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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning
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1. When performing root cause analysis as part of the Validate Solution task - what stakeholder may be involved?
Requirements (Stated - Confirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Confirmed)
Implementation SME
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets
Scope Modeling
2. Rules that the organization chooses to enforce as a matter of policy. They are intended to guide the actions of people working within the organization. They may oblige people to take certain actions - prevent people from taking actions - or prescribe
Manage Solution Scope & Requirements - Manage Requirements Traceability - Maintain Requirements for Re-use - Prepare Requirements Package - Communicate Requirements
Business Analysis Plan
Coverage Matrix - Table or spreadsheet used to manage tracing.
Operative Rules
3. What are the techniques used in the task - Validate Requirements?
The Business Analysis Communication Plan
Requirements (Stated - Unconfirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Unconfirmed)
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Metrics & KPIs - Prototyping - Risk Analysis - Structured Walkthrough
Interviews
4. What are the techniques used in the task Conduct Stakeholder Analysis?
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
Evaluation Criteria
Business Rule
Coverage Matrix - Table or spreadsheet used to manage tracing.
5. What is the output of the task - Maintain Requirements for Re-use?
Clear - Relevant - Economical - Adequate - Quantifiable
Decision Analysis - Problem Tacking - Risk Analysis
Requirements (Maintained and Reusable)
Personal Organization
6. What are the techniques used in the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?
Decision Analysis - Estimation - Metrics & KPIs - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Functions - Markets - Matrix
Decision Analysis - Focus Groups - Observation - Survey/Questionnaire
Requirements Package
7. What are some of the commonly used requirement attributes?
Document Elicitation Results task
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Data Modeling - Functional Decomposition - Organizational Modeling - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases - Scope Modeling - User Stories
Absolute Reference - Author - Complexity - Ownership - Priority - Risks - Source - Stability - Status - Urgency
Business Analysis Plan
8. 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
Determine the Process - Who will Authorize Changes - Impact Analysis - Wording of the Request - Coordinate Prioritization of Change
Analogous Estimation
Requirements (Maintained and Reusable)
9. Business rules require a defined glossary of terms and an understanding of the relationships between them - this is known as:
Formal requirements presentation to stakeholders
Assumptions & Constraints - Required Capabilities - Solution Approach
Term and Fact Model
Lessons Learned Process
10. What is the output of the task - Assess Capability Gaps?
Formal Documentation - Presentation - Model
Estimation - Functional Decomposition - Risk Analysis
Expert Judgment
Required Capabilities
11. Organizational culture - Stakeholder preference - complexity - organizational maturity and availability of resources are all factors used to do what?
Impact Analysis
Solution Assessment & Validation
Assumptions & Constraints - Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution Options
Perform tailoring exercises
12. What are the inputs to the task - Verify Requirements?
Requirements Management Plan
Non-functional Requirements Analysis
Brainstorming
Requirements (Any Except Stated)
13. What is the output of the task - Allocate Resources?
Requirements (Allocated)
They describe what a solution must be capable of doing to meet the needs of one or more stakeholder groups
Opportunity Cost
Dependencies
14. According to the BABOK 2.0 - what type of analysis generates STAKEHOLDER requirements?
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Business Rules Analysis - Focus Groups - Functional Decomposition - Root Cause Analysis
Discounted Cash Flow - Net Present Value - Internal Rate of Return - Average Rate of Return - Pay Back Period - Cost-Benefit Analysis
Assess Organization Readiness
Requirements Analysis
15. Includes the standard definition of data elements - their meanings and allowable values.
To record the conflict in the Requirements Issues Log.
Non-functional Requirements Analysis
Key Performance Indicator (KPI )
Data Dictionary
16. A specific - actionable - testable directive that is under the control of an organization and supports a business policy.
Business Rule
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements - Requirements Structure
Functional Decomposition
Document Analysis - SWOT Analysis
17. What are the inputs to the task - Define Business Case?
Industry Knowledge
Assess Proposed Solution - Allocate Requirements - Assess Organizational Readiness - Define Transition Requirements - Validate Solution - Evaluate Solution Performance
Assumptions & Constraints - Business Need - Solution Scope - Stakeholder Concerns
Requirements (Stated) - Stakeholder Concerns
18. 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.
