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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

Subjects : certifications, business-skills

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1. What does RACI stand for?
Responsible - Accountable - Consulted - Informed
Business Analysis Process Assets
Identified Defects - Mitigating Actions - Solution Validation Assessment
Coverage Matrix - Table or spreadsheet used to manage tracing.

2. What are the techniques used in the task - Define Transition Requirements?
Requirements (Analyzed)
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Modeling - Organization Modeling - Data Modeling
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
Timeboxing

3. What is the output of the task Confirm Elicitation Results?
Prototyping
Requirements (Stated - Confirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Confirmed)
Communicated Requirements
Stakeholder Matrix - Onion Diagram

4. Familiarity with the range of commercially available solutions or suppliers can assist with the identification of possible alternatives.
Customer
Scenario
Requirements Management & Communication
Solution Knowledge

5. What are the output(s) of the task - Validate Solution?
Requirements (Analyzed)
Vertical Prototype
Identified Defects - Mitigating Actions - Solution Validation Assessment
Requirements Documentation - Requirements for Vendor Selection

6. A formal written specification with possible walk-thru - an informal one is possibly verbal or email Communication
Prepare Requirements Package
Evaluation Criteria
Elimination of Dominated Alternative - Ranking Objects on a Similar Scale
Formal requirements presentation to stakeholders

7. 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
Root Cause Analysis
Advantages of Document Analysis
Bottom-up Estimation
Estimation

8. What are the techniques used in the task - Prioritize Requirements?
Requirements Structure
Decision Analysis - Risk Analysis - MoSCoW Analysis - Timeboxing/Budgeting - Voting
Historic Analysis
Functional Decomposition - Interface Analysis - Scope Modeling - User Stories - Problem or Vision Statement

9. Is generally understood to describe just one way that an actor can accomplish a particular goal
Scenario
Interface Analysis
Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution (Designed) - Solution Scope
Evaluation

10. 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.
Decision Analysis - Process Modeling - Structured Walkthrough
MoSCoW Analysis
Industry Knowledge
Compliance with regulatory or other standards

11. 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
Throw-away Prototype
Non-functional Requirements Analysis
The Sponsor
Brainstorming

12. What techniques are used in the task Manage Requirements Traceability?
Risk - assumptions - constraints - etc.
Plan Business Analysis Approach - Conduct Stakeholder Analysis - Plan Business Analysis Activities - Plan Business Analysis Communication - Plan Requirements Management Process - Manage BA Performance
Coverage Matrix - Table or spreadsheet used to manage tracing.
Monitoring

13. The knowledge area that covers how BAs determine which activities are necessary in order to complete a business analysis effort.
Manage Solution Scope & Requirements - Manage Requirements Traceability - Maintain Requirements for Re-use - Prepare Requirements Package - Communicate Requirements
Cognitive Conflict
Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring
Throw-away Prototype

14. What is the output of the task - Validate Requirements?
Requirements (Validated)
Systems Thinking
Sequences - Repetitions - Optional Elements
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities

15. What are the attributes of a Data Model?
Systems Thinking
Name - Value/Meanings - Description
Data Dictionary & Glossary
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements

16. How is the Operational Support stakeholder utilized in the Evaluate Solution Performance task?
This person will be involved in monitoring the performance and effectiveness of a solution or its components.
Define Transitional Requirements
Coverage Matrix - Table or spreadsheet used to manage tracing.
BABOK

17. 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
Business Analysis Plan
Assumptions & Constraints - Required Capabilities - Solution Approach
Advantages of Document Analysis
Requirements Workshop

18. What are the tasks of the Elicitation Knowledge Area?
Evaluation
Prepare for Elicitation - Conduct Elicitation Activity - Document Elicitation Results - Confirm Elicitation Results
Goals
Visual Learner - Auditory Learner - Kinesthetic Learner

19. What is a STAKEHOLDER requirement - according to the BABOK 2.0?
Data Flow Diagrams
A statement of the needs of a particular stakeholder or class of stakeholders
Functions - Markets - Matrix
Validate Solution

20. The purpose is to measure the performance of solutions - solution components - and other matters of interest to stakeholders.
Data Dictionary
Assess Organization Readiness
Metrics & KPIs
Problem or Vision Statement

21. 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
Throw-away Prototype
Scenarios & Use Cases
Requirements Documentation - Requirements for Vendor Selection
Perform tailoring exercises

22. Involves assessing a situation - understanding it as fully as possible - and making judgments about possible solutions to the problem.
Term and Fact Model
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving
Requirements (Stated - Unconfirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Unconfirmed)
Requirements Workshop

23. What are the elements of the task - Define Solution Scope?
Cognitive Conflict
Solution Scope Definition - Implementation Approach - Dependencies
Evaluation Criteria
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Decision Analysis - Estimation - SWOT Analysis - Feasibility Analysis

24. What is the output of the task Manage Solution Scope & Requirements?
Evaluation Criteria
Requirements (Approved)
Monitoring
General Purpose Applications & Specialized Applications

