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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning
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1. 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.
Elicitation
Business Requirements - Stakeholder Requirements - Solution Requirements - Transition Requirements
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
Prioritize Requirements - Organize Requirements - Specify & Model Requirements - Define Assumptions & Constraints - Verify Requirements - Validate Requirements
2. What are the inputs for the task - Define Transitional Requirements?
Organizational Readiness Assessment
Solution (Constructed) - Requirements (Prioritized and Validated)
Requirements Structure
Organizational Readiness Assessment - Requirements (Stated) - Solution (Deployed) - Solution (Designed)
3. 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.
Visual Learner - Auditory Learner - Kinesthetic Learner
Glossary
Impact Analysis
Solution Scope Definition - Implementation Approach - Dependencies
4. What are the techniques used in the task - Define Transition Requirements?
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Modeling - Organization Modeling - Data Modeling
Automate or Simplify Work - Improve Access to Information - Reduce Complexity of Interfaces - Increase Consistency of Behavior - Eliminate Redundancy
Elicitation Results
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Models - Focus Groups - Interviews - Survey/Questionnaire - Organizational Modeling - Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Force Field Analysis
5. 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.
Business Analysis Performance Metrics - Business Analysis Plan - Organization Performance Standards - Requirements Management Plan
Requirements Structure
Requirements Workshop
Decision Analysis
6. What are the inputs to the task - Validate Requirements?
Requirements - Requirements Management Plan
Requirements (Stated - Confirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Confirmed)
Business Case; Stakeholder - Solution or Transition Requirements (Verified)
Document Analysis
7. What are the strategies for a positive risk?
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Data Modeling - Functional Decomposition - Organizational Modeling - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases - Scope Modeling - User Stories
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements - Requirements Structure
Share - Enhance - Exploit
Enterprise Analysis - often the starting point for initiating a new project
8. What are the techniques used in the task Confirm Elicitation Results?
Strengths - Weaknesses
Decision Analysis - Estimation - Metrics & KPIs - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Interviews - Observation
Business Need
9. What are the elements of Communication Skills?
Repository - Traceability - Requirement Attributes - Prioritization Process - Change Management - Tailoring the Requirements Management Process
Oral Communications - Teaching - Written Communication
Requirements Management Plan
Business Rule
10. What techniques are used in the task - Prepare Requirements Package?
Data Dictionary & Glossary - Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshops - Survey/Questionnaire
Term and Fact Model
Solution Assessment & Validation
Requirements Documentation - Requirements for Vendor Selection
11. 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 -
Verify Requirements
Formal Documentation - Presentation - Model
Facilitation & Negotiation - Leadership & Influencing - Teamwork
Automate or Simplify Work - Improve Access to Information - Reduce Complexity of Interfaces - Increase Consistency of Behavior - Eliminate Redundancy
12. This knowledge area involves analyzing stakeholder needs to define solutions that meet those needs - assessing the current state of the business to identify and recommend improvements and the verification and validation of the resulting requirements.
Data Dictionary & Glossary
Requirements Analysis
Business Need
Decision Analysis
13. This technique shows how information is input - processed - stored and output from a system in a visual representation.
Business Analysis Plan
Data Flow Diagrams
Requirements (Approved)
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets
14. What are some of the commonly used requirement attributes?
Absolute Reference - Author - Complexity - Ownership - Priority - Risks - Source - Stability - Status - Urgency
Enterprise Analysis
Requirements (Stated - Unconfirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Unconfirmed)
Requirements (Prioritized)
15. What techniques are used in the task Prepare for Elicitation?
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Problem Tracking - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Evaluation
Transition Requirements
16. What are the techniques used in the task - Organize Requirements?
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Data Modeling - Functional Decomposition - Organizational Modeling - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases - Scope Modeling - User Stories
Transition Requirements
Formal Documentation - Presentation - Model
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Decision Analysis - Vendor Assessment
17. The knowledge area that covers how BAs determine which activities are necessary in order to complete a business analysis effort.
Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution (Designed) - Solution Scope
Requirements Workshop - Structured Walkthrough
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring
18. The skill of moderating discussions among a group or enable all participants to effectively articulate their views on a topic under discussion and to further ensure that participants in the discussion are able to recognize and appreciate the differin
Facilitation
Functional Decomposition
Business Rules Analysis
Creative Thinking - Decision Making - Learning - Problem Solving - Systems Thinking
19. What is the output of the task - Communicate Requirements?
Business Requirements - Stakeholder Requirements - Solution Requirements - Transition Requirements
Communicated Requirements
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements
Problem or Vision Statement
20. What are the inputs to the task - Specify & Model Requirements?
Requirements (Stated) - Requirements Structure
Business Rules Analysis
Assess Organization Readiness
Implementation SME
21. 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
Requirements Management Plan
Implementation SME
Organize Requirements
Problem Tracking
22. What are the techniques used in the task - Validate Solution?
Systems Thinking
That they understand them and the current state the requirements are in
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Problem Tracking - Root Cause Analysis
Compliance with regulatory or other standards
23. Investigating how a solution is actually used after it is deployed and assessing the effect it has had - both positive and negative.