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Decision Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Allocate Requirements
Cohesive - Complete - Consistent - Correct - Feasible - Modifiable - Unambiguous - Testable
BABOK
19. What is the output of the task - Communicate Requirements?
Ongoing Cost versus Initial Investment - Opportunity Costs - Necessity - Sunk Costs
Allocate Requirements
Communicated Requirements
Root Cause Analysis
20. States the business need - identifies key stakeholders and briefly describes the positive impact that meeting the business need will have on those stakeholders.
Problem or Vision Statement
The Sponsor
Problem Solving
Benchmarking
21. Maps the level of stakeholder influence and interest in a project.
Stakeholder Matrix
Timeboxing
Dependencies
Business Analysis Process Assets
22. Involves assessing a situation - understanding it as fully as possible - and making judgments about possible solutions to the problem.
Transition Requirements
Vertical Prototype
Implementation Approach
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving
23. A non-actionable directive that supports a business goal.
Requirements Management Plan
Business Policy
Root Cause Analysis
Systems Thinking
24. Ensure that the solution meets the business need and determine the most appropriate response to identified defects.
Solution Knowledge
Validate Solution
Requirements Structure
BABOK
25. What are the general modeling concepts that are relevant to business analysis?
Determine the Process - Who will Authorize Changes - Impact Analysis - Wording of the Request - Coordinate Prioritization of Change
Scenarios & Use Cases
User Classes - Profiles or Roles; Concepts & Relationships - Events - Processes - Rules
Stakeholder Matrix - Onion Diagram
26. What are the techniques used in the task - Assess Organizational Readiness?
MoSCoW Analysis
Sequences - Repetitions - Optional Elements
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Models - Focus Groups - Interviews - Survey/Questionnaire - Organizational Modeling - Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Force Field Analysis
Requirements (Stated - Confirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Confirmed)
27. This knowledge area describes the tasks that are performed in order to ensure that solutions meet the business need and to facilitate successful implementation.
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Data Modeling - Functional Decomposition - Organizational Modeling - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases - Scope Modeling - User Stories
Solution Assessment & Validation
Share - Enhance - Exploit
Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
28. The purpose is to compile and document successes - opportunities for improvement - failures - and recommendations for improving the performance of future projects or project phases
Relationship to Time - Relationship to Task Completion - Relationship to Contracts - Relationships to Formal and Informal Authority
Lessons Learned Process
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Organizational Process Assets
Relationships - Impact Analysis - Configuration Management System
29. A package should contain a consistent - cohesive and coherent set of requirements. This describes the ____________.
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
Root Cause Analysis
Requirements Structure
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
30. 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.
Three-point Estimation
Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring
Organize Requirements
Responsible - Accountable - Consulted - Informed
31. Documents terms unique to a domain.
Implementation Approach
Enterprise Architecture - Solution Scope - Solution (Designed) - Stakeholder Concerns
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
Glossary
32. The purpose is to measure the performance of solutions - solution components - and other matters of interest to stakeholders.
Requirements - Requirements Management Plan
Horizontal Prototype
Manage Solution Scope & Requirements - Manage Requirements Traceability - Maintain Requirements for Re-use - Prepare Requirements Package - Communicate Requirements
Metrics & KPIs
33. What is the output of the task Plan Business Analysis Activities?
Risk Analysis
Elimination of Dominated Alternative - Ranking Objects on a Similar Scale
Business Analysis Plan
General Purpose Applications & Specialized Applications
34. To define the rules that govern decisions in an organization and that define - constrain or enable organization operations.
Plan Business Analysis Approach - Conduct Stakeholder Analysis - Plan Business Analysis Activities - Plan Business Analysis Communication - Plan Requirements Management Process - Manage BA Performance
Business Rules Analysis
Requirements (Traced)
Interviews - Lessons Learned Process - Metrics and KPIs - Problem Tracking - Process Modeling - Root Cause Analysis - Survey/Questionnaire - Variance Analysis
35. A systematic approach designed to elicit information from a person or group of people in an informal or formal setting by talking to an interviewee - asking relevant questions and documenting the responses.
