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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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1. Two types of conflict.
Define Transitional Requirements
Emotional and Cognitive
Business Policy
Personal Organization

2. What is the output of the task - Define Business Case?
Business Case
Assessment of Proposed Solution
Evolutionary or Functional Prototype
Functional Decomposition

3. What are some of the key variables used in determining the priority of a requirement?
Decision Analysis - Estimation - Metrics & KPIs - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Requirements Workshop - Structured Walkthrough
Elimination of Dominated Alternative - Ranking Objects on a Similar Scale
Business Value - Business or Technical Risk - Implementation Difficulty - Likelihood of Success - Regulatory or Policy Compliance - Relationship to Other Requirements - Stakeholder Agreement - Urgency

4. What are the tasks for the knowledge area - Requirements Management & Communication?
Manage Solution Scope & Requirements - Manage Requirements Traceability - Maintain Requirements for Re-use - Prepare Requirements Package - Communicate Requirements
Estimation
Data Dictionary & Glossary - Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshops - Survey/Questionnaire
Elicitation Results

5. What is the output of the task - Define Business Need?
Business Rule
Automate or Simplify Work - Improve Access to Information - Reduce Complexity of Interfaces - Increase Consistency of Behavior - Eliminate Redundancy
Business Need
Solution Assessment & Validation

6. What are the tasks in the knowledge area - Solution Assessment & Validation?
Assess Proposed Solution - Allocate Requirements - Assess Organizational Readiness - Define Transition Requirements - Validate Solution - Evaluate Solution Performance
This person will be involved in monitoring the performance and effectiveness of a solution or its components.
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Metrics & KPIs - Prototyping - Risk Analysis - Structured Walkthrough
Stakeholder Concerns

7. Means of eliciting information from many people - sometimes anonymously - in a relatively short period of time
Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution (Designed) - Solution Scope
Survey/Questionnaire
Influence on the project - organizational - project health and other stakeholders
Sequence Diagrams

8. What is a STAKEHOLDER requirement - according to the BABOK 2.0?
Evolutionary or Functional Prototype
A statement of the needs of a particular stakeholder or class of stakeholders
Bottom-up Estimation
Business Need

9. Models a shallow - and possibly wide view of the system's functionality. It typically does not have any business logic running behind the visualization.
Share - Enhance - Exploit
Formal requirements presentation to stakeholders
Horizontal Prototype
Interviews - Lessons Learned Process - Metrics and KPIs - Problem Tracking - Process Modeling - Root Cause Analysis - Survey/Questionnaire - Variance Analysis

10. States the business need - identifies key stakeholders and briefly describes the positive impact that meeting the business need will have on those stakeholders.
Customer
Solution Knowledge
Focus Group
Problem or Vision Statement

11. Involved motivating people to act in ways that enable them to work together to achieve shared goals and objectives.
Document Analysis - SWOT Analysis
Cultural Assessment - Operational or Technical Assessment - Stakeholder Impact Analysis
Leadership
Organizational Readiness Assessment - Requirements (Stated) - Solution (Deployed) - Solution (Designed)

12. Creates a conceptual model of the work that needs to be completed to deliver the new business solution.
Business Case; Stakeholder - Solution or Transition Requirements (Verified)
Conduct Elicitation Activity
Requirements (Stated) - Requirements Structure
Functional Decomposition

13. 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.
Enterprise Analysis
Scenarios & Use Cases
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements
Decision Analysis

14. Knowing the dependencies and relationships between requirements helps when determining the sequence in which requirements are to be addressed. Common relations are:
Unique Number - Activity Description - Assumptions - Dependencies - Milestones
Requirements Structure
Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring
Necessity - Effort - Subset - Cover - Value

15. What are the inputs for the task - Define Solution Scope?
Elimination of Dominated Alternative - Ranking Objects on a Similar Scale
Assumptions & Constraints - Required Capabilities - Solution Approach
Allocate Requirements
Data - Ongoing Work - Organizational Change

