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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning
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1. Familiarity with the range of commercially available solutions or suppliers can assist with the identification of possible alternatives.
Facilitation & Negotiation - Leadership & Influencing - Teamwork
Decision Analysis
Solution Knowledge
Elimination
2. What are the techniques used in the task - Define Assumptions & Constraints?
Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis
Requirements (Any Except Stated)
Stakeholder Concerns
Personal Organization
3. Corrective or preventative measures uncovered while performing a Business Analysis Performance Assessment will result in changes to what plan?
Coverage Matrix - Table or spreadsheet used to manage tracing.
Benchmarking
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Metrics & KPIs - Prototyping - Risk Analysis - Structured Walkthrough
Business Analysis Plan
4. What are the tasks for the knowledge area - Requirements Management & Communication?
Structured Walkthrough
Communicated Requirements
Manage Solution Scope & Requirements - Manage Requirements Traceability - Maintain Requirements for Re-use - Prepare Requirements Package - Communicate Requirements
A statement of the needs of a particular stakeholder or class of stakeholders
5. What is the output of the task - Define Transition Requirements?
Solution Scope Definition - Implementation Approach - Dependencies
Assess Proposed Solution - Allocate Requirements - Assess Organizational Readiness - Define Transition Requirements - Validate Solution - Evaluate Solution Performance
Transition Requirements
Activity List
6. What should be considered when establishing a Change Management process?
Absolute Reference - Author - Complexity - Ownership - Priority - Risks - Source - Stability - Status - Urgency
Determine the Process - Who will Authorize Changes - Impact Analysis - Wording of the Request - Coordinate Prioritization of Change
Leadership
Structured Walkthrough
7. What is the output of the task Plan Business Analysis Activities?
Requirements Workshop
Problem Tracking - Baselining - Signoff
Business Analysis Plan
Solution Assessment & Validation
8. Prioritizes requirements based on a allocated fixed amount of money.
Learning
Business Analysis Process Assets
Fishbone Diagram - Five Whys
Budgeting
9. What are the internal factors in a SWOT Analysis?
Strengths - Weaknesses
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements
Business Requirements - Identified Defects - Solution Performance Metrics - Solution (Deployed)
Acceptance & Evaluation Technique
10. What is the output of the task - Maintain Requirements for Re-use?
Requirements (Approved)
Decision Making
Requirements (Maintained and Reusable)
Ethics - Trustworthiness - Personal Organization
11. What are the inputs to the task - Determine Solution Approach?
Name - Aliases - Values/Meanings - Description
Requirements Analysis
Decision Making
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Required Capabilities
12. What are the likely sources of transition requirements?
Requirements (Stated) - Requirements Structure
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
Data - Ongoing Work - Organizational Change
Prepare Requirements Package
13. 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
Formal requirements presentation to stakeholders
Advantages of a Data Dictionary & Glossary
Operative Rules
Lessons Learned Process
14. 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
Expert Judgment
Communicated Requirements
Stakeholder Matrix - Onion Diagram
Requirements Structure
15. 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.
Coverage Matrix - Table or spreadsheet used to manage tracing.
Implementation SME
Define Transitional Requirements
State Diagrams
16. What are the inputs to the task - Prioritize Requirements?
Business Case - Business Need - Requirements - Requirements Management Plan - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Business Need - Expert Judgment - Organizational Process Assets
Glossary
Prototyping
17. What are the inputs of the task Plan Business Analysis Communication?
Leadership
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Assessment of Proposed Solution
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
18. What is the output of the task - Define Business Case?
Business Need - Expert Judgment - Organizational Process Assets
Transition Requirements
Business Case
Requirements Workshop
19. What is the output of the task Conduct Stakeholder Analysis?
Data - Ongoing Work - Organizational Change
Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Benchmarking
To record the conflict in the Requirements Issues Log.
20. Revised process and templates for BA deliverables should be analyzed and documented and lessons learned should be recorded.
Document Analysis
Assumptions & Constraints - Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution Options
Business Analysis Process Assets
Enterprise Architecture - Solution Scope - Solution (Designed) - Stakeholder Concerns
21. What are the attributes of a Data Model?
Timeboxing
Requirements Structure
Name - Value/Meanings - Description
Business Analysis Approach
22. What are the techniques used in the task - Validate Solution?
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Problem Tracking - Root Cause Analysis
Prioritize Requirements - Organize Requirements - Specify & Model Requirements - Define Assumptions & Constraints - Verify Requirements - Validate Requirements
Solution Performance Assessment
Interviews
23. What are the elements of Communication Skills?
Reliability - Validity - Timeliness
To record the conflict in the Requirements Issues Log.
Scenarios & Use Cases
Oral Communications - Teaching - Written Communication
24. What are the inputs for the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?
Allocate Requirements
Fishbone Diagram - Five Whys
Assumptions & Constraints - Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution Options
Business Requirements - Identified Defects - Solution Performance Metrics - Solution (Deployed)
25. What are the inputs to the task - Organize Requirements?
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements (Stated) - Solution Scope
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Problem Tracking - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving - Behavioral Characteristics - Business Knowledge - Communication Skills - Interaction Skills - Software Application
Perform tailoring exercises
26. What are the inputs to the task - Assess Proposed Solution?
Assumptions & Constraints - Required Capabilities - Solution Approach
Assumptions & Constraints - Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution Options
Name - Value/Meanings - Description
Stakeholder Matrix
27. A diagram indicating how involved the stakeholder is with the solution.
Sequence Diagrams
Onion Diagram
Non-functional Requirements Analysis
Name - Value/Meanings - Description
28. 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.
