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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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1. 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.
Solution Scope
Problem Tracking
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving - Behavioral Characteristics - Business Knowledge - Communication Skills - Interaction Skills - Software Application
Requirements Workshop - Structured Walkthrough

2. To define the rules that govern decisions in an organization and that define - constrain or enable organization operations.
Requirements (Prioritized)
Business Rules Analysis
Advantages of a Data Dictionary & Glossary
Delphi Estimation

3. 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.
Business Domain - Corporate Culture & Environment - Skills of the Analyst - Requirement Deliverable
Estimation - Functional Decomposition - Risk Analysis
Expert Judgment
Glossary

4. Are written to describe how an actor interacts with a solution to accomplish one or more of that actor's goals - or to respond to an event.
Assess Proposed Solution - Allocate Requirements - Assess Organizational Readiness - Define Transition Requirements - Validate Solution - Evaluate Solution Performance
Survey/Questionnaire
Scenarios & Use Cases
Assumptions & Constraints - Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution Options

5. What are the techniques used in the task - Organize Requirements?
Solution (Constructed) - Requirements (Prioritized and Validated)
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Data Modeling - Functional Decomposition - Organizational Modeling - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases - Scope Modeling - User Stories
Data Modeling
Requirements Workshop

6. 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
Solution Assessment & Validation
Business Value - Business or Technical Risk - Implementation Difficulty - Likelihood of Success - Regulatory or Policy Compliance - Relationship to Other Requirements - Stakeholder Agreement - Urgency
Focus Group
Facilitation

7. Includes the standard definition of data elements - their meanings and allowable values.
Data Dictionary
Evaluation Criteria
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Business Rules Analysis - Decision Analysis - Functional Decomposition - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases
Functional Decomposition - Interface Analysis - Scope Modeling - User Stories - Problem or Vision Statement

8. What are the inputs to the task - Organize Requirements?
Assumptions & Constraints
Structured Walkthrough
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements (Stated) - Solution Scope
Use Case

9. What describes how - when and why the business analyst will work with stakeholders?
Business Case - Business Need - Requirements - Requirements Management Plan - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Requirements Structure
The Business Analysis Communication Plan
Solution Scope Definition - Implementation Approach - Dependencies

10. This will impose constraints to the effort to deploy the solution - including relationships that may exist between solution components.
Elicitation Results
Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis
Dependencies
User Classes - Profiles or Roles; Concepts & Relationships - Events - Processes - Rules

11. The minimum set of requirements that must be met in order for a particular solution to be worth implementing.
Acceptance Criteria
Enterprise Analysis
Identified Defects - Mitigating Actions - Solution Validation Assessment
Business Analysis Approach - BA Performance Assessment - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities

12. What are the techniques used in Plan Business Analysis Communication?
Requirements (Stated) - Requirements Structure
Structured Walkthrough
Evolutionary or Functional Prototype
They describe what a solution must be capable of doing to meet the needs of one or more stakeholder groups

13. What are the inputs for the task Prepare for Elicitation?
Business Need - Solution Scope & Business Case - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Organizational Readiness Assessment
Discounted Cash Flow - Net Present Value - Internal Rate of Return - Average Rate of Return - Pay Back Period - Cost-Benefit Analysis
Decision Analysis - Risk Analysis - MoSCoW Analysis - Timeboxing/Budgeting - Voting

14. The purpose is to describe the required qualities of a system - such as its usability and performance characteristics.
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Business Rules Analysis - Decision Analysis - Functional Decomposition - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases
Solution Scope Definition - Implementation Approach - Dependencies
Unique Number - Activity Description - Assumptions - Dependencies - Milestones
Non-functional Requirements Analysis

15. What are the elements of the task Plan Requirements Management Process?
Clear - Relevant - Economical - Adequate - Quantifiable
Validate Requirements
Repository - Traceability - Requirement Attributes - Prioritization Process - Change Management - Tailoring the Requirements Management Process
Estimation - Functional Decomposition - Risk Analysis

