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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning
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1. Long-term - ongoing and qualitative statements of a state or condition that the organization is seeking to establish and maintain.
Goals
Systems Thinking
Budgeting
That they understand them and the current state the requirements are in
2. What are the Primitive Data Elements?
Requirements Structure
Throw-away Prototype
Name - Aliases - Values/Meanings - Description
Focus Group
3. Maps the level of stakeholder influence and interest in a project.
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Problem Tracking - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Stakeholder Matrix
Share - Enhance - Exploit
Expert Judgment
4. What are the inputs for the task Confirm Elicitation Results?
Data - Ongoing Work - Organizational Change
Requirements (Stated - Unconfirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Unconfirmed)
User Classes - Profiles or Roles; Concepts & Relationships - Events - Processes - Rules
Clear - Relevant - Economical - Adequate - Quantifiable
5. This knowledge area describes the problem definition and analysis - business case development - feasibility studies and the definition of solution scope.
Impact Analysis
Enterprise Analysis
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Business Rules Analysis - Decision Analysis - Functional Decomposition - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases
Evolutionary or Functional Prototype
6. 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
Implementation Approach
Budgeting
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
Problem Tracking
7. What are the techniques used in the task - Validate Solution?
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
Budgeting
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Problem Tracking - Root Cause Analysis
The Sponsor
8. What are the tasks for the knowledge area - Requirements Management & Communication?
Business Policy
Define Business Need - Access Capability Gaps - Determine Solution Approach - Define Solution Scope - Define Business Case
Manage Solution Scope & Requirements - Manage Requirements Traceability - Maintain Requirements for Re-use - Prepare Requirements Package - Communicate Requirements
Document Analysis
9. What are the likely sources of transition requirements?
Clear - Relevant - Economical - Adequate - Quantifiable
Data - Ongoing Work - Organizational Change
Visual Learner - Auditory Learner - Kinesthetic Learner
Advantages of Document Analysis
10. A good indicator has 5 characteristics:
Decision Analysis - Process Modeling - Structured Walkthrough
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
Clear - Relevant - Economical - Adequate - Quantifiable
Identified Defects - Mitigating Actions - Solution Validation Assessment
11. 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.
Cohesive - Complete - Consistent - Correct - Feasible - Modifiable - Unambiguous - Testable
User Story
Requirements Analysis
Requirements Management Plan
12. What are the factors of influence by stakeholders on a project?
Decision Analysis - Risk Analysis - MoSCoW Analysis - Timeboxing/Budgeting - Voting
Requirements - Requirements Management Plan
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements - Requirements Structure
Influence on the project - organizational - project health and other stakeholders
13. To identify and manage areas of uncertainty that can impact an initiative - solution - or organization.
Systems Thinking
Key Performance Indicator (KPI )
Automate or Simplify Work - Improve Access to Information - Reduce Complexity of Interfaces - Increase Consistency of Behavior - Eliminate Redundancy
Risk Analysis
14. Prioritizes requirements based on the amount of work that the project team is capable of delivering in a set period of time. Approaches include: All-in - All Out - Selective
Lessons Learned Process
Strengths - Weaknesses
Requirements (Stated) - Requirements Structure
Timeboxing
15. What are the elements of the task - Define Solution Scope?
Solution Scope Definition - Implementation Approach - Dependencies
Business Goals & Objectives - Requirements (Stated)
Business Value - Business or Technical Risk - Implementation Difficulty - Likelihood of Success - Regulatory or Policy Compliance - Relationship to Other Requirements - Stakeholder Agreement - Urgency
Cohesive - Complete - Consistent - Correct - Feasible - Modifiable - Unambiguous - Testable
16. Three key factors when assessing the quality of indicators and their metrics
Stakeholder Concerns
Reliability - Validity - Timeliness
Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution (Designed) - Solution Scope
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
17. What is the output of the task - Validate Requirements?
Functional Decomposition
Requirements (Validated)
Solution Assessment & Validation
This person will be involved in monitoring the performance and effectiveness of a solution or its components.
