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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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1. What are the Composite Data Elements?
Sequences - Repetitions - Optional Elements
Coverage Matrix - Table or spreadsheet used to manage tracing.
BABOK
Ethics

2. Defines the key terms and data relevant to a business domain.
Cohesive - Complete - Consistent - Correct - Feasible - Modifiable - Unambiguous - Testable
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Business Rules Analysis - Focus Groups - Functional Decomposition - Root Cause Analysis
Functions - Markets - Matrix
Data Dictionary & Glossary

3. 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.
Requirements Analysis
Underlying Competencies
Elicitation
Sequences - Repetitions - Optional Elements

4. What are the techniques used in the task Conduct Stakeholder Analysis?
Requirements Analysis
Business Analysis Process Assets
Analogous Estimation
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

5. Are used to describe the scope of analysis or the scope of a solution. Serve as a basis for defining and delimiting the scope of business analysis and project work. Allow the definition of a "complete" scope—that is - the boundaries of the scope corr
Business Principles & Practices
Scope Modeling
Evaluate Solution Performance
Identified Defects - Mitigating Actions - Solution Validation Assessment

6. A package should contain a consistent - cohesive and coherent set of requirements. This describes the ____________.
Document Elicitation Results task
A statement of the needs of a particular stakeholder or class of stakeholders
Term and Fact Model
Requirements Structure

7. Used to describe the roles - responsibilities and reporting structures that exist within an organization and to align those structures with the organization's goals.
Reporting
Systems Thinking
Organization Modeling
Requirements Structure

8. To identify and manage areas of uncertainty that can impact an initiative - solution - or organization.
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Business Rules Analysis - Focus Groups - Functional Decomposition - Root Cause Analysis
Stakeholder Concerns
Data Dictionary
Risk Analysis

9. What are the Primitive Data Elements?
Business Value - Business or Technical Risk - Implementation Difficulty - Likelihood of Success - Regulatory or Policy Compliance - Relationship to Other Requirements - Stakeholder Agreement - Urgency
Relationships - Impact Analysis - Configuration Management System
Document Analysis
Name - Aliases - Values/Meanings - Description

10. Models a shallow - and possibly wide view of the system's functionality. It typically does not have any business logic running behind the visualization.
Interviews - Lessons Learned Process - Metrics and KPIs - Problem Tracking - Process Modeling - Root Cause Analysis - Survey/Questionnaire - Variance Analysis
Solution Scope Definition - Implementation Approach - Dependencies
Clear - Relevant - Economical - Adequate - Quantifiable
Horizontal Prototype

11. What are the characteristics of quality for a requirements?
Enterprise Analysis
Sequence Diagrams
Requirements (Validated)
Cohesive - Complete - Consistent - Correct - Feasible - Modifiable - Unambiguous - Testable

12. While eliciting requirements it is important to guard against scope creep - This activity will ensure that the requirements should be included since they meet the business goal/objectives.
Tracing Requirements
Dependencies
The Sponsor
System

13. 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
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Decision Analysis - Estimation - SWOT Analysis - Feasibility Analysis
Problem or Vision Statement
Acceptance - Transfer - Avoidance - Mitigation
Decision Making

14. What are the inputs to the task - Validate Requirements?
Solution Approach
Confirm Elicitation Results
Business Case; Stakeholder - Solution or Transition Requirements (Verified)
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

15. What are the techniques used in the task - Assess Capability Gaps?
Requirements (Verified)
Manage Solution Scope & Requirements - Manage Requirements Traceability - Maintain Requirements for Re-use - Prepare Requirements Package - Communicate Requirements
Document Analysis - SWOT Analysis
Problem or Vision Statement

16. What are some examples of stakeholder concerns?
Requirements Management & Communication
Repository - Traceability - Requirement Attributes - Prioritization Process - Change Management - Tailoring the Requirements Management Process
Business Need - Expert Judgment - Organizational Process Assets
Risk - assumptions - constraints - etc.

