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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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1. What should be considered when establishing a Change Management process?
Evaluate Solution Performance
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Organizational Process Assets
Define Business Need - Access Capability Gaps - Determine Solution Approach - Define Solution Scope - Define Business Case
Determine the Process - Who will Authorize Changes - Impact Analysis - Wording of the Request - Coordinate Prioritization of Change

2. Set of requirements that will be used to choose between multiple solutions.
Evaluation Criteria
Requirements - Requirements Management Plan
Use Case
Prepare for Elicitation - Conduct Elicitation Activity - Document Elicitation Results - Confirm Elicitation Results

3. Investigating how a solution is actually used after it is deployed and assessing the effect it has had - both positive and negative.
Evaluate Solution Performance
Document Elicitation Results task
SWOT Analysis
Perform tailoring exercises

4. 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?
Requirements (Stated) - Requirements Structure
All
Impact Analysis - Requirements Coverage - Requirements Allocation
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements - Requirements Structure

5. 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.
Solution Scope
Learning
Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring
Estimation

6. Performed to communicate - verify and validate requirements. Is a working session where invited participants review and discuss a set of requirements
Requirements (Prioritized)
Structured Walkthrough
Business Analysis Process Assets
Solution Knowledge

7. Divides requirements into 4 categories - Must - Should - Could - Won't
Analogous Estimation
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Data Modeling - Functional Decomposition - Organizational Modeling - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases - Scope Modeling - User Stories
MoSCoW Analysis
Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities

8. What are the inputs to the task - Assess Organizational Readiness?
Requirements (Verified)
Enterprise Architecture - Solution Scope - Solution (Designed) - Stakeholder Concerns
Requirements (Analyzed)
Allocate Requirements

9. Three key factors when assessing the quality of indicators and their metrics
Reliability - Validity - Timeliness
Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis
Solution Knowledge
Acceptance & Evaluation Technique

10. Elements identified for each activity and task.
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Business Rules Analysis - Decision Analysis - Functional Decomposition - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases
Unique Number - Activity Description - Assumptions - Dependencies - Milestones
Requirements (Approved)
The Sponsor

11. What are stakeholder requirements?
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Problem Tracking - Root Cause Analysis
All
They describe what a solution must be capable of doing to meet the needs of one or more stakeholder groups
Analogous Estimation

12. What are the techniques used in the task Conduct Elicitation Activity?
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
Problem Tracking
Interviews
Data Dictionary & Glossary - Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshops - Survey/Questionnaire

13. To define the rules that govern decisions in an organization and that define - constrain or enable organization operations.
Influence on the project - organizational - project health and other stakeholders
Business Analysis Approach - BA Performance Assessment - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Business Rules Analysis
Requirements (Stated - Confirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Confirmed)

14. What is the output of the task Conduct Stakeholder Analysis?
Vertical Prototype
User Story
Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
System

15. What are the general modeling concepts that are relevant to business analysis?
User Classes - Profiles or Roles; Concepts & Relationships - Events - Processes - Rules
Decision Analysis - Risk Analysis - MoSCoW Analysis - Timeboxing/Budgeting - Voting
BABOK
Glossary

16. What is the output of the task - Define Business Case?
Repository - Traceability - Requirement Attributes - Prioritization Process - Change Management - Tailoring the Requirements Management Process
Business Case
Facilitation
Structural Rules

17. What are the 3 elements in the Assess Organizational Readiness?
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Organizational Process Assets
Benefits - Costs - Risk Assessment - Results Measurement
Cultural Assessment - Operational or Technical Assessment - Stakeholder Impact Analysis
Scope Modeling

18. A continuous process of collecting data to determine how well a solution has been implemented compared to expected results.
Monitoring
Observation
Delphi Estimation
Underlying Competencies

19. Means of eliciting information from many people - sometimes anonymously - in a relatively short period of time
Business Case; Stakeholder - Solution or Transition Requirements (Verified)
Fishbone Diagram - Five Whys
Survey/Questionnaire
Primary stakeholders in the Organize Requirements task

20. What are the tasks in the knowledge area - Solution Assessment & Validation?
Solution Assessment & Validation
Learning
Parametric Estimation
Assess Proposed Solution - Allocate Requirements - Assess Organizational Readiness - Define Transition Requirements - Validate Solution - Evaluate Solution Performance

21. Involved motivating people to act in ways that enable them to work together to achieve shared goals and objectives.
Operative Rules
Historic Analysis
Structured Walkthrough
Leadership

22. What are the inputs to the task - Prioritize Requirements?
Business Case - Business Need - Requirements - Requirements Management Plan - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Cohesive - Complete - Consistent - Correct - Feasible - Modifiable - Unambiguous - Testable
Requirements (Traced)
Name - Value/Meanings - Description

23. What are the inputs to the task - Define Business Case?
Assumptions & Constraints - Business Need - Solution Scope - Stakeholder Concerns
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
Estimation
Solution (Constructed) - Requirements (Prioritized and Validated)

24. What techniques are used in the task - Define Solution Scope?
Relationship to Time - Relationship to Task Completion - Relationship to Contracts - Relationships to Formal and Informal Authority
Business Analysis Process Assets
A statement of the needs of a particular stakeholder or class of stakeholders
Functional Decomposition - Interface Analysis - Scope Modeling - User Stories - Problem or Vision Statement

25. A means of eliciting requirements by conducting an assessment of the stakeholder's work environment. This technique is appropriate when documenting details about current processes or if the project is intended to enhance or change a current process.
Absolute Reference - Author - Complexity - Ownership - Priority - Risks - Source - Stability - Status - Urgency
Observation
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements
Acceptance Criteria

