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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning
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1. Who is the primary stakeholder in the Define Business Case task?
Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution (Designed) - Solution Scope
Business Need - Solution Scope & Business Case - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
The Sponsor
Requirements (Analyzed)
2. What is the output of the task - Assess Capability Gaps?
Business Need - Solution Scope & Business Case - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
This person will be involved in monitoring the performance and effectiveness of a solution or its components.
Required Capabilities
Relationship to Time - Relationship to Task Completion - Relationship to Contracts - Relationships to Formal and Informal Authority
3. Three types of organizational structures
Stakeholder Matrix
Underlying Competencies
Functions - Markets - Matrix
Business Need - Solution Scope & Business Case - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
4. A means to elicit ideas and attitudes about a specific product - service or opportunity in an interactive group environment. The participants share their impressions - preferences and needs - guided by a moderator. - Effective for learning people's a
Acceptance & Evaluation Technique
Focus Group
Requirements (Allocated)
Business Case; Stakeholder - Solution or Transition Requirements (Verified)
5. A specific - actionable - testable directive that is under the control of an organization and supports a business policy.
Business Rule
MoSCoW Analysis
Validate Solution
Monitoring
6. What are the inputs to the task - Communicate Requirements?
Underlying Competencies
User Story
Solution Knowledge
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Requirements - Requirements Package
7. What should be considered when establishing a Change Management process?
Estimation - Functional Decomposition - Risk Analysis
Cultural Assessment - Operational or Technical Assessment - Stakeholder Impact Analysis
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
8. Name some commonly used financial valuation techniques.
Discounted Cash Flow - Net Present Value - Internal Rate of Return - Average Rate of Return - Pay Back Period - Cost-Benefit Analysis
Solution Knowledge
Define Transitional Requirements
Formal requirements presentation to stakeholders
9. What are the techniques used in the task Confirm Elicitation Results?
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
Interviews - Observation
Business Analysis Approach
Business Need
10. What is the output of the task Plan Requirements Management Process?
Requirements Structure
Impact Analysis
Requirements Management Plan
Acceptance Criteria
11. What are the elements of the task - Define Solution Scope?
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Models - Focus Groups - Interviews - Survey/Questionnaire - Organizational Modeling - Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Force Field Analysis
Evolutionary or Functional Prototype
Unique Number - Activity Description - Assumptions - Dependencies - Milestones
Solution Scope Definition - Implementation Approach - Dependencies
12. Business rules require a defined glossary of terms and an understanding of the relationships between them - this is known as:
Sequences - Repetitions - Optional Elements
Decision Analysis - Focus Groups - Observation - Survey/Questionnaire
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving - Behavioral Characteristics - Business Knowledge - Communication Skills - Interaction Skills - Software Application
Term and Fact Model
13. What techniques are used in the task Prepare for Elicitation?
Bottom-up Estimation
Solution Assessment & Validation
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Document Elicitation Results task
14. Elements identified for each activity and task.
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
Unique Number - Activity Description - Assumptions - Dependencies - Milestones
Systems Thinking
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Business Rules Analysis - Focus Groups - Functional Decomposition - Root Cause Analysis
15. 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
Name - Value/Meanings - Description
Systems Thinking
Interviews - Observation
16. 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
Formal Documentation - Presentation - Model
Rolling Wave
Enterprise Analysis - often the starting point for initiating a new project
Prepare Requirements Package
17. What is the output of the task Conduct Elicitation Activity?
Onion Diagram
Evaluation
Elicitation Results
Assess Organization Readiness
18. Revised process and templates for BA deliverables should be analyzed and documented and lessons learned should be recorded.
Business Value - Business or Technical Risk - Implementation Difficulty - Likelihood of Success - Regulatory or Policy Compliance - Relationship to Other Requirements - Stakeholder Agreement - Urgency
Business Analysis Process Assets
Prototyping
Stakeholder Matrix
19. Two techniques used in Root Cause Analysis?
Solution Approach
This person will be involved in monitoring the performance and effectiveness of a solution or its components.
