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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning
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1. What are some examples of stakeholder concerns?
Risk - assumptions - constraints - etc.
Visual Learner - Auditory Learner - Kinesthetic Learner
Business Requirements - Stakeholder Requirements - Solution Requirements - Transition Requirements
Requirements Analysis
2. 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.
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Business Rules Analysis - Focus Groups - Functional Decomposition - Root Cause Analysis
Benefits - Costs - Risk Assessment - Results Measurement
Ethics
MoSCoW Analysis
3. 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
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Decision Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Stakeholder Matrix - Onion Diagram
Brainstorming
Timeboxing
4. Characteristics that are common to all organizations with a similar purpose and structure - whether or not the are in the same industry.
Sequences - Repetitions - Optional Elements
Business Principals
BABOK
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Data Modeling - Functional Decomposition - Organizational Modeling - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases - Scope Modeling - User Stories
5. 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
Requirements Structure
Underlying Competencies
Metrics & KPIs
Coverage Matrix - Table or spreadsheet used to manage tracing.
6. What are the inputs to the task - Determine Solution Approach?
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Problem Tracking - Root Cause Analysis
Relationship to Time - Relationship to Task Completion - Relationship to Contracts - Relationships to Formal and Informal Authority
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Required Capabilities
Decision Analysis
7. The knowledge area that describes how a BA manages conflicts - issues and changes in order to ensure that stakeholders and the project team remain in agreement on the solution scope - how requirements are communicated to stakeholders and how knowledg
Business Principals
Requirements Package
Assumptions & Constraints - Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution Options
Requirements Management & Communication
8. Ensure that the solution meets the business need and determine the most appropriate response to identified defects.
Requirements (Stated - Unconfirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Unconfirmed)
Primary stakeholders in the Organize Requirements task
Reliability - Performance Efficiency - Operability - Security - Compatibility - Maintainability - Transferability
Validate Solution
9. A continuous process of collecting data to determine how well a solution has been implemented compared to expected results.
Decision Making
Monitoring
Evaluate Solution Performance
Ethics
10. What are the elements to the task - Define Business Case?
Coverage Matrix - Table or spreadsheet used to manage tracing.
Benefits - Costs - Risk Assessment - Results Measurement
Leadership
Requirements (Analyzed)
11. 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.
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Business Rules Analysis - Decision Analysis - Functional Decomposition - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases
Solution Scope
MoSCoW Analysis
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
12. What are the tasks in the knowledge area - Requirements Analysis?
Document Analysis - SWOT Analysis
Decision Analysis - Risk Analysis - MoSCoW Analysis - Timeboxing/Budgeting - Voting
Document Analysis
Prioritize Requirements - Organize Requirements - Specify & Model Requirements - Define Assumptions & Constraints - Verify Requirements - Validate Requirements
13. What are the underlying competencies a BA should possess?
Requirements (Prioritized)
Enterprise Architecture - Solution Scope - Solution (Designed) - Stakeholder Concerns
Industry Knowledge
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving - Behavioral Characteristics - Business Knowledge - Communication Skills - Interaction Skills - Software Application
14. Techniques used in the task Plan Requirements Management Process.
Problem Solving
Decision Analysis - Problem Tacking - Risk Analysis
Requirements (Traced)
Rolling Wave
15. 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.
Data Modeling
Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis
Business Domain - Corporate Culture & Environment - Skills of the Analyst - Requirement Deliverable
Functions - Markets - Matrix
16. Understanding of the business architecture of the organization that is being analyzed. Understanding business models (generates profit) - org structure - relationships between business units and the persons who occupy key stakeholder positions.
Enterprise Analysis
Organizational Knowledge
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Modeling - Organization Modeling - Data Modeling
Requirements - Requirements Management Plan
17. What is the output to the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?
Validate Requirements
Solution Performance Assessment
Personal Organization
Requirements (Stated) - Stakeholder Concerns
18. This task determines if an organization can justify the investment required to deliver a proposed solution.
Business Policy
Use Case
Personal Organization
Define Business Case
19. 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.
Requirements Analysis
Analogous Estimation
Interviews
Risk - assumptions - constraints - etc.
20. 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
Requirements (Traced)
Decision Making
To record the conflict in the Requirements Issues Log.
Historic Analysis
21. What are the inputs to the task - Assess Capability Gaps?
Requirements (Maintained and Reusable)
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Solution Performance Assessment
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
Timeboxing
22. What is the output of the task Document Elicitation Results?
Functional Decomposition
Requirements (Stated) - Stakeholder Concerns
Stakeholder Matrix
Business Rules Analysis
23. A brief description of functionality that users need from a solution to meet a business objective. The goal they are trying to accomplish - and any additional information that may be critical to understanding the scope of the story.
User Story
Trustworthiness
Perform tailoring exercises
Enterprise Architecture - Solution Scope - Solution (Designed) - Stakeholder Concerns
24. To identify interfaces between solutions and/or solution components and define requirements that describe how they will interact.
