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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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1. Elicitation Results are the inputs for the ____________






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






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






4. This knowledge area describes the tasks that are performed in order to ensure that solutions meet the business need and to facilitate successful implementation.






5. Limited to "as-is" perspective. - Existing documentation may not be up-to-date or valid. - Can be a time-consuming and even tedious process to locate the relevant information






6. What are the elements of the area - Analytical Thinking and Problem Solving - Successful generation of new ideas - application of new ideas to resolve existing problems - willingness of stakeholders to accept new approaches.






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






8. What is the output of the task - Prioritize Requirements?






9. What is the output of the task - Define Assumptions & Constraints?






10. 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.






11. Two effective trade-off methods.






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






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






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






15. What stakeholder receives noticeable negative impact if information is incorrectly transferred from the old to new solution?






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






17. 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






18. What is the output of the task - Allocate Resources?






19. This technique shows how information is input - processed - stored and output from a system in a visual representation.






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. To identify interfaces between solutions and/or solution components and define requirements that describe how they will interact.






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






23. To identify and manage areas of uncertainty that can impact an initiative - solution - or organization.






24. The purpose is to describe the required qualities of a system - such as its usability and performance characteristics.






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






26. What are the inputs for the task - Prepare Requirements Package?






27. List 3 possible forms of a requirements packages.






28. The goal of this task is validate that the stated requirements expressed by the stakeholder match the stakeholder's understanding of the problem and the stakeholder's needs. Analyst's understanding conforms to the actual desire or intentions of the s






29. 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.






30. The knowledge area that covers how BAs determine which activities are necessary in order to complete a business analysis effort.






31. Set of requirements that will be used to choose between multiple solutions.






32. 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.






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






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






35. What are the Primitive Data Elements?






36. 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.






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






38. What is the output of the task - Define Transition Requirements?






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






40. Two types of conflict.






41. 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?






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






43. The decomposition of activities and tasks creates?






44. Useful for ensuring that all stakeholders are in agreement on the format and content of relevant information. Capturing these definitions in a single model ensures that these terms will be used consistently.






45. What are the inputs to the task Plan Requirements Management Process?






46. What are the characteristics of Interaction Skills?






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






48. What are the techniques used in Plan Business Analysis Activities?






49. What techniques are used in the task - Prepare Requirements Package?






50. A diagram indicating how involved the stakeholder is with the solution.