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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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1. What are stakeholder requirements?






2. List 3 possible forms of a requirements packages.






3. What does RACI stand for?






4. 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






5. Elicitation Results are the inputs for the ____________






6. What are the tasks in the knowledge area - Enterprise Analysis?






7. Used to describe the roles - responsibilities and reporting structures that exist within an organization and to align those structures with the organization's goals.






8. Maps the level of stakeholder influence and interest in a project.






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






10. 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.






11. What are the inputs to the task - Define Business Case?






12. What knowledge area discusses the business analysis activities necessary to identify a business need - problem or opportunity - define the capture of the solution and justify the investment necessary to deliver the solution.






13. Set of requirements that will be used to choose between multiple solutions.






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






15. 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.






16. How is the Operational Support stakeholder utilized in the Evaluate Solution Performance task?






17. What are the general modeling concepts that are relevant to business analysis?






18. 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.






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






20. Limited to "as-is" perspective. - Existing documentation may not be up-to-date or valid. - Can be a time-consuming and even tedious process to locate the relevant information






21. Checklist of characteristics to consider when considering non-functional requirements.






22. The decomposition of activities and tasks creates?






23. What are the tasks for the knowledge area - Requirements Management & Communication?






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






25. What are the tasks in the knowledge area - Requirements Analysis?






26. 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.






27. 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.






28. 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.






29. Two types of conflict.






30. The BA is a stakeholder in ______ business analysis activities.






31. To identify and manage areas of uncertainty that can impact an initiative - solution - or organization.






32. What are the techniques used in the task - Assess Capability Gaps?






33. What are the techniques used in Plan Business Analysis Communication?






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






35. 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






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






37. What are the 3 elements in the Assess Organizational Readiness?






38. What are the inputs to the task - Organize Requirements?






39. A specific - actionable - testable directive that is under the control of an organization and supports a business policy.






40. Shows how the behavior of a concept - entity or object changes in response to events during its lifetime - and defines which events cause a transition between those states.






41. Means of eliciting information from many people - sometimes anonymously - in a relatively short period of time






42. Name the 2 types of Stakeholder maps.






43. The systematic and objective assessment of a solution to determine its status and efficacy in meeting objectives over time - and to identify ways to improve the solution to better meet objectives.






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






45. What factors guide technique selection?






46. 7 knowledge areas of ________ : Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring - Elicitation - Requirements Management & Communication - Enterprise Analysis - Requirements Analysis - Solution Assessment & Validation - Underlying Competencies






47. What are the inputs to the task Manage Business Analysis Performance?






48. What describes how - when and why the business analyst will work with stakeholders?






49. To identify interfaces between solutions and/or solution components and define requirements that describe how they will interact.






50. Prioritizes requirements based on a allocated fixed amount of money.