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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning
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1. Elicitation Results are the inputs for the ____________
Business Need
Functional Decomposition
Use Case
Document Elicitation Results task
2. When a conflict arises between stakeholders on one or more documented requirements - the first thing that needs to take place is what?
To record the conflict in the Requirements Issues Log.
MoSCoW Analysis
Historic Analysis
Impact Analysis - Requirements Coverage - Requirements Allocation
3. This will impose constraints to the effort to deploy the solution - including relationships that may exist between solution components.
Transition Requirements
Business Domain - Corporate Culture & Environment - Skills of the Analyst - Requirement Deliverable
Primary stakeholders in the Organize Requirements task
Dependencies
4. This knowledge area describes the tasks that are performed in order to ensure that solutions meet the business need and to facilitate successful implementation.
Scenario
Solution Assessment & Validation
Cultural Assessment - Operational or Technical Assessment - Stakeholder Impact Analysis
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Requirements - Requirements Package
5. 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
Advantages of Document Analysis
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Problem Tracking - Structured Walkthrough - Checklists
Business Case - Business Need - Requirements - Requirements Management Plan - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Decision Analysis - Problem Tacking - Risk Analysis
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.
Monitoring
Cultural Assessment - Operational or Technical Assessment - Stakeholder Impact Analysis
Creative Thinking - Decision Making - Learning - Problem Solving - Systems Thinking
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Decision Analysis - Estimation - SWOT Analysis - Feasibility Analysis
7. Most optimistic estimate; most pessimistic estimate; most likely estimate
Problem Tracking
Influence on the project - organizational - project health and other stakeholders
Three-point Estimation
Risk Analysis
8. What is the output of the task - Prioritize Requirements?
Activity List
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Problem Tracking - Root Cause Analysis
Requirements (Prioritized)
Interviews - Observation
9. What is the output of the task - Define Assumptions & Constraints?
Decision Analysis
Term and Fact Model
Assumptions & Constraints
Horizontal Prototype
10. 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.
State Diagrams
Responsible - Accountable - Consulted - Informed
Expert Judgment
Acceptance Criteria
11. Two effective trade-off methods.
Emotional and Cognitive
Requirements (Traced)
Elicitation Results
Elimination of Dominated Alternative - Ranking Objects on a Similar Scale
12. What is the output of the task - Define Business Need?
Personal Organization
Business Rules Analysis
Business Need
Glossary
13. Use of parameters - multiplied by the number of hours. (COCOMO II - Function Point Counting - Use Case Points - and Story Points)
Prototyping
Parametric Estimation
All
Advantages of Document Analysis
14. What is the output of the task Plan Business Analysis Communication?
Timeboxing
Coverage Matrix - Table or spreadsheet used to manage tracing.
Business Analysis Communication Plan
BABOK
15. What stakeholder receives noticeable negative impact if information is incorrectly transferred from the old to new solution?
Elimination
Confirm Elicitation Results
Parametric Estimation
Customer
16. Models a shallow - and possibly wide view of the system's functionality. It typically does not have any business logic running behind the visualization.
Horizontal Prototype
Sequence Diagrams
Business Value - Business or Technical Risk - Implementation Difficulty - Likelihood of Success - Regulatory or Policy Compliance - Relationship to Other Requirements - Stakeholder Agreement - Urgency
Perform tailoring exercises
17. 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
Organizational Readiness Assessment - Requirements (Stated) - Solution (Deployed) - Solution (Designed)
Interviews - Observation
Requirements (Stated) - Requirements Structure
Systems Thinking
18. What is the output of the task - Allocate Resources?
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Problem Tracking - Structured Walkthrough - Checklists
Requirements (Allocated)
Decision Analysis - Risk Analysis - MoSCoW Analysis - Timeboxing/Budgeting - Voting
Acceptance Criteria
19. This technique shows how information is input - processed - stored and output from a system in a visual representation.
Prototyping
Determine the Process - Who will Authorize Changes - Impact Analysis - Wording of the Request - Coordinate Prioritization of Change
State Diagrams
Data Flow Diagrams
20. 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
That they understand them and the current state the requirements are in
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Business Rules Analysis - Decision Analysis - Functional Decomposition - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases
Timeboxing
Evaluate Solution Performance
21. To identify interfaces between solutions and/or solution components and define requirements that describe how they will interact.
The Business Analysis Communication Plan
Business Goals & Objectives - Requirements (Stated)
Interface Analysis
Business Case
22. What are the techniques used in the task - Define Transition Requirements?
Confirm Elicitation Results
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Modeling - Organization Modeling - Data Modeling
Advantages of a Data Dictionary & Glossary
Requirements (Prioritized)
23. To identify and manage areas of uncertainty that can impact an initiative - solution - or organization.
Risk Analysis
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements (Stated) - Solution Scope
Enterprise Analysis - often the starting point for initiating a new project
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
24. The purpose is to describe the required qualities of a system - such as its usability and performance characteristics.
Non-functional Requirements Analysis
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Root Cause Analysis
Organization Modeling
25. What is the output to the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?
Business Case - Business Need - Requirements - Requirements Management Plan - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Solution Performance Assessment
Compliance with regulatory or other standards
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Modeling - Organization Modeling - Data Modeling
26. What are the inputs for the task - Prepare Requirements Package?
Focus Group
Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements - Requirements Structure
Stakeholder Matrix - Onion Diagram
27. List 3 possible forms of a requirements packages.
Required Capabilities
Term and Fact Model
To record the conflict in the Requirements Issues Log.
