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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning
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1. What are the general modeling concepts that are relevant to business analysis?
Advantages of a Data Dictionary & Glossary
User Classes - Profiles or Roles; Concepts & Relationships - Events - Processes - Rules
Requirements (Verified)
Risk - assumptions - constraints - etc.
2. What are the techniques used in the task - Define Business Case?
Decision Analysis - Estimation - Metrics & KPIs - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Advantages of a Data Dictionary & Glossary
Facilitation & Negotiation - Leadership & Influencing - Teamwork
Elimination of Dominated Alternative - Ranking Objects on a Similar Scale
3. This will impose constraints to the effort to deploy the solution - including relationships that may exist between solution components.
Formal Documentation - Presentation - Model
Dependencies
Solution Assessment & Validation
Name - Aliases - Values/Meanings - Description
4. A structured way to capture requirements. May be used to scope - discover - define - prioritize and reach closure on requirements for the target system. Considered one of the most effective ways to deliver high quality requirements quickly.
Requirements Workshop
Business Principles & Practices
Business Need - Solution Scope & Business Case - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
The Business Analysis Communication Plan
5. Rules that the organization chooses to enforce as a matter of policy. They are intended to guide the actions of people working within the organization. They may oblige people to take certain actions - prevent people from taking actions - or prescribe
Operative Rules
Validate Solution
Parametric Estimation
Requirements Structure
6. What are the techniques used in the task Conduct Elicitation Activity?
Prepare Requirements Package
Data Dictionary & Glossary - Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshops - Survey/Questionnaire
Requirements (Analyzed)
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
7. A good indicator has 5 characteristics:
Clear - Relevant - Economical - Adequate - Quantifiable
Cohesive - Complete - Consistent - Correct - Feasible - Modifiable - Unambiguous - Testable
Requirements (Maintained and Reusable)
Data Flow Diagrams
8. Two effective trade-off methods.
Elimination of Dominated Alternative - Ranking Objects on a Similar Scale
This person will be involved in monitoring the performance and effectiveness of a solution or its components.
Systems Thinking
Ethics - Trustworthiness - Personal Organization
9. 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.
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements (Stated) - Solution Scope
Bottom-up Estimation
Monitoring
Business Need - Expert Judgment - Organizational Process Assets
10. 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.
Allocate Requirements
Historic Analysis
Personal Organization
Necessity - Effort - Subset - Cover - Value
11. The minimum set of requirements that must be met in order for a particular solution to be worth implementing.
Acceptance Criteria
Requirements Documentation - Requirements for Vendor Selection
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
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving
12. What are the inputs to the task - Assess Capability Gaps?
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Metrics & KPIs - Prototyping - Risk Analysis - Structured Walkthrough
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Solution Performance Assessment
Communicated Requirements
Requirements (Stated) - Stakeholder Concerns
13. Define requirements for capabilities needed to move from an existing solution to a new solution.
Interviews
Name - Aliases - Values/Meanings - Description
Validate Requirements
Define Transitional Requirements
14. This knowledge area describes the behaviors - knowledge and other characteristics that support the effective performance of a BA.
Trustworthiness
Underlying Competencies
Delphi Estimation
Business Requirements - Identified Defects - Solution Performance Metrics - Solution (Deployed)
15. What is the output of the task Prepare for Elicitation?
Requirements (Prioritized)
Structured Walkthrough
Scheduled Resources - Supporting Materials
Problem Solving
16. What are the inputs to the task - Specify & Model Requirements?
Impact Analysis
Requirements (Stated) - Requirements Structure
Document Analysis - SWOT Analysis
Decision Analysis - Problem Tacking - Risk Analysis
17. Benefits that could have been achieved with an alternative investment rather than this one.
Perform tailoring exercises
Automate or Simplify Work - Improve Access to Information - Reduce Complexity of Interfaces - Increase Consistency of Behavior - Eliminate Redundancy
Opportunity Cost
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Organizational Process Assets
18. Involves assessing a situation - understanding it as fully as possible - and making judgments about possible solutions to the problem.
Requirements Management Plan - Solution Scope - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities - Stakeholder/Solution or Transition Requirements (Communicated or Traced)
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving
Description - Raised by - Date Identified - Impact - Priority - Need by Date - Owner - Status - Action Needed to be Resolved - Responsible for Action - Completion Date of Action - Outcome
Specific - Measurable - Achievable - Relevant - Time-bound Objectives must be SMART.
19. Business value can be delivered through requirements that support _______________ - alignment with internal standards or policies of the organization - or increased satisfaction for stakeholders - even if those things do not have a direct measurable
Business Domain - Corporate Culture & Environment - Skills of the Analyst - Requirement Deliverable
Problem or Vision Statement
State Diagrams
Compliance with regulatory or other standards
20. What are the strategies for a negative risk?
Facilitation
Acceptance - Transfer - Avoidance - Mitigation
Assumptions & Constraints - Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution Options
Requirements (Traced)
21. What are the techniques used in the task Conduct Stakeholder Analysis?
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
Delphi Estimation
Parametric Estimation
Document Analysis
22. What are the techniques used in Plan Business Analysis Approach?
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Required Capabilities
Customer
Requirements (Stated - Unconfirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Unconfirmed)
Decision Analysis - Process Modeling - Structured Walkthrough
23. What are the inputs to the task - Determine Solution Approach?
This person will be involved in monitoring the performance and effectiveness of a solution or its components.
Ethics
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Required Capabilities
Decision Making
24. What are the techniques used in Plan Business Analysis Activities?
Name - Value/Meanings - Description
User Story
Estimation - Functional Decomposition - Risk Analysis
Stakeholder Matrix - Onion Diagram
25. What should be considered when establishing a Change Management process?
Ethics
Determine the Process - Who will Authorize Changes - Impact Analysis - Wording of the Request - Coordinate Prioritization of Change
Focus Group
Organize Requirements
26. The goal of this task is to ensure that all requirements support the delivery of value to the business - fulfill its goal and objectives and meet a stakeholder need.
