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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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






2. States the business need - identifies key stakeholders and briefly describes the positive impact that meeting the business need will have on those stakeholders.






3. This knowledge area describes the tasks that are performed in order to ensure that solutions meet the business need and to facilitate successful implementation.






4. Decisions are made with the interest of all stakeholders considered - reasons for a decision are cleared articulated - prompt and full disclosure of conflicts of interest - honesty regarding one's abilities and the performance of one's work.






5. Forecast the cost and effort involved in pursuing a course of action. Used to develop a better understanding of the possible range of costs and effort associated with any initiative






6. What are the techniques used in the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?






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






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






9. How is the Operational Support stakeholder utilized in the Evaluate Solution Performance task?






10. What are the likely sources of transition requirements?






11. What is the output of the task - Define Business Need?






12. The purpose of _______________ is to ensure that a stakeholder's actual underlying needs are understood - rather than the their stated or superficial desires.






13. What are the underlying competencies a BA should possess?






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






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






16. 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.






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






18. The BA is a stakeholder in ______ business analysis activities.






19. An organized structure for the requirements and a documented set of relationships between them. Is used so the analyst and stakeholders know where a specific requirement should be found. Should have a clear implicit scope (clear to the stakeholders w






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






21. What are the attributes of a Data Model?






22. 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






23. A non-actionable directive that supports a business goal.






24. What are the Composite Data Elements?






25. The goal of tracing is to ensure that requirements are linked back to a business objective. Creation of this relationship helps in what other traceability activities?






26. What are the inputs for the task Plan Business Analysis Activities?






27. 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.






28. Are used to describe the scope of analysis or the scope of a solution. Serve as a basis for defining and delimiting the scope of business analysis and project work. Allow the definition of a "complete" scope—that is - the boundaries of the scope corr






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






30. What are the tasks in Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring?






31. Name the 2 types of Stakeholder maps.






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






33. 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






34. List 3 possible forms of a requirements packages.






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






36. Means of eliciting information from many people - sometimes anonymously - in a relatively short period of time






37. What is the output of the task Document Elicitation Results?






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






39. What are the elements of Communication Skills?






40. What are the inputs for the task Confirm Elicitation Results?






41. Use of parameters - multiplied by the number of hours. (COCOMO II - Function Point Counting - Use Case Points - and Story Points)






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






43. What are the tasks in the knowledge area - Solution Assessment & Validation?






44. What are the inputs to the task Conduct Elicitation Activity?






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






46. What does SMART stand for?






47. Understanding of the competitive forces that shape an industry - understand the various customer segments that the industry services and the demographic or other characteristics common to that segment.






48. 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.






49. 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






50. A structured way to capture requirements. May be used to scope - discover - define - prioritize and reach closure on requirements for the target system. Considered one of the most effective ways to deliver high quality requirements quickly.