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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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1. 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






2. Techniques used in the task Plan Requirements Management Process.






3. This task determines if an organization can justify the investment required to deliver a proposed solution.






4. 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.






5. What are the strategies for a positive risk?






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






7. Involved motivating people to act in ways that enable them to work together to achieve shared goals and objectives.






8. Strengths - Weaknesses - Opportunities - Threats - A valuable tool to quickly analyze various aspects of the current state of the business process undergoing change.






9. An important tool in defining the scope of work and developing estimates. Decomposes the project scope into smaller and smaller pieces - creating a hierarchy of work.






10. Two techniques used in Root Cause Analysis?






11. What are the inputs for the task Prepare for Elicitation?






12. What is the output of the task Manage Solution Scope & Requirements?






13. What are the inputs to the task - Validate Solution?






14. What are the techniques used in the task - Assess Proposed Solution?






15. What is a STAKEHOLDER requirement - according to the BABOK 2.0?






16. A good indicator has 5 characteristics:






17. What are the elements to the task - Define Business Case?






18. What are the techniques used in the task Document Elicitation Results?






19. Creates a conceptual model of the work that needs to be completed to deliver the new business solution.






20. What are the inputs for the task - Maintain Requirements for Re-use?






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






22. A continuous process of collecting data to determine how well a solution has been implemented compared to expected results.






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






24. What are the techniques used in the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?






25. 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.






26. What are the techniques used in the task Conduct Stakeholder Analysis?






27. What are the techniques used in the task - Determine Solution Approach?






28. This knowledge area describes how the BA assesses proposed solutions and determines which solution best fits the business need - identifies gaps and shortcomings to solutions and determines necessary workarounds or changes to the solution.






29. What are the inputs to the task Conduct Stakeholder Analysis?






30. What are the techniques used in the task Manage Solution Scope & Requirements?






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






32. 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






33. What is the output of the task - Communicate Requirements?






34. 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






35. What are the inputs to the task Manage Business Analysis Performance?






36. What are some examples of stakeholder concerns?






37. Name the 2 types of Software categories that assist in BA productivity.






38. What is the output of the Plan Business Analysis Approach?






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






40. Investigating how a solution is actually used after it is deployed and assessing the effect it has had - both positive and negative.






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






42. Models a deep - and usually narrow slice of the entire system's functionality.






43. When performing root cause analysis as part of the Validate Solution task - what stakeholder may be involved?






44. What are the techniques used in the task - Define Transition Requirements?






45. What are the inputs for the task Confirm Elicitation Results?






46. What are the inputs to the task - Validate Requirements?






47. What is the output of the task Plan Business Analysis Communication?






48. What are the inputs to the task Manage Solution Scope & Requirements?






49. What are the strategies for a negative risk?






50. What are the inputs to the task - Define Assumption & Constraints?