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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?
State Diagrams
Requirements Management & Communication
Emotional and Cognitive
Implementation SME
2. This prototype seeks to quickly uncover and clarify interface requirements using simple tools - sometimes just paper and pencil. The focus is on functionality that is not easily elicited by other techniques - has conflicting viewpoints - or is diffic
Rolling Wave
Throw-away Prototype
Prioritize Requirements - Organize Requirements - Specify & Model Requirements - Define Assumptions & Constraints - Verify Requirements - Validate Requirements
Leadership
3. What are the elements of the task - Define Solution Scope?
Throw-away Prototype
Requirements Analysis
Solution Scope Definition - Implementation Approach - Dependencies
Fishbone Diagram - Five Whys
4. 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
Decision Making
Stakeholder Matrix
Organizational Readiness Assessment
Solution Assessment & Validation
5. Two effective trade-off methods.
Elimination of Dominated Alternative - Ranking Objects on a Similar Scale
Requirements (Traced)
Business Principles & Practices
Enterprise Analysis - often the starting point for initiating a new project
6. What is the output of the task - Define Business Case?
Operative Rules
Business Case
Solution Assessment & Validation
Requirements (Maintained and Reusable)
7. Elements of a Requirements Management Plan include?
Relationships - Impact Analysis - Configuration Management System
Conduct Elicitation Activity
Scope Modeling
Advantages of a Data Dictionary & Glossary
8. What techniques are used in the task Prepare for Elicitation?
Business Rules Analysis
Emotional and Cognitive
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements
9. While eliciting requirements it is important to guard against scope creep - This activity will ensure that the requirements should be included since they meet the business goal/objectives.
Term and Fact Model
Elimination of Dominated Alternative - Ranking Objects on a Similar Scale
Tracing Requirements
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving - Behavioral Characteristics - Business Knowledge - Communication Skills - Interaction Skills - Software Application
10. Most optimistic estimate; most pessimistic estimate; most likely estimate
Assumptions & Constraints - Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution Options
Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring
Structured Walkthrough
Three-point Estimation
11. Provides an organized approach to tracking - management - and resolution of defects - issues - problems - and risks throughout business analysis activities. Management of issues is important so that they can be resolved in a timely manner to ensure s
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements
Allocate Requirements
Problem Tracking
Focus Group
12. Understanding of the business architecture of the organization that is being analyzed. Understanding business models (generates profit) - org structure - relationships between business units and the persons who occupy key stakeholder positions.
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Solution Performance Assessment
Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis
Requirements (Prioritized)
Organizational Knowledge
13. Forecast the cost and effort involved in pursuing a course of action. Used to develop a better understanding of the possible range of costs and effort associated with any initiative
Automate or Simplify Work - Improve Access to Information - Reduce Complexity of Interfaces - Increase Consistency of Behavior - Eliminate Redundancy
Share - Enhance - Exploit
Estimation
Emotional and Cognitive
14. What are the inputs for the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving
Business Requirements - Identified Defects - Solution Performance Metrics - Solution (Deployed)
Assess Proposed Solution - Allocate Requirements - Assess Organizational Readiness - Define Transition Requirements - Validate Solution - Evaluate Solution Performance
Opportunity Cost
15. Use of a similar project as the basis for developing estimates for the current project. Also known as "top-down" estimating. This is usually done at the beginning of the project or project phase and more detailed estimates follow as more is known.
Analogous Estimation
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements Management Plan - Scheduled Resources - Solution Scope & Business Case - Supporting Materials
Creative Thinking - Decision Making - Learning - Problem Solving - Systems Thinking
Expert Judgment
16. 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.
Business Analysis Plan
Historic Analysis
Expert Judgment
Requirements Analysis
17. 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.
