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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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1. The BA is a stakeholder in ______ business analysis activities.






2. To assess the ability of a potential vendor to meet commitments regarding a product or service






3. Provides an organized approach to tracking - management - and resolution of defects - issues - problems - and risks throughout business analysis activities. Management of issues is important so that they can be resolved in a timely manner to ensure s






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






5. What are the techniques used in the task Conduct Elicitation Activity?






6. Corrective or preventative measures uncovered while performing a Business Analysis Performance Assessment will result in changes to what plan?






7. What are the inputs for the task - Define Solution Scope?






8. What knowledge area discusses the business analysis activities necessary to identify a business need - problem or opportunity - define the capture of the solution and justify the investment necessary to deliver the solution.






9. 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.






10. Elements of a Requirements Management Plan include?






11. Investigating how a solution is actually used after it is deployed and assessing the effect it has had - both positive and negative.






12. What is the output of the task Conduct Elicitation Activity?






13. What is the output of the task - Organize Requirements?






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






15. What is the output of the task - Verify Requirements?






16. Name some commonly used financial valuation techniques.






17. What is the output of the task - Prepare Requirements Package?






18. This knowledge area involves analyzing stakeholder needs to define solutions that meet those needs - assessing the current state of the business to identify and recommend improvements and the verification and validation of the resulting requirements.






19. 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.






20. Divides requirements into 4 categories - Must - Should - Could - Won't






21. 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.






22. What are the inputs to the task - Determine Solution Approach?






23. What are the inputs to the task Manage Solution Scope & Requirements?






24. What are the inputs to the task - Specify & Model Requirements?






25. What are the likely sources of transition requirements?






26. 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






27. Creates a conceptual model of the work that needs to be completed to deliver the new business solution.






28. What are the inputs to the task Manage Business Analysis Performance?






29. What are the techniques for the task - Verify Requirements?






30. What are the techniques used in the task Manage Solution Scope & Requirements?






31. 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






32. Defines the key terms and data relevant to a business domain.






33. 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.






34. Use of a similar project as the basis for developing estimates for the current project. Also known as "top-down" estimating. This is usually done at the beginning of the project or project phase and more detailed estimates follow as more is known.






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






36. What are the techniques used in the task - Validate Solution?






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






38. Three types of organizational structures






39. States the business need - identifies key stakeholders and briefly describes the positive impact that meeting the business need will have on those stakeholders.






40. Elicitation Results are the inputs for the ____________






41. What are the techniques used in the task - Assess Organizational Readiness?






42. What are the inputs for the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?






43. Performed to communicate - verify and validate requirements. Is a working session where invited participants review and discuss a set of requirements






44. 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.






45. What is the output of the task - Define Business Case?






46. Name the 2 types of Software categories that assist in BA productivity.






47. Knowing the dependencies and relationships between requirements helps when determining the sequence in which requirements are to be addressed. Common relations are:






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






49. The knowledge area that covers how BAs determine which activities are necessary in order to complete a business analysis effort.






50. What is the output of the task Confirm Elicitation Results?