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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning
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1. 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.
Key Performance Indicator (KPI )
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
Use Case
Requirements (Stated - Confirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Confirmed)
2. What factors guide technique selection?
Requirements Package
Fishbone Diagram - Five Whys
Interviews - Observation
Business Domain - Corporate Culture & Environment - Skills of the Analyst - Requirement Deliverable
3. States the business need - identifies key stakeholders and briefly describes the positive impact that meeting the business need will have on those stakeholders.
Creative Thinking - Decision Making - Learning - Problem Solving - Systems Thinking
Relationship to Time - Relationship to Task Completion - Relationship to Contracts - Relationships to Formal and Informal Authority
Problem or Vision Statement
Leadership
4. What are the elements of the task Plan Requirements Management Process?
Evolutionary or Functional Prototype
Estimation - Functional Decomposition - Risk Analysis
Repository - Traceability - Requirement Attributes - Prioritization Process - Change Management - Tailoring the Requirements Management Process
Business Analysis Approach
5. What are the inputs to the task Conduct Stakeholder Analysis?
Interviews - Observation
Enterprise Analysis
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Organizational Process Assets
Assumptions & Constraints - Business Need - Solution Scope - Stakeholder Concerns
6. What are the inputs to the task Manage Solution Scope & Requirements?
Confirm Elicitation Results
Bottom-up Estimation
Requirements Management Plan - Solution Scope - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities - Stakeholder/Solution or Transition Requirements (Communicated or Traced)
Decision Analysis - Process Modeling - Structured Walkthrough
7. What are the techniques used in the task - Assess Proposed Solution?
User Classes - Profiles or Roles; Concepts & Relationships - Events - Processes - Rules
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Decision Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Decision Analysis
Focus Group
8. What is the output of the task Conduct Stakeholder Analysis?
Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Stakeholder Concerns
Structural Rules
Responsible - Accountable - Consulted - Informed
9. What are the techniques used in the task - Define Business Case?
Decision Analysis - Process Modeling - Structured Walkthrough
Decision Analysis - Estimation - Metrics & KPIs - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Personal Organization
Strengths - Weaknesses
10. A systematic approach designed to elicit information from a person or group of people in an informal or formal setting by talking to an interviewee - asking relevant questions and documenting the responses.
Assumptions & Constraints
Functional Decomposition - Interface Analysis - Scope Modeling - User Stories - Problem or Vision Statement
Interviews
Operative Rules
11. Forecast the cost and effort involved in pursuing a course of action. Used to develop a better understanding of the possible range of costs and effort associated with any initiative
Scenario
Estimation
Business Rules Analysis
Prototyping
12. The purpose is to describe the required qualities of a system - such as its usability and performance characteristics.
Non-functional Requirements Analysis
Business Need - Solution Scope & Business Case - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Interface Analysis
Bottom-up Estimation
13. What stakeholder receives noticeable negative impact if information is incorrectly transferred from the old to new solution?
Customer
Reporting
That they understand them and the current state the requirements are in
The Sponsor
14. 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
Scope Modeling
General Purpose Applications & Specialized Applications
Elicitation
Business Need - Solution Scope & Business Case - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
15. Name the 2 types of Stakeholder maps.
Stakeholder Matrix - Onion Diagram
Assess Proposed Solution - Allocate Requirements - Assess Organizational Readiness - Define Transition Requirements - Validate Solution - Evaluate Solution Performance
Structured Walkthrough
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Models - Focus Groups - Interviews - Survey/Questionnaire - Organizational Modeling - Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Force Field Analysis
16. What are the inputs for the task Prepare for Elicitation?
Parametric Estimation
Solution Knowledge
Requirements (Stated - Confirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Confirmed)
Business Need - Solution Scope & Business Case - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
17. What does RACI stand for?
Organizational Readiness Assessment
Responsible - Accountable - Consulted - Informed
The Sponsor
Solution Performance Assessment
18. Ensure that the solution meets the business need and determine the most appropriate response to identified defects.
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Business Rules Analysis - Decision Analysis - Functional Decomposition - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases
Requirements (Stated) - Requirements Structure
Validate Solution
Document Analysis - SWOT Analysis
19. What are the inputs to the task - Validate Solution?
Solution (Constructed) - Requirements (Prioritized and Validated)
Requirements Structure
Validate Requirements
Acceptance - Transfer - Avoidance - Mitigation
20. The people involved - the interactions between them - the external forces affecting their behavior and all other relevant elements and factors.
