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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning
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1. What are the techniques used in the task - Prioritize Requirements?
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Decision Analysis - Estimation - SWOT Analysis - Feasibility Analysis
Formal requirements presentation to stakeholders
Decision Analysis - Risk Analysis - MoSCoW Analysis - Timeboxing/Budgeting - Voting
Emotional and Cognitive
2. A continuous process of collecting data to determine how well a solution has been implemented compared to expected results.
Monitoring
Implementation Approach
Business Case
Requirements (Stated - Confirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Confirmed)
3. 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
Business Requirements - Identified Defects - Solution Performance Metrics - Solution (Deployed)
Vertical Prototype
Throw-away Prototype
Organize Requirements
4. What are the inputs to the task - Determine Solution Approach?
Elicitation Results
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Required Capabilities
Problem or Vision Statement
Risk - assumptions - constraints - etc.
5. 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
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Modeling - Organization Modeling - Data Modeling
Impact Analysis
6. The people involved - the interactions between them - the external forces affecting their behavior and all other relevant elements and factors.
Solution Scope
System
Structural Rules
Benefits - Costs - Risk Assessment - Results Measurement
7. 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
Interviews
BABOK
Scope Modeling
Business Rule
8. What are the strategies for a positive risk?
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Required Capabilities
Ethics
Learning
Share - Enhance - Exploit
9. Includes the standard definition of data elements - their meanings and allowable values.
Facilitation & Negotiation - Leadership & Influencing - Teamwork
Requirements Management Plan - Solution Scope - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities - Stakeholder/Solution or Transition Requirements (Communicated or Traced)
Influence on the project - organizational - project health and other stakeholders
Data Dictionary
10. Involves assessing a situation - understanding it as fully as possible - and making judgments about possible solutions to the problem.
Compliance with regulatory or other standards
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving
Historic Analysis
Acceptance Criteria
11. Three key factors when assessing the quality of indicators and their metrics
Ethics - Trustworthiness - Personal Organization
Manage Solution Scope & Requirements - Manage Requirements Traceability - Maintain Requirements for Re-use - Prepare Requirements Package - Communicate Requirements
Reliability - Validity - Timeliness
Organizational Readiness Assessment - Requirements (Stated) - Solution (Deployed) - Solution (Designed)
12. What is the output of the task - Validate Requirements?
Fishbone Diagram - Five Whys
Requirements (Approved)
Requirements (Validated)
Business Need - Solution Scope & Business Case - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
13. What are the Composite Data Elements?
Decision Analysis - Focus Groups - Observation - Survey/Questionnaire
Sequences - Repetitions - Optional Elements
Organizational Readiness Assessment - Requirements (Stated) - Solution (Deployed) - Solution (Designed)
Leadership
14. 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.
Organizational Readiness Assessment - Requirements (Stated) - Solution (Deployed) - Solution (Designed)
Functions - Markets - Matrix
Absolute Reference - Author - Complexity - Ownership - Priority - Risks - Source - Stability - Status - Urgency
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
15. What are the inputs for the task Prepare for Elicitation?
Evaluate Solution Performance
Acceptance - Transfer - Avoidance - Mitigation
Business Need - Solution Scope & Business Case - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
16. What are the inputs to the task Plan Requirements Management Process?
Functions - Markets - Matrix
Focus Group
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets
Assumptions & Constraints - Required Capabilities - Solution Approach
17. What is the output of the task - Define Assumptions & Constraints?
Requirements (Prioritized)
Organizational Readiness Assessment - Requirements (Stated) - Solution (Deployed) - Solution (Designed)
Assumptions & Constraints
Verify Requirements
18. Defines the key terms and data relevant to a business domain.
Data Dictionary & Glossary
Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Bottom-up Estimation
Opportunity Cost
19. What are the inputs to the task - Assess Proposed Solution?
Survey/Questionnaire
Requirements (Approved)
Assumptions & Constraints - Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution Options
Data Dictionary & Glossary - Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshops - Survey/Questionnaire
20. What are the inputs to the task - Organize Requirements?
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements (Stated) - Solution Scope
Data Flow Diagrams
Solution Approach
Business Analysis Approach - BA Performance Assessment - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
21. Two techniques used in Root Cause Analysis?
Plan Business Analysis Approach - Conduct Stakeholder Analysis - Plan Business Analysis Activities - Plan Business Analysis Communication - Plan Requirements Management Process - Manage BA Performance
Assess Proposed Solution - Allocate Requirements - Assess Organizational Readiness - Define Transition Requirements - Validate Solution - Evaluate Solution Performance
Fishbone Diagram - Five Whys
Personal Organization
22. Two effective trade-off methods.
Elimination of Dominated Alternative - Ranking Objects on a Similar Scale
Cultural Assessment - Operational or Technical Assessment - Stakeholder Impact Analysis
The Sponsor
Assumptions & Constraints - Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution Options
23. What is the output of the task Conduct Elicitation Activity?
Use Case
Solution Assessment & Validation
Confirm Elicitation Results
Elicitation Results
24. 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
Requirements (Approved)
Rolling Wave
Business Analysis Communication Plan
Solution Knowledge
25. What are some of the ways a BA can help to improve the operations of a business? Acceptance and Evaluation Criteria Definition - Business Rules Analysis - Data Dictionary and Glossary - Data Flow Diagrams - Data Modeling - Functional Decomposition -
Trustworthiness
Required Capabilities
Automate or Simplify Work - Improve Access to Information - Reduce Complexity of Interfaces - Increase Consistency of Behavior - Eliminate Redundancy
Scope Modeling
26. What is the output of the task - Allocate Resources?
Business Case
Requirements (Allocated)
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Business Rules Analysis - Decision Analysis - Functional Decomposition - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases
Requirements Structure
27. What stakeholder receives noticeable negative impact if information is incorrectly transferred from the old to new solution?
