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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

Subjects : certifications, business-skills

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1. 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.
Cohesive - Complete - Consistent - Correct - Feasible - Modifiable - Unambiguous - Testable
Implementation Approach
Business Case - Business Need - Requirements - Requirements Management Plan - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities

2. 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
This person will be involved in monitoring the performance and effectiveness of a solution or its components.
Timeboxing
Root Cause Analysis
Brainstorming

3. What techniques are used in the task - Define Solution Scope?
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements - Requirements Structure
Functional Decomposition - Interface Analysis - Scope Modeling - User Stories - Problem or Vision Statement
Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring
Analogous Estimation

4. Long-term - ongoing and qualitative statements of a state or condition that the organization is seeking to establish and maintain.
Industry Knowledge
Assess Proposed Solution - Allocate Requirements - Assess Organizational Readiness - Define Transition Requirements - Validate Solution - Evaluate Solution Performance
Goals
Perform tailoring exercises

5. What are the characteristics of Interaction Skills?
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Modeling - Organization Modeling - Data Modeling
Systems Thinking
Document Elicitation Results task
Facilitation & Negotiation - Leadership & Influencing - Teamwork

6. What are stakeholder requirements?
The Business Analysis Communication Plan
Data Dictionary & Glossary - Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshops - Survey/Questionnaire
They describe what a solution must be capable of doing to meet the needs of one or more stakeholder groups
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Problem Tracking - Root Cause Analysis

7. 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
Interviews
Survey/Questionnaire
Confirm Elicitation Results
Unique Number - Activity Description - Assumptions - Dependencies - Milestones

8. To define the rules that govern decisions in an organization and that define - constrain or enable organization operations.
Evaluate Solution Performance
Name - Value/Meanings - Description
Business Rules Analysis
Required Capabilities

9. Involves assessing a situation - understanding it as fully as possible - and making judgments about possible solutions to the problem.
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving
Advantages of Document Analysis
Elimination
Business Analysis Plan

10. To identify and manage areas of uncertainty that can impact an initiative - solution - or organization.
Requirements Structure
Business Need - Expert Judgment - Organizational Process Assets
Risk Analysis
Assess Proposed Solution - Allocate Requirements - Assess Organizational Readiness - Define Transition Requirements - Validate Solution - Evaluate Solution Performance

11. 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.
Organizational Readiness Assessment - Requirements (Stated) - Solution (Deployed) - Solution (Designed)
Observation
Perform tailoring exercises
They describe what a solution must be capable of doing to meet the needs of one or more stakeholder groups

12. What are the elements of the task - Define Solution Scope?
Solution Approach
Enterprise Analysis - often the starting point for initiating a new project
Solution Scope Definition - Implementation Approach - Dependencies
Budgeting

13. 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
Data Dictionary
User Story
Cultural Assessment - Operational or Technical Assessment - Stakeholder Impact Analysis

14. What is the output of the task - Specify & Model Requirements?
Organizational Readiness Assessment
Elimination
Requirements (Analyzed)
Business Requirements - Identified Defects - Solution Performance Metrics - Solution (Deployed)

15. What does SMART stand for?
Survey/Questionnaire
Evaluation
Specific - Measurable - Achievable - Relevant - Time-bound Objectives must be SMART.
Structural Rules

16. What are the elements to the task - Define Business Case?
Stakeholder Matrix - Onion Diagram
Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution (Designed) - Solution Scope
Benefits - Costs - Risk Assessment - Results Measurement
Requirements Management & Communication

17. 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
Acceptance & Evaluation Technique
Solution Assessment & Validation
Name - Aliases - Values/Meanings - Description

18. What are the inputs to the task - Define Assumption & Constraints?
Historic Analysis
Stakeholder Concerns
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements
Onion Diagram

