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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning
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1. Three key factors when assessing the quality of indicators and their metrics
Reliability - Validity - Timeliness
Scope Modeling
Discounted Cash Flow - Net Present Value - Internal Rate of Return - Average Rate of Return - Pay Back Period - Cost-Benefit Analysis
Document Analysis - SWOT Analysis
2. What does RACI stand for?
Validate Solution
Repository - Traceability - Requirement Attributes - Prioritization Process - Change Management - Tailoring the Requirements Management Process
Responsible - Accountable - Consulted - Informed
Plan Business Analysis Approach - Conduct Stakeholder Analysis - Plan Business Analysis Activities - Plan Business Analysis Communication - Plan Requirements Management Process - Manage BA Performance
3. What are the different types of learning styles?
Emotional and Cognitive
Trustworthiness
Industry Knowledge
Visual Learner - Auditory Learner - Kinesthetic Learner
4. Models a shallow - and possibly wide view of the system's functionality. It typically does not have any business logic running behind the visualization.
Three-point Estimation
Requirements (Stated - Unconfirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Unconfirmed)
Horizontal Prototype
Data - Ongoing Work - Organizational Change
5. What are the techniques used in the task - Assess Organizational Readiness?
Cultural Assessment - Operational or Technical Assessment - Stakeholder Impact Analysis
Lessons Learned Process
Business Need - Expert Judgment - Organizational Process Assets
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Models - Focus Groups - Interviews - Survey/Questionnaire - Organizational Modeling - Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Force Field Analysis
6. A non-actionable directive that supports a business goal.
Impact Analysis
Emotional and Cognitive
Business Policy
Monitoring
7. What is the output of the task - Define Business Need?
Business Need
Requirements (Stated - Unconfirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Unconfirmed)
Opportunity Cost
Vendor Assessment
8. Provides an organized approach to tracking - management - and resolution of defects - issues - problems - and risks throughout business analysis activities. Management of issues is important so that they can be resolved in a timely manner to ensure s
Problem Tracking
Requirements (Stated - Confirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Confirmed)
Timeboxing
Non-functional Requirements Analysis
9. What is the output of the task Prepare for Elicitation?
Scheduled Resources - Supporting Materials
Repository - Traceability - Requirement Attributes - Prioritization Process - Change Management - Tailoring the Requirements Management Process
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving - Behavioral Characteristics - Business Knowledge - Communication Skills - Interaction Skills - Software Application
Document Elicitation Results task
10. A means to elicit ideas and attitudes about a specific product - service or opportunity in an interactive group environment. The participants share their impressions - preferences and needs - guided by a moderator. - Effective for learning people's a
User Story
Focus Group
Functions - Markets - Matrix
Scenarios & Use Cases
11. What are the tasks of the Elicitation Knowledge Area?
Requirements Management & Communication
Prepare for Elicitation - Conduct Elicitation Activity - Document Elicitation Results - Confirm Elicitation Results
Document Elicitation Results task
Requirements (Traced)
12. What are the inputs for the task Prepare for Elicitation?
Requirements (Maintained and Reusable)
Business Need - Solution Scope & Business Case - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Business Need - Expert Judgment - Organizational Process Assets
Problem Solving
13. Business value can be delivered through requirements that support _______________ - alignment with internal standards or policies of the organization - or increased satisfaction for stakeholders - even if those things do not have a direct measurable
Compliance with regulatory or other standards
Impact Analysis - Requirements Coverage - Requirements Allocation
Elicitation
The Business Analysis Communication Plan
14. What are the inputs to the task - Allocate Resources?
Validate Requirements
Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution (Designed) - Solution Scope
Functional Decomposition - Interface Analysis - Scope Modeling - User Stories - Problem or Vision Statement
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
15. 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.
Data Dictionary & Glossary
Use Case
Analogous Estimation
Acceptance - Transfer - Avoidance - Mitigation
16. What is the output of the task - Allocate Resources?
Specific - Measurable - Achievable - Relevant - Time-bound Objectives must be SMART.
