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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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1. What are the techniques used in the task Manage Solution Scope & Requirements?






2. What are some of the key variables used in determining the priority of a requirement?






3. What are the techniques used in the task - Organize Requirements?






4. Corrective or preventative measures uncovered while performing a Business Analysis Performance Assessment will result in changes to what plan?






5. What are the techniques used in the task - Determine Solution Approach?






6. 7 knowledge areas of ________ : Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring - Elicitation - Requirements Management & Communication - Enterprise Analysis - Requirements Analysis - Solution Assessment & Validation - Underlying Competencies






7. What are the classifications used to describe requirements






8. A brief description of functionality that users need from a solution to meet a business objective. The goal they are trying to accomplish - and any additional information that may be critical to understanding the scope of the story.






9. Revised process and templates for BA deliverables should be analyzed and documented and lessons learned should be recorded.






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






11. Elements identified for each activity and task.






12. Involves assessing a situation - understanding it as fully as possible - and making judgments about possible solutions to the problem.






13. This knowledge area describes the problem definition and analysis - business case development - feasibility studies and the definition of solution scope.






14. Agreement by stakeholders that analysis models effectively and completely describe the domain - identification of related problems or issues from multiple areas in the domain - rapid absorption of new information or new domain.






15. What is the output of the task Manage Solution Scope & Requirements?






16. 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?






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






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






19. 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.






20. 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






21. What are the elements of the task - Define Solution Scope?






22. Organizational culture - Stakeholder preference - complexity - organizational maturity and availability of resources are all factors used to do what?






23. What techniques are used in the task - Prepare Requirements Package?






24. A requirement that does not deliver direct or indirect value to a stakeholder is a strong candidate for what?






25. This technique shows how information is input - processed - stored and output from a system in a visual representation.






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






27. Long-term - ongoing and qualitative statements of a state or condition that the organization is seeking to establish and maintain.






28. What is the output of the task - Communicate Requirements?






29. What is the output of the task - Determine Solution Approach?






30. Communicated Requirements mean what to stakeholders?






31. The process of informing stakeholders of metrics of indicators in specified formats at specified intervals.






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






33. What are the tasks in the knowledge area - Solution Assessment & Validation?






34. What are the elements to the task - Define Business Case?






35. 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.






36. 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






37. What is the output of the task - Validate Requirements?






38. 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.






39. 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






40. What are the techniques used in Plan Business Analysis Approach?






41. Familiarity with the range of commercially available solutions or suppliers can assist with the identification of possible alternatives.






42. Name some commonly used financial valuation techniques.






43. What are the attributes of a Data Model?






44. What is the output of the task Prepare for Elicitation?






45. What is the output of the task - Allocate Resources?






46. 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.






47. Understanding of the business architecture of the organization that is being analyzed. Understanding business models (generates profit) - org structure - relationships between business units and the persons who occupy key stakeholder positions.






48. 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






49. What are the inputs to the task - Define Business Need?






50. Prioritizes requirements based on the amount of work that the project team is capable of delivering in a set period of time. Approaches include: All-in - All Out - Selective