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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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1. What techniques are used in the task - Prepare Requirements Package?






2. What is the output of the task - Validate Requirements?






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.






4. What is the output of the task - Communicate Requirements?






5. 7 knowledge areas of ________ : Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring - Elicitation - Requirements Management & Communication - Enterprise Analysis - Requirements Analysis - Solution Assessment & Validation - Underlying Competencies






6. 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.






7. This knowledge area involves analyzing stakeholder needs to define solutions that meet those needs - assessing the current state of the business to identify and recommend improvements and the verification and validation of the resulting requirements.






8. What are the attributes of a Data Model?






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






10. Industry Knowledge - Organization Knowledge - Solution Knowledge What are the elements of Business Knowledge?






11. What are the tasks in the knowledge area - Solution Assessment & Validation?






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






13. This prototype extends the initial interface requirements into a fully functioning system and requires a specialized prototyping tool or language.






14. Details user interface requirements and integrates them with other requirements such as use cases - scenarios - data and business rules. Stakeholders often find this to be a concrete means of identifying - describing and validating their interface ne






15. What is the output of the task - Prioritize Requirements?






16. Name the 2 types of Software categories that assist in BA productivity.






17. 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






18. 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.






19. This knowledge area describes the problem definition and analysis - business case development - feasibility studies and the definition of solution scope.






20. A diagram indicating how involved the stakeholder is with the solution.






21. The knowledge area that covers how BAs determine which activities are necessary in order to complete a business analysis effort.






22. What techniques are used in the task Manage Requirements Traceability?






23. 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






24. What are the inputs to the task - Validate Solution?






25. What are the underlying competencies a BA should possess?






26. 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.






27. 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






28. A good indicator has 5 characteristics:






29. What are the techniques used in Plan Business Analysis Activities?






30. This knowledge area describes the tasks that are performed in order to ensure that solutions meet the business need and to facilitate successful implementation.






31. 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.






32. What is the output of the task Document Elicitation Results?






33. What are the inputs to the task - Assess Organizational Readiness?






34. Elements of a Requirements Management Plan include?






35. The goal of this task is validate that the stated requirements expressed by the stakeholder match the stakeholder's understanding of the problem and the stakeholder's needs. Analyst's understanding conforms to the actual desire or intentions of the s






36. 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






37. What is the output to the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?






38. Is generally understood to describe just one way that an actor can accomplish a particular goal






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






40. What is the output of the task - Determine Solution Approach?






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






42. 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.






43. The minimum set of requirements that must be met in order for a particular solution to be worth implementing.






44. 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






45. What are the techniques used in the task Conduct Elicitation Activity?






46. What are the inputs to the Plan Business Analysis Approach?






47. What are the techniques used in the task - Communicate Requirements?






48. What are the elements of Communication Skills?






49. A brief description of functionality that users need from a solution to meet a business objective. The goal they are trying to accomplish - and any additional information that may be critical to understanding the scope of the story.






50. What are the inputs to the task - Allocate Resources?