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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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1. What are the output(s) of the task - Validate Solution?
Identified Defects - Mitigating Actions - Solution Validation Assessment
Rolling Wave
System
Business Domain - Corporate Culture & Environment - Skills of the Analyst - Requirement Deliverable

2. What are the techniques used in the task Manage Business Analysis Performance?
Onion Diagram
Interviews - Lessons Learned Process - Metrics and KPIs - Problem Tracking - Process Modeling - Root Cause Analysis - Survey/Questionnaire - Variance Analysis
Organization Modeling
Solution Knowledge

3. What are the Behavioral Characteristics a BA should exhibit?
Document Analysis
Reliability - Performance Efficiency - Operability - Security - Compatibility - Maintainability - Transferability
Ethics - Trustworthiness - Personal Organization
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Decision Analysis - Estimation - SWOT Analysis - Feasibility Analysis

4. Divides requirements into 4 categories - Must - Should - Could - Won't
MoSCoW Analysis
Required Capabilities
Decision Analysis - Risk Analysis - MoSCoW Analysis - Timeboxing/Budgeting - Voting
Solution Scope Definition - Implementation Approach - Dependencies

5. A requirement that does not deliver direct or indirect value to a stakeholder is a strong candidate for what?
BABOK
Observation
Elimination
Requirements Management Plan

6. What are the techniques for the task - Verify Requirements?
Requirements Documentation - Requirements for Vendor Selection
Relationship to Time - Relationship to Task Completion - Relationship to Contracts - Relationships to Formal and Informal Authority
Functions - Markets - Matrix
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Problem Tracking - Structured Walkthrough - Checklists

7. What is the output of the task - Specify & Model Requirements?
Requirements (Analyzed)
Data Modeling
Brings them to a Communication on understanding
Business Principles & Practices

8. 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.
Industry Knowledge
Key Performance Indicator (KPI )
To record the conflict in the Requirements Issues Log.
Requirements (Maintained and Reusable)

9. To identify and manage areas of uncertainty that can impact an initiative - solution - or organization.
Reliability - Performance Efficiency - Operability - Security - Compatibility - Maintainability - Transferability
Risk Analysis
General Purpose Applications & Specialized Applications
Solution Scope Definition - Implementation Approach - Dependencies

10. Business rules require a defined glossary of terms and an understanding of the relationships between them - this is known as:
Enterprise Analysis - often the starting point for initiating a new project
Term and Fact Model
Confirm Elicitation Results
Structured Walkthrough

11. Elements of a Requirements Management Plan include?
Relationships - Impact Analysis - Configuration Management System
Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Risk Analysis
Name - Value/Meanings - Description

12. Knowing the dependencies and relationships between requirements helps when determining the sequence in which requirements are to be addressed. Common relations are:
Compliance with regulatory or other standards
Structured Walkthrough
Root Cause Analysis
Necessity - Effort - Subset - Cover - Value

13. The purpose is to compile and document successes - opportunities for improvement - failures - and recommendations for improving the performance of future projects or project phases
Assumptions & Constraints - Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution Options
Requirements (Analyzed)
Lessons Learned Process
Scheduled Resources - Supporting Materials

14. What are the techniques used in the task Confirm Elicitation Results?
Requirements (Validated)
Trustworthiness
Data Dictionary & Glossary
Interviews - Observation

15. What is a STAKEHOLDER requirement - according to the BABOK 2.0?
Solution Approach
Requirements (Stated - Confirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Confirmed)
Three-point Estimation
A statement of the needs of a particular stakeholder or class of stakeholders

16. What is the output of the Manage Business Analysis Performance task?
Expert Judgment
Interviews
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
Structured Walkthrough

17. 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.
Requirements Documentation - Requirements for Vendor Selection
Data Modeling
Business Goals & Objectives - Requirements (Stated)
Decision Analysis

18. What are the inputs to the task Manage Requirements Traceability?
Data - Ongoing Work - Organizational Change
Necessity - Effort - Subset - Cover - Value
Requirements - Requirements Management Plan
Decision Analysis - Risk Analysis - MoSCoW Analysis - Timeboxing/Budgeting - Voting

19. 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.
Business Case; Stakeholder - Solution or Transition Requirements (Verified)
Advantages of Document Analysis
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
Requirements (Maintained and Reusable)

20. What are the inputs to the task - Define Business Case?
Assumptions & Constraints - Business Need - Solution Scope - Stakeholder Concerns
Business Analysis Process Assets
Name - Aliases - Values/Meanings - Description
Root Cause Analysis

21. Define requirements for capabilities needed to move from an existing solution to a new solution.
Scenarios & Use Cases
Glossary
Define Business Case
Define Transitional Requirements

22. What is the output of the task Conduct Stakeholder Analysis?
Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Data Dictionary & Glossary - Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshops - Survey/Questionnaire
Business Rules Analysis
Requirements - Requirements Management Plan

23. What are the Composite Data Elements?
Sequences - Repetitions - Optional Elements
Advantages of Document Analysis
Interviews
Cultural Assessment - Operational or Technical Assessment - Stakeholder Impact Analysis

24. What techniques are used in the task Prepare for Elicitation?
Repository - Traceability - Requirement Attributes - Prioritization Process - Change Management - Tailoring the Requirements Management Process
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Onion Diagram
Data Modeling

25. What techniques are used in the task Manage Requirements Traceability?
Solution Approach
Coverage Matrix - Table or spreadsheet used to manage tracing.
Structured Walkthrough
Scenarios & Use Cases

26. The process of informing stakeholders of metrics of indicators in specified formats at specified intervals.
Solution Scope Definition - Implementation Approach - Dependencies
Reporting
Relationship to Time - Relationship to Task Completion - Relationship to Contracts - Relationships to Formal and Informal Authority
Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution (Designed) - Solution Scope