Acceptance Criteria
Requirements (Allocated)
Facilitation
17. The objective of this technique is to determine how companies achieve their superior performance levels and use that information to design projects to improve operations of the enterprise.
Benchmarking
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Organizational Process Assets
Survey/Questionnaire
Discounted Cash Flow - Net Present Value - Internal Rate of Return - Average Rate of Return - Pay Back Period - Cost-Benefit Analysis
18. What factors guide technique selection?
Business Domain - Corporate Culture & Environment - Skills of the Analyst - Requirement Deliverable
Business Value - Business or Technical Risk - Implementation Difficulty - Likelihood of Success - Regulatory or Policy Compliance - Relationship to Other Requirements - Stakeholder Agreement - Urgency
Business Case
Confirm Elicitation Results
19. A diagram indicating how involved the stakeholder is with the solution.
Requirements Analysis
Onion Diagram
Requirements - Requirements Management Plan
Requirements (Stated) - Stakeholder Concerns
20. What are the techniques used in the task - Prioritize Requirements?
Requirements (Maintained and Reusable)
Decision Analysis - Risk Analysis - MoSCoW Analysis - Timeboxing/Budgeting - Voting
Creative Thinking - Decision Making - Learning - Problem Solving - Systems Thinking
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements
21. 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.
Enterprise Analysis - often the starting point for initiating a new project
Requirements (Prioritized)
Problem Tracking - Baselining - Signoff
Verify Requirements
22. Defines the key terms and data relevant to a business domain.
Requirements Management Plan - Solution Scope - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities - Stakeholder/Solution or Transition Requirements (Communicated or Traced)
Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution (Designed) - Solution Scope
Perform tailoring exercises
Data Dictionary & Glossary
23. What are the inputs for the task - Prepare Requirements Package?
Lessons Learned Process
Organizational Readiness Assessment - Requirements (Stated) - Solution (Deployed) - Solution (Designed)
Communicated Requirements
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements - Requirements Structure
24. Maps the level of stakeholder influence and interest in a project.
Stakeholder Matrix
MoSCoW Analysis
Decision Making
Requirements Structure
25. What are the inputs to the task Manage Requirements Traceability?
Requirements - Requirements Management Plan
Requirements (Approved)
Metrics & KPIs
Business Policy
26. This knowledge area describes how the BA assesses proposed solutions and determines which solution best fits the business need - identifies gaps and shortcomings to solutions and determines necessary workarounds or changes to the solution.
Implementation SME
Expert Judgment
Solution Assessment & Validation
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Requirements - Requirements Package
27. What are the tasks in the knowledge area - Enterprise Analysis?
Organization Modeling
Throw-away Prototype
Problem Solving
Define Business Need - Access Capability Gaps - Determine Solution Approach - Define Solution Scope - Define Business Case
28. What is the output of the task - Organize Requirements?
Tracing Requirements
Parametric Estimation
Requirements Structure
Requirements Management Plan
29. To assess the ability of a potential vendor to meet commitments regarding a product or service
Vendor Assessment
Define Business Case
Solution Performance Assessment
Risk - assumptions - constraints - etc.
30. What is the output of the task Manage Solution Scope & Requirements?
Specific - Measurable - Achievable - Relevant - Time-bound Objectives must be SMART.
Validate Requirements
Requirements (Approved)
Goals
31. Two effective trade-off methods.
Primary stakeholders in the Organize Requirements task
Elimination of Dominated Alternative - Ranking Objects on a Similar Scale
Confirm Elicitation Results
Perform tailoring exercises
32. What are the techniques for the task - Verify Requirements?
Relationship to Time - Relationship to Task Completion - Relationship to Contracts - Relationships to Formal and Informal Authority
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Problem Tracking - Structured Walkthrough - Checklists
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Required Capabilities
Responsible - Accountable - Consulted - Informed
33. What are the strategies for a positive risk?
Decision Making
Requirements Analysis
Share - Enhance - Exploit
Lessons Learned Process
34. 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.