19. Elements identified for each activity and task.
Impact Analysis - Requirements Coverage - Requirements Allocation
Unique Number - Activity Description - Assumptions - Dependencies - Milestones
Cohesive - Complete - Consistent - Correct - Feasible - Modifiable - Unambiguous - Testable
Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution (Designed) - Solution Scope

20. The people involved - the interactions between them - the external forces affecting their behavior and all other relevant elements and factors.
Requirements (Allocated)
System
SWOT Analysis
Business Domain - Corporate Culture & Environment - Skills of the Analyst - Requirement Deliverable

21. 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.
Historic Analysis
Elicitation Results
Requirements (Stated - Confirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Confirmed)
Cohesive - Complete - Consistent - Correct - Feasible - Modifiable - Unambiguous - Testable

22. Revised process and templates for BA deliverables should be analyzed and documented and lessons learned should be recorded.
Business Analysis Process Assets
Cognitive Conflict
Impact Analysis
Interviews - Lessons Learned Process - Metrics and KPIs - Problem Tracking - Process Modeling - Root Cause Analysis - Survey/Questionnaire - Variance Analysis

23. What is the output of the task - Organize Requirements?
Implementation SME
Requirements Structure
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Business Rules Analysis - Decision Analysis - Functional Decomposition - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases
Business Analysis Approach

24. 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
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Problem or Vision Statement
Absolute Reference - Author - Complexity - Ownership - Priority - Risks - Source - Stability - Status - Urgency

25. Business rules require a defined glossary of terms and an understanding of the relationships between them - this is known as:
Non-functional Requirements Analysis
Vertical Prototype
Term and Fact Model
They describe what a solution must be capable of doing to meet the needs of one or more stakeholder groups

26. What are the inputs to the task - Organize Requirements?
Business Rule
Data Dictionary & Glossary
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements (Stated) - Solution Scope
The Business Analysis Communication Plan

27. What are the techniques used in the task - Validate Solution?
Decision Analysis - Risk Analysis - MoSCoW Analysis - Timeboxing/Budgeting - Voting
Reporting
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Problem Tracking - Root Cause Analysis
Manage Solution Scope & Requirements - Manage Requirements Traceability - Maintain Requirements for Re-use - Prepare Requirements Package - Communicate Requirements

28. Creates a conceptual model of the work that needs to be completed to deliver the new business solution.
Compliance with regulatory or other standards
Functional Decomposition
Evaluation Criteria
Relationships - Impact Analysis - Configuration Management System

29. What are some examples of stakeholder concerns?
Functions - Markets - Matrix
Interviews - Lessons Learned Process - Metrics and KPIs - Problem Tracking - Process Modeling - Root Cause Analysis - Survey/Questionnaire - Variance Analysis
Risk - assumptions - constraints - etc.
Data Dictionary

30. Understanding of the competitive forces that shape an industry - understand the various customer segments that the industry services and the demographic or other characteristics common to that segment.
Industry Knowledge
User Classes - Profiles or Roles; Concepts & Relationships - Events - Processes - Rules
Solution Knowledge
Interviews - Observation

31. What are some of the commonly used requirement attributes?
Business Value - Business or Technical Risk - Implementation Difficulty - Likelihood of Success - Regulatory or Policy Compliance - Relationship to Other Requirements - Stakeholder Agreement - Urgency
Absolute Reference - Author - Complexity - Ownership - Priority - Risks - Source - Stability - Status - Urgency
Acceptance & Evaluation Technique
System

32. What are the techniques used in the task Conduct Elicitation Activity?
Data Dictionary
Reliability - Performance Efficiency - Operability - Security - Compatibility - Maintainability - Transferability
Data Dictionary & Glossary - Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshops - Survey/Questionnaire
Metrics & KPIs

33. 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.
Risk - assumptions - constraints - etc.
Requirements (Any Except Stated)
Creative Thinking - Decision Making - Learning - Problem Solving - Systems Thinking
Structured Walkthrough

