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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning
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1. 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.
Leadership
Verify Requirements
Parametric Estimation
Requirements (Prioritized)
2. 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
Use Case
Operative Rules
Estimation
Personal Organization
3. 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
Decision Making
Horizontal Prototype
Scheduled Resources - Supporting Materials
Requirements Structure
4. What should be considered when establishing a Change Management process?
Problem Tracking - Baselining - Signoff
Solution Scope Definition - Implementation Approach - Dependencies
Opportunity Cost
Determine the Process - Who will Authorize Changes - Impact Analysis - Wording of the Request - Coordinate Prioritization of Change
5. What are the inputs for the task Plan Business Analysis Activities?
Decision Analysis
Business Analysis Approach - BA Performance Assessment - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Reliability - Validity - Timeliness
Customer
6. When performing root cause analysis as part of the Validate Solution task - what stakeholder may be involved?
Validate Requirements
Interface Analysis
Discounted Cash Flow - Net Present Value - Internal Rate of Return - Average Rate of Return - Pay Back Period - Cost-Benefit Analysis
Implementation SME
7. 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
Acceptance Criteria
Requirements Analysis
Communicated Requirements
Requirements Structure
8. This will impose constraints to the effort to deploy the solution - including relationships that may exist between solution components.
Dependencies
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Decision Analysis - Estimation - SWOT Analysis - Feasibility Analysis
Expert Judgment
Requirements Workshop - Structured Walkthrough
9. Strengths - Weaknesses - Opportunities - Threats - A valuable tool to quickly analyze various aspects of the current state of the business process undergoing change.
Primary stakeholders in the Organize Requirements task
Solution Scope Definition - Implementation Approach - Dependencies
SWOT Analysis
Focus Group
10. What are the inputs to the Plan Business Analysis Approach?
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets
Non-functional Requirements Analysis
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements
Business Need - Expert Judgment - Organizational Process Assets
11. Two effective trade-off methods.
Requirements Management Plan - Solution Scope - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities - Stakeholder/Solution or Transition Requirements (Communicated or Traced)
Historic Analysis
Elimination of Dominated Alternative - Ranking Objects on a Similar Scale
Elimination
12. Characteristics that are common to all organizations with a similar purpose and structure - whether or not the are in the same industry.
Brainstorming
Root Cause Analysis
Business Principals
Formal Documentation - Presentation - Model
13. What are the general modeling concepts that are relevant to business analysis?
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Solution Performance Assessment
User Classes - Profiles or Roles; Concepts & Relationships - Events - Processes - Rules
Elimination
Facilitation
14. 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
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Business Rules Analysis - Decision Analysis - Functional Decomposition - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases
Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis
Confirm Elicitation Results
Focus Group
15. When a requirement is changed - the BA can easily review all the related requirements and software components in order to understand the impact of the change.
Requirements (Allocated)
Estimation - Functional Decomposition - Risk Analysis
Ethics - Trustworthiness - Personal Organization
Impact Analysis
16. What is the output of the task - Determine Solution Approach?
Solution Approach
Requirements Management Plan
Elicitation
Requirements Analysis
17. Familiarity with the range of commercially available solutions or suppliers can assist with the identification of possible alternatives.
User Classes - Profiles or Roles; Concepts & Relationships - Events - Processes - Rules
Solution Knowledge
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Underlying Competencies
18. 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
Coverage Matrix - Table or spreadsheet used to manage tracing.
Organize Requirements
Facilitation
SWOT Analysis
19. 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.
Decision Analysis - Problem Tacking - Risk Analysis
Advantages of a Data Dictionary & Glossary
Requirements Management Plan - Solution Scope - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities - Stakeholder/Solution or Transition Requirements (Communicated or Traced)
Validate Requirements
20. Prioritizes requirements based on a allocated fixed amount of money.
Business Analysis Approach - BA Performance Assessment - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Budgeting
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Decision Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Problem Tracking
21. According to the BABOK 2.0 - what type of analysis generates STAKEHOLDER requirements?
SWOT Analysis
Requirements Analysis
Requirements Package
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving - Behavioral Characteristics - Business Knowledge - Communication Skills - Interaction Skills - Software Application
22. What are the inputs to the task Manage Business Analysis Performance?
Business Analysis Performance Metrics - Business Analysis Plan - Organization Performance Standards - Requirements Management Plan
Scope Modeling
Reliability - Performance Efficiency - Operability - Security - Compatibility - Maintainability - Transferability
Automate or Simplify Work - Improve Access to Information - Reduce Complexity of Interfaces - Increase Consistency of Behavior - Eliminate Redundancy
23. 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
Business Case; Stakeholder - Solution or Transition Requirements (Verified)
Vendor Assessment
Timeboxing
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Modeling - Organization Modeling - Data Modeling
24. 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
Stakeholder Matrix - Onion Diagram
Scope Modeling
Cohesive - Complete - Consistent - Correct - Feasible - Modifiable - Unambiguous - Testable
Formal Documentation - Presentation - Model
25. What are the techniques used in the task - Define Business Case?
Decision Analysis - Estimation - Metrics & KPIs - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Implementation Approach
Assessment of Proposed Solution
Problem Solving
26. Requires the team to focus on examining the premises - assumptions - observations and expectations of the team members. This type of conflict can have a beneficial effect of strengthening the foundations of the analysis and the solution.
Budgeting
Functions - Markets - Matrix
Decision Analysis - Risk Analysis - MoSCoW Analysis - Timeboxing/Budgeting - Voting
Cognitive Conflict
27. 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.
