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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

Subjects : certifications, business-skills

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1. Knowing the dependencies and relationships between requirements helps when determining the sequence in which requirements are to be addressed. Common relations are:
Operative Rules
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Required Capabilities
Leadership
Necessity - Effort - Subset - Cover - Value

2. What are some examples of stakeholder concerns?
Business Value - Business or Technical Risk - Implementation Difficulty - Likelihood of Success - Regulatory or Policy Compliance - Relationship to Other Requirements - Stakeholder Agreement - Urgency
Compliance with regulatory or other standards
Risk - assumptions - constraints - etc.
Observation

3. Long-term - ongoing and qualitative statements of a state or condition that the organization is seeking to establish and maintain.
Elimination
Acceptance & Evaluation Technique
Advantages of a Data Dictionary & Glossary
Goals

4. What is the output of the task - Define Business Need?
Risk Analysis
Verify Requirements
Perform tailoring exercises
Business Need

5. What are the inputs to the task - Specify & Model Requirements?
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Brainstorming - Interviews - Organizational Modeling - Process Modeling - Requirements Workshop - Risk Analysis - Scenarios & Use Cases - User Stories - Scope Modeling - Survey/Questionnaire - RACI Matrix
Absolute Reference - Author - Complexity - Ownership - Priority - Risks - Source - Stability - Status - Urgency
Requirements (Stated) - Requirements Structure
Elicitation Results

6. What are the underlying competencies a BA should possess?
Rolling Wave
Business Policy
Organizational Readiness Assessment - Requirements (Stated) - Solution (Deployed) - Solution (Designed)
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving - Behavioral Characteristics - Business Knowledge - Communication Skills - Interaction Skills - Software Application

7. What are the inputs to the task - Define Business Need?
Requirements Package
Organization Modeling
Determine the Process - Who will Authorize Changes - Impact Analysis - Wording of the Request - Coordinate Prioritization of Change
Business Goals & Objectives - Requirements (Stated)

8. Describes the effect a new solution will have on an organization and whether the organization is prepared for the organizational change the solution implementation will cause.
Requirements (Prioritized)
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Modeling - Organization Modeling - Data Modeling
Interface Analysis
Assess Organization Readiness

9. What are the techniques used in Plan Business Analysis Activities?
Compliance with regulatory or other standards
Solution Assessment & Validation
Requirements (Any Except Stated)
Estimation - Functional Decomposition - Risk Analysis

10. What are the inputs to the task - Assess Proposed Solution?
Business Requirements - Identified Defects - Solution Performance Metrics - Solution (Deployed)
Business Case
Business Analysis Communication Plan
Assumptions & Constraints - Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution Options

11. Performed to communicate - verify and validate requirements. Is a working session where invited participants review and discuss a set of requirements
Elimination
Bottom-up Estimation
Unique Number - Activity Description - Assumptions - Dependencies - Milestones
Structured Walkthrough

12. What are the tasks in the knowledge area - Solution Assessment & Validation?
Assess Proposed Solution - Allocate Requirements - Assess Organizational Readiness - Define Transition Requirements - Validate Solution - Evaluate Solution Performance
Assessment of Proposed Solution
Solution Approach
Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution (Designed) - Solution Scope

13. What are the techniques used in the task Manage Solution Scope & Requirements?
Problem Tracking - Baselining - Signoff
Decision Analysis - Problem Tacking - Risk Analysis
Systems Thinking
Problem or Vision Statement

14. This technique shows how information is input - processed - stored and output from a system in a visual representation.
Structured Walkthrough
Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Absolute Reference - Author - Complexity - Ownership - Priority - Risks - Source - Stability - Status - Urgency
Data Flow Diagrams

15. What are the techniques used in the task - Assess Proposed Solution?
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Decision Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Business Analysis Performance Metrics - Business Analysis Plan - Organization Performance Standards - Requirements Management Plan
Evaluate Solution Performance
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Requirements - Requirements Package

16. A systematic approach designed to elicit information from a person or group of people in an informal or formal setting by talking to an interviewee - asking relevant questions and documenting the responses.
Business Analysis Process Assets
Dependencies
All
Interviews

