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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

Subjects : certifications, business-skills

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1. Documents terms unique to a domain.
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Decision Analysis - Estimation - SWOT Analysis - Feasibility Analysis
Organizational Readiness Assessment - Requirements (Stated) - Solution (Deployed) - Solution (Designed)
Glossary
Acceptance Criteria

2. Forecast the cost and effort involved in pursuing a course of action. Used to develop a better understanding of the possible range of costs and effort associated with any initiative
Estimation
Define Business Need - Access Capability Gaps - Determine Solution Approach - Define Solution Scope - Define Business Case
Oral Communications - Teaching - Written Communication
Data Dictionary

3. 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.
Budgeting
A statement of the needs of a particular stakeholder or class of stakeholders
Requirements Management & Communication
Scenarios & Use Cases

4. 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
Prepare Requirements Package
Conduct Elicitation Activity
Business Policy
MoSCoW Analysis

5. 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 -
Requirements (Traced)
Identified Defects - Mitigating Actions - Solution Validation Assessment
Benchmarking
Problem Solving

6. Communication of requirements does what for stakeholders?
Business Domain - Corporate Culture & Environment - Skills of the Analyst - Requirement Deliverable
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
Brings them to a Communication on understanding
Facilitation & Negotiation - Leadership & Influencing - Teamwork

7. Models a deep - and usually narrow slice of the entire system's functionality.
Specific - Measurable - Achievable - Relevant - Time-bound Objectives must be SMART.
Prepare for Elicitation - Conduct Elicitation Activity - Document Elicitation Results - Confirm Elicitation Results
Evolutionary or Functional Prototype
Vertical Prototype

8. What are the techniques used in the task Manage Solution Scope & Requirements?
Acceptance & Evaluation Technique
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Problem Tracking - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Problem Tracking - Baselining - Signoff
Root Cause Analysis

9. What are the inputs for the task - Define Solution Scope?
Organizational Knowledge
Assumptions & Constraints - Required Capabilities - Solution Approach
Verify Requirements
Interface Analysis

10. Name the 2 types of Software categories that assist in BA productivity.
Interviews - Lessons Learned Process - Metrics and KPIs - Problem Tracking - Process Modeling - Root Cause Analysis - Survey/Questionnaire - Variance Analysis
Activity List
Assumptions & Constraints - Required Capabilities - Solution Approach
General Purpose Applications & Specialized Applications

11. What are the tasks for the knowledge area - Requirements Management & Communication?
Requirements Structure
User Classes - Profiles or Roles; Concepts & Relationships - Events - Processes - Rules
Manage Solution Scope & Requirements - Manage Requirements Traceability - Maintain Requirements for Re-use - Prepare Requirements Package - Communicate Requirements
Advantages of a Data Dictionary & Glossary

12. Set of requirements that will be used to choose between multiple solutions.
Evaluation Criteria
Requirements (Any Except Stated)
Conduct Elicitation Activity
Business Case; Stakeholder - Solution or Transition Requirements (Verified)

13. The BA is a stakeholder in ______ business analysis activities.
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements - Requirements Structure
All
Business Analysis Plan
Use Case

14. What are the elements of the task Plan Requirements Management Process?
Share - Enhance - Exploit
Repository - Traceability - Requirement Attributes - Prioritization Process - Change Management - Tailoring the Requirements Management Process
Plan Business Analysis Approach - Conduct Stakeholder Analysis - Plan Business Analysis Activities - Plan Business Analysis Communication - Plan Requirements Management Process - Manage BA Performance
Business Analysis Plan

15. What are the inputs to the task - Determine Solution Approach?
Define Business Need - Access Capability Gaps - Determine Solution Approach - Define Solution Scope - Define Business Case
Implementation SME
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Required Capabilities
Delphi Estimation

16. What are the techniques used in the task Document Elicitation Results?
Systems Thinking
Define Business Case
Business Requirements - Stakeholder Requirements - Solution Requirements - Transition Requirements
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Problem Tracking - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire

17. What are the characteristics of Interaction Skills?
Fishbone Diagram - Five Whys
Timeboxing
Define Transitional Requirements
Facilitation & Negotiation - Leadership & Influencing - Teamwork

18. Using this technique the business analyst has collected the deliverables - activities - tasks - and estimates from all the involved stakeholders and rolls them up to get a total for all the activities and tasks.
Rolling Wave
Learning
Metrics & KPIs
Bottom-up Estimation

19. What are the techniques used in the task Conduct Stakeholder Analysis?
Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring
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 - Problem Tacking - Risk Analysis

20. What is the output of the task - Prepare Requirements Package?
Monitoring
Document Analysis
Survey/Questionnaire
Requirements Package

21. Long-term - ongoing and qualitative statements of a state or condition that the organization is seeking to establish and maintain.
Requirements Package
Ethics - Trustworthiness - Personal Organization
Goals
Data Flow Diagrams

22. Involves assessing a situation - understanding it as fully as possible - and making judgments about possible solutions to the problem.
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving
Elicitation Results
Brainstorming
Responsible - Accountable - Consulted - Informed

23. 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.
Implementation Approach
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Problem Tracking - Structured Walkthrough - Checklists
Business Analysis Process Assets
Acceptance Criteria

24. What are the Behavioral Characteristics a BA should exhibit?
Requirements (Maintained and Reusable)
Ethics - Trustworthiness - Personal Organization
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Decision Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Scope Modeling

