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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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1. What are the elements of the area - Analytical Thinking and Problem Solving - Successful generation of new ideas - application of new ideas to resolve existing problems - willingness of stakeholders to accept new approaches.
The Business Analysis Communication Plan
BABOK
Creative Thinking - Decision Making - Learning - Problem Solving - Systems Thinking
Business Case; Stakeholder - Solution or Transition Requirements (Verified)

2. What is the output of the task - Assess Organizational Readiness?
Sequences - Repetitions - Optional Elements
Organizational Readiness Assessment
Analogous Estimation
Requirements - Requirements Management Plan

3. Understanding of the competitive forces that shape an industry - understand the various customer segments that the industry services and the demographic or other characteristics common to that segment.
Advantages of Document Analysis
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Required Capabilities
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Decision Analysis - Estimation - SWOT Analysis - Feasibility Analysis
Industry Knowledge

4. What are the techniques used in Plan Business Analysis Approach?
Brainstorming
Decision Analysis - Process Modeling - Structured Walkthrough
Formal requirements presentation to stakeholders
Requirements (Verified)

5. Business rules require a defined glossary of terms and an understanding of the relationships between them - this is known as:
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Metrics & KPIs - Prototyping - Risk Analysis - Structured Walkthrough
Vertical Prototype
Term and Fact Model
Business Requirements - Stakeholder Requirements - Solution Requirements - Transition Requirements

6. 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.
State Diagrams
Onion Diagram
Requirements (Stated - Confirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Confirmed)
Assessment of Proposed Solution

7. A means of eliciting requirements by conducting an assessment of the stakeholder's work environment. This technique is appropriate when documenting details about current processes or if the project is intended to enhance or change a current process.
Observation
Three-point Estimation
Data Dictionary & Glossary - Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshops - Survey/Questionnaire
Discounted Cash Flow - Net Present Value - Internal Rate of Return - Average Rate of Return - Pay Back Period - Cost-Benefit Analysis

8. What are the Behavioral Characteristics a BA should exhibit?
Ethics - Trustworthiness - Personal Organization
Confirm Elicitation Results
Requirements Structure
Lessons Learned Process

9. Involved motivating people to act in ways that enable them to work together to achieve shared goals and objectives.
Leadership
Requirements (Any Except Stated)
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements
Decision Analysis - Focus Groups - Observation - Survey/Questionnaire

10. The process of informing stakeholders of metrics of indicators in specified formats at specified intervals.
Assumptions & Constraints - Business Need - Solution Scope - Stakeholder Concerns
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Required Capabilities
Reporting
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire

11. Industry Knowledge - Organization Knowledge - Solution Knowledge What are the elements of Business Knowledge?
Business Analysis Performance Metrics - Business Analysis Plan - Organization Performance Standards - Requirements Management Plan
Opportunity Cost
Ongoing Cost versus Initial Investment - Opportunity Costs - Necessity - Sunk Costs
Business Principles & Practices

12. What are the inputs to the task - Prioritize Requirements?
Reporting
Term and Fact Model
Requirements (Any Except Stated)
Business Case - Business Need - Requirements - Requirements Management Plan - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities

13. What are the tasks in the knowledge area - Solution Assessment & Validation?
Solution Knowledge
Assess Proposed Solution - Allocate Requirements - Assess Organizational Readiness - Define Transition Requirements - Validate Solution - Evaluate Solution Performance
They describe what a solution must be capable of doing to meet the needs of one or more stakeholder groups
Coverage Matrix - Table or spreadsheet used to manage tracing.

