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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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1. Business value can be delivered through requirements that support _______________ - alignment with internal standards or policies of the organization - or increased satisfaction for stakeholders - even if those things do not have a direct measurable
Compliance with regulatory or other standards
Elicitation Results
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Models - Focus Groups - Interviews - Survey/Questionnaire - Organizational Modeling - Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Force Field Analysis
Decision Analysis

2. Issues that may influence the replacement or elimination decision of a system include:
Ongoing Cost versus Initial Investment - Opportunity Costs - Necessity - Sunk Costs
Document Elicitation Results task
Cohesive - Complete - Consistent - Correct - Feasible - Modifiable - Unambiguous - Testable
Business Analysis Plan

3. 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.
Focus Group
Decision Analysis
Data Modeling
Decision Analysis - Estimation - Metrics & KPIs - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Vendor Assessment

4. What techniques are used in the task Manage Requirements Traceability?
Enterprise Analysis
Coverage Matrix - Table or spreadsheet used to manage tracing.
Structured Walkthrough
Define Transitional Requirements

5. What are the different types of learning styles?
Timeboxing
Discounted Cash Flow - Net Present Value - Internal Rate of Return - Average Rate of Return - Pay Back Period - Cost-Benefit Analysis
Necessity - Effort - Subset - Cover - Value
Visual Learner - Auditory Learner - Kinesthetic Learner

6. What are the elements of Communication Skills?
Vertical Prototype
Stakeholder Matrix
Oral Communications - Teaching - Written Communication
Evaluation Criteria

7. Define requirements for capabilities needed to move from an existing solution to a new solution.
Reporting
Activity List
Decision Analysis - Process Modeling - Structured Walkthrough
Define Transitional Requirements

8. Knowing the dependencies and relationships between requirements helps when determining the sequence in which requirements are to be addressed. Common relations are:
Underlying Competencies
Assessment of Proposed Solution
Necessity - Effort - Subset - Cover - Value
Bottom-up Estimation

9. Means of eliciting information from many people - sometimes anonymously - in a relatively short period of time
Survey/Questionnaire
Allocate Requirements
Onion Diagram
Strengths - Weaknesses

10. What are the techniques used in the task Define Business Need?
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Business Rules Analysis - Focus Groups - Functional Decomposition - Root Cause Analysis
Solution Assessment & Validation
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Requirements - Requirements Package
Elicitation Results

11. What are the Primitive Data Elements?
Name - Aliases - Values/Meanings - Description
Requirements Workshop
Solution Scope
Specific - Measurable - Achievable - Relevant - Time-bound Objectives must be SMART.

12. 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.
Requirements Workshop - Structured Walkthrough
Scenarios & Use Cases
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements
Business Domain - Corporate Culture & Environment - Skills of the Analyst - Requirement Deliverable

13. What are the factors of influence by stakeholders on a project?
Manage Solution Scope & Requirements - Manage Requirements Traceability - Maintain Requirements for Re-use - Prepare Requirements Package - Communicate Requirements
Benchmarking
Influence on the project - organizational - project health and other stakeholders
Assess Proposed Solution - Allocate Requirements - Assess Organizational Readiness - Define Transition Requirements - Validate Solution - Evaluate Solution Performance

14. Benefits that could have been achieved with an alternative investment rather than this one.
Underlying Competencies
Prototyping
Name - Aliases - Values/Meanings - Description
Opportunity Cost

15. Technique involving refinement of estimates. Estimate the details for activities in the current iteration or increment and provide an analogous estimate for the entire scope of work. As the end of the iteration approaches - estimates for the next ite
Rolling Wave
Business Need - Expert Judgment - Organizational Process Assets
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Solution Performance Assessment
Bottom-up Estimation

16. 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
Requirements (Validated)
Survey/Questionnaire
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements - Requirements Structure

17. The BA is a stakeholder in ______ business analysis activities.
All
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Define Business Need - Access Capability Gaps - Determine Solution Approach - Define Solution Scope - Define Business Case
Decision Analysis

