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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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1. Defines the key terms and data relevant to a business domain.






2. A means to elicit ideas and attitudes about a specific product - service or opportunity in an interactive group environment. The participants share their impressions - preferences and needs - guided by a moderator. - Effective for learning people's a






3. What are the inputs to the Plan Business Analysis Approach?






4. A non-actionable directive that supports a business goal.






5. Confidence in the problem solving process that a selected solution is correct - new solution options can be evaluated effectively using the problem solving framework - selected solutions meet the defined objectives and solve the underlying problem -






6. 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.






7. Define the requirements that must be met in order for a solution to be considered acceptable to key stakeholders.






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






9. What are the techniques for the task - Verify Requirements?






10. What are the techniques used in the task Conduct Elicitation Activity?






11. Elicitation Results are the inputs for the ____________






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






13. Defines what must be delivered in order to meet the business need - and the effect of the proposed change initiation on the business and technology operations and infrastructure.






14. 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?






15. What is the output of the task - Assess Capability Gaps?






16. What is the output of the task - Define Transition Requirements?






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






18. Models a shallow - and possibly wide view of the system's functionality. It typically does not have any business logic running behind the visualization.






19. 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






20. Measures progress towards a strategic goal or objective.






21. 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






22. Provides an organized approach to tracking - management - and resolution of defects - issues - problems - and risks throughout business analysis activities. Management of issues is important so that they can be resolved in a timely manner to ensure s






23. Approach to decision making that examines and models the possible consequences of different decisions. Make an optimal decision under conditions of uncertainty.






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






25. 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






26. This task determines if an organization can justify the investment required to deliver a proposed solution.






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






28. Who is the primary stakeholder in the Define Business Case task?






29. When performing root cause analysis as part of the Validate Solution task - what stakeholder may be involved?






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






31. 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.






32. 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.






33. What are the inputs to the task Manage Requirements Traceability?






34. 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.






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






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






37. What are the tasks of the Elicitation Knowledge Area?






38. This technique represents the types of peoples - places - things and concepts that are important to the business - attributes associated with them and the significant business relationships among them.






39. 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.






40. 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.






41. What is the output of the task - Assess Organizational Readiness?






42. What is the output of the task - Assess Proposed Solution?






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






44. What are the inputs for the task - Prepare Requirements Package?






45. What are the techniques used in Plan Business Analysis Activities?






46. What techniques are used in the task - Define Solution Scope?






47. What is the output of the task - Organize Requirements?






48. What are the Primitive Data Elements?






49. What are the characteristics of quality for a requirements?






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