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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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1. What are the techniques used in the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?






2. What describes how - when and why the business analyst will work with stakeholders?






3. Using this technique the business analyst has collected the deliverables - activities - tasks - and estimates from all the involved stakeholders and rolls them up to get a total for all the activities and tasks.






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






5. 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






6. What are the strategies for a positive risk?






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






8. What are the characteristics of Interaction Skills?






9. 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.






10. 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.






11. 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






12. What are the techniques used in the task - Prioritize Requirements?






13. Defines the key terms and data relevant to a business domain.






14. The goal of this task is validate that the stated requirements expressed by the stakeholder match the stakeholder's understanding of the problem and the stakeholder's needs. Analyst's understanding conforms to the actual desire or intentions of the s






15. What are the classifications used to describe requirements






16. This knowledge area describes the problem definition and analysis - business case development - feasibility studies and the definition of solution scope.






17. A means to elicit ideas and attitudes about a specific product - service or opportunity in an interactive group environment. The participants share their impressions - preferences and needs - guided by a moderator. - Effective for learning people's a






18. This task describes the work required to decide which formats are appropriate for a particular project and its stakeholders. The requirements must be clear - concise - accurate and at the appropriate level of detail to assure clear understanding by t






19. Uses history as a basis for estimating. It is similar to analogous estimation - but is used not only for the top-down estimate - but for the detailed tasks as well.






20. A specific - actionable - testable directive that is under the control of an organization and supports a business policy.






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






22. This knowledge area describes the tasks that are performed in order to ensure that solutions meet the business need and to facilitate successful implementation.






23. What stakeholder receives noticeable negative impact if information is incorrectly transferred from the old to new solution?






24. What are the inputs to the task - Determine Solution Approach?






25. Used to describe the roles - responsibilities and reporting structures that exist within an organization and to align those structures with the organization's goals.






26. 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






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






28. What is the output of the task Conduct Elicitation Activity?






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






30. 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






31. What are the techniques used in the task - Assess Organizational Readiness?






32. What is the output of the task Plan Business Analysis Communication?






33. 7 knowledge areas of ________ : Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring - Elicitation - Requirements Management & Communication - Enterprise Analysis - Requirements Analysis - Solution Assessment & Validation - Underlying Competencies






34. What is the output of the Plan Business Analysis Approach?






35. 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






36. What are the inputs for the task - Prepare Requirements Package?






37. What is the output of the task - Organize Requirements?






38. What techniques are used in the task Manage Requirements Traceability?






39. 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.






40. Two types of conflict.






41. To define the rules that govern decisions in an organization and that define - constrain or enable organization operations.






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






43. What are the factors of influence by stakeholders on a project?






44. Agreement by stakeholders that analysis models effectively and completely describe the domain - identification of related problems or issues from multiple areas in the domain - rapid absorption of new information or new domain.






45. 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. -






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






47. A requirement that does not deliver direct or indirect value to a stakeholder is a strong candidate for what?






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






49. What are the inputs to the task - Prioritize Requirements?






50. Characteristics that are common to all organizations with a similar purpose and structure - whether or not the are in the same industry.