Business Analysis Communication Plan
Vendor Assessment
Business Need
Learning
28. To define the rules that govern decisions in an organization and that define - constrain or enable organization operations.
Requirements Management & Communication
Scenario
Business Rules Analysis
The Sponsor
29. Includes the standard definition of data elements - their meanings and allowable values.
Observation
Requirements (Allocated)
Data Dictionary
Requirements (Stated) - Stakeholder Concerns
30. What are the tasks in the knowledge area - Enterprise Analysis?
Evaluate Solution Performance
Define Business Need - Access Capability Gaps - Determine Solution Approach - Define Solution Scope - Define Business Case
Stakeholder Concerns
Interface Analysis
31. Set of requirements that will be used to choose between multiple solutions.
Evaluation Criteria
Decision Analysis - Focus Groups - Observation - Survey/Questionnaire
User Story
Underlying Competencies
32. Means of eliciting information from many people - sometimes anonymously - in a relatively short period of time
Elicitation
Prototyping
Term and Fact Model
Survey/Questionnaire
33. Two techniques used in Root Cause Analysis?
Relationship to Time - Relationship to Task Completion - Relationship to Contracts - Relationships to Formal and Informal Authority
Required Capabilities
Fishbone Diagram - Five Whys
Term and Fact Model
34. What are the tasks for the knowledge area - Requirements Management & Communication?
Manage Solution Scope & Requirements - Manage Requirements Traceability - Maintain Requirements for Re-use - Prepare Requirements Package - Communicate Requirements
Structured Walkthrough
Specific - Measurable - Achievable - Relevant - Time-bound Objectives must be SMART.
Determine the Process - Who will Authorize Changes - Impact Analysis - Wording of the Request - Coordinate Prioritization of Change
35. Communication of requirements does what for stakeholders?
Solution Scope Definition - Implementation Approach - Dependencies
Scheduled Resources - Supporting Materials
Brings them to a Communication on understanding
Discounted Cash Flow - Net Present Value - Internal Rate of Return - Average Rate of Return - Pay Back Period - Cost-Benefit Analysis
36. What is the output of the task - Specify & Model Requirements?
Requirements (Analyzed)
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Modeling - Organization Modeling - Data Modeling
Communicated Requirements
Activity List
37. What is the output of the task - Prioritize Requirements?
Assumptions & Constraints - Required Capabilities - Solution Approach
Requirements (Prioritized)
Estimation - Functional Decomposition - Risk Analysis
Requirements (Validated)
38. What is the output of the task - Define Assumptions & Constraints?
Assumptions & Constraints
Scheduled Resources - Supporting Materials
Business Analysis Plan
Dependencies
39. Defines the key terms and data relevant to a business domain.
Data Dictionary & Glossary
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements
Ethics - Trustworthiness - Personal Organization
Elimination of Dominated Alternative - Ranking Objects on a Similar Scale
40. What are the characteristics of Interaction Skills?
Facilitation & Negotiation - Leadership & Influencing - Teamwork
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Organizational Process Assets
Evolutionary or Functional Prototype
Business Analysis Plan
41. 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.
Ongoing Cost versus Initial Investment - Opportunity Costs - Necessity - Sunk Costs
Interviews
Implementation Approach
Interviews - Lessons Learned Process - Metrics and KPIs - Problem Tracking - Process Modeling - Root Cause Analysis - Survey/Questionnaire - Variance Analysis
42. Industry Knowledge - Organization Knowledge - Solution Knowledge What are the elements of Business Knowledge?
Business Principles & Practices
Business Domain - Corporate Culture & Environment - Skills of the Analyst - Requirement Deliverable
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Decision Analysis - Estimation - SWOT Analysis - Feasibility Analysis
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Requirements - Requirements Package
43. What are the elements to the task - Define Business Case?
General Purpose Applications & Specialized Applications
All
Benefits - Costs - Risk Assessment - Results Measurement
Requirements (Allocated)
44. Performed to communicate - verify and validate requirements. Is a working session where invited participants review and discuss a set of requirements
Structured Walkthrough
Horizontal Prototype
A statement of the needs of a particular stakeholder or class of stakeholders
Clear - Relevant - Economical - Adequate - Quantifiable
45. 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
Problem Tracking
Acceptance Criteria
Observation
46. Ability to find information - on-time completion of tasks - efficiency in the completion of work - ability to easily identify all outstanding work and the status of each work item.
Requirements Analysis
Personal Organization
Compliance with regulatory or other standards
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Problem Tracking - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
47. Measures progress towards a strategic goal or objective.
Coverage Matrix - Table or spreadsheet used to manage tracing.
Business Principals
Key Performance Indicator (KPI )
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Data Modeling - Functional Decomposition - Organizational Modeling - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases - Scope Modeling - User Stories
48. A non-actionable directive that supports a business goal.
Formal Documentation - Presentation - Model
Interviews - Observation
Business Policy
Plan Business Analysis Approach - Conduct Stakeholder Analysis - Plan Business Analysis Activities - Plan Business Analysis Communication - Plan Requirements Management Process - Manage BA Performance
49. Benefits that could have been achieved with an alternative investment rather than this one.
Assess Proposed Solution - Allocate Requirements - Assess Organizational Readiness - Define Transition Requirements - Validate Solution - Evaluate Solution Performance
Data - Ongoing Work - Organizational Change
Name - Value/Meanings - Description
Opportunity Cost
50. Ensure that the solution meets the business need and determine the most appropriate response to identified defects.
Evaluation Criteria
Elimination
Acceptance - Transfer - Avoidance - Mitigation
Validate Solution