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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning
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1. What are the inputs for the task - Maintain Requirements for Re-use?
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements
Evolutionary or Functional Prototype
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving
Requirements Structure
2. Combination of expert judgment and history. Individual estimates - sharing the estimates with experts - and having several rounds until consensus is reached. An average of the three estimates is used
Responsible - Accountable - Consulted - Informed
Delphi Estimation
Expert Judgment
Key Performance Indicator (KPI )
3. What is a STAKEHOLDER requirement - according to the BABOK 2.0?
A statement of the needs of a particular stakeholder or class of stakeholders
Conduct Elicitation Activity
Cognitive Conflict
Requirements Structure
4. 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
Decision Analysis - Problem Tacking - Risk Analysis
Scheduled Resources - Supporting Materials
Rolling Wave
5. 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.
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Business Rules Analysis - Decision Analysis - Functional Decomposition - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases
Required Capabilities
Analogous Estimation
6. What are the inputs to the task Conduct Stakeholder Analysis?
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Organizational Process Assets
Ongoing Cost versus Initial Investment - Opportunity Costs - Necessity - Sunk Costs
All
Business Case
7. A formal written specification with possible walk-thru - an informal one is possibly verbal or email Communication
Opportunity Cost
Plan Business Analysis Approach - Conduct Stakeholder Analysis - Plan Business Analysis Activities - Plan Business Analysis Communication - Plan Requirements Management Process - Manage BA Performance
Formal requirements presentation to stakeholders
Scenario
8. Are used to model the logic of usage scenarios - by showing the information passed between objects in the system through the execution of the scenario. Shows how classes and objects interact during a scenario.
Define Business Need - Access Capability Gaps - Determine Solution Approach - Define Solution Scope - Define Business Case
Sequence Diagrams
Data Modeling
Acceptance & Evaluation Technique
9. What are the inputs to the task - Define Business Case?
Assumptions & Constraints - Business Need - Solution Scope - Stakeholder Concerns
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Name - Value/Meanings - Description
Unique Number - Activity Description - Assumptions - Dependencies - Milestones
10. Long-term - ongoing and qualitative statements of a state or condition that the organization is seeking to establish and maintain.
Goals
Monitoring
General Purpose Applications & Specialized Applications
All
11. A structured examination of the aspects of a situation to establish the root causes and resulting effects of the problem. A critical element is to ensure that the current business thinking and processes are challenged. The purpose is to determine the
Benefits - Costs - Risk Assessment - Results Measurement
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Solution Performance Assessment
Root Cause Analysis
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Problem Tracking - Structured Walkthrough - Checklists
12. 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.
Requirements Workshop
Impact Analysis
Customer
Name - Value/Meanings - Description
13. The purpose is to describe the required qualities of a system - such as its usability and performance characteristics.
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Necessity - Effort - Subset - Cover - Value
Non-functional Requirements Analysis
Analogous Estimation
14. What are the attributes of a Data Model?
Name - Value/Meanings - Description
Business Analysis Approach - BA Performance Assessment - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Cohesive - Complete - Consistent - Correct - Feasible - Modifiable - Unambiguous - Testable
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Organizational Process Assets
15. What are the characteristics of a Problem Record?
Solution Performance Assessment
Business Case; Stakeholder - Solution or Transition Requirements (Verified)
Description - Raised by - Date Identified - Impact - Priority - Need by Date - Owner - Status - Action Needed to be Resolved - Responsible for Action - Completion Date of Action - Outcome
Assessment of Proposed Solution
16. List 3 possible forms of a requirements packages.
Brings them to a Communication on understanding
Formal Documentation - Presentation - Model
Acceptance Criteria
Business Rule
17. Defines the key terms and data relevant to a business domain.
Business Domain - Corporate Culture & Environment - Skills of the Analyst - Requirement Deliverable
Fishbone Diagram - Five Whys
Data Dictionary & Glossary
Requirements (Traced)
18. What are the techniques used in Plan Business Analysis Approach?
Decision Analysis - Focus Groups - Observation - Survey/Questionnaire
Data - Ongoing Work - Organizational Change
Decision Analysis - Process Modeling - Structured Walkthrough
Requirements Workshop - Structured Walkthrough
19. What are the inputs to the task - Assess Proposed Solution?
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
Customer
Leadership
Assumptions & Constraints - Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution Options
20. Allocate stakeholder and solution requirements among solution components and releases in order to maximize the possible business value given the options and alternatives generated by the design team.
Share - Enhance - Exploit
Business Rule
Allocate Requirements
Requirements Workshop
21. This task determines if an organization can justify the investment required to deliver a proposed solution.
Solution (Constructed) - Requirements (Prioritized and Validated)
Acceptance & Evaluation Technique
Requirements Workshop
Define Business Case
22. 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.
Trustworthiness
Problem Tracking
Evaluate Solution Performance
Organize Requirements
23. 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.
Assumptions & Constraints - Required Capabilities - Solution Approach
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
Solution Knowledge
Structured Walkthrough
24. What are the inputs to the task - Define Business Need?
Interviews - Observation
Requirements - Requirements Management Plan
Business Goals & Objectives - Requirements (Stated)
They describe what a solution must be capable of doing to meet the needs of one or more stakeholder groups
25. Maps the level of stakeholder influence and interest in a project.
Stakeholder Matrix
Business Requirements - Stakeholder Requirements - Solution Requirements - Transition Requirements
Functions - Markets - Matrix
Lessons Learned Process
26. 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
Requirements Structure
Name - Aliases - Values/Meanings - Description
Business Case
Solution Assessment & Validation
27. 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.
