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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning
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1. Includes the standard definition of data elements - their meanings and allowable values.
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Solution Performance Assessment
Data Dictionary
Metrics & KPIs
Data Flow Diagrams
2. Involves assessing a situation - understanding it as fully as possible - and making judgments about possible solutions to the problem.
Elicitation
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving
Underlying Competencies
Transition Requirements
3. 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.
Trustworthiness
Advantages of a Data Dictionary & Glossary
Learning
Business Need
4. 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.
Relationship to Time - Relationship to Task Completion - Relationship to Contracts - Relationships to Formal and Informal Authority
Validate Requirements
Identified Defects - Mitigating Actions - Solution Validation Assessment
Verify Requirements
5. What is the output of the task - Determine Solution Approach?
Business Analysis Communication Plan
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Scenarios & Use Cases
Solution Approach
6. What are stakeholder requirements?
Decision Analysis - Problem Tacking - Risk Analysis
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements (Stated) - Solution Scope
They describe what a solution must be capable of doing to meet the needs of one or more stakeholder groups
Requirements Management Plan
7. What are the techniques used in the task Confirm Elicitation Results?
Business Case; Stakeholder - Solution or Transition Requirements (Verified)
Interviews - Observation
Discounted Cash Flow - Net Present Value - Internal Rate of Return - Average Rate of Return - Pay Back Period - Cost-Benefit Analysis
Risk Analysis
8. What are the inputs to the task Manage Solution Scope & Requirements?
Business Requirements - Stakeholder Requirements - Solution Requirements - Transition Requirements
Requirements Management Plan - Solution Scope - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities - Stakeholder/Solution or Transition Requirements (Communicated or Traced)
Solution Assessment & Validation
Specific - Measurable - Achievable - Relevant - Time-bound Objectives must be SMART.
9. What are the inputs for the task - Define Transitional Requirements?
Elicitation Results
Organizational Readiness Assessment - Requirements (Stated) - Solution (Deployed) - Solution (Designed)
Personal Organization
Plan Business Analysis Approach - Conduct Stakeholder Analysis - Plan Business Analysis Activities - Plan Business Analysis Communication - Plan Requirements Management Process - Manage BA Performance
10. Describes the effect a new solution will have on an organization and whether the organization is prepared for the organizational change the solution implementation will cause.
Assess Organization Readiness
Data Dictionary
Elicitation
Relationship to Time - Relationship to Task Completion - Relationship to Contracts - Relationships to Formal and Informal Authority
11. 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
Facilitation
Acceptance Criteria
Business Principles & Practices
Underlying Competencies
12. What is the output of the task Confirm Elicitation Results?
Validate Solution
Business Case - Business Need - Requirements - Requirements Management Plan - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Requirements (Stated - Confirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Confirmed)
Relationships - Impact Analysis - Configuration Management System
13. What is the output of the task - Assess Proposed Solution?
Assessment of Proposed Solution
Determine the Process - Who will Authorize Changes - Impact Analysis - Wording of the Request - Coordinate Prioritization of Change
Creative Thinking - Decision Making - Learning - Problem Solving - Systems Thinking
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
14. What is the output of the task Conduct Elicitation Activity?
Requirements Structure
Elicitation Results
Personal Organization
Scenario
15. What are the inputs to the task - Validate Solution?
Elimination of Dominated Alternative - Ranking Objects on a Similar Scale
Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis
Coverage Matrix - Table or spreadsheet used to manage tracing.
Solution (Constructed) - Requirements (Prioritized and Validated)
16. Define requirements for capabilities needed to move from an existing solution to a new solution.
Reporting
Define Transitional Requirements
System
Enterprise Architecture - Solution Scope - Solution (Designed) - Stakeholder Concerns
17. When a conflict arises between stakeholders on one or more documented requirements - the first thing that needs to take place is what?
To record the conflict in the Requirements Issues Log.
Sequences - Repetitions - Optional Elements
Observation
Requirements (Prioritized)
18. What are the inputs for the task Prepare for Elicitation?
Requirements (Traced)
Business Need - Solution Scope & Business Case - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
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
19. What is the output of the task - Assess Organizational Readiness?
Evaluate Solution Performance
Organizational Readiness Assessment
Term and Fact Model
Automate or Simplify Work - Improve Access to Information - Reduce Complexity of Interfaces - Increase Consistency of Behavior - Eliminate Redundancy
20. What are the inputs to the task - Prioritize Requirements?
Problem Tracking - Baselining - Signoff
Business Case - Business Need - Requirements - Requirements Management Plan - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Requirements Documentation - Requirements for Vendor Selection
Primary stakeholders in the Organize Requirements task
21. 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.
Requirements Structure
Enterprise Analysis - often the starting point for initiating a new project
Decision Analysis - Process Modeling - Structured Walkthrough
Goals
22. What is the output of the task Plan Requirements Management Process?
General Purpose Applications & Specialized Applications
Business Value - Business or Technical Risk - Implementation Difficulty - Likelihood of Success - Regulatory or Policy Compliance - Relationship to Other Requirements - Stakeholder Agreement - Urgency
Discounted Cash Flow - Net Present Value - Internal Rate of Return - Average Rate of Return - Pay Back Period - Cost-Benefit Analysis
Requirements Management Plan
23. The goal of this task is validate that the stated requirements expressed by the stakeholder match the stakeholder's understanding of the problem and the stakeholder's needs. Analyst's understanding conforms to the actual desire or intentions of the s
They describe what a solution must be capable of doing to meet the needs of one or more stakeholder groups
Confirm Elicitation Results
Ongoing Cost versus Initial Investment - Opportunity Costs - Necessity - Sunk Costs
Solution Scope Definition - Implementation Approach - Dependencies
24. 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
Allocate Requirements
Benefits - Costs - Risk Assessment - Results Measurement
Operative Rules
Requirements Management Plan
25. What factors guide technique selection?
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Problem Tracking - Structured Walkthrough - Checklists
Business Analysis Performance Metrics - Business Analysis Plan - Organization Performance Standards - Requirements Management Plan
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
Business Domain - Corporate Culture & Environment - Skills of the Analyst - Requirement Deliverable
26. 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.
