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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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1. What are the inputs to the task - Determine Solution Approach?






2. What are the inputs to the task Conduct Elicitation Activity?






3. The goal of this task is to meet with stakeholder(s) to gather information regarding their needs.






4. What are the inputs to the task Plan Requirements Management Process?






5. 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.






6. Domain SME - End User - Implementation SME - and Sponsor: They Affected by analysis techniques used to organize requirements since they need to verify and validate the requirements.






7. What is the output of the Manage Business Analysis Performance task?






8. Investigating how a solution is actually used after it is deployed and assessing the effect it has had - both positive and negative.






9. What are stakeholder requirements?






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






11. What is the output of the task Plan Business Analysis Communication?






12. What is the output of the task - Define Assumptions & Constraints?






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






14. What are the techniques used in the task - Define Transition Requirements?






15. The knowledge area that covers how BAs determine which activities are necessary in order to complete a business analysis effort.






16. What are the Cultural diversity issues that should be taken into account when planning communication?






17. Means of eliciting information from many people - sometimes anonymously - in a relatively short period of time






18. What are the techniques used in Plan Business Analysis Approach?






19. 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. -






20. What are the techniques used in the task - Communicate Requirements?






21. What is the output of the task - Define Business Case?






22. Prioritizes requirements based on a allocated fixed amount of money.






23. What are the inputs to the task Manage Requirements Traceability?






24. What is the output of the task - Communicate Requirements?






25. Three types of organizational structures






26. Knowing the dependencies and relationships between requirements helps when determining the sequence in which requirements are to be addressed. Common relations are:






27. A non-actionable directive that supports a business goal.






28. Revised process and templates for BA deliverables should be analyzed and documented and lessons learned should be recorded.






29. What are the inputs to the task - Organize Requirements?






30. A specific - actionable - testable directive that is under the control of an organization and supports a business policy.






31. The goal of tracing is to ensure that requirements are linked back to a business objective. Creation of this relationship helps in what other traceability activities?






32. What are the inputs to the task - Allocate Resources?






33. What are the inputs to the task Manage Business Analysis Performance?






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






35. What are the attributes of a Data Model?






36. To define the rules that govern decisions in an organization and that define - constrain or enable organization operations.






37. 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






38. To identify and manage areas of uncertainty that can impact an initiative - solution - or organization.






39. 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






40. 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






41. 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.






42. What techniques are used in the task Prepare for Elicitation?






43. 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.






44. What are the output(s) of the task - Validate Solution?






45. When a requirement is changed - the BA can easily review all the related requirements and software components in order to understand the impact of the change.






46. 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.






47. What are the inputs for the task - Define Transitional Requirements?






48. What are the characteristics of Interaction Skills?






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






50. 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.