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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning
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1. 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
BABOK
Enterprise Architecture - Solution Scope - Solution (Designed) - Stakeholder Concerns
Advantages of a Data Dictionary & Glossary
2. Strengths - Weaknesses - Opportunities - Threats - A valuable tool to quickly analyze various aspects of the current state of the business process undergoing change.
Perform tailoring exercises
Requirements (Stated - Confirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Confirmed)
SWOT Analysis
Interviews - Observation
3. What are the inputs for the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?
Systems Thinking
Business Requirements - Identified Defects - Solution Performance Metrics - Solution (Deployed)
Historic Analysis
Fishbone Diagram - Five Whys
4. What are the characteristics of Interaction Skills?
Learning
Prioritize Requirements - Organize Requirements - Specify & Model Requirements - Define Assumptions & Constraints - Verify Requirements - Validate Requirements
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Decision Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Facilitation & Negotiation - Leadership & Influencing - Teamwork
5. 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.
Influence on the project - organizational - project health and other stakeholders
Business Case; Stakeholder - Solution or Transition Requirements (Verified)
Historic Analysis
Prioritize Requirements - Organize Requirements - Specify & Model Requirements - Define Assumptions & Constraints - Verify Requirements - Validate Requirements
6. The goal of this task is to meet with stakeholder(s) to gather information regarding their needs.
Ongoing Cost versus Initial Investment - Opportunity Costs - Necessity - Sunk Costs
Prototyping
Conduct Elicitation Activity
Impact Analysis - Requirements Coverage - Requirements Allocation
7. The knowledge area that covers how BAs determine which activities are necessary in order to complete a business analysis effort.
Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring
Creative Thinking - Decision Making - Learning - Problem Solving - Systems Thinking
Evaluation
Observation
8. Describes all the possible outcomes of an attempt to accomplish a particular goal that the solution will support.
Use Case
The Business Analysis Communication Plan
Requirements Structure
Brings them to a Communication on understanding
9. What is the output of the task - Organize Requirements?
System
Business Case; Stakeholder - Solution or Transition Requirements (Verified)
Organizational Readiness Assessment - Requirements (Stated) - Solution (Deployed) - Solution (Designed)
Requirements Structure
10. What techniques are used in the task Manage Requirements Traceability?
Business Goals & Objectives - Requirements (Stated)
Perform tailoring exercises
Coverage Matrix - Table or spreadsheet used to manage tracing.
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Decision Analysis - Estimation - SWOT Analysis - Feasibility Analysis
11. What is the output of the task - Validate Requirements?
Description - Raised by - Date Identified - Impact - Priority - Need by Date - Owner - Status - Action Needed to be Resolved - Responsible for Action - Completion Date of Action - Outcome
Bottom-up Estimation
Requirements (Validated)
Organize Requirements
12. This knowledge area describes the behaviors - knowledge and other characteristics that support the effective performance of a BA.
Automate or Simplify Work - Improve Access to Information - Reduce Complexity of Interfaces - Increase Consistency of Behavior - Eliminate Redundancy
Underlying Competencies
Impact Analysis
Opportunity Cost
13. What is the output of the task - Specify & Model Requirements?
Elicitation Results
Assess Proposed Solution - Allocate Requirements - Assess Organizational Readiness - Define Transition Requirements - Validate Solution - Evaluate Solution Performance
Bottom-up Estimation
Requirements (Analyzed)
14. What are the inputs to the task Manage Solution Scope & Requirements?
Cognitive Conflict
Requirements Management Plan - Solution Scope - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities - Stakeholder/Solution or Transition Requirements (Communicated or Traced)
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
Scheduled Resources - Supporting Materials
15. A specific - actionable - testable directive that is under the control of an organization and supports a business policy.
Fishbone Diagram - Five Whys
Business Analysis Communication Plan
Learning
Business Rule
16. The goal of tracing is to ensure that requirements are linked back to a business objective. Creation of this relationship helps in what other traceability activities?
