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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning
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1. 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
Focus Group
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving
Facilitation & Negotiation - Leadership & Influencing - Teamwork
Reliability - Performance Efficiency - Operability - Security - Compatibility - Maintainability - Transferability
2. Techniques used in the task Plan Requirements Management Process.
Decision Analysis - Problem Tacking - Risk Analysis
Requirements (Any Except Stated)
Opportunity Cost
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Business Rules Analysis - Decision Analysis - Functional Decomposition - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases
3. This task determines if an organization can justify the investment required to deliver a proposed solution.
Structured Walkthrough
Document Analysis - SWOT Analysis
Define Business Case
Functions - Markets - Matrix
4. A brief description of functionality that users need from a solution to meet a business objective. The goal they are trying to accomplish - and any additional information that may be critical to understanding the scope of the story.
Decision Analysis - Process Modeling - Structured Walkthrough
Discounted Cash Flow - Net Present Value - Internal Rate of Return - Average Rate of Return - Pay Back Period - Cost-Benefit Analysis
User Story
Decision Analysis
5. What are the strategies for a positive risk?
Allocate Requirements
User Classes - Profiles or Roles; Concepts & Relationships - Events - Processes - Rules
Share - Enhance - Exploit
Functional Decomposition
6. The minimum set of requirements that must be met in order for a particular solution to be worth implementing.
Acceptance Criteria
Requirements Workshop
Primary stakeholders in the Organize Requirements task
This person will be involved in monitoring the performance and effectiveness of a solution or its components.
7. Involved motivating people to act in ways that enable them to work together to achieve shared goals and objectives.
Leadership
User Classes - Profiles or Roles; Concepts & Relationships - Events - Processes - Rules
Business Analysis Approach - BA Performance Assessment - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Modeling - Organization Modeling - Data Modeling
8. Strengths - Weaknesses - Opportunities - Threats - A valuable tool to quickly analyze various aspects of the current state of the business process undergoing change.
Structural Rules
Name - Value/Meanings - Description
Underlying Competencies
SWOT Analysis
9. An important tool in defining the scope of work and developing estimates. Decomposes the project scope into smaller and smaller pieces - creating a hierarchy of work.
Organizational Readiness Assessment
Stakeholder Matrix
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
Use Case
10. Two techniques used in Root Cause Analysis?
Facilitation
Fishbone Diagram - Five Whys
Influence on the project - organizational - project health and other stakeholders
Conduct Elicitation Activity
11. What are the inputs for the task Prepare for Elicitation?
Data Dictionary
User Classes - Profiles or Roles; Concepts & Relationships - Events - Processes - Rules
Decision Analysis - Risk Analysis - MoSCoW Analysis - Timeboxing/Budgeting - Voting
Business Need - Solution Scope & Business Case - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
12. What is the output of the task Manage Solution Scope & Requirements?
Business Analysis Performance Metrics - Business Analysis Plan - Organization Performance Standards - Requirements Management Plan
Requirements (Approved)
Formal requirements presentation to stakeholders
Prepare for Elicitation - Conduct Elicitation Activity - Document Elicitation Results - Confirm Elicitation Results
13. What are the inputs to the task - Validate Solution?
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements - Requirements Structure
Solution (Constructed) - Requirements (Prioritized and Validated)
Formal Documentation - Presentation - Model
Repository - Traceability - Requirement Attributes - Prioritization Process - Change Management - Tailoring the Requirements Management Process
14. What are the techniques used in the task - Assess Proposed Solution?
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Decision Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Risk Analysis
Automate or Simplify Work - Improve Access to Information - Reduce Complexity of Interfaces - Increase Consistency of Behavior - Eliminate Redundancy
