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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning
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1. What is the output of the task Manage Solution Scope & Requirements?
General Purpose Applications & Specialized Applications
Requirements (Approved)
Non-functional Requirements Analysis
Expert Judgment
2. The BA is a stakeholder in ______ business analysis activities.
Absolute Reference - Author - Complexity - Ownership - Priority - Risks - Source - Stability - Status - Urgency
All
Requirements (Stated - Confirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Confirmed)
Problem or Vision Statement
3. Divides requirements into 4 categories - Must - Should - Could - Won't
Requirements (Maintained and Reusable)
Prioritize Requirements - Organize Requirements - Specify & Model Requirements - Define Assumptions & Constraints - Verify Requirements - Validate Requirements
MoSCoW Analysis
Scope Modeling
4. What are the 3 elements in the Assess Organizational Readiness?
Goals
Evaluate Solution Performance
Cultural Assessment - Operational or Technical Assessment - Stakeholder Impact Analysis
Emotional and Cognitive
5. This knowledge area describes the behaviors - knowledge and other characteristics that support the effective performance of a BA.
Underlying Competencies
Onion Diagram
Requirements (Allocated)
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
6. What is the output of the task Confirm Elicitation Results?
User Story
Strengths - Weaknesses
Business Requirements - Identified Defects - Solution Performance Metrics - Solution (Deployed)
Requirements (Stated - Confirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Confirmed)
7. What are the inputs to the task - Determine Solution Approach?
Requirements Workshop - Structured Walkthrough
Term and Fact Model
Scope Modeling
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Required Capabilities
8. The decomposition of activities and tasks creates?
Activity List
Dependencies
Term and Fact Model
Document Analysis
9. Knowing the dependencies and relationships between requirements helps when determining the sequence in which requirements are to be addressed. Common relations are:
Necessity - Effort - Subset - Cover - Value
Solution Knowledge
Functional Decomposition - Interface Analysis - Scope Modeling - User Stories - Problem or Vision Statement
Problem Tracking
10. Corrective or preventative measures uncovered while performing a Business Analysis Performance Assessment will result in changes to what plan?
Business Analysis Plan
Reporting
Bottom-up Estimation
Ethics
11. Uses history as a basis for estimating. It is similar to analogous estimation - but is used not only for the top-down estimate - but for the detailed tasks as well.
Elimination
Organization Modeling
Define Transitional Requirements
Historic Analysis
12. What are the factors of influence by stakeholders on a project?
Use Case
Influence on the project - organizational - project health and other stakeholders
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Decision Analysis - Estimation - SWOT Analysis - Feasibility Analysis
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements - Requirements Structure
13. 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.
Ethics
Enterprise Architecture - Solution Scope - Solution (Designed) - Stakeholder Concerns
Business Rules Analysis
That they understand them and the current state the requirements are in
14. Business rules require a defined glossary of terms and an understanding of the relationships between them - this is known as:
Term and Fact Model
Solution Scope Definition - Implementation Approach - Dependencies
To record the conflict in the Requirements Issues Log.
Prioritize Requirements - Organize Requirements - Specify & Model Requirements - Define Assumptions & Constraints - Verify Requirements - Validate Requirements
15. What is the output of the task - Assess Proposed Solution?
State Diagrams
Assessment of Proposed Solution
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Problem Tracking - Structured Walkthrough - Checklists
Stakeholder Matrix
16. Models a deep - and usually narrow slice of the entire system's functionality.
Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis
Vertical Prototype
Communicated Requirements
Prototyping
17. The purpose is to describe the required qualities of a system - such as its usability and performance characteristics.
Requirements (Maintained and Reusable)
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
Non-functional Requirements Analysis
Reliability - Validity - Timeliness
18. What are the strategies for a positive risk?
Define Business Need - Access Capability Gaps - Determine Solution Approach - Define Solution Scope - Define Business Case
Requirements Documentation - Requirements for Vendor Selection
Share - Enhance - Exploit
Evaluation Criteria
19. What is the output of the task Plan Business Analysis Activities?
Business Analysis Plan
Decision Analysis - Risk Analysis - MoSCoW Analysis - Timeboxing/Budgeting - Voting
Goals
Requirements (Analyzed)
20. Communication of requirements does what for stakeholders?
Acceptance - Transfer - Avoidance - Mitigation
Impact Analysis
BABOK
Brings them to a Communication on understanding
21. What are the internal factors in a SWOT Analysis?
Organizational Knowledge
Strengths - Weaknesses
Brainstorming
Acceptance & Evaluation Technique
22. What are the inputs for the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?
Focus Group
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Business Rules Analysis - Decision Analysis - Functional Decomposition - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases
Business Requirements - Identified Defects - Solution Performance Metrics - Solution (Deployed)
Historic Analysis
23. 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
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Business Rules Analysis - Decision Analysis - Functional Decomposition - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases
Prototyping
Requirements (Maintained and Reusable)
MoSCoW Analysis
24. States the business need - identifies key stakeholders and briefly describes the positive impact that meeting the business need will have on those stakeholders.
Problem or Vision Statement
Requirements (Allocated)
Learning
The Business Analysis Communication Plan
25. While eliciting requirements it is important to guard against scope creep - This activity will ensure that the requirements should be included since they meet the business goal/objectives.
