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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 factors guide technique selection?






3. States the business need - identifies key stakeholders and briefly describes the positive impact that meeting the business need will have on those stakeholders.






4. What are the elements of the task Plan Requirements Management Process?






5. What are the inputs to the task Conduct Stakeholder Analysis?






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






7. What are the techniques used in the task - Assess Proposed Solution?






8. What is the output of the task Conduct Stakeholder Analysis?






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






10. A systematic approach designed to elicit information from a person or group of people in an informal or formal setting by talking to an interviewee - asking relevant questions and documenting the responses.






11. Forecast the cost and effort involved in pursuing a course of action. Used to develop a better understanding of the possible range of costs and effort associated with any initiative






12. The purpose is to describe the required qualities of a system - such as its usability and performance characteristics.






13. What stakeholder receives noticeable negative impact if information is incorrectly transferred from the old to new solution?






14. 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






15. Name the 2 types of Stakeholder maps.






16. What are the inputs for the task Prepare for Elicitation?






17. What does RACI stand for?






18. Ensure that the solution meets the business need and determine the most appropriate response to identified defects.






19. What are the inputs to the task - Validate Solution?






20. The people involved - the interactions between them - the external forces affecting their behavior and all other relevant elements and factors.






21. What are the inputs for the task Confirm Elicitation Results?






22. Decisions are made with the interest of all stakeholders considered - reasons for a decision are cleared articulated - prompt and full disclosure of conflicts of interest - honesty regarding one's abilities and the performance of one's work.






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






24. A diagram indicating how involved the stakeholder is with the solution.






25. What is the output of the task - Verify Requirements?






26. What is the output of the task Plan Business Analysis Activities?






27. Estimating relies on the expertise of those who have performed the work in the past. These experts can be internal or external to the project team or to the organization.






28. The goal of tracing is to ensure that requirements are linked back to a business objective. Creation of this relationship helps in what other traceability activities?






29. What are the inputs to the task - Prioritize Requirements?






30. What is the output of the task - Prioritize Requirements?






31. 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 -






32. What are the inputs to the task - Define Assumption & Constraints?






33. What are the techniques used in the task - Define Assumptions & Constraints?






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






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






36. What are the inputs to the task - Allocate Resources?






37. 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






38. What is the output to the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?






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






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






41. Communication of requirements does what for stakeholders?






42. Most optimistic estimate; most pessimistic estimate; most likely estimate






43. What are the inputs to the task - Assess Organizational Readiness?






44. A formal written specification with possible walk-thru - an informal one is possibly verbal or email Communication






45. Is generally understood to describe just one way that an actor can accomplish a particular goal






46. What are the different types of learning styles?






47. This prototype extends the initial interface requirements into a fully functioning system and requires a specialized prototyping tool or language.






48. Elements of a Requirements Management Plan include?






49. What is the output of the task - Define Business Case?






50. What are the inputs to the task - Assess Proposed Solution?