25. Name the 2 types of Stakeholder maps.
Leadership
Onion Diagram
Business Case
Stakeholder Matrix - Onion Diagram

26. What are the techniques used in the task Confirm Elicitation Results?
Determine the Process - Who will Authorize Changes - Impact Analysis - Wording of the Request - Coordinate Prioritization of Change
Interviews
Name - Value/Meanings - Description
Interviews - Observation

27. What are the inputs to the task - Verify Requirements?
Determine the Process - Who will Authorize Changes - Impact Analysis - Wording of the Request - Coordinate Prioritization of Change
MoSCoW Analysis
System
Requirements (Any Except Stated)

28. 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
Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis
Business Analysis Performance Metrics - Business Analysis Plan - Organization Performance Standards - Requirements Management Plan
Define Business Need - Access Capability Gaps - Determine Solution Approach - Define Solution Scope - Define Business Case

29. What are the inputs for the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?
Term and Fact Model
Organize Requirements
Business Requirements - Identified Defects - Solution Performance Metrics - Solution (Deployed)
Required Capabilities

30. What are the inputs to the task - Define Business Case?
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Decision Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Requirements (Prioritized)
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Metrics & KPIs - Prototyping - Risk Analysis - Structured Walkthrough
Assumptions & Constraints - Business Need - Solution Scope - Stakeholder Concerns

31. What is the output of the task - Prepare Requirements Package?
Requirements Package
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Data Modeling - Functional Decomposition - Organizational Modeling - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases - Scope Modeling - User Stories
Elicitation Results
Business Rules Analysis

32. What is the output of the task - Communicate Requirements?
Requirements (Analyzed)
Communicated Requirements
State Diagrams
Estimation

33. What is the output of the Plan Business Analysis Approach?
Structured Walkthrough
Requirements (Prioritized)
Business Analysis Approach
Decision Analysis - Focus Groups - Observation - Survey/Questionnaire

34. The BA is a stakeholder in ______ business analysis activities.
All
Decision Analysis - Focus Groups - Observation - Survey/Questionnaire
Business Analysis Approach - BA Performance Assessment - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Necessity - Effort - Subset - Cover - Value

35. 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.
Solution Scope
Business Principals
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements
Requirements Workshop

36. What is the output of the task Plan Business Analysis Communication?
Facilitation & Negotiation - Leadership & Influencing - Teamwork
Advantages of a Data Dictionary & Glossary
Business Analysis Approach - BA Performance Assessment - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Business Analysis Communication Plan

37. 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.
Organization Modeling
Requirements (Verified)
Requirements (Allocated)
Structural Rules

38. Rules that the organization chooses to enforce as a matter of policy. They are intended to guide the actions of people working within the organization. They may oblige people to take certain actions - prevent people from taking actions - or prescribe
Requirements Analysis
Observation
Operative Rules
Tracing Requirements

39. Business value can be delivered through requirements that support _______________ - alignment with internal standards or policies of the organization - or increased satisfaction for stakeholders - even if those things do not have a direct measurable
Requirements Management & Communication
Risk Analysis
Define Business Case
Compliance with regulatory or other standards

40. What is the output of the task - Organize Requirements?
Requirements Structure
They describe what a solution must be capable of doing to meet the needs of one or more stakeholder groups
Scenario
Define Transitional Requirements

41. What are stakeholder requirements?
Survey/Questionnaire
Solution (Constructed) - Requirements (Prioritized and Validated)
Emotional and Cognitive
They describe what a solution must be capable of doing to meet the needs of one or more stakeholder groups

42. What are the techniques used in the task - Assess Capability Gaps?
Validate Solution
Enterprise Analysis
Document Analysis - SWOT Analysis
The Business Analysis Communication Plan

43. What are the techniques used in the task - Allocate Resources?
Business Analysis Approach
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Business Rules Analysis - Decision Analysis - Functional Decomposition - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases
Elicitation Results
Organization Modeling

44. Long-term - ongoing and qualitative statements of a state or condition that the organization is seeking to establish and maintain.
Business Case
Requirements Analysis
Goals
Implementation Approach

45. 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
Document Analysis - SWOT Analysis
Advantages of Document Analysis
Visual Learner - Auditory Learner - Kinesthetic Learner
Requirements Management & Communication

46. 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 Analysis Plan
Assumptions & Constraints
Requirements (Approved)
Decision Making

47. Ensure that the solution meets the business need and determine the most appropriate response to identified defects.
Root Cause Analysis
Three-point Estimation
Validate Solution
Data Modeling

48. What are the elements of Communication Skills?
Document Analysis - SWOT Analysis
Primary stakeholders in the Organize Requirements task
Requirements Workshop - Structured Walkthrough
Oral Communications - Teaching - Written Communication

49. What are the techniques used in the task - Define Business Case?
Dependencies
Implementation SME
Decision Analysis - Estimation - Metrics & KPIs - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Vendor Assessment
This person will be involved in monitoring the performance and effectiveness of a solution or its components.

50. What is the output of the task - Assess Capability Gaps?
Compliance with regulatory or other standards
Delphi Estimation
Relationships - Impact Analysis - Configuration Management System
Required Capabilities