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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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1. What are the techniques used in the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?
Requirements Package
Customer
Impact Analysis
Decision Analysis - Focus Groups - Observation - Survey/Questionnaire

2. What are the tasks in the knowledge area - Solution Assessment & Validation?
Assess Proposed Solution - Allocate Requirements - Assess Organizational Readiness - Define Transition Requirements - Validate Solution - Evaluate Solution Performance
Sequence Diagrams
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Requirements - Requirements Package
Name - Aliases - Values/Meanings - Description

3. What are the techniques used in the task Document Elicitation Results?
Trustworthiness
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Problem Tracking - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Business Analysis Communication Plan
Decision Analysis - Estimation - Metrics & KPIs - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Vendor Assessment

4. Communication of requirements does what for stakeholders?
Functions - Markets - Matrix
Brings them to a Communication on understanding
Goals
Implementation SME

5. Documents terms unique to a domain.
Business Analysis Plan
Glossary
Requirements Package
Scenarios & Use Cases

6. What are the inputs for the task - Prepare Requirements Package?
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements - Requirements Structure
Business Policy
Responsible - Accountable - Consulted - Informed
Visual Learner - Auditory Learner - Kinesthetic Learner

7. Using this technique the business analyst has collected the deliverables - activities - tasks - and estimates from all the involved stakeholders and rolls them up to get a total for all the activities and tasks.
Bottom-up Estimation
Operative Rules
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Problem Tracking - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets

8. 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.
Evolutionary or Functional Prototype
Organization Modeling
BABOK
State Diagrams

9. This knowledge area describes the problem definition and analysis - business case development - feasibility studies and the definition of solution scope.
Prepare Requirements Package
That they understand them and the current state the requirements are in
Ethics - Trustworthiness - Personal Organization
Enterprise Analysis

10. What is the output of the Manage Business Analysis Performance task?
Functional Decomposition
Allocate Requirements
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
Solution Performance Assessment

11. What are the inputs to the task - Define Business Need?
Business Goals & Objectives - Requirements (Stated)
Document Analysis
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Required Capabilities
Assumptions & Constraints - Required Capabilities - Solution Approach

12. Domain SME - End User - Implementation SME - and Sponsor: They Affected by analysis techniques used to organize requirements since they need to verify and validate the requirements.
Creative Thinking - Decision Making - Learning - Problem Solving - Systems Thinking
Requirements Package
Primary stakeholders in the Organize Requirements task
Operative Rules

13. What are the inputs to the task Manage Business Analysis Performance?
Name - Aliases - Values/Meanings - Description
Business Principles & Practices
Business Analysis Performance Metrics - Business Analysis Plan - Organization Performance Standards - Requirements Management Plan
Interviews

14. Three types of organizational structures
Goals
Requirements (Verified)
Functions - Markets - Matrix
Personal Organization

15. A package should contain a consistent - cohesive and coherent set of requirements. This describes the ____________.
Decision Analysis
Requirements Structure
Opportunity Cost
Enterprise Analysis - often the starting point for initiating a new project

16. What is the output of the task Conduct Elicitation Activity?
Elicitation Results
Interviews - Observation
Requirements (Maintained and Reusable)
Decision Analysis - Focus Groups - Observation - Survey/Questionnaire

17. 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
Verify Requirements
Timeboxing
Advantages of Document Analysis
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements

18. Benefits that could have been achieved with an alternative investment rather than this one.
Requirements Management Plan - Solution Scope - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities - Stakeholder/Solution or Transition Requirements (Communicated or Traced)
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Problem Tracking - Root Cause Analysis
Opportunity Cost
Absolute Reference - Author - Complexity - Ownership - Priority - Risks - Source - Stability - Status - Urgency

19. Is generally understood to describe just one way that an actor can accomplish a particular goal
Business Analysis Process Assets
Data - Ongoing Work - Organizational Change
General Purpose Applications & Specialized Applications
Scenario

20. What are the tasks in Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring?
Plan Business Analysis Approach - Conduct Stakeholder Analysis - Plan Business Analysis Activities - Plan Business Analysis Communication - Plan Requirements Management Process - Manage BA Performance
Requirements Package
Solution Assessment & Validation
The Sponsor

21. What are the inputs of the task Plan Business Analysis Communication?
Verify Requirements
Perform tailoring exercises
Requirements Management Plan
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities

22. Prioritizes requirements based on a allocated fixed amount of money.
Organize Requirements
Creative Thinking - Decision Making - Learning - Problem Solving - Systems Thinking
Budgeting
The Business Analysis Communication Plan

23. 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.
Acceptance - Transfer - Avoidance - Mitigation
Clear - Relevant - Economical - Adequate - Quantifiable
Verify Requirements
Implementation Approach

24. What is a STAKEHOLDER requirement - according to the BABOK 2.0?
Functions - Markets - Matrix
Business Analysis Approach
A statement of the needs of a particular stakeholder or class of stakeholders
Interviews - Observation

25. What are the 3 elements in the Assess Organizational Readiness?
Acceptance Criteria
Business Case - Business Need - Requirements - Requirements Management Plan - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Cultural Assessment - Operational or Technical Assessment - Stakeholder Impact Analysis
Data Dictionary

