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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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1. The decomposition of activities and tasks creates?
Activity List
Required Capabilities
Requirements Management Plan - Solution Scope - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities - Stakeholder/Solution or Transition Requirements (Communicated or Traced)
Business Analysis Performance Assessment - Business Analysis Process Assets - Includes a comparison of planned versus actual performance - understanding the root cause of variances from the plan and other information to help understand the level of

2. Familiarity with the range of commercially available solutions or suppliers can assist with the identification of possible alternatives.
Solution Knowledge
Requirements Management Plan - Solution Scope - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities - Stakeholder/Solution or Transition Requirements (Communicated or Traced)
Define Business Need - Access Capability Gaps - Determine Solution Approach - Define Solution Scope - Define Business Case
Problem Tracking

3. What are the inputs to the task - Validate Requirements?
Business Principals
Business Case; Stakeholder - Solution or Transition Requirements (Verified)
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements - Requirements Structure
Survey/Questionnaire

4. What is the output of the Plan Business Analysis Approach?
Requirements (Maintained and Reusable)
Business Analysis Approach
Budgeting
Underlying Competencies

5. Two types of conflict.
Solution (Constructed) - Requirements (Prioritized and Validated)
Emotional and Cognitive
Assumptions & Constraints - Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution Options
Root Cause Analysis

6. What are the tasks in the knowledge area - Requirements Analysis?
Business Analysis Communication Plan
Ethics
Systems Thinking
Prioritize Requirements - Organize Requirements - Specify & Model Requirements - Define Assumptions & Constraints - Verify Requirements - Validate Requirements

7. Prioritizes requirements based on a allocated fixed amount of money.
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets
Business Analysis Plan
Budgeting
Estimation - Functional Decomposition - Risk Analysis

8. What are the factors of influence by stakeholders on a project?
Influence on the project - organizational - project health and other stakeholders
Requirements Structure
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Decision Analysis - Estimation - SWOT Analysis - Feasibility Analysis
Risk - assumptions - constraints - etc.

9. An excellent way to foster creative thinking about a problem. The goal is to produce numerous new ideas and to derive themes for further analysis. - Ability to elicit many ideas in a short time period. - - Non-judgmental environment enables creative
Solution Knowledge
Brings them to a Communication on understanding
Brainstorming
Rolling Wave

10. What are the characteristics of Interaction Skills?
System
Business Principals
Define Business Need - Access Capability Gaps - Determine Solution Approach - Define Solution Scope - Define Business Case
Facilitation & Negotiation - Leadership & Influencing - Teamwork

11. What are the inputs to the task Manage Requirements Traceability?
Solution Assessment & Validation
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Decision Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Name - Value/Meanings - Description
Requirements - Requirements Management Plan

12. Issues that may influence the replacement or elimination decision of a system include:
Ongoing Cost versus Initial Investment - Opportunity Costs - Necessity - Sunk Costs
Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Business Analysis Process Assets
Determine the Process - Who will Authorize Changes - Impact Analysis - Wording of the Request - Coordinate Prioritization of Change

13. What are the techniques used in the task Document Elicitation Results?
Organize Requirements
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Models - Focus Groups - Interviews - Survey/Questionnaire - Organizational Modeling - Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Force Field Analysis
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Problem Tracking - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Decision Analysis - Risk Analysis - MoSCoW Analysis - Timeboxing/Budgeting - Voting

14. What are the elements of the task Plan Requirements Management Process?
Repository - Traceability - Requirement Attributes - Prioritization Process - Change Management - Tailoring the Requirements Management Process
Assumptions & Constraints - Business Need - Solution Scope - Stakeholder Concerns
Focus Group
All

15. 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.
Formal Documentation - Presentation - Model
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Problem Tracking - Structured Walkthrough - Checklists
Business Analysis Plan
Trustworthiness

16. 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.
Decision Analysis - Problem Tacking - Risk Analysis
Analogous Estimation
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
Prepare Requirements Package

17. What are the 3 elements in the Assess Organizational Readiness?
Interface Analysis
Elimination of Dominated Alternative - Ranking Objects on a Similar Scale
Business Domain - Corporate Culture & Environment - Skills of the Analyst - Requirement Deliverable
Cultural Assessment - Operational or Technical Assessment - Stakeholder Impact Analysis

18. Models a shallow - and possibly wide view of the system's functionality. It typically does not have any business logic running behind the visualization.
Horizontal Prototype
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Models - Focus Groups - Interviews - Survey/Questionnaire - Organizational Modeling - Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Force Field Analysis
Business Analysis Performance Assessment - Business Analysis Process Assets - Includes a comparison of planned versus actual performance - understanding the root cause of variances from the plan and other information to help understand the level of
Reliability - Performance Efficiency - Operability - Security - Compatibility - Maintainability - Transferability

19. Set of requirements that will be used to choose between multiple solutions.
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements (Stated) - Solution Scope
Visual Learner - Auditory Learner - Kinesthetic Learner
Parametric Estimation
Evaluation Criteria

20. What is a STAKEHOLDER requirement - according to the BABOK 2.0?
Strengths - Weaknesses
A statement of the needs of a particular stakeholder or class of stakeholders
Benchmarking
Requirements (Stated - Unconfirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Unconfirmed)

21. Ensure that the solution meets the business need and determine the most appropriate response to identified defects.
Validate Solution
Business Requirements - Identified Defects - Solution Performance Metrics - Solution (Deployed)
Impact Analysis - Requirements Coverage - Requirements Allocation
Functions - Markets - Matrix

22. What are the inputs for the task - Maintain Requirements for Re-use?
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements
Interface Analysis
Name - Value/Meanings - Description
Influence on the project - organizational - project health and other stakeholders

