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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets
Organizational Knowledge
Operative Rules
Lessons Learned Process

2. Name the 2 types of Software categories that assist in BA productivity.
Functions - Markets - Matrix
Automate or Simplify Work - Improve Access to Information - Reduce Complexity of Interfaces - Increase Consistency of Behavior - Eliminate Redundancy
Business Goals & Objectives - Requirements (Stated)
General Purpose Applications & Specialized Applications

3. Decisions are made with the interest of all stakeholders considered - reasons for a decision are cleared articulated - prompt and full disclosure of conflicts of interest - honesty regarding one's abilities and the performance of one's work.
Sequence Diagrams
Ethics
Scheduled Resources - Supporting Materials
Conduct Elicitation Activity

4. What is the output of the task - Assess Proposed Solution?
Dependencies
Assessment of Proposed Solution
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets
Solution Approach

5. What is the output of the task Manage Solution Scope & Requirements?
Interviews - Observation
Requirements (Approved)
Monitoring
Assess Proposed Solution - Allocate Requirements - Assess Organizational Readiness - Define Transition Requirements - Validate Solution - Evaluate Solution Performance

6. The people involved - the interactions between them - the external forces affecting their behavior and all other relevant elements and factors.
Business Need - Solution Scope & Business Case - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
System
Required Capabilities
Elicitation

7. This knowledge area describes the behaviors - knowledge and other characteristics that support the effective performance of a BA.
Requirements Analysis
Underlying Competencies
Business Need - Expert Judgment - Organizational Process Assets
Root Cause Analysis

8. 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
Identified Defects - Mitigating Actions - Solution Validation Assessment
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Problem Tracking - Structured Walkthrough - Checklists
Enterprise Analysis - often the starting point for initiating a new project

9. Techniques used in the task Plan Requirements Management Process.
Customer
Term and Fact Model
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving - Behavioral Characteristics - Business Knowledge - Communication Skills - Interaction Skills - Software Application
Decision Analysis - Problem Tacking - Risk Analysis

10. What are the techniques used in the task - Assess Organizational Readiness?
Impact Analysis
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Models - Focus Groups - Interviews - Survey/Questionnaire - Organizational Modeling - Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Force Field Analysis
Coverage Matrix - Table or spreadsheet used to manage tracing.

11. Use of parameters - multiplied by the number of hours. (COCOMO II - Function Point Counting - Use Case Points - and Story Points)
Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis
Parametric Estimation
Strengths - Weaknesses
Requirements Structure

12. The goal of this task is to ensure that all requirements support the delivery of value to the business - fulfill its goal and objectives and meet a stakeholder need.
Sequences - Repetitions - Optional Elements
Data Flow Diagrams
Horizontal Prototype
Validate Requirements

13. What are the techniques used in the task - Define Transition Requirements?
Lessons Learned Process
State Diagrams
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Modeling - Organization Modeling - Data Modeling
Acceptance Criteria

14. What are the Composite Data Elements?
Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution (Designed) - Solution Scope
Implementation SME
Requirements Package
Sequences - Repetitions - Optional Elements

15. What are the techniques used in the task - Assess Capability Gaps?
Prototyping
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements - Requirements Structure
Requirements (Approved)
Document Analysis - SWOT Analysis

16. Knowing the dependencies and relationships between requirements helps when determining the sequence in which requirements are to be addressed. Common relations are:
System
Name - Value/Meanings - Description
State Diagrams
Necessity - Effort - Subset - Cover - Value

17. What are the inputs to the task - Specify & Model Requirements?
User Story
Assumptions & Constraints - Required Capabilities - Solution Approach
SWOT Analysis
Requirements (Stated) - Requirements Structure

18. When a conflict arises between stakeholders on one or more documented requirements - the first thing that needs to take place is what?
Decision Analysis - Process Modeling - Structured Walkthrough
Automate or Simplify Work - Improve Access to Information - Reduce Complexity of Interfaces - Increase Consistency of Behavior - Eliminate Redundancy
Benchmarking
To record the conflict in the Requirements Issues Log.