Functional Decomposition - Interface Analysis - Scope Modeling - User Stories - Problem or Vision Statement
System
Impact Analysis - Requirements Coverage - Requirements Allocation
Business Requirements - Identified Defects - Solution Performance Metrics - Solution (Deployed)
21. What are the inputs for the task Confirm Elicitation Results?
Business Principles & Practices
Organization Modeling
Enterprise Architecture - Solution Scope - Solution (Designed) - Stakeholder Concerns
Requirements (Stated - Unconfirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Unconfirmed)
22. Decisions are made with the interest of all stakeholders considered - reasons for a decision are cleared articulated - prompt and full disclosure of conflicts of interest - honesty regarding one's abilities and the performance of one's work.
Ethics
Organizational Readiness Assessment
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
All
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.
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Models - Focus Groups - Interviews - Survey/Questionnaire - Organizational Modeling - Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Force Field Analysis
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Problem Tracking - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Data Dictionary & Glossary
Solution Assessment & Validation
24. A diagram indicating how involved the stakeholder is with the solution.
Onion Diagram
Name - Value/Meanings - Description
User Story
Requirements (Any Except Stated)
25. What is the output of the task - Verify Requirements?
Requirements (Verified)
MoSCoW Analysis
Visual Learner - Auditory Learner - Kinesthetic Learner
Customer
26. What is the output of the task Plan Business Analysis Activities?
Business Analysis Plan
Relationships - Impact Analysis - Configuration Management System
Monitoring
Business Rules Analysis
27. 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.
Parametric Estimation
Expert Judgment
Organizational Knowledge
Onion Diagram
28. The goal of tracing is to ensure that requirements are linked back to a business objective. Creation of this relationship helps in what other traceability activities?
Prototyping
Impact Analysis - Requirements Coverage - Requirements Allocation
Root Cause Analysis
Decision Analysis - Process Modeling - Structured Walkthrough
29. What are the inputs to the task - Prioritize Requirements?
Functional Decomposition
Reliability - Validity - Timeliness
Business Case - Business Need - Requirements - Requirements Management Plan - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
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
30. What is the output of the task - Prioritize Requirements?
Estimation
Requirements (Prioritized)
Solution Scope Definition - Implementation Approach - Dependencies
Observation
31. What are some of the ways a BA can help to improve the operations of a business? Acceptance and Evaluation Criteria Definition - Business Rules Analysis - Data Dictionary and Glossary - Data Flow Diagrams - Data Modeling - Functional Decomposition -
Decision Analysis - Focus Groups - Observation - Survey/Questionnaire
Solution Scope
Business Case - Business Need - Requirements - Requirements Management Plan - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Automate or Simplify Work - Improve Access to Information - Reduce Complexity of Interfaces - Increase Consistency of Behavior - Eliminate Redundancy
32. What are the inputs to the task - Define Assumption & Constraints?
Requirements (Validated)
Responsible - Accountable - Consulted - Informed
Stakeholder Concerns
Business Rules Analysis
33. What are the techniques used in the task - Define Assumptions & Constraints?
Interviews
Requirements (Prioritized)
Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis
Implementation Approach
34. The knowledge area that covers how BAs determine which activities are necessary in order to complete a business analysis effort.
Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring
Risk Analysis
Unique Number - Activity Description - Assumptions - Dependencies - Milestones
Manage Solution Scope & Requirements - Manage Requirements Traceability - Maintain Requirements for Re-use - Prepare Requirements Package - Communicate Requirements
35. What are some of the commonly used requirement attributes?
Decision Analysis - Problem Tacking - Risk Analysis
Data Flow Diagrams
Business Analysis Plan
Absolute Reference - Author - Complexity - Ownership - Priority - Risks - Source - Stability - Status - Urgency
36. What are the inputs to the task - Allocate Resources?
Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution (Designed) - Solution Scope
Requirements (Any Except Stated)
Fishbone Diagram - Five Whys
The Sponsor
37. This prototype seeks to quickly uncover and clarify interface requirements using simple tools - sometimes just paper and pencil. The focus is on functionality that is not easily elicited by other techniques - has conflicting viewpoints - or is diffic
Throw-away Prototype
Ethics
Organizational Knowledge
The Business Analysis Communication Plan
38. What is the output to the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?
Business Principals
Prepare Requirements Package
Solution Performance Assessment
Decision Analysis - Process Modeling - Structured Walkthrough
39. What are the factors of influence by stakeholders on a project?
Validate Solution
Fishbone Diagram - Five Whys
Repository - Traceability - Requirement Attributes - Prioritization Process - Change Management - Tailoring the Requirements Management Process
Influence on the project - organizational - project health and other stakeholders
40. What are the techniques used in the task - Validate Solution?
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Problem Tracking - Root Cause Analysis
Fishbone Diagram - Five Whys
Use Case
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving - Behavioral Characteristics - Business Knowledge - Communication Skills - Interaction Skills - Software Application
41. Communication of requirements does what for stakeholders?
Influence on the project - organizational - project health and other stakeholders
Evolutionary or Functional Prototype
Learning
Brings them to a Communication on understanding
42. Most optimistic estimate; most pessimistic estimate; most likely estimate
Description - Raised by - Date Identified - Impact - Priority - Need by Date - Owner - Status - Action Needed to be Resolved - Responsible for Action - Completion Date of Action - Outcome
Three-point Estimation
Metrics & KPIs
Solution Assessment & Validation
43. What are the inputs to the task - Assess Organizational Readiness?
Enterprise Architecture - Solution Scope - Solution (Designed) - Stakeholder Concerns
Perform tailoring exercises
Facilitation
Formal Documentation - Presentation - Model
44. A formal written specification with possible walk-thru - an informal one is possibly verbal or email Communication
Requirements (Stated) - Stakeholder Concerns
Business Rules Analysis
Formal requirements presentation to stakeholders
Evaluate Solution Performance
45. Is generally understood to describe just one way that an actor can accomplish a particular goal
Impact Analysis - Requirements Coverage - Requirements Allocation
Scenario
Rolling Wave
Learning
46. What are the different types of learning styles?
Plan Business Analysis Approach - Conduct Stakeholder Analysis - Plan Business Analysis Activities - Plan Business Analysis Communication - Plan Requirements Management Process - Manage BA Performance
Requirements Structure
Visual Learner - Auditory Learner - Kinesthetic Learner
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Decision Analysis - Vendor Assessment
47. This prototype extends the initial interface requirements into a fully functioning system and requires a specialized prototyping tool or language.
Structural Rules
Evolutionary or Functional Prototype
Acceptance Criteria
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
48. Elements of a Requirements Management Plan include?
Business Domain - Corporate Culture & Environment - Skills of the Analyst - Requirement Deliverable
Requirements (Analyzed)
Relationships - Impact Analysis - Configuration Management System
Business Case; Stakeholder - Solution or Transition Requirements (Verified)
49. What is the output of the task - Define Business Case?
Personal Organization
Implementation Approach
Organize Requirements
Business Case
50. What are the inputs to the task - Assess Proposed Solution?
Bottom-up Estimation
Assumptions & Constraints - Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution Options
Enterprise Architecture - Solution Scope - Solution (Designed) - Stakeholder Concerns
Cultural Assessment - Operational or Technical Assessment - Stakeholder Impact Analysis