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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What techniques are used in the task - Define Solution Scope?
Business Need - Solution Scope & Business Case - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Functional Decomposition - Interface Analysis - Scope Modeling - User Stories - Problem or Vision Statement
Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring
Business Analysis Process Assets
2. Is generally understood to describe just one way that an actor can accomplish a particular goal
Implementation SME
Scenario
Horizontal Prototype
Business Case
3. What is the output of the task Plan Business Analysis Communication?
Business Analysis Communication Plan
The Business Analysis Communication Plan
Interviews
Focus Group
4. The goal of this task is to meet with stakeholder(s) to gather information regarding their needs.
Cultural Assessment - Operational or Technical Assessment - Stakeholder Impact Analysis
Conduct Elicitation Activity
Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis
Data Modeling
5. A requirement that does not deliver direct or indirect value to a stakeholder is a strong candidate for what?
Assumptions & Constraints - Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution Options
Horizontal Prototype
Elimination
Opportunity Cost
6. What are the characteristics of Interaction Skills?
Facilitation & Negotiation - Leadership & Influencing - Teamwork
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets
Required Capabilities
Solution Assessment & Validation
7. The decomposition of activities and tasks creates?
Validate Solution
Structured Walkthrough
Activity List
Analogous Estimation
8. What are the inputs for the task - Maintain Requirements for Re-use?
Business Domain - Corporate Culture & Environment - Skills of the Analyst - Requirement Deliverable
Requirements Structure
Requirements (Approved)
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements
9. 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.
Brings them to a Communication on understanding
Scenarios & Use Cases
Business Analysis Plan
Verify Requirements
10. 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
Data Flow Diagrams
Scope Modeling
Decision Analysis - Focus Groups - Observation - Survey/Questionnaire
Visual Learner - Auditory Learner - Kinesthetic Learner
11. 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
Systems Thinking
Relationship to Time - Relationship to Task Completion - Relationship to Contracts - Relationships to Formal and Informal Authority
Perform tailoring exercises
Name - Aliases - Values/Meanings - Description
12. What should be considered when establishing a Change Management process?
Tracing Requirements
Requirements (Any Except Stated)
Organizational Readiness Assessment - Requirements (Stated) - Solution (Deployed) - Solution (Designed)
Determine the Process - Who will Authorize Changes - Impact Analysis - Wording of the Request - Coordinate Prioritization of Change
13. Elements identified for each activity and task.
Requirements (Maintained and Reusable)
SWOT Analysis
Unique Number - Activity Description - Assumptions - Dependencies - Milestones
Prioritize Requirements - Organize Requirements - Specify & Model Requirements - Define Assumptions & Constraints - Verify Requirements - Validate Requirements
14. 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.
Underlying Competencies
Allocate Requirements
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Business Rules Analysis - Focus Groups - Functional Decomposition - Root Cause Analysis
Plan Business Analysis Approach - Conduct Stakeholder Analysis - Plan Business Analysis Activities - Plan Business Analysis Communication - Plan Requirements Management Process - Manage BA Performance
15. Involves assessing a situation - understanding it as fully as possible - and making judgments about possible solutions to the problem.
Requirements Analysis
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving - Behavioral Characteristics - Business Knowledge - Communication Skills - Interaction Skills - Software Application
Decision Analysis - Problem Tacking - Risk Analysis
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving
16. 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.
Responsible - Accountable - Consulted - Informed
Identified Defects - Mitigating Actions - Solution Validation Assessment
Structural Rules
Learning
17. Means of eliciting information from many people - sometimes anonymously - in a relatively short period of time
Business Analysis Approach - BA Performance Assessment - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Data Dictionary & Glossary
