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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What are stakeholder requirements?
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets
They describe what a solution must be capable of doing to meet the needs of one or more stakeholder groups
Functional Decomposition
Structural Rules
2. List 3 possible forms of a requirements packages.
Formal Documentation - Presentation - Model
Benchmarking
Business Analysis Performance Assessment - Business Analysis Process Assets - Includes a comparison of planned versus actual performance - understanding the root cause of variances from the plan and other information to help understand the level of
Dependencies
3. What does RACI stand for?
Acceptance & Evaluation Technique
Ethics
Reliability - Performance Efficiency - Operability - Security - Compatibility - Maintainability - Transferability
Responsible - Accountable - Consulted - Informed
4. The skill of moderating discussions among a group or enable all participants to effectively articulate their views on a topic under discussion and to further ensure that participants in the discussion are able to recognize and appreciate the differin
Solution Knowledge
Business Analysis Process Assets
Trustworthiness
Facilitation
5. Elicitation Results are the inputs for the ____________
Elicitation Results
Lessons Learned Process
Business Principles & Practices
Document Elicitation Results task
6. What are the tasks in the knowledge area - Enterprise Analysis?
Evaluation Criteria
Define Business Need - Access Capability Gaps - Determine Solution Approach - Define Solution Scope - Define Business Case
Interviews - Lessons Learned Process - Metrics and KPIs - Problem Tracking - Process Modeling - Root Cause Analysis - Survey/Questionnaire - Variance Analysis
Solution Knowledge
7. Used to describe the roles - responsibilities and reporting structures that exist within an organization and to align those structures with the organization's goals.
SWOT Analysis
Business Need - Expert Judgment - Organizational Process Assets
Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring
Organization Modeling
8. Maps the level of stakeholder influence and interest in a project.
BABOK
Stakeholder Matrix
Budgeting
Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring
9. What are the inputs to the task - Prioritize Requirements?
Ethics - Trustworthiness - Personal Organization
Horizontal Prototype
Requirements Documentation - Requirements for Vendor Selection
Business Case - Business Need - Requirements - Requirements Management Plan - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
10. Use of a similar project as the basis for developing estimates for the current project. Also known as "top-down" estimating. This is usually done at the beginning of the project or project phase and more detailed estimates follow as more is known.
Business Principles & Practices
Timeboxing
Interviews
Analogous Estimation
11. What are the inputs to the task - Define Business Case?
Requirements Analysis
Elicitation
Name - Aliases - Values/Meanings - Description
Assumptions & Constraints - Business Need - Solution Scope - Stakeholder Concerns
12. What knowledge area discusses the business analysis activities necessary to identify a business need - problem or opportunity - define the capture of the solution and justify the investment necessary to deliver the solution.
Stakeholder Matrix - Onion Diagram
Enterprise Analysis - often the starting point for initiating a new project
Vertical Prototype
Business Goals & Objectives - Requirements (Stated)
13. Set of requirements that will be used to choose between multiple solutions.
Evaluation Criteria
Business Value - Business or Technical Risk - Implementation Difficulty - Likelihood of Success - Regulatory or Policy Compliance - Relationship to Other Requirements - Stakeholder Agreement - Urgency
Requirements (Allocated)
They describe what a solution must be capable of doing to meet the needs of one or more stakeholder groups
14. What are the techniques used in the task - Define Assumptions & Constraints?
Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis
Business Analysis Process Assets
Structured Walkthrough
State Diagrams
15. Allocate stakeholder and solution requirements among solution components and releases in order to maximize the possible business value given the options and alternatives generated by the design team.
Discounted Cash Flow - Net Present Value - Internal Rate of Return - Average Rate of Return - Pay Back Period - Cost-Benefit Analysis
Define Business Case
Fishbone Diagram - Five Whys
Allocate Requirements
16. How is the Operational Support stakeholder utilized in the Evaluate Solution Performance task?
Necessity - Effort - Subset - Cover - Value
Ongoing Cost versus Initial Investment - Opportunity Costs - Necessity - Sunk Costs
This person will be involved in monitoring the performance and effectiveness of a solution or its components.
