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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning
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1. Two techniques used in Root Cause Analysis?
Fishbone Diagram - Five Whys
Requirements (Any Except Stated)
Requirements Workshop - Structured Walkthrough
Requirements Management Plan - Solution Scope - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities - Stakeholder/Solution or Transition Requirements (Communicated or Traced)
2. This technique represents the types of peoples - places - things and concepts that are important to the business - attributes associated with them and the significant business relationships among them.
Data Modeling
Document Elicitation Results task
Requirements Structure
Business Need
3. 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.
Scope Modeling
Requirements (Traced)
Learning
The Business Analysis Communication Plan
4. 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
Rolling Wave
Name - Value/Meanings - Description
Interviews - Lessons Learned Process - Metrics and KPIs - Problem Tracking - Process Modeling - Root Cause Analysis - Survey/Questionnaire - Variance Analysis
Advantages of a Data Dictionary & Glossary
5. What are the likely sources of transition requirements?
Interviews - Observation
Coverage Matrix - Table or spreadsheet used to manage tracing.
Data - Ongoing Work - Organizational Change
Formal Documentation - Presentation - Model
6. Issues that may influence the replacement or elimination decision of a system include:
Use Case
Requirements Management Plan - Solution Scope - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities - Stakeholder/Solution or Transition Requirements (Communicated or Traced)
Ongoing Cost versus Initial Investment - Opportunity Costs - Necessity - Sunk Costs
Decision Analysis
7. Revised process and templates for BA deliverables should be analyzed and documented and lessons learned should be recorded.
Key Performance Indicator (KPI )
Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring
A statement of the needs of a particular stakeholder or class of stakeholders
Business Analysis Process Assets
8. Name the 2 types of Stakeholder maps.
Learning
Formal Documentation - Presentation - Model
Structured Walkthrough
Stakeholder Matrix - Onion Diagram
9. Involved motivating people to act in ways that enable them to work together to achieve shared goals and objectives.
Define Business Need - Access Capability Gaps - Determine Solution Approach - Define Solution Scope - Define Business Case
Requirements Package
Sequence Diagrams
Leadership
10. 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
Business Domain - Corporate Culture & Environment - Skills of the Analyst - Requirement Deliverable
Assumptions & Constraints - Required Capabilities - Solution Approach
Horizontal Prototype
11. A non-actionable directive that supports a business goal.
Elimination of Dominated Alternative - Ranking Objects on a Similar Scale
Business Policy
Verify Requirements
Solution Assessment & Validation
12. What are some of the commonly used requirement attributes?
Relationships - Impact Analysis - Configuration Management System
Business Analysis Approach
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Solution Performance Assessment
Absolute Reference - Author - Complexity - Ownership - Priority - Risks - Source - Stability - Status - Urgency
13. To identify and manage areas of uncertainty that can impact an initiative - solution - or organization.
Plan Business Analysis Approach - Conduct Stakeholder Analysis - Plan Business Analysis Activities - Plan Business Analysis Communication - Plan Requirements Management Process - Manage BA Performance
Requirements (Allocated)
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets
Risk Analysis
14. Long-term - ongoing and qualitative statements of a state or condition that the organization is seeking to establish and maintain.
Business Domain - Corporate Culture & Environment - Skills of the Analyst - Requirement Deliverable
Creative Thinking - Decision Making - Learning - Problem Solving - Systems Thinking
Goals
Facilitation
15. What are the factors of influence by stakeholders on a project?
Requirements (Validated)
Influence on the project - organizational - project health and other stakeholders
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Decision Analysis - Estimation - SWOT Analysis - Feasibility Analysis
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Metrics & KPIs - Prototyping - Risk Analysis - Structured Walkthrough
16. What are the techniques used in the task - Assess Organizational Readiness?
Systems Thinking
Vendor Assessment
Fishbone Diagram - Five Whys
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Models - Focus Groups - Interviews - Survey/Questionnaire - Organizational Modeling - Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Force Field Analysis
17. Models a shallow - and possibly wide view of the system's functionality. It typically does not have any business logic running behind the visualization.
