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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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1. When a requirement is changed - the BA can easily review all the related requirements and software components in order to understand the impact of the change.
Impact Analysis
Assumptions & Constraints - Business Need - Solution Scope - Stakeholder Concerns
Risk Analysis
Business Case - Business Need - Requirements - Requirements Management Plan - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities

2. What are the general modeling concepts that are relevant to business analysis?
User Classes - Profiles or Roles; Concepts & Relationships - Events - Processes - Rules
Benefits - Costs - Risk Assessment - Results Measurement
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Problem Tracking - Root Cause Analysis
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Business Rules Analysis - Focus Groups - Functional Decomposition - Root Cause Analysis

3. A package should contain a consistent - cohesive and coherent set of requirements. This describes the ____________.
Business Analysis Process Assets
State Diagrams
Requirements (Verified)
Requirements Structure

4. What are the output(s) of the task - Validate Solution?
Structural Rules
Business Analysis Approach
Identified Defects - Mitigating Actions - Solution Validation Assessment
Enterprise Architecture - Solution Scope - Solution (Designed) - Stakeholder Concerns

5. What are the inputs to the Plan Business Analysis Approach?
Business Need - Expert Judgment - Organizational Process Assets
Creative Thinking - Decision Making - Learning - Problem Solving - Systems Thinking
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Business Rules Analysis - Decision Analysis - Functional Decomposition - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases
Identified Defects - Mitigating Actions - Solution Validation Assessment

6. Requires the team to focus on examining the premises - assumptions - observations and expectations of the team members. This type of conflict can have a beneficial effect of strengthening the foundations of the analysis and the solution.
Requirements Management Plan - Solution Scope - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities - Stakeholder/Solution or Transition Requirements (Communicated or Traced)
Scope Modeling
Cognitive Conflict
Requirements (Stated - Unconfirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Unconfirmed)

7. The systematic and objective assessment of a solution to determine its status and efficacy in meeting objectives over time - and to identify ways to improve the solution to better meet objectives.
Acceptance & Evaluation Technique
Validate Requirements
Evaluation
Business Domain - Corporate Culture & Environment - Skills of the Analyst - Requirement Deliverable

8. What is the output of the task Plan Business Analysis Communication?
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements
Data Flow Diagrams
Elimination of Dominated Alternative - Ranking Objects on a Similar Scale
Business Analysis Communication Plan

9. To identify interfaces between solutions and/or solution components and define requirements that describe how they will interact.
Scope Modeling
Evolutionary or Functional Prototype
Solution Scope
Interface Analysis

10. What is the output of the task - Prepare Requirements Package?
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Decision Analysis - Estimation - SWOT Analysis - Feasibility Analysis
Onion Diagram
Requirements Package
Business Need - Solution Scope & Business Case - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities

11. What are the techniques used in the task - Determine Solution Approach?
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Decision Analysis - Estimation - SWOT Analysis - Feasibility Analysis
Requirements (Stated - Unconfirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Unconfirmed)
Tracing Requirements

12. What are the inputs for the task - Define Solution Scope?
Activity List
Prepare Requirements Package
Assumptions & Constraints - Required Capabilities - Solution Approach
Name - Value/Meanings - Description

13. The goal of this task is to create a set of views of the requirements for the new business solution that are comprehensive - complete - consistent and understood from all stakeholder perspectives.
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
Organize Requirements
Define Transitional Requirements
Data Dictionary & Glossary

14. What are the tasks in the knowledge area - Requirements Analysis?
Prioritize Requirements - Organize Requirements - Specify & Model Requirements - Define Assumptions & Constraints - Verify Requirements - Validate Requirements
Cognitive Conflict
Sequence Diagrams
Solution Knowledge

15. 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.
Define Business Case
Ethics
Share - Enhance - Exploit
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. The people involved - the interactions between them - the external forces affecting their behavior and all other relevant elements and factors.
System
Reliability - Validity - Timeliness
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Metrics & KPIs - Prototyping - Risk Analysis - Structured Walkthrough
Fishbone Diagram - Five Whys