Business Need - Expert Judgment - Organizational Process Assets
17. What are the general modeling concepts that are relevant to business analysis?
Name - Aliases - Values/Meanings - Description
Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis
User Classes - Profiles or Roles; Concepts & Relationships - Events - Processes - Rules
Benefits - Costs - Risk Assessment - Results Measurement
18. Uses history as a basis for estimating. It is similar to analogous estimation - but is used not only for the top-down estimate - but for the detailed tasks as well.
Acceptance - Transfer - Avoidance - Mitigation
Timeboxing
Historic Analysis
Requirements (Validated)
19. What is the output of the task Conduct Stakeholder Analysis?
Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets
Business Domain - Corporate Culture & Environment - Skills of the Analyst - Requirement Deliverable
Historic Analysis
20. 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
Systems Thinking
Data Dictionary & Glossary - Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshops - Survey/Questionnaire
Business Domain - Corporate Culture & Environment - Skills of the Analyst - Requirement Deliverable
Advantages of Document Analysis
21. Checklist of characteristics to consider when considering non-functional requirements.
Name - Aliases - Values/Meanings - Description
Business Principals
Reliability - Performance Efficiency - Operability - Security - Compatibility - Maintainability - Transferability
Metrics & KPIs
22. The decomposition of activities and tasks creates?
Budgeting
Confirm Elicitation Results
Problem Tracking - Baselining - Signoff
Activity List
23. What are the tasks for the knowledge area - Requirements Management & Communication?
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
They describe what a solution must be capable of doing to meet the needs of one or more stakeholder groups
Root Cause Analysis
Manage Solution Scope & Requirements - Manage Requirements Traceability - Maintain Requirements for Re-use - Prepare Requirements Package - Communicate Requirements
24. What are some of the commonly used requirement attributes?
Absolute Reference - Author - Complexity - Ownership - Priority - Risks - Source - Stability - Status - Urgency
Data Dictionary & Glossary
Define Business Need - Access Capability Gaps - Determine Solution Approach - Define Solution Scope - Define Business Case
Business Requirements - Identified Defects - Solution Performance Metrics - Solution (Deployed)
25. What are the tasks in the knowledge area - Requirements Analysis?
Scheduled Resources - Supporting Materials
Allocate Requirements
Acceptance - Transfer - Avoidance - Mitigation
Prioritize Requirements - Organize Requirements - Specify & Model Requirements - Define Assumptions & Constraints - Verify Requirements - Validate Requirements
26. Using this technique the business analyst has collected the deliverables - activities - tasks - and estimates from all the involved stakeholders and rolls them up to get a total for all the activities and tasks.
Business Analysis Approach - BA Performance Assessment - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Bottom-up Estimation
Elicitation
Advantages of a Data Dictionary & Glossary
27. Stakeholders involved the BA in decision making - acceptance of the BA's recommendations - willingness to discuss difficult or controversial topics with the BA - stakeholders willing to support or defend the BA when problems occur.
Trustworthiness
Non-functional Requirements Analysis
Requirements (Stated) - Requirements Structure
Requirements (Stated - Confirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Confirmed)
28. An important tool in defining the scope of work and developing estimates. Decomposes the project scope into smaller and smaller pieces - creating a hierarchy of work.
Data Dictionary & Glossary - Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshops - Survey/Questionnaire
Monitoring
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
Customer
29. Two types of conflict.
Requirements Workshop
Personal Organization
Emotional and Cognitive
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Problem Tracking - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
30. The BA is a stakeholder in ______ business analysis activities.
SWOT Analysis
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Problem Tracking - Structured Walkthrough - Checklists
Decision Analysis
All
31. To identify and manage areas of uncertainty that can impact an initiative - solution - or organization.
Decision Analysis - Problem Tacking - Risk Analysis
The Sponsor
Risk Analysis
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Models - Focus Groups - Interviews - Survey/Questionnaire - Organizational Modeling - Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Force Field Analysis