25. Define the requirements that must be met in order for a solution to be considered acceptable to key stakeholders.
Requirements (Verified)
Decision Analysis - Problem Tacking - Risk Analysis
A statement of the needs of a particular stakeholder or class of stakeholders
Acceptance & Evaluation Technique

26. What are the inputs to the task Manage Requirements Traceability?
Elicitation Results
Glossary
Throw-away Prototype
Requirements - Requirements Management Plan

27. Communicated Requirements mean what to stakeholders?
Interface Analysis
That they understand them and the current state the requirements are in
Determine the Process - Who will Authorize Changes - Impact Analysis - Wording of the Request - Coordinate Prioritization of Change
Cultural Assessment - Operational or Technical Assessment - Stakeholder Impact Analysis

28. What are the 3 elements in the Assess Organizational Readiness?
Confirm Elicitation Results
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Problem Tracking - Root Cause Analysis
Cultural Assessment - Operational or Technical Assessment - Stakeholder Impact Analysis
Problem Tracking

29. 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.
BABOK
Goals
Creative Thinking - Decision Making - Learning - Problem Solving - Systems Thinking
Assumptions & Constraints - Required Capabilities - Solution Approach

30. What are the inputs for the task Confirm Elicitation Results?
Assumptions & Constraints
Formal requirements presentation to stakeholders
Brings them to a Communication on understanding
Requirements (Stated - Unconfirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Unconfirmed)

31. The decomposition of activities and tasks creates?
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
Activity List
Confirm Elicitation Results
Specific - Measurable - Achievable - Relevant - Time-bound Objectives must be SMART.

32. Creates a conceptual model of the work that needs to be completed to deliver the new business solution.
Transition Requirements
Functional Decomposition
A statement of the needs of a particular stakeholder or class of stakeholders
Decision Analysis - Problem Tacking - Risk Analysis

33. Technique involving refinement of estimates. Estimate the details for activities in the current iteration or increment and provide an analogous estimate for the entire scope of work. As the end of the iteration approaches - estimates for the next ite
Organize Requirements
To record the conflict in the Requirements Issues Log.
Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Rolling Wave

34. Performed to communicate - verify and validate requirements. Is a working session where invited participants review and discuss a set of requirements
Organize Requirements
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements
Dependencies
Structured Walkthrough

35. What are the inputs to the task Conduct Elicitation Activity?
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements Management Plan - Scheduled Resources - Solution Scope & Business Case - Supporting Materials
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements - Requirements Structure
Document Analysis
Systems Thinking

36. What is the output of the task - Allocate Resources?
Requirements (Allocated)
Historic Analysis
Primary stakeholders in the Organize Requirements task
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Organizational Process Assets

37. What stakeholder receives noticeable negative impact if information is incorrectly transferred from the old to new solution?
Creative Thinking - Decision Making - Learning - Problem Solving - Systems Thinking
This person will be involved in monitoring the performance and effectiveness of a solution or its components.
Observation
Customer

38. Characteristics that are common to all organizations with a similar purpose and structure - whether or not the are in the same industry.
Creative Thinking - Decision Making - Learning - Problem Solving - Systems Thinking
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Problem Tracking - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Requirements Management Plan
Business Principals

39. 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.
Benchmarking
Business Need
Organize Requirements
Opportunity Cost

40. What is the output of the Manage Business Analysis Performance task?
Metrics & KPIs
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
Impact Analysis - Requirements Coverage - Requirements Allocation
Specific - Measurable - Achievable - Relevant - Time-bound Objectives must be SMART.

41. What are the inputs to the Plan Business Analysis Approach?
Business Need - Expert Judgment - Organizational Process Assets
Solution Assessment & Validation
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Decision Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Organize Requirements

42. What does SMART stand for?
Specific - Measurable - Achievable - Relevant - Time-bound Objectives must be SMART.
Prototyping
Automate or Simplify Work - Improve Access to Information - Reduce Complexity of Interfaces - Increase Consistency of Behavior - Eliminate Redundancy
Document Analysis - SWOT Analysis

43. 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.
Requirements Structure
Evaluation
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements (Stated) - Solution Scope
Emotional and Cognitive

44. According to the BABOK 2.0 - what type of analysis generates STAKEHOLDER requirements?
Determine the Process - Who will Authorize Changes - Impact Analysis - Wording of the Request - Coordinate Prioritization of Change
Requirements (Approved)
Requirements Analysis
Define Business Case

45. Provides an organized approach to tracking - management - and resolution of defects - issues - problems - and risks throughout business analysis activities. Management of issues is important so that they can be resolved in a timely manner to ensure s
Sequences - Repetitions - Optional Elements
Solution Scope Definition - Implementation Approach - Dependencies
Problem Tracking
Evolutionary or Functional Prototype

46. 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
Activity List
Requirements Package
Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis

47. What are some of the commonly used requirement attributes?
Relationships - Impact Analysis - Configuration Management System
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
Absolute Reference - Author - Complexity - Ownership - Priority - Risks - Source - Stability - Status - Urgency
Evaluation Criteria

48. 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
Systems Thinking
Data Dictionary
Perform tailoring exercises
Business Need - Solution Scope & Business Case - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities

49. 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 Making
Requirements Analysis
Evaluation Criteria
Enterprise Analysis - often the starting point for initiating a new project

50. What are the inputs to the task - Prioritize Requirements?
Data Dictionary
Unique Number - Activity Description - Assumptions - Dependencies - Milestones
Business Case - Business Need - Requirements - Requirements Management Plan - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Business Analysis Approach