Modeling - User Stories - Problem or Vision Statement
Implementation SME
Industry Knowledge
42. This technique shows how information is input - processed - stored and output from a system in a visual representation.
Personal Organization
Allocate Requirements
Stakeholder Matrix - Onion Diagram
Data Flow Diagrams
43. What are the inputs to the task - Determine Solution Approach?
Requirements Workshop
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets
Discounted Cash Flow - Net Present Value - Internal Rate of Return - Average Rate of Return - Pay Back Period - Cost-Benefit Analysis
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Required Capabilities
44. What is the output of the task Prepare for Elicitation?
Customer
Survey/Questionnaire
Scheduled Resources - Supporting Materials
Requirements Structure
45. What are the inputs to the task - Assess Capability Gaps?
Interviews - Lessons Learned Process - Metrics and KPIs - Problem Tracking - Process Modeling - Root Cause Analysis - Survey/Questionnaire - Variance Analysis
Requirements Workshop
Relationships - Impact Analysis - Configuration Management System
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Solution Performance Assessment
46. What are the tasks in the knowledge area - Solution Assessment & Validation?
Term and Fact Model
Decision Analysis - Estimation - Metrics & KPIs - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Assess Proposed Solution - Allocate Requirements - Assess Organizational Readiness - Define Transition Requirements - Validate Solution - Evaluate Solution Performance
Requirements (Stated - Unconfirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Unconfirmed)
47. What are the techniques used in the task - Assess Capability Gaps?
Compliance with regulatory or other standards
Document Analysis - SWOT Analysis
Business Analysis Approach - BA Performance Assessment - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Enterprise Architecture - Solution Scope - Solution (Designed) - Stakeholder Concerns
48. Business rules require a defined glossary of terms and an understanding of the relationships between them - this is known as:
Term and Fact Model
Business Rule
Formal Documentation - Presentation - Model
Survey/Questionnaire
49. What is the output of the task - Maintain Requirements for Re-use?
Name - Aliases - Values/Meanings - Description
General Purpose Applications & Specialized Applications
Requirements (Maintained and Reusable)
Requirements Documentation - Requirements for Vendor Selection
50. 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.
Visual Learner - Auditory Learner - Kinesthetic Learner
Structural Rules
Prioritize Requirements - Organize Requirements - Specify & Model Requirements - Define Assumptions & Constraints - Verify Requirements - Validate Requirements
Requirements (Analyzed)