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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning
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1. What is the output of the Manage Business Analysis Performance task?
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
Transition Requirements
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
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements Management Plan - Scheduled Resources - Solution Scope & Business Case - Supporting Materials
2. What techniques are used in the task - Prepare Requirements Package?
Requirements Documentation - Requirements for Vendor Selection
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Data Modeling - Functional Decomposition - Organizational Modeling - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases - Scope Modeling - User Stories
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets
Communicated Requirements
3. What is the output of the task Manage Solution Scope & Requirements?
Business Case
Assess Proposed Solution - Allocate Requirements - Assess Organizational Readiness - Define Transition Requirements - Validate Solution - Evaluate Solution Performance
Data Dictionary & Glossary
Requirements (Approved)
4. Benefits that could have been achieved with an alternative investment rather than this one.
Term and Fact Model
Business Rule
Requirements Analysis
Opportunity Cost
5. Requires the team to focus on examining the premises - assumptions - observations and expectations of the team members. This type of conflict can have a beneficial effect of strengthening the foundations of the analysis and the solution.
Cognitive Conflict
Requirements (Approved)
Prepare for Elicitation - Conduct Elicitation Activity - Document Elicitation Results - Confirm Elicitation Results
Business Analysis Plan
6. What does RACI stand for?
Responsible - Accountable - Consulted - Informed
Bottom-up Estimation
Advantages of a Data Dictionary & Glossary
Define Transitional Requirements
7. 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
Organizational Knowledge
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements - Requirements Structure
Requirements Analysis
Root Cause Analysis
8. 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
Assess Proposed Solution - Allocate Requirements - Assess Organizational Readiness - Define Transition Requirements - Validate Solution - Evaluate Solution Performance
Onion Diagram
Monitoring
Estimation
9. What are the inputs for the task Prepare for Elicitation?
Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring
Define Business Need - Access Capability Gaps - Determine Solution Approach - Define Solution Scope - Define Business Case
Business Need - Solution Scope & Business Case - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Benefits - Costs - Risk Assessment - Results Measurement
10. 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.
Solution (Constructed) - Requirements (Prioritized and Validated)
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
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Business Rules Analysis - Decision Analysis - Functional Decomposition - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases
Organizational Knowledge
11. The process of informing stakeholders of metrics of indicators in specified formats at specified intervals.
State Diagrams
Solution Approach
Requirements (Stated) - Requirements Structure
Reporting
12. What are the inputs to the task - Determine Solution Approach?
Implementation SME
Assess Organization Readiness
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Required Capabilities
Scenario
13. The knowledge area that covers how BAs determine which activities are necessary in order to complete a business analysis effort.
Confirm Elicitation Results
Business Rule
Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring
Solution Scope
14. What are the Primitive Data Elements?
Name - Aliases - Values/Meanings - Description
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving - Behavioral Characteristics - Business Knowledge - Communication Skills - Interaction Skills - Software Application
Delphi Estimation
MoSCoW Analysis
15. 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?
Parametric Estimation
Impact Analysis - Requirements Coverage - Requirements Allocation
Business Goals & Objectives - Requirements (Stated)
Risk Analysis
16. Involved motivating people to act in ways that enable them to work together to achieve shared goals and objectives.
Business Need - Solution Scope & Business Case - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Leadership
Elicitation Results
Ethics
17. Define the requirements that must be met in order for a solution to be considered acceptable to key stakeholders.
Business Analysis Communication Plan
Acceptance & Evaluation Technique
Reliability - Validity - Timeliness
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Data Modeling - Functional Decomposition - Organizational Modeling - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases - Scope Modeling - User Stories
18. What are the techniques used in the task - Validate Solution?
Requirements Workshop - Structured Walkthrough
Cognitive Conflict
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Problem Tracking - Root Cause Analysis
Evolutionary or Functional Prototype
19. What are the tasks in the knowledge area - Requirements Analysis?
Document Analysis
Prioritize Requirements - Organize Requirements - Specify & Model Requirements - Define Assumptions & Constraints - Verify Requirements - Validate Requirements
Define Business Need - Access Capability Gaps - Determine Solution Approach - Define Solution Scope - Define Business Case
Observation
20. What is the output of the task - Validate Requirements?
Stakeholder Concerns
All
Requirements (Validated)
Estimation - Functional Decomposition - Risk Analysis
21. What are the techniques used in the task - Define Transition Requirements?
The Business Analysis Communication Plan
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Modeling - Organization Modeling - Data Modeling
Business Analysis Communication Plan
Facilitation
22. Understanding of how a change to a component affects the system as a whole - identification of reinforcing and compensating feedback loops - understanding of how systems adapt to external pressures and changes - A system as a whole will have properti
Timeboxing
Onion Diagram
Requirements (Allocated)
Systems Thinking
23. This will impose constraints to the effort to deploy the solution - including relationships that may exist between solution components.
Solution Performance Assessment
Dependencies
Ethics
Learning
24. Three types of organizational structures
Functions - Markets - Matrix
Business Case
Functional Decomposition - Interface Analysis - Scope Modeling - User Stories - Problem or Vision Statement
Assess Organization Readiness
25. Business rules require a defined glossary of terms and an understanding of the relationships between them - this is known as:
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
Tracing Requirements
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Problem Tracking - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Term and Fact Model
26. What stakeholder receives noticeable negative impact if information is incorrectly transferred from the old to new solution?
Data Dictionary & Glossary - Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshops - Survey/Questionnaire
Vertical Prototype
Solution Approach
Customer
27. 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.
Enterprise Analysis - often the starting point for initiating a new project
Absolute Reference - Author - Complexity - Ownership - Priority - Risks - Source - Stability - Status - Urgency
Tracing Requirements
User Classes - Profiles or Roles; Concepts & Relationships - Events - Processes - Rules
28. Communication of requirements does what for stakeholders?
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Brings them to a Communication on understanding
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Required Capabilities
Business Value - Business or Technical Risk - Implementation Difficulty - Likelihood of Success - Regulatory or Policy Compliance - Relationship to Other Requirements - Stakeholder Agreement - Urgency
29. What are the characteristics of Interaction Skills?
Facilitation & Negotiation - Leadership & Influencing - Teamwork
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets
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
Decision Analysis
30. Revised process and templates for BA deliverables should be analyzed and documented and lessons learned should be recorded.
A statement of the needs of a particular stakeholder or class of stakeholders
Requirements Management & Communication
Business Analysis Process Assets
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
31. Involves assessing a situation - understanding it as fully as possible - and making judgments about possible solutions to the problem.
Cohesive - Complete - Consistent - Correct - Feasible - Modifiable - Unambiguous - Testable
Evaluate Solution Performance
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving
Evaluation Criteria
32. What is the output of the task Conduct Stakeholder Analysis?
Business Requirements - Stakeholder Requirements - Solution Requirements - Transition Requirements
Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Business Analysis Approach
Relationships - Impact Analysis - Configuration Management System
33. This technique shows how information is input - processed - stored and output from a system in a visual representation.
Structural Rules
Decision Making
Data Flow Diagrams
Primary stakeholders in the Organize Requirements task
34. The minimum set of requirements that must be met in order for a particular solution to be worth implementing.
Decision Analysis
Acceptance Criteria
Decision Analysis - Focus Groups - Observation - Survey/Questionnaire
Requirements Workshop - Structured Walkthrough
35. What are the underlying competencies a BA should possess?
Prepare for Elicitation - Conduct Elicitation Activity - Document Elicitation Results - Confirm Elicitation Results
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving - Behavioral Characteristics - Business Knowledge - Communication Skills - Interaction Skills - Software Application
Stakeholder Concerns
Parametric Estimation
36. Investigating how a solution is actually used after it is deployed and assessing the effect it has had - both positive and negative.
