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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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1. 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






2. What is the output of the Plan Business Analysis Approach?






3. Used to describe the roles - responsibilities and reporting structures that exist within an organization and to align those structures with the organization's goals.






4. What are the techniques used in the task - Allocate Resources?






5. 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.






6. 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.






7. What is the output of the task - Define Business Need?






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






9. What is the output of the task Conduct Stakeholder Analysis?






10. The goal of this task is validate that the stated requirements expressed by the stakeholder match the stakeholder's understanding of the problem and the stakeholder's needs. Analyst's understanding conforms to the actual desire or intentions of the s






11. This knowledge area describes the tasks that are performed in order to ensure that solutions meet the business need and to facilitate successful implementation.






12. What describes how - when and why the business analyst will work with stakeholders?






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






14. Gathering information relevant to a decision - breaking down the information relevant to a decision - making comparisons and tradeoffs between similar and dissimilar options and identifying the option that is most desirable.






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






16. What are the inputs to the task - Communicate Requirements?






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






18. What is the output of the task - Define Business Case?






19. What are the inputs to the Plan Business Analysis Approach?






20. What is the output of the task Plan Requirements Management Process?






21. What are the inputs to the task - Define Assumption & Constraints?






22. What are the output(s) of the task - Validate Solution?






23. 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.






24. Involved motivating people to act in ways that enable them to work together to achieve shared goals and objectives.






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






26. Set of requirements that will be used to choose between multiple solutions.






27. What are the inputs of the task Plan Business Analysis Communication?






28. According to the BABOK 2.0 - what type of analysis generates STAKEHOLDER requirements?






29. What are the characteristics of a Problem Record?






30. What is the output of the task - Prioritize Requirements?






31. What is the output of the task - Assess Proposed Solution?






32. What stakeholder receives noticeable negative impact if information is incorrectly transferred from the old to new solution?






33. 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






34. 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.






35. Allocate stakeholder and solution requirements among solution components and releases in order to maximize the possible business value given the options and alternatives generated by the design team.






36. Are used to model the logic of usage scenarios - by showing the information passed between objects in the system through the execution of the scenario. Shows how classes and objects interact during a scenario.






37. What is the output of the task - Verify Requirements?






38. Familiarity with the range of commercially available solutions or suppliers can assist with the identification of possible alternatives.






39. Three types of organizational structures






40. What are the inputs to the task - Define Business Case?






41. What is the output of the task - Specify & Model Requirements?






42. What are the 3 elements in the Assess Organizational Readiness?






43. 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.






44. What are the Primitive Data Elements?






45. 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.






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






47. Checklist of characteristics to consider when considering non-functional requirements.






48. Elicitation Results are the inputs for the ____________






49. 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.






50. Measures progress towards a strategic goal or objective.