17. What are the elements to the task - Define Business Case?
Requirements (Stated) - Stakeholder Concerns
Requirements (Prioritized)
Validate Requirements
Benefits - Costs - Risk Assessment - Results Measurement

18. This knowledge area describes the problem definition and analysis - business case development - feasibility studies and the definition of solution scope.
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Modeling - Organization Modeling - Data Modeling
Evolutionary or Functional Prototype
Enterprise Analysis
Allocate Requirements

19. Domain SME - End User - Implementation SME - and Sponsor: They Affected by analysis techniques used to organize requirements since they need to verify and validate the requirements.
Share - Enhance - Exploit
Evaluation Criteria
Define Business Case
Primary stakeholders in the Organize Requirements task

20. What is the output of the task Plan Requirements Management Process?
Three-point Estimation
Non-functional Requirements Analysis
Organizational Readiness Assessment - Requirements (Stated) - Solution (Deployed) - Solution (Designed)
Requirements Management Plan

21. This task determines if an organization can justify the investment required to deliver a proposed solution.
Define Business Case
They describe what a solution must be capable of doing to meet the needs of one or more stakeholder groups
To record the conflict in the Requirements Issues Log.
Elimination of Dominated Alternative - Ranking Objects on a Similar Scale

22. Define requirements for capabilities needed to move from an existing solution to a new solution.
Requirements (Stated - Confirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Confirmed)
Business Case; Stakeholder - Solution or Transition Requirements (Verified)
Define Transitional Requirements
Solution Knowledge

23. Elicitation Results are the inputs for the ____________
User Classes - Profiles or Roles; Concepts & Relationships - Events - Processes - Rules
Document Elicitation Results task
Elicitation
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements (Stated) - Solution Scope

24. 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
Solution Approach
Requirements (Prioritized)
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Decision Analysis - Estimation - SWOT Analysis - Feasibility Analysis

25. 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.
Unique Number - Activity Description - Assumptions - Dependencies - Milestones
User Story
Enterprise Analysis
Structural Rules

26. 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
MoSCoW Analysis
Solution Scope
Rolling Wave
Operative Rules

27. The BA is a stakeholder in ______ business analysis activities.
Data Dictionary & Glossary
All
Necessity - Effort - Subset - Cover - Value
Interviews

28. What are the inputs for the task - Prepare Requirements Package?
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements - Requirements Structure
Elicitation
Requirements (Stated) - Stakeholder Concerns
Requirements Structure

29. What is the output of the task - Specify & Model Requirements?
Underlying Competencies
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Metrics & KPIs - Prototyping - Risk Analysis - Structured Walkthrough
Repository - Traceability - Requirement Attributes - Prioritization Process - Change Management - Tailoring the Requirements Management Process
Requirements (Analyzed)

30. What are the inputs to the task Conduct Stakeholder Analysis?
Scheduled Resources - Supporting Materials
Tracing Requirements
Sequences - Repetitions - Optional Elements
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Organizational Process Assets

31. Name the 2 types of Software categories that assist in BA productivity.
Non-functional Requirements Analysis
General Purpose Applications & Specialized Applications
SWOT Analysis
Assess Proposed Solution - Allocate Requirements - Assess Organizational Readiness - Define Transition Requirements - Validate Solution - Evaluate Solution Performance

32. What are the techniques used in the task - Communicate Requirements?
Interface Analysis
Business Case; Stakeholder - Solution or Transition Requirements (Verified)
Requirements Workshop - Structured Walkthrough
Term and Fact Model

33. What are the 3 elements in the Assess Organizational Readiness?
Budgeting
Cultural Assessment - Operational or Technical Assessment - Stakeholder Impact Analysis
Requirements (Analyzed)
Data Modeling

34. 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.
Discounted Cash Flow - Net Present Value - Internal Rate of Return - Average Rate of Return - Pay Back Period - Cost-Benefit Analysis
Decision Making
Validate Requirements
Business Goals & Objectives - Requirements (Stated)

