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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning
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1. 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.
Manage Solution Scope & Requirements - Manage Requirements Traceability - Maintain Requirements for Re-use - Prepare Requirements Package - Communicate Requirements
Requirements (Maintained and Reusable)
Requirements Workshop
Use Case
2. Describes all the possible outcomes of an attempt to accomplish a particular goal that the solution will support.
Use Case
Identified Defects - Mitigating Actions - Solution Validation Assessment
Ethics
Evolutionary or Functional Prototype
3. What is the output of the task - Validate Requirements?
Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring
Requirements (Validated)
Rolling Wave
Document Elicitation Results task
4. What are the tasks of the Elicitation Knowledge Area?
That they understand them and the current state the requirements are in
Prepare for Elicitation - Conduct Elicitation Activity - Document Elicitation Results - Confirm Elicitation Results
Requirements (Verified)
Requirements (Approved)
5. Defines the key terms and data relevant to a business domain.
Requirements (Stated) - Requirements Structure
Requirements Management & Communication
Data Dictionary & Glossary
Prioritize Requirements - Organize Requirements - Specify & Model Requirements - Define Assumptions & Constraints - Verify Requirements - Validate Requirements
6. Industry Knowledge - Organization Knowledge - Solution Knowledge What are the elements of Business Knowledge?
Business Principles & Practices
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Data Modeling - Functional Decomposition - Organizational Modeling - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases - Scope Modeling - User Stories
Business Value - Business or Technical Risk - Implementation Difficulty - Likelihood of Success - Regulatory or Policy Compliance - Relationship to Other Requirements - Stakeholder Agreement - Urgency
Requirements (Validated)
7. A package should contain a consistent - cohesive and coherent set of requirements. This describes the ____________.
Requirements (Any Except Stated)
Requirements Structure
Compliance with regulatory or other standards
Conduct Elicitation Activity
8. What are the techniques used in the task Define Business Need?
Emotional and Cognitive
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Problem Tracking - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Business Rules Analysis - Focus Groups - Functional Decomposition - Root Cause Analysis
Industry Knowledge
9. What describes how - when and why the business analyst will work with stakeholders?
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements (Stated) - Solution Scope
The Business Analysis Communication Plan
Organize Requirements
Scope Modeling
10. The purpose is to compile and document successes - opportunities for improvement - failures - and recommendations for improving the performance of future projects or project phases
This person will be involved in monitoring the performance and effectiveness of a solution or its components.
Vendor Assessment
Lessons Learned Process
Risk Analysis
11. What are the techniques used in the task Manage Solution Scope & Requirements?
Emotional and Cognitive
Implementation Approach
All
Problem Tracking - Baselining - Signoff
12. A good indicator has 5 characteristics:
Delphi Estimation
Rolling Wave
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements
Clear - Relevant - Economical - Adequate - Quantifiable
13. 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 -
Plan Business Analysis Approach - Conduct Stakeholder Analysis - Plan Business Analysis Activities - Plan Business Analysis Communication - Plan Requirements Management Process - Manage BA Performance
Decision Analysis - Estimation - Metrics & KPIs - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Automate or Simplify Work - Improve Access to Information - Reduce Complexity of Interfaces - Increase Consistency of Behavior - Eliminate Redundancy
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Decision Analysis - Vendor Assessment
14. What are the elements of the task Plan Requirements Management Process?
Acceptance - Transfer - Avoidance - Mitigation
Coverage Matrix - Table or spreadsheet used to manage tracing.
Requirements (Stated) - Stakeholder Concerns
Repository - Traceability - Requirement Attributes - Prioritization Process - Change Management - Tailoring the Requirements Management Process
15. Organizational culture - Stakeholder preference - complexity - organizational maturity and availability of resources are all factors used to do what?
Data Dictionary & Glossary - Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshops - Survey/Questionnaire
Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution (Designed) - Solution Scope
That they understand them and the current state the requirements are in
Perform tailoring exercises
16. 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.
Expert Judgment
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements - Requirements Structure
Brings them to a Communication on understanding
Solution Knowledge
17. What are the techniques used in the task Conduct Stakeholder Analysis?
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
Risk Analysis
System
Use Case
18. To define the rules that govern decisions in an organization and that define - constrain or enable organization operations.
Requirements (Stated) - Stakeholder Concerns
The Sponsor
Business Rules Analysis
Requirements Analysis
19. What stakeholder receives noticeable negative impact if information is incorrectly transferred from the old to new solution?
General Purpose Applications & Specialized Applications
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements
Three-point Estimation
Customer
20. What techniques are used in the task Prepare for Elicitation?
Metrics & KPIs
Requirements Structure
Requirements (Stated) - Requirements Structure
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
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
Problem Tracking
Brainstorming
Allocate Requirements
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Problem Tracking - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
22. 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.
Decision Analysis - Risk Analysis - MoSCoW Analysis - Timeboxing/Budgeting - Voting
Organize Requirements
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
Benefits - Costs - Risk Assessment - Results Measurement
23. What are the techniques used in the task Document Elicitation Results?
Facilitation & Negotiation - Leadership & Influencing - Teamwork
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Problem Tracking - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Cognitive Conflict
Estimation
24. What techniques are used in the task Manage Requirements Traceability?
Coverage Matrix - Table or spreadsheet used to manage tracing.