16. 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.
Structured Walkthrough
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements - Requirements Structure
Ethics
Scheduled Resources - Supporting Materials

17. What are the inputs to the task - Prioritize Requirements?
Solution Scope
Operative Rules
Business Case - Business Need - Requirements - Requirements Management Plan - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Cultural Assessment - Operational or Technical Assessment - Stakeholder Impact Analysis

18. What are the techniques used in Plan Business Analysis Communication?
Strengths - Weaknesses
Customer
Structured Walkthrough
Interviews

19. When performing root cause analysis as part of the Validate Solution task - what stakeholder may be involved?
Implementation SME
Requirements Analysis
Formal Documentation - Presentation - Model
Trustworthiness

20. What are the inputs to the task - Verify Requirements?
Acceptance Criteria
Requirements (Any Except Stated)
Facilitation & Negotiation - Leadership & Influencing - Teamwork
Cultural Assessment - Operational or Technical Assessment - Stakeholder Impact Analysis

21. What are the Primitive Data Elements?
Impact Analysis
Onion Diagram
Required Capabilities
Name - Aliases - Values/Meanings - Description

22. What are the strategies for a negative risk?
Advantages of Document Analysis
Problem Tracking - Baselining - Signoff
Acceptance - Transfer - Avoidance - Mitigation
Assessment of Proposed Solution

23. Elicitation Results are the inputs for the ____________
Document Elicitation Results task
Fishbone Diagram - Five Whys
Determine the Process - Who will Authorize Changes - Impact Analysis - Wording of the Request - Coordinate Prioritization of Change
Emotional and Cognitive

24. What are the inputs to the task - Define Business Case?
Ethics
Requirements (Any Except Stated)
Enterprise Analysis
Assumptions & Constraints - Business Need - Solution Scope - Stakeholder Concerns

25. What describes how - when and why the business analyst will work with stakeholders?
Problem or Vision Statement
Reliability - Performance Efficiency - Operability - Security - Compatibility - Maintainability - Transferability
The Business Analysis Communication Plan
Prioritize Requirements - Organize Requirements - Specify & Model Requirements - Define Assumptions & Constraints - Verify Requirements - Validate Requirements

26. 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.
Trustworthiness
Define Transitional Requirements
Document Elicitation Results task
Learning

27. Uses history as a basis for estimating. It is similar to analogous estimation - but is used not only for the top-down estimate - but for the detailed tasks as well.
Formal Documentation - Presentation - Model
Requirements Workshop
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Business Rules Analysis - Decision Analysis - Functional Decomposition - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases
Historic Analysis

28. What are the techniques used in the task - Assess Organizational Readiness?
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Problem Tracking - Structured Walkthrough - Checklists
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Models - Focus Groups - Interviews - Survey/Questionnaire - Organizational Modeling - Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Force Field Analysis
Solution Assessment & Validation
Primary stakeholders in the Organize Requirements task

29. Used to describe the roles - responsibilities and reporting structures that exist within an organization and to align those structures with the organization's goals.
Visual Learner - Auditory Learner - Kinesthetic Learner
Determine the Process - Who will Authorize Changes - Impact Analysis - Wording of the Request - Coordinate Prioritization of Change
Organization Modeling
Emotional and Cognitive

30. What is the output of the task - Allocate Resources?
Prioritize Requirements - Organize Requirements - Specify & Model Requirements - Define Assumptions & Constraints - Verify Requirements - Validate Requirements
Historic Analysis
Requirements (Allocated)
Oral Communications - Teaching - Written Communication

31. An important tool in defining the scope of work and developing estimates. Decomposes the project scope into smaller and smaller pieces - creating a hierarchy of work.
State Diagrams
Throw-away Prototype
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
Requirements Package

32. Characteristics that are common to all organizations with a similar purpose and structure - whether or not the are in the same industry.
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Solution Performance Assessment
Requirements Package
Trustworthiness
Business Principals

