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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning
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1. What is the output of the task - Assess Proposed Solution?
Assessment of Proposed Solution
Business Goals & Objectives - Requirements (Stated)
Leadership
Document Analysis
2. Knowing the dependencies and relationships between requirements helps when determining the sequence in which requirements are to be addressed. Common relations are:
Repository - Traceability - Requirement Attributes - Prioritization Process - Change Management - Tailoring the Requirements Management Process
Necessity - Effort - Subset - Cover - Value
Decision Analysis - Risk Analysis - MoSCoW Analysis - Timeboxing/Budgeting - Voting
Creative Thinking - Decision Making - Learning - Problem Solving - Systems Thinking
3. 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.
Solution Knowledge
Onion Diagram
Cognitive Conflict
Data Flow Diagrams
4. What are the inputs to the task - Allocate Resources?
Problem Tracking
Risk Analysis
Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution (Designed) - Solution Scope
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Problem Tracking - Structured Walkthrough - Checklists
5. What are the techniques for the task - Verify Requirements?
Requirements (Maintained and Reusable)
Requirements Management Plan - Solution Scope - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities - Stakeholder/Solution or Transition Requirements (Communicated or Traced)
Business Analysis Process Assets
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Problem Tracking - Structured Walkthrough - Checklists
6. What are the techniques used in the task - Validate Solution?
Risk Analysis
Solution Scope Definition - Implementation Approach - Dependencies
Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Problem Tracking - Root Cause Analysis
7. What are the tasks of the Elicitation Knowledge Area?
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements - Requirements Structure
Business Case
Relationships - Impact Analysis - Configuration Management System
Prepare for Elicitation - Conduct Elicitation Activity - Document Elicitation Results - Confirm Elicitation Results
8. When a conflict arises between stakeholders on one or more documented requirements - the first thing that needs to take place is what?
Industry Knowledge
That they understand them and the current state the requirements are in
To record the conflict in the Requirements Issues Log.
Prototyping
9. What are stakeholder requirements?
They describe what a solution must be capable of doing to meet the needs of one or more stakeholder groups
Necessity - Effort - Subset - Cover - Value
Share - Enhance - Exploit
Assumptions & Constraints - Required Capabilities - Solution Approach
10. What are the inputs to the task - Verify Requirements?
Requirements (Any Except Stated)
Business Analysis Communication Plan
Validate Requirements
Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis
11. What are the characteristics of a Problem Record?
Reliability - Performance Efficiency - Operability - Security - Compatibility - Maintainability - Transferability
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
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Metrics & KPIs - Prototyping - Risk Analysis - Structured Walkthrough
Solution Assessment & Validation
12. What are the inputs to the task - Determine Solution Approach?
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Required Capabilities
Solution Approach
Validate Requirements
Stakeholder Concerns
13. What should be considered when establishing a Change Management process?
Decision Analysis - Process Modeling - Structured Walkthrough
Business Case; Stakeholder - Solution or Transition Requirements (Verified)
Interviews - Observation
Determine the Process - Who will Authorize Changes - Impact Analysis - Wording of the Request - Coordinate Prioritization of Change
14. 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.
Enterprise Analysis - often the starting point for initiating a new project
Communicated Requirements
Primary stakeholders in the Organize Requirements task
Data Dictionary
15. To assess the ability of a potential vendor to meet commitments regarding a product or service
Cohesive - Complete - Consistent - Correct - Feasible - Modifiable - Unambiguous - Testable
Vendor Assessment
Business Case
Solution Approach
16. What are the tasks in the knowledge area - Solution Assessment & Validation?
Risk Analysis
Assess Proposed Solution - Allocate Requirements - Assess Organizational Readiness - Define Transition Requirements - Validate Solution - Evaluate Solution Performance
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Decision Analysis - Estimation - SWOT Analysis - Feasibility Analysis
The Business Analysis Communication Plan
17. 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
That they understand them and the current state the requirements are in
Business Domain - Corporate Culture & Environment - Skills of the Analyst - Requirement Deliverable
