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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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1. What should be considered when establishing a Change Management process?






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






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






4. 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?






5. 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.






6. Performed to communicate - verify and validate requirements. Is a working session where invited participants review and discuss a set of requirements






7. Divides requirements into 4 categories - Must - Should - Could - Won't






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






9. Three key factors when assessing the quality of indicators and their metrics






10. Elements identified for each activity and task.






11. What are stakeholder requirements?






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






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






14. What is the output of the task Conduct Stakeholder Analysis?






15. What are the general modeling concepts that are relevant to business analysis?






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






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






18. A continuous process of collecting data to determine how well a solution has been implemented compared to expected results.






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






20. What are the tasks in the knowledge area - Solution Assessment & Validation?






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






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






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






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






25. 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.






26. This task describes the work required to decide which formats are appropriate for a particular project and its stakeholders. The requirements must be clear - concise - accurate and at the appropriate level of detail to assure clear understanding by t






27. What are the techniques used in the task - Assess Proposed Solution?






28. 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.






29. What are some of the commonly used requirement attributes?






30. What are the inputs for the task - Define Solution Scope?






31. When a conflict arises between stakeholders on one or more documented requirements - the first thing that needs to take place is what?






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






33. Creates a conceptual model of the work that needs to be completed to deliver the new business solution.






34. What are the attributes of a Data Model?






35. What are the internal factors in a SWOT Analysis?






36. What is the output of the task - Validate Requirements?






37. Rules that the organization chooses to enforce as a matter of policy. They are intended to guide the actions of people working within the organization. They may oblige people to take certain actions - prevent people from taking actions - or prescribe






38. Gathering information relevant to a decision - breaking down the information relevant to a decision - making comparisons and tradeoffs between similar and dissimilar options and identifying the option that is most desirable.






39. Are used to model the logic of usage scenarios - by showing the information passed between objects in the system through the execution of the scenario. Shows how classes and objects interact during a scenario.






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






41. What are the inputs to the task - Verify Requirements?






42. Name some commonly used financial valuation techniques.






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






44. What describes how - when and why the business analyst will work with stakeholders?






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






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






47. 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.






48. What is the output to the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?






49. What are the techniques used in the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?






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