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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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1. What is the output of the task - Define Transition Requirements?






2. What is the output to the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?






3. Combination of expert judgment and history. Individual estimates - sharing the estimates with experts - and having several rounds until consensus is reached. An average of the three estimates is used






4. Define the requirements that must be met in order for a solution to be considered acceptable to key stakeholders.






5. Forecast the cost and effort involved in pursuing a course of action. Used to develop a better understanding of the possible range of costs and effort associated with any initiative






6. This technique shows how information is input - processed - stored and output from a system in a visual representation.






7. The BA is a stakeholder in ______ business analysis activities.






8. What is the output of the task - Validate Requirements?






9. What are the techniques used in the task - Prioritize Requirements?






10. The knowledge area that describes how a BA manages conflicts - issues and changes in order to ensure that stakeholders and the project team remain in agreement on the solution scope - how requirements are communicated to stakeholders and how knowledg






11. The goal of tracing is to ensure that requirements are linked back to a business objective. Creation of this relationship helps in what other traceability activities?






12. Defines what must be delivered in order to meet the business need - and the effect of the proposed change initiation on the business and technology operations and infrastructure.






13. 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.






14. What are the inputs to the task Manage Solution Scope & Requirements?






15. 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.






16. Two techniques used in Root Cause Analysis?






17. What are the inputs to the task Plan Requirements Management Process?






18. What are the techniques used in the task Manage Solution Scope & Requirements?






19. What is the output of the task Plan Business Analysis Activities?






20. What are the techniques used in the task - Determine Solution Approach?






21. A requirement that does not deliver direct or indirect value to a stakeholder is a strong candidate for what?






22. Prioritizes requirements based on a allocated fixed amount of money.






23. The goal of this task is to meet with stakeholder(s) to gather information regarding their needs.






24. 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.






25. What are the tasks in the knowledge area - Enterprise Analysis?






26. What are the tasks of the Elicitation Knowledge Area?






27. What are the inputs for the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?






28. 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






29. 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.






30. States the business need - identifies key stakeholders and briefly describes the positive impact that meeting the business need will have on those stakeholders.






31. What are some of the commonly used requirement attributes?






32. 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






33. The purpose of _______________ is to ensure that a stakeholder's actual underlying needs are understood - rather than the their stated or superficial desires.






34. This knowledge area involves analyzing stakeholder needs to define solutions that meet those needs - assessing the current state of the business to identify and recommend improvements and the verification and validation of the resulting requirements.






35. 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 -






36. Documents terms unique to a domain.






37. What is the output of the task Manage Solution Scope & Requirements?






38. What are the internal factors in a SWOT Analysis?






39. What are the factors of influence by stakeholders on a project?






40. What are the inputs to the task Conduct Elicitation Activity?






41. The objective of this technique is to determine how companies achieve their superior performance levels and use that information to design projects to improve operations of the enterprise.






42. What techniques are used in the task - Define Solution Scope?






43. Three types of organizational structures






44. 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






45. Two types of conflict.






46. What is the output of the task - Prepare Requirements Package?






47. Investigating how a solution is actually used after it is deployed and assessing the effect it has had - both positive and negative.






48. What are the attributes of a Data Model?






49. What is the output of the task - Determine Solution Approach?






50. Measures progress towards a strategic goal or objective.