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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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1. Provides an organized approach to tracking - management - and resolution of defects - issues - problems - and risks throughout business analysis activities. Management of issues is important so that they can be resolved in a timely manner to ensure s






2. 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






3. The goal of this task is to create a set of views of the requirements for the new business solution that are comprehensive - complete - consistent and understood from all stakeholder perspectives.






4. 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






5. What is the output of the task Conduct Elicitation Activity?






6. Defines the key terms and data relevant to a business domain.






7. Agreement by stakeholders that analysis models effectively and completely describe the domain - identification of related problems or issues from multiple areas in the domain - rapid absorption of new information or new domain.






8. What is the output of the task - Validate Requirements?






9. Defines what must be delivered in order to meet the business need - and the effect of the proposed change initiation on the business and technology operations and infrastructure.






10. What are the general modeling concepts that are relevant to business analysis?






11. A formal written specification with possible walk-thru - an informal one is possibly verbal or email Communication






12. 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.






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






14. 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.






15. This prototype extends the initial interface requirements into a fully functioning system and requires a specialized prototyping tool or language.






16. What is the output of the task - Assess Capability Gaps?






17. Involved motivating people to act in ways that enable them to work together to achieve shared goals and objectives.






18. What are the strategies for a positive risk?






19. What is the output of the task - Define Transition Requirements?






20. What are the inputs to the task - Prioritize Requirements?






21. What does RACI stand for?






22. Combination of expert judgment and history. Individual estimates - sharing the estimates with experts - and having several rounds until consensus is reached. An average of the three estimates is used






23. What are the inputs for the task Plan Business Analysis Activities?






24. 7 knowledge areas of ________ : Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring - Elicitation - Requirements Management & Communication - Enterprise Analysis - Requirements Analysis - Solution Assessment & Validation - Underlying Competencies






25. What is the output of the task - Define Business Need?






26. To assess the ability of a potential vendor to meet commitments regarding a product or service






27. Three types of organizational structures






28. Use of parameters - multiplied by the number of hours. (COCOMO II - Function Point Counting - Use Case Points - and Story Points)






29. Ability to find information - on-time completion of tasks - efficiency in the completion of work - ability to easily identify all outstanding work and the status of each work item.






30. A means to elicit requirements by studying available documentation on existing and comparable solutions and identifying relevant information. - Not starting from a blank page.- Leveraging existing materials to discover and/or confirm requirements. -






31. Elements of a Requirements Management Plan include?






32. The purpose of _______________ is to ensure that a stakeholder's actual underlying needs are understood - rather than the their stated or superficial desires.






33. Two effective trade-off methods.






34. What is the output of the task - Prepare Requirements Package?






35. A means of eliciting requirements by conducting an assessment of the stakeholder's work environment. This technique is appropriate when documenting details about current processes or if the project is intended to enhance or change a current process.






36. Prioritizes requirements based on a allocated fixed amount of money.






37. 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.






38. 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






39. Communication of requirements does what for stakeholders?






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






41. What is the output of the Plan Business Analysis Approach?






42. 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.






43. 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






44. Divides requirements into 4 categories - Must - Should - Could - Won't






45. What are the inputs for the task - Maintain Requirements for Re-use?






46. States the business need - identifies key stakeholders and briefly describes the positive impact that meeting the business need will have on those stakeholders.






47. What are the Behavioral Characteristics a BA should exhibit?






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






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






50. Is generally understood to describe just one way that an actor can accomplish a particular goal






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