Parametric Estimation
Solution Knowledge
Business Need - Expert Judgment - Organizational Process Assets
Impact Analysis - Requirements Coverage - Requirements Allocation
17. What are the techniques used in the task - Assess Organizational Readiness?
Elimination of Dominated Alternative - Ranking Objects on a Similar Scale
Validate Requirements
Advantages of a Data Dictionary & Glossary
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Models - Focus Groups - Interviews - Survey/Questionnaire - Organizational Modeling - Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Force Field Analysis
18. Name the 2 types of Software categories that assist in BA productivity.
Coverage Matrix - Table or spreadsheet used to manage tracing.
General Purpose Applications & Specialized Applications
Implementation SME
Requirements Structure
19. What are the inputs to the task - Specify & Model Requirements?
Assumptions & Constraints
Requirements (Stated) - Requirements Structure
Business Analysis Process Assets
Underlying Competencies
20. Two effective trade-off methods.
Stakeholder Matrix
Elimination of Dominated Alternative - Ranking Objects on a Similar Scale
Verify Requirements
Requirements Workshop
21. The BA is a stakeholder in ______ business analysis activities.
Budgeting
Problem Tracking - Baselining - Signoff
Historic Analysis
All
22. What are the techniques used in the task - Assess Proposed Solution?
Reporting
Validate Solution
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Decision Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Structured Walkthrough
23. Rules that are intended to help determine when something is or is not true - or when things fall into a specific category. They are expressed as rules because they describe categorizations that may change over time.
Structural Rules
Three-point Estimation
Fishbone Diagram - Five Whys
Requirements (Stated) - Stakeholder Concerns
24. What are the internal factors in a SWOT Analysis?
Strengths - Weaknesses
Business Analysis Plan
Unique Number - Activity Description - Assumptions - Dependencies - Milestones
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Decision Analysis - Estimation - SWOT Analysis - Feasibility Analysis
25. Two techniques used in Root Cause Analysis?
Assumptions & Constraints - Business Need - Solution Scope - Stakeholder Concerns
Requirements Management Plan
Fishbone Diagram - Five Whys
Assess Organization Readiness
26. 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.
Requirements Analysis
Absolute Reference - Author - Complexity - Ownership - Priority - Risks - Source - Stability - Status - Urgency
Assess Organization Readiness
Business Analysis Performance Assessment - Business Analysis Process Assets - Includes a comparison of planned versus actual performance - understanding the root cause of variances from the plan and other information to help understand the level of
27. What are the techniques used in the task - Define Transition Requirements?
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Modeling - Organization Modeling - Data Modeling
Business Analysis Approach
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Data Dictionary & Glossary - Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshops - Survey/Questionnaire
28. 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
Solution Assessment & Validation
Share - Enhance - Exploit
Advantages of Document Analysis
Business Domain - Corporate Culture & Environment - Skills of the Analyst - Requirement Deliverable
29. What stakeholder receives noticeable negative impact if information is incorrectly transferred from the old to new solution?
Customer
Requirements Workshop - Structured Walkthrough
Structured Walkthrough
Data Dictionary
30. 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.
Business Analysis Approach
Requirements Analysis
Verify Requirements
Functional Decomposition
31. What are the tasks in the knowledge area - Requirements Analysis?
Prioritize Requirements - Organize Requirements - Specify & Model Requirements - Define Assumptions & Constraints - Verify Requirements - Validate Requirements
Glossary
Document Elicitation Results task
Solution Assessment & Validation
32. Confidence in the problem solving process that a selected solution is correct - new solution options can be evaluated effectively using the problem solving framework - selected solutions meet the defined objectives and solve the underlying problem -
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Requirements Structure
User Classes - Profiles or Roles; Concepts & Relationships - Events - Processes - Rules
