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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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1. What are some examples of stakeholder concerns?






2. 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.






3. An excellent way to foster creative thinking about a problem. The goal is to produce numerous new ideas and to derive themes for further analysis. - Ability to elicit many ideas in a short time period. - - Non-judgmental environment enables creative






4. Characteristics that are common to all organizations with a similar purpose and structure - whether or not the are in the same industry.






5. 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






6. What are the inputs to the task - Determine Solution Approach?






7. The knowledge area that describes how a BA manages conflicts - issues and changes in order to ensure that stakeholders and the project team remain in agreement on the solution scope - how requirements are communicated to stakeholders and how knowledg






8. Ensure that the solution meets the business need and determine the most appropriate response to identified defects.






9. A continuous process of collecting data to determine how well a solution has been implemented compared to expected results.






10. What are the elements to the task - Define Business Case?






11. An important tool in defining the scope of work and developing estimates. Decomposes the project scope into smaller and smaller pieces - creating a hierarchy of work.






12. What are the tasks in the knowledge area - Requirements Analysis?






13. What are the underlying competencies a BA should possess?






14. Techniques used in the task Plan Requirements Management Process.






15. 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.






16. Understanding of the business architecture of the organization that is being analyzed. Understanding business models (generates profit) - org structure - relationships between business units and the persons who occupy key stakeholder positions.






17. What is the output to the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?






18. This task determines if an organization can justify the investment required to deliver a proposed solution.






19. Use of a similar project as the basis for developing estimates for the current project. Also known as "top-down" estimating. This is usually done at the beginning of the project or project phase and more detailed estimates follow as more is known.






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






21. What are the inputs to the task - Assess Capability Gaps?






22. What is the output of the task Document Elicitation Results?






23. 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.






24. To identify interfaces between solutions and/or solution components and define requirements that describe how they will interact.






25. What is the output of the task - Allocate Resources?






26. What is the output of the task Plan Business Analysis Activities?






27. When performing root cause analysis as part of the Validate Solution task - what stakeholder may be involved?






28. What are the techniques used in Plan Business Analysis Approach?






29. What are the inputs to the task - Validate Solution?






30. Rules that are intended to help determine when something is or is not true - or when things fall into a specific category. They are expressed as rules because they describe categorizations that may change over time.






31. What is the output of the task - Define Business Case?






32. Two techniques used in Root Cause Analysis?






33. What is the output of the task - Specify & Model Requirements?






34. 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 -






35. What should be considered when establishing a Change Management process?






36. What are the inputs to the task Conduct Stakeholder Analysis?






37. Strengths - Weaknesses - Opportunities - Threats - A valuable tool to quickly analyze various aspects of the current state of the business process undergoing change.






38. Set of requirements that will be used to choose between multiple solutions.






39. What are the inputs to the task - Validate Requirements?






40. What are the tasks in the knowledge area - Enterprise Analysis?






41. Understanding of how a change to a component affects the system as a whole - identification of reinforcing and compensating feedback loops - understanding of how systems adapt to external pressures and changes - A system as a whole will have properti






42. What are the techniques used in the task Document Elicitation Results?






43. What are the characteristics of Interaction Skills?






44. What is the output of the task - Communicate Requirements?






45. What are the techniques used in the task - Communicate Requirements?






46. What are the techniques used in the task Conduct Elicitation Activity?






47. 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






48. Three types of organizational structures






49. 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.






50. Communicated Requirements mean what to stakeholders?