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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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1. When performing root cause analysis as part of the Validate Solution task - what stakeholder may be involved?
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Problem Tracking - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Implementation SME
Assessment of Proposed Solution
They describe what a solution must be capable of doing to meet the needs of one or more stakeholder groups

2. Two types of conflict.
Business Analysis Plan
Oral Communications - Teaching - Written Communication
Systems Thinking
Emotional and Cognitive

3. Prioritizes requirements based on a allocated fixed amount of money.
Acceptance - Transfer - Avoidance - Mitigation
Interviews - Observation
Budgeting
Document Elicitation Results task

4. What are the strategies for a negative risk?
Acceptance - Transfer - Avoidance - Mitigation
Manage Solution Scope & Requirements - Manage Requirements Traceability - Maintain Requirements for Re-use - Prepare Requirements Package - Communicate Requirements
Business Analysis Communication Plan
Transition Requirements

5. What are the Composite Data Elements?
All
Sequences - Repetitions - Optional Elements
Advantages of a Data Dictionary & Glossary
Customer

6. What is the output of the task - Define Business Need?
Estimation - Functional Decomposition - Risk Analysis
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Problem Tracking - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Business Need
Determine the Process - Who will Authorize Changes - Impact Analysis - Wording of the Request - Coordinate Prioritization of Change

7. What are the tasks in the knowledge area - Requirements Analysis?
Problem Tracking - Baselining - Signoff
Elicitation Results
Prioritize Requirements - Organize Requirements - Specify & Model Requirements - Define Assumptions & Constraints - Verify Requirements - Validate Requirements
Required Capabilities

8. What is the output of the task Plan Business Analysis Activities?
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Solution Performance Assessment
Business Analysis Plan
Requirements Structure
Key Performance Indicator (KPI )

9. What are the inputs to the task - Validate Requirements?
Business Case; Stakeholder - Solution or Transition Requirements (Verified)
User Classes - Profiles or Roles; Concepts & Relationships - Events - Processes - Rules
Define Transitional Requirements
Decision Analysis - Focus Groups - Observation - Survey/Questionnaire

10. What are the inputs to the task - Determine Solution Approach?
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Required Capabilities
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
Decision Analysis - Estimation - Metrics & KPIs - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Primary stakeholders in the Organize Requirements task

11. What are the inputs to the task - Specify & Model Requirements?
Stakeholder Matrix - Onion Diagram
Requirements (Stated) - Requirements Structure
Business Analysis Approach - BA Performance Assessment - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Problem or Vision Statement

12. What are the output(s) of the task - Validate Solution?
Confirm Elicitation Results
Requirements (Approved)
Identified Defects - Mitigating Actions - Solution Validation Assessment
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Models - Focus Groups - Interviews - Survey/Questionnaire - Organizational Modeling - Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Force Field Analysis

13. Documents terms unique to a domain.
Business Case - Business Need - Requirements - Requirements Management Plan - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Glossary
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Required Capabilities
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Requirements - Requirements Package

14. What are the techniques used in the task - Validate Solution?
Advantages of Document Analysis
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Problem Tracking - Root Cause Analysis
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements Management Plan - Scheduled Resources - Solution Scope & Business Case - Supporting Materials
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Problem Tracking - Structured Walkthrough - Checklists

15. What are the inputs to the task - Communicate Requirements?
Requirements (Traced)
Brainstorming
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Requirements - Requirements Package
Elicitation Results

16. The knowledge area that covers how BAs determine which activities are necessary in order to complete a business analysis effort.
Requirements Management Plan
Acceptance Criteria
Share - Enhance - Exploit
Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring

17. According to the BABOK 2.0 - what type of analysis generates STAKEHOLDER requirements?
Automate or Simplify Work - Improve Access to Information - Reduce Complexity of Interfaces - Increase Consistency of Behavior - Eliminate Redundancy
Requirements Analysis
Brainstorming
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Models - Focus Groups - Interviews - Survey/Questionnaire - Organizational Modeling - Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Force Field Analysis