Assumptions & Constraints - Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution Options
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Solution Performance Assessment
Manage Solution Scope & Requirements - Manage Requirements Traceability - Maintain Requirements for Re-use - Prepare Requirements Package - Communicate Requirements
Implementation Approach
35. A continuous process of collecting data to determine how well a solution has been implemented compared to expected results.
Leadership
Systems Thinking
Monitoring
Organizational Readiness Assessment
36. Name some commonly used financial valuation techniques.
Discounted Cash Flow - Net Present Value - Internal Rate of Return - Average Rate of Return - Pay Back Period - Cost-Benefit Analysis
The Sponsor
To record the conflict in the Requirements Issues Log.
Impact Analysis
37. 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
Elicitation
Timeboxing
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Requirements (Stated - Confirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Confirmed)
38. What is the output of the task Document Elicitation Results?
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Models - Focus Groups - Interviews - Survey/Questionnaire - Organizational Modeling - Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Force Field Analysis
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Requirements (Stated) - Stakeholder Concerns
Enterprise Analysis
39. When performing root cause analysis as part of the Validate Solution task - what stakeholder may be involved?
Implementation SME
Elimination of Dominated Alternative - Ranking Objects on a Similar Scale
Evaluation Criteria
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Solution Performance Assessment
40. What are the elements of Communication Skills?
Data Dictionary & Glossary - Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshops - Survey/Questionnaire
Solution Performance Assessment
Oral Communications - Teaching - Written Communication
Estimation
41. What is the output of the task - Assess Proposed Solution?
Data Modeling
Name - Value/Meanings - Description
Assessment of Proposed Solution
Enterprise Architecture - Solution Scope - Solution (Designed) - Stakeholder Concerns
42. 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. -
Define Business Need - Access Capability Gaps - Determine Solution Approach - Define Solution Scope - Define Business Case
Document Analysis
User Story
Evaluation Criteria
43. 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
BABOK
Stakeholder Matrix
Manage Solution Scope & Requirements - Manage Requirements Traceability - Maintain Requirements for Re-use - Prepare Requirements Package - Communicate Requirements
44. 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
Facilitation
Name - Value/Meanings - Description
Transition Requirements
Business Requirements - Stakeholder Requirements - Solution Requirements - Transition Requirements
45. What are the techniques used in the task - Validate Solution?
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Problem Tracking - Root Cause Analysis
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Requirements - Requirements Package
Allocate Requirements
Benefits - Costs - Risk Assessment - Results Measurement
46. Used to describe the roles - responsibilities and reporting structures that exist within an organization and to align those structures with the organization's goals.
Organization Modeling
The Business Analysis Communication Plan
Vendor Assessment
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Models - Focus Groups - Interviews - Survey/Questionnaire - Organizational Modeling - Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Force Field Analysis
47. Knowing the dependencies and relationships between requirements helps when determining the sequence in which requirements are to be addressed. Common relations are:
Scenarios & Use Cases
Necessity - Effort - Subset - Cover - Value
Requirements (Analyzed)
Impact Analysis
48. Long-term - ongoing and qualitative statements of a state or condition that the organization is seeking to establish and maintain.
Goals
Interviews
Requirements Documentation - Requirements for Vendor Selection
Functional Decomposition
49. Approach to decision making that examines and models the possible consequences of different decisions. Make an optimal decision under conditions of uncertainty.
Decision Analysis
Dependencies
A statement of the needs of a particular stakeholder or class of stakeholders
Verify Requirements
50. A package should contain a consistent - cohesive and coherent set of requirements. This describes the ____________.
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements Management Plan - Scheduled Resources - Solution Scope & Business Case - Supporting Materials
Acceptance - Transfer - Avoidance - Mitigation
Requirements (Validated)
Requirements Structure