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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning
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1. What are the inputs to the task - Validate Solution?
Solution (Constructed) - Requirements (Prioritized and Validated)
Business Analysis Communication Plan
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Decision Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Primary stakeholders in the Organize Requirements task
2. Two types of conflict.
Focus Group
Emotional and Cognitive
MoSCoW Analysis
Business Need - Solution Scope & Business Case - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
3. 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.
Enterprise Analysis
Assess Organization Readiness
BABOK
Acceptance & Evaluation Technique
4. What is the output of the task - Define Transition Requirements?
Transition Requirements
Business Analysis Approach - BA Performance Assessment - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Problem Tracking - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Ethics
5. What is the output of the task Plan Requirements Management Process?
To record the conflict in the Requirements Issues Log.
Conduct Elicitation Activity
Requirements Management Plan
Validate Solution
6. What techniques are used in the task Manage Requirements Traceability?
Coverage Matrix - Table or spreadsheet used to manage tracing.
MoSCoW Analysis
Brainstorming
Customer
7. What are the inputs to the task Plan Requirements Management Process?
Allocate Requirements
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets
Prototyping
Analogous Estimation
8. What are the techniques used in the task Define Business Need?
Monitoring
Facilitation
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Business Rules Analysis - Focus Groups - Functional Decomposition - Root Cause Analysis
Business Analysis Plan
9. How is the Operational Support stakeholder utilized in the Evaluate Solution Performance task?
This person will be involved in monitoring the performance and effectiveness of a solution or its components.
Allocate Requirements
Historic Analysis
Vendor Assessment
10. Is generally understood to describe just one way that an actor can accomplish a particular goal
Allocate Requirements
Prioritize Requirements - Organize Requirements - Specify & Model Requirements - Define Assumptions & Constraints - Verify Requirements - Validate Requirements
Scenario
Requirements (Validated)
11. List 3 possible forms of a requirements packages.
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving - Behavioral Characteristics - Business Knowledge - Communication Skills - Interaction Skills - Software Application
Formal Documentation - Presentation - Model
Elicitation Results
Communicated Requirements
12. A means to elicit requirements by studying available documentation on existing and comparable solutions and identifying relevant information. - Not starting from a blank page.- Leveraging existing materials to discover and/or confirm requirements. -
Vendor Assessment
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Business Rules Analysis - Decision Analysis - Functional Decomposition - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases
Document Analysis
Cognitive Conflict
13. What factors guide technique selection?
Advantages of a Data Dictionary & Glossary
Specific - Measurable - Achievable - Relevant - Time-bound Objectives must be SMART.
Decision Analysis
Business Domain - Corporate Culture & Environment - Skills of the Analyst - Requirement Deliverable
14. What are the techniques for the task - Verify Requirements?
Business Analysis Communication Plan
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Organizational Process Assets
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Problem Tracking - Structured Walkthrough - Checklists
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements
15. 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.
Requirements Structure
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Solution Performance Assessment
Primary stakeholders in the Organize Requirements task
Validate Requirements
16. What is the output of the task Conduct Stakeholder Analysis?
Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Visual Learner - Auditory Learner - Kinesthetic Learner
Business Principals
Benefits - Costs - Risk Assessment - Results Measurement
17. According to the BABOK 2.0 - what type of analysis generates STAKEHOLDER requirements?
Glossary
Requirements (Any Except Stated)
Root Cause Analysis
Requirements Analysis
18. What is the output of the task - Specify & Model Requirements?
Organizational Readiness Assessment - Requirements (Stated) - Solution (Deployed) - Solution (Designed)
Requirements (Analyzed)
Organizational Knowledge
Business Requirements - Stakeholder Requirements - Solution Requirements - Transition Requirements
19. 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
Requirements Analysis
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
Timeboxing
Requirements (Prioritized)
20. Revised process and templates for BA deliverables should be analyzed and documented and lessons learned should be recorded.
MoSCoW Analysis
Share - Enhance - Exploit
The Business Analysis Communication Plan
Business Analysis Process Assets
21. What are the inputs of the task Plan Business Analysis Communication?
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Enterprise Analysis
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Business Rules Analysis - Focus Groups - Functional Decomposition - Root Cause Analysis
Business Domain - Corporate Culture & Environment - Skills of the Analyst - Requirement Deliverable
22. Name some commonly used financial valuation techniques.
Fishbone Diagram - Five Whys
Confirm Elicitation Results
Assess Proposed Solution - Allocate Requirements - Assess Organizational Readiness - Define Transition Requirements - Validate Solution - Evaluate Solution Performance
Discounted Cash Flow - Net Present Value - Internal Rate of Return - Average Rate of Return - Pay Back Period - Cost-Benefit Analysis
23. The decomposition of activities and tasks creates?
Activity List
Specific - Measurable - Achievable - Relevant - Time-bound Objectives must be SMART.
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Decision Analysis - Estimation - SWOT Analysis - Feasibility Analysis
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Business Rules Analysis - Focus Groups - Functional Decomposition - Root Cause Analysis
24. Characteristics that are common to all organizations with a similar purpose and structure - whether or not the are in the same industry.
