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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What is the output of the task - Define Transition Requirements?
Cultural Assessment - Operational or Technical Assessment - Stakeholder Impact Analysis
Root Cause Analysis
Ongoing Cost versus Initial Investment - Opportunity Costs - Necessity - Sunk Costs
Transition Requirements
2. What are the output(s) of the task - Validate Solution?
Identified Defects - Mitigating Actions - Solution Validation Assessment
Business Analysis Process Assets
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Modeling - Organization Modeling - Data Modeling
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Problem Tracking - Root Cause Analysis
3. What is the output of the task Conduct Elicitation Activity?
Business Case
Assumptions & Constraints - Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution Options
Structural Rules
Elicitation Results
4. What are the strategies for a negative risk?
Business Requirements - Identified Defects - Solution Performance Metrics - Solution (Deployed)
Solution Scope
Requirements Structure
Acceptance - Transfer - Avoidance - Mitigation
5. 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.
Automate or Simplify Work - Improve Access to Information - Reduce Complexity of Interfaces - Increase Consistency of Behavior - Eliminate Redundancy
To record the conflict in the Requirements Issues Log.
Tracing Requirements
Evaluate Solution Performance
6. What does RACI stand for?
Facilitation & Negotiation - Leadership & Influencing - Teamwork
Name - Aliases - Values/Meanings - Description
Responsible - Accountable - Consulted - Informed
Prioritize Requirements - Organize Requirements - Specify & Model Requirements - Define Assumptions & Constraints - Verify Requirements - Validate Requirements
7. What is the output of the task Confirm Elicitation Results?
Requirements Management & Communication
Requirements (Stated - Confirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Confirmed)
Acceptance - Transfer - Avoidance - Mitigation
The Business Analysis Communication Plan
8. What are the techniques used in the task Manage Solution Scope & Requirements?
Problem Tracking - Baselining - Signoff
Organizational Readiness Assessment
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Brainstorming - Interviews - Organizational Modeling - Process Modeling - Requirements Workshop - Risk Analysis - Scenarios & Use Cases - User Stories - Scope Modeling - Survey/Questionnaire - RACI Matrix
This person will be involved in monitoring the performance and effectiveness of a solution or its components.
9. This prototype seeks to quickly uncover and clarify interface requirements using simple tools - sometimes just paper and pencil. The focus is on functionality that is not easily elicited by other techniques - has conflicting viewpoints - or is diffic
System
Throw-away Prototype
SWOT Analysis
Formal Documentation - Presentation - Model
10. What are some of the key variables used in determining the priority of a requirement?
Business Value - Business or Technical Risk - Implementation Difficulty - Likelihood of Success - Regulatory or Policy Compliance - Relationship to Other Requirements - Stakeholder Agreement - Urgency
Assess Proposed Solution - Allocate Requirements - Assess Organizational Readiness - Define Transition Requirements - Validate Solution - Evaluate Solution Performance
Stakeholder Concerns
Allocate Requirements
11. What are the elements of Communication Skills?
Oral Communications - Teaching - Written Communication
Requirements (Verified)
Budgeting
Assess Proposed Solution - Allocate Requirements - Assess Organizational Readiness - Define Transition Requirements - Validate Solution - Evaluate Solution Performance
12. 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
Benchmarking
Business Case - Business Need - Requirements - Requirements Management Plan - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Requirements Management & Communication
Enterprise Analysis
13. What is the output of the task Plan Requirements Management Process?
Metrics & KPIs
Specific - Measurable - Achievable - Relevant - Time-bound Objectives must be SMART.
Requirements Management Plan
Requirements (Stated) - Stakeholder Concerns
14. What are the Behavioral Characteristics a BA should exhibit?
Ethics - Trustworthiness - Personal Organization
Vendor Assessment
Interviews - Lessons Learned Process - Metrics and KPIs - Problem Tracking - Process Modeling - Root Cause Analysis - Survey/Questionnaire - Variance Analysis
Specific - Measurable - Achievable - Relevant - Time-bound Objectives must be SMART.
