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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning
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1. What techniques are used in the task - Prepare Requirements Package?
Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Evolutionary or Functional Prototype
Business Requirements - Identified Defects - Solution Performance Metrics - Solution (Deployed)
Requirements Documentation - Requirements for Vendor Selection
2. What is the output of the task - Validate Requirements?
Requirements (Validated)
Structural Rules
Requirements Management & Communication
Elicitation Results
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.
Decision Analysis
Advantages of a Data Dictionary & Glossary
Identified Defects - Mitigating Actions - Solution Validation Assessment
Ethics - Trustworthiness - Personal Organization
4. What is the output of the task - Communicate Requirements?
Requirements Structure
Assess Organization Readiness
Communicated Requirements
Organization Modeling
5. 7 knowledge areas of ________ : Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring - Elicitation - Requirements Management & Communication - Enterprise Analysis - Requirements Analysis - Solution Assessment & Validation - Underlying Competencies
Operative Rules
The Business Analysis Communication Plan
BABOK
Requirements Structure
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.
Horizontal Prototype
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Organizational Process Assets
Learning
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Decision Analysis - Estimation - SWOT Analysis - Feasibility Analysis
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.
Throw-away Prototype
Strengths - Weaknesses
Goals
Requirements Analysis
8. What are the attributes of a Data Model?
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Modeling - Organization Modeling - Data Modeling
Business Principles & Practices
Reliability - Validity - Timeliness
Name - Value/Meanings - Description
9. Models a deep - and usually narrow slice of the entire system's functionality.
Stakeholder Matrix - Onion Diagram
Solution Performance Assessment
Vertical Prototype
Define Transitional Requirements
10. Industry Knowledge - Organization Knowledge - Solution Knowledge What are the elements of Business Knowledge?
Underlying Competencies
Required Capabilities
Conduct Elicitation Activity
Business Principles & Practices
11. What are the tasks in the knowledge area - Solution Assessment & Validation?
Assess Proposed Solution - Allocate Requirements - Assess Organizational Readiness - Define Transition Requirements - Validate Solution - Evaluate Solution Performance
Requirements Analysis
Solution Assessment & Validation
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Organizational Process Assets
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.
Horizontal Prototype
Business Analysis Approach
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Decision Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Assessment of Proposed Solution
13. This prototype extends the initial interface requirements into a fully functioning system and requires a specialized prototyping tool or language.
Decision Analysis
Evolutionary or Functional Prototype
Leadership
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Required Capabilities
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
Prototyping
Requirements Management & Communication
Emotional and Cognitive
Risk Analysis
15. What is the output of the task - Prioritize Requirements?
Key Performance Indicator (KPI )
Requirements (Allocated)
Requirements (Prioritized)
Requirements Package
16. Name the 2 types of Software categories that assist in BA productivity.
Business Rule
Relationship to Time - Relationship to Task Completion - Relationship to Contracts - Relationships to Formal and Informal Authority
General Purpose Applications & Specialized Applications
Implementation Approach
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
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements
Scope Modeling
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements Management Plan - Scheduled Resources - Solution Scope & Business Case - Supporting Materials
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.
Onion Diagram
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Metrics & KPIs - Prototyping - Risk Analysis - Structured Walkthrough
Repository - Traceability - Requirement Attributes - Prioritization Process - Change Management - Tailoring the Requirements Management Process
Industry Knowledge
19. This knowledge area describes the problem definition and analysis - business case development - feasibility studies and the definition of solution scope.
Cultural Assessment - Operational or Technical Assessment - Stakeholder Impact Analysis
Enterprise Analysis
Communicated Requirements
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Data Modeling - Functional Decomposition - Organizational Modeling - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases - Scope Modeling - User Stories
20. A diagram indicating how involved the stakeholder is with the solution.
Onion Diagram
Solution Performance Assessment
Share - Enhance - Exploit
Benefits - Costs - Risk Assessment - Results Measurement
21. The knowledge area that covers how BAs determine which activities are necessary in order to complete a business analysis effort.
Assumptions & Constraints - Required Capabilities - Solution Approach
Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring
Business Analysis Performance Metrics - Business Analysis Plan - Organization Performance Standards - Requirements Management Plan
Communicated Requirements
22. What techniques are used in the task Manage Requirements Traceability?
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Models - Focus Groups - Interviews - Survey/Questionnaire - Organizational Modeling - Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Force Field Analysis
Vendor Assessment
Coverage Matrix - Table or spreadsheet used to manage tracing.
Assessment of Proposed Solution
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
Vendor Assessment
Focus Group
Requirements Management & Communication
Risk Analysis
24. What are the inputs to the task - Validate Solution?
Solution (Constructed) - Requirements (Prioritized and Validated)
Decision Analysis - Focus Groups - Observation - Survey/Questionnaire
Decision Analysis - Problem Tacking - Risk Analysis
Brings them to a Communication on understanding
25. What are the underlying competencies a BA should possess?
Dependencies
Data Dictionary
Non-functional Requirements Analysis
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving - Behavioral Characteristics - Business Knowledge - Communication Skills - Interaction Skills - Software Application
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.
