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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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1. Describes all the possible outcomes of an attempt to accomplish a particular goal that the solution will support.






2. Involves assessing a situation - understanding it as fully as possible - and making judgments about possible solutions to the problem.






3. The decomposition of activities and tasks creates?






4. What is the output of the task - Validate Requirements?






5. What is the output of the task - Communicate Requirements?






6. 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.






7. What are the inputs to the task - Assess Capability Gaps?






8. Name some commonly used financial valuation techniques.






9. A formal written specification with possible walk-thru - an informal one is possibly verbal or email Communication






10. What are the inputs to the task - Define Business Case?






11. What are the techniques used in the task Manage Business Analysis Performance?






12. What are the 3 elements in the Assess Organizational Readiness?






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






14. Includes the standard definition of data elements - their meanings and allowable values.






15. Two effective trade-off methods.






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






17. What are the elements of Communication Skills?






18. Three types of organizational structures






19. What is the output of the task - Define Business Case?






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






21. Organizational culture - Stakeholder preference - complexity - organizational maturity and availability of resources are all factors used to do what?






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






23. Name the 2 types of Stakeholder maps.






24. What should be considered when establishing a Change Management process?






25. 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






26. What are the inputs of the task Plan Business Analysis Communication?






27. 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. -






28. Communication of requirements does what for stakeholders?






29. What are the techniques used in the task - Allocate Resources?






30. What is the output of the task Prepare for Elicitation?






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






32. Understanding of the business architecture of the organization that is being analyzed. Understanding business models (generates profit) - org structure - relationships between business units and the persons who occupy key stakeholder positions.






33. What are the strategies for a positive risk?






34. Combination of expert judgment and history. Individual estimates - sharing the estimates with experts - and having several rounds until consensus is reached. An average of the three estimates is used






35. Models a deep - and usually narrow slice of the entire system's functionality.






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






37. 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






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






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






40. 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






41. What are the inputs to the task - Allocate Resources?






42. Documents terms unique to a domain.






43. Creates a conceptual model of the work that needs to be completed to deliver the new business solution.






44. Elements identified for each activity and task.






45. A package should contain a consistent - cohesive and coherent set of requirements. This describes the ____________.






46. Checklist of characteristics to consider when considering non-functional requirements.






47. What are the inputs for the task - Maintain Requirements for Re-use?






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






49. While eliciting requirements it is important to guard against scope creep - This activity will ensure that the requirements should be included since they meet the business goal/objectives.






50. What are the elements of the task Plan Requirements Management Process?