Parametric Estimation
Horizontal Prototype
Bottom-up Estimation
Requirements Workshop
18. Name some commonly used financial valuation techniques.
Discounted Cash Flow - Net Present Value - Internal Rate of Return - Average Rate of Return - Pay Back Period - Cost-Benefit Analysis
Assess Organization Readiness
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
BABOK
19. What are the tasks in the knowledge area - Solution Assessment & Validation?
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving - Behavioral Characteristics - Business Knowledge - Communication Skills - Interaction Skills - Software Application
Document Analysis
Assess Proposed Solution - Allocate Requirements - Assess Organizational Readiness - Define Transition Requirements - Validate Solution - Evaluate Solution Performance
Throw-away Prototype
20. Corrective or preventative measures uncovered while performing a Business Analysis Performance Assessment will result in changes to what plan?
Business Analysis Performance Metrics - Business Analysis Plan - Organization Performance Standards - Requirements Management Plan
Business Principals
Business Analysis Plan
Name - Aliases - Values/Meanings - Description
21. A requirement that does not deliver direct or indirect value to a stakeholder is a strong candidate for what?
Bottom-up Estimation
Elimination
Reliability - Validity - Timeliness
Decision Analysis - Risk Analysis - MoSCoW Analysis - Timeboxing/Budgeting - Voting
22. What are the classifications used to describe requirements
Document Analysis
Business Requirements - Stakeholder Requirements - Solution Requirements - Transition Requirements
Relationship to Time - Relationship to Task Completion - Relationship to Contracts - Relationships to Formal and Informal Authority
Prioritize Requirements - Organize Requirements - Specify & Model Requirements - Define Assumptions & Constraints - Verify Requirements - Validate Requirements
23. What are the elements to the task - Define Business Case?
Enterprise Architecture - Solution Scope - Solution (Designed) - Stakeholder Concerns
Historic Analysis
Benefits - Costs - Risk Assessment - Results Measurement
Relationships - Impact Analysis - Configuration Management System
24. What are the inputs to the task - Specify & Model Requirements?
Solution Knowledge
Document Elicitation Results task
Requirements (Stated) - Requirements Structure
Implementation SME
25. What are the inputs to the task - Determine Solution Approach?
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Required Capabilities
Strengths - Weaknesses
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
Data Dictionary & Glossary - Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshops - Survey/Questionnaire
26. 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
Use Case
Relationship to Time - Relationship to Task Completion - Relationship to Contracts - Relationships to Formal and Informal Authority
Decision Analysis - Risk Analysis - MoSCoW Analysis - Timeboxing/Budgeting - Voting
27. What are the inputs to the task - Define Assumption & Constraints?
Systems Thinking
Vendor Assessment
Stakeholder Concerns
Discounted Cash Flow - Net Present Value - Internal Rate of Return - Average Rate of Return - Pay Back Period - Cost-Benefit Analysis
28. What are the inputs for the task Plan Business Analysis Activities?
Business Need
Define Transitional Requirements
Business Analysis Approach - BA Performance Assessment - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Requirements (Any Except Stated)
29. What are the techniques used in the task - Organize Requirements?
Solution Assessment & Validation
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Data Modeling - Functional Decomposition - Organizational Modeling - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases - Scope Modeling - User Stories
Underlying Competencies
Business Need - Solution Scope & Business Case - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
30. What techniques are used in the task - Prepare Requirements Package?
Requirements Documentation - Requirements for Vendor Selection
Enterprise Analysis - often the starting point for initiating a new project
Structured Walkthrough
Operative Rules
31. When a requirement is changed - the BA can easily review all the related requirements and software components in order to understand the impact of the change.