26. 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
Document Analysis
Prepare Requirements Package
Requirements (Stated - Unconfirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Unconfirmed)
Assumptions & Constraints - Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution Options

27. What are the techniques used in the task - Assess Proposed Solution?
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Decision Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Requirements (Stated - Unconfirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Unconfirmed)
Solution Assessment & Validation
Requirements Workshop - Structured Walkthrough

28. 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.
Business Policy
Repository - Traceability - Requirement Attributes - Prioritization Process - Change Management - Tailoring the Requirements Management Process
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements
Historic Analysis

29. What are some of the commonly used requirement attributes?
Decision Analysis
Visual Learner - Auditory Learner - Kinesthetic Learner
Absolute Reference - Author - Complexity - Ownership - Priority - Risks - Source - Stability - Status - Urgency
Requirements (Any Except Stated)

30. What are the inputs for the task - Define Solution Scope?
Enterprise Analysis - often the starting point for initiating a new project
Communicated Requirements
Share - Enhance - Exploit
Assumptions & Constraints - Required Capabilities - Solution Approach

31. When a conflict arises between stakeholders on one or more documented requirements - the first thing that needs to take place is what?
Requirements (Approved)
To record the conflict in the Requirements Issues Log.
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Problem Tracking - Root Cause Analysis
Compliance with regulatory or other standards

32. Industry Knowledge - Organization Knowledge - Solution Knowledge What are the elements of Business Knowledge?
Document Analysis - SWOT Analysis
Decision Analysis
Organization Modeling
Business Principles & Practices

33. Creates a conceptual model of the work that needs to be completed to deliver the new business solution.
Functional Decomposition
Solution Scope
Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution (Designed) - Solution Scope
Trustworthiness

34. What are the attributes of a Data Model?
Compliance with regulatory or other standards
Name - Value/Meanings - Description
Conduct Elicitation Activity
Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring

35. What are the internal factors in a SWOT Analysis?
The Business Analysis Communication Plan
Strengths - Weaknesses
Business Analysis Performance Metrics - Business Analysis Plan - Organization Performance Standards - Requirements Management Plan
Fishbone Diagram - Five Whys

36. What is the output of the task - Validate Requirements?
Requirements (Approved)
Requirements (Validated)
They describe what a solution must be capable of doing to meet the needs of one or more stakeholder groups
Plan Business Analysis Approach - Conduct Stakeholder Analysis - Plan Business Analysis Activities - Plan Business Analysis Communication - Plan Requirements Management Process - Manage BA Performance

37. Rules that the organization chooses to enforce as a matter of policy. They are intended to guide the actions of people working within the organization. They may oblige people to take certain actions - prevent people from taking actions - or prescribe
Operative Rules
Dependencies
Requirements Analysis
Data Dictionary & Glossary - Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshops - Survey/Questionnaire

38. Gathering information relevant to a decision - breaking down the information relevant to a decision - making comparisons and tradeoffs between similar and dissimilar options and identifying the option that is most desirable.
SWOT Analysis
Monitoring
Decision Analysis
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Models - Focus Groups - Interviews - Survey/Questionnaire - Organizational Modeling - Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Force Field Analysis

39. 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.
Ongoing Cost versus Initial Investment - Opportunity Costs - Necessity - Sunk Costs
Solution Assessment & Validation
Sequence Diagrams
Term and Fact Model

40. What is the output of the Manage Business Analysis Performance task?
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
Risk - assumptions - constraints - etc.
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Organizational Process Assets
Verify Requirements

41. What are the inputs to the task - Verify Requirements?
Requirements (Any Except Stated)
Interviews
Focus Group
Organizational Readiness Assessment - Requirements (Stated) - Solution (Deployed) - Solution (Designed)

42. Name some commonly used financial valuation techniques.
Discounted Cash Flow - Net Present Value - Internal Rate of Return - Average Rate of Return - Pay Back Period - Cost-Benefit Analysis
Business Analysis Process Assets
Emotional and Cognitive
Business Goals & Objectives - Requirements (Stated)

43. To identify interfaces between solutions and/or solution components and define requirements that describe how they will interact.
Impact Analysis - Requirements Coverage - Requirements Allocation
Interface Analysis
Problem or Vision Statement
Assess Organization Readiness

44. What describes how - when and why the business analyst will work with stakeholders?
Activity List
The Business Analysis Communication Plan
Cognitive Conflict
System

45. Describes all the possible outcomes of an attempt to accomplish a particular goal that the solution will support.
Use Case
Reporting
Business Case
Decision Analysis - Focus Groups - Observation - Survey/Questionnaire

46. What is the output of the task - Manage Requirements Traceability?
Advantages of Document Analysis
Requirements (Traced)
Stakeholder Matrix
Define Business Case

47. When a requirement is changed - the BA can easily review all the related requirements and software components in order to understand the impact of the change.
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements (Stated) - Solution Scope
Requirements (Stated - Unconfirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Unconfirmed)
Assess Proposed Solution - Allocate Requirements - Assess Organizational Readiness - Define Transition Requirements - Validate Solution - Evaluate Solution Performance
Impact Analysis

48. What is the output to the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Decision Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Acceptance Criteria
Solution Performance Assessment
System

49. What are the techniques used in the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?
Document Elicitation Results task
Relationship to Time - Relationship to Task Completion - Relationship to Contracts - Relationships to Formal and Informal Authority
Decision Analysis - Focus Groups - Observation - Survey/Questionnaire
Business Principals

50. What is the output of the task - Define Business Need?
Elicitation Results
Business Need
Scheduled Resources - Supporting Materials
Data Flow Diagrams