Problem Solving
33. What are the techniques used in the task - Validate Requirements?
Document Elicitation Results task
Validate Solution
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Metrics & KPIs - Prototyping - Risk Analysis - Structured Walkthrough
Business Need - Expert Judgment - Organizational Process Assets
34. This task describes the work required to decide which formats are appropriate for a particular project and its stakeholders. The requirements must be clear - concise - accurate and at the appropriate level of detail to assure clear understanding by t
Trustworthiness
Responsible - Accountable - Consulted - Informed
Prepare Requirements Package
Delphi Estimation
35. What are the inputs to the Plan Business Analysis Approach?
Observation
Requirements Structure
Business Need - Expert Judgment - Organizational Process Assets
Metrics & KPIs
36. What is the output of the task Conduct Elicitation Activity?
Emotional and Cognitive
Vertical Prototype
Key Performance Indicator (KPI )
Elicitation Results
37. What is the output of the task - Define Transition Requirements?
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Organizational Process Assets
Transition Requirements
Business Principles & Practices
Assumptions & Constraints
38. Checklist of characteristics to consider when considering non-functional requirements.
Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution (Designed) - Solution Scope
Emotional and Cognitive
Repository - Traceability - Requirement Attributes - Prioritization Process - Change Management - Tailoring the Requirements Management Process
Reliability - Performance Efficiency - Operability - Security - Compatibility - Maintainability - Transferability
39. What are the techniques used in the task - Define Assumptions & Constraints?
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Problem Tracking - Structured Walkthrough - Checklists
Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis
Responsible - Accountable - Consulted - Informed
Requirements Management Plan - Solution Scope - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities - Stakeholder/Solution or Transition Requirements (Communicated or Traced)
40. What are the inputs to the task - Verify Requirements?
System
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Business Rules Analysis - Decision Analysis - Functional Decomposition - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases
Requirements (Any Except Stated)
Business Principals
41. 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
Business Requirements - Stakeholder Requirements - Solution Requirements - Transition Requirements
Name - Aliases - Values/Meanings - Description
Solution Assessment & Validation
42. Set of requirements that will be used to choose between multiple solutions.
Description - Raised by - Date Identified - Impact - Priority - Need by Date - Owner - Status - Action Needed to be Resolved - Responsible for Action - Completion Date of Action - Outcome
Brainstorming
Decision Analysis - Focus Groups - Observation - Survey/Questionnaire
Evaluation Criteria
43. What are the strategies for a positive risk?
Share - Enhance - Exploit
Structured Walkthrough
Vendor Assessment
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Business Rules Analysis - Focus Groups - Functional Decomposition - Root Cause Analysis
44. What are the inputs for the task - Maintain Requirements for Re-use?
Functions - Markets - Matrix
Benchmarking
Interviews - Observation
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements
45. What are the likely sources of transition requirements?
Emotional and Cognitive
Data - Ongoing Work - Organizational Change
Horizontal Prototype
Relationships - Impact Analysis - Configuration Management System
46. What is the output of the task Plan Business Analysis Activities?
Benchmarking
That they understand them and the current state the requirements are in
Repository - Traceability - Requirement Attributes - Prioritization Process - Change Management - Tailoring the Requirements Management Process
Business Analysis Plan
47. Are used to describe the scope of analysis or the scope of a solution. Serve as a basis for defining and delimiting the scope of business analysis and project work. Allow the definition of a "complete" scope—that is - the boundaries of the scope corr
Scope Modeling
Risk Analysis
Implementation Approach
Decision Analysis - Risk Analysis - MoSCoW Analysis - Timeboxing/Budgeting - Voting
48. 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
Confirm Elicitation Results
Requirements Analysis
Rolling Wave
Personal Organization
49. What are the tasks in the knowledge area - Enterprise Analysis?
Transition Requirements
Solution Knowledge
Elimination
Define Business Need - Access Capability Gaps - Determine Solution Approach - Define Solution Scope - Define Business Case
50. Involved motivating people to act in ways that enable them to work together to achieve shared goals and objectives.
Customer
Leadership
Interviews
Transition Requirements