17. Name the 2 types of Software categories that assist in BA productivity.
Business Rules Analysis
Business Requirements - Identified Defects - Solution Performance Metrics - Solution (Deployed)
Prioritize Requirements - Organize Requirements - Specify & Model Requirements - Define Assumptions & Constraints - Verify Requirements - Validate Requirements
General Purpose Applications & Specialized Applications

18. 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
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Metrics & KPIs - Prototyping - Risk Analysis - Structured Walkthrough
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Decision Analysis - Focus Groups - Observation - Survey/Questionnaire
Compliance with regulatory or other standards

19. What are the techniques used in the task - Validate Requirements?
Specific - Measurable - Achievable - Relevant - Time-bound Objectives must be SMART.
BABOK
Business Need
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Metrics & KPIs - Prototyping - Risk Analysis - Structured Walkthrough

20. 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.
Acceptance Criteria
Creative Thinking - Decision Making - Learning - Problem Solving - Systems Thinking
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets
Data Dictionary

21. Who is the primary stakeholder in the Define Business Case task?
The Sponsor
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets
Decision Making
User Story

22. What are stakeholder requirements?
Identified Defects - Mitigating Actions - Solution Validation Assessment
They describe what a solution must be capable of doing to meet the needs of one or more stakeholder groups
To record the conflict in the Requirements Issues Log.
Prototyping

23. Maps the level of stakeholder influence and interest in a project.
Acceptance Criteria
Customer
Prepare for Elicitation - Conduct Elicitation Activity - Document Elicitation Results - Confirm Elicitation Results
Stakeholder Matrix

24. 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.
Tracing Requirements
Historic Analysis
Requirements (Allocated)
Enterprise Architecture - Solution Scope - Solution (Designed) - Stakeholder Concerns

25. What are the inputs to the task - Define Business Need?
Primary stakeholders in the Organize Requirements task
Necessity - Effort - Subset - Cover - Value
Business Goals & Objectives - Requirements (Stated)
Acceptance - Transfer - Avoidance - Mitigation

26. What are the inputs to the task - Define Business Case?
Enterprise Analysis - often the starting point for initiating a new project
Assumptions & Constraints - Business Need - Solution Scope - Stakeholder Concerns
Data Dictionary
Activity List

27. What are the techniques used in the task - Allocate Resources?
Enterprise Analysis
Personal Organization
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Business Rules Analysis - Decision Analysis - Functional Decomposition - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases
Unique Number - Activity Description - Assumptions - Dependencies - Milestones

28. What are the inputs to the task - Validate Requirements?
Business Case; Stakeholder - Solution or Transition Requirements (Verified)
Business Analysis Approach
Expert Judgment
Tracing Requirements

29. What is the output of the task Conduct Elicitation Activity?
Interviews - Observation
Scheduled Resources - Supporting Materials
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving
Elicitation Results

30. A structured examination of the aspects of a situation to establish the root causes and resulting effects of the problem. A critical element is to ensure that the current business thinking and processes are challenged. The purpose is to determine the
Historic Analysis
Solution Scope
Root Cause Analysis
Creative Thinking - Decision Making - Learning - Problem Solving - Systems Thinking

31. What factors guide technique selection?
Business Domain - Corporate Culture & Environment - Skills of the Analyst - Requirement Deliverable
Enterprise Analysis - often the starting point for initiating a new project
Evaluation
Dependencies

32. What are the techniques used in the task Conduct Elicitation Activity?
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Problem Tracking - Structured Walkthrough - Checklists
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets
Data Dictionary & Glossary - Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshops - Survey/Questionnaire
Solution Scope

33. Elicitation Results are the inputs for the ____________
Document Elicitation Results task
Functions - Markets - Matrix
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
Requirements (Validated)