Confirm Elicitation Results
Scenarios & Use Cases
18. What is the output of the task - Specify & Model Requirements?
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
Requirements (Analyzed)
Requirements Analysis
Automate or Simplify Work - Improve Access to Information - Reduce Complexity of Interfaces - Increase Consistency of Behavior - Eliminate Redundancy
19. What is the output of the task - Define Business Case?
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Models - Focus Groups - Interviews - Survey/Questionnaire - Organizational Modeling - Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Force Field Analysis
Observation
Business Case
Vertical Prototype
20. 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
Ongoing Cost versus Initial Investment - Opportunity Costs - Necessity - Sunk Costs
Decision Making
Monitoring
Solution (Constructed) - Requirements (Prioritized and Validated)
21. 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
Brings them to a Communication on understanding
Document Elicitation Results task
Ongoing Cost versus Initial Investment - Opportunity Costs - Necessity - Sunk Costs
22. What are the Composite Data Elements?
Requirements (Allocated)
Elicitation Results
Sequences - Repetitions - Optional Elements
Organize Requirements
23. What are the inputs for the task - Define Transitional Requirements?
Organizational Readiness Assessment - Requirements (Stated) - Solution (Deployed) - Solution (Designed)
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements - Requirements Structure
Business Analysis Plan
Delphi Estimation
24. A package should contain a consistent - cohesive and coherent set of requirements. This describes the ____________.
Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring
Document Analysis
Requirements Structure
Monitoring
25. The systematic and objective assessment of a solution to determine its status and efficacy in meeting objectives over time - and to identify ways to improve the solution to better meet objectives.
Evaluation
User Classes - Profiles or Roles; Concepts & Relationships - Events - Processes - Rules
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Business Rules Analysis - Focus Groups - Functional Decomposition - Root Cause Analysis
Scheduled Resources - Supporting Materials
26. What are the tasks for the knowledge area - Requirements Management & Communication?
Solution Knowledge
Manage Solution Scope & Requirements - Manage Requirements Traceability - Maintain Requirements for Re-use - Prepare Requirements Package - Communicate Requirements
Risk Analysis
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Decision Analysis - Estimation - SWOT Analysis - Feasibility Analysis
27. The knowledge area that covers how BAs determine which activities are necessary in order to complete a business analysis effort.
Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring
Structured Walkthrough
Data Modeling
User Classes - Profiles or Roles; Concepts & Relationships - Events - Processes - Rules
28. Checklist of characteristics to consider when considering non-functional requirements.
Organizational Readiness Assessment
BABOK
Reliability - Performance Efficiency - Operability - Security - Compatibility - Maintainability - Transferability
Assess Organization Readiness
29. What are the inputs to the task Conduct Stakeholder Analysis?
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Organizational Process Assets
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Requirements - Requirements Package
Acceptance & Evaluation Technique
Data Flow Diagrams
30. The decomposition of activities and tasks creates?
They describe what a solution must be capable of doing to meet the needs of one or more stakeholder groups
Activity List
Advantages of Document Analysis
Coverage Matrix - Table or spreadsheet used to manage tracing.
31. What is the output of the task - Organize Requirements?
Requirements Structure
Reliability - Performance Efficiency - Operability - Security - Compatibility - Maintainability - Transferability
Rolling Wave
Decision Analysis - Focus Groups - Observation - Survey/Questionnaire
32. 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
Discounted Cash Flow - Net Present Value - Internal Rate of Return - Average Rate of Return - Pay Back Period - Cost-Benefit Analysis
Assess Proposed Solution - Allocate Requirements - Assess Organizational Readiness - Define Transition Requirements - Validate Solution - Evaluate Solution Performance
Scenarios & Use Cases
Rolling Wave
33. What are the tasks in the knowledge area - Requirements Analysis?
Assumptions & Constraints
Organizational Knowledge
Requirements Package
Prioritize Requirements - Organize Requirements - Specify & Model Requirements - Define Assumptions & Constraints - Verify Requirements - Validate Requirements
34. What are the elements of the task - Define Solution Scope?
Enterprise Analysis - often the starting point for initiating a new project
Problem or Vision Statement
Define Business Need - Access Capability Gaps - Determine Solution Approach - Define Solution Scope - Define Business Case
Solution Scope Definition - Implementation Approach - Dependencies
35. Communicated Requirements mean what to stakeholders?
Requirements (Analyzed)
Relationship to Time - Relationship to Task Completion - Relationship to Contracts - Relationships to Formal and Informal Authority
Problem or Vision Statement
That they understand them and the current state the requirements are in
36. Long-term - ongoing and qualitative statements of a state or condition that the organization is seeking to establish and maintain.