Fishbone Diagram - Five Whys
Elimination
20. 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 -
Advantages of a Data Dictionary & Glossary
Automate or Simplify Work - Improve Access to Information - Reduce Complexity of Interfaces - Increase Consistency of Behavior - Eliminate Redundancy
Strengths - Weaknesses
Decision Analysis - Process Modeling - Structured Walkthrough
21. 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
Business Principles & Practices
Focus Group
Advantages of Document Analysis
Requirements (Allocated)
22. This will impose constraints to the effort to deploy the solution - including relationships that may exist between solution components.
Necessity - Effort - Subset - Cover - Value
Business Need - Expert Judgment - Organizational Process Assets
Dependencies
Evaluation
23. Characteristics that are common to all organizations with a similar purpose and structure - whether or not the are in the same industry.
Relationship to Time - Relationship to Task Completion - Relationship to Contracts - Relationships to Formal and Informal Authority
Decision Analysis
Business Principals
Data Flow Diagrams
24. Involved motivating people to act in ways that enable them to work together to achieve shared goals and objectives.
Interviews - Lessons Learned Process - Metrics and KPIs - Problem Tracking - Process Modeling - Root Cause Analysis - Survey/Questionnaire - Variance Analysis
Leadership
Business Rules Analysis
Vendor Assessment
25. 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.
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Data Modeling - Functional Decomposition - Organizational Modeling - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases - Scope Modeling - User Stories
Solution Scope
Validate Requirements
Share - Enhance - Exploit
26. The purpose is to compile and document successes - opportunities for improvement - failures - and recommendations for improving the performance of future projects or project phases
Document Analysis
Enterprise Analysis - often the starting point for initiating a new project
Leadership
Lessons Learned Process
27. A systematic approach designed to elicit information from a person or group of people in an informal or formal setting by talking to an interviewee - asking relevant questions and documenting the responses.
Requirements Management & Communication
Business Case - Business Need - Requirements - Requirements Management Plan - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Interviews
The Business Analysis Communication Plan
28. Details user interface requirements and integrates them with other requirements such as use cases - scenarios - data and business rules. Stakeholders often find this to be a concrete means of identifying - describing and validating their interface ne
They describe what a solution must be capable of doing to meet the needs of one or more stakeholder groups
Prototyping
Communicated Requirements
Dependencies
29. What is the output of the task Plan Business Analysis Communication?
Requirements (Stated - Confirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Confirmed)
Expert Judgment
Elicitation Results
Business Analysis Communication Plan
30. What techniques are used in the task - Define Solution Scope?
Advantages of Document Analysis
Document Elicitation Results task
Functional Decomposition - Interface Analysis - Scope Modeling - User Stories - Problem or Vision Statement
Business Case - Business Need - Requirements - Requirements Management Plan - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
31. What are the techniques used in the task - Prioritize Requirements?
Opportunity Cost
Decision Analysis - Risk Analysis - MoSCoW Analysis - Timeboxing/Budgeting - Voting
Business Domain - Corporate Culture & Environment - Skills of the Analyst - Requirement Deliverable
Determine the Process - Who will Authorize Changes - Impact Analysis - Wording of the Request - Coordinate Prioritization of Change
32. Models a deep - and usually narrow slice of the entire system's functionality.
Vertical Prototype
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving - Behavioral Characteristics - Business Knowledge - Communication Skills - Interaction Skills - Software Application
Define Business Need - Access Capability Gaps - Determine Solution Approach - Define Solution Scope - Define Business Case
Learning
33. What is the output of the task - Prepare Requirements Package?
Focus Group
Analogous Estimation
Ongoing Cost versus Initial Investment - Opportunity Costs - Necessity - Sunk Costs
Requirements Package
34. What are the techniques used in the task - Define Assumptions & Constraints?
Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis
Business Analysis Communication Plan
SWOT Analysis
Data Dictionary & Glossary - Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshops - Survey/Questionnaire