Impact Analysis
Cognitive Conflict
Solution Knowledge
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Data Modeling - Functional Decomposition - Organizational Modeling - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases - Scope Modeling - User Stories
32. What are the internal factors in a SWOT Analysis?
Strengths - Weaknesses
Vertical Prototype
Requirements - Requirements Management Plan
Repository - Traceability - Requirement Attributes - Prioritization Process - Change Management - Tailoring the Requirements Management Process
33. What are the Primitive Data Elements?
Requirements Analysis
Name - Aliases - Values/Meanings - Description
Brings them to a Communication on understanding
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets
34. The purpose of _______________ is to ensure that a stakeholder's actual underlying needs are understood - rather than the their stated or superficial desires.
Decision Analysis
Stakeholder Matrix
Discounted Cash Flow - Net Present Value - Internal Rate of Return - Average Rate of Return - Pay Back Period - Cost-Benefit Analysis
Elicitation
35. What are the tasks in Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring?
Business Analysis Process Assets
Vertical Prototype
Plan Business Analysis Approach - Conduct Stakeholder Analysis - Plan Business Analysis Activities - Plan Business Analysis Communication - Plan Requirements Management Process - Manage BA Performance
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
36. 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
That they understand them and the current state the requirements are in
Problem Tracking
Advantages of Document Analysis
Name - Aliases - Values/Meanings - Description
37. What is the output of the task - Define Business Case?
Business Case
Budgeting
To record the conflict in the Requirements Issues Log.
SWOT Analysis
38. What are the techniques used in the task Define Business Need?
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements Management Plan - Scheduled Resources - Solution Scope & Business Case - Supporting Materials
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Business Rules Analysis - Focus Groups - Functional Decomposition - Root Cause Analysis
Stakeholder Matrix
39. 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.
Glossary
Trustworthiness
Requirements Structure
Coverage Matrix - Table or spreadsheet used to manage tracing.
40. 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.
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Requirements (Verified)
Budgeting
Sequence Diagrams
41. Define requirements for capabilities needed to move from an existing solution to a new solution.
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
All
Define Transitional Requirements
Ethics - Trustworthiness - Personal Organization
42. 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.
Solution Assessment & Validation
Identified Defects - Mitigating Actions - Solution Validation Assessment
Requirements (Analyzed)
Validate Solution
43. To define the rules that govern decisions in an organization and that define - constrain or enable organization operations.
Solution Performance Assessment
Business Need - Solution Scope & Business Case - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Business Rules Analysis
Relationship to Time - Relationship to Task Completion - Relationship to Contracts - Relationships to Formal and Informal Authority
44. Techniques used in the task Plan Requirements Management Process.
Solution Scope
Requirements (Analyzed)
Cultural Assessment - Operational or Technical Assessment - Stakeholder Impact Analysis
Decision Analysis - Problem Tacking - Risk Analysis
45. What are the inputs to the task - Assess Capability Gaps?
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Solution Performance Assessment
Problem or Vision Statement
Document Elicitation Results task
Activity List
46. This prototype extends the initial interface requirements into a fully functioning system and requires a specialized prototyping tool or language.
Evolutionary or Functional Prototype
Benchmarking
Data Dictionary & Glossary - Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshops - Survey/Questionnaire
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Problem Tracking - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
47. Prioritizes requirements based on a allocated fixed amount of money.
Budgeting
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Problem Tracking - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Problem or Vision Statement
Confirm Elicitation Results
48. Name the 2 types of Software categories that assist in BA productivity.
Facilitation & Negotiation - Leadership & Influencing - Teamwork
Key Performance Indicator (KPI )
Vendor Assessment
General Purpose Applications & Specialized Applications
49. Approach to decision making that examines and models the possible consequences of different decisions. Make an optimal decision under conditions of uncertainty.
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Data Modeling - Functional Decomposition - Organizational Modeling - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases - Scope Modeling - User Stories
Reliability - Performance Efficiency - Operability - Security - Compatibility - Maintainability - Transferability
Decision Analysis
A statement of the needs of a particular stakeholder or class of stakeholders
50. 7 knowledge areas of ________ : Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring - Elicitation - Requirements Management & Communication - Enterprise Analysis - Requirements Analysis - Solution Assessment & Validation - Underlying Competencies
Parametric Estimation
Name - Value/Meanings - Description
BABOK
Vendor Assessment
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