18. 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.
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Modeling - Organization Modeling - Data Modeling
Decision Analysis - Problem Tacking - Risk Analysis
Validate Requirements
Assumptions & Constraints
19. 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
Share - Enhance - Exploit
Business Analysis Approach
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Required Capabilities
Rolling Wave
20. What is the output to the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?
Benchmarking
Solution Performance Assessment
Risk Analysis
Visual Learner - Auditory Learner - Kinesthetic Learner
21. What is the output of the task - Manage Requirements Traceability?
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving
Implementation SME
Requirements (Traced)
Document Analysis - SWOT Analysis
22. Knowing the dependencies and relationships between requirements helps when determining the sequence in which requirements are to be addressed. Common relations are:
A statement of the needs of a particular stakeholder or class of stakeholders
Necessity - Effort - Subset - Cover - Value
Vertical Prototype
Business Rule
23. The process of informing stakeholders of metrics of indicators in specified formats at specified intervals.
Reporting
Decision Analysis - Risk Analysis - MoSCoW Analysis - Timeboxing/Budgeting - Voting
Leadership
Transition Requirements
24. This task determines if an organization can justify the investment required to deliver a proposed solution.
Define Business Case
Structured Walkthrough
Implementation Approach
Document Elicitation Results task
25. What are the inputs for the task Prepare for Elicitation?
Ethics
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Business Need - Solution Scope & Business Case - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
All
26. What are the tasks in Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring?
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Decision Analysis - Estimation - SWOT Analysis - Feasibility Analysis
Business Need - Expert Judgment - Organizational Process Assets
Plan Business Analysis Approach - Conduct Stakeholder Analysis - Plan Business Analysis Activities - Plan Business Analysis Communication - Plan Requirements Management Process - Manage BA Performance
Prototyping
27. What are the techniques used in the task - Define Business Case?
Requirements Analysis
Functional Decomposition
Decision Analysis - Estimation - Metrics & KPIs - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Required Capabilities
28. A diagram indicating how involved the stakeholder is with the solution.
Validate Solution
Vertical Prototype
General Purpose Applications & Specialized Applications
Onion Diagram
29. 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
Cognitive Conflict
Solution Approach
Systems Thinking
Delphi Estimation
30. Define the requirements that must be met in order for a solution to be considered acceptable to key stakeholders.
Acceptance & Evaluation Technique
They describe what a solution must be capable of doing to meet the needs of one or more stakeholder groups
Scenario
Visual Learner - Auditory Learner - Kinesthetic Learner
31. What are the inputs to the task Manage Solution Scope & Requirements?
Assumptions & Constraints
Evolutionary or Functional Prototype
Requirements Management Plan - Solution Scope - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities - Stakeholder/Solution or Transition Requirements (Communicated or Traced)
Requirements Structure
32. Models a shallow - and possibly wide view of the system's functionality. It typically does not have any business logic running behind the visualization.
That they understand them and the current state the requirements are in
Evaluation Criteria
General Purpose Applications & Specialized Applications
Horizontal Prototype
33. What is the output of the task - Define Transition Requirements?
Data Modeling
Parametric Estimation
Transition Requirements
User Story
34. Business rules require a defined glossary of terms and an understanding of the relationships between them - this is known as:
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Metrics & KPIs - Prototyping - Risk Analysis - Structured Walkthrough
Problem Solving
Term and Fact Model
Prioritize Requirements - Organize Requirements - Specify & Model Requirements - Define Assumptions & Constraints - Verify Requirements - Validate Requirements
35. What are the techniques used in the task - Assess Proposed Solution?
Plan Business Analysis Approach - Conduct Stakeholder Analysis - Plan Business Analysis Activities - Plan Business Analysis Communication - Plan Requirements Management Process - Manage BA Performance
Requirements (Maintained and Reusable)
System
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Decision Analysis - Vendor Assessment
36. Documents terms unique to a domain.
Business Case; Stakeholder - Solution or Transition Requirements (Verified)
Glossary
Unique Number - Activity Description - Assumptions - Dependencies - Milestones
Cognitive Conflict
37. How is the Operational Support stakeholder utilized in the Evaluate Solution Performance task?
Decision Making
This person will be involved in monitoring the performance and effectiveness of a solution or its components.