Assumptions & Constraints
Survey/Questionnaire
18. What are the techniques used in the task - Validate Requirements?
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Metrics & KPIs - Prototyping - Risk Analysis - Structured Walkthrough
Benefits - Costs - Risk Assessment - Results Measurement
Industry Knowledge
Elimination
19. Business rules require a defined glossary of terms and an understanding of the relationships between them - this is known as:
Term and Fact Model
Delphi Estimation
Assumptions & Constraints - Business Need - Solution Scope - Stakeholder Concerns
Implementation Approach
20. What techniques are used in the task Prepare for Elicitation?
Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Assumptions & Constraints - Business Need - Solution Scope - Stakeholder Concerns
Repository - Traceability - Requirement Attributes - Prioritization Process - Change Management - Tailoring the Requirements Management Process
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
21. What is the output to the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?
A statement of the needs of a particular stakeholder or class of stakeholders
Solution Performance Assessment
Estimation - Functional Decomposition - Risk Analysis
Implementation SME
22. What is the output of the task - Communicate Requirements?
Share - Enhance - Exploit
Reliability - Validity - Timeliness
Communicated Requirements
Automate or Simplify Work - Improve Access to Information - Reduce Complexity of Interfaces - Increase Consistency of Behavior - Eliminate Redundancy
23. What knowledge area discusses the business analysis activities necessary to identify a business need - problem or opportunity - define the capture of the solution and justify the investment necessary to deliver the solution.
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Decision Analysis - Estimation - SWOT Analysis - Feasibility Analysis
Enterprise Analysis - often the starting point for initiating a new project
Solution Assessment & Validation
Organizational Readiness Assessment - Requirements (Stated) - Solution (Deployed) - Solution (Designed)
24. What is a STAKEHOLDER requirement - according to the BABOK 2.0?
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Problem Tracking - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Business Need - Expert Judgment - Organizational Process Assets
A statement of the needs of a particular stakeholder or class of stakeholders
Primary stakeholders in the Organize Requirements task
25. 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
Brings them to a Communication on understanding
Estimation
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements
Document Analysis
26. What factors guide technique selection?
Business Domain - Corporate Culture & Environment - Skills of the Analyst - Requirement Deliverable
Interviews
Organize Requirements
Risk Analysis
27. A continuous process of collecting data to determine how well a solution has been implemented compared to expected results.
They describe what a solution must be capable of doing to meet the needs of one or more stakeholder groups
Decision Analysis
Monitoring
Clear - Relevant - Economical - Adequate - Quantifiable
28. Who is the primary stakeholder in the Define Business Case task?
Scheduled Resources - Supporting Materials
Implementation Approach
The Sponsor
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
29. Measures progress towards a strategic goal or objective.
Business Need
Sequence Diagrams
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Data Modeling - Functional Decomposition - Organizational Modeling - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases - Scope Modeling - User Stories
Key Performance Indicator (KPI )
30. 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.
Impact Analysis - Requirements Coverage - Requirements Allocation
Visual Learner - Auditory Learner - Kinesthetic Learner
Data Modeling
Implementation Approach
31. What is the output of the task Confirm Elicitation Results?
Requirements (Stated - Confirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Confirmed)
Decision Analysis - Estimation - Metrics & KPIs - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Vendor Assessment
This person will be involved in monitoring the performance and effectiveness of a solution or its components.
Ethics - Trustworthiness - Personal Organization
32. A package should contain a consistent - cohesive and coherent set of requirements. This describes the ____________.
Enterprise Architecture - Solution Scope - Solution (Designed) - Stakeholder Concerns
Onion Diagram
Requirements Structure
Solution (Constructed) - Requirements (Prioritized and Validated)
33. What are the elements of the task Plan Requirements Management Process?
All
Ongoing Cost versus Initial Investment - Opportunity Costs - Necessity - Sunk Costs
Repository - Traceability - Requirement Attributes - Prioritization Process - Change Management - Tailoring the Requirements Management Process
Analogous Estimation
34. What is the output of the task - Organize Requirements?
Requirements Structure
Personal Organization
Operative Rules
Data Dictionary
35. What is the output of the task Prepare for Elicitation?
Scheduled Resources - Supporting Materials
Impact Analysis
Plan Business Analysis Approach - Conduct Stakeholder Analysis - Plan Business Analysis Activities - Plan Business Analysis Communication - Plan Requirements Management Process - Manage BA Performance
Influence on the project - organizational - project health and other stakeholders
36. 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
Define Transitional Requirements
Requirements (Prioritized)
Business Policy
Requirements Management & Communication
37. Involved motivating people to act in ways that enable them to work together to achieve shared goals and objectives.
Visual Learner - Auditory Learner - Kinesthetic Learner
Allocate Requirements
To record the conflict in the Requirements Issues Log.