Advantages of Document Analysis
Requirements Management Plan - Solution Scope - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities - Stakeholder/Solution or Transition Requirements (Communicated or Traced)
Onion Diagram
Evaluation
29. What are some of the ways a BA can help to improve the operations of a business? Acceptance and Evaluation Criteria Definition - Business Rules Analysis - Data Dictionary and Glossary - Data Flow Diagrams - Data Modeling - Functional Decomposition -
Automate or Simplify Work - Improve Access to Information - Reduce Complexity of Interfaces - Increase Consistency of Behavior - Eliminate Redundancy
Solution Knowledge
Enterprise Analysis
Conduct Elicitation Activity
30. What is the output of the task - Allocate Resources?
Solution Approach
Evaluation Criteria
Requirements (Allocated)
Opportunity Cost
31. Three types of organizational structures
Solution Approach
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements
Problem Solving
Functions - Markets - Matrix
32. Two techniques used in Root Cause Analysis?
Requirements Management Plan
Advantages of a Data Dictionary & Glossary
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving - Behavioral Characteristics - Business Knowledge - Communication Skills - Interaction Skills - Software Application
Fishbone Diagram - Five Whys
33. The decomposition of activities and tasks creates?
Strengths - Weaknesses
Responsible - Accountable - Consulted - Informed
Vendor Assessment
Activity List
34. 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.
Evolutionary or Functional Prototype
Validate Requirements
Scenarios & Use Cases
Business Analysis Plan
35. 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.
Prioritize Requirements - Organize Requirements - Specify & Model Requirements - Define Assumptions & Constraints - Verify Requirements - Validate Requirements
Requirements Analysis
Monitoring
Business Analysis Approach
36. What are the inputs to the task Plan Requirements Management Process?
Risk - assumptions - constraints - etc.
Requirements (Any Except Stated)
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets
MoSCoW Analysis
37. What is the output of the task - Organize Requirements?
Coverage Matrix - Table or spreadsheet used to manage tracing.
Reliability - Validity - Timeliness
Requirements Structure
Historic Analysis
38. What are the inputs for the task - Define Transitional Requirements?
Operative Rules
Organizational Readiness Assessment - Requirements (Stated) - Solution (Deployed) - Solution (Designed)
Decision Making
Functional Decomposition - Interface Analysis - Scope Modeling - User Stories - Problem or Vision Statement
39. What are the underlying competencies a BA should possess?
Impact Analysis
Assumptions & Constraints - Business Need - Solution Scope - Stakeholder Concerns
Decision Analysis - Process Modeling - Structured Walkthrough
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving - Behavioral Characteristics - Business Knowledge - Communication Skills - Interaction Skills - Software Application
40. What are the inputs to the task Conduct Elicitation Activity?
Repository - Traceability - Requirement Attributes - Prioritization Process - Change Management - Tailoring the Requirements Management Process
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements Management Plan - Scheduled Resources - Solution Scope & Business Case - Supporting Materials
Reliability - Performance Efficiency - Operability - Security - Compatibility - Maintainability - Transferability
Requirements (Approved)
41. This technique represents the types of peoples - places - things and concepts that are important to the business - attributes associated with them and the significant business relationships among them.
Data Modeling
Structural Rules
Problem Tracking - Baselining - Signoff
Coverage Matrix - Table or spreadsheet used to manage tracing.
42. 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
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Modeling - Organization Modeling - Data Modeling
Estimation
Cohesive - Complete - Consistent - Correct - Feasible - Modifiable - Unambiguous - Testable
Prioritize Requirements - Organize Requirements - Specify & Model Requirements - Define Assumptions & Constraints - Verify Requirements - Validate Requirements
43. Communication of requirements does what for stakeholders?
Brings them to a Communication on understanding
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Decision Analysis - Estimation - SWOT Analysis - Feasibility Analysis
Requirements Workshop - Structured Walkthrough
Reporting
44. Who is the primary stakeholder in the Define Business Case task?
BABOK
Business Domain - Corporate Culture & Environment - Skills of the Analyst - Requirement Deliverable
Requirements Analysis
The Sponsor
45. How is the Operational Support stakeholder utilized in the Evaluate Solution Performance task?
Document Elicitation Results task
This person will be involved in monitoring the performance and effectiveness of a solution or its components.
Assessment of Proposed Solution
Operative Rules
46. What are the output(s) of the task - Validate Solution?
Primary stakeholders in the Organize Requirements task
Identified Defects - Mitigating Actions - Solution Validation Assessment
Requirements (Prioritized)
Requirements (Maintained and Reusable)
47. What are the general modeling concepts that are relevant to business analysis?
Fishbone Diagram - Five Whys
Glossary
Structural Rules
User Classes - Profiles or Roles; Concepts & Relationships - Events - Processes - Rules
48. The minimum set of requirements that must be met in order for a particular solution to be worth implementing.
To record the conflict in the Requirements Issues Log.
Oral Communications - Teaching - Written Communication
Acceptance Criteria
Focus Group
49. 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?
Emotional and Cognitive
Reporting
Automate or Simplify Work - Improve Access to Information - Reduce Complexity of Interfaces - Increase Consistency of Behavior - Eliminate Redundancy
Impact Analysis - Requirements Coverage - Requirements Allocation
50. What are the Behavioral Characteristics a BA should exhibit?
Requirements (Validated)
Assumptions & Constraints
Use Case
Ethics - Trustworthiness - Personal Organization