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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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1. What techniques are used in the task Prepare for Elicitation?
Share - Enhance - Exploit
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Business Need - Solution Scope & Business Case - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Prototyping

2. This task describes the work required to decide which formats are appropriate for a particular project and its stakeholders. The requirements must be clear - concise - accurate and at the appropriate level of detail to assure clear understanding by t
Elicitation Results
Advantages of Document Analysis
Plan Business Analysis Approach - Conduct Stakeholder Analysis - Plan Business Analysis Activities - Plan Business Analysis Communication - Plan Requirements Management Process - Manage BA Performance
Prepare Requirements Package

3. What are the inputs to the task Manage Business Analysis Performance?
Assess Proposed Solution - Allocate Requirements - Assess Organizational Readiness - Define Transition Requirements - Validate Solution - Evaluate Solution Performance
Business Analysis Performance Metrics - Business Analysis Plan - Organization Performance Standards - Requirements Management Plan
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Problem Tracking - Root Cause Analysis
Requirements Structure

4. Three types of organizational structures
Requirements Structure
Business Analysis Performance Metrics - Business Analysis Plan - Organization Performance Standards - Requirements Management Plan
Functions - Markets - Matrix
Problem Tracking - Baselining - Signoff

5. 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.
Cultural Assessment - Operational or Technical Assessment - Stakeholder Impact Analysis
Decision Analysis - Problem Tacking - Risk Analysis
Trustworthiness
Functional Decomposition

6. What are the techniques used in the task Confirm Elicitation Results?
Stakeholder Matrix - Onion Diagram
Business Policy
Interviews - Observation
Decision Analysis - Process Modeling - Structured Walkthrough

7. What is the output of the task - Allocate Resources?
Requirements (Allocated)
Manage Solution Scope & Requirements - Manage Requirements Traceability - Maintain Requirements for Re-use - Prepare Requirements Package - Communicate Requirements
Relationship to Time - Relationship to Task Completion - Relationship to Contracts - Relationships to Formal and Informal Authority
Key Performance Indicator (KPI )

8. What are some of the key variables used in determining the priority of a requirement?
State Diagrams
Business Value - Business or Technical Risk - Implementation Difficulty - Likelihood of Success - Regulatory or Policy Compliance - Relationship to Other Requirements - Stakeholder Agreement - Urgency
Impact Analysis
Interviews

9. Performed to communicate - verify and validate requirements. Is a working session where invited participants review and discuss a set of requirements
Responsible - Accountable - Consulted - Informed
Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Structured Walkthrough
Data Dictionary & Glossary

10. Useful for ensuring that all stakeholders are in agreement on the format and content of relevant information. Capturing these definitions in a single model ensures that these terms will be used consistently.
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Business Rules Analysis - Focus Groups - Functional Decomposition - Root Cause Analysis
Primary stakeholders in the Organize Requirements task
Define Business Need - Access Capability Gaps - Determine Solution Approach - Define Solution Scope - Define Business Case
Advantages of a Data Dictionary & Glossary

11. What are the 3 elements in the Assess Organizational Readiness?
Decision Analysis - Risk Analysis - MoSCoW Analysis - Timeboxing/Budgeting - Voting
Personal Organization
Cultural Assessment - Operational or Technical Assessment - Stakeholder Impact Analysis
They describe what a solution must be capable of doing to meet the needs of one or more stakeholder groups

12. What are the inputs to the task - Allocate Resources?
Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution (Designed) - Solution Scope
Business Analysis Communication Plan
Systems Thinking
Vendor Assessment

13. 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
Structural Rules
Organization Modeling
Enterprise Analysis

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
Vendor Assessment
Requirements Structure
Opportunity Cost
Data Dictionary & Glossary

15. What are the inputs to the task - Organize Requirements?
Evaluation Criteria
Business Need - Expert Judgment - Organizational Process Assets
Structural Rules
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements (Stated) - Solution Scope

16. What are the tasks in the knowledge area - Solution Assessment & Validation?
Scenarios & Use Cases
Relationships - Impact Analysis - Configuration Management System
Vertical Prototype
Assess Proposed Solution - Allocate Requirements - Assess Organizational Readiness - Define Transition Requirements - Validate Solution - Evaluate Solution Performance

17. What is the output of the task - Assess Organizational Readiness?
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
Organizational Readiness Assessment
Evaluation Criteria
Facilitation

18. What is the output of the task - Assess Capability Gaps?
Cultural Assessment - Operational or Technical Assessment - Stakeholder Impact Analysis
Coverage Matrix - Table or spreadsheet used to manage tracing.
Required Capabilities
System

19. Organizational culture - Stakeholder preference - complexity - organizational maturity and availability of resources are all factors used to do what?
The Sponsor
Facilitation & Negotiation - Leadership & Influencing - Teamwork
Perform tailoring exercises
System

20. What is a STAKEHOLDER requirement - according to the BABOK 2.0?
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Decision Analysis - Estimation - SWOT Analysis - Feasibility Analysis
Business Domain - Corporate Culture & Environment - Skills of the Analyst - Requirement Deliverable
This person will be involved in monitoring the performance and effectiveness of a solution or its components.
A statement of the needs of a particular stakeholder or class of stakeholders

21. This knowledge area describes the behaviors - knowledge and other characteristics that support the effective performance of a BA.
Underlying Competencies
Implementation SME
Business Analysis Performance Metrics - Business Analysis Plan - Organization Performance Standards - Requirements Management Plan
Business Policy

22. 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
Parametric Estimation
Validate Requirements
Business Goals & Objectives - Requirements (Stated)
Decision Making

23. 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.
Vertical Prototype
Learning
Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring
Decision Analysis - Problem Tacking - Risk Analysis

