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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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1. What are the tasks in the knowledge area - Enterprise Analysis?
Define Business Need - Access Capability Gaps - Determine Solution Approach - Define Solution Scope - Define Business Case
Confirm Elicitation Results
Business Requirements - Stakeholder Requirements - Solution Requirements - Transition Requirements
Prepare for Elicitation - Conduct Elicitation Activity - Document Elicitation Results - Confirm Elicitation Results

2. Strengths - Weaknesses - Opportunities - Threats - A valuable tool to quickly analyze various aspects of the current state of the business process undergoing change.
Requirements Structure
Organizational Readiness Assessment - Requirements (Stated) - Solution (Deployed) - Solution (Designed)
Analogous Estimation
SWOT Analysis

3. A requirement that does not deliver direct or indirect value to a stakeholder is a strong candidate for what?
Acceptance - Transfer - Avoidance - Mitigation
Necessity - Effort - Subset - Cover - Value
Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Elimination

4. What is the output of the task - Assess Organizational Readiness?
Reliability - Performance Efficiency - Operability - Security - Compatibility - Maintainability - Transferability
Assumptions & Constraints
Organizational Readiness Assessment
Structural Rules

5. 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 -
Ongoing Cost versus Initial Investment - Opportunity Costs - Necessity - Sunk Costs
Facilitation & Negotiation - Leadership & Influencing - Teamwork
Problem Solving
Brings them to a Communication on understanding

6. Name some commonly used financial valuation techniques.
Enterprise Analysis - often the starting point for initiating a new project
Formal Documentation - Presentation - Model
Reliability - Performance Efficiency - Operability - Security - Compatibility - Maintainability - Transferability
Discounted Cash Flow - Net Present Value - Internal Rate of Return - Average Rate of Return - Pay Back Period - Cost-Benefit Analysis

7. The purpose is to measure the performance of solutions - solution components - and other matters of interest to stakeholders.
Metrics & KPIs
Organizational Knowledge
Tracing Requirements
Allocate Requirements

8. What is the output of the task - Prepare Requirements Package?
Requirements Package
Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring
Business Analysis Plan
Data Flow Diagrams

9. To assess the ability of a potential vendor to meet commitments regarding a product or service
Requirements (Allocated)
The Sponsor
Vendor Assessment
Oral Communications - Teaching - Written Communication

10. Is generally understood to describe just one way that an actor can accomplish a particular goal
Ethics
Scenario
Reporting
Reliability - Performance Efficiency - Operability - Security - Compatibility - Maintainability - Transferability

11. Defines what must be delivered in order to meet the business need - and the effect of the proposed change initiation on the business and technology operations and infrastructure.
Assess Organization Readiness
Solution Scope
Scheduled Resources - Supporting Materials
Business Rule

12. This prototype extends the initial interface requirements into a fully functioning system and requires a specialized prototyping tool or language.
Validate Requirements
Evolutionary or Functional Prototype
The Sponsor
Sequences - Repetitions - Optional Elements

13. What is the output of the task - Verify Requirements?
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving - Behavioral Characteristics - Business Knowledge - Communication Skills - Interaction Skills - Software Application
Benchmarking
Structured Walkthrough
Requirements (Verified)

14. Two effective trade-off methods.
Elimination of Dominated Alternative - Ranking Objects on a Similar Scale
Problem Tracking
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Solution Assessment & Validation

15. What are the techniques used in the task - Define Transition Requirements?
Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Modeling - Organization Modeling - Data Modeling
Prototyping
Monitoring

16. What are the inputs to the task Manage Requirements Traceability?
Prioritize Requirements - Organize Requirements - Specify & Model Requirements - Define Assumptions & Constraints - Verify Requirements - Validate Requirements
Requirements - Requirements Management Plan
Absolute Reference - Author - Complexity - Ownership - Priority - Risks - Source - Stability - Status - Urgency
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements - Requirements Structure