16. What are the Behavioral Characteristics a BA should exhibit?
Organization Modeling
Ethics - Trustworthiness - Personal Organization
Manage Solution Scope & Requirements - Manage Requirements Traceability - Maintain Requirements for Re-use - Prepare Requirements Package - Communicate Requirements
Solution Assessment & Validation

17. What are the inputs for the task - Define Solution Scope?
Requirements Analysis
Requirements (Stated - Confirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Confirmed)
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
Assumptions & Constraints - Required Capabilities - Solution Approach

18. The knowledge area that covers how BAs determine which activities are necessary in order to complete a business analysis effort.
Survey/Questionnaire
Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring
Business Analysis Performance Metrics - Business Analysis Plan - Organization Performance Standards - Requirements Management Plan
Business Domain - Corporate Culture & Environment - Skills of the Analyst - Requirement Deliverable

19. What are the techniques for the task - Verify Requirements?
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Problem Tracking - Structured Walkthrough - Checklists
Horizontal Prototype
Interviews - Observation
Problem Tracking

20. 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
Facilitation
Evaluate Solution Performance
Requirements (Stated - Confirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Confirmed)
Decision Making

21. What are the characteristics of quality for a requirements?
Sequence Diagrams
Cohesive - Complete - Consistent - Correct - Feasible - Modifiable - Unambiguous - Testable
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Problem Tracking - Root Cause Analysis
Business Analysis Approach - BA Performance Assessment - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities

22. What are the inputs to the task Manage Solution Scope & Requirements?
Requirements Management Plan - Solution Scope - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities - Stakeholder/Solution or Transition Requirements (Communicated or Traced)
Reporting
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
Requirements (Stated - Confirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Confirmed)

23. Used to describe the roles - responsibilities and reporting structures that exist within an organization and to align those structures with the organization's goals.
Responsible - Accountable - Consulted - Informed
Document Analysis - SWOT Analysis
Organization Modeling
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Decision Analysis - Vendor Assessment

24. What are the techniques used in the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?
Requirements Workshop
Decision Analysis - Focus Groups - Observation - Survey/Questionnaire
Activity List
Requirements (Maintained and Reusable)

25. States the business need - identifies key stakeholders and briefly describes the positive impact that meeting the business need will have on those stakeholders.
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Problem Tracking - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Prioritize Requirements - Organize Requirements - Specify & Model Requirements - Define Assumptions & Constraints - Verify Requirements - Validate Requirements
Structured Walkthrough
Problem or Vision Statement

26. A good indicator has 5 characteristics:
Clear - Relevant - Economical - Adequate - Quantifiable
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Required Capabilities
Bottom-up Estimation
Requirements - Requirements Management Plan

27. What are the techniques used in the task - Assess Proposed Solution?
Functional Decomposition - Interface Analysis - Scope Modeling - User Stories - Problem or Vision Statement
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Data Modeling - Functional Decomposition - Organizational Modeling - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases - Scope Modeling - User Stories
Primary stakeholders in the Organize Requirements task
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Decision Analysis - Vendor Assessment

28. What are the Cultural diversity issues that should be taken into account when planning communication?
Relationship to Time - Relationship to Task Completion - Relationship to Contracts - Relationships to Formal and Informal Authority
Functional Decomposition - Interface Analysis - Scope Modeling - User Stories - Problem or Vision Statement
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
Organizational Knowledge

29. What are the inputs to the task - Define Business Need?
Business Goals & Objectives - Requirements (Stated)
Business Value - Business or Technical Risk - Implementation Difficulty - Likelihood of Success - Regulatory or Policy Compliance - Relationship to Other Requirements - Stakeholder Agreement - Urgency
Bottom-up Estimation
Assumptions & Constraints - Required Capabilities - Solution Approach

30. What techniques are used in the task Manage Requirements Traceability?
Organizational Knowledge
Coverage Matrix - Table or spreadsheet used to manage tracing.
Delphi Estimation
Organize Requirements

31. What are the inputs to the task - Verify Requirements?
Key Performance Indicator (KPI )
The Business Analysis Communication Plan
All
Requirements (Any Except Stated)