Define Business Case
Creative Thinking - Decision Making - Learning - Problem Solving - Systems Thinking
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving
Requirements Analysis
28. What stakeholder receives noticeable negative impact if information is incorrectly transferred from the old to new solution?
Customer
Three-point Estimation
Share - Enhance - Exploit
Business Need - Expert Judgment - Organizational Process Assets
29. A diagram indicating how involved the stakeholder is with the solution.
Functional Decomposition - Interface Analysis - Scope Modeling - User Stories - Problem or Vision Statement
Elimination of Dominated Alternative - Ranking Objects on a Similar Scale
Business Domain - Corporate Culture & Environment - Skills of the Analyst - Requirement Deliverable
Onion Diagram
30. The knowledge area that describes how a BA manages conflicts - issues and changes in order to ensure that stakeholders and the project team remain in agreement on the solution scope - how requirements are communicated to stakeholders and how knowledg
Business Analysis Communication Plan
Requirements Management & Communication
Allocate Requirements
Data Flow Diagrams
31. 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.
Expert Judgment
Conduct Elicitation Activity
Rolling Wave
Organization Modeling
32. 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.
Requirements Management Plan - Solution Scope - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities - Stakeholder/Solution or Transition Requirements (Communicated or Traced)
Document Analysis
Acceptance Criteria
Verify Requirements
33. What are the techniques used in the task Confirm Elicitation Results?
Cognitive Conflict
Cultural Assessment - Operational or Technical Assessment - Stakeholder Impact Analysis
Document Analysis - SWOT Analysis
Interviews - Observation
34. What describes how - when and why the business analyst will work with stakeholders?
The Business Analysis Communication Plan
Cognitive Conflict
Requirements - Requirements Management Plan
User Story
35. 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
Name - Aliases - Values/Meanings - Description
Business Principles & Practices
Timeboxing
36. What are the inputs to the task Manage Solution Scope & Requirements?
Lessons Learned Process
Requirements Management Plan - Solution Scope - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities - Stakeholder/Solution or Transition Requirements (Communicated or Traced)
Risk Analysis
Acceptance & Evaluation Technique
37. What is the output of the Manage Business Analysis Performance task?
Evaluate Solution Performance
Data Flow Diagrams
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
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Problem Tracking - Root Cause Analysis
38. What is the output of the task Plan Business Analysis Activities?
Cultural Assessment - Operational or Technical Assessment - Stakeholder Impact Analysis
Requirements (Any Except Stated)
Business Analysis Plan
Requirements Workshop - Structured Walkthrough
39. Name the 2 types of Stakeholder maps.
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
This person will be involved in monitoring the performance and effectiveness of a solution or its components.
Stakeholder Matrix - Onion Diagram
Estimation
40. To define the rules that govern decisions in an organization and that define - constrain or enable organization operations.
Root Cause Analysis
Stakeholder Concerns
Business Rules Analysis
Discounted Cash Flow - Net Present Value - Internal Rate of Return - Average Rate of Return - Pay Back Period - Cost-Benefit Analysis
41. What are the techniques used in the task Manage Solution Scope & Requirements?
Decision Analysis - Focus Groups - Observation - Survey/Questionnaire
Requirements (Prioritized)
Problem Tracking - Baselining - Signoff
Business Policy
42. 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
Ongoing Cost versus Initial Investment - Opportunity Costs - Necessity - Sunk Costs
Elicitation Results
Creative Thinking - Decision Making - Learning - Problem Solving - Systems Thinking
Facilitation
43. What is the output of the task - Validate Requirements?
Evaluation
Learning
Requirements (Validated)
Leadership
44. 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
Dependencies
Vertical Prototype
Communicated Requirements
45. What are the techniques used in the task - Allocate Resources?
Business Need - Solution Scope & Business Case - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Operative Rules
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Business Rules Analysis - Decision Analysis - Functional Decomposition - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases
Customer
46. 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.
Analogous Estimation
Requirements Management Plan - Solution Scope - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities - Stakeholder/Solution or Transition Requirements (Communicated or Traced)
Historic Analysis
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
47. Business rules require a defined glossary of terms and an understanding of the relationships between them - this is known as:
Solution Scope
Solution Assessment & Validation
Description - Raised by - Date Identified - Impact - Priority - Need by Date - Owner - Status - Action Needed to be Resolved - Responsible for Action - Completion Date of Action - Outcome
Term and Fact Model
48. What are the inputs to the task - Assess Organizational Readiness?
Enterprise Architecture - Solution Scope - Solution (Designed) - Stakeholder Concerns
Specific - Measurable - Achievable - Relevant - Time-bound Objectives must be SMART.
They describe what a solution must be capable of doing to meet the needs of one or more stakeholder groups
Onion Diagram
49. The people involved - the interactions between them - the external forces affecting their behavior and all other relevant elements and factors.
Opportunity Cost
System
Implementation SME
Elimination of Dominated Alternative - Ranking Objects on a Similar Scale
50. What are the different types of learning styles?
Requirements Structure
Visual Learner - Auditory Learner - Kinesthetic Learner
The Sponsor
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Decision Analysis - Estimation - SWOT Analysis - Feasibility Analysis
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