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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning
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1. 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.
Requirements (Stated) - Requirements Structure
Scenarios & Use Cases
Three-point Estimation
Business Rules Analysis
2. 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.
Benchmarking
That they understand them and the current state the requirements are in
The Business Analysis Communication Plan
Customer
3. According to the BABOK 2.0 - what type of analysis generates STAKEHOLDER requirements?
Monitoring
Solution Scope Definition - Implementation Approach - Dependencies
Strengths - Weaknesses
Requirements Analysis
4. What are the techniques used in the task Document Elicitation Results?
Requirements (Maintained and Reusable)
Relationships - Impact Analysis - Configuration Management System
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Problem Tracking - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Requirements (Stated) - Stakeholder Concerns
5. What are the techniques used in Plan Business Analysis Communication?
Business Principals
Structured Walkthrough
Lessons Learned Process
Elicitation Results
6. A means to elicit ideas and attitudes about a specific product - service or opportunity in an interactive group environment. The participants share their impressions - preferences and needs - guided by a moderator. - Effective for learning people's a
Business Analysis Plan
That they understand them and the current state the requirements are in
Focus Group
Facilitation
7. Organizational culture - Stakeholder preference - complexity - organizational maturity and availability of resources are all factors used to do what?
Non-functional Requirements Analysis
Metrics & KPIs
Perform tailoring exercises
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Business Rules Analysis - Decision Analysis - Functional Decomposition - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases
8. 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.
Requirements Package
Requirements Analysis
Tracing Requirements
General Purpose Applications & Specialized Applications
9. Divides requirements into 4 categories - Must - Should - Could - Won't
Key Performance Indicator (KPI )
Document Elicitation Results task
MoSCoW Analysis
Estimation - Functional Decomposition - Risk Analysis
10. A requirement that does not deliver direct or indirect value to a stakeholder is a strong candidate for what?
Name - Aliases - Values/Meanings - Description
Elimination
Absolute Reference - Author - Complexity - Ownership - Priority - Risks - Source - Stability - Status - Urgency
Solution Scope Definition - Implementation Approach - Dependencies
11. What is the output of the task - Define Assumptions & Constraints?
Assumptions & Constraints
Analogous Estimation
Strengths - Weaknesses
Formal requirements presentation to stakeholders
12. What are the techniques used in the task Conduct Elicitation Activity?
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Models - Focus Groups - Interviews - Survey/Questionnaire - Organizational Modeling - Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Force Field Analysis
Cohesive - Complete - Consistent - Correct - Feasible - Modifiable - Unambiguous - Testable
Data Dictionary & Glossary - Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshops - Survey/Questionnaire
Leadership
13. What is the output of the task - Allocate Resources?
Requirements (Allocated)
Interviews
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
Dependencies
14. What is the output of the task - Determine Solution Approach?
A statement of the needs of a particular stakeholder or class of stakeholders
Requirements (Allocated)
Solution Approach
Customer
15. Stakeholders involved the BA in decision making - acceptance of the BA's recommendations - willingness to discuss difficult or controversial topics with the BA - stakeholders willing to support or defend the BA when problems occur.
Requirements Management Plan - Solution Scope - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities - Stakeholder/Solution or Transition Requirements (Communicated or Traced)
Scope Modeling
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Business Rules Analysis - Decision Analysis - Functional Decomposition - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases
Trustworthiness
16. Involved motivating people to act in ways that enable them to work together to achieve shared goals and objectives.
Requirements Analysis
Leadership
Manage Solution Scope & Requirements - Manage Requirements Traceability - Maintain Requirements for Re-use - Prepare Requirements Package - Communicate Requirements
Organizational Readiness Assessment
17. This knowledge area describes the tasks that are performed in order to ensure that solutions meet the business need and to facilitate successful implementation.