32. To assess the ability of a potential vendor to meet commitments regarding a product or service
Elicitation Results
Vendor Assessment
Requirements (Verified)
Advantages of Document Analysis

33. The goal of this task is to meet with stakeholder(s) to gather information regarding their needs.
Business Analysis Approach - BA Performance Assessment - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Conduct Elicitation Activity
Assumptions & Constraints - Business Need - Solution Scope - Stakeholder Concerns
Unique Number - Activity Description - Assumptions - Dependencies - Milestones

34. Define the requirements that must be met in order for a solution to be considered acceptable to key stakeholders.
Industry Knowledge
Acceptance & Evaluation Technique
Business Analysis Performance Metrics - Business Analysis Plan - Organization Performance Standards - Requirements Management Plan
Unique Number - Activity Description - Assumptions - Dependencies - Milestones

35. 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
A statement of the needs of a particular stakeholder or class of stakeholders
Stakeholder Matrix - Onion Diagram
Requirements (Prioritized)
Decision Making

36. Is generally understood to describe just one way that an actor can accomplish a particular goal
Customer
Scenario
Business Requirements - Stakeholder Requirements - Solution Requirements - Transition Requirements
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Business Rules Analysis - Decision Analysis - Functional Decomposition - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases

37. What are the internal factors in a SWOT Analysis?
Requirements (Analyzed)
Assumptions & Constraints - Required Capabilities - Solution Approach
Strengths - Weaknesses
Term and Fact Model

38. 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
Operative Rules
Requirements Structure
Requirements Analysis
Three-point Estimation

39. The people involved - the interactions between them - the external forces affecting their behavior and all other relevant elements and factors.
System
Determine the Process - Who will Authorize Changes - Impact Analysis - Wording of the Request - Coordinate Prioritization of Change
Problem Tracking
Lessons Learned Process

40. The process of informing stakeholders of metrics of indicators in specified formats at specified intervals.
Reporting
Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Business Analysis Process Assets
Strengths - Weaknesses

41. What are the elements to the task - Define Business Case?
Document Analysis
Benefits - Costs - Risk Assessment - Results Measurement
Business Analysis Plan
Solution Knowledge

42. What is the output of the task - Verify Requirements?
Focus Group
Communicated Requirements
Compliance with regulatory or other standards
Requirements (Verified)

43. What are the inputs to the task - Assess Organizational Readiness?
Prepare for Elicitation - Conduct Elicitation Activity - Document Elicitation Results - Confirm Elicitation Results
Validate Requirements
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving
Enterprise Architecture - Solution Scope - Solution (Designed) - Stakeholder Concerns

44. What is the output of the task - Manage Requirements Traceability?
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements - Requirements Structure
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Problem Tracking - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Interviews
Requirements (Traced)

45. Name the 2 types of Software categories that assist in BA productivity.
Term and Fact Model
Requirements Structure
Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
General Purpose Applications & Specialized Applications

46. Models a deep - and usually narrow slice of the entire system's functionality.
Compliance with regulatory or other standards
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Required Capabilities
Vertical Prototype
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Decision Analysis - Vendor Assessment

47. According to the BABOK 2.0 - what type of analysis generates STAKEHOLDER requirements?
Requirements (Stated - Confirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Confirmed)
Ethics - Trustworthiness - Personal Organization
Requirements Analysis
MoSCoW Analysis

48. 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.
Interviews - Lessons Learned Process - Metrics and KPIs - Problem Tracking - Process Modeling - Root Cause Analysis - Survey/Questionnaire - Variance Analysis
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Models - Focus Groups - Interviews - Survey/Questionnaire - Organizational Modeling - Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Force Field Analysis
Industry Knowledge
Strengths - Weaknesses

49. To identify and manage areas of uncertainty that can impact an initiative - solution - or organization.
Risk Analysis
Assumptions & Constraints - Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution Options
Requirements (Analyzed)
Evolutionary or Functional Prototype

50. A formal written specification with possible walk-thru - an informal one is possibly verbal or email Communication
Glossary
Underlying Competencies
MoSCoW Analysis
Formal requirements presentation to stakeholders