17. Describes the effect a new solution will have on an organization and whether the organization is prepared for the organizational change the solution implementation will cause.
Absolute Reference - Author - Complexity - Ownership - Priority - Risks - Source - Stability - Status - Urgency
Coverage Matrix - Table or spreadsheet used to manage tracing.
Benefits - Costs - Risk Assessment - Results Measurement
Assess Organization Readiness

18. What are the techniques used in the task - Prioritize Requirements?
Stakeholder Matrix - Onion Diagram
Benefits - Costs - Risk Assessment - Results Measurement
Decision Analysis - Risk Analysis - MoSCoW Analysis - Timeboxing/Budgeting - Voting
Interface Analysis

19. Stakeholders involved the BA in decision making - acceptance of the BA's recommendations - willingness to discuss difficult or controversial topics with the BA - stakeholders willing to support or defend the BA when problems occur.
Underlying Competencies
Organizational Readiness Assessment - Requirements (Stated) - Solution (Deployed) - Solution (Designed)
Trustworthiness
Name - Aliases - Values/Meanings - Description

20. 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.
Throw-away Prototype
Prepare Requirements Package
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets

21. What are the techniques used in the task - Define Business Case?
Decision Analysis - Estimation - Metrics & KPIs - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Business Value - Business or Technical Risk - Implementation Difficulty - Likelihood of Success - Regulatory or Policy Compliance - Relationship to Other Requirements - Stakeholder Agreement - Urgency
Survey/Questionnaire
They describe what a solution must be capable of doing to meet the needs of one or more stakeholder groups

22. What are the inputs to the task - Communicate Requirements?
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Requirements - Requirements Package
Name - Aliases - Values/Meanings - Description
Document Analysis - SWOT Analysis
Underlying Competencies

23. 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 -
To record the conflict in the Requirements Issues Log.
Requirements Structure
Visual Learner - Auditory Learner - Kinesthetic Learner
Automate or Simplify Work - Improve Access to Information - Reduce Complexity of Interfaces - Increase Consistency of Behavior - Eliminate Redundancy

24. What describes how - when and why the business analyst will work with stakeholders?
The Sponsor
Organization Modeling
The Business Analysis Communication Plan
A statement of the needs of a particular stakeholder or class of stakeholders

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.
Business Analysis Approach
Business Need - Solution Scope & Business Case - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Evaluation
Organization Modeling

26. What are the techniques used in the task - Organize Requirements?
Assess Organization Readiness
Business Principles & Practices
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Data Modeling - Functional Decomposition - Organizational Modeling - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases - Scope Modeling - User Stories
The Sponsor

27. Checklist of characteristics to consider when considering non-functional requirements.
Survey/Questionnaire
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
Reliability - Performance Efficiency - Operability - Security - Compatibility - Maintainability - Transferability
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving

28. 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
Assess Organization Readiness
Prepare Requirements Package
Coverage Matrix - Table or spreadsheet used to manage tracing.
User Classes - Profiles or Roles; Concepts & Relationships - Events - Processes - Rules

29. List 3 possible forms of a requirements packages.
Verify Requirements
Historic Analysis
Formal Documentation - Presentation - Model
Enterprise Analysis - often the starting point for initiating a new project

30. Models a shallow - and possibly wide view of the system's functionality. It typically does not have any business logic running behind the visualization.
Horizontal Prototype
Decision Analysis - Focus Groups - Observation - Survey/Questionnaire
Interviews
Solution Performance Assessment

31. To identify and manage areas of uncertainty that can impact an initiative - solution - or organization.
Stakeholder Matrix
Creative Thinking - Decision Making - Learning - Problem Solving - Systems Thinking
Risk Analysis
Term and Fact Model

32. What are the inputs to the task - Define Business Case?
Repository - Traceability - Requirement Attributes - Prioritization Process - Change Management - Tailoring the Requirements Management Process
Assumptions & Constraints - Business Need - Solution Scope - Stakeholder Concerns
Compliance with regulatory or other standards
Requirements (Allocated)

