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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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1. Strengths - Weaknesses - Opportunities - Threats - A valuable tool to quickly analyze various aspects of the current state of the business process undergoing change.






2. What factors guide technique selection?






3. 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. -






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






5. 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






6. Technique involving refinement of estimates. Estimate the details for activities in the current iteration or increment and provide an analogous estimate for the entire scope of work. As the end of the iteration approaches - estimates for the next ite






7. 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






8. Requires the team to focus on examining the premises - assumptions - observations and expectations of the team members. This type of conflict can have a beneficial effect of strengthening the foundations of the analysis and the solution.






9. Techniques used in the task Plan Requirements Management Process.






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






11. The decomposition of activities and tasks creates?






12. What are the elements of Communication Skills?






13. What are the inputs to the task - Define Business Need?






14. Three key factors when assessing the quality of indicators and their metrics






15. Ability to find information - on-time completion of tasks - efficiency in the completion of work - ability to easily identify all outstanding work and the status of each work item.






16. Checklist of characteristics to consider when considering non-functional requirements.






17. Three types of organizational structures






18. Defines what must be delivered in order to meet the business need - and the effect of the proposed change initiation on the business and technology operations and infrastructure.






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






20. What are the inputs to the task - Assess Organizational Readiness?






21. A diagram indicating how involved the stakeholder is with the solution.






22. 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.






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






24. What are the underlying competencies a BA should possess?






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






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






27. Are written to describe how an actor interacts with a solution to accomplish one or more of that actor's goals - or to respond to an event.






28. What are the tasks of the Elicitation Knowledge Area?






29. Prioritizes requirements based on a allocated fixed amount of money.






30. 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






31. What are the techniques used in the task - Assess Capability Gaps?






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






33. The purpose is to measure the performance of solutions - solution components - and other matters of interest to stakeholders.






34. Maps the level of stakeholder influence and interest in a project.






35. What are the tasks for the knowledge area - Requirements Management & Communication?






36. 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.






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






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






39. Forecast the cost and effort involved in pursuing a course of action. Used to develop a better understanding of the possible range of costs and effort associated with any initiative






40. What is the output of the task - Prioritize Requirements?






41. What is the output to the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?






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






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






44. What is the output of the task - Define Assumptions & Constraints?






45. What are the techniques used in Plan Business Analysis Communication?






46. 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.






47. Means of eliciting information from many people - sometimes anonymously - in a relatively short period of time






48. 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.






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






50. Approach to decision making that examines and models the possible consequences of different decisions. Make an optimal decision under conditions of uncertainty.