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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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1. What is the output of the task - Assess Proposed Solution?






2. What are the techniques used in the task Confirm Elicitation Results?






3. Set of requirements that will be used to choose between multiple solutions.






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






5. Describes all the possible outcomes of an attempt to accomplish a particular goal that the solution will support.






6. Industry Knowledge - Organization Knowledge - Solution Knowledge What are the elements of Business Knowledge?






7. 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.






8. What are the techniques used in the task Manage Solution Scope & Requirements?






9. What are the inputs to the task - Define Business Case?






10. Ability to find information - on-time completion of tasks - efficiency in the completion of work - ability to easily identify all outstanding work and the status of each work item.






11. This task determines if an organization can justify the investment required to deliver a proposed solution.






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






13. 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.






14. What are the elements to the task - Define Business Case?






15. 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.






16. What are the techniques used in the task - Validate Requirements?






17. 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.






18. 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






19. This will impose constraints to the effort to deploy the solution - including relationships that may exist between solution components.






20. Name some commonly used financial valuation techniques.






21. What are some examples of stakeholder concerns?






22. What are the tasks for the knowledge area - Requirements Management & Communication?






23. Ensure that the solution meets the business need and determine the most appropriate response to identified defects.






24. 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






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






26. 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.






27. To identify interfaces between solutions and/or solution components and define requirements that describe how they will interact.






28. What are the classifications used to describe requirements






29. What knowledge area discusses the business analysis activities necessary to identify a business need - problem or opportunity - define the capture of the solution and justify the investment necessary to deliver the solution.






30. What are the techniques used in the task - Define Business Case?






31. What are the tasks in Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring?






32. 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.






33. An excellent way to foster creative thinking about a problem. The goal is to produce numerous new ideas and to derive themes for further analysis. - Ability to elicit many ideas in a short time period. - - Non-judgmental environment enables creative






34. Are used to describe the scope of analysis or the scope of a solution. Serve as a basis for defining and delimiting the scope of business analysis and project work. Allow the definition of a "complete" scope—that is - the boundaries of the scope corr






35. Allocate stakeholder and solution requirements among solution components and releases in order to maximize the possible business value given the options and alternatives generated by the design team.






36. What is a STAKEHOLDER requirement - according to the BABOK 2.0?






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






38. 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






39. Elements of a Requirements Management Plan include?






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






41. What are the elements of Communication Skills?






42. The objective of this technique is to determine how companies achieve their superior performance levels and use that information to design projects to improve operations of the enterprise.






43. The goal of this task is to ensure that all requirements support the delivery of value to the business - fulfill its goal and objectives and meet a stakeholder need.






44. 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






45. What are the techniques used in the task Conduct Elicitation Activity?






46. What are the Behavioral Characteristics a BA should exhibit?






47. What techniques are used in the task - Define Solution Scope?






48. What are the inputs for the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?






49. What are the inputs of the task Plan Business Analysis Communication?






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