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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning
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1. What is the output of the task - Assess Proposed Solution?
Business Analysis Approach
Assessment of Proposed Solution
Decision Analysis - Risk Analysis - MoSCoW Analysis - Timeboxing/Budgeting - Voting
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Problem Tracking - Root Cause Analysis
2. What are the techniques used in the task Confirm Elicitation Results?
Interviews - Observation
Business Analysis Process Assets
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Business Rules Analysis - Decision Analysis - Functional Decomposition - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases
Decision Analysis - Problem Tacking - Risk Analysis
3. Set of requirements that will be used to choose between multiple solutions.
Evaluation Criteria
Term and Fact Model
Enterprise Analysis - often the starting point for initiating a new project
Document Elicitation Results task
4. Characteristics that are common to all organizations with a similar purpose and structure - whether or not the are in the same industry.
Evaluation
Business Principals
Expert Judgment
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving
5. Describes all the possible outcomes of an attempt to accomplish a particular goal that the solution will support.
Reporting
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets
Use Case
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Brainstorming - Interviews - Organizational Modeling - Process Modeling - Requirements Workshop - Risk Analysis - Scenarios & Use Cases - User Stories - Scope Modeling - Survey/Questionnaire - RACI Matrix
6. Industry Knowledge - Organization Knowledge - Solution Knowledge What are the elements of Business Knowledge?
Systems Thinking
Benchmarking
Assumptions & Constraints - Required Capabilities - Solution Approach
Business Principles & Practices
7. 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.
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Data Modeling - Functional Decomposition - Organizational Modeling - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases - Scope Modeling - User Stories
Trustworthiness
Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Business Case - Business Need - Requirements - Requirements Management Plan - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
8. What are the techniques used in the task Manage Solution Scope & Requirements?
Problem Tracking - Baselining - Signoff
Scenarios & Use Cases
Requirements (Allocated)
Delphi Estimation
9. What are the inputs to the task - Define Business Case?
Assumptions & Constraints - Business Need - Solution Scope - Stakeholder Concerns
Assess Organization Readiness
That they understand them and the current state the requirements are in
Leadership
10. 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.
Scheduled Resources - Supporting Materials
Business Case; Stakeholder - Solution or Transition Requirements (Verified)
The Business Analysis Communication Plan
Personal Organization
11. This task determines if an organization can justify the investment required to deliver a proposed solution.
Data - Ongoing Work - Organizational Change
Business Need
Interviews - Lessons Learned Process - Metrics and KPIs - Problem Tracking - Process Modeling - Root Cause Analysis - Survey/Questionnaire - Variance Analysis
Define Business Case
12. Defines the key terms and data relevant to a business domain.
Horizontal Prototype
Solution Knowledge
Business Domain - Corporate Culture & Environment - Skills of the Analyst - Requirement Deliverable
Data Dictionary & Glossary
13. 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.
Industry Knowledge
Organization Modeling
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets
Opportunity Cost
14. What are the elements to the task - Define Business Case?
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements (Stated) - Solution Scope
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving - Behavioral Characteristics - Business Knowledge - Communication Skills - Interaction Skills - Software Application
Benefits - Costs - Risk Assessment - Results Measurement
BABOK
15. 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.
Oral Communications - Teaching - Written Communication
Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis
Brings them to a Communication on understanding
Ethics
16. What are the techniques used in the task - Validate Requirements?
Responsible - Accountable - Consulted - Informed
Industry Knowledge
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Metrics & KPIs - Prototyping - Risk Analysis - Structured Walkthrough
Business Analysis Approach - BA Performance Assessment - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
17. Defines what must be delivered in order to meet the business need - and the effect of the proposed change initiation on the business and technology operations and infrastructure.
Clear - Relevant - Economical - Adequate - Quantifiable
Prepare Requirements Package
Solution Scope
Activity List
18. The knowledge area that describes how a BA manages conflicts - issues and changes in order to ensure that stakeholders and the project team remain in agreement on the solution scope - how requirements are communicated to stakeholders and how knowledg
Requirements Management & Communication
Risk - assumptions - constraints - etc.
Assumptions & Constraints
Reporting
19. This will impose constraints to the effort to deploy the solution - including relationships that may exist between solution components.
Decision Analysis - Estimation - Metrics & KPIs - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Interviews
Description - Raised by - Date Identified - Impact - Priority - Need by Date - Owner - Status - Action Needed to be Resolved - Responsible for Action - Completion Date of Action - Outcome
Dependencies
20. 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
Organizational Readiness Assessment
Requirements (Prioritized)
Allocate Requirements
21. What are some examples of stakeholder concerns?
Scheduled Resources - Supporting Materials
Risk - assumptions - constraints - etc.
Validate Requirements
Historic Analysis
22. What are the tasks for the knowledge area - Requirements Management & Communication?
Stakeholder Concerns
Metrics & KPIs
Enterprise Architecture - Solution Scope - Solution (Designed) - Stakeholder Concerns
Manage Solution Scope & Requirements - Manage Requirements Traceability - Maintain Requirements for Re-use - Prepare Requirements Package - Communicate Requirements
23. Ensure that the solution meets the business need and determine the most appropriate response to identified defects.
Elicitation
Requirements Management Plan - Solution Scope - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities - Stakeholder/Solution or Transition Requirements (Communicated or Traced)
Historic Analysis
Validate Solution
24. Combination of expert judgment and history. Individual estimates - sharing the estimates with experts - and having several rounds until consensus is reached. An average of the three estimates is used
Delphi Estimation
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Brainstorming - Interviews - Organizational Modeling - Process Modeling - Requirements Workshop - Risk Analysis - Scenarios & Use Cases - User Stories - Scope Modeling - Survey/Questionnaire - RACI Matrix
Prepare for Elicitation - Conduct Elicitation Activity - Document Elicitation Results - Confirm Elicitation Results
Ethics - Trustworthiness - Personal Organization
25. What are the techniques used in the task - Prioritize Requirements?
Manage Solution Scope & Requirements - Manage Requirements Traceability - Maintain Requirements for Re-use - Prepare Requirements Package - Communicate Requirements
Brings them to a Communication on understanding
Decision Analysis - Risk Analysis - MoSCoW Analysis - Timeboxing/Budgeting - Voting
Transition Requirements
26. 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.
Organize Requirements
Requirements Analysis
Verify Requirements
Document Analysis
27. To identify interfaces between solutions and/or solution components and define requirements that describe how they will interact.
Interface Analysis
Requirements Analysis
Scope Modeling
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
28. What are the classifications used to describe requirements
Metrics & KPIs
Business Requirements - Stakeholder Requirements - Solution Requirements - Transition Requirements
Reliability - Validity - Timeliness
Business Value - Business or Technical Risk - Implementation Difficulty - Likelihood of Success - Regulatory or Policy Compliance - Relationship to Other Requirements - Stakeholder Agreement - Urgency
29. 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.
Assessment of Proposed Solution
Enterprise Analysis - often the starting point for initiating a new project
Observation
Formal Documentation - Presentation - Model
30. What are the techniques used in the task - Define Business Case?
Underlying Competencies
Decision Analysis - Estimation - Metrics & KPIs - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Term and Fact Model
Decision Making
31. What are the tasks in Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring?
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Models - Focus Groups - Interviews - Survey/Questionnaire - Organizational Modeling - Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Force Field Analysis
Impact Analysis - Requirements Coverage - Requirements Allocation
Plan Business Analysis Approach - Conduct Stakeholder Analysis - Plan Business Analysis Activities - Plan Business Analysis Communication - Plan Requirements Management Process - Manage BA Performance
Vendor Assessment
32. Understanding of the business architecture of the organization that is being analyzed. Understanding business models (generates profit) - org structure - relationships between business units and the persons who occupy key stakeholder positions.
