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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What are the inputs to the task - Define Business Need?
Creative Thinking - Decision Making - Learning - Problem Solving - Systems Thinking
Fishbone Diagram - Five Whys
Business Goals & Objectives - Requirements (Stated)
Requirements Workshop
2. Organizational culture - Stakeholder preference - complexity - organizational maturity and availability of resources are all factors used to do what?
Acceptance & Evaluation Technique
Perform tailoring exercises
Glossary
Oral Communications - Teaching - Written Communication
3. Approach to decision making that examines and models the possible consequences of different decisions. Make an optimal decision under conditions of uncertainty.
Decision Analysis
Implementation Approach
Expert Judgment
Activity List
4. What is the output of the task Plan Business Analysis Activities?
Business Analysis Plan
Cognitive Conflict
Document Analysis - SWOT Analysis
Problem Solving
5. Allocate stakeholder and solution requirements among solution components and releases in order to maximize the possible business value given the options and alternatives generated by the design team.
Trustworthiness
Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring
Allocate Requirements
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements Management Plan - Scheduled Resources - Solution Scope & Business Case - Supporting Materials
6. The goal of this task is to ensure that all requirements support the delivery of value to the business - fulfill its goal and objectives and meet a stakeholder need.
Validate Requirements
Decision Making
Necessity - Effort - Subset - Cover - Value
They describe what a solution must be capable of doing to meet the needs of one or more stakeholder groups
7. What are the techniques used in the task Conduct Stakeholder Analysis?
Responsible - Accountable - Consulted - Informed
Decision Analysis - Problem Tacking - Risk Analysis
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
Document Analysis - SWOT Analysis
8. Familiarity with the range of commercially available solutions or suppliers can assist with the identification of possible alternatives.
Business Analysis Process Assets
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Solution Performance Assessment
Solution Knowledge
9. Elements identified for each activity and task.
Acceptance - Transfer - Avoidance - Mitigation
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements (Stated) - Solution Scope
Unique Number - Activity Description - Assumptions - Dependencies - Milestones
Elicitation
10. The purpose is to describe the required qualities of a system - such as its usability and performance characteristics.
Define Business Need - Access Capability Gaps - Determine Solution Approach - Define Solution Scope - Define Business Case
Non-functional Requirements Analysis
Verify Requirements
Problem or Vision Statement
11. Ensure that the solution meets the business need and determine the most appropriate response to identified defects.
Validate Solution
General Purpose Applications & Specialized Applications
Root Cause Analysis
Formal Documentation - Presentation - Model
12. Documents terms unique to a domain.
Glossary
Define Business Case
Stakeholder Matrix
Requirements (Approved)
13. What are the techniques used in the task Confirm Elicitation Results?
General Purpose Applications & Specialized Applications
Facilitation & Negotiation - Leadership & Influencing - Teamwork
Interviews - Observation
Primary stakeholders in the Organize Requirements task
14. The goal of tracing is to ensure that requirements are linked back to a business objective. Creation of this relationship helps in what other traceability activities?
Requirements Management & Communication
Impact Analysis - Requirements Coverage - Requirements Allocation
Relationship to Time - Relationship to Task Completion - Relationship to Contracts - Relationships to Formal and Informal Authority
Data Flow Diagrams
15. This prototype extends the initial interface requirements into a fully functioning system and requires a specialized prototyping tool or language.
Business Requirements - Identified Defects - Solution Performance Metrics - Solution (Deployed)
Decision Analysis - Estimation - Metrics & KPIs - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Evolutionary or Functional Prototype
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements (Stated) - Solution Scope
16. What are the inputs to the task Conduct Stakeholder Analysis?
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Organizational Process Assets
Evaluate Solution Performance
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Metrics & KPIs - Prototyping - Risk Analysis - Structured Walkthrough
Expert Judgment
17. Confidence in the problem solving process that a selected solution is correct - new solution options can be evaluated effectively using the problem solving framework - selected solutions meet the defined objectives and solve the underlying problem -
Responsible - Accountable - Consulted - Informed
Problem Solving
Prepare Requirements Package
Requirements (Approved)
18. What is the output of the task Manage Solution Scope & Requirements?
Monitoring
Requirements (Approved)
Define Business Case
Data Flow Diagrams
19. What are the inputs to the task - Organize Requirements?
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements (Stated) - Solution Scope
Lessons Learned Process
Business Analysis Process Assets
Structured Walkthrough
20. 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.
Business Analysis Performance Metrics - Business Analysis Plan - Organization Performance Standards - Requirements Management Plan
Requirements (Allocated)
Scheduled Resources - Supporting Materials
Evaluation
21. 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
Requirements (Stated) - Stakeholder Concerns
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
Prepare Requirements Package
Dependencies
22. What is the output of the task Confirm Elicitation Results?
Requirements (Stated - Confirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Confirmed)
Enterprise Analysis - often the starting point for initiating a new project
Dependencies
Requirements Analysis
23. Communication of requirements does what for stakeholders?
Prepare Requirements Package
Acceptance Criteria
Problem or Vision Statement
Brings them to a Communication on understanding
24. What stakeholder receives noticeable negative impact if information is incorrectly transferred from the old to new solution?
Data Dictionary & Glossary - Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshops - Survey/Questionnaire
Ethics
Customer
Data Dictionary
25. What is the output of the task - Assess Proposed Solution?
Business Analysis Process Assets
Share - Enhance - Exploit
Assessment of Proposed Solution
Decision Analysis - Focus Groups - Observation - Survey/Questionnaire
26. 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
Requirements Workshop - Structured Walkthrough
Decision Making
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Interface Analysis
27. What is the output of the task - Organize Requirements?
Risk - assumptions - constraints - etc.
