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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning
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1. What are the internal factors in a SWOT 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
Strengths - Weaknesses
Business Goals & Objectives - Requirements (Stated)
Customer
2. What is the output of the task Plan Business Analysis Activities?
Business Analysis Plan
Business Case
Organizational Readiness Assessment - Requirements (Stated) - Solution (Deployed) - Solution (Designed)
Lessons Learned Process
3. Shows how the behavior of a concept - entity or object changes in response to events during its lifetime - and defines which events cause a transition between those states.
Solution Performance Assessment
General Purpose Applications & Specialized Applications
State Diagrams
Business Analysis Plan
4. The purpose is to compile and document successes - opportunities for improvement - failures - and recommendations for improving the performance of future projects or project phases
Lessons Learned Process
Requirements Management Plan - Solution Scope - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities - Stakeholder/Solution or Transition Requirements (Communicated or Traced)
Enterprise Architecture - Solution Scope - Solution (Designed) - Stakeholder Concerns
Three-point Estimation
5. What are the attributes of a Data Model?
Benefits - Costs - Risk Assessment - Results Measurement
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
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
Name - Value/Meanings - Description
6. Checklist of characteristics to consider when considering non-functional requirements.
Delphi Estimation
Reliability - Performance Efficiency - Operability - Security - Compatibility - Maintainability - Transferability
Organization Modeling
Business Requirements - Identified Defects - Solution Performance Metrics - Solution (Deployed)
7. What are the inputs for the task - Prepare Requirements Package?
Acceptance - Transfer - Avoidance - Mitigation
Automate or Simplify Work - Improve Access to Information - Reduce Complexity of Interfaces - Increase Consistency of Behavior - Eliminate Redundancy
Non-functional Requirements Analysis
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements - Requirements Structure
8. Elements of a Requirements Management Plan include?
Evaluation Criteria
Assessment of Proposed Solution
Transition Requirements
Relationships - Impact Analysis - Configuration Management System
9. Use of parameters - multiplied by the number of hours. (COCOMO II - Function Point Counting - Use Case Points - and Story Points)
Parametric Estimation
Benchmarking
Data Modeling
Perform tailoring exercises
10. What are the elements of Communication Skills?
Monitoring
Oral Communications - Teaching - Written Communication
Estimation - Functional Decomposition - Risk Analysis
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements - Requirements Structure
11. What is the output to the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?
Solution Performance Assessment
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
Learning
Impact Analysis - Requirements Coverage - Requirements Allocation
12. A package should contain a consistent - cohesive and coherent set of requirements. This describes the ____________.
Requirements Structure
Business Analysis Plan
Requirements (Maintained and Reusable)
Requirements Workshop
13. Elicitation Results are the inputs for the ____________
Organize Requirements
Define Business Case
Document Elicitation Results task
Clear - Relevant - Economical - Adequate - Quantifiable
14. Documents terms unique to a domain.
Acceptance & Evaluation Technique
Glossary
Data Modeling
Requirements Structure
15. Includes the standard definition of data elements - their meanings and allowable values.
Acceptance & Evaluation Technique
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Decision Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Data Dictionary
Business Case
16. What are the techniques used in the task - Organize Requirements?
Problem Solving
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Data Modeling - Functional Decomposition - Organizational Modeling - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases - Scope Modeling - User Stories
Stakeholder Matrix - Onion Diagram
Business Case
17. What are the characteristics of quality for a requirements?
Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis
Cohesive - Complete - Consistent - Correct - Feasible - Modifiable - Unambiguous - Testable
Rolling Wave
Requirements (Any Except Stated)
18. What are the inputs to the task - Verify Requirements?
Requirements (Any Except Stated)
Opportunity Cost
Decision Analysis
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Modeling - Organization Modeling - Data Modeling
19. What is the output of the task - Specify & Model Requirements?
Requirements (Prioritized)
Problem Tracking
Requirements (Analyzed)
SWOT Analysis
20. 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
Visual Learner - Auditory Learner - Kinesthetic Learner
Estimation
Trustworthiness
Necessity - Effort - Subset - Cover - Value
21. What is the output of the task Conduct Elicitation Activity?
Throw-away Prototype
To record the conflict in the Requirements Issues Log.
BABOK
Elicitation Results
22. Two types of conflict.
Observation
Emotional and Cognitive
Clear - Relevant - Economical - Adequate - Quantifiable
Ethics
23. 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
Organizational Readiness Assessment
Survey/Questionnaire
Problem Tracking
Confirm Elicitation Results
24. What techniques are used in the task Prepare for Elicitation?
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Data Modeling
Decision Analysis - Process Modeling - Structured Walkthrough
Decision Analysis
25. What is the output of the task - Determine Solution Approach?
Solution Approach
Estimation
Requirements (Validated)
Risk Analysis
26. Three key factors when assessing the quality of indicators and their metrics
Assumptions & Constraints
Reliability - Validity - Timeliness
Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring
Cognitive Conflict
27. Is generally understood to describe just one way that an actor can accomplish a particular goal
Parametric Estimation
Scenario
Ongoing Cost versus Initial Investment - Opportunity Costs - Necessity - Sunk Costs
Assumptions & Constraints - Business Need - Solution Scope - Stakeholder Concerns
28. This knowledge area describes the problem definition and analysis - business case development - feasibility studies and the definition of solution scope.