Data Flow Diagrams
Emotional and Cognitive
Interface Analysis
Evaluation
25. What is the output of the task - Allocate Resources?
Business Need
Business Rule
Requirements (Allocated)
Acceptance - Transfer - Avoidance - Mitigation
26. What is the output of the task Plan Business Analysis Activities?
Benefits - Costs - Risk Assessment - Results Measurement
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements Management Plan - Scheduled Resources - Solution Scope & Business Case - Supporting Materials
Business Analysis Plan
Analogous Estimation
27. When performing root cause analysis as part of the Validate Solution task - what stakeholder may be involved?
Assess Proposed Solution - Allocate Requirements - Assess Organizational Readiness - Define Transition Requirements - Validate Solution - Evaluate Solution Performance
Data Flow Diagrams
Requirements (Allocated)
Implementation SME
28. What are the techniques used in Plan Business Analysis Approach?
Budgeting
Decision Analysis - Process Modeling - Structured Walkthrough
Requirements - Requirements Management Plan
Requirements (Stated) - Stakeholder Concerns
29. What are the inputs to the task - Validate Solution?
Expert Judgment
Solution (Constructed) - Requirements (Prioritized and Validated)
Business Case; Stakeholder - Solution or Transition Requirements (Verified)
Formal requirements presentation to stakeholders
30. Rules that are intended to help determine when something is or is not true - or when things fall into a specific category. They are expressed as rules because they describe categorizations that may change over time.
Structural Rules
Coverage Matrix - Table or spreadsheet used to manage tracing.
Business Need
Business Analysis Approach
31. What is the output of the task - Define Business Case?
Business Case
Decision Analysis - Estimation - Metrics & KPIs - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Requirements Documentation - Requirements for Vendor Selection
Risk Analysis
32. Two techniques used in Root Cause Analysis?
User Story
Vendor Assessment
Fishbone Diagram - Five Whys
Advantages of Document Analysis
33. What is the output of the task - Specify & Model Requirements?
Requirements (Analyzed)
Interviews
Evolutionary or Functional Prototype
Automate or Simplify Work - Improve Access to Information - Reduce Complexity of Interfaces - Increase Consistency of Behavior - Eliminate Redundancy
34. 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 -
Requirements (Analyzed)
Operative Rules
Creative Thinking - Decision Making - Learning - Problem Solving - Systems Thinking
Automate or Simplify Work - Improve Access to Information - Reduce Complexity of Interfaces - Increase Consistency of Behavior - Eliminate Redundancy
35. What should be considered when establishing a Change Management process?
Acceptance Criteria
Elimination
Determine the Process - Who will Authorize Changes - Impact Analysis - Wording of the Request - Coordinate Prioritization of Change
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Business Rules Analysis - Focus Groups - Functional Decomposition - Root Cause Analysis
36. What are the inputs to the task Conduct Stakeholder Analysis?
Focus Group
Dependencies
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Organizational Process Assets
Elimination
37. Strengths - Weaknesses - Opportunities - Threats - A valuable tool to quickly analyze various aspects of the current state of the business process undergoing change.
Business Analysis Communication Plan
Functional Decomposition - Interface Analysis - Scope Modeling - User Stories - Problem or Vision Statement
SWOT Analysis
Business Policy
38. Set of requirements that will be used to choose between multiple solutions.
Underlying Competencies
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Requirements - Requirements Package
Cohesive - Complete - Consistent - Correct - Feasible - Modifiable - Unambiguous - Testable
Evaluation Criteria
39. What are the inputs to the task - Validate Requirements?
Personal Organization
Relationships - Impact Analysis - Configuration Management System
Decision Analysis - Estimation - Metrics & KPIs - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Business Case; Stakeholder - Solution or Transition Requirements (Verified)
40. What are the tasks in the knowledge area - Enterprise Analysis?
Validate Requirements
Business Analysis Approach
Monitoring
Define Business Need - Access Capability Gaps - Determine Solution Approach - Define Solution Scope - Define Business Case
41. 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
Systems Thinking
Reliability - Performance Efficiency - Operability - Security - Compatibility - Maintainability - Transferability
Scheduled Resources - Supporting Materials
Requirements Analysis
42. What are the techniques used in the task Document Elicitation Results?
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Problem Tracking - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Glossary
Ethics
Vertical Prototype
43. What are the characteristics of Interaction Skills?
Decision Analysis - Estimation - Metrics & KPIs - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Key Performance Indicator (KPI )
Facilitation & Negotiation - Leadership & Influencing - Teamwork
Requirements Structure
44. What is the output of the task - Communicate Requirements?
Communicated Requirements
Influence on the project - organizational - project health and other stakeholders
Visual Learner - Auditory Learner - Kinesthetic Learner
Confirm Elicitation Results
45. What are the techniques used in the task - Communicate Requirements?
Benchmarking
Requirements (Stated) - Stakeholder Concerns
Data - Ongoing Work - Organizational Change
Requirements Workshop - Structured Walkthrough
46. What are the techniques used in the task Conduct Elicitation Activity?
Allocate Requirements
Survey/Questionnaire
Data Dictionary & Glossary - Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshops - Survey/Questionnaire
Key Performance Indicator (KPI )
47. 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
Delphi Estimation
Requirements - Requirements Management Plan
Compliance with regulatory or other standards
Determine the Process - Who will Authorize Changes - Impact Analysis - Wording of the Request - Coordinate Prioritization of Change
48. Three types of organizational structures
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Problem Tracking - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Functions - Markets - Matrix
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Problem Tracking - Root Cause Analysis
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Solution Performance Assessment
49. 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.
To record the conflict in the Requirements Issues Log.
Assumptions & Constraints - Business Need - Solution Scope - Stakeholder Concerns
Solution Assessment & Validation
Requirements (Analyzed)
50. Communicated Requirements mean what to stakeholders?
Requirements Structure
Organizational Knowledge
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
That they understand them and the current state the requirements are in