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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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1. Includes the standard definition of data elements - their meanings and allowable values.






2. Involves assessing a situation - understanding it as fully as possible - and making judgments about possible solutions to the problem.






3. Useful for ensuring that all stakeholders are in agreement on the format and content of relevant information. Capturing these definitions in a single model ensures that these terms will be used consistently.






4. 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.






5. What is the output of the task - Determine Solution Approach?






6. What are stakeholder requirements?






7. What are the techniques used in the task Confirm Elicitation Results?






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






9. What are the inputs for the task - Define Transitional Requirements?






10. 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.






11. The skill of moderating discussions among a group or enable all participants to effectively articulate their views on a topic under discussion and to further ensure that participants in the discussion are able to recognize and appreciate the differin






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






13. What is the output of the task - Assess Proposed Solution?






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






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






16. Define requirements for capabilities needed to move from an existing solution to a new solution.






17. When a conflict arises between stakeholders on one or more documented requirements - the first thing that needs to take place is what?






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






19. What is the output of the task - Assess Organizational Readiness?






20. What are the inputs to the task - Prioritize Requirements?






21. 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.






22. What is the output of the task Plan Requirements Management Process?






23. 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






24. Rules that the organization chooses to enforce as a matter of policy. They are intended to guide the actions of people working within the organization. They may oblige people to take certain actions - prevent people from taking actions - or prescribe






25. What factors guide technique selection?






26. 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.






27. Gathering information relevant to a decision - breaking down the information relevant to a decision - making comparisons and tradeoffs between similar and dissimilar options and identifying the option that is most desirable.






28. This task determines if an organization can justify the investment required to deliver a proposed solution.






29. Decisions are made with the interest of all stakeholders considered - reasons for a decision are cleared articulated - prompt and full disclosure of conflicts of interest - honesty regarding one's abilities and the performance of one's work.






30. 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.






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






32. 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






33. 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.






34. Is generally understood to describe just one way that an actor can accomplish a particular goal






35. The people involved - the interactions between them - the external forces affecting their behavior and all other relevant elements and factors.






36. What are the inputs to the task Conduct Stakeholder Analysis?






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






38. 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.






39. What are the Behavioral Characteristics a BA should exhibit?






40. What are some of the commonly used requirement attributes?






41. What are the inputs to the task Conduct Elicitation Activity?






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






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






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






45. 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






46. What is the output of the task - Communicate Requirements?






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 stakeholder receives noticeable negative impact if information is incorrectly transferred from the old to new solution?






49. Elements identified for each activity and task.






50. 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