Interviews
Business Principals
Relationships - Impact Analysis - Configuration Management System
Risk - assumptions - constraints - etc.
36. 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.
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Problem Tracking - Structured Walkthrough - Checklists
Learning
Decision Analysis - Process Modeling - Structured Walkthrough
Prepare Requirements Package
37. What are the inputs to the Plan Business Analysis Approach?
Vendor Assessment
Business Need - Solution Scope & Business Case - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Assumptions & Constraints
Business Need - Expert Judgment - Organizational Process Assets
38. What is the output of the task Document Elicitation Results?
Requirements (Stated) - Stakeholder Concerns
Problem Tracking - Baselining - Signoff
Reliability - Performance Efficiency - Operability - Security - Compatibility - Maintainability - Transferability
Validate Requirements
39. Models a deep - and usually narrow slice of the entire system's functionality.
Functional Decomposition - Interface Analysis - Scope Modeling - User Stories - Problem or Vision Statement
Vertical Prototype
Coverage Matrix - Table or spreadsheet used to manage tracing.
Business Case; Stakeholder - Solution or Transition Requirements (Verified)
40. This describes how the chosen solution will deliver the solution scope - may break delivery down into releases or provide a roadmap that indicates the timeframe in which a capability is expected.
Organizational Readiness Assessment
Business Principals
Timeboxing
Implementation Approach
41. A means to elicit requirements by studying available documentation on existing and comparable solutions and identifying relevant information. - Not starting from a blank page.- Leveraging existing materials to discover and/or confirm requirements. -
Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis
Goals
Document Analysis
Validate Requirements
42. Benefits that could have been achieved with an alternative investment rather than this one.
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Business Rules Analysis - Decision Analysis - Functional Decomposition - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases
Opportunity Cost
Impact Analysis - Requirements Coverage - Requirements Allocation
A statement of the needs of a particular stakeholder or class of stakeholders
43. To identify and manage areas of uncertainty that can impact an initiative - solution - or organization.
Scope Modeling
Acceptance Criteria
Risk Analysis
Business Rule
44. Describes the effect a new solution will have on an organization and whether the organization is prepared for the organizational change the solution implementation will cause.
Assess Organization Readiness
Organizational Readiness Assessment
Formal requirements presentation to stakeholders
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements Management Plan - Scheduled Resources - Solution Scope & Business Case - Supporting Materials
45. Three key factors when assessing the quality of indicators and their metrics
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Models - Focus Groups - Interviews - Survey/Questionnaire - Organizational Modeling - Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Force Field Analysis
Prototyping
Conduct Elicitation Activity
Reliability - Validity - Timeliness
46. Two techniques used in Root Cause Analysis?
Expert Judgment
Fishbone Diagram - Five Whys
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 & Communication
47. Approach to decision making that examines and models the possible consequences of different decisions. Make an optimal decision under conditions of uncertainty.
Evaluation Criteria
Requirements Package
Elimination of Dominated Alternative - Ranking Objects on a Similar Scale
Decision Analysis
48. Investigating how a solution is actually used after it is deployed and assessing the effect it has had - both positive and negative.
Cognitive Conflict
Ethics
Evaluate Solution Performance
Requirements Structure
49. What techniques are used in the task Manage Requirements Traceability?
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Modeling - Organization Modeling - Data Modeling
Lessons Learned Process
Coverage Matrix - Table or spreadsheet used to manage tracing.
Responsible - Accountable - Consulted - Informed
50. What is the output of the task - Assess Proposed Solution?
Requirements (Stated - Confirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Confirmed)
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Metrics & KPIs - Prototyping - Risk Analysis - Structured Walkthrough
Define Business Need - Access Capability Gaps - Determine Solution Approach - Define Solution Scope - Define Business Case
Assessment of Proposed Solution