Leadership
38. What is the output of the task - Define Business Need?
Business Need
Conduct Elicitation Activity
Interface Analysis
Solution Scope Definition - Implementation Approach - Dependencies
39. What are the strategies for a negative risk?
Acceptance - Transfer - Avoidance - Mitigation
Validate Requirements
Interviews - Observation
Delphi Estimation
40. What is the output of the task Manage Solution Scope & Requirements?
Requirements (Approved)
Solution Scope Definition - Implementation Approach - Dependencies
Coverage Matrix - Table or spreadsheet used to manage tracing.
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Metrics & KPIs - Prototyping - Risk Analysis - Structured Walkthrough
41. 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 Case; Stakeholder - Solution or Transition Requirements (Verified)
Compliance with regulatory or other standards
Ethics
Brainstorming
42. What are the techniques used in the task - Assess Capability Gaps?
Business Principles & Practices
Document Analysis - SWOT Analysis
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Requirements - Requirements Package
Requirements (Stated - Confirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Confirmed)
43. Elements of a Requirements Management Plan include?
Relationships - Impact Analysis - Configuration Management System
Tracing Requirements
Decision Making
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Decision Analysis - Estimation - SWOT Analysis - Feasibility Analysis
44. What are the inputs to the task Manage Business Analysis Performance?
Requirements Management & Communication
Business Analysis Performance Metrics - Business Analysis Plan - Organization Performance Standards - Requirements Management Plan
Relationship to Time - Relationship to Task Completion - Relationship to Contracts - Relationships to Formal and Informal Authority
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Requirements - Requirements Package
45. What are the techniques used in the task - Prioritize Requirements?
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving - Behavioral Characteristics - Business Knowledge - Communication Skills - Interaction Skills - Software Application
Decision Analysis - Risk Analysis - MoSCoW Analysis - Timeboxing/Budgeting - Voting
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Problem Tracking - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Business Case; Stakeholder - Solution or Transition Requirements (Verified)
46. What are the tasks in Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring?
Elimination of Dominated Alternative - Ranking Objects on a Similar Scale
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Problem Tracking - Structured Walkthrough - Checklists
MoSCoW Analysis
Plan Business Analysis Approach - Conduct Stakeholder Analysis - Plan Business Analysis Activities - Plan Business Analysis Communication - Plan Requirements Management Process - Manage BA Performance
47. Name the 2 types of Stakeholder maps.
This person will be involved in monitoring the performance and effectiveness of a solution or its components.
Stakeholder Matrix - Onion Diagram
Requirements (Validated)
Interviews
48. What techniques are used in the task Manage Requirements Traceability?
Coverage Matrix - Table or spreadsheet used to manage tracing.
Conduct Elicitation Activity
Acceptance - Transfer - Avoidance - Mitigation
Implementation Approach
49. When a requirement is changed - the BA can easily review all the related requirements and software components in order to understand the impact of the change.
Business Analysis Approach - BA Performance Assessment - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Business Need - Expert Judgment - Organizational Process Assets
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Impact Analysis
50. What are the characteristics of a Problem Record?
Plan Business Analysis Approach - Conduct Stakeholder Analysis - Plan Business Analysis Activities - Plan Business Analysis Communication - Plan Requirements Management Process - Manage BA Performance
Data Dictionary & Glossary
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
Solution Scope Definition - Implementation Approach - Dependencies