Formal Documentation - Presentation - Model
28. 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
Assumptions & Constraints
Confirm Elicitation Results
Discounted Cash Flow - Net Present Value - Internal Rate of Return - Average Rate of Return - Pay Back Period - Cost-Benefit Analysis
Ethics - Trustworthiness - Personal Organization
29. Are written to describe how an actor interacts with a solution to accomplish one or more of that actor's goals - or to respond to an event.
Scenarios & Use Cases
This person will be involved in monitoring the performance and effectiveness of a solution or its components.
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Modeling - Organization Modeling - Data Modeling
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Problem Tracking - Root Cause Analysis
30. The knowledge area that covers how BAs determine which activities are necessary in order to complete a business analysis effort.
Requirements Analysis
Reporting
Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring
Survey/Questionnaire
31. Set of requirements that will be used to choose between multiple solutions.
Confirm Elicitation Results
Evaluation Criteria
This person will be involved in monitoring the performance and effectiveness of a solution or its components.
Requirements (Any Except Stated)
32. This describes how the chosen solution will deliver the solution scope - may break delivery down into releases or provide a roadmap that indicates the timeframe in which a capability is expected.
Data Flow Diagrams
Solution Performance Assessment
Implementation Approach
Acceptance & Evaluation Technique
33. Strengths - Weaknesses - Opportunities - Threats - A valuable tool to quickly analyze various aspects of the current state of the business process undergoing change.
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Requirements - Requirements Package
Oral Communications - Teaching - Written Communication
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Solution Performance Assessment
SWOT Analysis
34. What are the inputs to the task - Assess Proposed Solution?
Benchmarking
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving
Assumptions & Constraints - Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution Options
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets
35. What are the Primitive Data Elements?
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Required Capabilities
Goals
Name - Aliases - Values/Meanings - Description
Industry Knowledge
36. 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.
Activity List
Sequence Diagrams
MoSCoW Analysis
Scheduled Resources - Supporting Materials
37. The purpose of _______________ is to ensure that a stakeholder's actual underlying needs are understood - rather than the their stated or superficial desires.
Elicitation
Identified Defects - Mitigating Actions - Solution Validation Assessment
Industry Knowledge
Scope Modeling
38. What is the output of the task - Define Transition Requirements?
Determine the Process - Who will Authorize Changes - Impact Analysis - Wording of the Request - Coordinate Prioritization of Change
Three-point Estimation
Transition Requirements
Requirements - Requirements Management Plan
39. What are the techniques used in Plan Business Analysis Communication?
Structured Walkthrough
Facilitation & Negotiation - Leadership & Influencing - Teamwork
Business Goals & Objectives - Requirements (Stated)
Prioritize Requirements - Organize Requirements - Specify & Model Requirements - Define Assumptions & Constraints - Verify Requirements - Validate Requirements
40. Two types of conflict.
Organizational Readiness Assessment - Requirements (Stated) - Solution (Deployed) - Solution (Designed)
Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Emotional and Cognitive
Requirements (Stated - Unconfirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Unconfirmed)
41. 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?
Impact Analysis - Requirements Coverage - Requirements Allocation
Necessity - Effort - Subset - Cover - Value
Advantages of a Data Dictionary & Glossary
Dependencies
42. What are the inputs to the task - Validate Solution?
Glossary
Solution (Constructed) - Requirements (Prioritized and Validated)
Brainstorming
Term and Fact Model
43. The decomposition of activities and tasks creates?
Solution (Constructed) - Requirements (Prioritized and Validated)
Benchmarking
Activity List
Business Analysis Plan
44. Useful for ensuring that all stakeholders are in agreement on the format and content of relevant information. Capturing these definitions in a single model ensures that these terms will be used consistently.
Advantages of a Data Dictionary & Glossary
Solution Knowledge
Enterprise Analysis
Necessity - Effort - Subset - Cover - Value
45. What are the inputs to the task Plan Requirements Management Process?
Data Dictionary & Glossary - Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshops - Survey/Questionnaire
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Metrics & KPIs - Prototyping - Risk Analysis - Structured Walkthrough
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets
Observation
46. What are the characteristics of Interaction Skills?
Facilitation & Negotiation - Leadership & Influencing - Teamwork
Specific - Measurable - Achievable - Relevant - Time-bound Objectives must be SMART.
Cohesive - Complete - Consistent - Correct - Feasible - Modifiable - Unambiguous - Testable
Name - Value/Meanings - Description
47. What are the Behavioral Characteristics a BA should exhibit?
Leadership
Ethics - Trustworthiness - Personal Organization
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving - Behavioral Characteristics - Business Knowledge - Communication Skills - Interaction Skills - Software Application
Necessity - Effort - Subset - Cover - Value
48. What are the techniques used in Plan Business Analysis Activities?
Solution Scope
Tracing Requirements
Estimation - Functional Decomposition - Risk Analysis
Horizontal Prototype
49. What techniques are used in the task - Prepare Requirements Package?
Cognitive Conflict
Analogous Estimation
MoSCoW Analysis
Requirements Documentation - Requirements for Vendor Selection
50. A diagram indicating how involved the stakeholder is with the solution.
Onion Diagram
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Modeling - Organization Modeling - Data Modeling
Evaluation Criteria
Bottom-up Estimation