23. What is the output of the task Manage Solution Scope & Requirements?
Requirements (Approved)
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements (Stated) - Solution Scope
Expert Judgment
Problem Tracking - Baselining - Signoff

24. What are the inputs to the task Conduct Stakeholder Analysis?
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Organizational Process Assets
Requirements Workshop
Absolute Reference - Author - Complexity - Ownership - Priority - Risks - Source - Stability - Status - Urgency
Assess Organization Readiness

25. What are the underlying competencies a BA should possess?
Problem Tracking - Baselining - Signoff
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving - Behavioral Characteristics - Business Knowledge - Communication Skills - Interaction Skills - Software Application
Prepare Requirements Package
Rolling Wave

26. What is the output of the task Confirm Elicitation Results?
Transition Requirements
Requirements (Stated - Confirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Confirmed)
Solution Assessment & Validation
Identified Defects - Mitigating Actions - Solution Validation Assessment

27. What is the output of the task Prepare for Elicitation?
Scheduled Resources - Supporting Materials
Solution Assessment & Validation
System
Share - Enhance - Exploit

28. What are the elements of Communication Skills?
Document Elicitation Results task
Underlying Competencies
Communicated Requirements
Oral Communications - Teaching - Written Communication

29. A good indicator has 5 characteristics:
Clear - Relevant - Economical - Adequate - Quantifiable
Automate or Simplify Work - Improve Access to Information - Reduce Complexity of Interfaces - Increase Consistency of Behavior - Eliminate Redundancy
Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring
Cognitive Conflict

30. 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
Problem Tracking
Rolling Wave
Vendor Assessment
Allocate Requirements

31. This prototype extends the initial interface requirements into a fully functioning system and requires a specialized prototyping tool or language.
Onion Diagram
Document Analysis
The Business Analysis Communication Plan
Evolutionary or Functional Prototype

32. 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. -
The Sponsor
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Problem Tracking - Root Cause Analysis
Underlying Competencies
Document Analysis

33. What are the attributes of a Data Model?
Budgeting
Problem Tracking
Name - Value/Meanings - Description
Assumptions & Constraints - Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution Options

34. To identify interfaces between solutions and/or solution components and define requirements that describe how they will interact.
Interface Analysis
Validate Requirements
Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution (Designed) - Solution Scope
Business Analysis Communication Plan

35. What is the output of the task - Specify & Model Requirements?
Manage Solution Scope & Requirements - Manage Requirements Traceability - Maintain Requirements for Re-use - Prepare Requirements Package - Communicate Requirements
Requirements (Analyzed)
Observation
Document Analysis

36. 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.
Underlying Competencies
Enterprise Analysis - often the starting point for initiating a new project
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving
Document Analysis - SWOT Analysis

37. What are the characteristics of a Problem Record?
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
Organization Modeling
Compliance with regulatory or other standards
Specific - Measurable - Achievable - Relevant - Time-bound Objectives must be SMART.

38. What are the inputs of the task Plan Business Analysis Communication?
Reliability - Validity - Timeliness
Requirements (Any Except Stated)
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Prototyping

39. Are used to model the logic of usage scenarios - by showing the information passed between objects in the system through the execution of the scenario. Shows how classes and objects interact during a scenario.
Estimation - Functional Decomposition - Risk Analysis
Sequence Diagrams
Assess Organization Readiness
Activity List

40. What are the elements of the area - Analytical Thinking and Problem Solving - Successful generation of new ideas - application of new ideas to resolve existing problems - willingness of stakeholders to accept new approaches.
Business Policy
Creative Thinking - Decision Making - Learning - Problem Solving - Systems Thinking
Non-functional Requirements Analysis
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving

41. What are the elements to the task - Define Business Case?
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Problem Tracking - Root Cause Analysis
Benefits - Costs - Risk Assessment - Results Measurement
Requirements (Stated) - Stakeholder Concerns
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving

42. 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
Throw-away Prototype
Document Analysis
Evaluation
Requirements (Stated) - Stakeholder Concerns

43. Knowing the dependencies and relationships between requirements helps when determining the sequence in which requirements are to be addressed. Common relations are:
Horizontal Prototype
Necessity - Effort - Subset - Cover - Value
Delphi Estimation
Reliability - Performance Efficiency - Operability - Security - Compatibility - Maintainability - Transferability

44. What are the techniques for the task - Verify Requirements?
Organizational Knowledge
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Problem Tracking - Structured Walkthrough - Checklists
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Organizational Process Assets
Emotional and Cognitive

45. What is the output of the task Plan Requirements Management Process?
Evaluation
Structured Walkthrough
Requirements Analysis
Requirements Management Plan

46. 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
Acceptance & Evaluation Technique
Business Analysis Communication Plan
Decision Analysis - Focus Groups - Observation - Survey/Questionnaire
Delphi Estimation

47. What are the inputs for the task - Define Transitional Requirements?
Prepare Requirements Package
Organizational Readiness Assessment - Requirements (Stated) - Solution (Deployed) - Solution (Designed)
Elimination
Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities

48. 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.
Organize Requirements
Cognitive Conflict
Compliance with regulatory or other standards
Specific - Measurable - Achievable - Relevant - Time-bound Objectives must be SMART.

49. What are the Composite Data Elements?
Verify Requirements
Functional Decomposition - Interface Analysis - Scope Modeling - User Stories - Problem or Vision Statement
Sequences - Repetitions - Optional Elements
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Problem Tracking - Structured Walkthrough - Checklists

50. What are the techniques used in the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?
Customer
Functions - Markets - Matrix
Non-functional Requirements Analysis
Decision Analysis - Focus Groups - Observation - Survey/Questionnaire