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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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1. Familiarity with the range of commercially available solutions or suppliers can assist with the identification of possible alternatives.






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






3. Corrective or preventative measures uncovered while performing a Business Analysis Performance Assessment will result in changes to what plan?






4. What are the tasks for the knowledge area - Requirements Management & Communication?






5. What is the output of the task - Define Transition Requirements?






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






7. What is the output of the task Plan Business Analysis Activities?






8. Prioritizes requirements based on a allocated fixed amount of money.






9. What are the internal factors in a SWOT Analysis?






10. What is the output of the task - Maintain Requirements for Re-use?






11. What are the inputs to the task - Determine Solution Approach?






12. What are the likely sources of transition requirements?






13. Rules that the organization chooses to enforce as a matter of policy. They are intended to guide the actions of people working within the organization. They may oblige people to take certain actions - prevent people from taking actions - or prescribe






14. 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






15. 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.






16. What are the inputs to the task - Prioritize Requirements?






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






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






19. What is the output of the task Conduct Stakeholder Analysis?






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






21. What are the attributes of a Data Model?






22. What are the techniques used in the task - Validate Solution?






23. What are the elements of Communication Skills?






24. What are the inputs for the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?






25. What are the inputs to the task - Organize Requirements?






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






27. A diagram indicating how involved the stakeholder is with the solution.






28. The systematic and objective assessment of a solution to determine its status and efficacy in meeting objectives over time - and to identify ways to improve the solution to better meet objectives.






29. 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 -






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






31. Three types of organizational structures






32. Two techniques used in Root Cause Analysis?






33. The decomposition of activities and tasks creates?






34. 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.






35. This knowledge area involves analyzing stakeholder needs to define solutions that meet those needs - assessing the current state of the business to identify and recommend improvements and the verification and validation of the resulting requirements.






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






37. What is the output of the task - Organize Requirements?






38. What are the inputs for the task - Define Transitional Requirements?






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






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






41. This technique represents the types of peoples - places - things and concepts that are important to the business - attributes associated with them and the significant business relationships among them.






42. 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






43. Communication of requirements does what for stakeholders?






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






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






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






47. What are the general modeling concepts that are relevant to business analysis?






48. The minimum set of requirements that must be met in order for a particular solution to be worth implementing.






49. 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?






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