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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning
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1. Involved motivating people to act in ways that enable them to work together to achieve shared goals and objectives.
Requirements Management Plan
Business Analysis Plan
Onion Diagram
Leadership
2. This knowledge area describes the problem definition and analysis - business case development - feasibility studies and the definition of solution scope.
Requirements Structure
Business Rule
Enterprise Analysis
Business Need - Expert Judgment - Organizational Process Assets
3. What is the output of the task - Define Business Case?
Business Requirements - Identified Defects - Solution Performance Metrics - Solution (Deployed)
Coverage Matrix - Table or spreadsheet used to manage tracing.
Business Case
Requirements Management Plan - Solution Scope - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities - Stakeholder/Solution or Transition Requirements (Communicated or Traced)
4. The objective of this technique is to determine how companies achieve their superior performance levels and use that information to design projects to improve operations of the enterprise.
Requirements (Analyzed)
Opportunity Cost
Benchmarking
Absolute Reference - Author - Complexity - Ownership - Priority - Risks - Source - Stability - Status - Urgency
5. 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.
Interface Analysis
Historic Analysis
Problem Tracking
Solution Assessment & Validation
6. What are the inputs to the task - Assess Organizational Readiness?
Interface Analysis
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
Enterprise Architecture - Solution Scope - Solution (Designed) - Stakeholder Concerns
Decision Analysis - Estimation - Metrics & KPIs - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Vendor Assessment
7. Define the requirements that must be met in order for a solution to be considered acceptable to key stakeholders.
Visual Learner - Auditory Learner - Kinesthetic Learner
Requirements Management Plan - Solution Scope - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities - Stakeholder/Solution or Transition Requirements (Communicated or Traced)
Acceptance & Evaluation Technique
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements Management Plan - Scheduled Resources - Solution Scope & Business Case - Supporting Materials
8. What are the Cultural diversity issues that should be taken into account when planning communication?
Relationship to Time - Relationship to Task Completion - Relationship to Contracts - Relationships to Formal and Informal Authority
Define Transitional Requirements
Brings them to a Communication on understanding
Requirements (Approved)
9. Name the 2 types of Software categories that assist in BA productivity.
Sequence Diagrams
Horizontal Prototype
Impact Analysis
General Purpose Applications & Specialized Applications
10. Measures progress towards a strategic goal or objective.
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving - Behavioral Characteristics - Business Knowledge - Communication Skills - Interaction Skills - Software Application
Expert Judgment
Acceptance Criteria
Key Performance Indicator (KPI )
11. Use of a similar project as the basis for developing estimates for the current project. Also known as "top-down" estimating. This is usually done at the beginning of the project or project phase and more detailed estimates follow as more is known.
Validate Requirements
Analogous Estimation
Formal requirements presentation to stakeholders
Reporting
12. What are the techniques used in the task - Assess Capability Gaps?
Document Analysis - SWOT Analysis
Data Dictionary & Glossary - Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshops - Survey/Questionnaire
Timeboxing
Stakeholder Matrix
13. Long-term - ongoing and qualitative statements of a state or condition that the organization is seeking to establish and maintain.
Implementation Approach
Requirements Management Plan - Solution Scope - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities - Stakeholder/Solution or Transition Requirements (Communicated or Traced)
Goals
Requirements (Analyzed)
14. 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
Automate or Simplify Work - Improve Access to Information - Reduce Complexity of Interfaces - Increase Consistency of Behavior - Eliminate Redundancy
Solution Assessment & Validation
Requirements - Requirements Management Plan
Throw-away Prototype
15. What are the techniques used in the task Conduct Stakeholder Analysis?
Requirements (Maintained and Reusable)
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
Cohesive - Complete - Consistent - Correct - Feasible - Modifiable - Unambiguous - Testable
Decision Analysis - Estimation - Metrics & KPIs - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Vendor Assessment
16. What are the inputs to the task - Validate Solution?
Solution (Constructed) - Requirements (Prioritized and Validated)
Data Dictionary
User Classes - Profiles or Roles; Concepts & Relationships - Events - Processes - Rules
Strengths - Weaknesses
17. Issues that may influence the replacement or elimination decision of a system include:
Dependencies
Implementation Approach
Ongoing Cost versus Initial Investment - Opportunity Costs - Necessity - Sunk Costs
Cognitive Conflict
18. This knowledge area describes how the BA assesses proposed solutions and determines which solution best fits the business need - identifies gaps and shortcomings to solutions and determines necessary workarounds or changes to the solution.
