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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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






2. A good indicator has 5 characteristics:






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






4. Involved motivating people to act in ways that enable them to work together to achieve shared goals and objectives.






5. What are some of the key variables used in determining the priority of a requirement?






6. 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.






7. What are the inputs of the task Plan Business Analysis Communication?






8. What are the inputs for the task - Prepare Requirements Package?






9. Most optimistic estimate; most pessimistic estimate; most likely estimate






10. This knowledge area describes the behaviors - knowledge and other characteristics that support the effective performance of a BA.






11. Three key factors when assessing the quality of indicators and their metrics






12. What is the output of the task - Maintain Requirements for Re-use?






13. Combination of expert judgment and history. Individual estimates - sharing the estimates with experts - and having several rounds until consensus is reached. An average of the three estimates is used






14. Prioritizes requirements based on a allocated fixed amount of money.






15. A formal written specification with possible walk-thru - an informal one is possibly verbal or email Communication






16. What are the characteristics of Interaction Skills?






17. What are the strategies for a positive risk?






18. Maps the level of stakeholder influence and interest in a project.






19. The decomposition of activities and tasks creates?






20. What are the inputs to the task Manage Requirements Traceability?






21. What are the strategies for a negative risk?






22. What are the inputs for the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?






23. What are the techniques used in the task Manage Business Analysis Performance?






24. What is the output of the task - Manage Requirements Traceability?






25. Prioritizes requirements based on the amount of work that the project team is capable of delivering in a set period of time. Approaches include: All-in - All Out - Selective






26. Defines what must be delivered in order to meet the business need - and the effect of the proposed change initiation on the business and technology operations and infrastructure.






27. 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






28. 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






29. Use of parameters - multiplied by the number of hours. (COCOMO II - Function Point Counting - Use Case Points - and Story Points)






30. To assess the ability of a potential vendor to meet commitments regarding a product or service






31. Defines the key terms and data relevant to a business domain.






32. What are the techniques used in the task Define Business Need?






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






34. This task describes the work required to decide which formats are appropriate for a particular project and its stakeholders. The requirements must be clear - concise - accurate and at the appropriate level of detail to assure clear understanding by t






35. Long-term - ongoing and qualitative statements of a state or condition that the organization is seeking to establish and maintain.






36. Stakeholders involved the BA in decision making - acceptance of the BA's recommendations - willingness to discuss difficult or controversial topics with the BA - stakeholders willing to support or defend the BA when problems occur.






37. What are the techniques used in the task - Define Business Case?






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






39. 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.






40. 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.






41. What are the techniques used in the task - Validate Requirements?






42. 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






43. Knowing the dependencies and relationships between requirements helps when determining the sequence in which requirements are to be addressed. Common relations are:






44. Understanding of how a change to a component affects the system as a whole - identification of reinforcing and compensating feedback loops - understanding of how systems adapt to external pressures and changes - A system as a whole will have properti






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






46. To define the rules that govern decisions in an organization and that define - constrain or enable organization operations.






47. What are the internal factors in a SWOT Analysis?






48. 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.






49. What are the techniques used in the task - Assess Organizational Readiness?






50. What are the tasks of the Elicitation Knowledge Area?