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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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1. What techniques are used in the task Prepare for Elicitation?






2. This task describes the work required to decide which formats are appropriate for a particular project and its stakeholders. The requirements must be clear - concise - accurate and at the appropriate level of detail to assure clear understanding by t






3. What are the inputs to the task Manage Business Analysis Performance?






4. Three types of organizational structures






5. Stakeholders involved the BA in decision making - acceptance of the BA's recommendations - willingness to discuss difficult or controversial topics with the BA - stakeholders willing to support or defend the BA when problems occur.






6. What are the techniques used in the task Confirm Elicitation Results?






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






8. What are some of the key variables used in determining the priority of a requirement?






9. Performed to communicate - verify and validate requirements. Is a working session where invited participants review and discuss a set of requirements






10. 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.






11. What are the 3 elements in the Assess Organizational Readiness?






12. What are the inputs to the task - Allocate Resources?






13. Used to describe the roles - responsibilities and reporting structures that exist within an organization and to align those structures with the organization's goals.






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






15. What are the inputs to the task - Organize Requirements?






16. What are the tasks in the knowledge area - Solution Assessment & Validation?






17. What is the output of the task - Assess Organizational Readiness?






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






19. Organizational culture - Stakeholder preference - complexity - organizational maturity and availability of resources are all factors used to do what?






20. What is a STAKEHOLDER requirement - according to the BABOK 2.0?






21. This knowledge area describes the behaviors - knowledge and other characteristics that support the effective performance of a BA.






22. 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






23. 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.






24. A good indicator has 5 characteristics:






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






26. Estimating relies on the expertise of those who have performed the work in the past. These experts can be internal or external to the project team or to the organization.






27. Means of eliciting information from many people - sometimes anonymously - in a relatively short period of time






28. What is the output of the task Plan Business Analysis Communication?






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






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






31. What stakeholder receives noticeable negative impact if information is incorrectly transferred from the old to new solution?






32. Knowing the dependencies and relationships between requirements helps when determining the sequence in which requirements are to be addressed. Common relations are:






33. Limited to "as-is" perspective. - Existing documentation may not be up-to-date or valid. - Can be a time-consuming and even tedious process to locate the relevant information






34. What are the inputs to the task - Define Assumption & Constraints?






35. Involves assessing a situation - understanding it as fully as possible - and making judgments about possible solutions to the problem.






36. What is the output of the task - Determine Solution Approach?






37. When a requirement is changed - the BA can easily review all the related requirements and software components in order to understand the impact of the change.






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






39. What techniques are used in the task Manage Requirements Traceability?






40. Includes the standard definition of data elements - their meanings and allowable values.






41. Familiarity with the range of commercially available solutions or suppliers can assist with the identification of possible alternatives.






42. What are the inputs for the task Prepare for Elicitation?






43. What are the Primitive Data Elements?






44. The minimum set of requirements that must be met in order for a particular solution to be worth implementing.






45. 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.






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






47. What are the different types of learning styles?






48. Details user interface requirements and integrates them with other requirements such as use cases - scenarios - data and business rules. Stakeholders often find this to be a concrete means of identifying - describing and validating their interface ne






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






50. Name some commonly used financial valuation techniques.