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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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1. What is the output of the task - Assess Proposed Solution?
Assessment of Proposed Solution
Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring
Facilitation
To record the conflict in the Requirements Issues Log.

2. What are the inputs to the task - Validate Requirements?
MoSCoW Analysis
Requirements Analysis
Requirements Structure
Business Case; Stakeholder - Solution or Transition Requirements (Verified)

3. Characteristics that are common to all organizations with a similar purpose and structure - whether or not the are in the same industry.
Elimination
Business Principals
Requirements Structure
Requirements Documentation - Requirements for Vendor Selection

4. What are the attributes of a Data Model?
Reliability - Performance Efficiency - Operability - Security - Compatibility - Maintainability - Transferability
Enterprise Analysis - often the starting point for initiating a new project
Name - Value/Meanings - Description
Requirements Structure

5. 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.
Requirements Analysis
Business Analysis Process Assets
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Problem Tracking - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Solution Scope Definition - Implementation Approach - Dependencies

6. What describes how - when and why the business analyst will work with stakeholders?
The Business Analysis Communication Plan
Business Analysis Plan
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets
Rolling Wave

7. Prioritizes requirements based on a allocated fixed amount of money.
Enterprise Architecture - Solution Scope - Solution (Designed) - Stakeholder Concerns
Organization Modeling
Budgeting
Business Need - Expert Judgment - Organizational Process Assets

8. 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.
Business Requirements - Identified Defects - Solution Performance Metrics - Solution (Deployed)
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
Organizational Readiness Assessment
Requirements Structure

9. What is the output of the task - Verify Requirements?
Requirements (Stated) - Stakeholder Concerns
Document Analysis
Requirements Management & Communication
Requirements (Verified)

10. What are the inputs to the task Manage Solution Scope & Requirements?
That they understand them and the current state the requirements are in
Elicitation Results
Problem Tracking
Requirements Management Plan - Solution Scope - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities - Stakeholder/Solution or Transition Requirements (Communicated or Traced)

11. What are the inputs for the task - Define Transitional Requirements?
Scenario
Functional Decomposition
Compliance with regulatory or other standards
Organizational Readiness Assessment - Requirements (Stated) - Solution (Deployed) - Solution (Designed)

12. What are the characteristics of a Problem Record?
Non-functional Requirements Analysis
Risk - assumptions - constraints - etc.
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
Metrics & KPIs

13. The process of informing stakeholders of metrics of indicators in specified formats at specified intervals.
Requirements (Validated)
Reporting
Data Dictionary
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Solution Performance Assessment

14. Strengths - Weaknesses - Opportunities - Threats - A valuable tool to quickly analyze various aspects of the current state of the business process undergoing change.
SWOT Analysis
Use Case
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Business Rules Analysis - Decision Analysis - Functional Decomposition - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases
Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution (Designed) - Solution Scope

15. 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.
Horizontal Prototype
Estimation
Learning
Advantages of a Data Dictionary & Glossary

16. 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.
Problem Solving
User Story
Requirements (Stated - Unconfirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Unconfirmed)
Solution Scope Definition - Implementation Approach - Dependencies

17. A structured examination of the aspects of a situation to establish the root causes and resulting effects of the problem. A critical element is to ensure that the current business thinking and processes are challenged. The purpose is to determine the
Compliance with regulatory or other standards
Root Cause Analysis
Identified Defects - Mitigating Actions - Solution Validation Assessment
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Business Rules Analysis - Focus Groups - Functional Decomposition - Root Cause Analysis

18. Name the 2 types of Software categories that assist in BA productivity.
Identified Defects - Mitigating Actions - Solution Validation Assessment
Requirements (Maintained and Reusable)
Requirements Analysis
General Purpose Applications & Specialized Applications

19. What factors guide technique selection?
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets
The Business Analysis Communication Plan
Business Analysis Process Assets
Business Domain - Corporate Culture & Environment - Skills of the Analyst - Requirement Deliverable

20. What are the elements of the task Plan Requirements Management Process?
Functional Decomposition - Interface Analysis - Scope Modeling - User Stories - Problem or Vision Statement
Repository - Traceability - Requirement Attributes - Prioritization Process - Change Management - Tailoring the Requirements Management Process
User Story
Implementation Approach

21. What are the underlying competencies a BA should possess?
Ethics - Trustworthiness - Personal Organization
Prepare Requirements Package
Reliability - Performance Efficiency - Operability - Security - Compatibility - Maintainability - Transferability
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving - Behavioral Characteristics - Business Knowledge - Communication Skills - Interaction Skills - Software Application

22. Understanding of the competitive forces that shape an industry - understand the various customer segments that the industry services and the demographic or other characteristics common to that segment.
Industry Knowledge
Creative Thinking - Decision Making - Learning - Problem Solving - Systems Thinking
Requirements Package
Required Capabilities

23. What is the output of the Manage Business Analysis Performance task?
Strengths - Weaknesses
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
Solution Assessment & Validation
Formal Documentation - Presentation - Model

24. 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
Formal Documentation - Presentation - Model
Decision Analysis
Assumptions & Constraints - Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution Options

25. What are the techniques used in Plan Business Analysis Activities?
Estimation - Functional Decomposition - Risk Analysis
MoSCoW Analysis
Use Case
Business Need

26. What does SMART stand for?
Requirements (Stated) - Requirements Structure
Interface Analysis
Specific - Measurable - Achievable - Relevant - Time-bound Objectives must be SMART.
Brainstorming

