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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning
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1. Checklist of characteristics to consider when considering non-functional requirements.
Brainstorming
Reliability - Performance Efficiency - Operability - Security - Compatibility - Maintainability - Transferability
Facilitation & Negotiation - Leadership & Influencing - Teamwork
Identified Defects - Mitigating Actions - Solution Validation Assessment
2. This knowledge area describes how the BA assesses proposed solutions and determines which solution best fits the business need - identifies gaps and shortcomings to solutions and determines necessary workarounds or changes to the solution.
Opportunity Cost
Visual Learner - Auditory Learner - Kinesthetic Learner
Decision Analysis - Estimation - Metrics & KPIs - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Solution Assessment & Validation
3. The minimum set of requirements that must be met in order for a particular solution to be worth implementing.
Formal requirements presentation to stakeholders
Decision Analysis - Process Modeling - Structured Walkthrough
Analogous Estimation
Acceptance Criteria
4. When performing root cause analysis as part of the Validate Solution task - what stakeholder may be involved?
Survey/Questionnaire
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Business Rules Analysis - Decision Analysis - Functional Decomposition - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases
Validate Solution
Implementation SME
5. What are the inputs to the task - Allocate Resources?
Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution (Designed) - Solution Scope
Define Business Case
Business Requirements - Identified Defects - Solution Performance Metrics - Solution (Deployed)
Requirements Workshop
6. What are the inputs to the task - Verify Requirements?
Requirements (Any Except Stated)
Elicitation Results
Ethics
Formal Documentation - Presentation - Model
7. What is the output of the task - Organize Requirements?
Stakeholder Matrix
Enterprise Analysis
Absolute Reference - Author - Complexity - Ownership - Priority - Risks - Source - Stability - Status - Urgency
Requirements Structure
8. What are the inputs for the task - Define Solution Scope?
Assumptions & Constraints - Required Capabilities - Solution Approach
Oral Communications - Teaching - Written Communication
Decision Analysis - Problem Tacking - Risk Analysis
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Data Modeling - Functional Decomposition - Organizational Modeling - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases - Scope Modeling - User Stories
9. The goal of this task is to meet with stakeholder(s) to gather information regarding their needs.
General Purpose Applications & Specialized Applications
Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis
Conduct Elicitation Activity
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
10. What is the output of the task Plan Requirements Management Process?
Enterprise Architecture - Solution Scope - Solution (Designed) - Stakeholder Concerns
Requirements Structure
Requirements Management Plan
Scheduled Resources - Supporting Materials
11. 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.
Ongoing Cost versus Initial Investment - Opportunity Costs - Necessity - Sunk Costs
Benefits - Costs - Risk Assessment - Results Measurement
Observation
Perform tailoring exercises
12. What are the techniques used in the task - Determine Solution Approach?
Scenarios & Use Cases
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Decision Analysis - Estimation - SWOT Analysis - Feasibility Analysis
Solution Performance Assessment
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets
13. What are the inputs to the task - Assess Capability Gaps?
Solution Performance Assessment
Brings them to a Communication on understanding
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Solution Performance Assessment
Trustworthiness
14. 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
Requirements (Traced)
Solution (Constructed) - Requirements (Prioritized and Validated)
Requirements Management & Communication
Organization Modeling
15. What is the output of the task - Define Business Case?
Business Case
Data Dictionary
Risk Analysis
Conduct Elicitation Activity
16. 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.
Decision Analysis
Requirements Workshop
Learning
Enterprise Analysis
17. The BA is a stakeholder in ______ business analysis activities.
Budgeting
All
Acceptance Criteria
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Solution Performance Assessment
18. Ensure that the solution meets the business need and determine the most appropriate response to identified defects.
SWOT Analysis
Validate Solution
Stakeholder Concerns
Lessons Learned Process
19. Familiarity with the range of commercially available solutions or suppliers can assist with the identification of possible alternatives.
Evaluation Criteria
Decision Analysis
Solution Knowledge
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Data Modeling - Functional Decomposition - Organizational Modeling - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases - Scope Modeling - User Stories
20. What are the characteristics of Interaction Skills?
Requirements (Allocated)
Facilitation & Negotiation - Leadership & Influencing - Teamwork
Document Elicitation Results task
Requirements Analysis
21. 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
General Purpose Applications & Specialized Applications
Business Requirements - Identified Defects - Solution Performance Metrics - Solution (Deployed)
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Problem Tracking - Structured Walkthrough - Checklists
Brainstorming
22. Defines the key terms and data relevant to a business domain.
Business Need - Solution Scope & Business Case - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Data Dictionary & Glossary
Repository - Traceability - Requirement Attributes - Prioritization Process - Change Management - Tailoring the Requirements Management Process
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Requirements - Requirements Package
23. 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 -
Decision Analysis - Problem Tacking - Risk Analysis
Customer
Acceptance - Transfer - Avoidance - Mitigation
Problem Solving
24. What are the inputs for the task Confirm Elicitation Results?
General Purpose Applications & Specialized Applications
Requirements (Stated - Unconfirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Unconfirmed)
Document Analysis - SWOT Analysis
Industry Knowledge
25. What is the output of the task - Manage Requirements Traceability?
Document Elicitation Results task
That they understand them and the current state the requirements are in
Requirements (Traced)
Emotional and Cognitive
26. This task determines if an organization can justify the investment required to deliver a proposed solution.
Define Business Case
Cognitive Conflict
Relationship to Time - Relationship to Task Completion - Relationship to Contracts - Relationships to Formal and Informal Authority
Business Need - Expert Judgment - Organizational Process Assets
27. What are the inputs to the task - Assess Proposed Solution?
Assumptions & Constraints - Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution Options
Evaluation
Verify Requirements
Dependencies
28. What are the techniques for the task - Verify Requirements?
Requirements Structure
Requirements - Requirements Management Plan
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Problem Tracking - Structured Walkthrough - Checklists
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Business Rules Analysis - Focus Groups - Functional Decomposition - Root Cause Analysis
29. 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.