17. What are the inputs to the task - Define Business Case?
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Brainstorming - Interviews - Organizational Modeling - Process Modeling - Requirements Workshop - Risk Analysis - Scenarios & Use Cases - User Stories - Scope Modeling - Survey/Questionnaire - RACI Matrix
Assumptions & Constraints - Business Need - Solution Scope - Stakeholder Concerns
Implementation Approach
Non-functional Requirements Analysis

18. What describes how - when and why the business analyst will work with stakeholders?
The Business Analysis Communication Plan
Necessity - Effort - Subset - Cover - Value
Enterprise Analysis - often the starting point for initiating a new project
Name - Value/Meanings - Description

19. A diagram indicating how involved the stakeholder is with the solution.
Onion Diagram
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Structured Walkthrough
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements (Stated) - Solution Scope

20. What are the techniques used in the task Manage Business Analysis Performance?
Dependencies
Interviews - Lessons Learned Process - Metrics and KPIs - Problem Tracking - Process Modeling - Root Cause Analysis - Survey/Questionnaire - Variance Analysis
This person will be involved in monitoring the performance and effectiveness of a solution or its components.
Requirements (Validated)

21. To define the rules that govern decisions in an organization and that define - constrain or enable organization operations.
Business Principals
Throw-away Prototype
The Business Analysis Communication Plan
Business Rules Analysis

22. What are the techniques used in the task - Communicate Requirements?
Requirements Workshop - Structured Walkthrough
Solution Performance Assessment
This person will be involved in monitoring the performance and effectiveness of a solution or its components.
State Diagrams

23. What techniques are used in the task - Define Solution Scope?
Functional Decomposition - Interface Analysis - Scope Modeling - User Stories - Problem or Vision Statement
Decision Analysis - Process Modeling - Structured Walkthrough
Business Principles & Practices
Implementation Approach

24. Name the 2 types of Software categories that assist in BA productivity.
Evaluation Criteria
Vendor Assessment
SWOT Analysis
General Purpose Applications & Specialized Applications

25. Means of eliciting information from many people - sometimes anonymously - in a relatively short period of time
Business Goals & Objectives - Requirements (Stated)
Benefits - Costs - Risk Assessment - Results Measurement
Survey/Questionnaire
Requirements Package

26. What are the techniques used in the task - Determine Solution Approach?
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Decision Analysis - Estimation - SWOT Analysis - Feasibility Analysis
Problem Tracking - Baselining - Signoff
Solution Knowledge
Scenario

27. What are the inputs for the task Plan Business Analysis Activities?
Business Analysis Approach - BA Performance Assessment - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Brings them to a Communication on understanding
Scenarios & Use Cases
Compliance with regulatory or other standards

28. What are the techniques used in Plan Business Analysis Communication?
Solution Approach
This person will be involved in monitoring the performance and effectiveness of a solution or its components.
Structured Walkthrough
Benchmarking

29. What are the different types of learning styles?
Visual Learner - Auditory Learner - Kinesthetic Learner
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Decision Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Term and Fact Model
Facilitation & Negotiation - Leadership & Influencing - Teamwork

30. What are the inputs for the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?
Functional Decomposition
Enterprise Architecture - Solution Scope - Solution (Designed) - Stakeholder Concerns
Reliability - Performance Efficiency - Operability - Security - Compatibility - Maintainability - Transferability
Business Requirements - Identified Defects - Solution Performance Metrics - Solution (Deployed)

31. A good indicator has 5 characteristics:
Define Transitional Requirements
Decision Analysis - Risk Analysis - MoSCoW Analysis - Timeboxing/Budgeting - Voting
Requirements Package
Clear - Relevant - Economical - Adequate - Quantifiable

32. 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
Root Cause Analysis
Business Requirements - Identified Defects - Solution Performance Metrics - Solution (Deployed)
Customer
Acceptance & Evaluation Technique

33. When performing root cause analysis as part of the Validate Solution task - what stakeholder may be involved?
Coverage Matrix - Table or spreadsheet used to manage tracing.
Implementation SME
Systems Thinking
Acceptance - Transfer - Avoidance - Mitigation