33. What are the inputs for the task - Prepare Requirements Package?
Requirements - Requirements Management Plan
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements - Requirements Structure
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Problem Tracking - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Assumptions & Constraints - Business Need - Solution Scope - Stakeholder Concerns

34. 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.
Cultural Assessment - Operational or Technical Assessment - Stakeholder Impact Analysis
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Required Capabilities
Requirements Analysis
Sequence Diagrams

35. Organizational culture - Stakeholder preference - complexity - organizational maturity and availability of resources are all factors used to do what?
Implementation Approach
This person will be involved in monitoring the performance and effectiveness of a solution or its components.
Perform tailoring exercises
Enterprise Analysis

36. Two types of conflict.
MoSCoW Analysis
Opportunity Cost
Cohesive - Complete - Consistent - Correct - Feasible - Modifiable - Unambiguous - Testable
Emotional and Cognitive

37. What are the inputs to the task Conduct Stakeholder Analysis?
Ethics - Trustworthiness - Personal Organization
Assumptions & Constraints - Business Need - Solution Scope - Stakeholder Concerns
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Organizational Process Assets
Requirements (Approved)

38. A diagram indicating how involved the stakeholder is with the solution.
Define Business Case
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving
Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution (Designed) - Solution Scope
Onion Diagram

39. What is the output of the task - Maintain Requirements for Re-use?
Requirements (Maintained and Reusable)
Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution (Designed) - Solution Scope
Business Analysis Plan
Key Performance Indicator (KPI )

40. What are the techniques used in Plan Business Analysis Approach?
Evaluate Solution Performance
Risk - assumptions - constraints - etc.
Systems Thinking
Decision Analysis - Process Modeling - Structured Walkthrough

41. What factors guide technique selection?
Structured Walkthrough
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Problem Tracking - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Business Domain - Corporate Culture & Environment - Skills of the Analyst - Requirement Deliverable
Decision Analysis - Process Modeling - Structured Walkthrough

42. Performed to communicate - verify and validate requirements. Is a working session where invited participants review and discuss a set of requirements
Structured Walkthrough
General Purpose Applications & Specialized Applications
Operative Rules
Organize Requirements

43. What are the tasks for the knowledge area - Requirements Management & Communication?
Validate Solution
Manage Solution Scope & Requirements - Manage Requirements Traceability - Maintain Requirements for Re-use - Prepare Requirements Package - Communicate Requirements
Identified Defects - Mitigating Actions - Solution Validation Assessment
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

44. 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
Cognitive Conflict
Evaluate Solution Performance
Functional Decomposition - Interface Analysis - Scope Modeling - User Stories - Problem or Vision Statement
Throw-away Prototype

45. What is the output of the task Prepare for Elicitation?
Risk Analysis
Scheduled Resources - Supporting Materials
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Modeling - Organization Modeling - Data Modeling
Name - Aliases - Values/Meanings - Description

46. Includes the standard definition of data elements - their meanings and allowable values.
Data Dictionary
Requirements (Stated - Unconfirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Unconfirmed)
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements
Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring

47. 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. -
Document Analysis
Business Need - Expert Judgment - Organizational Process Assets
Requirements Package
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Decision Analysis - Vendor Assessment

48. What is the output of the task Plan Business Analysis Communication?
Interviews
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Requirements (Traced)
Business Analysis Communication Plan

49. What are the techniques used in the task Manage Business Analysis Performance?
Interviews - Lessons Learned Process - Metrics and KPIs - Problem Tracking - Process Modeling - Root Cause Analysis - Survey/Questionnaire - Variance Analysis
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Metrics & KPIs - Prototyping - Risk Analysis - Structured Walkthrough
The Business Analysis Communication Plan
Define Transitional Requirements

50. What is the output to the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?
Business Analysis Approach - BA Performance Assessment - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Solution Performance Assessment
Define Transitional Requirements
Data - Ongoing Work - Organizational Change