15. 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
Prepare Requirements Package
Reporting
Business Analysis Approach
Use Case
16. 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
Focus Group
Elicitation Results
Root Cause Analysis
Brainstorming
17. What is the output of the task - Determine Solution Approach?
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Metrics & KPIs - Prototyping - Risk Analysis - Structured Walkthrough
They describe what a solution must be capable of doing to meet the needs of one or more stakeholder groups
Solution Approach
Business Need - Expert Judgment - Organizational Process Assets
18. 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.
Compliance with regulatory or other standards
SWOT Analysis
The Sponsor
Scenarios & Use Cases
19. What are the likely sources of transition requirements?
Data - Ongoing Work - Organizational Change
Lessons Learned Process
Organize Requirements
Impact Analysis
20. 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
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Required Capabilities
Business Principles & Practices
Systems Thinking
Structured Walkthrough
21. Models a shallow - and possibly wide view of the system's functionality. It typically does not have any business logic running behind the visualization.
Structured Walkthrough
Clear - Relevant - Economical - Adequate - Quantifiable
Horizontal Prototype
Glossary
22. The purpose of _______________ is to ensure that a stakeholder's actual underlying needs are understood - rather than the their stated or superficial desires.
Stakeholder Concerns
Elicitation
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements Management Plan - Scheduled Resources - Solution Scope & Business Case - Supporting Materials
Requirements (Any Except Stated)
23. What are the tasks in Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring?
Requirements (Analyzed)
Plan Business Analysis Approach - Conduct Stakeholder Analysis - Plan Business Analysis Activities - Plan Business Analysis Communication - Plan Requirements Management Process - Manage BA Performance
Root Cause Analysis
Historic Analysis
24. How is the Operational Support stakeholder utilized in the Evaluate Solution Performance task?
This person will be involved in monitoring the performance and effectiveness of a solution or its components.
Solution Assessment & Validation
Business Analysis Plan
Cultural Assessment - Operational or Technical Assessment - Stakeholder Impact Analysis
25. 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. -
Analogous Estimation
Allocate Requirements
Solution Performance Assessment
Document Analysis
26. What is the output of the task - Manage Requirements Traceability?
Requirements (Traced)
BABOK
Define Business Case
Business Requirements - Identified Defects - Solution Performance Metrics - Solution (Deployed)
27. Models a deep - and usually narrow slice of the entire system's functionality.
Business Analysis Process Assets
Vertical Prototype
Evolutionary or Functional Prototype
Key Performance Indicator (KPI )
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
Prototyping
Requirements Structure
Relationships - Impact Analysis - Configuration Management System
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Required Capabilities
29. What are the inputs to the task - Specify & Model Requirements?
Elimination
Non-functional Requirements Analysis
Business Rules Analysis
Requirements (Stated) - Requirements Structure
30. What are the underlying competencies a BA should possess?
Business Requirements - Stakeholder Requirements - Solution Requirements - Transition Requirements
Visual Learner - Auditory Learner - Kinesthetic Learner
Solution Scope Definition - Implementation Approach - Dependencies
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving - Behavioral Characteristics - Business Knowledge - Communication Skills - Interaction Skills - Software Application
31. This task ensures that requirement specifications and models meet the necessary standard of quality to allow them to be used effectively to guide further work. Requirements have been defined correctly.
Bottom-up Estimation
Focus Group
Verify Requirements
The Sponsor
32. Name the 2 types of Software categories that assist in BA productivity.
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets
Glossary
Requirements Structure
General Purpose Applications & Specialized Applications
33. What are the tasks in the knowledge area - Solution Assessment & Validation?
Automate or Simplify Work - Improve Access to Information - Reduce Complexity of Interfaces - Increase Consistency of Behavior - Eliminate Redundancy
Decision Analysis - Estimation - Metrics & KPIs - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Assess Proposed Solution - Allocate Requirements - Assess Organizational Readiness - Define Transition Requirements - Validate Solution - Evaluate Solution Performance
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Modeling - Organization Modeling - Data Modeling
34. 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 -
Elimination
Throw-away Prototype
Automate or Simplify Work - Improve Access to Information - Reduce Complexity of Interfaces - Increase Consistency of Behavior - Eliminate Redundancy
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Metrics & KPIs - Prototyping - Risk Analysis - Structured Walkthrough
35. The knowledge area that covers how BAs determine which activities are necessary in order to complete a business analysis effort.
Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring
Dependencies
Document Elicitation Results task
Strengths - Weaknesses
36. What are the techniques used in the task - Assess Proposed Solution?
Organization Modeling
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Decision Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Metrics & KPIs - Prototyping - Risk Analysis - Structured Walkthrough
Estimation
37. What is the output of the task - Verify Requirements?
Requirements (Verified)
Solution Performance Assessment
Creative Thinking - Decision Making - Learning - Problem Solving - Systems Thinking
Scheduled Resources - Supporting Materials
38. What are the inputs to the task - Define Assumption & Constraints?
Transition Requirements
Interviews - Observation
Stakeholder Concerns
Problem Tracking - Baselining - Signoff
39. 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
Interviews
Solution Performance Assessment
Throw-away Prototype
Requirements Structure
40. Familiarity with the range of commercially available solutions or suppliers can assist with the identification of possible alternatives.
Monitoring
Solution Knowledge
Trustworthiness
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
41. A package should contain a consistent - cohesive and coherent set of requirements. This describes the ____________.
Evaluate Solution Performance
Scheduled Resources - Supporting Materials
Requirements Documentation - Requirements for Vendor Selection
Requirements Structure
42. What is the output of the task - Define Business Need?
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Metrics & KPIs - Prototyping - Risk Analysis - Structured Walkthrough
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Business Rules Analysis - Focus Groups - Functional Decomposition - Root Cause Analysis
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Brainstorming - Interviews - Organizational Modeling - Process Modeling - Requirements Workshop - Risk Analysis - Scenarios & Use Cases - User Stories - Scope Modeling - Survey/Questionnaire - RACI Matrix
Business Need
43. States the business need - identifies key stakeholders and briefly describes the positive impact that meeting the business need will have on those stakeholders.
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Data Modeling - Functional Decomposition - Organizational Modeling - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases - Scope Modeling - User Stories
Business Analysis Plan
Problem or Vision Statement
Facilitation
44. What are the inputs to the task - Organize Requirements?
Throw-away Prototype
Name - Aliases - Values/Meanings - Description
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements (Stated) - Solution Scope
Scenarios & Use Cases
45. What are the inputs to the task - Validate Requirements?
Cultural Assessment - Operational or Technical Assessment - Stakeholder Impact Analysis
Business Case; Stakeholder - Solution or Transition Requirements (Verified)
Business Requirements - Stakeholder Requirements - Solution Requirements - Transition Requirements
Data Modeling
46. 7 knowledge areas of ________ : Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring - Elicitation - Requirements Management & Communication - Enterprise Analysis - Requirements Analysis - Solution Assessment & Validation - Underlying Competencies
Elicitation
Cognitive Conflict
BABOK
Cohesive - Complete - Consistent - Correct - Feasible - Modifiable - Unambiguous - Testable
47. What are the inputs to the task Manage Requirements Traceability?
Requirements - Requirements Management Plan
Risk Analysis
The Sponsor
Organize Requirements
48. Decisions are made with the interest of all stakeholders considered - reasons for a decision are cleared articulated - prompt and full disclosure of conflicts of interest - honesty regarding one's abilities and the performance of one's work.
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Modeling - Organization Modeling - Data Modeling
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving - Behavioral Characteristics - Business Knowledge - Communication Skills - Interaction Skills - Software Application
Requirements - Requirements Management Plan
Ethics
49. What are the elements of the task - Define Solution Scope?
Name - Value/Meanings - Description
Solution Scope Definition - Implementation Approach - Dependencies
Solution Assessment & Validation
Budgeting
50. Industry Knowledge - Organization Knowledge - Solution Knowledge What are the elements of Business Knowledge?
Decision Analysis - Risk Analysis - MoSCoW Analysis - Timeboxing/Budgeting - Voting
Business Goals & Objectives - Requirements (Stated)
Business Principles & Practices
Solution Scope Definition - Implementation Approach - Dependencies