Evaluate Solution Performance
Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets
They describe what a solution must be capable of doing to meet the needs of one or more stakeholder groups
24. What is the output of the task - Assess Proposed Solution?
Cognitive Conflict
Assessment of Proposed Solution
Scenarios & Use Cases
Name - Aliases - Values/Meanings - Description
25. What are the inputs for the task - Maintain Requirements for Re-use?
Key Performance Indicator (KPI )
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements
Requirements Workshop - Structured Walkthrough
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
26. What are the inputs to the task Plan Requirements Management Process?
Monitoring
Observation
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets
Sequence Diagrams
27. Measures progress towards a strategic goal or objective.
Stakeholder Matrix
Functional Decomposition - Interface Analysis - Scope Modeling - User Stories - Problem or Vision Statement
Key Performance Indicator (KPI )
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
28. What are the elements to the task - Define Business Case?
Benefits - Costs - Risk Assessment - Results Measurement
Benchmarking
Business Principals
Facilitation & Negotiation - Leadership & Influencing - Teamwork
29. 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
A statement of the needs of a particular stakeholder or class of stakeholders
Vertical Prototype
Brainstorming
Requirements Structure
30. What is the output of the task - Allocate Resources?
Assumptions & Constraints - Required Capabilities - Solution Approach
Requirements (Allocated)
Share - Enhance - Exploit
Oral Communications - Teaching - Written Communication
31. Long-term - ongoing and qualitative statements of a state or condition that the organization is seeking to establish and maintain.
Requirements - Requirements Management Plan
Goals
Observation
Organization Modeling
32. The objective of this technique is to determine how companies achieve their superior performance levels and use that information to design projects to improve operations of the enterprise.
Onion Diagram
Creative Thinking - Decision Making - Learning - Problem Solving - Systems Thinking
Benchmarking
Advantages of a Data Dictionary & Glossary
33. An excellent way to foster creative thinking about a problem. The goal is to produce numerous new ideas and to derive themes for further analysis. - Ability to elicit many ideas in a short time period. - - Non-judgmental environment enables creative
Data Dictionary & Glossary
User Story
Impact Analysis
Brainstorming
34. What are the inputs for the task - Prepare Requirements Package?
Scenario
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements - Requirements Structure
Determine the Process - Who will Authorize Changes - Impact Analysis - Wording of the Request - Coordinate Prioritization of Change
Stakeholder Matrix - Onion Diagram
35. What are the factors of influence by stakeholders on a project?
Requirements (Any Except Stated)
Requirements (Approved)
Ethics
Influence on the project - organizational - project health and other stakeholders
36. Documents terms unique to a domain.
Transition Requirements
Validate Solution
Glossary
The Business Analysis Communication Plan
37. What is the output of the task Conduct Elicitation Activity?
Assumptions & Constraints - Business Need - Solution Scope - Stakeholder Concerns
Business Goals & Objectives - Requirements (Stated)
Personal Organization
Elicitation Results
38. What are the general modeling concepts that are relevant to business analysis?
Requirements (Verified)
User Classes - Profiles or Roles; Concepts & Relationships - Events - Processes - Rules
Perform tailoring exercises
Requirements (Approved)
39. What are the Cultural diversity issues that should be taken into account when planning communication?
Relationship to Time - Relationship to Task Completion - Relationship to Contracts - Relationships to Formal and Informal Authority
Benchmarking
Assessment of Proposed Solution
Assumptions & Constraints - Required Capabilities - Solution Approach
40. List 3 possible forms of a requirements packages.
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Problem Tracking - Root Cause Analysis
Problem Tracking
Requirements (Stated) - Requirements Structure
Formal Documentation - Presentation - Model
41. Checklist of characteristics to consider when considering non-functional requirements.
Reliability - Performance Efficiency - Operability - Security - Compatibility - Maintainability - Transferability
State Diagrams
Goals
Assumptions & Constraints - Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution Options
42. Communicated Requirements mean what to stakeholders?
Delphi Estimation
That they understand them and the current state the requirements are in
Business Principles & Practices
Decision Analysis
43. 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.
Assess Organization Readiness
Learning
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Business Rules Analysis - Decision Analysis - Functional Decomposition - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases
Estimation
44. This knowledge area describes the tasks that are performed in order to ensure that solutions meet the business need and to facilitate successful implementation.
Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Verify Requirements
Rolling Wave
Solution Assessment & Validation
45. This task ensures that requirement specifications and models meet the necessary standard of quality to allow them to be used effectively to guide further work. Requirements have been defined correctly.
Verify Requirements
Requirements Workshop
Business Analysis Performance Metrics - Business Analysis Plan - Organization Performance Standards - Requirements Management Plan
Risk - assumptions - constraints - etc.
46. What are the characteristics of quality for a requirements?
Requirements Analysis
Cohesive - Complete - Consistent - Correct - Feasible - Modifiable - Unambiguous - Testable
Formal requirements presentation to stakeholders
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Requirements - Requirements Package
47. 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.
Trustworthiness
Facilitation
Advantages of a Data Dictionary & Glossary
Monitoring
48. What are the inputs to the task - Assess Capability Gaps?
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Solution Performance Assessment
Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Problem Tracking - Root Cause Analysis
Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis
49. What are the techniques used in the task Define Business Need?
Requirements Structure
Assess Organization Readiness
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Business Rules Analysis - Focus Groups - Functional Decomposition - Root Cause Analysis
Visual Learner - Auditory Learner - Kinesthetic Learner
50. What are the inputs to the task Manage Solution Scope & Requirements?
The Sponsor
Requirements Management Plan - Solution Scope - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities - Stakeholder/Solution or Transition Requirements (Communicated or Traced)
This person will be involved in monitoring the performance and effectiveness of a solution or its components.
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Solution Performance Assessment