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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

Subjects : certifications, business-skills

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1. What are the techniques used in Plan Business Analysis Activities?
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements Management Plan - Scheduled Resources - Solution Scope & Business Case - Supporting Materials
Metrics & KPIs
Estimation - Functional Decomposition - Risk Analysis
Scope Modeling

2. What are the techniques used in the task Document Elicitation Results?
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Problem Tracking - Structured Walkthrough - Checklists
Decision Analysis
Systems Thinking
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Problem Tracking - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire

3. Approach to decision making that examines and models the possible consequences of different decisions. Make an optimal decision under conditions of uncertainty.
Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution (Designed) - Solution Scope
Requirements Workshop
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Organizational Process Assets
Decision Analysis

4. What are the techniques used in the task - Allocate Resources?
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Business Rules Analysis - Decision Analysis - Functional Decomposition - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases
Problem or Vision Statement
Define Transitional Requirements
Timeboxing

5. What are the elements of the task - Define Solution Scope?
Requirements (Approved)
Requirements Structure
Solution Scope Definition - Implementation Approach - Dependencies
Requirements Management Plan - Solution Scope - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities - Stakeholder/Solution or Transition Requirements (Communicated or Traced)

6. What are some of the commonly used requirement attributes?
Absolute Reference - Author - Complexity - Ownership - Priority - Risks - Source - Stability - Status - Urgency
Structured Walkthrough
System
Decision Analysis - Process Modeling - Structured Walkthrough

7. 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.
Cognitive Conflict
Business Analysis Communication Plan
Verify Requirements
Solution Approach

8. Divides requirements into 4 categories - Must - Should - Could - Won't
Solution Assessment & Validation
Ongoing Cost versus Initial Investment - Opportunity Costs - Necessity - Sunk Costs
MoSCoW Analysis
Decision Analysis - Problem Tacking - Risk Analysis

9. This task describes the work required to decide which formats are appropriate for a particular project and its stakeholders. The requirements must be clear - concise - accurate and at the appropriate level of detail to assure clear understanding by t
Structured Walkthrough
Parametric Estimation
Requirements Structure
Prepare Requirements Package

10. What are the classifications used to describe requirements
Business Requirements - Stakeholder Requirements - Solution Requirements - Transition Requirements
Determine the Process - Who will Authorize Changes - Impact Analysis - Wording of the Request - Coordinate Prioritization of Change
Decision Analysis - Problem Tacking - Risk Analysis
Solution Knowledge

11. What are the inputs to the task Conduct Stakeholder Analysis?
Stakeholder Matrix - Onion Diagram
Functional Decomposition
Visual Learner - Auditory Learner - Kinesthetic Learner
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Organizational Process Assets

12. Prioritizes requirements based on a allocated fixed amount of money.
Root Cause Analysis
Lessons Learned Process
Budgeting
Requirements (Stated) - Requirements Structure

13. What are the Cultural diversity issues that should be taken into account when planning communication?
Business Requirements - Identified Defects - Solution Performance Metrics - Solution (Deployed)
Stakeholder Matrix
Requirements Management & Communication
Relationship to Time - Relationship to Task Completion - Relationship to Contracts - Relationships to Formal and Informal Authority

14. The goal of this task is to meet with stakeholder(s) to gather information regarding their needs.
Solution (Constructed) - Requirements (Prioritized and Validated)
Brainstorming
Conduct Elicitation Activity
Glossary

15. An excellent way to foster creative thinking about a problem. The goal is to produce numerous new ideas and to derive themes for further analysis. - Ability to elicit many ideas in a short time period. - - Non-judgmental environment enables creative
Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring
Brainstorming
Organizational Readiness Assessment - Requirements (Stated) - Solution (Deployed) - Solution (Designed)
Rolling Wave

16. What does SMART stand for?
Business Policy
Specific - Measurable - Achievable - Relevant - Time-bound Objectives must be SMART.
Business Analysis Process Assets
Personal Organization