Prioritize Requirements - Organize Requirements - Specify & Model Requirements - Define Assumptions & Constraints - Verify Requirements - Validate Requirements
Document Elicitation Results task
Business Analysis Plan
Cognitive Conflict
18. What are the techniques used in the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?
Industry Knowledge
Decision Analysis - Focus Groups - Observation - Survey/Questionnaire
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Organizational Process Assets
Sequence Diagrams
19. What is the output of the task - Maintain Requirements for Re-use?
Assumptions & Constraints - Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution Options
Requirements (Maintained and Reusable)
Lessons Learned Process
Specific - Measurable - Achievable - Relevant - Time-bound Objectives must be SMART.
20. What is the output of the task - Manage Requirements Traceability?
Assumptions & Constraints - Required Capabilities - Solution Approach
Requirements (Traced)
Solution Approach
Requirements (Any Except Stated)
21. Measures progress towards a strategic goal or objective.
Key Performance Indicator (KPI )
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Business Rules Analysis - Focus Groups - Functional Decomposition - Root Cause Analysis
Verify Requirements
User Story
22. The minimum set of requirements that must be met in order for a particular solution to be worth implementing.
Acceptance Criteria
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Problem Tracking - Root Cause Analysis
Requirements (Approved)
Requirements (Stated - Confirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Confirmed)
23. This prototype extends the initial interface requirements into a fully functioning system and requires a specialized prototyping tool or language.
Visual Learner - Auditory Learner - Kinesthetic Learner
Evolutionary or Functional Prototype
To record the conflict in the Requirements Issues Log.
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Data Modeling - Functional Decomposition - Organizational Modeling - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases - Scope Modeling - User Stories
24. What is the output of the task - Assess Proposed Solution?
Leadership
Assessment of Proposed Solution
Business Need - Solution Scope & Business Case - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Transition Requirements
25. What are the Primitive Data Elements?
Business Domain - Corporate Culture & Environment - Skills of the Analyst - Requirement Deliverable
Name - Aliases - Values/Meanings - Description
Enterprise Analysis - often the starting point for initiating a new project
The Business Analysis Communication Plan
26. What are the inputs to the task Conduct Stakeholder Analysis?
Dependencies
Estimation
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Organizational Process Assets
Requirements Analysis
27. 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
Requirements Analysis
Requirements Structure
Advantages of a Data Dictionary & Glossary
Learning
28. What are the tasks in the knowledge area - Requirements Analysis?
The Business Analysis Communication Plan
Prioritize Requirements - Organize Requirements - Specify & Model Requirements - Define Assumptions & Constraints - Verify Requirements - Validate Requirements
Data Dictionary & Glossary
Define Business Case
29. This technique represents the types of peoples - places - things and concepts that are important to the business - attributes associated with them and the significant business relationships among them.
Data Modeling
Budgeting
Requirements (Stated) - Stakeholder Concerns
Trustworthiness
30. What are the inputs to the Plan Business Analysis Approach?
Assumptions & Constraints - Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution Options
Metrics & KPIs
Analogous Estimation
Business Need - Expert Judgment - Organizational Process Assets
31. What is the output of the task Manage Solution Scope & Requirements?
Goals
Requirements (Approved)
Key Performance Indicator (KPI )
Scheduled Resources - Supporting Materials
32. What are the techniques used in the task - Organize Requirements?
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Data Modeling - Functional Decomposition - Organizational Modeling - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases - Scope Modeling - User Stories
Discounted Cash Flow - Net Present Value - Internal Rate of Return - Average Rate of Return - Pay Back Period - Cost-Benefit Analysis
Observation
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Organizational Process Assets
33. Technique involving refinement of estimates. Estimate the details for activities in the current iteration or increment and provide an analogous estimate for the entire scope of work. As the end of the iteration approaches - estimates for the next ite
Interviews - Observation
Required Capabilities
Rolling Wave
Interviews
34. Characteristics that are common to all organizations with a similar purpose and structure - whether or not the are in the same industry.
Business Analysis Communication Plan
Root Cause Analysis
Monitoring
Business Principals
35. What is the output of the task - Specify & Model Requirements?
Requirements (Analyzed)
Expert Judgment
Analogous Estimation
Structured Walkthrough
36. What are the techniques used in the task - Validate Solution?
Specific - Measurable - Achievable - Relevant - Time-bound Objectives must be SMART.
