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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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1. Limited to "as-is" perspective. - Existing documentation may not be up-to-date or valid. - Can be a time-consuming and even tedious process to locate the relevant information






2. 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.






3. 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.






4. What are the elements of the task Plan Requirements Management Process?






5. A good indicator has 5 characteristics:






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






7. What are the inputs to the task - Assess Proposed Solution?






8. What is the output of the task - Validate Requirements?






9. This will impose constraints to the effort to deploy the solution - including relationships that may exist between solution components.






10. What are the different types of learning styles?






11. What are the factors of influence by stakeholders on a project?






12. 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






13. A structured way to capture requirements. May be used to scope - discover - define - prioritize and reach closure on requirements for the target system. Considered one of the most effective ways to deliver high quality requirements quickly.






14. What are the tasks for the knowledge area - Requirements Management & Communication?






15. What is the output of the task - Allocate Resources?






16. When a requirement is changed - the BA can easily review all the related requirements and software components in order to understand the impact of the change.






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






18. What are the inputs to the task - Organize Requirements?






19. Communication of requirements does what for stakeholders?






20. This technique shows how information is input - processed - stored and output from a system in a visual representation.






21. This knowledge area describes the behaviors - knowledge and other characteristics that support the effective performance of a BA.






22. What is the output of the task Prepare for Elicitation?






23. 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






24. What are the classifications used to describe requirements






25. Name some commonly used financial valuation techniques.






26. Name the 2 types of Stakeholder maps.






27. What are the Primitive Data Elements?






28. What are the inputs to the Plan Business Analysis Approach?






29. 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 -






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






31. What factors guide technique selection?






32. A requirement that does not deliver direct or indirect value to a stakeholder is a strong candidate for what?






33. 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






34. 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.






35. 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. -






36. What are the inputs for the task Plan Business Analysis Activities?






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






38. What is the output of the task - Maintain Requirements for Re-use?






39. What are the inputs to the task - Allocate Resources?






40. The systematic and objective assessment of a solution to determine its status and efficacy in meeting objectives over time - and to identify ways to improve the solution to better meet objectives.






41. Are used to describe the scope of analysis or the scope of a solution. Serve as a basis for defining and delimiting the scope of business analysis and project work. Allow the definition of a "complete" scope—that is - the boundaries of the scope corr






42. Two techniques used in Root Cause Analysis?






43. The purpose is to describe the required qualities of a system - such as its usability and performance characteristics.






44. Characteristics that are common to all organizations with a similar purpose and structure - whether or not the are in the same industry.






45. The goal of tracing is to ensure that requirements are linked back to a business objective. Creation of this relationship helps in what other traceability activities?






46. What are the tasks in Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring?






47. 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






48. What are the techniques used in the task Manage Business Analysis Performance?






49. 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.






50. Stakeholders involved the BA in decision making - acceptance of the BA's recommendations - willingness to discuss difficult or controversial topics with the BA - stakeholders willing to support or defend the BA when problems occur.