17. 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.
Impact Analysis - Requirements Coverage - Requirements Allocation
Implementation Approach
Business Policy
Advantages of Document Analysis

18. What are the tasks of the Elicitation Knowledge Area?
Prepare for Elicitation - Conduct Elicitation Activity - Document Elicitation Results - Confirm Elicitation Results
The Sponsor
Necessity - Effort - Subset - Cover - Value
Interface Analysis

19. What are the inputs for the task Prepare for Elicitation?
Influence on the project - organizational - project health and other stakeholders
Cohesive - Complete - Consistent - Correct - Feasible - Modifiable - Unambiguous - Testable
Business Need - Solution Scope & Business Case - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Determine the Process - Who will Authorize Changes - Impact Analysis - Wording of the Request - Coordinate Prioritization of Change

20. 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.
Formal Documentation - Presentation - Model
Requirements Package
Delphi Estimation
Advantages of a Data Dictionary & Glossary

21. This knowledge area describes the tasks that are performed in order to ensure that solutions meet the business need and to facilitate successful implementation.
Oral Communications - Teaching - Written Communication
Solution Assessment & Validation
Root Cause Analysis
Requirements Management Plan

22. Defines what must be delivered in order to meet the business need - and the effect of the proposed change initiation on the business and technology operations and infrastructure.
Clear - Relevant - Economical - Adequate - Quantifiable
All
Requirements (Stated) - Stakeholder Concerns
Solution Scope

23. 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.
MoSCoW Analysis
Assumptions & Constraints - Required Capabilities - Solution Approach
Determine the Process - Who will Authorize Changes - Impact Analysis - Wording of the Request - Coordinate Prioritization of Change
Bottom-up Estimation

24. What are the inputs to the task - Define Business Case?
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements
Monitoring
Share - Enhance - Exploit
Assumptions & Constraints - Business Need - Solution Scope - Stakeholder Concerns

25. What are the internal factors in a SWOT Analysis?
Solution Scope
Discounted Cash Flow - Net Present Value - Internal Rate of Return - Average Rate of Return - Pay Back Period - Cost-Benefit Analysis
Strengths - Weaknesses
Term and Fact Model

26. 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.
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Modeling - Organization Modeling - Data Modeling
Influence on the project - organizational - project health and other stakeholders
State Diagrams
Evaluate Solution Performance

27. This prototype seeks to quickly uncover and clarify interface requirements using simple tools - sometimes just paper and pencil. The focus is on functionality that is not easily elicited by other techniques - has conflicting viewpoints - or is diffic
Systems Thinking
Throw-away Prototype
Requirements Management & Communication
Historic Analysis

28. What are the Primitive Data Elements?
Assumptions & Constraints - Required Capabilities - Solution Approach
Document Analysis
Elimination
Name - Aliases - Values/Meanings - Description

29. Agreement by stakeholders that analysis models effectively and completely describe the domain - identification of related problems or issues from multiple areas in the domain - rapid absorption of new information or new domain.
Learning
Organizational Readiness Assessment
Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring
Evaluation Criteria

30. What are the inputs for the task - Define Transitional Requirements?
The Business Analysis Communication Plan
Organizational Readiness Assessment - Requirements (Stated) - Solution (Deployed) - Solution (Designed)
Define Business Need - Access Capability Gaps - Determine Solution Approach - Define Solution Scope - Define Business Case
Formal Documentation - Presentation - Model

31. Documents terms unique to a domain.
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements (Stated) - Solution Scope
Business Case - Business Need - Requirements - Requirements Management Plan - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Repository - Traceability - Requirement Attributes - Prioritization Process - Change Management - Tailoring the Requirements Management Process
Glossary

32. Checklist of characteristics to consider when considering non-functional requirements.
Business Case
Requirements Package
Fishbone Diagram - Five Whys
Reliability - Performance Efficiency - Operability - Security - Compatibility - Maintainability - Transferability

33. Knowing the dependencies and relationships between requirements helps when determining the sequence in which requirements are to be addressed. Common relations are:
Necessity - Effort - Subset - Cover - Value
Vendor Assessment
Acceptance - Transfer - Avoidance - Mitigation
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