Transition Requirements
Facilitation
Brainstorming
Solution Assessment & Validation
18. What is the output of the task - Verify Requirements?
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Decision Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Assumptions & Constraints - Required Capabilities - Solution Approach
Business Goals & Objectives - Requirements (Stated)
Requirements (Verified)
19. What are the elements of the task Plan Requirements Management Process?
Data Modeling
Repository - Traceability - Requirement Attributes - Prioritization Process - Change Management - Tailoring the Requirements Management Process
Throw-away Prototype
Evaluation Criteria
20. What are the techniques used in the task Confirm Elicitation Results?
Interviews - Observation
Requirements (Analyzed)
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
Goals
21. Domain SME - End User - Implementation SME - and Sponsor: They Affected by analysis techniques used to organize requirements since they need to verify and validate the requirements.
Prioritize Requirements - Organize Requirements - Specify & Model Requirements - Define Assumptions & Constraints - Verify Requirements - Validate Requirements
Leadership
Solution Scope Definition - Implementation Approach - Dependencies
Primary stakeholders in the Organize Requirements task
22. Details user interface requirements and integrates them with other requirements such as use cases - scenarios - data and business rules. Stakeholders often find this to be a concrete means of identifying - describing and validating their interface ne
Glossary
Functional Decomposition - Interface Analysis - Scope Modeling - User Stories - Problem or Vision Statement
Advantages of Document Analysis
Prototyping
23. What is the output of the task - Maintain Requirements for Re-use?
Requirements (Maintained and Reusable)
Absolute Reference - Author - Complexity - Ownership - Priority - Risks - Source - Stability - Status - Urgency
Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Opportunity Cost
24. 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.
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
Impact Analysis
Data Modeling
Rolling Wave
25. Includes the standard definition of data elements - their meanings and allowable values.
Horizontal Prototype
Data Dictionary
Business Rule
Risk Analysis
26. Familiarity with the range of commercially available solutions or suppliers can assist with the identification of possible alternatives.
Interviews - Lessons Learned Process - Metrics and KPIs - Problem Tracking - Process Modeling - Root Cause Analysis - Survey/Questionnaire - Variance Analysis
Solution Knowledge
Delphi Estimation
Key Performance Indicator (KPI )
27. What techniques are used in the task Prepare for Elicitation?
Assessment of Proposed Solution
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Business Goals & Objectives - Requirements (Stated)
Decision Analysis - Focus Groups - Observation - Survey/Questionnaire
28. Two techniques used in Root Cause Analysis?
Business Analysis Communication Plan
Business Case - Business Need - Requirements - Requirements Management Plan - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Facilitation
Fishbone Diagram - Five Whys
29. What is the output of the task Plan Business Analysis Communication?
Business Analysis Communication Plan
Define Business Case
Onion Diagram
Oral Communications - Teaching - Written Communication
30. What is the output of the task - Prioritize Requirements?
Allocate Requirements
Requirements (Analyzed)
Sequences - Repetitions - Optional Elements
Requirements (Prioritized)
31. What are stakeholder requirements?
Unique Number - Activity Description - Assumptions - Dependencies - Milestones
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Data Modeling - Functional Decomposition - Organizational Modeling - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases - Scope Modeling - User Stories
They describe what a solution must be capable of doing to meet the needs of one or more stakeholder groups
Prototyping
32. What factors guide technique selection?
Business Domain - Corporate Culture & Environment - Skills of the Analyst - Requirement Deliverable
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving - Behavioral Characteristics - Business Knowledge - Communication Skills - Interaction Skills - Software Application
Sequences - Repetitions - Optional Elements
Benchmarking
33. What is the output of the task Document Elicitation Results?
Define Business Need - Access Capability Gaps - Determine Solution Approach - Define Solution Scope - Define Business Case
Unique Number - Activity Description - Assumptions - Dependencies - Milestones
Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis
Requirements (Stated) - Stakeholder Concerns
34. What are the elements of the task - Define Solution Scope?
Solution Scope Definition - Implementation Approach - Dependencies
Data Dictionary & Glossary - Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshops - Survey/Questionnaire
Non-functional Requirements Analysis
Requirements (Stated) - Requirements Structure
35. Elements identified for each activity and task.
Define Transitional Requirements
Cultural Assessment - Operational or Technical Assessment - Stakeholder Impact Analysis
Unique Number - Activity Description - Assumptions - Dependencies - Milestones
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
36. Long-term - ongoing and qualitative statements of a state or condition that the organization is seeking to establish and maintain.