26. What are the techniques used in the task - Assess Organizational Readiness?
To record the conflict in the Requirements Issues Log.
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Models - Focus Groups - Interviews - Survey/Questionnaire - Organizational Modeling - Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Force Field Analysis
Business Policy
Elimination of Dominated Alternative - Ranking Objects on a Similar Scale

27. 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
Vendor Assessment
Scenario
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Data Modeling - Functional Decomposition - Organizational Modeling - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases - Scope Modeling - User Stories
Delphi Estimation

28. 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.
Formal Documentation - Presentation - Model
Expert Judgment
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements Management Plan - Scheduled Resources - Solution Scope & Business Case - Supporting Materials
Compliance with regulatory or other standards

29. 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.
Requirements (Traced)
Systems Thinking
Problem Solving
Cognitive Conflict

30. The purpose is to describe the required qualities of a system - such as its usability and performance characteristics.
Formal Documentation - Presentation - Model
Facilitation
Acceptance Criteria
Non-functional Requirements Analysis

31. Business rules require a defined glossary of terms and an understanding of the relationships between them - this is known as:
Survey/Questionnaire
Strengths - Weaknesses
Term and Fact Model
Discounted Cash Flow - Net Present Value - Internal Rate of Return - Average Rate of Return - Pay Back Period - Cost-Benefit Analysis

32. What is the output of the task Plan Business Analysis Communication?
Scope Modeling
Structured Walkthrough
Interviews
Business Analysis Communication Plan

33. What describes how - when and why the business analyst will work with stakeholders?
Three-point Estimation
Conduct Elicitation Activity
BABOK
The Business Analysis Communication Plan

34. What are the techniques used in the task - Define Assumptions & Constraints?
Risk Analysis
Clear - Relevant - Economical - Adequate - Quantifiable
Solution Scope
Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis

35. What is the output of the task - Communicate Requirements?
Communicated Requirements
Impact Analysis - Requirements Coverage - Requirements Allocation
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements
Benchmarking

36. What are the inputs for the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?
Expert Judgment
Creative Thinking - Decision Making - Learning - Problem Solving - Systems Thinking
Business Requirements - Identified Defects - Solution Performance Metrics - Solution (Deployed)
Relationships - Impact Analysis - Configuration Management System

37. Uses history as a basis for estimating. It is similar to analogous estimation - but is used not only for the top-down estimate - but for the detailed tasks as well.
Historic Analysis
Define Business Need - Access Capability Gaps - Determine Solution Approach - Define Solution Scope - Define Business Case
Confirm Elicitation Results
Assumptions & Constraints - Business Need - Solution Scope - Stakeholder Concerns

38. What are the inputs to the task Conduct Elicitation Activity?
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements Management Plan - Scheduled Resources - Solution Scope & Business Case - Supporting Materials
Stakeholder Concerns
Perform tailoring exercises
Onion Diagram

39. 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.
Enterprise Analysis - often the starting point for initiating a new project
Business Principals
Data Dictionary & Glossary - Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshops - Survey/Questionnaire
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Problem Tracking - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire

40. What are the elements of Communication Skills?
Business Rule
Oral Communications - Teaching - Written Communication
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
Cohesive - Complete - Consistent - Correct - Feasible - Modifiable - Unambiguous - Testable

41. What are the inputs to the task - Assess Proposed Solution?
Benchmarking
Delphi Estimation
Solution Performance Assessment
Assumptions & Constraints - Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution Options

42. What are the Behavioral Characteristics a BA should exhibit?
Organizational Knowledge
Ethics - Trustworthiness - Personal Organization
Data - Ongoing Work - Organizational Change
Decision Analysis

43. What are the attributes of a Data Model?
Determine the Process - Who will Authorize Changes - Impact Analysis - Wording of the Request - Coordinate Prioritization of Change
Ethics - Trustworthiness - Personal Organization
Requirements Analysis
Name - Value/Meanings - Description

44. Two techniques used in Root Cause Analysis?
Emotional and Cognitive
Plan Business Analysis Approach - Conduct Stakeholder Analysis - Plan Business Analysis Activities - Plan Business Analysis Communication - Plan Requirements Management Process - Manage BA Performance
Fishbone Diagram - Five Whys
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements - Requirements Structure

45. What are the inputs to the task - Determine Solution Approach?
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Required Capabilities
Reporting
Estimation - Functional Decomposition - Risk Analysis
Assessment of Proposed Solution

46. 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
Focus Group
Name - Value/Meanings - Description
To record the conflict in the Requirements Issues Log.
Use Case

47. 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.
Requirements Analysis
Document Analysis
Requirements (Traced)
Tracing Requirements

48. The decomposition of activities and tasks creates?
Activity List
Data Dictionary & Glossary - Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshops - Survey/Questionnaire
Data - Ongoing Work - Organizational Change
Parametric Estimation

49. What are the techniques used in the task - Communicate Requirements?
Solution Performance Assessment
Business Analysis Approach
Requirements Workshop - Structured Walkthrough
Define Business Case

50. What are the characteristics of quality for a requirements?
Elimination
Cohesive - Complete - Consistent - Correct - Feasible - Modifiable - Unambiguous - Testable
Ethics - Trustworthiness - Personal Organization
Goals