14. What are the inputs for the task - Define Solution Scope?
Assumptions & Constraints - Required Capabilities - Solution Approach
Verify Requirements
Assess Organization Readiness
Decision Analysis - Process Modeling - Structured Walkthrough

15. 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.
Primary stakeholders in the Organize Requirements task
Evolutionary or Functional Prototype
Risk - assumptions - constraints - etc.
Learning

16. Confidence in the problem solving process that a selected solution is correct - new solution options can be evaluated effectively using the problem solving framework - selected solutions meet the defined objectives and solve the underlying problem -
Problem Solving
Elimination
Three-point Estimation
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Required Capabilities

17. This task determines if an organization can justify the investment required to deliver a proposed solution.
Activity List
Define Business Case
Elicitation Results
Elimination of Dominated Alternative - Ranking Objects on a Similar Scale

18. What are the techniques for the task - Verify Requirements?
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Decision Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Business Analysis Plan
Term and Fact Model
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Problem Tracking - Structured Walkthrough - Checklists

19. What are the techniques used in the task Manage Solution Scope & Requirements?
Problem Tracking - Baselining - Signoff
Share - Enhance - Exploit
Non-functional Requirements Analysis
Creative Thinking - Decision Making - Learning - Problem Solving - Systems Thinking

20. What are the inputs for the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?
Business Requirements - Identified Defects - Solution Performance Metrics - Solution (Deployed)
Creative Thinking - Decision Making - Learning - Problem Solving - Systems Thinking
Problem Solving
Requirements Management Plan

21. What techniques are used in the task Manage Requirements Traceability?
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets
Coverage Matrix - Table or spreadsheet used to manage tracing.
Business Analysis Performance Metrics - Business Analysis Plan - Organization Performance Standards - Requirements Management Plan
Requirements Management Plan

22. 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.
Expert Judgment
Evaluation Criteria
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
Assumptions & Constraints

23. What are the techniques used in the task - Assess Capability Gaps?
Requirements (Verified)
Elimination
Delphi Estimation
Document Analysis - SWOT Analysis

24. What are the inputs to the task Manage Solution Scope & Requirements?
Business Case - Business Need - Requirements - Requirements Management Plan - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Document Analysis
Scheduled Resources - Supporting Materials
Requirements Management Plan - Solution Scope - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities - Stakeholder/Solution or Transition Requirements (Communicated or Traced)

25. Means of eliciting information from many people - sometimes anonymously - in a relatively short period of time
Survey/Questionnaire
Data Dictionary
Evaluation
Business Case - Business Need - Requirements - Requirements Management Plan - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities

26. Name the 2 types of Stakeholder maps.
Stakeholder Matrix - Onion Diagram
Functional Decomposition - Interface Analysis - Scope Modeling - User Stories - Problem or Vision Statement
Requirements Workshop - Structured Walkthrough
Requirements Structure

27. Are used to model the logic of usage scenarios - by showing the information passed between objects in the system through the execution of the scenario. Shows how classes and objects interact during a scenario.
Data Modeling
Assumptions & Constraints - Required Capabilities - Solution Approach
Leadership
Sequence Diagrams

28. Long-term - ongoing and qualitative statements of a state or condition that the organization is seeking to establish and maintain.
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Business Rules Analysis - Decision Analysis - Functional Decomposition - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases
Monitoring
Requirements (Traced)
Goals

29. 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.
Scenarios & Use Cases
Automate or Simplify Work - Improve Access to Information - Reduce Complexity of Interfaces - Increase Consistency of Behavior - Eliminate Redundancy
Lessons Learned Process
Horizontal Prototype

30. What is the output of the task Plan Business Analysis Activities?
Requirements (Approved)
Estimation - Functional Decomposition - Risk Analysis
Scenario
Business Analysis Plan

31. What is the output of the task - Communicate Requirements?
Business Rules Analysis
Decision Analysis
Communicated Requirements
Repository - Traceability - Requirement Attributes - Prioritization Process - Change Management - Tailoring the Requirements Management Process

32. Two techniques used in Root Cause Analysis?
Creative Thinking - Decision Making - Learning - Problem Solving - Systems Thinking
Fishbone Diagram - Five Whys
That they understand them and the current state the requirements are in
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets

33. What are the inputs to the task - Allocate Resources?
Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution (Designed) - Solution Scope
Evolutionary or Functional Prototype
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Enterprise Architecture - Solution Scope - Solution (Designed) - Stakeholder Concerns

34. 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.
Survey/Questionnaire
Name - Aliases - Values/Meanings - Description
Historic Analysis
Organize Requirements

