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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning
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1. What are the inputs to the task - Verify Requirements?
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Data Modeling
The Business Analysis Communication Plan
Requirements (Any Except Stated)
2. What are the techniques used in Plan Business Analysis Approach?
Decision Analysis - Process Modeling - Structured Walkthrough
Solution (Constructed) - Requirements (Prioritized and Validated)
Define Transitional Requirements
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
3. What are some examples of stakeholder concerns?
Risk - assumptions - constraints - etc.
Business Analysis Performance Metrics - Business Analysis Plan - Organization Performance Standards - Requirements Management Plan
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Decision Analysis - Estimation - SWOT Analysis - Feasibility Analysis
Requirements Structure
4. Allocate stakeholder and solution requirements among solution components and releases in order to maximize the possible business value given the options and alternatives generated by the design team.
Allocate Requirements
Business Value - Business or Technical Risk - Implementation Difficulty - Likelihood of Success - Regulatory or Policy Compliance - Relationship to Other Requirements - Stakeholder Agreement - Urgency
Delphi Estimation
Necessity - Effort - Subset - Cover - Value
5. Useful for ensuring that all stakeholders are in agreement on the format and content of relevant information. Capturing these definitions in a single model ensures that these terms will be used consistently.
Business Analysis Approach
Advantages of a Data Dictionary & Glossary
Activity List
Business Analysis Plan
6. 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.
Stakeholder Matrix
Structural Rules
Scenario
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
7. What are some of the ways a BA can help to improve the operations of a business? Acceptance and Evaluation Criteria Definition - Business Rules Analysis - Data Dictionary and Glossary - Data Flow Diagrams - Data Modeling - Functional Decomposition -
BABOK
Advantages of a Data Dictionary & Glossary
Automate or Simplify Work - Improve Access to Information - Reduce Complexity of Interfaces - Increase Consistency of Behavior - Eliminate Redundancy
Solution Scope Definition - Implementation Approach - Dependencies
8. Two techniques used in Root Cause Analysis?
Relationships - Impact Analysis - Configuration Management System
Fishbone Diagram - Five Whys
Absolute Reference - Author - Complexity - Ownership - Priority - Risks - Source - Stability - Status - Urgency
Requirements (Verified)
9. What is the output of the task Prepare for Elicitation?
Requirements Workshop - Structured Walkthrough
Scheduled Resources - Supporting Materials
Solution Approach
Requirements (Traced)
10. What are the inputs to the task Manage Requirements Traceability?
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Metrics & KPIs - Prototyping - Risk Analysis - Structured Walkthrough
Conduct Elicitation Activity
Benefits - Costs - Risk Assessment - Results Measurement
Requirements - Requirements Management Plan
11. This knowledge area describes the problem definition and analysis - business case development - feasibility studies and the definition of solution scope.
Elicitation Results
Business Requirements - Identified Defects - Solution Performance Metrics - Solution (Deployed)
Required Capabilities
Enterprise Analysis
12. 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.
Organizational Readiness Assessment - Requirements (Stated) - Solution (Deployed) - Solution (Designed)
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Problem Tracking - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Organizational Knowledge
Absolute Reference - Author - Complexity - Ownership - Priority - Risks - Source - Stability - Status - Urgency
13. A structured way to capture requirements. May be used to scope - discover - define - prioritize and reach closure on requirements for the target system. Considered one of the most effective ways to deliver high quality requirements quickly.
Rolling Wave
Problem Solving
Requirements Workshop
Business Case
14. What are the tasks in the knowledge area - Solution Assessment & Validation?
Business Policy
Business Need - Solution Scope & Business Case - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Survey/Questionnaire
Assess Proposed Solution - Allocate Requirements - Assess Organizational Readiness - Define Transition Requirements - Validate Solution - Evaluate Solution Performance
15. Is generally understood to describe just one way that an actor can accomplish a particular goal
Decision Analysis - Estimation - Metrics & KPIs - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Strengths - Weaknesses
Data Modeling
Scenario
16. 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
Data Dictionary & Glossary
Business Analysis Process Assets
Coverage Matrix - Table or spreadsheet used to manage tracing.
