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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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






2. Involves assessing a situation - understanding it as fully as possible - and making judgments about possible solutions to the problem.






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






4. What are the elements to the task - Define Business Case?






5. What are the inputs to the task Manage Requirements Traceability?






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






7. What are the Cultural diversity issues that should be taken into account when planning communication?






8. 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.






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






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






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






12. What should be considered when establishing a Change Management process?






13. 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.






14. 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.






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






16. What are the techniques used in the task - Assess Organizational Readiness?






17. What are the characteristics of quality for a requirements?






18. What are the inputs for the task Prepare for Elicitation?






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






20. What are the techniques used in the task - Define Business Case?






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






22. A package should contain a consistent - cohesive and coherent set of requirements. This describes the ____________.






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






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






25. 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.






26. Understanding of how a change to a component affects the system as a whole - identification of reinforcing and compensating feedback loops - understanding of how systems adapt to external pressures and changes - A system as a whole will have properti






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






28. Measures progress towards a strategic goal or objective.






29. The systematic and objective assessment of a solution to determine its status and efficacy in meeting objectives over time - and to identify ways to improve the solution to better meet objectives.






30. 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






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






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






33. Benefits that could have been achieved with an alternative investment rather than this one.






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






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






36. What are the Behavioral Characteristics a BA should exhibit?






37. Documents terms unique to a domain.






38. Limited to "as-is" perspective. - Existing documentation may not be up-to-date or valid. - Can be a time-consuming and even tedious process to locate the relevant information






39. What is the output of the task Confirm Elicitation Results?






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






41. 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 -






42. An organized structure for the requirements and a documented set of relationships between them. Is used so the analyst and stakeholders know where a specific requirement should be found. Should have a clear implicit scope (clear to the stakeholders w






43. What are the inputs to the task - Assess Proposed Solution?






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






45. What are the inputs to the task - Organize Requirements?






46. What are the different types of learning styles?






47. Three key factors when assessing the quality of indicators and their metrics






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






49. The goal of this task is to ensure that all requirements support the delivery of value to the business - fulfill its goal and objectives and meet a stakeholder need.






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