Advantages of Document Analysis
Term and Fact Model
Specific - Measurable - Achievable - Relevant - Time-bound Objectives must be SMART.
Solution Assessment & Validation
19. Organizational culture - Stakeholder preference - complexity - organizational maturity and availability of resources are all factors used to do what?
Requirements Management Plan
Perform tailoring exercises
Business Domain - Corporate Culture & Environment - Skills of the Analyst - Requirement Deliverable
Benchmarking
20. 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.
Horizontal Prototype
Impact Analysis - Requirements Coverage - Requirements Allocation
Implementation Approach
Formal Documentation - Presentation - Model
21. What knowledge area discusses the business analysis activities necessary to identify a business need - problem or opportunity - define the capture of the solution and justify the investment necessary to deliver the solution.
Decision Analysis - Focus Groups - Observation - Survey/Questionnaire
Enterprise Analysis - often the starting point for initiating a new project
Fishbone Diagram - Five Whys
Term and Fact Model
22. What is the output of the task - Specify & Model Requirements?
Absolute Reference - Author - Complexity - Ownership - Priority - Risks - Source - Stability - Status - Urgency
Reliability - Performance Efficiency - Operability - Security - Compatibility - Maintainability - Transferability
Requirements (Analyzed)
MoSCoW Analysis
23. A formal written specification with possible walk-thru - an informal one is possibly verbal or email Communication
Emotional and Cognitive
Non-functional Requirements Analysis
Formal requirements presentation to stakeholders
Manage Solution Scope & Requirements - Manage Requirements Traceability - Maintain Requirements for Re-use - Prepare Requirements Package - Communicate Requirements
24. This technique shows how information is input - processed - stored and output from a system in a visual representation.
Data Flow Diagrams
Requirements Management Plan
Acceptance - Transfer - Avoidance - Mitigation
Interviews - Lessons Learned Process - Metrics and KPIs - Problem Tracking - Process Modeling - Root Cause Analysis - Survey/Questionnaire - Variance Analysis
25. A good indicator has 5 characteristics:
Clear - Relevant - Economical - Adequate - Quantifiable
Organization Modeling
This person will be involved in monitoring the performance and effectiveness of a solution or its components.
Ethics
26. Prioritizes requirements based on a allocated fixed amount of money.
Rolling Wave
Brainstorming
Budgeting
Systems Thinking
27. What are the strategies for a positive risk?
Share - Enhance - Exploit
Elimination
Business Case; Stakeholder - Solution or Transition Requirements (Verified)
Organization Modeling
28. What techniques are used in the task Manage Requirements Traceability?
Coverage Matrix - Table or spreadsheet used to manage tracing.
Tracing Requirements
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Solution Performance Assessment
Problem Tracking - Baselining - Signoff
29. What is the output of the task Prepare for Elicitation?
Allocate Requirements
Fishbone Diagram - Five Whys
Scheduled Resources - Supporting Materials
Requirements Structure
30. Communicated Requirements mean what to stakeholders?
That they understand them and the current state the requirements are in
Functions - Markets - Matrix
Document Analysis
Automate or Simplify Work - Improve Access to Information - Reduce Complexity of Interfaces - Increase Consistency of Behavior - Eliminate Redundancy
31. The process of informing stakeholders of metrics of indicators in specified formats at specified intervals.
Historic Analysis
Repository - Traceability - Requirement Attributes - Prioritization Process - Change Management - Tailoring the Requirements Management Process
Onion Diagram
Reporting
32. Three types of organizational structures
Scenarios & Use Cases
Ethics - Trustworthiness - Personal Organization
Organization Modeling
Functions - Markets - Matrix
33. Two types of conflict.
Dependencies
Risk Analysis
Emotional and Cognitive
Business Requirements - Stakeholder Requirements - Solution Requirements - Transition Requirements
34. What are stakeholder requirements?
Expert Judgment
Formal Documentation - Presentation - Model
They describe what a solution must be capable of doing to meet the needs of one or more stakeholder groups
Fishbone Diagram - Five Whys
35. The goal of this task is to meet with stakeholder(s) to gather information regarding their needs.
Advantages of a Data Dictionary & Glossary
Interface Analysis
Survey/Questionnaire
Conduct Elicitation Activity
36. 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.
