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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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1. Are used to model the logic of usage scenarios - by showing the information passed between objects in the system through the execution of the scenario. Shows how classes and objects interact during a scenario.
Organizational Readiness Assessment
Sequence Diagrams
Risk - assumptions - constraints - etc.
SWOT Analysis

2. To identify interfaces between solutions and/or solution components and define requirements that describe how they will interact.
Business Domain - Corporate Culture & Environment - Skills of the Analyst - Requirement Deliverable
Interface Analysis
Business Analysis Communication Plan
Name - Aliases - Values/Meanings - Description

3. Long-term - ongoing and qualitative statements of a state or condition that the organization is seeking to establish and maintain.
Influence on the project - organizational - project health and other stakeholders
Business Analysis Process Assets
Goals
Define Business Need - Access Capability Gaps - Determine Solution Approach - Define Solution Scope - Define Business Case

4. This will impose constraints to the effort to deploy the solution - including relationships that may exist between solution components.
Functional Decomposition
Requirements (Stated) - Stakeholder Concerns
Cognitive Conflict
Dependencies

5. The BA is a stakeholder in ______ business analysis activities.
All
Observation
Customer
Tracing Requirements

6. A diagram indicating how involved the stakeholder is with the solution.
Clear - Relevant - Economical - Adequate - Quantifiable
Decision Analysis - Risk Analysis - MoSCoW Analysis - Timeboxing/Budgeting - Voting
Cognitive Conflict
Onion Diagram

7. What are the inputs for the task Prepare for Elicitation?
Solution Knowledge
Evolutionary or Functional Prototype
Business Need - Solution Scope & Business Case - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
MoSCoW Analysis

8. What is the output of the task - Assess Capability Gaps?
Required Capabilities
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Decision Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Prioritize Requirements - Organize Requirements - Specify & Model Requirements - Define Assumptions & Constraints - Verify Requirements - Validate Requirements
Requirements (Allocated)

9. What are the inputs to the task Conduct Elicitation Activity?
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements Management Plan - Scheduled Resources - Solution Scope & Business Case - Supporting Materials
Risk - assumptions - constraints - etc.
Functional Decomposition - Interface Analysis - Scope Modeling - User Stories - Problem or Vision Statement
Business Analysis Process Assets

10. What is the output of the task - Validate Requirements?
Solution Assessment & Validation
Ongoing Cost versus Initial Investment - Opportunity Costs - Necessity - Sunk Costs
Requirements (Validated)
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets

11. The purpose is to describe the required qualities of a system - such as its usability and performance characteristics.
Validate Requirements
Delphi Estimation
Non-functional Requirements Analysis
Assess Proposed Solution - Allocate Requirements - Assess Organizational Readiness - Define Transition Requirements - Validate Solution - Evaluate Solution Performance

12. Describes all the possible outcomes of an attempt to accomplish a particular goal that the solution will support.
Scenarios & Use Cases
Reliability - Validity - Timeliness
Responsible - Accountable - Consulted - Informed
Use Case

13. What is the output of the task Confirm Elicitation Results?
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Solution Performance Assessment
Requirements (Stated - Confirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Confirmed)
Enterprise Analysis
Advantages of Document Analysis

14. Techniques used in the task Plan Requirements Management Process.
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Solution Performance Assessment
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements - Requirements Structure
Requirements (Validated)
Decision Analysis - Problem Tacking - Risk Analysis

15. Estimating relies on the expertise of those who have performed the work in the past. These experts can be internal or external to the project team or to the organization.
Advantages of Document Analysis
Determine the Process - Who will Authorize Changes - Impact Analysis - Wording of the Request - Coordinate Prioritization of Change
Cognitive Conflict
Expert Judgment

16. What is the output of the task - Prioritize Requirements?
Problem Solving
Requirements (Prioritized)
Strengths - Weaknesses
Coverage Matrix - Table or spreadsheet used to manage tracing.

17. What are the tasks in Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring?
Prepare Requirements Package
Plan Business Analysis Approach - Conduct Stakeholder Analysis - Plan Business Analysis Activities - Plan Business Analysis Communication - Plan Requirements Management Process - Manage BA Performance
A statement of the needs of a particular stakeholder or class of stakeholders
Requirements Package

18. Two techniques used in Root Cause Analysis?
Creative Thinking - Decision Making - Learning - Problem Solving - Systems Thinking
Structured Walkthrough
Fishbone Diagram - Five Whys
Business Need

19. What techniques are used in the task - Define Solution Scope?
Scenarios & Use Cases
Functional Decomposition - Interface Analysis - Scope Modeling - User Stories - Problem or Vision Statement
Focus Group
Systems Thinking

20. What are the output(s) of the task - Validate Solution?
Identified Defects - Mitigating Actions - Solution Validation Assessment
Transition Requirements
All
Cognitive Conflict

21. What are the inputs for the task - Prepare Requirements Package?
Requirements (Traced)
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements - Requirements Structure
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements

22. Corrective or preventative measures uncovered while performing a Business Analysis Performance Assessment will result in changes to what plan?
Business Principles & Practices
Unique Number - Activity Description - Assumptions - Dependencies - Milestones
Business Analysis Plan
That they understand them and the current state the requirements are in

23. Organizational culture - Stakeholder preference - complexity - organizational maturity and availability of resources are all factors used to do what?
Facilitation
Perform tailoring exercises
Data Dictionary & Glossary - Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshops - Survey/Questionnaire
To record the conflict in the Requirements Issues Log.