Underlying Competencies
Scheduled Resources - Supporting Materials
Tracing Requirements
Structured Walkthrough
26. What are the inputs of the task Plan Business Analysis Communication?
Requirements (Verified)
Vertical Prototype
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Monitoring
27. What are the techniques used in the task Confirm Elicitation Results?
Business Need
Interviews - Observation
Prototyping
Functional Decomposition - Interface Analysis - Scope Modeling - User Stories - Problem or Vision Statement
28. 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.
Problem Tracking - Baselining - Signoff
Expert Judgment
Define Business Case
Structural Rules
29. 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.
Industry Knowledge
BABOK
Organizational Readiness Assessment
Business Value - Business or Technical Risk - Implementation Difficulty - Likelihood of Success - Regulatory or Policy Compliance - Relationship to Other Requirements - Stakeholder Agreement - Urgency
30. When a conflict arises between stakeholders on one or more documented requirements - the first thing that needs to take place is what?
To record the conflict in the Requirements Issues Log.
Scheduled Resources - Supporting Materials
Monitoring
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Solution Performance Assessment
31. 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.
Interviews
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
Business Case - Business Need - Requirements - Requirements Management Plan - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Brainstorming
32. The skill of moderating discussions among a group or enable all participants to effectively articulate their views on a topic under discussion and to further ensure that participants in the discussion are able to recognize and appreciate the differin
Solution Scope
Facilitation
Benefits - Costs - Risk Assessment - Results Measurement
Estimation - Functional Decomposition - Risk Analysis
33. What is the output of the task - Define Assumptions & Constraints?
Assumptions & Constraints
Solution Approach
Requirements - Requirements Management Plan
Evaluation Criteria
34. The people involved - the interactions between them - the external forces affecting their behavior and all other relevant elements and factors.
Acceptance Criteria
A statement of the needs of a particular stakeholder or class of stakeholders
Business Case - Business Need - Requirements - Requirements Management Plan - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
System
35. What are some of the commonly used requirement attributes?
Requirements Management Plan
Document Analysis
Solution Approach
Absolute Reference - Author - Complexity - Ownership - Priority - Risks - Source - Stability - Status - Urgency
36. What is the output of the task Plan Requirements Management Process?
Requirements Management Plan
Advantages of Document Analysis
Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Estimation - Functional Decomposition - Risk Analysis
37. What stakeholder receives noticeable negative impact if information is incorrectly transferred from the old to new solution?
Budgeting
Structural Rules
Observation
Customer
38. What are the techniques used in the task - Validate Solution?
Implementation SME
Ongoing Cost versus Initial Investment - Opportunity Costs - Necessity - Sunk Costs
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Problem Tracking - Root Cause Analysis
Problem Solving
39. A non-actionable directive that supports a business goal.
Data Dictionary
Business Policy
Requirements Structure
Requirements Management Plan - Solution Scope - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities - Stakeholder/Solution or Transition Requirements (Communicated or Traced)
40. What are the different types of learning styles?
Data - Ongoing Work - Organizational Change
Visual Learner - Auditory Learner - Kinesthetic Learner
Organize Requirements
Impact Analysis
41. 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.
The Sponsor
This person will be involved in monitoring the performance and effectiveness of a solution or its components.
Analogous Estimation
Reporting
42. What are the inputs to the task - Define Business Need?
Business Goals & Objectives - Requirements (Stated)
Unique Number - Activity Description - Assumptions - Dependencies - Milestones
Advantages of a Data Dictionary & Glossary
Brainstorming
43. Characteristics that are common to all organizations with a similar purpose and structure - whether or not the are in the same industry.
Business Analysis Process Assets
Business Goals & Objectives - Requirements (Stated)
Business Principals
Functional Decomposition - Interface Analysis - Scope Modeling - User Stories - Problem or Vision Statement
44. 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
Ethics - Trustworthiness - Personal Organization
Organizational Knowledge
Relationships - Impact Analysis - Configuration Management System
Timeboxing
45. What are the techniques used in the task - Organize Requirements?
Transition Requirements
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Data Modeling - Functional Decomposition - Organizational Modeling - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases - Scope Modeling - User Stories
A statement of the needs of a particular stakeholder or class of stakeholders
46. What should be considered when establishing a Change Management process?
Requirements (Stated) - Stakeholder Concerns
Requirements Workshop - Structured Walkthrough
Determine the Process - Who will Authorize Changes - Impact Analysis - Wording of the Request - Coordinate Prioritization of Change
Business Policy
47. What are the techniques used in Plan Business Analysis Approach?
Sequence Diagrams
Decision Analysis - Process Modeling - Structured Walkthrough
Implementation Approach
MoSCoW Analysis
48. Benefits that could have been achieved with an alternative investment rather than this one.
Timeboxing
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Problem Tracking - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Requirements Management Plan - Solution Scope - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities - Stakeholder/Solution or Transition Requirements (Communicated or Traced)
Opportunity Cost
49. Name the 2 types of Software categories that assist in BA productivity.
Requirements (Analyzed)
General Purpose Applications & Specialized Applications
Requirements Workshop - Structured Walkthrough
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving - Behavioral Characteristics - Business Knowledge - Communication Skills - Interaction Skills - Software Application
50. Two effective trade-off methods.
Elimination of Dominated Alternative - Ranking Objects on a Similar Scale
Validate Requirements
Timeboxing
Observation