33. What are the inputs to the task - Validate Requirements?
Brings them to a Communication on understanding
Business Case; Stakeholder - Solution or Transition Requirements (Verified)
Decision Making
Primary stakeholders in the Organize Requirements task

34. What are the techniques used in the task - Define Transition Requirements?
Define Business Case
Metrics & KPIs
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Modeling - Organization Modeling - Data Modeling
Business Analysis Process Assets

35. What are the elements of Communication Skills?
Scenarios & Use Cases
Verify Requirements
Business Principles & Practices
Oral Communications - Teaching - Written Communication

36. What should be considered when establishing a Change Management process?
MoSCoW Analysis
Determine the Process - Who will Authorize Changes - Impact Analysis - Wording of the Request - Coordinate Prioritization of Change
Systems Thinking
Solution Knowledge

37. What are the inputs to the task - Assess Organizational Readiness?
Functions - Markets - Matrix
Requirements (Any Except Stated)
Enterprise Architecture - Solution Scope - Solution (Designed) - Stakeholder Concerns
Problem Tracking - Baselining - Signoff

38. What are the elements of the task - Define Solution Scope?
Business Case
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving
Scenarios & Use Cases
Solution Scope Definition - Implementation Approach - Dependencies

39. What are the inputs to the task - Allocate Resources?
Business Analysis Plan
User Story
Solution Performance Assessment
Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution (Designed) - Solution Scope

40. What are the tasks in Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring?
Define Business Need - Access Capability Gaps - Determine Solution Approach - Define Solution Scope - Define Business Case
Assumptions & Constraints
Plan Business Analysis Approach - Conduct Stakeholder Analysis - Plan Business Analysis Activities - Plan Business Analysis Communication - Plan Requirements Management Process - Manage BA Performance
Transition Requirements

41. The goal of this task is validate that the stated requirements expressed by the stakeholder match the stakeholder's understanding of the problem and the stakeholder's needs. Analyst's understanding conforms to the actual desire or intentions of the s
Compliance with regulatory or other standards
Confirm Elicitation Results
Onion Diagram
Business Domain - Corporate Culture & Environment - Skills of the Analyst - Requirement Deliverable

42. 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.
Bottom-up Estimation
Specific - Measurable - Achievable - Relevant - Time-bound Objectives must be SMART.
Determine the Process - Who will Authorize Changes - Impact Analysis - Wording of the Request - Coordinate Prioritization of Change
Requirements (Stated) - Requirements Structure

43. 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
Requirements Structure
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Decision Analysis - Estimation - SWOT Analysis - Feasibility Analysis
Business Rules Analysis
Decision Analysis - Process Modeling - Structured Walkthrough

44. What are the techniques used in the task - Assess Capability Gaps?
Implementation SME
Document Analysis - SWOT Analysis
Emotional and Cognitive
To record the conflict in the Requirements Issues Log.

45. What are the strategies for a positive risk?
Metrics & KPIs
Share - Enhance - Exploit
Advantages of a Data Dictionary & Glossary
Assess Organization Readiness

46. 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.
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Learning
Three-point Estimation
Organizational Knowledge

47. Models a deep - and usually narrow slice of the entire system's functionality.
Vertical Prototype
Unique Number - Activity Description - Assumptions - Dependencies - Milestones
SWOT Analysis
Facilitation

48. A diagram indicating how involved the stakeholder is with the solution.
Business Goals & Objectives - Requirements (Stated)
Requirements (Stated - Unconfirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Unconfirmed)
Key Performance Indicator (KPI )
Onion Diagram

49. Set of requirements that will be used to choose between multiple solutions.
Vertical Prototype
Business Analysis Process Assets
Evaluation Criteria
Determine the Process - Who will Authorize Changes - Impact Analysis - Wording of the Request - Coordinate Prioritization of Change

50. A continuous process of collecting data to determine how well a solution has been implemented compared to expected results.
Monitoring
Prepare for Elicitation - Conduct Elicitation Activity - Document Elicitation Results - Confirm Elicitation Results
Verify Requirements
Business Analysis Plan