Ongoing Cost versus Initial Investment - Opportunity Costs - Necessity - Sunk Costs
Evaluate Solution Performance
Assumptions & Constraints - Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution Options
Requirements Management Plan - Solution Scope - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities - Stakeholder/Solution or Transition Requirements (Communicated or Traced)
37. What are the inputs to the task - Validate Requirements?
Verify Requirements
Assumptions & Constraints
Business Case; Stakeholder - Solution or Transition Requirements (Verified)
Use Case
38. What are the inputs to the task Plan Requirements Management Process?
Business Need
Organization Modeling
Formal Documentation - Presentation - Model
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets
39. The goal of this task is validate that the stated requirements expressed by the stakeholder match the stakeholder's understanding of the problem and the stakeholder's needs. Analyst's understanding conforms to the actual desire or intentions of the s
Confirm Elicitation Results
Data Dictionary & Glossary - Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshops - Survey/Questionnaire
Scenario
Conduct Elicitation Activity
40. What are the inputs for the task Plan Business Analysis Activities?
Reporting
Decision Analysis - Problem Tacking - Risk Analysis
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements - Requirements Structure
Business Analysis Approach - BA Performance Assessment - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
41. Maps the level of stakeholder influence and interest in a project.
Stakeholder Matrix
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements (Stated) - Solution Scope
Requirements Documentation - Requirements for Vendor Selection
Requirements Analysis
42. What is the output of the task - Maintain Requirements for Re-use?
Assessment of Proposed Solution
Absolute Reference - Author - Complexity - Ownership - Priority - Risks - Source - Stability - Status - Urgency
Business Need - Expert Judgment - Organizational Process Assets
Requirements (Maintained and Reusable)
43. Describes all the possible outcomes of an attempt to accomplish a particular goal that the solution will support.
Requirements Workshop
Historic Analysis
Use Case
Absolute Reference - Author - Complexity - Ownership - Priority - Risks - Source - Stability - Status - Urgency
44. What are the inputs for the task - Define Solution Scope?
Business Case - Business Need - Requirements - Requirements Management Plan - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Enterprise Analysis - often the starting point for initiating a new project
Assumptions & Constraints - Required Capabilities - Solution Approach
Onion Diagram
45. What is the output of the task - Determine Solution Approach?
Emotional and Cognitive
Ongoing Cost versus Initial Investment - Opportunity Costs - Necessity - Sunk Costs
Estimation
Solution Approach
46. What are the techniques used in the task Manage Solution Scope & Requirements?
Problem Tracking - Baselining - Signoff
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Problem Tracking - Root Cause Analysis
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving - Behavioral Characteristics - Business Knowledge - Communication Skills - Interaction Skills - Software Application
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
47. 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.
Benefits - Costs - Risk Assessment - Results Measurement
This person will be involved in monitoring the performance and effectiveness of a solution or its components.
Evaluation
Creative Thinking - Decision Making - Learning - Problem Solving - Systems Thinking
48. What are the inputs to the task - Organize Requirements?
Business Case - Business Need - Requirements - Requirements Management Plan - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements (Stated) - Solution Scope
Data - Ongoing Work - Organizational Change
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Metrics & KPIs - Prototyping - Risk Analysis - Structured Walkthrough
49. What are the techniques used in the task - Assess Organizational Readiness?
Validate Solution
Lessons Learned Process
MoSCoW Analysis
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Models - Focus Groups - Interviews - Survey/Questionnaire - Organizational Modeling - Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Force Field Analysis
50. Gathering information relevant to a decision - breaking down the information relevant to a decision - making comparisons and tradeoffs between similar and dissimilar options and identifying the option that is most desirable.
Reliability - Performance Efficiency - Operability - Security - Compatibility - Maintainability - Transferability
Structural Rules
Decision Analysis
Business Domain - Corporate Culture & Environment - Skills of the Analyst - Requirement Deliverable