35. What is the output of the task - Prepare Requirements Package?
That they understand them and the current state the requirements are in
Brings them to a Communication on understanding
Requirements Package
Reporting

36. What are the techniques used in the task - Allocate Resources?
Assumptions & Constraints - Required Capabilities - Solution Approach
Survey/Questionnaire
Organize Requirements
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Business Rules Analysis - Decision Analysis - Functional Decomposition - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases

37. What are the attributes of a Data Model?
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements Management Plan - Scheduled Resources - Solution Scope & Business Case - Supporting Materials
Name - Value/Meanings - Description
Dependencies
Three-point Estimation

38. Allocate stakeholder and solution requirements among solution components and releases in order to maximize the possible business value given the options and alternatives generated by the design team.
Primary stakeholders in the Organize Requirements task
Discounted Cash Flow - Net Present Value - Internal Rate of Return - Average Rate of Return - Pay Back Period - Cost-Benefit Analysis
Requirements Analysis
Allocate Requirements

39. What are the techniques for the task - Verify Requirements?
Business Case - Business Need - Requirements - Requirements Management Plan - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
General Purpose Applications & Specialized Applications
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Problem Tracking - Structured Walkthrough - Checklists
Stakeholder Matrix - Onion Diagram

40. This prototype extends the initial interface requirements into a fully functioning system and requires a specialized prototyping tool or language.
Evolutionary or Functional Prototype
Business Analysis Plan
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
Assess Proposed Solution - Allocate Requirements - Assess Organizational Readiness - Define Transition Requirements - Validate Solution - Evaluate Solution Performance

41. What are the techniques used in the task - Prioritize Requirements?
Decision Analysis - Risk Analysis - MoSCoW Analysis - Timeboxing/Budgeting - Voting
Benefits - Costs - Risk Assessment - Results Measurement
This person will be involved in monitoring the performance and effectiveness of a solution or its components.
Solution Assessment & Validation

42. 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
Non-functional Requirements Analysis
Systems Thinking
Assumptions & Constraints - Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution Options
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Data Modeling - Functional Decomposition - Organizational Modeling - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases - Scope Modeling - User Stories

43. Name some commonly used financial valuation techniques.
Share - Enhance - Exploit
Discounted Cash Flow - Net Present Value - Internal Rate of Return - Average Rate of Return - Pay Back Period - Cost-Benefit Analysis
Solution Assessment & Validation
Horizontal Prototype

44. What is the output of the task - Define Business Need?
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Data Modeling - Functional Decomposition - Organizational Modeling - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases - Scope Modeling - User Stories
Business Need
Business Analysis Approach
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Business Rules Analysis - Decision Analysis - Functional Decomposition - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases

45. Involved motivating people to act in ways that enable them to work together to achieve shared goals and objectives.
Implementation SME
Leadership
Transition Requirements
Delphi Estimation

46. What are the inputs to the task Plan Requirements Management Process?
Decision Analysis - Focus Groups - Observation - Survey/Questionnaire
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets
Requirements Structure
Cohesive - Complete - Consistent - Correct - Feasible - Modifiable - Unambiguous - Testable

47. What are the inputs to the task Manage Solution Scope & Requirements?
Business Analysis Communication Plan
Requirements Management Plan - Solution Scope - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities - Stakeholder/Solution or Transition Requirements (Communicated or Traced)
Enterprise Analysis - often the starting point for initiating a new project
Horizontal Prototype

48. Means of eliciting information from many people - sometimes anonymously - in a relatively short period of time
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Decision Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Underlying Competencies
Survey/Questionnaire
Visual Learner - Auditory Learner - Kinesthetic Learner

49. Performed to communicate - verify and validate requirements. Is a working session where invited participants review and discuss a set of requirements
Requirements Structure
MoSCoW Analysis
Business Analysis Plan
Structured Walkthrough

50. What are the inputs to the task - Define Business Need?
Throw-away Prototype
Business Rules Analysis
Business Goals & Objectives - Requirements (Stated)
Validate Solution