32. What are the techniques used in the task - Assess Capability Gaps?
Document Analysis - SWOT Analysis
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
Requirements (Stated - Unconfirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Unconfirmed)
Requirements Structure
33. What are the techniques used in Plan Business Analysis Communication?
Business Rule
Expert Judgment
Budgeting
Structured Walkthrough
34. What are the techniques used in the task - Validate Solution?
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Problem Tracking - Root Cause Analysis
Data Flow Diagrams
Necessity - Effort - Subset - Cover - Value
Responsible - Accountable - Consulted - Informed
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
Activity List
Confirm Elicitation Results
Evaluate Solution Performance
Decision Making
36. What stakeholder receives noticeable negative impact if information is incorrectly transferred from the old to new solution?
Structural Rules
Customer
Stakeholder Matrix - Onion Diagram
Business Rule
37. What are the 3 elements in the Assess Organizational Readiness?
Evaluate Solution Performance
Decision Analysis - Estimation - Metrics & KPIs - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Cultural Assessment - Operational or Technical Assessment - Stakeholder Impact Analysis
Formal requirements presentation to stakeholders
38. What are the inputs to the task - Organize Requirements?
SWOT Analysis
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements (Stated) - Solution Scope
Leadership
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Problem Tracking - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
39. A specific - actionable - testable directive that is under the control of an organization and supports a business policy.
Validate Solution
Business Rule
Enterprise Analysis - often the starting point for initiating a new project
Business Analysis Process Assets
40. Shows how the behavior of a concept - entity or object changes in response to events during its lifetime - and defines which events cause a transition between those states.
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Business Rules Analysis - Decision Analysis - Functional Decomposition - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases
Formal Documentation - Presentation - Model
State Diagrams
Define Business Case
41. Means of eliciting information from many people - sometimes anonymously - in a relatively short period of time
Survey/Questionnaire
Throw-away Prototype
Focus Group
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets
42. Name the 2 types of Stakeholder maps.
The Sponsor
Requirements (Allocated)
Stakeholder Matrix - Onion Diagram
Name - Value/Meanings - Description
43. 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.
Elimination of Dominated Alternative - Ranking Objects on a Similar Scale
Business Principles & Practices
Evaluation
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements - Requirements Structure
44. This prototype extends the initial interface requirements into a fully functioning system and requires a specialized prototyping tool or language.
Repository - Traceability - Requirement Attributes - Prioritization Process - Change Management - Tailoring the Requirements Management Process
Evolutionary or Functional Prototype
Rolling Wave
All
45. What factors guide technique selection?
Enterprise Analysis
Business Domain - Corporate Culture & Environment - Skills of the Analyst - Requirement Deliverable
To record the conflict in the Requirements Issues Log.
Metrics & KPIs
46. 7 knowledge areas of ________ : Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring - Elicitation - Requirements Management & Communication - Enterprise Analysis - Requirements Analysis - Solution Assessment & Validation - Underlying Competencies
Prototyping
Requirements (Stated) - Requirements Structure
BABOK
Requirements (Traced)
47. What are the inputs to the task Manage Business Analysis Performance?
General Purpose Applications & Specialized Applications
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Metrics & KPIs - Prototyping - Risk Analysis - Structured Walkthrough
Business Analysis Performance Metrics - Business Analysis Plan - Organization Performance Standards - Requirements Management Plan
To record the conflict in the Requirements Issues Log.
48. What describes how - when and why the business analyst will work with stakeholders?
Vertical Prototype
Cultural Assessment - Operational or Technical Assessment - Stakeholder Impact Analysis
Requirements Analysis
The Business Analysis Communication Plan
49. To identify interfaces between solutions and/or solution components and define requirements that describe how they will interact.
Interface Analysis
Term and Fact Model
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Metrics & KPIs - Prototyping - Risk Analysis - Structured Walkthrough
Delphi Estimation
50. Prioritizes requirements based on a allocated fixed amount of money.
Budgeting
Structured Walkthrough
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving
Verify Requirements