Use Case
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Data Modeling - Functional Decomposition - Organizational Modeling - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases - Scope Modeling - User Stories
Enterprise 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
29. What are the techniques used in Plan Business Analysis Activities?
Strengths - Weaknesses
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Problem Tracking - Structured Walkthrough - Checklists
Estimation - Functional Decomposition - Risk Analysis
Prototyping
30. 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.
Sequence Diagrams
Non-functional Requirements Analysis
Data Dictionary & Glossary - Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshops - Survey/Questionnaire
Root Cause Analysis
31. 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 Analysis
A statement of the needs of a particular stakeholder or class of stakeholders
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Problem Tracking - Root Cause Analysis
Key Performance Indicator (KPI )
32. Prioritizes requirements based on the amount of work that the project team is capable of delivering in a set period of time. Approaches include: All-in - All Out - Selective
Requirements Workshop - Structured Walkthrough
Requirements (Stated) - Requirements Structure
Timeboxing
Decision Analysis
33. To identify interfaces between solutions and/or solution components and define requirements that describe how they will interact.
Requirements (Verified)
Impact Analysis
Root Cause Analysis
Interface Analysis
34. What are the techniques used in the task - Allocate Resources?
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Business Rules Analysis - Decision Analysis - Functional Decomposition - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases
Acceptance Criteria
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Models - Focus Groups - Interviews - Survey/Questionnaire - Organizational Modeling - Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Force Field Analysis
Define Business Need - Access Capability Gaps - Determine Solution Approach - Define Solution Scope - Define Business Case
35. 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
Assumptions & Constraints
Decision Analysis - Risk Analysis - MoSCoW Analysis - Timeboxing/Budgeting - Voting
Prepare Requirements Package
Validate Solution
36. What are the strategies for a negative risk?
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Decision Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Acceptance - Transfer - Avoidance - Mitigation
Elimination
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Required Capabilities
37. What are the techniques used in the task - Communicate Requirements?
Requirements Workshop - Structured Walkthrough
Cognitive Conflict
Requirements (Stated) - Stakeholder Concerns
Stakeholder Matrix
38. What is a STAKEHOLDER requirement - according to the BABOK 2.0?
Requirements Analysis
Verify Requirements
Influence on the project - organizational - project health and other stakeholders
A statement of the needs of a particular stakeholder or class of stakeholders
39. What are the elements of the task - Define Solution Scope?
Cultural Assessment - Operational or Technical Assessment - Stakeholder Impact Analysis
Solution Scope Definition - Implementation Approach - Dependencies
Business Policy
Business Need - Solution Scope & Business Case - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
40. This prototype extends the initial interface requirements into a fully functioning system and requires a specialized prototyping tool or language.
Evolutionary or Functional Prototype
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Models - Focus Groups - Interviews - Survey/Questionnaire - Organizational Modeling - Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Force Field Analysis
Timeboxing
Organization Modeling
41. To identify and manage areas of uncertainty that can impact an initiative - solution - or organization.
Implementation Approach
Scenario
Risk Analysis
Elimination
42. What are some of the key variables used in determining the priority of a requirement?
Requirements (Maintained and Reusable)
Scope Modeling
Benchmarking
Business Value - Business or Technical Risk - Implementation Difficulty - Likelihood of Success - Regulatory or Policy Compliance - Relationship to Other Requirements - Stakeholder Agreement - Urgency
43. What are the techniques for the task - Verify Requirements?
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Problem Tracking - Structured Walkthrough - Checklists
Lessons Learned Process
Requirements - Requirements Management Plan
Horizontal Prototype
44. Requires the team to focus on examining the premises - assumptions - observations and expectations of the team members. This type of conflict can have a beneficial effect of strengthening the foundations of the analysis and the solution.
Requirements (Analyzed)
Cognitive Conflict
Enterprise Analysis
Enterprise Architecture - Solution Scope - Solution (Designed) - Stakeholder Concerns
45. What are the strategies for a positive risk?
Formal Documentation - Presentation - Model
Strengths - Weaknesses
Share - Enhance - Exploit
Required Capabilities
46. This knowledge area describes the tasks that are performed in order to ensure that solutions meet the business need and to facilitate successful implementation.
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
Name - Value/Meanings - Description
Term and Fact Model
Solution Assessment & Validation
47. What is the output of the task Manage Solution Scope & Requirements?
Requirements (Approved)
Manage Solution Scope & Requirements - Manage Requirements Traceability - Maintain Requirements for Re-use - Prepare Requirements Package - Communicate Requirements
Perform tailoring exercises
Enterprise Analysis
48. What is the output of the task - Define Business Need?
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements (Stated) - Solution Scope
Business Need
Sequence Diagrams
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Requirements - Requirements Package
49. What are the inputs to the task Manage Requirements Traceability?
Personal Organization
Lessons Learned Process
Discounted Cash Flow - Net Present Value - Internal Rate of Return - Average Rate of Return - Pay Back Period - Cost-Benefit Analysis
Requirements - Requirements Management Plan
50. The decomposition of activities and tasks creates?
Business Analysis Plan
Activity List
Organizational Readiness Assessment - Requirements (Stated) - Solution (Deployed) - Solution (Designed)
Enterprise Architecture - Solution Scope - Solution (Designed) - Stakeholder Concerns