24. A good indicator has 5 characteristics:
Estimation - Functional Decomposition - Risk Analysis
Business Requirements - Stakeholder Requirements - Solution Requirements - Transition Requirements
Clear - Relevant - Economical - Adequate - Quantifiable
Ethics - Trustworthiness - Personal Organization

25. What is the output of the task Plan Business Analysis Activities?
Share - Enhance - Exploit
Decision Analysis - Risk Analysis - MoSCoW Analysis - Timeboxing/Budgeting - Voting
Business Case
Business Analysis Plan

26. Estimating relies on the expertise of those who have performed the work in the past. These experts can be internal or external to the project team or to the organization.
Define Transitional Requirements
Solution Knowledge
Expert Judgment
Vendor Assessment

27. Means of eliciting information from many people - sometimes anonymously - in a relatively short period of time
Non-functional Requirements Analysis
Survey/Questionnaire
Decision Analysis - Focus Groups - Observation - Survey/Questionnaire
Underlying Competencies

28. What is the output of the task Plan Business Analysis Communication?
Business Analysis Communication Plan
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Data Modeling - Functional Decomposition - Organizational Modeling - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases - Scope Modeling - User Stories
Estimation
Assumptions & Constraints

29. A formal written specification with possible walk-thru - an informal one is possibly verbal or email Communication
Formal requirements presentation to stakeholders
Requirements (Validated)
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
Ongoing Cost versus Initial Investment - Opportunity Costs - Necessity - Sunk Costs

30. States the business need - identifies key stakeholders and briefly describes the positive impact that meeting the business need will have on those stakeholders.
Evaluation
Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis
Problem or Vision Statement
Business Principles & Practices

31. What stakeholder receives noticeable negative impact if information is incorrectly transferred from the old to new solution?
Customer
Dependencies
General Purpose Applications & Specialized Applications
Requirements (Approved)

32. Knowing the dependencies and relationships between requirements helps when determining the sequence in which requirements are to be addressed. Common relations are:
Define Transitional Requirements
Solution (Constructed) - Requirements (Prioritized and Validated)
Business Principles & Practices
Necessity - Effort - Subset - Cover - Value

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
Business Need
Advantages of Document Analysis
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements
Brings them to a Communication on understanding

34. What are the inputs to the task - Define Assumption & Constraints?
Monitoring
General Purpose Applications & Specialized Applications
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Stakeholder Concerns

35. Involves assessing a situation - understanding it as fully as possible - and making judgments about possible solutions to the problem.
Enterprise Analysis - often the starting point for initiating a new project
Solution Assessment & Validation
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving
Evaluation

36. What is the output of the task - Determine Solution Approach?
Problem or Vision Statement
Solution Assessment & Validation
Document Analysis - SWOT Analysis
Solution Approach

37. 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.
Impact Analysis
Requirements (Approved)
Implementation SME
Required Capabilities

38. What are the inputs to the task - Prioritize Requirements?
Stakeholder Matrix - Onion Diagram
Automate or Simplify Work - Improve Access to Information - Reduce Complexity of Interfaces - Increase Consistency of Behavior - Eliminate Redundancy
Business Case - Business Need - Requirements - Requirements Management Plan - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Business Case

39. What techniques are used in the task Manage Requirements Traceability?
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
Analogous Estimation
Coverage Matrix - Table or spreadsheet used to manage tracing.
Facilitation & Negotiation - Leadership & Influencing - Teamwork

40. Includes the standard definition of data elements - their meanings and allowable values.
Decision Analysis - Focus Groups - Observation - Survey/Questionnaire
Requirements Workshop - Structured Walkthrough
Business Analysis Communication Plan
Data Dictionary

41. Familiarity with the range of commercially available solutions or suppliers can assist with the identification of possible alternatives.
Operative Rules
Visual Learner - Auditory Learner - Kinesthetic Learner
Solution Knowledge
Communicated Requirements

42. What are the inputs for the task Prepare for Elicitation?
Leadership
All
Delphi Estimation
Business Need - Solution Scope & Business Case - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities

43. What are the Primitive Data Elements?
Compliance with regulatory or other standards
Name - Aliases - Values/Meanings - Description
Decision Analysis
Operative Rules

44. The minimum set of requirements that must be met in order for a particular solution to be worth implementing.
Reliability - Performance Efficiency - Operability - Security - Compatibility - Maintainability - Transferability
Acceptance Criteria
Conduct Elicitation Activity
Implementation Approach

45. 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.
Monitoring
MoSCoW Analysis
User Story
Requirements Analysis

46. What is the output of the task - Prepare Requirements Package?
Requirements Package
Requirements Analysis
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Modeling - Organization Modeling - Data Modeling
Determine the Process - Who will Authorize Changes - Impact Analysis - Wording of the Request - Coordinate Prioritization of Change

47. What are the different types of learning styles?
Define Transitional Requirements
Data Modeling
Visual Learner - Auditory Learner - Kinesthetic Learner
Reliability - Performance Efficiency - Operability - Security - Compatibility - Maintainability - Transferability

48. 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
Confirm Elicitation Results
Elicitation
To record the conflict in the Requirements Issues Log.
Prototyping

49. Use of parameters - multiplied by the number of hours. (COCOMO II - Function Point Counting - Use Case Points - and Story Points)
Parametric Estimation
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Decision Analysis - Estimation - SWOT Analysis - Feasibility Analysis
Requirements (Stated) - Stakeholder Concerns
Decision Analysis

50. Name some commonly used financial valuation techniques.
Benchmarking
Discounted Cash Flow - Net Present Value - Internal Rate of Return - Average Rate of Return - Pay Back Period - Cost-Benefit Analysis
The Business Analysis Communication Plan
Non-functional Requirements Analysis