Requirements Documentation - Requirements for Vendor Selection
Data Dictionary & Glossary - Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshops - Survey/Questionnaire
38. What are the inputs to the task - Assess Organizational Readiness?
Bottom-up Estimation
Assess Organization Readiness
Root Cause Analysis
Enterprise Architecture - Solution Scope - Solution (Designed) - Stakeholder Concerns
39. Using this technique the business analyst has collected the deliverables - activities - tasks - and estimates from all the involved stakeholders and rolls them up to get a total for all the activities and tasks.
Three-point Estimation
Formal Documentation - Presentation - Model
Bottom-up Estimation
Problem Tracking
40. Industry Knowledge - Organization Knowledge - Solution Knowledge What are the elements of Business Knowledge?
Problem or Vision Statement
Trustworthiness
Business Principles & Practices
Organize Requirements
41. What are the Composite Data Elements?
Interviews - Lessons Learned Process - Metrics and KPIs - Problem Tracking - Process Modeling - Root Cause Analysis - Survey/Questionnaire - Variance Analysis
Organization Modeling
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
Sequences - Repetitions - Optional Elements
42. Corrective or preventative measures uncovered while performing a Business Analysis Performance Assessment will result in changes to what plan?
Assumptions & Constraints - Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution Options
Monitoring
Business Analysis Plan
Operative Rules
43. What are the Cultural diversity issues that should be taken into account when planning communication?
Identified Defects - Mitigating Actions - Solution Validation Assessment
Relationships - Impact Analysis - Configuration Management System
Vendor Assessment
Relationship to Time - Relationship to Task Completion - Relationship to Contracts - Relationships to Formal and Informal Authority
44. What is the output of the task - Assess Proposed Solution?
Stakeholder Concerns
Assessment of Proposed Solution
Ongoing Cost versus Initial Investment - Opportunity Costs - Necessity - Sunk Costs
Underlying Competencies
45. What are the inputs to the task - Assess Proposed Solution?
Assumptions & Constraints - Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution Options
Business Value - Business or Technical Risk - Implementation Difficulty - Likelihood of Success - Regulatory or Policy Compliance - Relationship to Other Requirements - Stakeholder Agreement - Urgency
Requirements (Maintained and Reusable)
Glossary
46. What are the Behavioral Characteristics a BA should exhibit?
Influence on the project - organizational - project health and other stakeholders
Business Analysis Performance Metrics - Business Analysis Plan - Organization Performance Standards - Requirements Management Plan
Requirements (Traced)
Ethics - Trustworthiness - Personal Organization
47. A continuous process of collecting data to determine how well a solution has been implemented compared to expected results.
Monitoring
Prepare for Elicitation - Conduct Elicitation Activity - Document Elicitation Results - Confirm Elicitation Results
Elicitation Results
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Business Rules Analysis - Focus Groups - Functional Decomposition - Root Cause Analysis
48. 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.
Business Need - Solution Scope & Business Case - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
That they understand them and the current state the requirements are in
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Business Rules Analysis - Focus Groups - Functional Decomposition - Root Cause Analysis
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.
Solution Assessment & Validation
Scenario
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
50. The purpose is to describe the required qualities of a system - such as its usability and performance characteristics.
Non-functional Requirements Analysis
Data - Ongoing Work - Organizational Change
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Business Rules Analysis - Decision Analysis - Functional Decomposition - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases
Business Need - Solution Scope & Business Case - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
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