Implementation SME
Requirements Structure
Business Analysis Performance Metrics - Business Analysis Plan - Organization Performance Standards - Requirements Management Plan
28. Involved motivating people to act in ways that enable them to work together to achieve shared goals and objectives.
Business Analysis Communication Plan
Evaluate Solution Performance
This person will be involved in monitoring the performance and effectiveness of a solution or its components.
Leadership
29. Two types of conflict.
Problem or Vision Statement
Emotional and Cognitive
Evaluation Criteria
They describe what a solution must be capable of doing to meet the needs of one or more stakeholder groups
30. This knowledge area describes the problem definition and analysis - business case development - feasibility studies and the definition of solution scope.
Compliance with regulatory or other standards
Cohesive - Complete - Consistent - Correct - Feasible - Modifiable - Unambiguous - Testable
Enterprise Analysis
Customer
31. What are the inputs to the task - Allocate Resources?
Use Case
Implementation Approach
Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution (Designed) - Solution Scope
Requirements (Allocated)
32. What are the inputs of the task Plan Business Analysis Communication?
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Requirements (Approved)
Responsible - Accountable - Consulted - Informed
Elimination of Dominated Alternative - Ranking Objects on a Similar Scale
33. What are the classifications used to describe requirements
Sequence Diagrams
Brings them to a Communication on understanding
Assumptions & Constraints
Business Requirements - Stakeholder Requirements - Solution Requirements - Transition Requirements
34. What is the output of the task - Maintain Requirements for Re-use?
Requirements (Maintained and Reusable)
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Allocate Requirements
Underlying Competencies
35. Use of parameters - multiplied by the number of hours. (COCOMO II - Function Point Counting - Use Case Points - and Story Points)
Parametric Estimation
Throw-away Prototype
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Organizational Process Assets
Risk - assumptions - constraints - etc.
36. Industry Knowledge - Organization Knowledge - Solution Knowledge What are the elements of Business Knowledge?
Acceptance Criteria
Business Principles & Practices
Relationship to Time - Relationship to Task Completion - Relationship to Contracts - Relationships to Formal and Informal Authority
Root Cause Analysis
37. 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.
Requirements (Stated) - Stakeholder Concerns
Structural Rules
Transition Requirements
Requirements Analysis
38. The skill of moderating discussions among a group or enable all participants to effectively articulate their views on a topic under discussion and to further ensure that participants in the discussion are able to recognize and appreciate the differin
Name - Value/Meanings - Description
Assess Proposed Solution - Allocate Requirements - Assess Organizational Readiness - Define Transition Requirements - Validate Solution - Evaluate Solution Performance
This person will be involved in monitoring the performance and effectiveness of a solution or its components.
Facilitation
39. What does SMART stand for?
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving
Requirements Structure
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Specific - Measurable - Achievable - Relevant - Time-bound Objectives must be SMART.
40. When a conflict arises between stakeholders on one or more documented requirements - the first thing that needs to take place is what?
That they understand them and the current state the requirements are in
To record the conflict in the Requirements Issues Log.
Transition Requirements
Necessity - Effort - Subset - Cover - Value
41. What are the elements of the task - Define Solution Scope?
Metrics & KPIs
Solution Scope Definition - Implementation Approach - Dependencies
Requirements Analysis
Observation
42. What are the inputs to the task Plan Requirements Management Process?
Confirm Elicitation Results
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets
Estimation
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements (Stated) - Solution Scope
43. Models a shallow - and possibly wide view of the system's functionality. It typically does not have any business logic running behind the visualization.
Industry Knowledge
Horizontal Prototype
Requirements Management Plan - Solution Scope - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities - Stakeholder/Solution or Transition Requirements (Communicated or Traced)
Business Goals & Objectives - Requirements (Stated)
44. Techniques used in the task Plan Requirements Management Process.
Name - Aliases - Values/Meanings - Description
Decision Analysis - Problem Tacking - Risk Analysis
Allocate Requirements
The Sponsor
45. Useful for ensuring that all stakeholders are in agreement on the format and content of relevant information. Capturing these definitions in a single model ensures that these terms will be used consistently.
Solution Scope Definition - Implementation Approach - Dependencies
Manage Solution Scope & Requirements - Manage Requirements Traceability - Maintain Requirements for Re-use - Prepare Requirements Package - Communicate Requirements
Vertical Prototype
Advantages of a Data Dictionary & Glossary
46. Most optimistic estimate; most pessimistic estimate; most likely estimate
Business Analysis Plan
Three-point Estimation
Assumptions & Constraints - Required Capabilities - Solution Approach
Customer
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
Term and Fact Model
Scope Modeling
Plan Business Analysis Approach - Conduct Stakeholder Analysis - Plan Business Analysis Activities - Plan Business Analysis Communication - Plan Requirements Management Process - Manage BA Performance
48. A package should contain a consistent - cohesive and coherent set of requirements. This describes the ____________.
Interviews
Risk Analysis
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
Requirements Structure
49. What is the output of the task - Verify Requirements?
Decision Analysis
Business Principals
Business Analysis Approach - BA Performance Assessment - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Requirements (Verified)
50. Rules that are intended to help determine when something is or is not true - or when things fall into a specific category. They are expressed as rules because they describe categorizations that may change over time.
Problem Tracking
Emotional and Cognitive
Structural Rules
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire