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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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1. 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.
Requirements Workshop
Requirements Management Plan - Solution Scope - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities - Stakeholder/Solution or Transition Requirements (Communicated or Traced)
Requirements (Verified)
Confirm Elicitation Results

2. What are the elements of Communication Skills?
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
User Classes - Profiles or Roles; Concepts & Relationships - Events - Processes - Rules
Verify Requirements
Oral Communications - Teaching - Written Communication

3. To assess the ability of a potential vendor to meet commitments regarding a product or service
Vendor Assessment
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Required Capabilities
Business Case; Stakeholder - Solution or Transition Requirements (Verified)
Evolutionary or Functional Prototype

4. What should be considered when establishing a Change Management process?
Data - Ongoing Work - Organizational Change
Document Elicitation Results task
Determine the Process - Who will Authorize Changes - Impact Analysis - Wording of the Request - Coordinate Prioritization of Change
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

5. 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.
Absolute Reference - Author - Complexity - Ownership - Priority - Risks - Source - Stability - Status - Urgency
Cognitive Conflict
Evaluation Criteria
Influence on the project - organizational - project health and other stakeholders

6. What are the techniques used in Plan Business Analysis Approach?
Decision Analysis - Process Modeling - Structured Walkthrough
Focus Group
Interviews
To record the conflict in the Requirements Issues Log.

7. What is the output of the task Manage Solution Scope & Requirements?
Assessment of Proposed Solution
Requirements (Approved)
Name - Value/Meanings - Description
Decision Analysis - Focus Groups - Observation - Survey/Questionnaire

8. What stakeholder receives noticeable negative impact if information is incorrectly transferred from the old to new solution?
Customer
Monitoring
Evaluation
Functional Decomposition - Interface Analysis - Scope Modeling - User Stories - Problem or Vision Statement

9. What are the likely sources of transition requirements?
Business Analysis Communication Plan
Repository - Traceability - Requirement Attributes - Prioritization Process - Change Management - Tailoring the Requirements Management Process
Problem Tracking - Baselining - Signoff
Data - Ongoing Work - Organizational Change

10. A brief description of functionality that users need from a solution to meet a business objective. The goal they are trying to accomplish - and any additional information that may be critical to understanding the scope of the story.
User Story
Horizontal Prototype
Decision Analysis - Estimation - Metrics & KPIs - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Requirements Structure

11. List 3 possible forms of a requirements packages.
Name - Aliases - Values/Meanings - Description
Unique Number - Activity Description - Assumptions - Dependencies - Milestones
Determine the Process - Who will Authorize Changes - Impact Analysis - Wording of the Request - Coordinate Prioritization of Change
Formal Documentation - Presentation - Model

12. What are the techniques used in the task Define Business Need?
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Business Rules Analysis - Focus Groups - Functional Decomposition - Root Cause Analysis
Business Need - Expert Judgment - Organizational Process Assets
Systems Thinking
Customer

13. Set of requirements that will be used to choose between multiple solutions.
Business Need - Expert Judgment - Organizational Process Assets
Business Analysis Performance Metrics - Business Analysis Plan - Organization Performance Standards - Requirements Management Plan
Opportunity Cost
Evaluation Criteria

14. What are the Composite Data Elements?
Define Transitional Requirements
Expert Judgment
Sequences - Repetitions - Optional Elements
Delphi Estimation

15. What are some examples of stakeholder concerns?
Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Risk - assumptions - constraints - etc.
Estimation
Non-functional Requirements Analysis

16. Divides requirements into 4 categories - Must - Should - Could - Won't
MoSCoW Analysis
Facilitation
Stakeholder Matrix
Use Case

17. Techniques used in the task Plan Requirements Management Process.
Solution Assessment & Validation
Decision Analysis - Problem Tacking - Risk Analysis
Lessons Learned Process
Formal requirements presentation to stakeholders

18. 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 & Evaluation Criteria - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Models - Focus Groups - Interviews - Survey/Questionnaire - Organizational Modeling - Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Force Field Analysis
Organize Requirements
Requirements Structure
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving - Behavioral Characteristics - Business Knowledge - Communication Skills - Interaction Skills - Software Application

19. What are the internal factors in a SWOT Analysis?
Prototyping
Timeboxing
Parametric Estimation
Strengths - Weaknesses

20. What are the inputs to the task Manage Solution Scope & Requirements?
Assessment of Proposed Solution
Requirements Management Plan - Solution Scope - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities - Stakeholder/Solution or Transition Requirements (Communicated or Traced)
Non-functional Requirements Analysis
Monitoring

21. Investigating how a solution is actually used after it is deployed and assessing the effect it has had - both positive and negative.
Evaluate Solution Performance
Specific - Measurable - Achievable - Relevant - Time-bound Objectives must be SMART.
Problem Solving
Business Analysis Approach

22. What are the elements of the task - Define Solution Scope?
Business Requirements - Stakeholder Requirements - Solution Requirements - Transition Requirements
Prepare for Elicitation - Conduct Elicitation Activity - Document Elicitation Results - Confirm Elicitation Results
Decision Analysis - Problem Tacking - Risk Analysis
Solution Scope Definition - Implementation Approach - Dependencies

23. The process of informing stakeholders of metrics of indicators in specified formats at specified intervals.
Estimation - Functional Decomposition - Risk Analysis
Reporting
Decision Analysis - Focus Groups - Observation - Survey/Questionnaire
Name - Aliases - Values/Meanings - Description

24. The goal of this task is to create a set of views of the requirements for the new business solution that are comprehensive - complete - consistent and understood from all stakeholder perspectives.
Organize Requirements
Metrics & KPIs
Solution Scope Definition - Implementation Approach - Dependencies
Requirements Analysis

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?
Non-functional Requirements Analysis
Business Analysis Plan
Benchmarking
Impact Analysis - Requirements Coverage - Requirements Allocation

26. Strengths - Weaknesses - Opportunities - Threats - A valuable tool to quickly analyze various aspects of the current state of the business process undergoing change.
Risk - assumptions - constraints - etc.
SWOT Analysis
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Required Capabilities
Key Performance Indicator (KPI )

27. What are the attributes of a Data Model?
Business Case
Discounted Cash Flow - Net Present Value - Internal Rate of Return - Average Rate of Return - Pay Back Period - Cost-Benefit Analysis
Name - Value/Meanings - Description
Decision Analysis - Process Modeling - Structured Walkthrough

28. Most optimistic estimate; most pessimistic estimate; most likely estimate
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Models - Focus Groups - Interviews - Survey/Questionnaire - Organizational Modeling - Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Force Field Analysis
Define Business Need - Access Capability Gaps - Determine Solution Approach - Define Solution Scope - Define Business Case
Requirements (Any Except Stated)
Three-point Estimation

29. 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
That they understand them and the current state the requirements are in
Assumptions & Constraints - Business Need - Solution Scope - Stakeholder Concerns
Scenarios & Use Cases
Scope Modeling

30. What are the inputs to the task Manage Requirements Traceability?
Structural Rules
Assumptions & Constraints - Required Capabilities - Solution Approach
Reliability - Performance Efficiency - Operability - Security - Compatibility - Maintainability - Transferability
Requirements - Requirements Management Plan

31. What is the output of the task - Specify & Model Requirements?
Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution (Designed) - Solution Scope
Requirements (Analyzed)
Decision Analysis - Estimation - Metrics & KPIs - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Coverage Matrix - Table or spreadsheet used to manage tracing.