27. What are some of the key variables used in determining the priority of a requirement?
Enterprise Analysis
Business Value - Business or Technical Risk - Implementation Difficulty - Likelihood of Success - Regulatory or Policy Compliance - Relationship to Other Requirements - Stakeholder Agreement - Urgency
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
Interviews - Lessons Learned Process - Metrics and KPIs - Problem Tracking - Process Modeling - Root Cause Analysis - Survey/Questionnaire - Variance Analysis

28. 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
User Classes - Profiles or Roles; Concepts & Relationships - Events - Processes - Rules
Ethics
Requirements Structure
Prototyping

29. Limited to "as-is" perspective. - Existing documentation may not be up-to-date or valid. - Can be a time-consuming and even tedious process to locate the relevant information
Historic Analysis
Scenarios & Use Cases
Advantages of Document Analysis
Problem or Vision Statement

30. What are the Composite Data Elements?
Determine the Process - Who will Authorize Changes - Impact Analysis - Wording of the Request - Coordinate Prioritization of Change
Decision Analysis
Validate Solution
Sequences - Repetitions - Optional Elements

31. According to the BABOK 2.0 - what type of analysis generates STAKEHOLDER requirements?
Requirements Analysis
Evaluate Solution Performance
Validate Requirements
Formal requirements presentation to stakeholders

32. What stakeholder receives noticeable negative impact if information is incorrectly transferred from the old to new solution?
Customer
Manage Solution Scope & Requirements - Manage Requirements Traceability - Maintain Requirements for Re-use - Prepare Requirements Package - Communicate Requirements
Requirements (Stated - Confirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Confirmed)
Document Elicitation Results task

33. Communication of requirements does what for stakeholders?
Data - Ongoing Work - Organizational Change
BABOK
Solution Performance Assessment
Brings them to a Communication on understanding

34. Two effective trade-off methods.
Elimination of Dominated Alternative - Ranking Objects on a Similar Scale
Estimation
MoSCoW Analysis
Goals

35. Includes the standard definition of data elements - their meanings and allowable values.
To record the conflict in the Requirements Issues Log.
Conduct Elicitation Activity
Business Principals
Data Dictionary

36. What does RACI stand for?
Requirements Management & Communication
Automate or Simplify Work - Improve Access to Information - Reduce Complexity of Interfaces - Increase Consistency of Behavior - Eliminate Redundancy
Responsible - Accountable - Consulted - Informed
Implementation SME

37. Confidence in the problem solving process that a selected solution is correct - new solution options can be evaluated effectively using the problem solving framework - selected solutions meet the defined objectives and solve the underlying problem -
Solution Knowledge
Cohesive - Complete - Consistent - Correct - Feasible - Modifiable - Unambiguous - Testable
Business Need
Problem Solving

38. What are the techniques used in the task Document Elicitation Results?
Problem Solving
Interviews - Lessons Learned Process - Metrics and KPIs - Problem Tracking - Process Modeling - Root Cause Analysis - Survey/Questionnaire - Variance Analysis
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Problem Tracking - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Data - Ongoing Work - Organizational Change

39. This task determines if an organization can justify the investment required to deliver a proposed solution.
Business Requirements - Identified Defects - Solution Performance Metrics - Solution (Deployed)
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Organizational Process Assets
Enterprise Analysis - often the starting point for initiating a new project
Define Business Case

40. What are the tasks of the Elicitation Knowledge Area?
Solution Performance Assessment
Expert Judgment
Requirements (Verified)
Prepare for Elicitation - Conduct Elicitation Activity - Document Elicitation Results - Confirm Elicitation Results

41. Who is the primary stakeholder in the Define Business Case task?
Analogous Estimation
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving
All
The Sponsor

42. To identify and manage areas of uncertainty that can impact an initiative - solution - or organization.
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Business Rules Analysis - Focus Groups - Functional Decomposition - Root Cause Analysis
Business Policy
The Business Analysis Communication Plan
Risk Analysis

43. What are the inputs to the task - Verify Requirements?
Term and Fact Model
Requirements (Any Except Stated)
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Organizational Process Assets
Business Principals

44. What are the inputs to the task - Organize Requirements?
Compliance with regulatory or other standards
Data - Ongoing Work - Organizational Change
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements (Stated) - Solution Scope
Systems Thinking

45. Is generally understood to describe just one way that an actor can accomplish a particular goal
Problem or Vision Statement
Scenario
Requirements Management & Communication
Prepare Requirements Package

46. What are the techniques for the task - Verify Requirements?
Requirements Package
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Problem Tracking - Structured Walkthrough - Checklists
Document Analysis
Cultural Assessment - Operational or Technical Assessment - Stakeholder Impact Analysis

47. 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 -
Automate or Simplify Work - Improve Access to Information - Reduce Complexity of Interfaces - Increase Consistency of Behavior - Eliminate Redundancy
Operative Rules
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Business Rules Analysis - Focus Groups - Functional Decomposition - Root Cause Analysis
Monitoring

48. 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
Ethics
Key Performance Indicator (KPI )
Systems Thinking
Requirements (Analyzed)

49. 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
Evolutionary or Functional Prototype
Cognitive Conflict
Decision Analysis - Process Modeling - Structured Walkthrough

50. Benefits that could have been achieved with an alternative investment rather than this one.
Opportunity Cost
Decision Analysis - Estimation - Metrics & KPIs - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Requirements Management Plan - Solution Scope - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities - Stakeholder/Solution or Transition Requirements (Communicated or Traced)
Document Analysis - SWOT Analysis