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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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1. Who is the primary stakeholder in the Define Business Case task?






2. What is the output of the task - Assess Capability Gaps?






3. Three types of organizational structures






4. 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






5. A specific - actionable - testable directive that is under the control of an organization and supports a business policy.






6. What are the inputs to the task - Communicate Requirements?






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






8. Name some commonly used financial valuation techniques.






9. What are the techniques used in the task Confirm Elicitation Results?






10. What is the output of the task Plan Requirements Management Process?






11. What are the elements of the task - Define Solution Scope?






12. Business rules require a defined glossary of terms and an understanding of the relationships between them - this is known as:






13. What techniques are used in the task Prepare for Elicitation?






14. Elements identified for each activity and task.






15. What are the elements of the area - Analytical Thinking and Problem Solving - Successful generation of new ideas - application of new ideas to resolve existing problems - willingness of stakeholders to accept new approaches.






16. Technique involving refinement of estimates. Estimate the details for activities in the current iteration or increment and provide an analogous estimate for the entire scope of work. As the end of the iteration approaches - estimates for the next ite






17. What is the output of the task Conduct Elicitation Activity?






18. Revised process and templates for BA deliverables should be analyzed and documented and lessons learned should be recorded.






19. Two techniques used in Root Cause Analysis?






20. What are some of the ways a BA can help to improve the operations of a business? Acceptance and Evaluation Criteria Definition - Business Rules Analysis - Data Dictionary and Glossary - Data Flow Diagrams - Data Modeling - Functional Decomposition -






21. 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






22. This will impose constraints to the effort to deploy the solution - including relationships that may exist between solution components.






23. Characteristics that are common to all organizations with a similar purpose and structure - whether or not the are in the same industry.






24. Involved motivating people to act in ways that enable them to work together to achieve shared goals and objectives.






25. The goal of this task is to ensure that all requirements support the delivery of value to the business - fulfill its goal and objectives and meet a stakeholder need.






26. The purpose is to compile and document successes - opportunities for improvement - failures - and recommendations for improving the performance of future projects or project phases






27. A systematic approach designed to elicit information from a person or group of people in an informal or formal setting by talking to an interviewee - asking relevant questions and documenting the responses.






28. Details user interface requirements and integrates them with other requirements such as use cases - scenarios - data and business rules. Stakeholders often find this to be a concrete means of identifying - describing and validating their interface ne






29. What is the output of the task Plan Business Analysis Communication?






30. What techniques are used in the task - Define Solution Scope?






31. What are the techniques used in the task - Prioritize Requirements?






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






33. What is the output of the task - Prepare Requirements Package?






34. What are the techniques used in the task - Define Assumptions & Constraints?






35. What are the Primitive Data Elements?






36. What are the Cultural diversity issues that should be taken into account when planning communication?






37. 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.






38. To define the rules that govern decisions in an organization and that define - constrain or enable organization operations.






39. What are the inputs to the task Plan Requirements Management Process?






40. To identify interfaces between solutions and/or solution components and define requirements that describe how they will interact.






41. What is the output of the Plan Business Analysis Approach?






42. Knowing the dependencies and relationships between requirements helps when determining the sequence in which requirements are to be addressed. Common relations are:






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.






44. Communicated Requirements mean what to stakeholders?






45. This knowledge area describes the problem definition and analysis - business case development - feasibility studies and the definition of solution scope.






46. A good indicator has 5 characteristics:






47. A structured examination of the aspects of a situation to establish the root causes and resulting effects of the problem. A critical element is to ensure that the current business thinking and processes are challenged. The purpose is to determine the






48. What describes how - when and why the business analyst will work with stakeholders?






49. 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.






50. What are the output(s) of the task - Validate Solution?