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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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1. 7 knowledge areas of ________ : Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring - Elicitation - Requirements Management & Communication - Enterprise Analysis - Requirements Analysis - Solution Assessment & Validation - Underlying Competencies






2. This describes how the chosen solution will deliver the solution scope - may break delivery down into releases or provide a roadmap that indicates the timeframe in which a capability is expected.






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






4. This will impose constraints to the effort to deploy the solution - including relationships that may exist between solution components.






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






6. Two techniques used in Root Cause Analysis?






7. The BA is a stakeholder in ______ business analysis activities.






8. A systematic approach designed to elicit information from a person or group of people in an informal or formal setting by talking to an interviewee - asking relevant questions and documenting the responses.






9. What is the output of the task - Organize Requirements?






10. Industry Knowledge - Organization Knowledge - Solution Knowledge What are the elements of Business Knowledge?






11. What are the techniques used in the task - Validate Solution?






12. This technique represents the types of peoples - places - things and concepts that are important to the business - attributes associated with them and the significant business relationships among them.






13. What are the characteristics of Interaction Skills?






14. Gathering information relevant to a decision - breaking down the information relevant to a decision - making comparisons and tradeoffs between similar and dissimilar options and identifying the option that is most desirable.






15. A specific - actionable - testable directive that is under the control of an organization and supports a business policy.






16. What are the techniques used in the task - Define Transition Requirements?






17. Define requirements for capabilities needed to move from an existing solution to a new solution.






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






19. What techniques are used in the task - Define Solution Scope?






20. Set of requirements that will be used to choose between multiple solutions.






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






22. What knowledge area discusses the business analysis activities necessary to identify a business need - problem or opportunity - define the capture of the solution and justify the investment necessary to deliver the solution.






23. What does RACI stand for?






24. 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.






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






26. 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.






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






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






29. What should be considered when establishing a Change Management process?






30. Long-term - ongoing and qualitative statements of a state or condition that the organization is seeking to establish and maintain.






31. What are the elements of the task Plan Requirements Management Process?






32. Name the 2 types of Software categories that assist in BA productivity.






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






34. What are the inputs to the task - Verify Requirements?






35. What is the output of the task - Communicate Requirements?






36. Shows how the behavior of a concept - entity or object changes in response to events during its lifetime - and defines which events cause a transition between those states.






37. Measures progress towards a strategic goal or objective.






38. What are the techniques used in the task Manage Solution Scope & Requirements?






39. To identify and manage areas of uncertainty that can impact an initiative - solution - or organization.






40. To define the rules that govern decisions in an organization and that define - constrain or enable organization operations.






41. What are the Composite Data Elements?






42. What is the output of the task Conduct Stakeholder Analysis?






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






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






45. What describes how - when and why the business analyst will work with stakeholders?






46. Techniques used in the task Plan Requirements Management Process.






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






48. This prototype seeks to quickly uncover and clarify interface requirements using simple tools - sometimes just paper and pencil. The focus is on functionality that is not easily elicited by other techniques - has conflicting viewpoints - or is diffic






49. What are the inputs for the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?






50. What is the output of the Manage Business Analysis Performance task?