Business Principals
Advantages of a Data Dictionary & Glossary
Implementation Approach
Business Requirements - Stakeholder Requirements - Solution Requirements - Transition Requirements
25. 7 knowledge areas of ________ : Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring - Elicitation - Requirements Management & Communication - Enterprise Analysis - Requirements Analysis - Solution Assessment & Validation - Underlying Competencies
Cognitive Conflict
Problem or Vision Statement
General Purpose Applications & Specialized Applications
BABOK
26. What are the tasks of the Elicitation Knowledge Area?
Business Analysis Approach
BABOK
Requirements (Validated)
Prepare for Elicitation - Conduct Elicitation Activity - Document Elicitation Results - Confirm Elicitation Results
27. 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 -
Problem Solving
Sequence Diagrams
Business Analysis Plan
Enterprise Analysis
28. What is the output of the task - Define Business Case?
Elicitation
Solution Approach
Business Case
Requirements Package
29. A structured way to capture requirements. May be used to scope - discover - define - prioritize and reach closure on requirements for the target system. Considered one of the most effective ways to deliver high quality requirements quickly.
Operative Rules
Requirements Workshop
Problem Tracking - Baselining - Signoff
Business Goals & Objectives - Requirements (Stated)
30. What are the internal factors in a SWOT Analysis?
Define Transitional Requirements
Cultural Assessment - Operational or Technical Assessment - Stakeholder Impact Analysis
Lessons Learned Process
Strengths - Weaknesses
31. To define the rules that govern decisions in an organization and that define - constrain or enable organization operations.
Perform tailoring exercises
The Sponsor
Tracing Requirements
Business Rules Analysis
32. This will impose constraints to the effort to deploy the solution - including relationships that may exist between solution components.
Cognitive Conflict
Enterprise Architecture - Solution Scope - Solution (Designed) - Stakeholder Concerns
Requirements Analysis
Dependencies
33. A diagram indicating how involved the stakeholder is with the solution.
Onion Diagram
Requirements (Approved)
Evaluate Solution Performance
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Models - Focus Groups - Interviews - Survey/Questionnaire - Organizational Modeling - Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Force Field Analysis
34. The goal of this task is to create a set of views of the requirements for the new business solution that are comprehensive - complete - consistent and understood from all stakeholder perspectives.
Term and Fact Model
Organize Requirements
Acceptance Criteria
Define Transitional Requirements
35. What are the strategies for a positive risk?
Share - Enhance - Exploit
Requirements Analysis
Allocate Requirements
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Decision Analysis - Estimation - SWOT Analysis - Feasibility Analysis
36. A good indicator has 5 characteristics:
Transition Requirements
Document Analysis - SWOT Analysis
Clear - Relevant - Economical - Adequate - Quantifiable
Business Case - Business Need - Requirements - Requirements Management Plan - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
37. What techniques are used in the task - Define Solution Scope?
Interviews - Observation
Visual Learner - Auditory Learner - Kinesthetic Learner
Communicated Requirements
Functional Decomposition - Interface Analysis - Scope Modeling - User Stories - Problem or Vision Statement
38. 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.
Evolutionary or Functional Prototype
Implementation Approach
User Story
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements (Stated) - Solution Scope
39. What are the underlying competencies a BA should possess?
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving - Behavioral Characteristics - Business Knowledge - Communication Skills - Interaction Skills - Software Application
Relationship to Time - Relationship to Task Completion - Relationship to Contracts - Relationships to Formal and Informal Authority
Organize Requirements
Scenario
40. A specific - actionable - testable directive that is under the control of an organization and supports a business policy.
General Purpose Applications & Specialized Applications
Structured Walkthrough
Business Rule
Document Elicitation Results task
41. Communication of requirements does what for stakeholders?
MoSCoW Analysis
Absolute Reference - Author - Complexity - Ownership - Priority - Risks - Source - Stability - Status - Urgency
User Story
Brings them to a Communication on understanding
42. What are the inputs for the task - Prepare Requirements Package?
Business Domain - Corporate Culture & Environment - Skills of the Analyst - Requirement Deliverable
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Metrics & KPIs - Prototyping - Risk Analysis - Structured Walkthrough
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements - Requirements Structure
Decision Analysis - Focus Groups - Observation - Survey/Questionnaire
43. Defines the key terms and data relevant to a business domain.
Requirements Analysis
Cultural Assessment - Operational or Technical Assessment - Stakeholder Impact Analysis
Data Dictionary & Glossary
Solution (Constructed) - Requirements (Prioritized and Validated)
44. What are the techniques used in the task Manage Solution Scope & Requirements?
Problem Tracking - Baselining - Signoff
Ethics
Unique Number - Activity Description - Assumptions - Dependencies - Milestones
Assess Organization Readiness
45. 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.
Requirements (Stated - Confirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Confirmed)
Problem Tracking
Business Principles & Practices
Verify Requirements
46. A continuous process of collecting data to determine how well a solution has been implemented compared to expected results.
Monitoring
Requirements Workshop - Structured Walkthrough
Conduct Elicitation Activity
Business Case
47. What is the output of the task - Assess Proposed Solution?
Prioritize Requirements - Organize Requirements - Specify & Model Requirements - Define Assumptions & Constraints - Verify Requirements - Validate Requirements
Assessment of Proposed Solution
Define Business Need - Access Capability Gaps - Determine Solution Approach - Define Solution Scope - Define Business Case
Brings them to a Communication on understanding
48. Approach to decision making that examines and models the possible consequences of different decisions. Make an optimal decision under conditions of uncertainty.
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements Management Plan - Scheduled Resources - Solution Scope & Business Case - Supporting Materials
Reliability - Validity - Timeliness
Decision Analysis
Metrics & KPIs
49. What is the output of the task - Communicate Requirements?
Communicated Requirements
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Required Capabilities
Decision Analysis
Perform tailoring exercises
50. This technique shows how information is input - processed - stored and output from a system in a visual representation.
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Requirements - Requirements Package
User Story
Data Flow Diagrams
Facilitation & Negotiation - Leadership & Influencing - Teamwork