Interviews - Lessons Learned Process - Metrics and KPIs - Problem Tracking - Process Modeling - Root Cause Analysis - Survey/Questionnaire - Variance Analysis
Business Analysis Communication Plan
Opportunity Cost
25. What are the general modeling concepts that are relevant to business analysis?
Responsible - Accountable - Consulted - Informed
Expert Judgment
User Classes - Profiles or Roles; Concepts & Relationships - Events - Processes - Rules
Dependencies
26. What are the techniques used in the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?
Decision Analysis - Focus Groups - Observation - Survey/Questionnaire
Organization Modeling
Stakeholder Matrix
Business Need
27. What are the inputs to the task - Allocate Resources?
Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution (Designed) - Solution Scope
Customer
Enterprise Architecture - Solution Scope - Solution (Designed) - Stakeholder Concerns
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
28. Requires the team to focus on examining the premises - assumptions - observations and expectations of the team members. This type of conflict can have a beneficial effect of strengthening the foundations of the analysis and the solution.
Cognitive Conflict
Business Case - Business Need - Requirements - Requirements Management Plan - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Business Need
Requirements (Stated) - Requirements Structure
29. The people involved - the interactions between them - the external forces affecting their behavior and all other relevant elements and factors.
Requirements (Traced)
Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
System
Elicitation Results
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.
Requirements Documentation - Requirements for Vendor Selection
Creative Thinking - Decision Making - Learning - Problem Solving - Systems Thinking
Verify Requirements
Acceptance - Transfer - Avoidance - Mitigation
31. What are some of the key variables used in determining the priority of a requirement?
Solution (Constructed) - Requirements (Prioritized and Validated)
Monitoring
Elicitation Results
Business Value - Business or Technical Risk - Implementation Difficulty - Likelihood of Success - Regulatory or Policy Compliance - Relationship to Other Requirements - Stakeholder Agreement - Urgency
32. Documents terms unique to a domain.
Structured Walkthrough
Glossary
Requirements (Allocated)
Perform tailoring exercises
33. A means of eliciting requirements by conducting an assessment of the stakeholder's work environment. This technique is appropriate when documenting details about current processes or if the project is intended to enhance or change a current process.
Observation
Prioritize Requirements - Organize Requirements - Specify & Model Requirements - Define Assumptions & Constraints - Verify Requirements - Validate Requirements
Requirements Structure
Stakeholder Concerns
34. To identify and manage areas of uncertainty that can impact an initiative - solution - or organization.
User Story
Requirements (Any Except Stated)
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements
Risk Analysis
35. Prioritizes requirements based on the amount of work that the project team is capable of delivering in a set period of time. Approaches include: All-in - All Out - Selective
Business Case - Business Need - Requirements - Requirements Management Plan - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Historic Analysis
Requirements Analysis
Timeboxing
36. 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
Conduct Elicitation Activity
Prepare Requirements Package
Problem Solving
Throw-away Prototype
37. What is the output of the task - Assess Organizational Readiness?
Key Performance Indicator (KPI )
Non-functional Requirements Analysis
Organizational Readiness Assessment
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Organizational Process Assets
38. Involved motivating people to act in ways that enable them to work together to achieve shared goals and objectives.
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving
Leadership
Term and Fact Model
Assess Proposed Solution - Allocate Requirements - Assess Organizational Readiness - Define Transition Requirements - Validate Solution - Evaluate Solution Performance
39. Two types of conflict.
Perform tailoring exercises
Problem or Vision Statement
Problem Solving
Emotional and Cognitive
40. What is the output of the task Conduct Stakeholder Analysis?
Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Business Analysis Approach
Data Dictionary
Assessment of Proposed Solution
41. Elicitation Results are the inputs for the ____________
Historic Analysis
Onion Diagram
Document Elicitation Results task
SWOT Analysis
42. Elements of a Requirements Management Plan include?
Relationships - Impact Analysis - Configuration Management System
Functional Decomposition - Interface Analysis - Scope Modeling - User Stories - Problem or Vision Statement
Evolutionary or Functional Prototype
Solution Knowledge
43. This technique represents the types of peoples - places - things and concepts that are important to the business - attributes associated with them and the significant business relationships among them.
Required Capabilities
Advantages of a Data Dictionary & Glossary
Solution Assessment & Validation
Data Modeling
44. What are the inputs to the task - Define Assumption & Constraints?
Unique Number - Activity Description - Assumptions - Dependencies - Milestones
Stakeholder Concerns
Evaluation Criteria
Primary stakeholders in the Organize Requirements task
45. Strengths - Weaknesses - Opportunities - Threats - A valuable tool to quickly analyze various aspects of the current state of the business process undergoing change.
Problem Tracking
Trustworthiness
SWOT Analysis
Elicitation
46. Use of a similar project as the basis for developing estimates for the current project. Also known as "top-down" estimating. This is usually done at the beginning of the project or project phase and more detailed estimates follow as more is known.
Business Policy
Analogous Estimation
Non-functional Requirements Analysis
Ethics - Trustworthiness - Personal Organization
47. 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 -
Problem Solving
Scheduled Resources - Supporting Materials
Prototyping
Requirements Structure
48. What is the output of the task - Assess Proposed Solution?
Assessment of Proposed Solution
Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis
Facilitation
Stakeholder Matrix
49. What are the techniques used in the task - Assess Capability Gaps?
Conduct Elicitation Activity
Document Analysis - SWOT Analysis
Facilitation & Negotiation - Leadership & Influencing - Teamwork
Reporting
50. 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.
Trustworthiness
Enterprise Analysis - often the starting point for initiating a new project
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Solution Performance Assessment
Creative Thinking - Decision Making - Learning - Problem Solving - Systems Thinking