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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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1. What are the tasks in the knowledge area - Solution Assessment & Validation?
Dependencies
Business Case
Assess Proposed Solution - Allocate Requirements - Assess Organizational Readiness - Define Transition Requirements - Validate Solution - Evaluate Solution Performance
Solution Assessment & Validation

2. The knowledge area that covers how BAs determine which activities are necessary in order to complete a business analysis effort.
Business Case; Stakeholder - Solution or Transition Requirements (Verified)
Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring
Advantages of a Data Dictionary & Glossary
Requirements (Traced)

3. What are the techniques used in Plan Business Analysis Communication?
Structured Walkthrough
Estimation
Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis
Impact Analysis - Requirements Coverage - Requirements Allocation

4. Issues that may influence the replacement or elimination decision of a system include:
Confirm Elicitation Results
Prepare Requirements Package
Analogous Estimation
Ongoing Cost versus Initial Investment - Opportunity Costs - Necessity - Sunk Costs

5. A formal written specification with possible walk-thru - an informal one is possibly verbal or email Communication
Delphi Estimation
Formal requirements presentation to stakeholders
A statement of the needs of a particular stakeholder or class of stakeholders
Interface Analysis

6. What are the techniques used in the task - Validate Requirements?
Validate Solution
Decision Analysis - Problem Tacking - Risk Analysis
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Metrics & KPIs - Prototyping - Risk Analysis - Structured Walkthrough
Business Requirements - Identified Defects - Solution Performance Metrics - Solution (Deployed)

7. What are the characteristics of quality for a requirements?
Solution Knowledge
Functions - Markets - Matrix
Cohesive - Complete - Consistent - Correct - Feasible - Modifiable - Unambiguous - Testable
Organize Requirements

8. 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.
Scenarios & Use Cases
Organizational Readiness Assessment - Requirements (Stated) - Solution (Deployed) - Solution (Designed)
Requirements (Allocated)
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Required Capabilities

9. 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
Assumptions & Constraints - Required Capabilities - Solution Approach
Term and Fact Model
Rolling Wave
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Models - Focus Groups - Interviews - Survey/Questionnaire - Organizational Modeling - Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Force Field Analysis

10. Corrective or preventative measures uncovered while performing a Business Analysis Performance Assessment will result in changes to what plan?
A statement of the needs of a particular stakeholder or class of stakeholders
Manage Solution Scope & Requirements - Manage Requirements Traceability - Maintain Requirements for Re-use - Prepare Requirements Package - Communicate Requirements
Business Analysis Plan
Problem Tracking

11. What is the output of the task - Communicate Requirements?
Requirements (Prioritized)
Business Analysis Plan
Scenario
Communicated Requirements

12. What is the output of the Manage Business Analysis Performance task?
Expert Judgment
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
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Business Rules Analysis - Decision Analysis - Functional Decomposition - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases
Relationships - Impact Analysis - Configuration Management System

13. 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
Document Elicitation Results task
Throw-away Prototype
Assessment of Proposed Solution
All

14. What are the techniques used in the task - Allocate Resources?
Solution Assessment & Validation
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Business Rules Analysis - Decision Analysis - Functional Decomposition - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases
Relationship to Time - Relationship to Task Completion - Relationship to Contracts - Relationships to Formal and Informal Authority
Automate or Simplify Work - Improve Access to Information - Reduce Complexity of Interfaces - Increase Consistency of Behavior - Eliminate Redundancy

15. What is the output of the task - Define Transition Requirements?
Oral Communications - Teaching - Written Communication
A statement of the needs of a particular stakeholder or class of stakeholders
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Modeling - Organization Modeling - Data Modeling
Transition Requirements

16. What is the output of the Plan Business Analysis Approach?
Requirements (Approved)
Leadership
Business Analysis Approach
Emotional and Cognitive

17. What are the tasks in the knowledge area - Requirements Analysis?
Decision Analysis - Focus Groups - Observation - Survey/Questionnaire
Survey/Questionnaire
Bottom-up Estimation
Prioritize Requirements - Organize Requirements - Specify & Model Requirements - Define Assumptions & Constraints - Verify Requirements - Validate Requirements

18. What are the tasks in the knowledge area - Enterprise Analysis?
Define Business Need - Access Capability Gaps - Determine Solution Approach - Define Solution Scope - Define Business Case
Activity List
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving - Behavioral Characteristics - Business Knowledge - Communication Skills - Interaction Skills - Software Application
Requirements Management & Communication

19. What are some examples of stakeholder concerns?
Business Need
Sequence Diagrams
Risk - assumptions - constraints - etc.
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements

20. What is the output of the task - Verify Requirements?
Customer
Interviews - Lessons Learned Process - Metrics and KPIs - Problem Tracking - Process Modeling - Root Cause Analysis - Survey/Questionnaire - Variance Analysis
Requirements (Verified)
Decision Analysis - Risk Analysis - MoSCoW Analysis - Timeboxing/Budgeting - Voting

21. What is the output of the task - Define Business Need?
Requirements (Allocated)
Decision Making
Business Need
Business Value - Business or Technical Risk - Implementation Difficulty - Likelihood of Success - Regulatory or Policy Compliance - Relationship to Other Requirements - Stakeholder Agreement - Urgency

22. What is the output of the task Plan Business Analysis Communication?
Estimation - Functional Decomposition - Risk Analysis
Acceptance & Evaluation Technique
Requirements Management Plan - Solution Scope - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities - Stakeholder/Solution or Transition Requirements (Communicated or Traced)
Business Analysis Communication Plan

23. What are the techniques used in the task - Prioritize Requirements?
Visual Learner - Auditory Learner - Kinesthetic Learner
Business Rules Analysis
Requirements (Stated) - Requirements Structure
Decision Analysis - Risk Analysis - MoSCoW Analysis - Timeboxing/Budgeting - Voting