24. What are the inputs of the task Plan Business Analysis Communication?
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Horizontal Prototype
Document Analysis
Formal requirements presentation to stakeholders

25. What are the strategies for a negative risk?
Formal requirements presentation to stakeholders
Unique Number - Activity Description - Assumptions - Dependencies - Milestones
Acceptance - Transfer - Avoidance - Mitigation
Emotional and Cognitive

26. 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
Brainstorming
Business Need
Business Requirements - Stakeholder Requirements - Solution Requirements - Transition Requirements
That they understand them and the current state the requirements are in

27. Two types of conflict.
Business Analysis Plan
Business Analysis Communication Plan
Business Need
Emotional and Cognitive

28. What is the output of the task - Prepare Requirements Package?
Requirements Package
Document Analysis
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets
Focus Group

29. What is the output of the task Plan Business Analysis Communication?
Required Capabilities
Business Analysis Communication Plan
Business Case
Repository - Traceability - Requirement Attributes - Prioritization Process - Change Management - Tailoring the Requirements Management Process

30. Two effective trade-off methods.
Stakeholder Matrix - Onion Diagram
Business Need - Expert Judgment - Organizational Process Assets
Elimination of Dominated Alternative - Ranking Objects on a Similar Scale
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Problem Tracking - Root Cause Analysis

31. What techniques are used in the task Prepare for Elicitation?
Cognitive Conflict
Name - Value/Meanings - Description
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Solution Performance Assessment

32. A good indicator has 5 characteristics:
Business Analysis Process Assets
Clear - Relevant - Economical - Adequate - Quantifiable
Leadership
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Business Rules Analysis - Decision Analysis - Functional Decomposition - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases

33. 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.
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Problem Tracking - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Impact Analysis - Requirements Coverage - Requirements Allocation
Solution Scope
Allocate Requirements

34. What are the techniques used in the task Confirm Elicitation Results?
Requirements (Maintained and Reusable)
Share - Enhance - Exploit
Impact Analysis
Interviews - Observation

35. Issues that may influence the replacement or elimination decision of a system include:
The Sponsor
Enterprise Analysis
Ongoing Cost versus Initial Investment - Opportunity Costs - Necessity - Sunk Costs
Customer

36. What is the output of the task Plan Requirements Management Process?
Solution Knowledge
Requirements Management Plan
Validate Requirements
Business Need - Solution Scope & Business Case - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities

37. The decomposition of activities and tasks creates?
Advantages of a Data Dictionary & Glossary
Advantages of Document Analysis
Activity List
Functions - Markets - Matrix

38. Defines the key terms and data relevant to a business domain.
Decision Analysis - Focus Groups - Observation - Survey/Questionnaire
Term and Fact Model
Compliance with regulatory or other standards
Data Dictionary & Glossary

39. What does SMART stand for?
Specific - Measurable - Achievable - Relevant - Time-bound Objectives must be SMART.
Repository - Traceability - Requirement Attributes - Prioritization Process - Change Management - Tailoring the Requirements Management Process
Monitoring
Problem Tracking - Baselining - Signoff

40. List 3 possible forms of a requirements packages.
Formal Documentation - Presentation - Model
Perform tailoring exercises
Trustworthiness
Assumptions & Constraints - Required Capabilities - Solution Approach

41. Used to describe the roles - responsibilities and reporting structures that exist within an organization and to align those structures with the organization's goals.
Define Business Need - Access Capability Gaps - Determine Solution Approach - Define Solution Scope - Define Business Case
The Sponsor
Organization Modeling
Evaluation Criteria

42. 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.
Validate Requirements
Organizational Knowledge
Stakeholder Concerns
Business Need - Expert Judgment - Organizational Process Assets

43. What are the elements of the area - Analytical Thinking and Problem Solving - Successful generation of new ideas - application of new ideas to resolve existing problems - willingness of stakeholders to accept new approaches.
Document Analysis
Creative Thinking - Decision Making - Learning - Problem Solving - Systems Thinking
Validate Requirements
Solution (Constructed) - Requirements (Prioritized and Validated)

44. What is a STAKEHOLDER requirement - according to the BABOK 2.0?
Validate Solution
A statement of the needs of a particular stakeholder or class of stakeholders
Transition Requirements
Requirements Package

45. Elicitation Results are the inputs for the ____________
Evaluation
Cohesive - Complete - Consistent - Correct - Feasible - Modifiable - Unambiguous - Testable
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements Management Plan - Scheduled Resources - Solution Scope & Business Case - Supporting Materials
Document Elicitation Results task

46. Prioritizes requirements based on a allocated fixed amount of money.
Data Flow Diagrams
Budgeting
Creative Thinking - Decision Making - Learning - Problem Solving - Systems Thinking
Manage Solution Scope & Requirements - Manage Requirements Traceability - Maintain Requirements for Re-use - Prepare Requirements Package - Communicate Requirements

47. This knowledge area describes the tasks that are performed in order to ensure that solutions meet the business need and to facilitate successful implementation.
Bottom-up Estimation
Absolute Reference - Author - Complexity - Ownership - Priority - Risks - Source - Stability - Status - Urgency
Solution Assessment & Validation
Requirements Structure

48. A structured examination of the aspects of a situation to establish the root causes and resulting effects of the problem. A critical element is to ensure that the current business thinking and processes are challenged. The purpose is to determine the
Business Need - Solution Scope & Business Case - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Requirements Package
Root Cause Analysis
Elicitation Results

49. What are the inputs to the task - Determine Solution Approach?
Business Rules Analysis
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Required Capabilities
Business Principals
Learning

50. What are the techniques used in the task - Validate Solution?
Decision Making
To record the conflict in the Requirements Issues Log.
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Problem Tracking - Root Cause Analysis
Requirements Workshop - Structured Walkthrough