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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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1. Name some commonly used financial valuation techniques.






2. What are the underlying competencies a BA should possess?






3. Two types of conflict.






4. This prototype extends the initial interface requirements into a fully functioning system and requires a specialized prototyping tool or language.






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






6. What are the Composite Data Elements?






7. Includes the standard definition of data elements - their meanings and allowable values.






8. To assess the ability of a potential vendor to meet commitments regarding a product or service






9. What are the techniques used in the task Define Business Need?






10. Elements identified for each activity and task.






11. Issues that may influence the replacement or elimination decision of a system include:






12. What are the tasks in the knowledge area - Requirements Analysis?






13. What are the inputs to the task - Validate Solution?






14. What is the output of the task - Define Business Need?






15. What are some examples of stakeholder concerns?






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






17. Familiarity with the range of commercially available solutions or suppliers can assist with the identification of possible alternatives.






18. What is the output of the task - Manage Requirements Traceability?






19. What factors guide technique selection?






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






21. What does RACI stand for?






22. What is the output of the task - Prepare Requirements Package?






23. 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






24. What are the strategies for a positive risk?






25. The process of informing stakeholders of metrics of indicators in specified formats at specified intervals.






26. What are some of the key variables used in determining the priority of a requirement?






27. The goal of this task is to create a set of views of the requirements for the new business solution that are comprehensive - complete - consistent and understood from all stakeholder perspectives.






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






29. Involved motivating people to act in ways that enable them to work together to achieve shared goals and objectives.






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






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






32. What are the 3 elements in the Assess Organizational Readiness?






33. Estimating relies on the expertise of those who have performed the work in the past. These experts can be internal or external to the project team or to the organization.






34. What techniques are used in the task - Prepare Requirements Package?






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






36. 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.






37. What are the inputs to the task - Assess Organizational Readiness?






38. 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






39. 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.






40. 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.






41. Who is the primary stakeholder in the Define Business Case task?






42. Strengths - Weaknesses - Opportunities - Threats - A valuable tool to quickly analyze various aspects of the current state of the business process undergoing change.






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






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






45. This technique shows how information is input - processed - stored and output from a system in a visual representation.






46. What are the inputs to the task Manage Solution Scope & Requirements?






47. A package should contain a consistent - cohesive and coherent set of requirements. This describes the ____________.






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






49. The skill of moderating discussions among a group or enable all participants to effectively articulate their views on a topic under discussion and to further ensure that participants in the discussion are able to recognize and appreciate the differin






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