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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning
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1. Describes the effect a new solution will have on an organization and whether the organization is prepared for the organizational change the solution implementation will cause.
Glossary
Requirements Documentation - Requirements for Vendor Selection
Tracing Requirements
Assess Organization Readiness
2. What are the techniques used in the task Manage Business Analysis Performance?
Interviews - Lessons Learned Process - Metrics and KPIs - Problem Tracking - Process Modeling - Root Cause Analysis - Survey/Questionnaire - Variance Analysis
Timeboxing
Benchmarking
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Business Rules Analysis - Focus Groups - Functional Decomposition - Root Cause Analysis
3. Characteristics that are common to all organizations with a similar purpose and structure - whether or not the are in the same industry.
Business Principals
Sequence Diagrams
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Modeling - Organization Modeling - Data Modeling
Enterprise Analysis - often the starting point for initiating a new project
4. What is the output of the task - Prioritize Requirements?
Prioritize Requirements - Organize Requirements - Specify & Model Requirements - Define Assumptions & Constraints - Verify Requirements - Validate Requirements
They describe what a solution must be capable of doing to meet the needs of one or more stakeholder groups
Requirements (Prioritized)
Leadership
5. 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.
Identified Defects - Mitigating Actions - Solution Validation Assessment
Strengths - Weaknesses
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Organizational Process Assets
Solution Scope
6. 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.
Decision Analysis
Elimination
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Business Rules Analysis - Focus Groups - Functional Decomposition - Root Cause Analysis
7. 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
Interviews
Timeboxing
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 - Solution Scope - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities - Stakeholder/Solution or Transition Requirements (Communicated or Traced)
8. 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.
Evaluate Solution Performance
Cognitive Conflict
Benchmarking
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving - Behavioral Characteristics - Business Knowledge - Communication Skills - Interaction Skills - Software Application
9. This will impose constraints to the effort to deploy the solution - including relationships that may exist between solution components.
Dependencies
Learning
Specific - Measurable - Achievable - Relevant - Time-bound Objectives must be SMART.
Decision Analysis - Estimation - Metrics & KPIs - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Vendor Assessment
10. What are the inputs to the task - Prioritize Requirements?
Organization Modeling
Requirements (Stated) - Stakeholder Concerns
Business Case - Business Need - Requirements - Requirements Management Plan - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
11. What is a STAKEHOLDER requirement - according to the BABOK 2.0?
Decision Analysis - Problem Tacking - Risk Analysis
Expert Judgment
Business Goals & Objectives - Requirements (Stated)
A statement of the needs of a particular stakeholder or class of stakeholders
12. What are the inputs to the task - Organize Requirements?
System
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements (Stated) - Solution Scope
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving
Budgeting
13. What are the techniques used in the task Define Business Need?
Structured Walkthrough
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Business Rules Analysis - Focus Groups - Functional Decomposition - Root Cause Analysis
Requirements Management Plan
They describe what a solution must be capable of doing to meet the needs of one or more stakeholder groups
14. What are the inputs to the task - Assess Proposed Solution?
Assumptions & Constraints - Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution Options
Decision Analysis
Problem Tracking
Stakeholder Matrix
15. The BA is a stakeholder in ______ business analysis activities.
Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution (Designed) - Solution Scope
All
Relationships - Impact Analysis - Configuration Management System
Risk Analysis
16. What factors guide technique selection?
Relationships - Impact Analysis - Configuration Management System
Business Domain - Corporate Culture & Environment - Skills of the Analyst - Requirement Deliverable
Requirements (Any Except Stated)
Acceptance & Evaluation Technique
17. What is the output of the task Plan Requirements Management Process?
Evolutionary or Functional Prototype
Requirements (Verified)
Business Need - Solution Scope & Business Case - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Requirements Management Plan
18. Useful for ensuring that all stakeholders are in agreement on the format and content of relevant information. Capturing these definitions in a single model ensures that these terms will be used consistently.
