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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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1. 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?






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






3. Ensure that the solution meets the business need and determine the most appropriate response to identified defects.






4. To define the rules that govern decisions in an organization and that define - constrain or enable organization operations.






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






6. What are the techniques used in the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?






7. 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






8. What are the inputs for the task - Define Transitional Requirements?






9. What techniques are used in the task Manage Requirements Traceability?






10. Creates a conceptual model of the work that needs to be completed to deliver the new business solution.






11. 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.






12. Communication of requirements does what for stakeholders?






13. Used to describe the roles - responsibilities and reporting structures that exist within an organization and to align those structures with the organization's goals.






14. What are the tasks in the knowledge area - Requirements Analysis?






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






16. Elicitation Results are the inputs for the ____________






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






18. Benefits that could have been achieved with an alternative investment rather than this one.






19. Are used to describe the scope of analysis or the scope of a solution. Serve as a basis for defining and delimiting the scope of business analysis and project work. Allow the definition of a "complete" scope—that is - the boundaries of the scope corr






20. What are the inputs to the task Conduct Elicitation Activity?






21. What are the inputs to the task - Organize Requirements?






22. What is the output of the task - Define Business Need?






23. Measures progress towards a strategic goal or objective.






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






25. 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






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






27. 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






28. A means to elicit requirements by studying available documentation on existing and comparable solutions and identifying relevant information. - Not starting from a blank page.- Leveraging existing materials to discover and/or confirm requirements. -






29. What are the inputs for the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?






30. The people involved - the interactions between them - the external forces affecting their behavior and all other relevant elements and factors.






31. What does RACI stand for?






32. 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.






33. 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






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






35. 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.






36. What are the techniques used in Plan Business Analysis Communication?






37. 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.






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






39. Name the 2 types of Stakeholder maps.






40. 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 -






41. What are the inputs to the task Manage Business Analysis Performance?






42. The skill of moderating discussions among a group or enable all participants to effectively articulate their views on a topic under discussion and to further ensure that participants in the discussion are able to recognize and appreciate the differin






43. What are the inputs to the task - Validate Solution?






44. What are the techniques used in the task Conduct Stakeholder Analysis?






45. What are the techniques used in the task - Define Assumptions & Constraints?






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






47. 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






48. Maps the level of stakeholder influence and interest in a project.






49. The minimum set of requirements that must be met in order for a particular solution to be worth implementing.






50. 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.