Delphi Estimation
17. What are the techniques used in the task Manage Solution Scope & Requirements?
Systems Thinking
Problem Tracking - Baselining - Signoff
Business Principals
Validate Solution
18. What knowledge area discusses the business analysis activities necessary to identify a business need - problem or opportunity - define the capture of the solution and justify the investment necessary to deliver the solution.
Decision Analysis - Focus Groups - Observation - Survey/Questionnaire
User Classes - Profiles or Roles; Concepts & Relationships - Events - Processes - Rules
Enterprise Analysis - often the starting point for initiating a new project
Solution Knowledge
19. 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.
Throw-away Prototype
Decision Analysis
Organizational Readiness Assessment - Requirements (Stated) - Solution (Deployed) - Solution (Designed)
Enterprise Analysis - often the starting point for initiating a new project
20. What is the output of the task - Define Business Case?
Business Rule
Business Case
Automate or Simplify Work - Improve Access to Information - Reduce Complexity of Interfaces - Increase Consistency of Behavior - Eliminate Redundancy
BABOK
21. What are the inputs for the task - Define Solution Scope?
Requirements Management & Communication
Risk - assumptions - constraints - etc.
Assumptions & Constraints - Required Capabilities - Solution Approach
Term and Fact Model
22. What are the techniques used in the task - Organize Requirements?
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Business Rules Analysis - Decision Analysis - Functional Decomposition - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Data Modeling - Functional Decomposition - Organizational Modeling - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases - Scope Modeling - User Stories
Parametric Estimation
Requirements Management Plan - Solution Scope - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities - Stakeholder/Solution or Transition Requirements (Communicated or Traced)
23. What are the techniques used in the task - Validate Solution?
Functional Decomposition
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Problem Tracking - Root Cause Analysis
Document Analysis - SWOT Analysis
Root Cause Analysis
24. Models a shallow - and possibly wide view of the system's functionality. It typically does not have any business logic running behind the visualization.
Horizontal Prototype
Ethics - Trustworthiness - Personal Organization
Historic Analysis
Organizational Readiness Assessment
25. What is the output of the task - Prioritize Requirements?
Requirements (Prioritized)
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Data Modeling - Functional Decomposition - Organizational Modeling - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases - Scope Modeling - User Stories
Decision Analysis - Focus Groups - Observation - Survey/Questionnaire
Problem Tracking
26. The minimum set of requirements that must be met in order for a particular solution to be worth implementing.
Acceptance Criteria
Underlying Competencies
Cohesive - Complete - Consistent - Correct - Feasible - Modifiable - Unambiguous - Testable
Brainstorming
27. Two effective trade-off methods.
Problem Tracking
Oral Communications - Teaching - Written Communication
Elimination of Dominated Alternative - Ranking Objects on a Similar Scale
Requirements (Analyzed)
28. Measures progress towards a strategic goal or objective.
Requirements Structure
Business Goals & Objectives - Requirements (Stated)
Reporting
Key Performance Indicator (KPI )
29. A requirement that does not deliver direct or indirect value to a stakeholder is a strong candidate for what?
Elimination
Decision Analysis
Transition Requirements
Horizontal Prototype
30. Elements identified for each activity and task.
Requirements (Prioritized)
Prepare Requirements Package
Opportunity Cost
Unique Number - Activity Description - Assumptions - Dependencies - Milestones
31. What are the tasks of the Elicitation Knowledge Area?
Non-functional Requirements Analysis
Prepare for Elicitation - Conduct Elicitation Activity - Document Elicitation Results - Confirm Elicitation Results
Risk Analysis
Oral Communications - Teaching - Written Communication
32. A means to elicit ideas and attitudes about a specific product - service or opportunity in an interactive group environment. The participants share their impressions - preferences and needs - guided by a moderator. - Effective for learning people's a
Define Transitional Requirements
User Classes - Profiles or Roles; Concepts & Relationships - Events - Processes - Rules
Ethics - Trustworthiness - Personal Organization
Focus Group
33. What are the 3 elements in the Assess Organizational Readiness?
Cultural Assessment - Operational or Technical Assessment - Stakeholder Impact Analysis
Strengths - Weaknesses
Organization Modeling
Advantages of Document Analysis
34. What are the elements to the task - Define Business Case?
Coverage Matrix - Table or spreadsheet used to manage tracing.