34. What is the output of the task Plan Requirements Management Process?
Ongoing Cost versus Initial Investment - Opportunity Costs - Necessity - Sunk Costs
Requirements Management Plan
Cohesive - Complete - Consistent - Correct - Feasible - Modifiable - Unambiguous - Testable
Brainstorming

35. What is the output of the task Plan Business Analysis Activities?
Evaluation
Data Modeling
Business Analysis Plan
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Business Rules Analysis - Focus Groups - Functional Decomposition - Root Cause Analysis

36. Organizational culture - Stakeholder preference - complexity - organizational maturity and availability of resources are all factors used to do what?
Focus Group
Business Analysis Plan
Perform tailoring exercises
Validate Solution

37. What is the output of the task Confirm Elicitation Results?
Requirements (Stated - Confirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Confirmed)
Tracing Requirements
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Required Capabilities
Repository - Traceability - Requirement Attributes - Prioritization Process - Change Management - Tailoring the Requirements Management Process

38. The purpose of _______________ is to ensure that a stakeholder's actual underlying needs are understood - rather than the their stated or superficial desires.
Elicitation
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements (Stated) - Solution Scope
Decision Analysis
Formal Documentation - Presentation - Model

39. 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 -
Organize Requirements
Problem Solving
Decision Analysis - Focus Groups - Observation - Survey/Questionnaire
Stakeholder Matrix - Onion Diagram

40. What are the techniques used in the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?
Decision Analysis - Focus Groups - Observation - Survey/Questionnaire
Rolling Wave
Parametric Estimation
Validate Requirements

41. What are some of the commonly used requirement attributes?
Creative Thinking - Decision Making - Learning - Problem Solving - Systems Thinking
MoSCoW Analysis
Absolute Reference - Author - Complexity - Ownership - Priority - Risks - Source - Stability - Status - Urgency
Acceptance - Transfer - Avoidance - Mitigation

42. What are the techniques used in the task - Assess Capability Gaps?
Leadership
Evaluation
Document Analysis - SWOT Analysis
Solution Scope

43. What are the elements of the task - Define Solution Scope?
Solution Scope Definition - Implementation Approach - Dependencies
Solution (Constructed) - Requirements (Prioritized and Validated)
Benchmarking
Business Need - Solution Scope & Business Case - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities

44. This knowledge area involves analyzing stakeholder needs to define solutions that meet those needs - assessing the current state of the business to identify and recommend improvements and the verification and validation of the resulting requirements.
Three-point Estimation
Interviews - Lessons Learned Process - Metrics and KPIs - Problem Tracking - Process Modeling - Root Cause Analysis - Survey/Questionnaire - Variance Analysis
Requirements Analysis
Facilitation & Negotiation - Leadership & Influencing - Teamwork

45. Details user interface requirements and integrates them with other requirements such as use cases - scenarios - data and business rules. Stakeholders often find this to be a concrete means of identifying - describing and validating their interface ne
This person will be involved in monitoring the performance and effectiveness of a solution or its components.
Document Analysis
Prototyping
Historic Analysis

46. Involves assessing a situation - understanding it as fully as possible - and making judgments about possible solutions to the problem.
Requirements (Approved)
Organize Requirements
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving
Lessons Learned Process

47. What is the output of the task - Assess Capability Gaps?
Required Capabilities
Term and Fact Model
Manage Solution Scope & Requirements - Manage Requirements Traceability - Maintain Requirements for Re-use - Prepare Requirements Package - Communicate Requirements
Relationship to Time - Relationship to Task Completion - Relationship to Contracts - Relationships to Formal and Informal Authority

48. 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.
Sequence Diagrams
Onion Diagram
Document Elicitation Results task
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Business Rules Analysis - Focus Groups - Functional Decomposition - Root Cause Analysis

49. What are the techniques used in the task - Validate Solution?
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving - Behavioral Characteristics - Business Knowledge - Communication Skills - Interaction Skills - Software Application
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Problem Tracking - Root Cause Analysis
Compliance with regulatory or other standards
Requirements (Analyzed)

50. What are the inputs to the task - Prioritize Requirements?
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Requirements - Requirements Package
Business Case - Business Need - Requirements - Requirements Management Plan - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Decision Analysis - Risk Analysis - MoSCoW Analysis - Timeboxing/Budgeting - Voting