Parametric Estimation
Business Need
Horizontal Prototype
Personal Organization
30. 7 knowledge areas of ________ : Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring - Elicitation - Requirements Management & Communication - Enterprise Analysis - Requirements Analysis - Solution Assessment & Validation - Underlying Competencies
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Decision Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Requirements Workshop
Scenarios & Use Cases
BABOK
31. What is the output to the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?
Solution Performance Assessment
Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution (Designed) - Solution Scope
Conduct Elicitation Activity
Assumptions & Constraints - Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution Options
32. Communicated Requirements mean what to stakeholders?
Perform tailoring exercises
Decision Analysis - Risk Analysis - MoSCoW Analysis - Timeboxing/Budgeting - Voting
Decision Analysis
That they understand them and the current state the requirements are in
33. What are the Composite Data Elements?
Risk - assumptions - constraints - etc.
Emotional and Cognitive
Validate Requirements
Sequences - Repetitions - Optional Elements
34. 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.
Expert Judgment
Requirements (Verified)
Decision Analysis
Cohesive - Complete - Consistent - Correct - Feasible - Modifiable - Unambiguous - Testable
35. Shows how the behavior of a concept - entity or object changes in response to events during its lifetime - and defines which events cause a transition between those states.
Benchmarking
Interviews - Lessons Learned Process - Metrics and KPIs - Problem Tracking - Process Modeling - Root Cause Analysis - Survey/Questionnaire - Variance Analysis
State Diagrams
Metrics & KPIs
36. What are the different types of learning styles?
Visual Learner - Auditory Learner - Kinesthetic Learner
Interviews
All
Data Flow Diagrams
37. What are the inputs to the task - Determine Solution Approach?
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Required Capabilities
Impact Analysis - Requirements Coverage - Requirements Allocation
BABOK
Evaluation
38. Provides an organized approach to tracking - management - and resolution of defects - issues - problems - and risks throughout business analysis activities. Management of issues is important so that they can be resolved in a timely manner to ensure s
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Requirements - Requirements Package
Problem Tracking
Requirements Workshop - Structured Walkthrough
Vertical Prototype
39. What are the inputs to the task - Specify & Model Requirements?
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Problem Tracking - Structured Walkthrough - Checklists
Requirements (Stated) - Requirements Structure
The Business Analysis Communication Plan
The Sponsor
40. States the business need - identifies key stakeholders and briefly describes the positive impact that meeting the business need will have on those stakeholders.
Throw-away Prototype
Operative Rules
Term and Fact Model
Problem or Vision Statement
41. Define the requirements that must be met in order for a solution to be considered acceptable to key stakeholders.
Acceptance & Evaluation Technique
Advantages of a Data Dictionary & Glossary
Structured Walkthrough
Prepare for Elicitation - Conduct Elicitation Activity - Document Elicitation Results - Confirm Elicitation Results
42. What is the output of the Manage Business Analysis Performance task?
Business Analysis Plan
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
This person will be involved in monitoring the performance and effectiveness of a solution or its components.
Oral Communications - Teaching - Written Communication
43. What are the strategies for a positive risk?
Share - Enhance - Exploit
Key Performance Indicator (KPI )
Decision Analysis - Focus Groups - Observation - Survey/Questionnaire
Three-point Estimation
44. This prototype extends the initial interface requirements into a fully functioning system and requires a specialized prototyping tool or language.
Requirements Analysis
Business Analysis Approach - BA Performance Assessment - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Evolutionary or Functional Prototype
Expert Judgment
45. What are the inputs to the task Plan Requirements Management Process?
Cognitive Conflict
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets
Business Analysis Plan
Coverage Matrix - Table or spreadsheet used to manage tracing.
46. What are the techniques used in the task - Allocate Resources?
Cognitive Conflict
Three-point Estimation
A statement of the needs of a particular stakeholder or class of stakeholders
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Business Rules Analysis - Decision Analysis - Functional Decomposition - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases
47. 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.
Tracing Requirements
Structured Walkthrough
Assumptions & Constraints
Business Analysis Process Assets
48. What are the Cultural diversity issues that should be taken into account when planning communication?
Business Goals & Objectives - Requirements (Stated)
Learning
Relationship to Time - Relationship to Task Completion - Relationship to Contracts - Relationships to Formal and Informal Authority
Interviews - Observation
49. What is the output of the task - Communicate Requirements?
Name - Aliases - Values/Meanings - Description
Communicated Requirements
Requirements Workshop - Structured Walkthrough
Requirements Management & Communication
50. What are stakeholder requirements?
Scenario
They describe what a solution must be capable of doing to meet the needs of one or more stakeholder groups
Stakeholder Concerns
Requirements (Verified)