18. This describes how the chosen solution will deliver the solution scope - may break delivery down into releases or provide a roadmap that indicates the timeframe in which a capability is expected.
Prepare Requirements Package
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
Structured Walkthrough
Implementation Approach

19. What describes how - when and why the business analyst will work with stakeholders?
Elimination of Dominated Alternative - Ranking Objects on a Similar Scale
The Business Analysis Communication Plan
Conduct Elicitation Activity
Functions - Markets - Matrix

20. 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
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving - Behavioral Characteristics - Business Knowledge - Communication Skills - Interaction Skills - Software Application
Requirements Management & Communication
Decision Analysis - Risk Analysis - MoSCoW Analysis - Timeboxing/Budgeting - Voting

21. Models a deep - and usually narrow slice of the entire system's functionality.
Interface Analysis
Formal Documentation - Presentation - Model
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Business Rules Analysis - Focus Groups - Functional Decomposition - Root Cause Analysis
Vertical Prototype

22. What is the output of the task - Organize Requirements?
Validate Solution
Requirements Structure
Brings them to a Communication on understanding
Historic Analysis

23. What are the techniques used in the task - Define Transition Requirements?
Term and Fact Model
Enterprise Analysis - often the starting point for initiating a new project
Business Analysis Communication Plan
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Modeling - Organization Modeling - Data Modeling

24. What is the output of the task - Maintain Requirements for Re-use?
Requirements (Maintained and Reusable)
Requirements (Verified)
Business Case - Business Need - Requirements - Requirements Management Plan - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Problem or Vision Statement

25. Set of requirements that will be used to choose between multiple solutions.
Evaluation Criteria
Requirements (Prioritized)
Requirements (Approved)
Relationship to Time - Relationship to Task Completion - Relationship to Contracts - Relationships to Formal and Informal Authority

26. This knowledge area describes the problem definition and analysis - business case development - feasibility studies and the definition of solution scope.
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements
Enterprise Analysis
Requirements Workshop - Structured Walkthrough
Conduct Elicitation Activity

27. What are the techniques for the task - Verify Requirements?
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Problem Tracking - Structured Walkthrough - Checklists
Problem Tracking
Data Modeling
Ongoing Cost versus Initial Investment - Opportunity Costs - Necessity - Sunk Costs

28. Business rules require a defined glossary of terms and an understanding of the relationships between them - this is known as:
Rolling Wave
Scenario
User Classes - Profiles or Roles; Concepts & Relationships - Events - Processes - Rules
Term and Fact Model

29. Elements identified for each activity and task.
Unique Number - Activity Description - Assumptions - Dependencies - Milestones
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
Define Transitional Requirements
Manage Solution Scope & Requirements - Manage Requirements Traceability - Maintain Requirements for Re-use - Prepare Requirements Package - Communicate Requirements

30. 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.
Sequence Diagrams
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
Assumptions & Constraints - Required Capabilities - Solution Approach
Assess Proposed Solution - Allocate Requirements - Assess Organizational Readiness - Define Transition Requirements - Validate Solution - Evaluate Solution Performance

31. What are the techniques used in the task - Assess Proposed Solution?
Benefits - Costs - Risk Assessment - Results Measurement
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Decision Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Elimination of Dominated Alternative - Ranking Objects on a Similar Scale
Necessity - Effort - Subset - Cover - Value

32. What are the inputs to the task - Validate Solution?
System
Historic Analysis
Cultural Assessment - Operational or Technical Assessment - Stakeholder Impact Analysis
Solution (Constructed) - Requirements (Prioritized and Validated)

33. What are the tasks for the knowledge area - Requirements Management & Communication?
Benefits - Costs - Risk Assessment - Results Measurement
Scenarios & Use Cases
Vendor Assessment
Manage Solution Scope & Requirements - Manage Requirements Traceability - Maintain Requirements for Re-use - Prepare Requirements Package - Communicate Requirements