Creative Thinking - Decision Making - Learning - Problem Solving - Systems Thinking
Interviews - Lessons Learned Process - Metrics and KPIs - Problem Tracking - Process Modeling - Root Cause Analysis - Survey/Questionnaire - Variance Analysis
Emotional and Cognitive
Primary stakeholders in the Organize Requirements task
37. What is the output of the task - Communicate Requirements?
Specific - Measurable - Achievable - Relevant - Time-bound Objectives must be SMART.
Communicated Requirements
Ethics
Document Elicitation Results task
38. A specific - actionable - testable directive that is under the control of an organization and supports a business policy.
Business Rule
Document Analysis
Manage Solution Scope & Requirements - Manage Requirements Traceability - Maintain Requirements for Re-use - Prepare Requirements Package - Communicate Requirements
Business Case; Stakeholder - Solution or Transition Requirements (Verified)
39. What are the strategies for a negative risk?
Requirements (Any Except Stated)
Acceptance - Transfer - Avoidance - Mitigation
Problem Tracking
Business Analysis Plan
40. What are some of the key variables used in determining the priority of a requirement?
Reliability - Performance Efficiency - Operability - Security - Compatibility - Maintainability - Transferability
Scheduled Resources - Supporting Materials
Business Value - Business or Technical Risk - Implementation Difficulty - Likelihood of Success - Regulatory or Policy Compliance - Relationship to Other Requirements - Stakeholder Agreement - Urgency
Stakeholder Matrix - Onion Diagram
41. What are the techniques used in the task - Prioritize Requirements?
Decision Analysis - Risk Analysis - MoSCoW Analysis - Timeboxing/Budgeting - Voting
Business Requirements - Identified Defects - Solution Performance Metrics - Solution (Deployed)
Determine the Process - Who will Authorize Changes - Impact Analysis - Wording of the Request - Coordinate Prioritization of Change
Discounted Cash Flow - Net Present Value - Internal Rate of Return - Average Rate of Return - Pay Back Period - Cost-Benefit Analysis
42. 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.
Root Cause Analysis
Decision Analysis
Verify Requirements
Organize Requirements
43. Limited to "as-is" perspective. - Existing documentation may not be up-to-date or valid. - Can be a time-consuming and even tedious process to locate the relevant information
Advantages of Document Analysis
Business Case
Solution Assessment & Validation
Acceptance Criteria
44. 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.
Use Case
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Problem Tracking - Structured Walkthrough - Checklists
Define Business Case
Tracing Requirements
45. 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.
Activity List
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Modeling - Organization Modeling - Data Modeling
Sequence Diagrams
Opportunity Cost
46. A means to elicit ideas and attitudes about a specific product - service or opportunity in an interactive group environment. The participants share their impressions - preferences and needs - guided by a moderator. - Effective for learning people's a
Operative Rules
Focus Group
Scenario
Impact Analysis
47. 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.
Scenarios & Use Cases
Assess Proposed Solution - Allocate Requirements - Assess Organizational Readiness - Define Transition Requirements - Validate Solution - Evaluate Solution Performance
Verify Requirements
Horizontal Prototype
48. What are the inputs to the task - Define Business Need?
Decision Analysis - Problem Tacking - Risk Analysis
Business Goals & Objectives - Requirements (Stated)
Implementation SME
Business Analysis Communication Plan
49. Maps the level of stakeholder influence and interest in a project.
User Classes - Profiles or Roles; Concepts & Relationships - Events - Processes - Rules
Brings them to a Communication on understanding
Advantages of a Data Dictionary & Glossary
Stakeholder Matrix
50. What are the techniques used in the task Define Business Need?
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Business Rules Analysis - Focus Groups - Functional Decomposition - Root Cause Analysis
System
General Purpose Applications & Specialized Applications
Historic Analysis