18. What are the techniques used in the task - Organize Requirements?
Acceptance & Evaluation Technique
Use Case
That they understand them and the current state the requirements are in
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Data Modeling - Functional Decomposition - Organizational Modeling - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases - Scope Modeling - User Stories

19. Most optimistic estimate; most pessimistic estimate; most likely estimate
Advantages of Document Analysis
All
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Three-point Estimation

20. What are the tasks of the Elicitation Knowledge Area?
Elimination of Dominated Alternative - Ranking Objects on a Similar Scale
Required Capabilities
Prepare for Elicitation - Conduct Elicitation Activity - Document Elicitation Results - Confirm Elicitation Results
Assess Proposed Solution - Allocate Requirements - Assess Organizational Readiness - Define Transition Requirements - Validate Solution - Evaluate Solution Performance

21. Investigating how a solution is actually used after it is deployed and assessing the effect it has had - both positive and negative.
Business Principles & Practices
Structural Rules
Evaluate Solution Performance
Creative Thinking - Decision Making - Learning - Problem Solving - Systems Thinking

22. What are the Primitive Data Elements?
Horizontal Prototype
Name - Aliases - Values/Meanings - Description
Plan Business Analysis Approach - Conduct Stakeholder Analysis - Plan Business Analysis Activities - Plan Business Analysis Communication - Plan Requirements Management Process - Manage BA Performance
Benchmarking

23. Three key factors when assessing the quality of indicators and their metrics
Reliability - Validity - Timeliness
Requirements (Allocated)
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Modeling - Organization Modeling - Data Modeling
Evaluation

24. What are the 3 elements in the Assess Organizational Readiness?
Formal requirements presentation to stakeholders
SWOT Analysis
Cultural Assessment - Operational or Technical Assessment - Stakeholder Impact Analysis
Scheduled Resources - Supporting Materials

25. What are the inputs to the task Conduct Elicitation Activity?
Requirements Analysis
Problem Tracking
Metrics & KPIs
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements Management Plan - Scheduled Resources - Solution Scope & Business Case - Supporting Materials

26. What is the output of the task Conduct Stakeholder Analysis?
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Models - Focus Groups - Interviews - Survey/Questionnaire - Organizational Modeling - Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Force Field Analysis
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Solution Performance Assessment
Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Problem or Vision Statement

27. States the business need - identifies key stakeholders and briefly describes the positive impact that meeting the business need will have on those stakeholders.
Requirements Structure
Functional Decomposition - Interface Analysis - Scope Modeling - User Stories - Problem or Vision Statement
Problem or Vision Statement
Business Principles & Practices

28. What are some of the commonly used requirement attributes?
Relationships - Impact Analysis - Configuration Management System
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Solution Performance Assessment
Business Rule
Absolute Reference - Author - Complexity - Ownership - Priority - Risks - Source - Stability - Status - Urgency

29. What are the classifications used to describe requirements
Business Requirements - Stakeholder Requirements - Solution Requirements - Transition Requirements
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Problem Tracking - Structured Walkthrough - Checklists
Relationship to Time - Relationship to Task Completion - Relationship to Contracts - Relationships to Formal and Informal Authority
BABOK

30. What are the techniques used in the task - Assess Proposed Solution?
Define Business Need - Access Capability Gaps - Determine Solution Approach - Define Solution Scope - Define Business Case
Business Need
Formal requirements presentation to stakeholders
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Decision Analysis - Vendor Assessment

31. 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.
Solution Assessment & Validation
Glossary
Problem Solving
Decision Analysis

32. A formal written specification with possible walk-thru - an informal one is possibly verbal or email Communication
Formal requirements presentation to stakeholders
Allocate Requirements
Requirements (Stated) - Stakeholder Concerns
Implementation Approach

33. 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.
Decision Analysis - Risk Analysis - MoSCoW Analysis - Timeboxing/Budgeting - Voting
Evaluation Criteria
Implementation SME
User Story