Tracing Requirements
Reliability - Performance Efficiency - Operability - Security - Compatibility - Maintainability - Transferability
Business Principals
Customer
28. What is the output of the task - Manage Requirements Traceability?
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Problem Tracking - Root Cause Analysis
Requirements (Traced)
Problem Solving
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
29. 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
Interviews
Requirements (Traced)
Requirements Management & Communication
30. What are the inputs for the task - Maintain Requirements for Re-use?
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements
Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring
Problem Tracking
Discounted Cash Flow - Net Present Value - Internal Rate of Return - Average Rate of Return - Pay Back Period - Cost-Benefit Analysis
31. The BA is a stakeholder in ______ business analysis activities.
All
Rolling Wave
Elimination
Reliability - Performance Efficiency - Operability - Security - Compatibility - Maintainability - Transferability
32. What are the elements to the task - Define Business Case?
Cognitive Conflict
Assumptions & Constraints - Business Need - Solution Scope - Stakeholder Concerns
Influence on the project - organizational - project health and other stakeholders
Benefits - Costs - Risk Assessment - Results Measurement
33. What are the 3 elements in the Assess Organizational Readiness?
Business Rule
Unique Number - Activity Description - Assumptions - Dependencies - Milestones
Cultural Assessment - Operational or Technical Assessment - Stakeholder Impact Analysis
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements
34. What are the inputs for the task Confirm Elicitation Results?
Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Decision Making
Requirements (Stated - Unconfirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Unconfirmed)
Data - Ongoing Work - Organizational Change
35. What are the techniques used in the task - Validate Solution?
Transition Requirements
Clear - Relevant - Economical - Adequate - Quantifiable
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Problem Tracking - Root Cause Analysis
Repository - Traceability - Requirement Attributes - Prioritization Process - Change Management - Tailoring the Requirements Management Process
36. 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.
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements
Decision Making
Tracing Requirements
Validate Requirements
37. Long-term - ongoing and qualitative statements of a state or condition that the organization is seeking to establish and maintain.
Name - Aliases - Values/Meanings - Description
Business Need - Solution Scope & Business Case - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Goals
Business Value - Business or Technical Risk - Implementation Difficulty - Likelihood of Success - Regulatory or Policy Compliance - Relationship to Other Requirements - Stakeholder Agreement - Urgency
38. Prioritizes requirements based on a allocated fixed amount of money.
Budgeting
Acceptance - Transfer - Avoidance - Mitigation
Evaluate Solution Performance
Functional Decomposition
39. The decomposition of activities and tasks creates?
Relationship to Time - Relationship to Task Completion - Relationship to Contracts - Relationships to Formal and Informal Authority
Activity List
Requirements (Stated) - Stakeholder Concerns
Compliance with regulatory or other standards
40. What is the output of the task Plan Business Analysis Communication?
Name - Value/Meanings - Description
Throw-away Prototype
Business Analysis Communication Plan
Unique Number - Activity Description - Assumptions - Dependencies - Milestones
41. 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
Assumptions & Constraints - Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution Options
Estimation
Repository - Traceability - Requirement Attributes - Prioritization Process - Change Management - Tailoring the Requirements Management Process
Enterprise Analysis - often the starting point for initiating a new project
42. What are the inputs to the task - Define Assumption & Constraints?
Stakeholder Concerns
Interface Analysis
Risk - assumptions - constraints - etc.
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving - Behavioral Characteristics - Business Knowledge - Communication Skills - Interaction Skills - Software Application
43. 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.
Implementation Approach
Primary stakeholders in the Organize Requirements task
Visual Learner - Auditory Learner - Kinesthetic Learner
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements Management Plan - Scheduled Resources - Solution Scope & Business Case - Supporting Materials
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.
Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution (Designed) - Solution Scope
Assess Organization Readiness
Problem Solving
Vendor Assessment
45. The goal of this task is validate that the stated requirements expressed by the stakeholder match the stakeholder's understanding of the problem and the stakeholder's needs. Analyst's understanding conforms to the actual desire or intentions of the s
Confirm Elicitation Results
Cultural Assessment - Operational or Technical Assessment - Stakeholder Impact Analysis
Business Analysis Approach
Ethics
46. The goal of this task is to ensure that all requirements support the delivery of value to the business - fulfill its goal and objectives and meet a stakeholder need.
Requirements - Requirements Management Plan
Validate Requirements
Trustworthiness
Perform tailoring exercises
47. Corrective or preventative measures uncovered while performing a Business Analysis Performance Assessment will result in changes to what plan?
Business Analysis Plan
Requirements Structure
General Purpose Applications & Specialized Applications
Transition Requirements
48. What is the output of the task Confirm Elicitation Results?
Requirements Structure
Conduct Elicitation Activity
Data - Ongoing Work - Organizational Change
Requirements (Stated - Confirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Confirmed)
49. What techniques are used in the task - Prepare Requirements Package?
Key Performance Indicator (KPI )
Business Analysis Process Assets
Required Capabilities
Requirements Documentation - Requirements for Vendor Selection
50. Name some commonly used financial valuation techniques.
Observation
Term and Fact Model
Use Case
Discounted Cash Flow - Net Present Value - Internal Rate of Return - Average Rate of Return - Pay Back Period - Cost-Benefit Analysis
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