34. Involved motivating people to act in ways that enable them to work together to achieve shared goals and objectives.
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Problem Tracking - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Requirements (Analyzed)
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets
Leadership

35. What is the output of the task Conduct Stakeholder Analysis?
Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Compliance with regulatory or other standards
Business Analysis Plan
Name - Value/Meanings - Description

36. What are the techniques used in the task - Assess Proposed Solution?
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Decision Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Sequence Diagrams
Assess Organization Readiness
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Business Rules Analysis - Focus Groups - Functional Decomposition - Root Cause Analysis

37. What techniques are used in the task - Define Solution Scope?
Underlying Competencies
State Diagrams
Business Domain - Corporate Culture & Environment - Skills of the Analyst - Requirement Deliverable
Functional Decomposition - Interface Analysis - Scope Modeling - User Stories - Problem or Vision Statement

38. A package should contain a consistent - cohesive and coherent set of requirements. This describes the ____________.
Necessity - Effort - Subset - Cover - Value
Systems Thinking
Requirements Structure
Solution Assessment & Validation

39. This knowledge area describes the behaviors - knowledge and other characteristics that support the effective performance of a BA.
Decision Making
Business Need - Solution Scope & Business Case - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Stakeholder Matrix - Onion Diagram
Underlying Competencies

40. This knowledge area describes the problem definition and analysis - business case development - feasibility studies and the definition of solution scope.
Enterprise Analysis
Throw-away Prototype
Lessons Learned Process
Business Analysis Performance Metrics - Business Analysis Plan - Organization Performance Standards - Requirements Management Plan

41. The purpose is to compile and document successes - opportunities for improvement - failures - and recommendations for improving the performance of future projects or project phases
Lessons Learned Process
Scenarios & Use Cases
Requirements (Verified)
Industry Knowledge

42. To assess the ability of a potential vendor to meet commitments regarding a product or service
Requirements (Stated - Unconfirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Unconfirmed)
Requirements (Allocated)
Vendor Assessment
Description - Raised by - Date Identified - Impact - Priority - Need by Date - Owner - Status - Action Needed to be Resolved - Responsible for Action - Completion Date of Action - Outcome

43. What are the Behavioral Characteristics a BA should exhibit?
Ethics - Trustworthiness - Personal Organization
That they understand them and the current state the requirements are in
Interface Analysis
Problem Tracking - Baselining - Signoff

44. What are the strategies for a positive risk?
Share - Enhance - Exploit
Influence on the project - organizational - project health and other stakeholders
Organizational Readiness Assessment
Requirements (Analyzed)

45. What are the inputs to the task Manage Requirements Traceability?
Requirements - Requirements Management Plan
The Sponsor
Compliance with regulatory or other standards
Impact Analysis - Requirements Coverage - Requirements Allocation

46. What factors guide technique selection?
Business Analysis Plan
Sequence Diagrams
Business Domain - Corporate Culture & Environment - Skills of the Analyst - Requirement Deliverable
Business Policy

47. Organizational culture - Stakeholder preference - complexity - organizational maturity and availability of resources are all factors used to do what?
Scheduled Resources - Supporting Materials
Perform tailoring exercises
State Diagrams
Define Business Case

48. Elements of a Requirements Management Plan include?
Relationships - Impact Analysis - Configuration Management System
Discounted Cash Flow - Net Present Value - Internal Rate of Return - Average Rate of Return - Pay Back Period - Cost-Benefit Analysis
Assumptions & Constraints - Business Need - Solution Scope - Stakeholder Concerns
Validate Requirements

49. 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.
Primary stakeholders in the Organize Requirements task
Decision Analysis
Benefits - Costs - Risk Assessment - Results Measurement
A statement of the needs of a particular stakeholder or class of stakeholders

50. What is the output to the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?
Impact Analysis - Requirements Coverage - Requirements Allocation
Solution Performance Assessment
System
Reporting