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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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1. Most optimistic estimate; most pessimistic estimate; most likely estimate






2. What are the inputs to the task - Verify Requirements?






3. What is the output of the task Plan Business Analysis Communication?






4. What are some of the key variables used in determining the priority of a requirement?






5. Ensure that the solution meets the business need and determine the most appropriate response to identified defects.






6. Define requirements for capabilities needed to move from an existing solution to a new solution.






7. 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.






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






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






10. An excellent way to foster creative thinking about a problem. The goal is to produce numerous new ideas and to derive themes for further analysis. - Ability to elicit many ideas in a short time period. - - Non-judgmental environment enables creative






11. Shows how the behavior of a concept - entity or object changes in response to events during its lifetime - and defines which events cause a transition between those states.






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






13. Rules that are intended to help determine when something is or is not true - or when things fall into a specific category. They are expressed as rules because they describe categorizations that may change over time.






14. What is the output of the Manage Business Analysis Performance task?






15. What are the techniques used in the task - Define Transition Requirements?






16. Elements of a Requirements Management Plan include?






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






18. 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.






19. 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.






20. 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.






21. What are the elements of the task - Define Solution Scope?






22. Are used to describe the scope of analysis or the scope of a solution. Serve as a basis for defining and delimiting the scope of business analysis and project work. Allow the definition of a "complete" scope—that is - the boundaries of the scope corr






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






24. Rules that the organization chooses to enforce as a matter of policy. They are intended to guide the actions of people working within the organization. They may oblige people to take certain actions - prevent people from taking actions - or prescribe






25. What are the techniques used in the task Define Business Need?






26. Three types of organizational structures






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






28. What are the techniques used in the task Conduct Stakeholder Analysis?






29. 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






30. Elicitation Results are the inputs for the ____________






31. What is the output of the task - Organize Requirements?






32. Describes all the possible outcomes of an attempt to accomplish a particular goal that the solution will support.






33. A means to elicit requirements by studying available documentation on existing and comparable solutions and identifying relevant information. - Not starting from a blank page.- Leveraging existing materials to discover and/or confirm requirements. -






34. What are the inputs to the task - Specify & Model Requirements?






35. 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






36. The people involved - the interactions between them - the external forces affecting their behavior and all other relevant elements and factors.






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






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






39. Domain SME - End User - Implementation SME - and Sponsor: They Affected by analysis techniques used to organize requirements since they need to verify and validate the requirements.






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






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






42. Business rules require a defined glossary of terms and an understanding of the relationships between them - this is known as:






43. Models a deep - and usually narrow slice of the entire system's functionality.






44. This knowledge area describes the behaviors - knowledge and other characteristics that support the effective performance of a BA.






45. What are the techniques used in Plan Business Analysis Approach?






46. Models a shallow - and possibly wide view of the system's functionality. It typically does not have any business logic running behind the visualization.






47. What are the inputs to the task - Prioritize Requirements?






48. While eliciting requirements it is important to guard against scope creep - This activity will ensure that the requirements should be included since they meet the business goal/objectives.






49. This task determines if an organization can justify the investment required to deliver a proposed solution.






50. A non-actionable directive that supports a business goal.