Scope Modeling
Visual Learner - Auditory Learner - Kinesthetic Learner
Goals
This person will be involved in monitoring the performance and effectiveness of a solution or its components.
37. 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
Scope Modeling
Decision Analysis - Focus Groups - Observation - Survey/Questionnaire
Structural Rules
Stakeholder Matrix - Onion Diagram
38. What are the elements to the task - Define Business Case?
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Business Rules Analysis - Focus Groups - Functional Decomposition - Root Cause Analysis
Key Performance Indicator (KPI )
Benefits - Costs - Risk Assessment - Results Measurement
Personal Organization
39. What are the tasks for the knowledge area - Requirements Management & Communication?
Visual Learner - Auditory Learner - Kinesthetic Learner
Requirements Structure
Cognitive Conflict
Manage Solution Scope & Requirements - Manage Requirements Traceability - Maintain Requirements for Re-use - Prepare Requirements Package - Communicate Requirements
40. What should be considered when establishing a Change Management process?
Determine the Process - Who will Authorize Changes - Impact Analysis - Wording of the Request - Coordinate Prioritization of Change
Requirements Workshop - Structured Walkthrough
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Metrics & KPIs - Prototyping - Risk Analysis - Structured Walkthrough
Reliability - Performance Efficiency - Operability - Security - Compatibility - Maintainability - Transferability
41. Rules that the organization chooses to enforce as a matter of policy. They are intended to guide the actions of people working within the organization. They may oblige people to take certain actions - prevent people from taking actions - or prescribe
Operative Rules
Business Analysis Process Assets
Business Analysis Plan
Reliability - Validity - Timeliness
42. Define requirements for capabilities needed to move from an existing solution to a new solution.
Repository - Traceability - Requirement Attributes - Prioritization Process - Change Management - Tailoring the Requirements Management Process
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Problem Tracking - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Stakeholder Concerns
Define Transitional Requirements
43. What are the general modeling concepts that are relevant to business analysis?
System
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Requirements - Requirements Package
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
User Classes - Profiles or Roles; Concepts & Relationships - Events - Processes - Rules
44. This knowledge area describes the problem definition and analysis - business case development - feasibility studies and the definition of solution scope.
Decision Analysis
Enterprise Analysis
Enterprise Architecture - Solution Scope - Solution (Designed) - Stakeholder Concerns
Requirements (Stated - Unconfirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Unconfirmed)
45. The purpose is to describe the required qualities of a system - such as its usability and performance characteristics.
Define Transitional Requirements
Assess Organization Readiness
Non-functional Requirements Analysis
Functions - Markets - Matrix
46. What is the output of the task Prepare for Elicitation?
Scheduled Resources - Supporting Materials
Requirements Workshop
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements Management Plan - Scheduled Resources - Solution Scope & Business Case - Supporting Materials
Cohesive - Complete - Consistent - Correct - Feasible - Modifiable - Unambiguous - Testable
47. 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.
Tracing Requirements
Emotional and Cognitive
Benchmarking
Ethics
48. 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
Unique Number - Activity Description - Assumptions - Dependencies - Milestones
Business Policy
Assessment of Proposed Solution
49. This task determines if an organization can justify the investment required to deliver a proposed solution.
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Business Rules Analysis - Decision Analysis - Functional Decomposition - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases
Define Business Case
To record the conflict in the Requirements Issues Log.
Use Case
50. 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
Business Need - Solution Scope & Business Case - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Leadership
Evolutionary or Functional Prototype
Problem Tracking