35. What are the Primitive Data Elements?
Interviews
Business Policy
Plan Business Analysis Approach - Conduct Stakeholder Analysis - Plan Business Analysis Activities - Plan Business Analysis Communication - Plan Requirements Management Process - Manage BA Performance
Name - Aliases - Values/Meanings - Description
36. What are the Cultural diversity issues that should be taken into account when planning communication?
Business Case - Business Need - Requirements - Requirements Management Plan - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Elimination
Organization Modeling
Relationship to Time - Relationship to Task Completion - Relationship to Contracts - Relationships to Formal and Informal Authority
37. Using this technique the business analyst has collected the deliverables - activities - tasks - and estimates from all the involved stakeholders and rolls them up to get a total for all the activities and tasks.
Transition Requirements
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
Impact Analysis
Bottom-up Estimation
38. To define the rules that govern decisions in an organization and that define - constrain or enable organization operations.
Problem Tracking - Baselining - Signoff
Business Rules Analysis
Tracing Requirements
Acceptance - Transfer - Avoidance - Mitigation
39. What are the inputs to the task Plan Requirements Management Process?
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets
Bottom-up Estimation
Document Analysis - SWOT Analysis
Business Domain - Corporate Culture & Environment - Skills of the Analyst - Requirement Deliverable
40. To identify interfaces between solutions and/or solution components and define requirements that describe how they will interact.
Solution Scope Definition - Implementation Approach - Dependencies
Acceptance Criteria
Interface Analysis
Functions - Markets - Matrix
41. What is the output of the Plan Business Analysis Approach?
Requirements Structure
Name - Aliases - Values/Meanings - Description
Coverage Matrix - Table or spreadsheet used to manage tracing.
Business Analysis Approach
42. Knowing the dependencies and relationships between requirements helps when determining the sequence in which requirements are to be addressed. Common relations are:
Horizontal Prototype
Interviews - Observation
Necessity - Effort - Subset - Cover - Value
Decision Analysis - Focus Groups - Observation - Survey/Questionnaire
43. 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.
Historic Analysis
Trustworthiness
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Requirements (Allocated)
44. Communicated Requirements mean what to stakeholders?
Implementation Approach
Creative Thinking - Decision Making - Learning - Problem Solving - Systems Thinking
Elicitation
That they understand them and the current state the requirements are in
45. This knowledge area describes the problem definition and analysis - business case development - feasibility studies and the definition of solution scope.
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Data Modeling - Functional Decomposition - Organizational Modeling - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases - Scope Modeling - User Stories
Business Rules Analysis
Underlying Competencies
Enterprise Analysis
46. A good indicator has 5 characteristics:
Requirements (Prioritized)
Clear - Relevant - Economical - Adequate - Quantifiable
Coverage Matrix - Table or spreadsheet used to manage tracing.
Enterprise Architecture - Solution Scope - Solution (Designed) - Stakeholder Concerns
47. 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
Interviews - Lessons Learned Process - Metrics and KPIs - Problem Tracking - Process Modeling - Root Cause Analysis - Survey/Questionnaire - Variance Analysis
Requirements Management Plan - Solution Scope - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities - Stakeholder/Solution or Transition Requirements (Communicated or Traced)
Root Cause Analysis
Visual Learner - Auditory Learner - Kinesthetic Learner
48. What describes how - when and why the business analyst will work with stakeholders?
Expert Judgment
Discounted Cash Flow - Net Present Value - Internal Rate of Return - Average Rate of Return - Pay Back Period - Cost-Benefit Analysis
Solution (Constructed) - Requirements (Prioritized and Validated)
The Business Analysis Communication Plan
49. Shows how the behavior of a concept - entity or object changes in response to events during its lifetime - and defines which events cause a transition between those states.
Solution Approach
State Diagrams
Business Rules Analysis
Data Modeling
50. What are the output(s) of the task - Validate Solution?
Assess Organization Readiness
Identified Defects - Mitigating Actions - Solution Validation Assessment
Determine the Process - Who will Authorize Changes - Impact Analysis - Wording of the Request - Coordinate Prioritization of Change
Business Principals