24. A brief description of functionality that users need from a solution to meet a business objective. The goal they are trying to accomplish - and any additional information that may be critical to understanding the scope of the story.
General Purpose Applications & Specialized Applications
User Story
Estimation - Functional Decomposition - Risk Analysis
Opportunity Cost

25. What are the techniques used in the task Conduct Elicitation Activity?
Decision Making
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Required Capabilities
Data Dictionary & Glossary - Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshops - Survey/Questionnaire
Requirements - Requirements Management Plan

26. What describes how - when and why the business analyst will work with stakeholders?
Decision Making
BABOK
Conduct Elicitation Activity
The Business Analysis Communication Plan

27. What are the inputs to the task - Validate Requirements?
Goals
Activity List
Business Case; Stakeholder - Solution or Transition Requirements (Verified)
Business Requirements - Stakeholder Requirements - Solution Requirements - Transition Requirements

28. A good indicator has 5 characteristics:
Interface Analysis
Clear - Relevant - Economical - Adequate - Quantifiable
Decision Analysis
Benchmarking

29. Creates a conceptual model of the work that needs to be completed to deliver the new business solution.
Organization Modeling
Assess Organization Readiness
Delphi Estimation
Functional Decomposition

30. The purpose of _______________ is to ensure that a stakeholder's actual underlying needs are understood - rather than the their stated or superficial desires.
Elicitation
Decision Analysis
Formal Documentation - Presentation - Model
Opportunity Cost

31. What are the inputs to the task Conduct Stakeholder Analysis?
Enterprise Analysis
Impact Analysis
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Organizational Process Assets
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Problem Tracking - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire

32. 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
Confirm Elicitation Results
Implementation SME
Necessity - Effort - Subset - Cover - Value
Brainstorming

33. The goal of this task is to meet with stakeholder(s) to gather information regarding their needs.
Business Case
Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Decision Analysis - Estimation - SWOT Analysis - Feasibility Analysis
Conduct Elicitation Activity

34. What are the inputs for the task - Define Solution Scope?
Assumptions & Constraints - Required Capabilities - Solution Approach
Functional Decomposition - Interface Analysis - Scope Modeling - User Stories - Problem or Vision Statement
Brings them to a Communication on understanding
Visual Learner - Auditory Learner - Kinesthetic Learner

35. The goal of tracing is to ensure that requirements are linked back to a business objective. Creation of this relationship helps in what other traceability activities?
Share - Enhance - Exploit
Decision Analysis - Estimation - Metrics & KPIs - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Reliability - Performance Efficiency - Operability - Security - Compatibility - Maintainability - Transferability
Impact Analysis - Requirements Coverage - Requirements Allocation

36. What is the output of the task - Prepare Requirements Package?
Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution (Designed) - Solution Scope
Requirements Package
Assumptions & Constraints
Focus Group

37. What are the inputs to the task Plan Requirements Management Process?
User Story
Brainstorming
Ethics - Trustworthiness - Personal Organization
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets

38. 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
Solution Knowledge
Business Rules Analysis
Facilitation
Requirements (Stated - Unconfirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Unconfirmed)

39. What are the inputs for the task Prepare for Elicitation?
Requirements Structure
Relationships - Impact Analysis - Configuration Management System
Decision Analysis - Risk Analysis - MoSCoW Analysis - Timeboxing/Budgeting - Voting
Business Need - Solution Scope & Business Case - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities

40. What stakeholder receives noticeable negative impact if information is incorrectly transferred from the old to new solution?
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements Management Plan - Scheduled Resources - Solution Scope & Business Case - Supporting Materials
Customer
Formal requirements presentation to stakeholders
Determine the Process - Who will Authorize Changes - Impact Analysis - Wording of the Request - Coordinate Prioritization of Change

41. What is the output of the task - Define Assumptions & Constraints?
Three-point Estimation
Prototyping
They describe what a solution must be capable of doing to meet the needs of one or more stakeholder groups
Assumptions & Constraints

42. What are the inputs to the task - Assess Proposed Solution?
Risk - assumptions - constraints - etc.
Decision Making
Assumptions & Constraints - Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution Options
Organize Requirements

43. Name the 2 types of Stakeholder maps.
Stakeholder Matrix - Onion Diagram
Benchmarking
Business Rule
Requirements (Validated)

44. What are the techniques used in the task - Organize Requirements?
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Requirements - Requirements Package
Formal Documentation - Presentation - Model
Non-functional Requirements Analysis
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Data Modeling - Functional Decomposition - Organizational Modeling - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases - Scope Modeling - User Stories

45. What are the techniques used in the task - Determine Solution Approach?
Benchmarking
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Decision Analysis - Estimation - SWOT Analysis - Feasibility Analysis
Data Flow Diagrams
Document Analysis - SWOT Analysis

46. An organized structure for the requirements and a documented set of relationships between them. Is used so the analyst and stakeholders know where a specific requirement should be found. Should have a clear implicit scope (clear to the stakeholders w
SWOT Analysis
Name - Aliases - Values/Meanings - Description
Requirements Structure
Requirements (Prioritized)

47. What is the output of the task Document Elicitation Results?
Business Domain - Corporate Culture & Environment - Skills of the Analyst - Requirement Deliverable
Glossary
Requirements (Stated) - Stakeholder Concerns
Term and Fact Model

48. The people involved - the interactions between them - the external forces affecting their behavior and all other relevant elements and factors.
System
Formal Documentation - Presentation - Model
Requirements Management Plan
Vendor Assessment

49. 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
Benchmarking
Organize Requirements
Business Principles & Practices

50. 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
Sequence Diagrams
Implementation Approach
Evolutionary or Functional Prototype
Focus Group