Validate Solution
Validate Requirements
Requirements (Approved)
Scenario
27. Rules that are intended to help determine when something is or is not true - or when things fall into a specific category. They are expressed as rules because they describe categorizations that may change over time.
Impact Analysis - Requirements Coverage - Requirements Allocation
Discounted Cash Flow - Net Present Value - Internal Rate of Return - Average Rate of Return - Pay Back Period - Cost-Benefit Analysis
Structural Rules
Requirements (Traced)
28. This knowledge area describes the tasks that are performed in order to ensure that solutions meet the business need and to facilitate successful implementation.
Requirements (Verified)
Solution Performance Assessment
Vendor Assessment
Solution Assessment & Validation
29. What are the inputs to the task Conduct Elicitation Activity?
Bottom-up Estimation
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements Management Plan - Scheduled Resources - Solution Scope & Business Case - Supporting Materials
Benchmarking
Horizontal Prototype
30. What are the tasks in the knowledge area - Solution Assessment & Validation?
Plan Business Analysis Approach - Conduct Stakeholder Analysis - Plan Business Analysis Activities - Plan Business Analysis Communication - Plan Requirements Management Process - Manage BA Performance
Assess Proposed Solution - Allocate Requirements - Assess Organizational Readiness - Define Transition Requirements - Validate Solution - Evaluate Solution Performance
System
Key Performance Indicator (KPI )
31. What are the 3 elements in the Assess Organizational Readiness?
Perform tailoring exercises
Cultural Assessment - Operational or Technical Assessment - Stakeholder Impact Analysis
Ethics - Trustworthiness - Personal Organization
Allocate Requirements
32. Checklist of characteristics to consider when considering non-functional requirements.
Document Analysis
Business Case; Stakeholder - Solution or Transition Requirements (Verified)
Requirements (Prioritized)
Reliability - Performance Efficiency - Operability - Security - Compatibility - Maintainability - Transferability
33. What are the inputs to the task Plan Requirements Management Process?
Evolutionary or Functional Prototype
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets
Specific - Measurable - Achievable - Relevant - Time-bound Objectives must be SMART.
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Requirements - Requirements Package
34. Communication of requirements does what for stakeholders?
Requirements Documentation - Requirements for Vendor Selection
Brings them to a Communication on understanding
Ethics
Use Case
35. 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.
Facilitation & Negotiation - Leadership & Influencing - Teamwork
Data Modeling
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Business Rules Analysis - Focus Groups - Functional Decomposition - Root Cause Analysis
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
36. This task ensures that requirement specifications and models meet the necessary standard of quality to allow them to be used effectively to guide further work. Requirements have been defined correctly.
Business Rules Analysis
Verify Requirements
Data Dictionary
Activity List
37. What describes how - when and why the business analyst will work with stakeholders?
Reliability - Performance Efficiency - Operability - Security - Compatibility - Maintainability - Transferability
The Business Analysis Communication Plan
Business Analysis Approach - BA Performance Assessment - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Problem Tracking
38. This prototype extends the initial interface requirements into a fully functioning system and requires a specialized prototyping tool or language.
Evolutionary or Functional Prototype
Activity List
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Required Capabilities
Problem Tracking - Baselining - Signoff
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
Requirements Management Plan - Solution Scope - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities - Stakeholder/Solution or Transition Requirements (Communicated or Traced)
Term and Fact Model
Brainstorming
Verify Requirements
40. What are the attributes of a Data Model?
Decision Analysis
Manage Solution Scope & Requirements - Manage Requirements Traceability - Maintain Requirements for Re-use - Prepare Requirements Package - Communicate Requirements
Fishbone Diagram - Five Whys
Name - Value/Meanings - Description
41. 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
Decision Making
Functional Decomposition
Verify Requirements
Data Dictionary & Glossary
42. What are the underlying competencies a BA should possess?
Document Elicitation Results task
Solution Approach
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving - Behavioral Characteristics - Business Knowledge - Communication Skills - Interaction Skills - Software Application
Requirements (Allocated)
43. What are stakeholder requirements?
Business Analysis Plan
They describe what a solution must be capable of doing to meet the needs of one or more stakeholder groups
Cultural Assessment - Operational or Technical Assessment - Stakeholder Impact Analysis
Reliability - Validity - Timeliness
44. What are the output(s) of the task - Validate Solution?
Identified Defects - Mitigating Actions - Solution Validation Assessment
Scenario
General Purpose Applications & Specialized Applications
Allocate Requirements
45. What are the techniques used in the task - Define Assumptions & Constraints?
Scheduled Resources - Supporting Materials
Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis
Verify Requirements
Operative Rules
46. 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
Operative Rules
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Solution (Constructed) - Requirements (Prioritized and Validated)
Requirements Management & Communication
47. 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.
Formal Documentation - Presentation - Model
Requirements - Requirements Management Plan
Observation
Organizational Knowledge
48. The objective of this technique is to determine how companies achieve their superior performance levels and use that information to design projects to improve operations of the enterprise.
Three-point Estimation
BABOK
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
Benchmarking
49. What is the output of the task Confirm Elicitation Results?
Requirements (Stated - Confirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Confirmed)
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Solution Performance Assessment
Requirements Management Plan - Solution Scope - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities - Stakeholder/Solution or Transition Requirements (Communicated or Traced)
Emotional and Cognitive
50. What are the Primitive Data Elements?
Name - Aliases - Values/Meanings - Description
Requirements (Analyzed)
Observation
Leadership