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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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1. This knowledge area describes how the BA assesses proposed solutions and determines which solution best fits the business need - identifies gaps and shortcomings to solutions and determines necessary workarounds or changes to the solution.






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






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






4. What are the strategies for a positive risk?






5. According to the BABOK 2.0 - what type of analysis generates STAKEHOLDER requirements?






6. What are the Behavioral Characteristics a BA should exhibit?






7. What is the output of the task Conduct Stakeholder Analysis?






8. Ability to find information - on-time completion of tasks - efficiency in the completion of work - ability to easily identify all outstanding work and the status of each work item.






9. What is the output of the task - Manage Requirements Traceability?






10. Involves assessing a situation - understanding it as fully as possible - and making judgments about possible solutions to the problem.






11. What are the elements of the task - Define Solution Scope?






12. This prototype extends the initial interface requirements into a fully functioning system and requires a specialized prototyping tool or language.






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






14. What is the output of the Plan Business Analysis Approach?






15. This will impose constraints to the effort to deploy the solution - including relationships that may exist between solution components.






16. Involved motivating people to act in ways that enable them to work together to achieve shared goals and objectives.






17. This knowledge area describes the problem definition and analysis - business case development - feasibility studies and the definition of solution scope.






18. 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






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






20. 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.






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






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






23. 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.






24. 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






25. What are the general modeling concepts that are relevant to business analysis?






26. 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.






27. What are the Cultural diversity issues that should be taken into account when planning communication?






28. What are some examples of stakeholder concerns?






29. List 3 possible forms of a requirements packages.






30. Name the 2 types of Software categories that assist in BA productivity.






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






32. What are the inputs for the task Plan Business Analysis Activities?






33. What are the techniques used in the task - Define Transition Requirements?






34. Divides requirements into 4 categories - Must - Should - Could - Won't






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






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






37. What are the tasks in Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring?






38. Use of parameters - multiplied by the number of hours. (COCOMO II - Function Point Counting - Use Case Points - and Story Points)






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






40. The purpose of _______________ is to ensure that a stakeholder's actual underlying needs are understood - rather than the their stated or superficial desires.






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






42. 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.






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






44. Two effective trade-off methods.






45. What are stakeholder requirements?






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






47. This knowledge area describes the behaviors - knowledge and other characteristics that support the effective performance of a BA.






48. When a conflict arises between stakeholders on one or more documented requirements - the first thing that needs to take place is what?






49. 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 -






50. Measures progress towards a strategic goal or objective.