34. What are the Behavioral Characteristics a BA should exhibit?
Ethics - Trustworthiness - Personal Organization
Implementation SME
Unique Number - Activity Description - Assumptions - Dependencies - Milestones
Reliability - Validity - Timeliness

35. What are the characteristics of quality for a requirements?
Structured Walkthrough
Business Analysis Approach
Cohesive - Complete - Consistent - Correct - Feasible - Modifiable - Unambiguous - Testable
Requirements (Approved)

36. What are the inputs for the task - Define Transitional Requirements?
Discounted Cash Flow - Net Present Value - Internal Rate of Return - Average Rate of Return - Pay Back Period - Cost-Benefit Analysis
Organizational Readiness Assessment - Requirements (Stated) - Solution (Deployed) - Solution (Designed)
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving - Behavioral Characteristics - Business Knowledge - Communication Skills - Interaction Skills - Software Application
Business Analysis Approach

37. 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.
Primary stakeholders in the Organize Requirements task
Responsible - Accountable - Consulted - Informed
Repository - Traceability - Requirement Attributes - Prioritization Process - Change Management - Tailoring the Requirements Management Process
Requirements Structure

38. What is the output of the task - Communicate Requirements?
Communicated Requirements
Advantages of Document Analysis
Requirements Structure
Decision Analysis - Process Modeling - Structured Walkthrough

39. 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.
Advantages of Document Analysis
State Diagrams
Implementation Approach
Business Analysis Approach - BA Performance Assessment - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities

40. The decomposition of activities and tasks creates?
Solution Knowledge
Focus Group
Decision Analysis - Process Modeling - Structured Walkthrough
Activity List

41. What are the techniques used in the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?
Tracing Requirements
Decision Analysis
Decision Analysis - Focus Groups - Observation - Survey/Questionnaire
Facilitation & Negotiation - Leadership & Influencing - Teamwork

42. A structured way to capture requirements. May be used to scope - discover - define - prioritize and reach closure on requirements for the target system. Considered one of the most effective ways to deliver high quality requirements quickly.
Decision Analysis - Risk Analysis - MoSCoW Analysis - Timeboxing/Budgeting - Voting
Data Modeling
Requirements Workshop
Acceptance & Evaluation Technique

43. 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
Business Policy
Confirm Elicitation Results
Ethics - Trustworthiness - Personal Organization
Structural Rules

44. What are the techniques used in Plan Business Analysis Communication?
Business Requirements - Stakeholder Requirements - Solution Requirements - Transition Requirements
Impact Analysis
Structured Walkthrough
Goals

45. What are the techniques used in the task - Assess Capability Gaps?
Systems Thinking
Organizational Readiness Assessment
Document Analysis - SWOT Analysis
Assess Proposed Solution - Allocate Requirements - Assess Organizational Readiness - Define Transition Requirements - Validate Solution - Evaluate Solution Performance

46. 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.
Interviews - Lessons Learned Process - Metrics and KPIs - Problem Tracking - Process Modeling - Root Cause Analysis - Survey/Questionnaire - Variance Analysis
Tracing Requirements
Solution Approach
Formal requirements presentation to stakeholders

47. What are the internal factors in a SWOT Analysis?
System
Requirements (Prioritized)
Strengths - Weaknesses
State Diagrams

48. What are the inputs to the task - Validate Solution?
Solution (Constructed) - Requirements (Prioritized and Validated)
BABOK
Solution Assessment & Validation
Influence on the project - organizational - project health and other stakeholders

49. What are the inputs to the task Conduct Stakeholder Analysis?
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Organizational Process Assets
Interviews - Observation
Requirements (Stated - Confirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Confirmed)
Automate or Simplify Work - Improve Access to Information - Reduce Complexity of Interfaces - Increase Consistency of Behavior - Eliminate Redundancy

50. What is the output of the Manage Business Analysis Performance task?
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
Requirements (Approved)
Data Modeling
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements - Requirements Structure