Advantages of a Data Dictionary & Glossary
Business Value - Business or Technical Risk - Implementation Difficulty - Likelihood of Success - Regulatory or Policy Compliance - Relationship to Other Requirements - Stakeholder Agreement - Urgency
Absolute Reference - Author - Complexity - Ownership - Priority - Risks - Source - Stability - Status - Urgency
Business Case; Stakeholder - Solution or Transition Requirements (Verified)
19. What does RACI stand for?
Emotional and Cognitive
Required Capabilities
Responsible - Accountable - Consulted - Informed
Manage Solution Scope & Requirements - Manage Requirements Traceability - Maintain Requirements for Re-use - Prepare Requirements Package - Communicate Requirements
20. States the business need - identifies key stakeholders and briefly describes the positive impact that meeting the business need will have on those stakeholders.
This person will be involved in monitoring the performance and effectiveness of a solution or its components.
Problem or Vision Statement
Problem Tracking
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements
21. Describes all the possible outcomes of an attempt to accomplish a particular goal that the solution will support.
Business Principles & Practices
Scenarios & Use Cases
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
Use Case
22. Three types of organizational structures
Functions - Markets - Matrix
Requirements (Approved)
Opportunity Cost
Problem Solving
23. What are the techniques used in the task Conduct Elicitation Activity?
Interviews - Observation
Automate or Simplify Work - Improve Access to Information - Reduce Complexity of Interfaces - Increase Consistency of Behavior - Eliminate Redundancy
Data Dictionary & Glossary - Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshops - Survey/Questionnaire
To record the conflict in the Requirements Issues Log.
24. What are the inputs for the task Plan Business Analysis Activities?
Business Analysis Approach - BA Performance Assessment - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Underlying Competencies
Assess Organization Readiness
Requirements (Stated - Confirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Confirmed)
25. What are the techniques used in the task - Determine Solution Approach?
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Decision Analysis - Estimation - SWOT Analysis - Feasibility Analysis
Solution Scope Definition - Implementation Approach - Dependencies
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Business Rules Analysis - Decision Analysis - Functional Decomposition - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases
26. What are the inputs to the task - Allocate Resources?
Survey/Questionnaire
Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution (Designed) - Solution Scope
Requirements (Analyzed)
Vertical Prototype
27. Provides an organized approach to tracking - management - and resolution of defects - issues - problems - and risks throughout business analysis activities. Management of issues is important so that they can be resolved in a timely manner to ensure s
Solution Assessment & Validation
Vertical Prototype
Problem Tracking
Requirements (Allocated)
28. What are the inputs to the task - Assess Organizational Readiness?
Tracing Requirements
Elimination
Enterprise Architecture - Solution Scope - Solution (Designed) - Stakeholder Concerns
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
29. When performing root cause analysis as part of the Validate Solution task - what stakeholder may be involved?
Transition Requirements
Creative Thinking - Decision Making - Learning - Problem Solving - Systems Thinking
Cohesive - Complete - Consistent - Correct - Feasible - Modifiable - Unambiguous - Testable
Implementation SME
30. Creates a conceptual model of the work that needs to be completed to deliver the new business solution.
Functional Decomposition
Visual Learner - Auditory Learner - Kinesthetic Learner
Business Requirements - Stakeholder Requirements - Solution Requirements - Transition Requirements
Assumptions & Constraints - Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution Options
31. Used to describe the roles - responsibilities and reporting structures that exist within an organization and to align those structures with the organization's goals.
Organization Modeling
Three-point Estimation
Elimination of Dominated Alternative - Ranking Objects on a Similar Scale
Requirements Package
32. What is the output of the task - Assess Capability Gaps?
Business Case; Stakeholder - Solution or Transition Requirements (Verified)
Lessons Learned Process
The Sponsor
Required Capabilities
33. To assess the ability of a potential vendor to meet commitments regarding a product or service
A statement of the needs of a particular stakeholder or class of stakeholders
Vendor Assessment
Decision Analysis - Problem Tacking - Risk Analysis
Functional Decomposition - Interface Analysis - Scope Modeling - User Stories - Problem or Vision Statement
34. A continuous process of collecting data to determine how well a solution has been implemented compared to expected results.