34. What are the inputs to the task Manage Solution Scope & Requirements?
Validate Requirements
Requirements Management Plan - Solution Scope - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities - Stakeholder/Solution or Transition Requirements (Communicated or Traced)
Evaluate Solution Performance
Define Business Case

35. Agreement by stakeholders that analysis models effectively and completely describe the domain - identification of related problems or issues from multiple areas in the domain - rapid absorption of new information or new domain.
Key Performance Indicator (KPI )
Learning
That they understand them and the current state the requirements are in
Document Elicitation Results task

36. Characteristics that are common to all organizations with a similar purpose and structure - whether or not the are in the same industry.
Solution Performance Assessment
Structural Rules
Business Principals
Organizational Knowledge

37. What is the output of the task Plan Requirements Management Process?
Risk - assumptions - constraints - etc.
Requirements Management Plan
Evaluation
Scope Modeling

38. Revised process and templates for BA deliverables should be analyzed and documented and lessons learned should be recorded.
Required Capabilities
Business Analysis Process Assets
Solution (Constructed) - Requirements (Prioritized and Validated)
Decision Analysis - Focus Groups - Observation - Survey/Questionnaire

39. 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.
Solution Scope
Validate Solution
Problem Tracking - Baselining - Signoff
Advantages of a Data Dictionary & Glossary

40. A formal written specification with possible walk-thru - an informal one is possibly verbal or email Communication
Requirements Management Plan - Solution Scope - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities - Stakeholder/Solution or Transition Requirements (Communicated or Traced)
Benchmarking
Formal requirements presentation to stakeholders
Business Requirements - Stakeholder Requirements - Solution Requirements - Transition Requirements

41. Understanding of the business architecture of the organization that is being analyzed. Understanding business models (generates profit) - org structure - relationships between business units and the persons who occupy key stakeholder positions.
Implementation Approach
Organizational Knowledge
Necessity - Effort - Subset - Cover - Value
Assumptions & Constraints - Business Need - Solution Scope - Stakeholder Concerns

42. What are the inputs for the task - Define Transitional Requirements?
Organizational Readiness Assessment - Requirements (Stated) - Solution (Deployed) - Solution (Designed)
Monitoring
Horizontal Prototype
Relationship to Time - Relationship to Task Completion - Relationship to Contracts - Relationships to Formal and Informal Authority

43. This technique shows how information is input - processed - stored and output from a system in a visual representation.
Data Flow Diagrams
Organizational Knowledge
Confirm Elicitation Results
Organizational Readiness Assessment - Requirements (Stated) - Solution (Deployed) - Solution (Designed)

44. 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
Requirements Management & Communication
The Business Analysis Communication Plan
Interviews - Lessons Learned Process - Metrics and KPIs - Problem Tracking - Process Modeling - Root Cause Analysis - Survey/Questionnaire - Variance Analysis
Business Case; Stakeholder - Solution or Transition Requirements (Verified)

45. What is the output of the task - Assess Capability Gaps?
Required Capabilities
Solution Scope Definition - Implementation Approach - Dependencies
Elimination
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities

46. When a conflict arises between stakeholders on one or more documented requirements - the first thing that needs to take place is what?
Prepare for Elicitation - Conduct Elicitation Activity - Document Elicitation Results - Confirm Elicitation Results
Creative Thinking - Decision Making - Learning - Problem Solving - Systems Thinking
Use Case
To record the conflict in the Requirements Issues Log.

47. What is the output of the task - Manage Requirements Traceability?
Requirements (Traced)
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Problem Tracking - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Enterprise Analysis
Observation

48. Define the requirements that must be met in order for a solution to be considered acceptable to key stakeholders.
Activity List
Goals
Acceptance & Evaluation Technique
Transition Requirements

49. Ensure that the solution meets the business need and determine the most appropriate response to identified defects.
Validate Solution
Historic Analysis
The Sponsor
Business Principals

50. The purpose is to describe the required qualities of a system - such as its usability and performance characteristics.
Non-functional Requirements Analysis
Use Case
Decision Analysis
Requirements Analysis