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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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






2. What are the techniques used in the task Manage Business Analysis Performance?






3. What are the Behavioral Characteristics a BA should exhibit?






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






5. A requirement that does not deliver direct or indirect value to a stakeholder is a strong candidate for what?






6. What are the techniques for the task - Verify Requirements?






7. What is the output of the task - Specify & Model Requirements?






8. 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.






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






10. Business rules require a defined glossary of terms and an understanding of the relationships between them - this is known as:






11. Elements of a Requirements Management Plan include?






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






13. The purpose is to compile and document successes - opportunities for improvement - failures - and recommendations for improving the performance of future projects or project phases






14. What are the techniques used in the task Confirm Elicitation Results?






15. What is a STAKEHOLDER requirement - according to the BABOK 2.0?






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






17. This technique represents the types of peoples - places - things and concepts that are important to the business - attributes associated with them and the significant business relationships among them.






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






19. 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.






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






21. Define requirements for capabilities needed to move from an existing solution to a new solution.






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






23. What are the Composite Data Elements?






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






25. What techniques are used in the task Manage Requirements Traceability?






26. The process of informing stakeholders of metrics of indicators in specified formats at specified intervals.






27. What are the inputs to the task - Assess Proposed Solution?






28. What is the output of the task - Prioritize Requirements?






29. What is the output of the task - Maintain Requirements for Re-use?






30. What are the techniques used in the task - Validate Requirements?






31. What is the output of the task Prepare for Elicitation?






32. What are the strategies for a positive risk?






33. 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.






34. 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.






35. 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






36. What are the elements of the task - Define Solution Scope?






37. States the business need - identifies key stakeholders and briefly describes the positive impact that meeting the business need will have on those stakeholders.






38. What are the inputs for the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?






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






40. Prioritizes requirements based on the amount of work that the project team is capable of delivering in a set period of time. Approaches include: All-in - All Out - Selective






41. 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






42. A brief description of functionality that users need from a solution to meet a business objective. The goal they are trying to accomplish - and any additional information that may be critical to understanding the scope of the story.






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






44. The minimum set of requirements that must be met in order for a particular solution to be worth implementing.






45. Ensure that the solution meets the business need and determine the most appropriate response to identified defects.






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






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






48. Details user interface requirements and integrates them with other requirements such as use cases - scenarios - data and business rules. Stakeholders often find this to be a concrete means of identifying - describing and validating their interface ne






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






50. 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