Organize Requirements
15. What is a STAKEHOLDER requirement - according to the BABOK 2.0?
Decision Analysis - Risk Analysis - MoSCoW Analysis - Timeboxing/Budgeting - Voting
Automate or Simplify Work - Improve Access to Information - Reduce Complexity of Interfaces - Increase Consistency of Behavior - Eliminate Redundancy
Risk Analysis
A statement of the needs of a particular stakeholder or class of stakeholders
16. A good indicator has 5 characteristics:
Problem or Vision Statement
Clear - Relevant - Economical - Adequate - Quantifiable
Cognitive Conflict
Business Analysis Process Assets
17. What are the elements to the task - Define Business Case?
Requirements (Stated) - Stakeholder Concerns
Benefits - Costs - Risk Assessment - Results Measurement
Requirements (Maintained and Reusable)
Requirements Workshop
18. What are the techniques used in the task Document Elicitation Results?
Organize Requirements
Observation
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Problem Tracking - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Compliance with regulatory or other standards
19. Creates a conceptual model of the work that needs to be completed to deliver the new business solution.
Requirements Structure
Functional Decomposition
Creative Thinking - Decision Making - Learning - Problem Solving - Systems Thinking
Enterprise Architecture - Solution Scope - Solution (Designed) - Stakeholder Concerns
20. What are the inputs for the task - Maintain Requirements for Re-use?
Advantages of a Data Dictionary & Glossary
Requirements (Maintained and Reusable)
Business Need - Solution Scope & Business Case - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements
21. What are the techniques used in the task - Validate Solution?
Communicated Requirements
Decision Analysis - Problem Tacking - Risk Analysis
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Problem Tracking - Root Cause Analysis
Customer
22. A continuous process of collecting data to determine how well a solution has been implemented compared to expected results.
Delphi Estimation
Business Analysis Approach
Data Dictionary
Monitoring
23. What are the inputs to the task Plan Requirements Management Process?
Conduct Elicitation Activity
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets
Timeboxing
Requirements (Stated) - Stakeholder Concerns
24. What are the techniques used in the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?
Decision Analysis - Focus Groups - Observation - Survey/Questionnaire
Requirements (Any Except Stated)
Requirements (Stated - Confirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Confirmed)
Requirements (Validated)
25. 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.
All
Risk - assumptions - constraints - etc.
State Diagrams
Functional Decomposition
26. 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
Solution Approach
Scenarios & Use Cases
Trustworthiness
27. What are the techniques used in the task - Determine Solution Approach?
Data Dictionary
Organize Requirements
Requirements (Stated - Unconfirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Unconfirmed)
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Decision Analysis - Estimation - SWOT Analysis - Feasibility Analysis
28. This knowledge area describes how the BA assesses proposed solutions and determines which solution best fits the business need - identifies gaps and shortcomings to solutions and determines necessary workarounds or changes to the solution.
Parametric Estimation
Scenarios & Use Cases
Solution Assessment & Validation
Required Capabilities
29. What are the inputs to the task Conduct Stakeholder Analysis?
Visual Learner - Auditory Learner - Kinesthetic Learner
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Organizational Process Assets
Onion Diagram
Business Requirements - Identified Defects - Solution Performance Metrics - Solution (Deployed)
30. What are the techniques used in the task Manage Solution Scope & Requirements?
Estimation
Problem Tracking - Baselining - Signoff
Acceptance & Evaluation Technique
Structural Rules
31. What are the general modeling concepts that are relevant to business analysis?
Interviews - Observation
Organizational Readiness Assessment - Requirements (Stated) - Solution (Deployed) - Solution (Designed)
Functional Decomposition - Interface Analysis - Scope Modeling - User Stories - Problem or Vision Statement
User Classes - Profiles or Roles; Concepts & Relationships - Events - Processes - Rules
32. 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
Acceptance - Transfer - Avoidance - Mitigation
Assumptions & Constraints
Brainstorming
Ethics
33. What is the output of the task - Communicate Requirements?
Communicated Requirements
Facilitation & Negotiation - Leadership & Influencing - Teamwork
Requirements (Allocated)
Systems Thinking
34. 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
Structural Rules
Requirements (Any Except Stated)
Cultural Assessment - Operational or Technical Assessment - Stakeholder Impact Analysis
Decision Making
35. What are the inputs to the task Manage Business Analysis Performance?
Business Analysis Performance Metrics - Business Analysis Plan - Organization Performance Standards - Requirements Management Plan
Requirements Structure
Ethics
Relationship to Time - Relationship to Task Completion - Relationship to Contracts - Relationships to Formal and Informal Authority
36. What are some examples of stakeholder concerns?
Specific - Measurable - Achievable - Relevant - Time-bound Objectives must be SMART.