19. What are some of the key variables used in determining the priority of a requirement?
Transition Requirements
Business Value - Business or Technical Risk - Implementation Difficulty - Likelihood of Success - Regulatory or Policy Compliance - Relationship to Other Requirements - Stakeholder Agreement - Urgency
Specific - Measurable - Achievable - Relevant - Time-bound Objectives must be SMART.
Data Modeling

20. What are the Behavioral Characteristics a BA should exhibit?
Industry Knowledge
Ethics - Trustworthiness - Personal Organization
Solution Performance Assessment
Business Analysis Plan

21. What are the techniques used in the task - Allocate Resources?
Opportunity Cost
Business Goals & Objectives - Requirements (Stated)
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Business Rules Analysis - Decision Analysis - Functional Decomposition - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases
Visual Learner - Auditory Learner - Kinesthetic Learner

22. Stakeholders involved the BA in decision making - acceptance of the BA's recommendations - willingness to discuss difficult or controversial topics with the BA - stakeholders willing to support or defend the BA when problems occur.
Risk - assumptions - constraints - etc.
Requirements (Allocated)
Trustworthiness
Requirements (Analyzed)

23. 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.
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements - Requirements Structure
Impact Analysis
Define Business Case
Acceptance Criteria

24. What is the output of the task - Assess Organizational Readiness?
Organizational Readiness Assessment
Horizontal Prototype
Assessment of Proposed Solution
Interface Analysis

25. What are the output(s) of the task - Validate Solution?
Problem or Vision Statement
Operative Rules
Identified Defects - Mitigating Actions - Solution Validation Assessment
Facilitation

26. Two effective trade-off methods.
Decision Analysis
Elimination of Dominated Alternative - Ranking Objects on a Similar Scale
Benchmarking
Advantages of Document Analysis

27. Confidence in the decision analysis process that a decision is correct - new information or alternative that cause a decision to be revisited are new and not simply overlooked - decisions are effective in addressing underlying problem - impact of unc
Confirm Elicitation Results
Scenario
Decision Making
Root Cause Analysis

28. What are the inputs to the task - Determine Solution Approach?
Stakeholder Concerns
Activity List
Goals
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Required Capabilities

29. What techniques are used in the task - Define Solution Scope?
Functional Decomposition - Interface Analysis - Scope Modeling - User Stories - Problem or Vision Statement
Estimation - Functional Decomposition - Risk Analysis
Define Business Case
Business Analysis Communication Plan

30. What is the output of the task - Specify & Model Requirements?
Requirements (Analyzed)
Underlying Competencies
Interviews - Lessons Learned Process - Metrics and KPIs - Problem Tracking - Process Modeling - Root Cause Analysis - Survey/Questionnaire - Variance Analysis
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Decision Analysis - Vendor Assessment

31. A specific - actionable - testable directive that is under the control of an organization and supports a business policy.
Organization Modeling
Conduct Elicitation Activity
Relationships - Impact Analysis - Configuration Management System
Business Rule

32. 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.
Creative Thinking - Decision Making - Learning - Problem Solving - Systems Thinking
Assess Organization Readiness
Impact Analysis - Requirements Coverage - Requirements Allocation
That they understand them and the current state the requirements are in

33. What are the elements of the task Plan Requirements Management Process?
This person will be involved in monitoring the performance and effectiveness of a solution or its components.
Business Value - Business or Technical Risk - Implementation Difficulty - Likelihood of Success - Regulatory or Policy Compliance - Relationship to Other Requirements - Stakeholder Agreement - Urgency
Repository - Traceability - Requirement Attributes - Prioritization Process - Change Management - Tailoring the Requirements Management Process
Advantages of a Data Dictionary & Glossary

34. What are the techniques used in the task - Communicate Requirements?
Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis
Requirements Workshop - Structured Walkthrough
Impact Analysis - Requirements Coverage - Requirements Allocation
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Models - Focus Groups - Interviews - Survey/Questionnaire - Organizational Modeling - Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Force Field Analysis

