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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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1. What are the techniques used in the task - Validate Requirements?
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Metrics & KPIs - Prototyping - Risk Analysis - Structured Walkthrough
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements Management Plan - Scheduled Resources - Solution Scope & Business Case - Supporting Materials
Evaluation
Scenarios & Use Cases

2. This knowledge area describes the behaviors - knowledge and other characteristics that support the effective performance of a BA.
Functions - Markets - Matrix
Underlying Competencies
Determine the Process - Who will Authorize Changes - Impact Analysis - Wording of the Request - Coordinate Prioritization of Change
Problem Tracking - Baselining - Signoff

3. What does RACI stand for?
Repository - Traceability - Requirement Attributes - Prioritization Process - Change Management - Tailoring the Requirements Management Process
Formal requirements presentation to stakeholders
Responsible - Accountable - Consulted - Informed
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Problem Tracking - Root Cause Analysis

4. Creates a conceptual model of the work that needs to be completed to deliver the new business solution.
Organizational Readiness Assessment
Stakeholder Concerns
Decision Analysis - Risk Analysis - MoSCoW Analysis - Timeboxing/Budgeting - Voting
Functional Decomposition

5. What are the techniques used in the task - Define Assumptions & Constraints?
Tracing Requirements
Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis
Specific - Measurable - Achievable - Relevant - Time-bound Objectives must be SMART.
Decision Analysis

6. The goal of this task is to meet with stakeholder(s) to gather information regarding their needs.
Conduct Elicitation Activity
Throw-away Prototype
Requirements (Approved)
Lessons Learned Process

7. 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
Advantages of a Data Dictionary & Glossary
The Business Analysis Communication Plan
Prepare Requirements Package
Rolling Wave

8. Provides an organized approach to tracking - management - and resolution of defects - issues - problems - and risks throughout business analysis activities. Management of issues is important so that they can be resolved in a timely manner to ensure s
Plan Business Analysis Approach - Conduct Stakeholder Analysis - Plan Business Analysis Activities - Plan Business Analysis Communication - Plan Requirements Management Process - Manage BA Performance
Problem Tracking
Data - Ongoing Work - Organizational Change
Enterprise Analysis

9. What are the techniques used in the task - Define Transition Requirements?
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Modeling - Organization Modeling - Data Modeling
Requirements Workshop - Structured Walkthrough
Perform tailoring exercises
Repository - Traceability - Requirement Attributes - Prioritization Process - Change Management - Tailoring the Requirements Management Process

10. What are the elements of the task - Define Solution Scope?
Solution Scope Definition - Implementation Approach - Dependencies
The Business Analysis Communication Plan
Requirements Workshop - Structured Walkthrough
Business Case - Business Need - Requirements - Requirements Management Plan - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities

11. Requires the team to focus on examining the premises - assumptions - observations and expectations of the team members. This type of conflict can have a beneficial effect of strengthening the foundations of the analysis and the solution.
Solution Assessment & Validation
Business Analysis Approach
Cognitive Conflict
Business Analysis Plan

12. 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.
Visual Learner - Auditory Learner - Kinesthetic Learner
Industry Knowledge
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Business Rules Analysis - Focus Groups - Functional Decomposition - Root Cause Analysis
Requirements (Maintained and Reusable)

13. The purpose is to describe the required qualities of a system - such as its usability and performance characteristics.
Identified Defects - Mitigating Actions - Solution Validation Assessment
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Brainstorming - Interviews - Organizational Modeling - Process Modeling - Requirements Workshop - Risk Analysis - Scenarios & Use Cases - User Stories - Scope Modeling - Survey/Questionnaire - RACI Matrix
Non-functional Requirements Analysis
Analogous Estimation

14. What is the output of the task Conduct Stakeholder Analysis?
Opportunity Cost
Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Formal requirements presentation to stakeholders
Assessment of Proposed Solution

15. 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.
Document Analysis
Impact Analysis - Requirements Coverage - Requirements Allocation
Impact Analysis
Interviews

16. 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.
Solution Knowledge
Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring
Observation
Influence on the project - organizational - project health and other stakeholders

17. What is the output of the task - Assess Proposed Solution?
Assessment of Proposed Solution
Key Performance Indicator (KPI )
Formal Documentation - Presentation - Model
Sequences - Repetitions - Optional Elements

18. 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
Prototyping
Term and Fact Model
Share - Enhance - Exploit
Reliability - Validity - Timeliness

19. What are the techniques used in the task - Organize Requirements?
Identified Defects - Mitigating Actions - Solution Validation Assessment
Data Dictionary & Glossary - Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshops - Survey/Questionnaire
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Data Modeling - Functional Decomposition - Organizational Modeling - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases - Scope Modeling - User Stories
Requirements (Validated)

20. What are the inputs of the task Plan Business Analysis Communication?
They describe what a solution must be capable of doing to meet the needs of one or more stakeholder groups
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements Management Plan - Scheduled Resources - Solution Scope & Business Case - Supporting Materials
Solution Knowledge

21. Name the 2 types of Software categories that assist in BA productivity.
General Purpose Applications & Specialized Applications
Assumptions & Constraints - Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution Options
Define Business Need - Access Capability Gaps - Determine Solution Approach - Define Solution Scope - Define Business Case
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Solution Performance Assessment

22. What is the output of the task - Communicate Requirements?
State Diagrams
Communicated Requirements
Requirements (Stated) - Stakeholder Concerns
Business Analysis Communication Plan

23. 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.
Problem or Vision Statement
Decision Analysis
Name - Value/Meanings - Description
Ongoing Cost versus Initial Investment - Opportunity Costs - Necessity - Sunk Costs