27. What are the inputs to the task - Assess Proposed Solution?
Brings them to a Communication on understanding
Assumptions & Constraints - Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution Options
Conduct Elicitation Activity
Requirements (Allocated)

28. What is the output of the task - Prioritize Requirements?
Name - Value/Meanings - Description
Data - Ongoing Work - Organizational Change
Term and Fact Model
Requirements (Prioritized)

29. What is the output of the task - Maintain Requirements for Re-use?
Structured Walkthrough
Advantages of a Data Dictionary & Glossary
Requirements (Maintained and Reusable)
Risk Analysis

30. What are the techniques used in the task - Validate Requirements?
Requirements (Stated) - Requirements Structure
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Metrics & KPIs - Prototyping - Risk Analysis - Structured Walkthrough
Unique Number - Activity Description - Assumptions - Dependencies - Milestones
Scheduled Resources - Supporting Materials

31. What is the output of the task Prepare for Elicitation?
Requirements (Maintained and Reusable)
Reliability - Validity - Timeliness
Specific - Measurable - Achievable - Relevant - Time-bound Objectives must be SMART.
Scheduled Resources - Supporting Materials

32. What are the strategies for a positive risk?
Structural Rules
Share - Enhance - Exploit
System
Requirements (Any Except Stated)

33. 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.
Data Modeling
Solution Assessment & Validation
Assessment of Proposed Solution
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements (Stated) - Solution Scope

34. 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.
Automate or Simplify Work - Improve Access to Information - Reduce Complexity of Interfaces - Increase Consistency of Behavior - Eliminate Redundancy
Tracing Requirements
Term and Fact Model
Emotional and Cognitive

35. Business value can be delivered through requirements that support _______________ - alignment with internal standards or policies of the organization - or increased satisfaction for stakeholders - even if those things do not have a direct measurable
Compliance with regulatory or other standards
Benchmarking
Data Dictionary & Glossary
Name - Value/Meanings - Description

36. What are the elements of the task - Define Solution Scope?
Opportunity Cost
Solution Scope Definition - Implementation Approach - Dependencies
State Diagrams
Automate or Simplify Work - Improve Access to Information - Reduce Complexity of Interfaces - Increase Consistency of Behavior - Eliminate Redundancy

37. States the business need - identifies key stakeholders and briefly describes the positive impact that meeting the business need will have on those stakeholders.
Scenarios & Use Cases
Assumptions & Constraints - Business Need - Solution Scope - Stakeholder Concerns
Problem or Vision Statement
Relationship to Time - Relationship to Task Completion - Relationship to Contracts - Relationships to Formal and Informal Authority

38. What are the inputs for the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?
Confirm Elicitation Results
Organizational Readiness Assessment - Requirements (Stated) - Solution (Deployed) - Solution (Designed)
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Data Modeling - Functional Decomposition - Organizational Modeling - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases - Scope Modeling - User Stories
Business Requirements - Identified Defects - Solution Performance Metrics - Solution (Deployed)

39. What are the inputs to the task Manage Business Analysis Performance?
Relationships - Impact Analysis - Configuration Management System
Business Analysis Performance Metrics - Business Analysis Plan - Organization Performance Standards - Requirements Management Plan
Analogous Estimation
Communicated Requirements

40. Prioritizes requirements based on the amount of work that the project team is capable of delivering in a set period of time. Approaches include: All-in - All Out - Selective
Timeboxing
Solution Knowledge
Communicated Requirements
Solution Performance Assessment

41. 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
Delphi Estimation
Ongoing Cost versus Initial Investment - Opportunity Costs - Necessity - Sunk Costs
Trustworthiness
Functional Decomposition - Interface Analysis - Scope Modeling - User Stories - Problem or Vision Statement

42. 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.
BABOK
User Story
Share - Enhance - Exploit
Business Case

43. What is the output of the task Plan Business Analysis Communication?
Decision Analysis
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements Management Plan - Scheduled Resources - Solution Scope & Business Case - Supporting Materials
Implementation Approach
Business Analysis Communication Plan

44. The minimum set of requirements that must be met in order for a particular solution to be worth implementing.
Business Need - Expert Judgment - Organizational Process Assets
Acceptance Criteria
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
Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis

45. Ensure that the solution meets the business need and determine the most appropriate response to identified defects.
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements - Requirements Structure
Validate Solution
Requirements (Prioritized)
Activity List

46. What are the inputs to the task - Verify Requirements?
Requirements (Any Except Stated)
Requirements Management Plan - Solution Scope - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities - Stakeholder/Solution or Transition Requirements (Communicated or Traced)
Requirements (Stated - Unconfirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Unconfirmed)
Prepare Requirements Package

47. What is the output of the task - Define Assumptions & Constraints?
Assumptions & Constraints
Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis
Stakeholder Matrix - Onion Diagram
Sequence Diagrams

48. Details user interface requirements and integrates them with other requirements such as use cases - scenarios - data and business rules. Stakeholders often find this to be a concrete means of identifying - describing and validating their interface ne
Prototyping
Confirm Elicitation Results
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving
Data Dictionary & Glossary - Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshops - Survey/Questionnaire

49. What are the 3 elements in the Assess Organizational Readiness?
They describe what a solution must be capable of doing to meet the needs of one or more stakeholder groups
Cultural Assessment - Operational or Technical Assessment - Stakeholder Impact Analysis
Functional Decomposition
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Decision Analysis - Vendor Assessment

50. 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 Structure
This person will be involved in monitoring the performance and effectiveness of a solution or its components.
Reliability - Performance Efficiency - Operability - Security - Compatibility - Maintainability - Transferability
Identified Defects - Mitigating Actions - Solution Validation Assessment