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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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






2. 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.






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






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






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






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






7. Communicated Requirements mean what to stakeholders?






8. What are the characteristics of a Problem Record?






9. What should be considered when establishing a Change Management process?






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






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






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






13. Details user interface requirements and integrates them with other requirements such as use cases - scenarios - data and business rules. Stakeholders often find this to be a concrete means of identifying - describing and validating their interface ne






14. What are the Primitive Data Elements?






15. Shows how the behavior of a concept - entity or object changes in response to events during its lifetime - and defines which events cause a transition between those states.






16. 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






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






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






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






20. 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 -






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






22. What are some of the key variables used in determining the priority of a requirement?






23. 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.






24. What are the likely sources of transition requirements?






25. The goal of tracing is to ensure that requirements are linked back to a business objective. Creation of this relationship helps in what other traceability activities?






26. What is the output of the task Manage Solution Scope & Requirements?






27. A continuous process of collecting data to determine how well a solution has been implemented compared to expected results.






28. What are the techniques used in the task - Assess Proposed Solution?






29. What are the internal factors in a SWOT Analysis?






30. The process of informing stakeholders of metrics of indicators in specified formats at specified intervals.






31. What does RACI stand for?






32. Two types of conflict.






33. What are the techniques used in the task - Allocate Resources?






34. 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.






35. What are the general modeling concepts that are relevant to business analysis?






36. What are the tasks in the knowledge area - Enterprise Analysis?






37. 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.






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






39. Two techniques used in Root Cause Analysis?






40. 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. -






41. What are the techniques used in the task Document Elicitation Results?






42. What is the output of the task - Manage Requirements Traceability?






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






44. The systematic and objective assessment of a solution to determine its status and efficacy in meeting objectives over time - and to identify ways to improve the solution to better meet objectives.






45. 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






46. Organizational culture - Stakeholder preference - complexity - organizational maturity and availability of resources are all factors used to do what?






47. Two effective trade-off methods.






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






49. Models a shallow - and possibly wide view of the system's functionality. It typically does not have any business logic running behind the visualization.






50. Estimating relies on the expertise of those who have performed the work in the past. These experts can be internal or external to the project team or to the organization.