Reliability - Validity - Timeliness
Benchmarking
Solution Scope
System
27. 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.
Data Modeling
Decision Analysis
Expert Judgment
Sequence Diagrams
28. This task determines if an organization can justify the investment required to deliver a proposed solution.
Data - Ongoing Work - Organizational Change
Requirements Management Plan - Solution Scope - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities - Stakeholder/Solution or Transition Requirements (Communicated or Traced)
Define Business Case
Implementation Approach
29. Decisions are made with the interest of all stakeholders considered - reasons for a decision are cleared articulated - prompt and full disclosure of conflicts of interest - honesty regarding one's abilities and the performance of one's work.
Organizational Knowledge
Problem Tracking
Validate Solution
Ethics
30. 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.
Estimation
Prototyping
Data Dictionary & Glossary
Solution Assessment & Validation
31. What is the output of the task - Maintain Requirements for Re-use?
Facilitation
Functions - Markets - Matrix
Requirements Analysis
Requirements (Maintained and Reusable)
32. A means to elicit ideas and attitudes about a specific product - service or opportunity in an interactive group environment. The participants share their impressions - preferences and needs - guided by a moderator. - Effective for learning people's a
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Data Modeling - Functional Decomposition - Organizational Modeling - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases - Scope Modeling - User Stories
Business Analysis Process Assets
Focus Group
Responsible - Accountable - Consulted - Informed
33. 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.
Responsible - Accountable - Consulted - Informed
Requirements Analysis
Prototyping
Non-functional Requirements Analysis
34. Is generally understood to describe just one way that an actor can accomplish a particular goal
Stakeholder Concerns
Decision Analysis
Requirements (Stated) - Requirements Structure
Scenario
35. The people involved - the interactions between them - the external forces affecting their behavior and all other relevant elements and factors.
System
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Problem Tracking - Structured Walkthrough - Checklists
Requirements (Validated)
Stakeholder Matrix
36. What are the inputs to the task Conduct Stakeholder Analysis?
Reporting
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Organizational Process Assets
Expert Judgment
Data Modeling
37. Investigating how a solution is actually used after it is deployed and assessing the effect it has had - both positive and negative.
Business Rules Analysis
Evaluate Solution Performance
Elicitation
Unique Number - Activity Description - Assumptions - Dependencies - Milestones
38. While eliciting requirements it is important to guard against scope creep - This activity will ensure that the requirements should be included since they meet the business goal/objectives.
Tracing Requirements
Fishbone Diagram - Five Whys
Solution Performance Assessment
System
39. What are the Behavioral Characteristics a BA should exhibit?
Problem Tracking
Evaluation
Ethics - Trustworthiness - Personal Organization
Business Rules Analysis
40. What are some of the commonly used requirement attributes?
Relationships - Impact Analysis - Configuration Management System
Implementation Approach
Requirements (Any Except Stated)
Absolute Reference - Author - Complexity - Ownership - Priority - Risks - Source - Stability - Status - Urgency
41. 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
Validate Requirements
Structured Walkthrough
Coverage Matrix - Table or spreadsheet used to manage tracing.
42. This will impose constraints to the effort to deploy the solution - including relationships that may exist between solution components.
Dependencies
Requirements (Stated - Confirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Confirmed)
Lessons Learned Process
Industry Knowledge
43. What are the tasks in Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring?
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements
Interface Analysis
Bottom-up Estimation
Plan Business Analysis Approach - Conduct Stakeholder Analysis - Plan Business Analysis Activities - Plan Business Analysis Communication - Plan Requirements Management Process - Manage BA Performance
44. What is the output of the task - Organize Requirements?
Tracing Requirements
Requirements Management Plan - Solution Scope - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities - Stakeholder/Solution or Transition Requirements (Communicated or Traced)
Requirements Structure
Validate Solution
45. 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
Prototyping
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Metrics & KPIs - Prototyping - Risk Analysis - Structured Walkthrough
Compliance with regulatory or other standards
Data Dictionary & Glossary - Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshops - Survey/Questionnaire
46. What is the output of the task - Communicate Requirements?
Requirements Structure
Prototyping
User Classes - Profiles or Roles; Concepts & Relationships - Events - Processes - Rules
Communicated Requirements
47. Knowing the dependencies and relationships between requirements helps when determining the sequence in which requirements are to be addressed. Common relations are:
Requirements Documentation - Requirements for Vendor Selection
Repository - Traceability - Requirement Attributes - Prioritization Process - Change Management - Tailoring the Requirements Management Process
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements - Requirements Structure
Necessity - Effort - Subset - Cover - Value
48. What stakeholder receives noticeable negative impact if information is incorrectly transferred from the old to new solution?
Interviews - Observation
Business Value - Business or Technical Risk - Implementation Difficulty - Likelihood of Success - Regulatory or Policy Compliance - Relationship to Other Requirements - Stakeholder Agreement - Urgency
Define Business Need - Access Capability Gaps - Determine Solution Approach - Define Solution Scope - Define Business Case
Customer
49. Elements identified for each activity and task.
Organization Modeling
Opportunity Cost
Unique Number - Activity Description - Assumptions - Dependencies - Milestones
Scenarios & Use Cases
50. 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
Interface Analysis
Decision Analysis - Process Modeling - Structured Walkthrough
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements - Requirements Structure
Timeboxing