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Problem Tracking - Root Cause Analysis
Functional Decomposition - Interface Analysis - Scope Modeling - User Stories - Problem or Vision Statement
SWOT Analysis
37. What is the output of the task Confirm Elicitation Results?
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements Management Plan - Scheduled Resources - Solution Scope & Business Case - Supporting Materials
Opportunity Cost
Elimination of Dominated Alternative - Ranking Objects on a Similar Scale
Requirements (Stated - Confirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Confirmed)
38. Use of parameters - multiplied by the number of hours. (COCOMO II - Function Point Counting - Use Case Points - and Story Points)
Absolute Reference - Author - Complexity - Ownership - Priority - Risks - Source - Stability - Status - Urgency
Requirements (Maintained and Reusable)
Parametric Estimation
Requirements Documentation - Requirements for Vendor Selection
39. Decisions are made with the interest of all stakeholders considered - reasons for a decision are cleared articulated - prompt and full disclosure of conflicts of interest - honesty regarding one's abilities and the performance of one's work.
Discounted Cash Flow - Net Present Value - Internal Rate of Return - Average Rate of Return - Pay Back Period - Cost-Benefit Analysis
Ethics
Absolute Reference - Author - Complexity - Ownership - Priority - Risks - Source - Stability - Status - Urgency
Evolutionary or Functional Prototype
40. What are the attributes of a Data Model?
Conduct Elicitation Activity
Prepare for Elicitation - Conduct Elicitation Activity - Document Elicitation Results - Confirm Elicitation Results
Goals
Name - Value/Meanings - Description
41. What are the techniques used in Plan Business Analysis Activities?
A statement of the needs of a particular stakeholder or class of stakeholders
Estimation - Functional Decomposition - Risk Analysis
Elimination
Structured Walkthrough
42. A package should contain a consistent - cohesive and coherent set of requirements. This describes the ____________.
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Problem Tracking - Root Cause Analysis
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements Management Plan - Scheduled Resources - Solution Scope & Business Case - Supporting Materials
Requirements Structure
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Metrics & KPIs - Prototyping - Risk Analysis - Structured Walkthrough
43. 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. -
Data Dictionary & Glossary - Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshops - Survey/Questionnaire
Document Analysis
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Decision Analysis - Vendor Assessment
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
44. 7 knowledge areas of ________ : Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring - Elicitation - Requirements Management & Communication - Enterprise Analysis - Requirements Analysis - Solution Assessment & Validation - Underlying Competencies
BABOK
Organizational Knowledge
Use Case
Conduct Elicitation Activity
45. What are the inputs to the task - Assess Organizational Readiness?
Evolutionary or Functional Prototype
Enterprise Architecture - Solution Scope - Solution (Designed) - Stakeholder Concerns
Requirements - Requirements Management Plan
Analogous Estimation
46. Are written to describe how an actor interacts with a solution to accomplish one or more of that actor's goals - or to respond to an event.
Enterprise Analysis - often the starting point for initiating a new project
Data Dictionary & Glossary
Scenarios & Use Cases
Document Elicitation Results task
47. What are the techniques used in the task - Communicate Requirements?
Operative Rules
Business Analysis Communication Plan
Requirements Workshop - Structured Walkthrough
Business Domain - Corporate Culture & Environment - Skills of the Analyst - Requirement Deliverable
48. What are the inputs for the task Confirm Elicitation Results?
Requirements (Stated - Unconfirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Unconfirmed)
Solution Knowledge
Focus Group
Requirements Structure
49. A diagram indicating how involved the stakeholder is with the solution.
Assess Organization Readiness
Business Case - Business Need - Requirements - Requirements Management Plan - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Onion Diagram
Requirements - Requirements Management Plan
50. What is the output of the task - Communicate Requirements?
Cognitive Conflict
Communicated Requirements
Acceptance - Transfer - Avoidance - Mitigation
Problem or Vision Statement