Risk - assumptions - constraints - etc.
State Diagrams
Absolute Reference - Author - Complexity - Ownership - Priority - Risks - Source - Stability - Status - Urgency
37. Name the 2 types of Software categories that assist in BA productivity.
Underlying Competencies
Repository - Traceability - Requirement Attributes - Prioritization Process - Change Management - Tailoring the Requirements Management Process
Necessity - Effort - Subset - Cover - Value
General Purpose Applications & Specialized Applications
38. What is the output of the Plan Business Analysis Approach?
Plan Business Analysis Approach - Conduct Stakeholder Analysis - Plan Business Analysis Activities - Plan Business Analysis Communication - Plan Requirements Management Process - Manage BA Performance
Requirements Management Plan
Assumptions & Constraints
Business Analysis Approach
39. What are the techniques used in the task - Define Assumptions & Constraints?
Define Business Need - Access Capability Gaps - Determine Solution Approach - Define Solution Scope - Define Business Case
Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis
Implementation Approach
Cognitive Conflict
40. Investigating how a solution is actually used after it is deployed and assessing the effect it has had - both positive and negative.
Evaluate Solution Performance
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Metrics & KPIs - Prototyping - Risk Analysis - Structured Walkthrough
Business Case; Stakeholder - Solution or Transition Requirements (Verified)
Focus Group
41. What is the output of the task Conduct Stakeholder Analysis?
Organizational Knowledge
MoSCoW Analysis
Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Term and Fact Model
42. Models a deep - and usually narrow slice of the entire system's functionality.
Name - Aliases - Values/Meanings - Description
Vertical Prototype
Bottom-up Estimation
Clear - Relevant - Economical - Adequate - Quantifiable
43. When performing root cause analysis as part of the Validate Solution task - what stakeholder may be involved?
Requirements (Analyzed)
Implementation SME
Confirm Elicitation Results
Term and Fact Model
44. What are the techniques used in the task - Define Transition Requirements?
Brings them to a Communication on understanding
Solution Knowledge
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Modeling - Organization Modeling - Data Modeling
Repository - Traceability - Requirement Attributes - Prioritization Process - Change Management - Tailoring the Requirements Management Process
45. What are the inputs for the task Confirm Elicitation Results?
Key Performance Indicator (KPI )
Impact Analysis - Requirements Coverage - Requirements Allocation
Decision Analysis - Process Modeling - Structured Walkthrough
Requirements (Stated - Unconfirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Unconfirmed)
46. What are the inputs to the task - Validate Requirements?
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Business Case; Stakeholder - Solution or Transition Requirements (Verified)
Impact Analysis
Share - Enhance - Exploit
47. What is the output of the task Plan Business Analysis Communication?
Business Analysis Communication Plan
User Story
All
Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring
48. What are the inputs to the task Manage Solution Scope & Requirements?
Requirements Management Plan - Solution Scope - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities - Stakeholder/Solution or Transition Requirements (Communicated or Traced)
Interface Analysis
Interviews
Requirements (Validated)
49. What are the strategies for a negative risk?
Evaluate Solution Performance
Acceptance - Transfer - Avoidance - Mitigation
Requirements Management Plan - Solution Scope - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities - Stakeholder/Solution or Transition Requirements (Communicated or Traced)
Cognitive Conflict
50. What are the inputs to the task - Define Assumption & Constraints?
Stakeholder Concerns
Prepare Requirements Package
Absolute Reference - Author - Complexity - Ownership - Priority - Risks - Source - Stability - Status - Urgency
Confirm Elicitation Results