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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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






2. What are the inputs for the task - Maintain Requirements for Re-use?






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






4. What are some examples of stakeholder concerns?






5. This task determines if an organization can justify the investment required to deliver a proposed solution.






6. What are the inputs for the task - Prepare Requirements Package?






7. Two types of conflict.






8. Two effective trade-off methods.






9. What is the output of the task Confirm Elicitation Results?






10. 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.






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






12. Limited to "as-is" perspective. - Existing documentation may not be up-to-date or valid. - Can be a time-consuming and even tedious process to locate the relevant information






13. Approach to decision making that examines and models the possible consequences of different decisions. Make an optimal decision under conditions of uncertainty.






14. Corrective or preventative measures uncovered while performing a Business Analysis Performance Assessment will result in changes to what plan?






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






16. What is the output of the task - Define Transition Requirements?






17. 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






18. What is the output of the task Manage Solution Scope & Requirements?






19. Communication of requirements does what for stakeholders?






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






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






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






23. 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.






24. What are the techniques used in the task Define Business Need?






25. 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






26. What are the underlying competencies a BA should possess?






27. Elements identified for each activity and task.






28. Ability to find information - on-time completion of tasks - efficiency in the completion of work - ability to easily identify all outstanding work and the status of each work item.






29. What are the inputs to the task - Validate Solution?






30. 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.






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






32. 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.






33. This describes how the chosen solution will deliver the solution scope - may break delivery down into releases or provide a roadmap that indicates the timeframe in which a capability is expected.






34. 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.






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






36. This will impose constraints to the effort to deploy the solution - including relationships that may exist between solution components.






37. Name the 2 types of Software categories that assist in BA productivity.






38. Involves assessing a situation - understanding it as fully as possible - and making judgments about possible solutions to the problem.






39. What are the characteristics of Interaction Skills?






40. What are the techniques used in the task - Define Business Case?






41. What does RACI stand for?






42. This prototype extends the initial interface requirements into a fully functioning system and requires a specialized prototyping tool or language.






43. What are the factors of influence by stakeholders on a project?






44. What are the inputs to the task - Assess Capability Gaps?






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






46. A diagram indicating how involved the stakeholder is with the solution.






47. The decomposition of activities and tasks creates?






48. What does SMART stand for?






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






50. This knowledge area describes the problem definition and analysis - business case development - feasibility studies and the definition of solution scope.