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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What are the factors of influence by stakeholders on a project?
Requirements Structure
Influence on the project - organizational - project health and other stakeholders
Elicitation Results
Ethics - Trustworthiness - Personal Organization
2. Involves assessing a situation - understanding it as fully as possible - and making judgments about possible solutions to the problem.
Acceptance & Evaluation Technique
Requirements (Stated) - Requirements Structure
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving
Activity List
3. What is the output to the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?
Requirements (Prioritized)
Communicated Requirements
This person will be involved in monitoring the performance and effectiveness of a solution or its components.
Solution Performance Assessment
4. What are the elements to the task - Define Business Case?
Solution Knowledge
Elicitation Results
Enterprise Architecture - Solution Scope - Solution (Designed) - Stakeholder Concerns
Benefits - Costs - Risk Assessment - Results Measurement
5. What are the inputs to the task Manage Requirements Traceability?
Requirements - Requirements Management Plan
Oral Communications - Teaching - Written Communication
Assumptions & Constraints - Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution Options
Requirements Analysis
6. What is the output of the task - Validate Requirements?
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving - Behavioral Characteristics - Business Knowledge - Communication Skills - Interaction Skills - Software Application
Requirements (Validated)
Solution (Constructed) - Requirements (Prioritized and Validated)
Clear - Relevant - Economical - Adequate - Quantifiable
7. What are the Cultural diversity issues that should be taken into account when planning communication?
Trustworthiness
Relationship to Time - Relationship to Task Completion - Relationship to Contracts - Relationships to Formal and Informal Authority
Assumptions & Constraints - Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution Options
Perform tailoring exercises
8. 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 Analysis Plan
Functional Decomposition
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
Document Elicitation Results task
9. Investigating how a solution is actually used after it is deployed and assessing the effect it has had - both positive and negative.
Survey/Questionnaire
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
Decision Analysis - Process Modeling - Structured Walkthrough
Evaluate Solution Performance
10. What are the tasks in the knowledge area - Enterprise Analysis?
Unique Number - Activity Description - Assumptions - Dependencies - Milestones
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Business Rules Analysis - Decision Analysis - Functional Decomposition - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases
Define Business Need - Access Capability Gaps - Determine Solution Approach - Define Solution Scope - Define Business Case
Estimation - Functional Decomposition - Risk Analysis
11. What are the output(s) of the task - Validate Solution?
Identified Defects - Mitigating Actions - Solution Validation Assessment
Formal Documentation - Presentation - Model
Business Value - Business or Technical Risk - Implementation Difficulty - Likelihood of Success - Regulatory or Policy Compliance - Relationship to Other Requirements - Stakeholder Agreement - Urgency
Validate Solution
12. What should be considered when establishing a Change Management process?
Requirements (Validated)
Personal Organization
Business Principles & Practices
Determine the Process - Who will Authorize Changes - Impact Analysis - Wording of the Request - Coordinate Prioritization of Change
13. 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.
Sequences - Repetitions - Optional Elements
Vertical Prototype
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Decision Analysis - Estimation - SWOT Analysis - Feasibility Analysis
Data Modeling
14. 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.
Solution Knowledge
Brings them to a Communication on understanding
Industry Knowledge
Influence on the project - organizational - project health and other stakeholders
15. What is the output of the task - Specify & Model Requirements?
Monitoring
SWOT Analysis
Requirements (Analyzed)
Relationship to Time - Relationship to Task Completion - Relationship to Contracts - Relationships to Formal and Informal Authority
16. What are the techniques used in the task - Assess Organizational Readiness?
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Models - Focus Groups - Interviews - Survey/Questionnaire - Organizational Modeling - Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Force Field Analysis
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Decision Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Cohesive - Complete - Consistent - Correct - Feasible - Modifiable - Unambiguous - Testable
Expert Judgment
17. What are the characteristics of quality for a requirements?
Cohesive - Complete - Consistent - Correct - Feasible - Modifiable - Unambiguous - Testable
Requirements Structure
To record the conflict in the Requirements Issues Log.
Lessons Learned Process
18. What are the inputs for the task Prepare for Elicitation?
Survey/Questionnaire
Business Need - Solution Scope & Business Case - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Unique Number - Activity Description - Assumptions - Dependencies - Milestones
Goals
19. What are the inputs for the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?
Share - Enhance - Exploit
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Data Modeling - Functional Decomposition - Organizational Modeling - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases - Scope Modeling - User Stories
Business Analysis Plan
Business Requirements - Identified Defects - Solution Performance Metrics - Solution (Deployed)
20. What are the techniques used in the task - Define Business Case?
Reporting
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
Elimination of Dominated Alternative - Ranking Objects on a Similar Scale
Decision Analysis - Estimation - Metrics & KPIs - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Vendor Assessment
21. What is the output of the Plan Business Analysis Approach?
Survey/Questionnaire
Business Analysis Approach
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Business Rules Analysis - Decision Analysis - Functional Decomposition - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases
Solution Scope Definition - Implementation Approach - Dependencies
22. A package should contain a consistent - cohesive and coherent set of requirements. This describes the ____________.
Solution Approach
Requirements Management & Communication
Requirements Structure
Assess Proposed Solution - Allocate Requirements - Assess Organizational Readiness - Define Transition Requirements - Validate Solution - Evaluate Solution Performance
23. This knowledge area describes the tasks that are performed in order to ensure that solutions meet the business need and to facilitate successful implementation.