Business Analysis Performance Metrics - Business Analysis Plan - Organization Performance Standards - Requirements Management Plan
System
Requirements Analysis
Goals
37. What are the techniques used in Plan Business Analysis Communication?
Structured Walkthrough
Validate Requirements
Prioritize Requirements - Organize Requirements - Specify & Model Requirements - Define Assumptions & Constraints - Verify Requirements - Validate Requirements
Requirements Structure
38. States the business need - identifies key stakeholders and briefly describes the positive impact that meeting the business need will have on those stakeholders.
Problem or Vision Statement
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets
Acceptance & Evaluation Technique
Determine the Process - Who will Authorize Changes - Impact Analysis - Wording of the Request - Coordinate Prioritization of Change
39. What are the inputs to the task - Specify & Model Requirements?
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Solution Performance Assessment
Requirements (Stated) - Requirements Structure
Interviews - Lessons Learned Process - Metrics and KPIs - Problem Tracking - Process Modeling - Root Cause Analysis - Survey/Questionnaire - Variance Analysis
Business Requirements - Stakeholder Requirements - Solution Requirements - Transition Requirements
40. 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
Interviews
Throw-away Prototype
Document Analysis
Tracing Requirements
41. 7 knowledge areas of ________ : Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring - Elicitation - Requirements Management & Communication - Enterprise Analysis - Requirements Analysis - Solution Assessment & Validation - Underlying Competencies
Scenario
Activity List
BABOK
Organizational Readiness Assessment - Requirements (Stated) - Solution (Deployed) - Solution (Designed)
42. 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.
The Sponsor
User Story
Data Dictionary & Glossary - Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshops - Survey/Questionnaire
Requirements Documentation - Requirements for Vendor Selection
43. Communication of requirements does what for stakeholders?
Historic Analysis
Elimination
Brings them to a Communication on understanding
Fishbone Diagram - Five Whys
44. What techniques are used in the task - Define Solution Scope?
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Organizational Process Assets
Enterprise Architecture - Solution Scope - Solution (Designed) - Stakeholder Concerns
Functional Decomposition - Interface Analysis - Scope Modeling - User Stories - Problem or Vision Statement
Use Case
45. What are the likely sources of transition requirements?
Prototyping
Requirements (Validated)
Communicated Requirements
Data - Ongoing Work - Organizational Change
46. Approach to decision making that examines and models the possible consequences of different decisions. Make an optimal decision under conditions of uncertainty.
Plan Business Analysis Approach - Conduct Stakeholder Analysis - Plan Business Analysis Activities - Plan Business Analysis Communication - Plan Requirements Management Process - Manage BA Performance
To record the conflict in the Requirements Issues Log.
Define Business Case
Decision Analysis
47. Two types of conflict.
Emotional and Cognitive
User Classes - Profiles or Roles; Concepts & Relationships - Events - Processes - Rules
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving
Timeboxing
48. The BA is a stakeholder in ______ business analysis activities.
Elimination
Decision Analysis - Risk Analysis - MoSCoW Analysis - Timeboxing/Budgeting - Voting
All
Plan Business Analysis Approach - Conduct Stakeholder Analysis - Plan Business Analysis Activities - Plan Business Analysis Communication - Plan Requirements Management Process - Manage BA Performance
49. What is the output of the task - Define Assumptions & Constraints?
Structured Walkthrough
Assumptions & Constraints
Document Analysis
Expert Judgment
50. What is the output of the task - Verify Requirements?
Fishbone Diagram - Five Whys
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements - Requirements Structure
Requirements (Verified)
Requirements Structure
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