32. What are the inputs to the task - Prioritize Requirements?
Business Case - Business Need - Requirements - Requirements Management Plan - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Horizontal Prototype
Key Performance Indicator (KPI )
Data Flow Diagrams

33. 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
They describe what a solution must be capable of doing to meet the needs of one or more stakeholder groups
Relationship to Time - Relationship to Task Completion - Relationship to Contracts - Relationships to Formal and Informal Authority
Advantages of Document Analysis
Business Case - Business Need - Requirements - Requirements Management Plan - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities

34. What are the inputs to the task Conduct Stakeholder Analysis?
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Organizational Process Assets
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
Business Rule
Cohesive - Complete - Consistent - Correct - Feasible - Modifiable - Unambiguous - Testable

35. A formal written specification with possible walk-thru - an informal one is possibly verbal or email Communication
Specific - Measurable - Achievable - Relevant - Time-bound Objectives must be SMART.
Formal requirements presentation to stakeholders
Requirements Workshop - Structured Walkthrough
Non-functional Requirements Analysis

36. What is the output of the task - Assess Organizational Readiness?
Organizational Readiness Assessment
Reliability - Validity - Timeliness
Assess Proposed Solution - Allocate Requirements - Assess Organizational Readiness - Define Transition Requirements - Validate Solution - Evaluate Solution Performance
Define Transitional Requirements

37. What are stakeholder requirements?
Risk Analysis
Validate Solution
Evaluation
They describe what a solution must be capable of doing to meet the needs of one or more stakeholder groups

38. What describes how - when and why the business analyst will work with stakeholders?
Operative Rules
Structural Rules
Cultural Assessment - Operational or Technical Assessment - Stakeholder Impact Analysis
The Business Analysis Communication Plan

39. Name the 2 types of Software categories that assist in BA productivity.
Solution Assessment & Validation
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
Document Elicitation Results task
General Purpose Applications & Specialized Applications

40. What are the characteristics of Interaction Skills?
Requirements (Approved)
Business Requirements - Identified Defects - Solution Performance Metrics - Solution (Deployed)
Key Performance Indicator (KPI )
Facilitation & Negotiation - Leadership & Influencing - Teamwork

41. The goal of this task is validate that the stated requirements expressed by the stakeholder match the stakeholder's understanding of the problem and the stakeholder's needs. Analyst's understanding conforms to the actual desire or intentions of the s
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Decision Analysis - Estimation - SWOT Analysis - Feasibility Analysis
Acceptance & Evaluation Technique
Formal requirements presentation to stakeholders
Confirm Elicitation Results

42. What is the output of the task - Prepare Requirements Package?
Requirements Package
Data Dictionary
Data Dictionary & Glossary
Requirements Analysis

43. Prioritizes requirements based on a allocated fixed amount of money.
Business Requirements - Stakeholder Requirements - Solution Requirements - Transition Requirements
Decision Analysis - Risk Analysis - MoSCoW Analysis - Timeboxing/Budgeting - Voting
Budgeting
The Sponsor

44. What are the inputs for the task Plan Business Analysis Activities?
Requirements (Maintained and Reusable)
Decision Making
Business Analysis Approach - BA Performance Assessment - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Prepare for Elicitation - Conduct Elicitation Activity - Document Elicitation Results - Confirm Elicitation Results

45. This will impose constraints to the effort to deploy the solution - including relationships that may exist between solution components.
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Modeling - Organization Modeling - Data Modeling
Structured Walkthrough
Sequences - Repetitions - Optional Elements
Dependencies

46. Business value can be delivered through requirements that support _______________ - alignment with internal standards or policies of the organization - or increased satisfaction for stakeholders - even if those things do not have a direct measurable
Validate Solution
Compliance with regulatory or other standards
Requirements Package
Solution Assessment & Validation

47. What are the inputs to the task - Define Assumption & Constraints?
Data Dictionary & Glossary - Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshops - Survey/Questionnaire
Requirements Structure
Required Capabilities
Stakeholder Concerns

48. Used to describe the roles - responsibilities and reporting structures that exist within an organization and to align those structures with the organization's goals.
Systems Thinking
Three-point Estimation
Business Analysis Process Assets
Organization Modeling

49. 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.
Discounted Cash Flow - Net Present Value - Internal Rate of Return - Average Rate of Return - Pay Back Period - Cost-Benefit Analysis
Learning
Ethics - Trustworthiness - Personal Organization
Business Requirements - Stakeholder Requirements - Solution Requirements - Transition Requirements

50. Maps the level of stakeholder influence and interest in a project.
Compliance with regulatory or other standards
Stakeholder Matrix
Assumptions & Constraints
Validate Requirements