Interviews
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Requirements - Requirements Package
Business Rules Analysis
Personal Organization
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
Business Goals & Objectives - Requirements (Stated)
Throw-away Prototype
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving
Goals
28. A good indicator has 5 characteristics:
Solution Approach
Monitoring
Allocate Requirements
Clear - Relevant - Economical - Adequate - Quantifiable
29. What are the techniques used in Plan Business Analysis Activities?
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Problem Tracking - Root Cause Analysis
Estimation - Functional Decomposition - Risk Analysis
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements - Requirements Structure
Solution Approach
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.
Solution Assessment & Validation
That they understand them and the current state the requirements are in
Solution (Constructed) - Requirements (Prioritized and Validated)
Cohesive - Complete - Consistent - Correct - Feasible - Modifiable - Unambiguous - Testable
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.
System
Reliability - Validity - Timeliness
Assumptions & Constraints - Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution Options
Ethics
32. What is the output of the task Document Elicitation Results?
Requirements (Stated) - Stakeholder Concerns
Timeboxing
Emotional and Cognitive
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
33. What are the inputs to the task - Assess Organizational Readiness?
Enterprise Architecture - Solution Scope - Solution (Designed) - Stakeholder Concerns
Ethics - Trustworthiness - Personal Organization
Cohesive - Complete - Consistent - Correct - Feasible - Modifiable - Unambiguous - Testable
Plan Business Analysis Approach - Conduct Stakeholder Analysis - Plan Business Analysis Activities - Plan Business Analysis Communication - Plan Requirements Management Process - Manage BA Performance
34. Elements of a Requirements Management Plan include?
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Problem Tracking - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Parametric Estimation
Relationships - Impact Analysis - Configuration Management System
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
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
Solution (Constructed) - Requirements (Prioritized and Validated)
Confirm Elicitation Results
They describe what a solution must be capable of doing to meet the needs of one or more stakeholder groups
Acceptance - Transfer - Avoidance - Mitigation
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
Business Requirements - Identified Defects - Solution Performance Metrics - Solution (Deployed)
Acceptance & Evaluation Technique
Monitoring
Decision Making
37. What is the output to the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?
Define Transitional Requirements
Assumptions & Constraints - Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution Options
Solution Performance Assessment
Clear - Relevant - Economical - Adequate - Quantifiable
38. Is generally understood to describe just one way that an actor can accomplish a particular goal
Interviews - Observation
Scenario
Emotional and Cognitive
Requirements Structure
39. What are the inputs to the task - Prioritize Requirements?
Assumptions & Constraints - Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution Options
Solution Scope Definition - Implementation Approach - Dependencies
Business Case - Business Need - Requirements - Requirements Management Plan - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Risk - assumptions - constraints - etc.
40. What is the output of the task - Determine Solution Approach?
Ongoing Cost versus Initial Investment - Opportunity Costs - Necessity - Sunk Costs
Scenario
Assumptions & Constraints - Business Need - Solution Scope - Stakeholder Concerns
Solution Approach
41. What is the output of the Manage Business Analysis Performance task?
Survey/Questionnaire
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
Reliability - Performance Efficiency - Operability - Security - Compatibility - Maintainability - Transferability
Data Flow Diagrams
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.
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements
Solution (Constructed) - Requirements (Prioritized and Validated)
Requirements Management & Communication
Organizational Knowledge
43. The minimum set of requirements that must be met in order for a particular solution to be worth implementing.
Acceptance Criteria
Benefits - Costs - Risk Assessment - Results Measurement
Solution Performance Assessment
Transition Requirements
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
Scope Modeling
Data Dictionary
Brainstorming
Risk Analysis
45. What are the techniques used in the task Conduct Elicitation Activity?
Evolutionary or Functional Prototype
Assumptions & Constraints
Data Dictionary & Glossary - Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshops - Survey/Questionnaire
Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring
46. What are the inputs to the Plan Business Analysis Approach?
A statement of the needs of a particular stakeholder or class of stakeholders
Metrics & KPIs
Business Need - Expert Judgment - Organizational Process Assets
Activity List
47. What are the techniques used in the task - Communicate Requirements?
Coverage Matrix - Table or spreadsheet used to manage tracing.
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Enterprise Analysis
Requirements Workshop - Structured Walkthrough
48. What are the elements of Communication Skills?
Organize Requirements
Implementation SME
Oral Communications - Teaching - Written Communication
Facilitation & Negotiation - Leadership & Influencing - Teamwork
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.
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
User Story
Validate Solution
Requirements (Prioritized)
50. What are the inputs to the task - Allocate Resources?
Evaluate Solution Performance
Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution (Designed) - Solution Scope
Define Transitional Requirements
That they understand them and the current state the requirements are in