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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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1. Techniques used in the task Plan Requirements Management Process.






2. What are the factors of influence by stakeholders on a project?






3. Strengths - Weaknesses - Opportunities - Threats - A valuable tool to quickly analyze various aspects of the current state of the business process undergoing change.






4. Define requirements for capabilities needed to move from an existing solution to a new solution.






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






6. Understanding of the competitive forces that shape an industry - understand the various customer segments that the industry services and the demographic or other characteristics common to that segment.






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






8. 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






9. What are the techniques used in the task - Validate Requirements?






10. What is the output of the Manage Business Analysis Performance task?






11. 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.






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






13. What is the output of the task - Assess Proposed Solution?






14. 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.






15. What should be considered when establishing a Change Management process?






16. 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.






17. 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.






18. What are the techniques used in the task - Allocate Resources?






19. What are the characteristics of quality for a requirements?






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






21. Three types of organizational structures






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






23. 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






24. Elements of a Requirements Management Plan include?






25. What are the techniques used in Plan Business Analysis Approach?






26. What are the inputs to the task Manage Solution Scope & Requirements?






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






28. Organizational culture - Stakeholder preference - complexity - organizational maturity and availability of resources are all factors used to do what?






29. Models a deep - and usually narrow slice of the entire system's functionality.






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






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






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






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






34. Means of eliciting information from many people - sometimes anonymously - in a relatively short period of time






35. 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






36. What are the elements of Communication Skills?






37. 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.






38. What are some of the key variables used in determining the priority of a requirement?






39. Documents terms unique to a domain.






40. What is the output to the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?






41. The BA is a stakeholder in ______ business analysis activities.






42. What are the inputs to the task - Specify & Model Requirements?






43. 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






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






45. What are the inputs to the task - Determine Solution Approach?






46. Most optimistic estimate; most pessimistic estimate; most likely estimate






47. What is the output of the task - Verify Requirements?






48. The purpose is to measure the performance of solutions - solution components - and other matters of interest to stakeholders.






49. What is the output of the task Plan Business Analysis Communication?






50. Name the 2 types of Stakeholder maps.