Monitoring
Determine the Process - Who will Authorize Changes - Impact Analysis - Wording of the Request - Coordinate Prioritization of Change
Define Business Case
Requirements Management & Communication
35. 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
Acceptance Criteria
Decision Analysis
Systems Thinking
Strengths - Weaknesses
36. Corrective or preventative measures uncovered while performing a Business Analysis Performance Assessment will result in changes to what plan?
Stakeholder Matrix
Business Need - Expert Judgment - Organizational Process Assets
Assumptions & Constraints
Business Analysis Plan
37. Benefits that could have been achieved with an alternative investment rather than this one.
Business Rules Analysis
Confirm Elicitation Results
Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring
Opportunity Cost
38. What are the internal factors in a SWOT Analysis?
Strengths - Weaknesses
Industry Knowledge
Visual Learner - Auditory Learner - Kinesthetic Learner
User Classes - Profiles or Roles; Concepts & Relationships - Events - Processes - Rules
39. Means of eliciting information from many people - sometimes anonymously - in a relatively short period of time
Survey/Questionnaire
Requirements (Prioritized)
Identified Defects - Mitigating Actions - Solution Validation Assessment
Ethics - Trustworthiness - Personal Organization
40. A means of eliciting requirements by conducting an assessment of the stakeholder's work environment. This technique is appropriate when documenting details about current processes or if the project is intended to enhance or change a current process.
Elicitation
Opportunity Cost
Observation
Term and Fact Model
41. The knowledge area that covers how BAs determine which activities are necessary in order to complete a business analysis effort.
Elicitation
Requirements Structure
Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring
Business Value - Business or Technical Risk - Implementation Difficulty - Likelihood of Success - Regulatory or Policy Compliance - Relationship to Other Requirements - Stakeholder Agreement - Urgency
42. To identify interfaces between solutions and/or solution components and define requirements that describe how they will interact.
Interface Analysis
Glossary
Business Policy
User Classes - Profiles or Roles; Concepts & Relationships - Events - Processes - Rules
43. To define the rules that govern decisions in an organization and that define - constrain or enable organization operations.
Sequence Diagrams
Bottom-up Estimation
Structured Walkthrough
Business Rules Analysis
44. 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
Allocate Requirements
State Diagrams
Focus Group
Requirements (Analyzed)
45. 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.
A statement of the needs of a particular stakeholder or class of stakeholders
Benchmarking
Historic Analysis
Creative Thinking - Decision Making - Learning - Problem Solving - Systems Thinking
46. What are the elements of the area - Analytical Thinking and Problem Solving - Successful generation of new ideas - application of new ideas to resolve existing problems - willingness of stakeholders to accept new approaches.
Requirements Management & Communication
Vendor Assessment
A statement of the needs of a particular stakeholder or class of stakeholders
Creative Thinking - Decision Making - Learning - Problem Solving - Systems Thinking
47. What are the inputs for the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?
Business Requirements - Identified Defects - Solution Performance Metrics - Solution (Deployed)
Business Case - Business Need - Requirements - Requirements Management Plan - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Solution Performance Assessment
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Requirements - Requirements Package
48. What are the elements to the task - Define Business Case?
Benefits - Costs - Risk Assessment - Results Measurement
Cultural Assessment - Operational or Technical Assessment - Stakeholder Impact Analysis
Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis
Requirements (Allocated)
49. What is the output of the task - Communicate Requirements?
Business Domain - Corporate Culture & Environment - Skills of the Analyst - Requirement Deliverable
Risk Analysis
Communicated Requirements
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Business Rules Analysis - Decision Analysis - Functional Decomposition - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases
50. What is the output of the task Manage Solution Scope & Requirements?
Requirements - Requirements Management Plan
Observation
Document Elicitation Results task
Requirements (Approved)