Benefits - Costs - Risk Assessment - Results Measurement
Requirements (Prioritized)
Facilitation & Negotiation - Leadership & Influencing - Teamwork
35. What are the strategies for a negative risk?
Define Transitional Requirements
Key Performance Indicator (KPI )
Historic Analysis
Acceptance - Transfer - Avoidance - Mitigation
36. Three key factors when assessing the quality of indicators and their metrics
Data Dictionary & Glossary - Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshops - Survey/Questionnaire
Impact Analysis
Reliability - Validity - Timeliness
Confirm Elicitation Results
37. Understanding of the competitive forces that shape an industry - understand the various customer segments that the industry services and the demographic or other characteristics common to that segment.
Industry Knowledge
Fishbone Diagram - Five Whys
Requirements (Allocated)
Glossary
38. This task determines if an organization can justify the investment required to deliver a proposed solution.
Business Analysis Approach
Define Business Case
Name - Aliases - Values/Meanings - Description
Learning
39. A formal written specification with possible walk-thru - an informal one is possibly verbal or email Communication
Functional Decomposition - Interface Analysis - Scope Modeling - User Stories - Problem or Vision Statement
Formal requirements presentation to stakeholders
Scenarios & Use Cases
Required Capabilities
40. Technique involving refinement of estimates. Estimate the details for activities in the current iteration or increment and provide an analogous estimate for the entire scope of work. As the end of the iteration approaches - estimates for the next ite
Scope Modeling
Requirements Package
Assumptions & Constraints - Required Capabilities - Solution Approach
Rolling Wave
41. Business value can be delivered through requirements that support _______________ - alignment with internal standards or policies of the organization - or increased satisfaction for stakeholders - even if those things do not have a direct measurable
User Classes - Profiles or Roles; Concepts & Relationships - Events - Processes - Rules
Document Analysis - SWOT Analysis
Survey/Questionnaire
Compliance with regulatory or other standards
42. States the business need - identifies key stakeholders and briefly describes the positive impact that meeting the business need will have on those stakeholders.
Business Case - Business Need - Requirements - Requirements Management Plan - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Problem or Vision Statement
Prepare Requirements Package
Organize Requirements
43. What techniques are used in the task Manage Requirements Traceability?
Business Rule
Coverage Matrix - Table or spreadsheet used to manage tracing.
Requirements Documentation - Requirements for Vendor Selection
Transition Requirements
44. What are the factors of influence by stakeholders on a project?
Influence on the project - organizational - project health and other stakeholders
Requirements Workshop
Identified Defects - Mitigating Actions - Solution Validation Assessment
Non-functional Requirements Analysis
45. What is the output of the task - Assess Capability Gaps?
Sequence Diagrams
Required Capabilities
Acceptance & Evaluation Technique
Organizational Readiness Assessment - Requirements (Stated) - Solution (Deployed) - Solution (Designed)
46. The purpose of _______________ is to ensure that a stakeholder's actual underlying needs are understood - rather than the their stated or superficial desires.
Business Goals & Objectives - Requirements (Stated)
Organizational Readiness Assessment - Requirements (Stated) - Solution (Deployed) - Solution (Designed)
Problem Tracking
Elicitation
47. Describes the effect a new solution will have on an organization and whether the organization is prepared for the organizational change the solution implementation will cause.
Assess Organization Readiness
Budgeting
Operative Rules
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Data Modeling - Functional Decomposition - Organizational Modeling - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases - Scope Modeling - User Stories
48. The BA is a stakeholder in ______ business analysis activities.
All
Perform tailoring exercises
Functions - Markets - Matrix
Business Principles & Practices
49. What are the inputs to the Plan Business Analysis Approach?
Business Need - Expert Judgment - Organizational Process Assets
Interviews - Observation
Discounted Cash Flow - Net Present Value - Internal Rate of Return - Average Rate of Return - Pay Back Period - Cost-Benefit Analysis
Assess Proposed Solution - Allocate Requirements - Assess Organizational Readiness - Define Transition Requirements - Validate Solution - Evaluate Solution Performance
50. What are the techniques used in the task - Assess Capability Gaps?
Enterprise Analysis
Document Analysis - SWOT Analysis
MoSCoW Analysis
Business Policy