24. What is the output of the task Plan Business Analysis Activities?
Prioritize Requirements - Organize Requirements - Specify & Model Requirements - Define Assumptions & Constraints - Verify Requirements - Validate Requirements
Structured Walkthrough
Business Analysis Plan
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving

25. What are the techniques used in the task - Assess Capability Gaps?
Dependencies
Document Analysis - SWOT Analysis
Organization Modeling
Elicitation Results

26. Business rules require a defined glossary of terms and an understanding of the relationships between them - this is known as:
Data - Ongoing Work - Organizational Change
Term and Fact Model
Decision Analysis - Focus Groups - Observation - Survey/Questionnaire
Transition Requirements

27. The goal of this task is to create a set of views of the requirements for the new business solution that are comprehensive - complete - consistent and understood from all stakeholder perspectives.
Organize Requirements
Requirements (Allocated)
Creative Thinking - Decision Making - Learning - Problem Solving - Systems Thinking
Reporting

28. What are the techniques used in Plan Business Analysis Communication?
Structured Walkthrough
Learning
To record the conflict in the Requirements Issues Log.
Business Requirements - Stakeholder Requirements - Solution Requirements - Transition Requirements

29. What are the inputs to the task - Communicate Requirements?
Define Business Case
Impact Analysis
Business Case; Stakeholder - Solution or Transition Requirements (Verified)
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Requirements - Requirements Package

30. What are the inputs to the task - Define Business Need?
Business Goals & Objectives - Requirements (Stated)
All
Lessons Learned Process
Primary stakeholders in the Organize Requirements task

31. What is the output of the task - Define Assumptions & Constraints?
Structured Walkthrough
Survey/Questionnaire
Sequences - Repetitions - Optional Elements
Assumptions & Constraints

32. Is generally understood to describe just one way that an actor can accomplish a particular goal
Requirements (Stated) - Stakeholder Concerns
Business Requirements - Identified Defects - Solution Performance Metrics - Solution (Deployed)
Survey/Questionnaire
Scenario

33. What are the strategies for a negative risk?
Document Analysis
Acceptance - Transfer - Avoidance - Mitigation
Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution (Designed) - Solution Scope
Requirements (Stated - Unconfirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Unconfirmed)

34. Communicated Requirements mean what to stakeholders?
Requirements (Prioritized)
That they understand them and the current state the requirements are in
Document Analysis
Assessment of Proposed Solution

35. 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.
Verify Requirements
Scope Modeling
Prototyping
Scenarios & Use Cases

36. Approach to decision making that examines and models the possible consequences of different decisions. Make an optimal decision under conditions of uncertainty.
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Required Capabilities
Assumptions & Constraints - Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution Options
Trustworthiness
Decision Analysis

37. What techniques are used in the task Manage Requirements Traceability?
Functions - Markets - Matrix
Coverage Matrix - Table or spreadsheet used to manage tracing.
The Sponsor
Ethics - Trustworthiness - Personal Organization

38. 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
Activity List
Operative Rules
Cultural Assessment - Operational or Technical Assessment - Stakeholder Impact Analysis
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements

39. Name the 2 types of Stakeholder maps.
Conduct Elicitation Activity
Stakeholder Concerns
Delphi Estimation
Stakeholder Matrix - Onion Diagram

40. 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.
Rolling Wave
Horizontal Prototype
Organizational Knowledge
Assess Organization Readiness

41. What are the classifications used to describe requirements
Functional Decomposition - Interface Analysis - Scope Modeling - User Stories - Problem or Vision Statement
Throw-away Prototype
Operative Rules
Business Requirements - Stakeholder Requirements - Solution Requirements - Transition Requirements

42. The knowledge area that covers how BAs determine which activities are necessary in order to complete a business analysis effort.
Impact Analysis
Business Policy
Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring
Timeboxing

43. Describes all the possible outcomes of an attempt to accomplish a particular goal that the solution will support.
Define Transitional Requirements
Use Case
Determine the Process - Who will Authorize Changes - Impact Analysis - Wording of the Request - Coordinate Prioritization of Change
Interface Analysis

44. What are the inputs for the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?
Data Modeling
Share - Enhance - Exploit
Business Requirements - Identified Defects - Solution Performance Metrics - Solution (Deployed)
SWOT Analysis

45. This technique shows how information is input - processed - stored and output from a system in a visual representation.
Problem Solving
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Problem Tracking - Root Cause Analysis
Data Flow Diagrams
Leadership

46. This knowledge area describes the problem definition and analysis - business case development - feasibility studies and the definition of solution scope.
Acceptance & Evaluation Technique
Enterprise Analysis
Interviews - Observation
Decision Analysis - Problem Tacking - Risk Analysis

47. Understanding of how a change to a component affects the system as a whole - identification of reinforcing and compensating feedback loops - understanding of how systems adapt to external pressures and changes - A system as a whole will have properti
Scope Modeling
Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis
Systems Thinking
Throw-away Prototype

48. What are the inputs to the task - Organize Requirements?
Requirements (Any Except Stated)
Requirements Management Plan - Solution Scope - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities - Stakeholder/Solution or Transition Requirements (Communicated or Traced)
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements (Stated) - Solution Scope
Transition Requirements

49. What are the inputs to the task - Specify & Model Requirements?
Evaluate Solution Performance
Requirements (Stated) - Requirements Structure
Advantages of a Data Dictionary & Glossary
Acceptance & Evaluation Technique

50. What are the techniques used in the task Conduct Elicitation Activity?
Requirements Analysis
Data Dictionary & Glossary - Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshops - Survey/Questionnaire
Business Analysis Communication Plan
Functions - Markets - Matrix