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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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1. 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






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






3. The goal of this task is validate that the stated requirements expressed by the stakeholder match the stakeholder's understanding of the problem and the stakeholder's needs. Analyst's understanding conforms to the actual desire or intentions of the s






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






5. 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.






6. What are the internal factors in a SWOT Analysis?






7. Defines what must be delivered in order to meet the business need - and the effect of the proposed change initiation on the business and technology operations and infrastructure.






8. The purpose is to describe the required qualities of a system - such as its usability and performance characteristics.






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






10. What is the output of the task - Specify & Model Requirements?






11. What are some examples of stakeholder concerns?






12. Business value can be delivered through requirements that support _______________ - alignment with internal standards or policies of the organization - or increased satisfaction for stakeholders - even if those things do not have a direct measurable






13. 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






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






15. What are the tasks for the knowledge area - Requirements Management & Communication?






16. When a conflict arises between stakeholders on one or more documented requirements - the first thing that needs to take place is what?






17. What are the inputs to the task - Validate Solution?






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






19. What are the general modeling concepts that are relevant to business analysis?






20. What are the characteristics of quality for a requirements?






21. The purpose of _______________ is to ensure that a stakeholder's actual underlying needs are understood - rather than the their stated or superficial desires.






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. Three key factors when assessing the quality of indicators and their metrics






24. What are the inputs for the task - Define Solution Scope?






25. What are the techniques used in the task Manage Business Analysis Performance?






26. What are the underlying competencies a BA should possess?






27. What is the output of the task - Define Business Case?






28. The purpose is to measure the performance of solutions - solution components - and other matters of interest to stakeholders.






29. 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.






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






31. What are stakeholder requirements?






32. This knowledge area describes the tasks that are performed in order to ensure that solutions meet the business need and to facilitate successful implementation.






33. Issues that may influence the replacement or elimination decision of a system include:






34. A good indicator has 5 characteristics:






35. What are the inputs to the task - Assess Capability Gaps?






36. What are the techniques used in the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?






37. What are the Behavioral Characteristics a BA should exhibit?






38. Understanding of the business architecture of the organization that is being analyzed. Understanding business models (generates profit) - org structure - relationships between business units and the persons who occupy key stakeholder positions.






39. 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.






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






41. Use of a similar project as the basis for developing estimates for the current project. Also known as "top-down" estimating. This is usually done at the beginning of the project or project phase and more detailed estimates follow as more is known.






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






43. Strengths - Weaknesses - Opportunities - Threats - A valuable tool to quickly analyze various aspects of the current state of the business process undergoing change.






44. The people involved - the interactions between them - the external forces affecting their behavior and all other relevant elements and factors.






45. Elements identified for each activity and task.






46. Uses history as a basis for estimating. It is similar to analogous estimation - but is used not only for the top-down estimate - but for the detailed tasks as well.






47. A diagram indicating how involved the stakeholder is with the solution.






48. 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.






49. What are the inputs to the task - Specify & Model Requirements?






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