34. 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
Manage Solution Scope & Requirements - Manage Requirements Traceability - Maintain Requirements for Re-use - Prepare Requirements Package - Communicate Requirements
Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis
Prototyping
Business Principals

35. Name some commonly used financial valuation techniques.
Reporting
Vendor Assessment
Discounted Cash Flow - Net Present Value - Internal Rate of Return - Average Rate of Return - Pay Back Period - Cost-Benefit Analysis
Functional Decomposition - Interface Analysis - Scope Modeling - User Stories - Problem or Vision Statement

36. To identify interfaces between solutions and/or solution components and define requirements that describe how they will interact.
Impact Analysis - Requirements Coverage - Requirements Allocation
Interface Analysis
Organizational Knowledge
Horizontal Prototype

37. What are the inputs for the task - Prepare Requirements Package?
Assess Proposed Solution - Allocate Requirements - Assess Organizational Readiness - Define Transition Requirements - Validate Solution - Evaluate Solution Performance
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements - Requirements Structure
Document Elicitation Results task
Trustworthiness

38. What are the techniques used in the task - Assess Organizational Readiness?
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Models - Focus Groups - Interviews - Survey/Questionnaire - Organizational Modeling - Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Force Field Analysis
Ongoing Cost versus Initial Investment - Opportunity Costs - Necessity - Sunk Costs
System
Solution Scope Definition - Implementation Approach - Dependencies

39. What are the inputs to the task - Assess Capability Gaps?
Use Case
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Solution Performance Assessment
Impact Analysis - Requirements Coverage - Requirements Allocation
Coverage Matrix - Table or spreadsheet used to manage tracing.

40. The purpose is to describe the required qualities of a system - such as its usability and performance characteristics.
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements Management Plan - Scheduled Resources - Solution Scope & Business Case - Supporting Materials
Enterprise Analysis
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving - Behavioral Characteristics - Business Knowledge - Communication Skills - Interaction Skills - Software Application
Non-functional Requirements Analysis

41. What are the techniques used in Plan Business Analysis Approach?
Decision Analysis - Process Modeling - Structured Walkthrough
Rolling Wave
Identified Defects - Mitigating Actions - Solution Validation Assessment
Key Performance Indicator (KPI )

42. Divides requirements into 4 categories - Must - Should - Could - Won't
Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis
Requirements Workshop
MoSCoW Analysis
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

43. Communicated Requirements mean what to stakeholders?
Business Analysis Approach - BA Performance Assessment - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Validate Requirements
Requirements (Allocated)
That they understand them and the current state the requirements are in

44. What is the output of the task Confirm Elicitation Results?
Requirements (Stated - Confirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Confirmed)
Brings them to a Communication on understanding
Acceptance & Evaluation Technique
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Problem Tracking - Structured Walkthrough - Checklists

45. 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.
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Solution Performance Assessment
Personal Organization
Name - Value/Meanings - Description

46. What are the tasks in Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring?
Plan Business Analysis Approach - Conduct Stakeholder Analysis - Plan Business Analysis Activities - Plan Business Analysis Communication - Plan Requirements Management Process - Manage BA Performance
Necessity - Effort - Subset - Cover - Value
Validate Solution
Business Principals

47. Maps the level of stakeholder influence and interest in a project.
Decision Analysis - Estimation - Metrics & KPIs - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Stakeholder Matrix
Elimination of Dominated Alternative - Ranking Objects on a Similar Scale
MoSCoW Analysis

48. To assess the ability of a potential vendor to meet commitments regarding a product or service
Assumptions & Constraints
Vendor Assessment
Elicitation Results
Solution Scope Definition - Implementation Approach - Dependencies

49. Performed to communicate - verify and validate requirements. Is a working session where invited participants review and discuss a set of requirements
Horizontal Prototype
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving
Enterprise Analysis
Structured Walkthrough

50. What stakeholder receives noticeable negative impact if information is incorrectly transferred from the old to new solution?
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets
MoSCoW Analysis
Risk - assumptions - constraints - etc.
Customer