35. What is the output of the task Plan Business Analysis Activities?
Vertical Prototype
Benefits - Costs - Risk Assessment - Results Measurement
Business Analysis Plan
Relationship to Time - Relationship to Task Completion - Relationship to Contracts - Relationships to Formal and Informal Authority

36. To assess the ability of a potential vendor to meet commitments regarding a product or service
Vendor Assessment
Decision Analysis - Focus Groups - Observation - Survey/Questionnaire
Enterprise Architecture - Solution Scope - Solution (Designed) - Stakeholder Concerns
Requirements (Stated - Unconfirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Unconfirmed)

37. 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.
Business Analysis Plan
Interviews - Observation
Learning
Expert Judgment

38. Approach to decision making that examines and models the possible consequences of different decisions. Make an optimal decision under conditions of uncertainty.
Stakeholder Concerns
Decision Analysis
A statement of the needs of a particular stakeholder or class of stakeholders
Risk - assumptions - constraints - etc.

39. What are the inputs to the task - Define Business Need?
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Learning
Data - Ongoing Work - Organizational Change
Business Goals & Objectives - Requirements (Stated)

40. 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.
Assess Proposed Solution - Allocate Requirements - Assess Organizational Readiness - Define Transition Requirements - Validate Solution - Evaluate Solution Performance
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
Requirements Workshop
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving

41. Most optimistic estimate; most pessimistic estimate; most likely estimate
Solution Performance Assessment
Communicated Requirements
Three-point Estimation
Automate or Simplify Work - Improve Access to Information - Reduce Complexity of Interfaces - Increase Consistency of Behavior - Eliminate Redundancy

42. 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
State Diagrams
Business Rule
Requirements (Stated) - Stakeholder Concerns
Prepare Requirements Package

43. Elements identified for each activity and task.
Expert Judgment
Unique Number - Activity Description - Assumptions - Dependencies - Milestones
Learning
Risk - assumptions - constraints - etc.

44. 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.
Solution Scope
Interviews - Lessons Learned Process - Metrics and KPIs - Problem Tracking - Process Modeling - Root Cause Analysis - Survey/Questionnaire - Variance Analysis
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Modeling - Organization Modeling - Data Modeling
Industry Knowledge

45. 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.
General Purpose Applications & Specialized Applications
Organizational Knowledge
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Data Modeling - Functional Decomposition - Organizational Modeling - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases - Scope Modeling - User Stories
Requirements (Verified)

46. What are the inputs to the task - Assess Capability Gaps?
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Solution Performance Assessment
Tracing Requirements
Scenario
Decision Analysis - Risk Analysis - MoSCoW Analysis - Timeboxing/Budgeting - Voting

47. What is a STAKEHOLDER requirement - according to the BABOK 2.0?
A statement of the needs of a particular stakeholder or class of stakeholders
Interviews - Lessons Learned Process - Metrics and KPIs - Problem Tracking - Process Modeling - Root Cause Analysis - Survey/Questionnaire - Variance Analysis
Budgeting
BABOK

48. 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.
Advantages of a Data Dictionary & Glossary
Fishbone Diagram - Five Whys
Plan Business Analysis Approach - Conduct Stakeholder Analysis - Plan Business Analysis Activities - Plan Business Analysis Communication - Plan Requirements Management Process - Manage BA Performance
Evolutionary or Functional Prototype

49. This knowledge area describes the problem definition and analysis - business case development - feasibility studies and the definition of solution scope.
Solution Assessment & Validation
Enterprise Analysis
Manage Solution Scope & Requirements - Manage Requirements Traceability - Maintain Requirements for Re-use - Prepare Requirements Package - Communicate Requirements
Requirements (Verified)

50. The process of informing stakeholders of metrics of indicators in specified formats at specified intervals.
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Solution Performance Assessment
Enterprise Analysis - often the starting point for initiating a new project
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
Reporting