35. What is the output of the task Manage Solution Scope & Requirements?
Formal Documentation - Presentation - Model
Requirements (Approved)
Reliability - Validity - Timeliness
Requirements Structure

36. What are the tasks for the knowledge area - Requirements Management & Communication?
Enterprise Analysis - often the starting point for initiating a new project
Estimation - Functional Decomposition - Risk Analysis
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Business Rules Analysis - Focus Groups - Functional Decomposition - Root Cause Analysis
Manage Solution Scope & Requirements - Manage Requirements Traceability - Maintain Requirements for Re-use - Prepare Requirements Package - Communicate Requirements

37. Elicitation Results are the inputs for the ____________
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements - Requirements Structure
Ethics
Scheduled Resources - Supporting Materials
Document Elicitation Results task

38. What is the output of the task - Allocate Resources?
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Trustworthiness
Requirements (Allocated)
State Diagrams

39. A structured examination of the aspects of a situation to establish the root causes and resulting effects of the problem. A critical element is to ensure that the current business thinking and processes are challenged. The purpose is to determine the
Root Cause Analysis
Business Requirements - Stakeholder Requirements - Solution Requirements - Transition Requirements
Facilitation
Scenarios & Use Cases

40. What are the tasks in Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring?
Acceptance - Transfer - Avoidance - Mitigation
Plan Business Analysis Approach - Conduct Stakeholder Analysis - Plan Business Analysis Activities - Plan Business Analysis Communication - Plan Requirements Management Process - Manage BA Performance
Functional Decomposition - Interface Analysis - Scope Modeling - User Stories - Problem or Vision Statement
Prioritize Requirements - Organize Requirements - Specify & Model Requirements - Define Assumptions & Constraints - Verify Requirements - Validate Requirements

41. This technique shows how information is input - processed - stored and output from a system in a visual representation.
Stakeholder Matrix - Onion Diagram
Requirements Structure
Data Flow Diagrams
Absolute Reference - Author - Complexity - Ownership - Priority - Risks - Source - Stability - Status - Urgency

42. Corrective or preventative measures uncovered while performing a Business Analysis Performance Assessment will result in changes to what plan?
Business Analysis Plan
Emotional and Cognitive
Document Analysis - SWOT Analysis
Assessment of Proposed Solution

43. Defines the key terms and data relevant to a business domain.
Onion Diagram
Data Dictionary & Glossary
Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis
Throw-away Prototype

44. The objective of this technique is to determine how companies achieve their superior performance levels and use that information to design projects to improve operations of the enterprise.
Benchmarking
Requirements Analysis
Decision Analysis - Risk Analysis - MoSCoW Analysis - Timeboxing/Budgeting - Voting
Clear - Relevant - Economical - Adequate - Quantifiable

45. 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
Define Business Case
Elimination of Dominated Alternative - Ranking Objects on a Similar Scale
Survey/Questionnaire
Decision Making

46. What is the output of the task - Define Assumptions & Constraints?
Interface Analysis
Assumptions & Constraints
Decision Analysis
Assessment of Proposed Solution

47. 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. -
Estimation - Functional Decomposition - Risk Analysis
Data Modeling
Document Analysis
Ongoing Cost versus Initial Investment - Opportunity Costs - Necessity - Sunk Costs

48. Is generally understood to describe just one way that an actor can accomplish a particular goal
Rolling Wave
Term and Fact Model
Scenario
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements Management Plan - Scheduled Resources - Solution Scope & Business Case - Supporting Materials

49. What are the inputs to the task - Define Business Case?
Assumptions & Constraints - Business Need - Solution Scope - Stakeholder Concerns
Emotional and Cognitive
Solution Assessment & Validation
Business Value - Business or Technical Risk - Implementation Difficulty - Likelihood of Success - Regulatory or Policy Compliance - Relationship to Other Requirements - Stakeholder Agreement - Urgency

50. How is the Operational Support stakeholder utilized in the Evaluate Solution Performance task?
Assumptions & Constraints - Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution Options
This person will be involved in monitoring the performance and effectiveness of a solution or its components.
Sequences - Repetitions - Optional Elements
Assess Organization Readiness