Business Rules Analysis
Absolute Reference - Author - Complexity - Ownership - Priority - Risks - Source - Stability - Status - Urgency
Organizational Knowledge
Requirements Management & Communication
33. An excellent way to foster creative thinking about a problem. The goal is to produce numerous new ideas and to derive themes for further analysis. - Ability to elicit many ideas in a short time period. - - Non-judgmental environment enables creative
Elimination
Brainstorming
The Business Analysis Communication Plan
Impact Analysis
34. 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
Scope Modeling
Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution (Designed) - Solution Scope
Ethics
Decision Analysis
35. Allocate stakeholder and solution requirements among solution components and releases in order to maximize the possible business value given the options and alternatives generated by the design team.
Business Analysis Approach
Business Case
Allocate Requirements
Cohesive - Complete - Consistent - Correct - Feasible - Modifiable - Unambiguous - Testable
36. What is a STAKEHOLDER requirement - according to the BABOK 2.0?
Impact Analysis - Requirements Coverage - Requirements Allocation
A statement of the needs of a particular stakeholder or class of stakeholders
Business Analysis Performance Assessment - Business Analysis Process Assets - Includes a comparison of planned versus actual performance - understanding the root cause of variances from the plan and other information to help understand the level of
Requirements Management Plan
37. A diagram indicating how involved the stakeholder is with the solution.
Underlying Competencies
Onion Diagram
Unique Number - Activity Description - Assumptions - Dependencies - Milestones
Solution Approach
38. 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
Data - Ongoing Work - Organizational Change
Prototyping
Stakeholder Matrix
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Models - Focus Groups - Interviews - Survey/Questionnaire - Organizational Modeling - Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Force Field Analysis
39. Elements of a Requirements Management Plan include?
Decision Analysis
Relationships - Impact Analysis - Configuration Management System
Benefits - Costs - Risk Assessment - Results Measurement
Budgeting
40. What are the inputs to the task - Prioritize Requirements?
Metrics & KPIs
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
That they understand them and the current state the requirements are in
Business Case - Business Need - Requirements - Requirements Management Plan - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
41. What are the elements of Communication Skills?
Industry Knowledge
Requirements (Approved)
Oral Communications - Teaching - Written Communication
Name - Value/Meanings - Description
42. 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
User Story
Rolling Wave
Solution Performance Assessment
43. 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.
Define Business Need - Access Capability Gaps - Determine Solution Approach - Define Solution Scope - Define Business Case
Absolute Reference - Author - Complexity - Ownership - Priority - Risks - Source - Stability - Status - Urgency
Assumptions & Constraints - Required Capabilities - Solution Approach
Validate Requirements
44. Understanding of how a change to a component affects the system as a whole - identification of reinforcing and compensating feedback loops - understanding of how systems adapt to external pressures and changes - A system as a whole will have properti
Solution (Constructed) - Requirements (Prioritized and Validated)
They describe what a solution must be capable of doing to meet the needs of one or more stakeholder groups
Requirements Analysis
Systems Thinking
45. What are the techniques used in the task Conduct Elicitation Activity?
Solution Knowledge
Data Dictionary & Glossary - Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshops - Survey/Questionnaire
Validate Requirements
Business Principals
46. What are the Behavioral Characteristics a BA should exhibit?
Advantages of a Data Dictionary & Glossary
Benchmarking
Relationship to Time - Relationship to Task Completion - Relationship to Contracts - Relationships to Formal and Informal Authority
Ethics - Trustworthiness - Personal Organization
47. What techniques are used in the task - Define Solution Scope?
Systems Thinking
Parametric Estimation
Functional Decomposition - Interface Analysis - Scope Modeling - User Stories - Problem or Vision Statement
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Requirements - Requirements Package
48. What are the inputs for the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?
Facilitation & Negotiation - Leadership & Influencing - Teamwork
Business Requirements - Identified Defects - Solution Performance Metrics - Solution (Deployed)
Data Dictionary & Glossary
Required Capabilities
49. What are the inputs of the task Plan Business Analysis Communication?
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Scope Modeling
Industry Knowledge
Historic Analysis
50. What is the output of the task - Organize Requirements?
Requirements (Verified)
Solution Scope Definition - Implementation Approach - Dependencies
Requirements Structure
Strengths - Weaknesses