34. While eliciting requirements it is important to guard against scope creep - This activity will ensure that the requirements should be included since they meet the business goal/objectives.
Goals
Tracing Requirements
Functional Decomposition
Requirements (Traced)

35. What is the output of the task - Communicate Requirements?
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Organizational Process Assets
Elicitation Results
Communicated Requirements
Requirements (Stated - Confirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Confirmed)

36. What are the tasks in the knowledge area - Solution Assessment & Validation?
Assess Proposed Solution - Allocate Requirements - Assess Organizational Readiness - Define Transition Requirements - Validate Solution - Evaluate Solution Performance
Necessity - Effort - Subset - Cover - Value
Requirements Documentation - Requirements for Vendor Selection
Organize Requirements

37. Performed to communicate - verify and validate requirements. Is a working session where invited participants review and discuss a set of requirements
Structured Walkthrough
Identified Defects - Mitigating Actions - Solution Validation Assessment
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Requirements - Requirements Package
Functions - Markets - Matrix

38. What are the inputs for the task - Prepare Requirements Package?
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Organizational Process Assets
Conduct Elicitation Activity
Requirements (Stated - Confirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Confirmed)
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements - Requirements Structure

39. What are the inputs to the task - Prioritize Requirements?
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements (Stated) - Solution Scope
Interviews - Lessons Learned Process - Metrics and KPIs - Problem Tracking - Process Modeling - Root Cause Analysis - Survey/Questionnaire - Variance Analysis
Historic Analysis
Business Case - Business Need - Requirements - Requirements Management Plan - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities

40. What is the output of the task - Allocate Resources?
Requirements (Allocated)
A statement of the needs of a particular stakeholder or class of stakeholders
Responsible - Accountable - Consulted - Informed
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Required Capabilities

41. What are the techniques used in the task - Define Assumptions & Constraints?
Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis
Risk - assumptions - constraints - etc.
Key Performance Indicator (KPI )
Unique Number - Activity Description - Assumptions - Dependencies - Milestones

42. What is the output of the task - Define Transition Requirements?
Requirements (Validated)
Transition Requirements
Underlying Competencies
Requirements Management & Communication

43. What are the inputs for the task Confirm Elicitation Results?
Requirements (Stated - Unconfirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Unconfirmed)
Facilitation
Benefits - Costs - Risk Assessment - Results Measurement
Business Rules Analysis

44. States the business need - identifies key stakeholders and briefly describes the positive impact that meeting the business need will have on those stakeholders.
Problem or Vision Statement
Clear - Relevant - Economical - Adequate - Quantifiable
Data - Ongoing Work - Organizational Change
Root Cause Analysis

45. What are the inputs to the task Manage Requirements Traceability?
Absolute Reference - Author - Complexity - Ownership - Priority - Risks - Source - Stability - Status - Urgency
Requirements (Stated - Unconfirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Unconfirmed)
Requirements - Requirements Management Plan
Glossary

46. Two effective trade-off methods.
Analogous Estimation
Elimination of Dominated Alternative - Ranking Objects on a Similar Scale
Validate Requirements
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Decision Analysis - Estimation - SWOT Analysis - Feasibility Analysis

47. The purpose is to measure the performance of solutions - solution components - and other matters of interest to stakeholders.
Data Dictionary
Benefits - Costs - Risk Assessment - Results Measurement
Requirements Workshop
Metrics & KPIs

48. 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.
Risk Analysis
Analogous Estimation
Underlying Competencies
Solution Scope

49. List 3 possible forms of a requirements packages.
Primary stakeholders in the Organize Requirements task
Enterprise Analysis
Formal Documentation - Presentation - Model
Acceptance - Transfer - Avoidance - Mitigation

50. What are the techniques used in Plan Business Analysis Activities?
Assumptions & Constraints
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving - Behavioral Characteristics - Business Knowledge - Communication Skills - Interaction Skills - Software Application
Estimation - Functional Decomposition - Risk Analysis
Risk - assumptions - constraints - etc.