Decision Analysis
Solution Assessment & Validation
All
Tracing Requirements
24. What is the output of the task Conduct Stakeholder Analysis?
Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Interviews - Lessons Learned Process - Metrics and KPIs - Problem Tracking - Process Modeling - Root Cause Analysis - Survey/Questionnaire - Variance Analysis
Structured Walkthrough
Requirements (Stated - Unconfirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Unconfirmed)
25. Using this technique the business analyst has collected the deliverables - activities - tasks - and estimates from all the involved stakeholders and rolls them up to get a total for all the activities and tasks.
Bottom-up Estimation
Manage Solution Scope & Requirements - Manage Requirements Traceability - Maintain Requirements for Re-use - Prepare Requirements Package - Communicate Requirements
Risk - assumptions - constraints - etc.
Decision Analysis - Focus Groups - Observation - Survey/Questionnaire
26. Understanding of how a change to a component affects the system as a whole - identification of reinforcing and compensating feedback loops - understanding of how systems adapt to external pressures and changes - A system as a whole will have properti
User Classes - Profiles or Roles; Concepts & Relationships - Events - Processes - Rules
Decision Analysis - Estimation - Metrics & KPIs - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Reliability - Validity - Timeliness
Systems Thinking
27. What is the output of the task - Define Transition Requirements?
Glossary
Requirements - Requirements Management Plan
Requirements Structure
Transition Requirements
28. Measures progress towards a strategic goal or objective.
General Purpose Applications & Specialized Applications
Define Business Case
Key Performance Indicator (KPI )
Problem Tracking - Baselining - Signoff
29. 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.
Assess Organization Readiness
Evaluation
Timeboxing
Benchmarking
30. 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
Validate Solution
Cultural Assessment - Operational or Technical Assessment - Stakeholder Impact Analysis
Required Capabilities
31. What are the inputs to the task Plan Requirements Management Process?
Business Requirements - Stakeholder Requirements - Solution Requirements - Transition Requirements
Functional Decomposition
Requirements (Traced)
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets
32. What is the output of the task Plan Requirements Management Process?
Non-functional Requirements Analysis
Evaluate Solution Performance
Requirements Management Plan
Cultural Assessment - Operational or Technical Assessment - Stakeholder Impact Analysis
33. Benefits that could have been achieved with an alternative investment rather than this one.
Opportunity Cost
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Business Principles & Practices
Description - Raised by - Date Identified - Impact - Priority - Need by Date - Owner - Status - Action Needed to be Resolved - Responsible for Action - Completion Date of Action - Outcome
34. 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
Business Policy
Business Requirements - Identified Defects - Solution Performance Metrics - Solution (Deployed)
Elimination of Dominated Alternative - Ranking Objects on a Similar Scale
35. What is the output of the task - Verify Requirements?
Prepare Requirements Package
Requirements Structure
Requirements (Verified)
Vendor Assessment
36. What are the Behavioral Characteristics a BA should exhibit?
Business Need - Solution Scope & Business Case - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Ethics - Trustworthiness - Personal Organization
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
The Sponsor
37. Documents terms unique to a domain.
Glossary
Business Value - Business or Technical Risk - Implementation Difficulty - Likelihood of Success - Regulatory or Policy Compliance - Relationship to Other Requirements - Stakeholder Agreement - Urgency
Delphi Estimation
Business Need
38. 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
Leadership
Advantages of Document Analysis
Implementation SME
Requirements (Approved)
39. What is the output of the task Confirm Elicitation Results?
Cultural Assessment - Operational or Technical Assessment - Stakeholder Impact Analysis
Data Modeling
Evolutionary or Functional Prototype
Requirements (Stated - Confirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Confirmed)
40. Involved motivating people to act in ways that enable them to work together to achieve shared goals and objectives.
Requirements Package
Requirements (Traced)
Leadership
Prioritize Requirements - Organize Requirements - Specify & Model Requirements - Define Assumptions & Constraints - Verify Requirements - Validate Requirements
41. 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 -
Unique Number - Activity Description - Assumptions - Dependencies - Milestones
Problem Solving
Stakeholder Concerns
Strengths - Weaknesses
42. 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
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements - Requirements Structure
Requirements Structure
Clear - Relevant - Economical - Adequate - Quantifiable
Lessons Learned Process
43. What are the inputs to the task - Assess Proposed Solution?
Document Analysis
Business Rule
Requirements Analysis
Assumptions & Constraints - Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution Options
44. What are the techniques used in the task - Allocate Resources?
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Business Rules Analysis - Decision Analysis - Functional Decomposition - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases
Stakeholder Concerns
Business Case
Organize Requirements
45. What are the inputs to the task - Organize Requirements?
Business Rules Analysis
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements (Stated) - Solution Scope
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets
Requirements Management & Communication
46. What are the different types of learning styles?
Visual Learner - Auditory Learner - Kinesthetic Learner
Requirements Analysis
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Business Rules Analysis - Focus Groups - Functional Decomposition - Root Cause Analysis
General Purpose Applications & Specialized Applications
47. Three key factors when assessing the quality of indicators and their metrics
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
Reliability - Validity - Timeliness
Expert Judgment
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Solution Performance Assessment
48. Set of requirements that will be used to choose between multiple solutions.
Evaluation Criteria
Name - Aliases - Values/Meanings - Description
Data Modeling
Brings them to a Communication on understanding
49. 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.
Perform tailoring exercises
Solution (Constructed) - Requirements (Prioritized and Validated)
Ethics
Validate Requirements
50. The goal of this task is to meet with stakeholder(s) to gather information regarding their needs.
Business Analysis Communication Plan
Conduct Elicitation Activity
Requirements (Maintained and Reusable)
Business Analysis Performance Metrics - Business Analysis Plan - Organization Performance Standards - Requirements Management Plan