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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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1. What are the inputs to the task - Define Business Need?
Business Goals & Objectives - Requirements (Stated)
Learning
Operative Rules
Requirements Analysis

2. What are the characteristics of a Problem Record?
Description - Raised by - Date Identified - Impact - Priority - Need by Date - Owner - Status - Action Needed to be Resolved - Responsible for Action - Completion Date of Action - Outcome
Requirements (Approved)
Requirements Package
Functional Decomposition - Interface Analysis - Scope Modeling - User Stories - Problem or Vision Statement

3. What is the output of the task - Determine Solution Approach?
Leadership
This person will be involved in monitoring the performance and effectiveness of a solution or its components.
Solution Approach
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Organizational Process Assets

4. 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
Confirm Elicitation Results
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Problem Tracking - Structured Walkthrough - Checklists
Manage Solution Scope & Requirements - Manage Requirements Traceability - Maintain Requirements for Re-use - Prepare Requirements Package - Communicate Requirements
Bottom-up Estimation

5. What are the inputs to the task - Define Business Case?
Automate or Simplify Work - Improve Access to Information - Reduce Complexity of Interfaces - Increase Consistency of Behavior - Eliminate Redundancy
Assumptions & Constraints - Business Need - Solution Scope - Stakeholder Concerns
Requirements Structure
Requirements Package

6. 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.
Bottom-up Estimation
Vertical Prototype
Cohesive - Complete - Consistent - Correct - Feasible - Modifiable - Unambiguous - Testable
Solution Scope

7. 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
A statement of the needs of a particular stakeholder or class of stakeholders
Advantages of Document Analysis
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements Management Plan - Scheduled Resources - Solution Scope & Business Case - Supporting Materials

8. When a requirement is changed - the BA can easily review all the related requirements and software components in order to understand the impact of the change.
Confirm Elicitation Results
Document Analysis
Problem Tracking - Baselining - Signoff
Impact Analysis

9. Divides requirements into 4 categories - Must - Should - Could - Won't
Assessment of Proposed Solution
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Data Modeling - Functional Decomposition - Organizational Modeling - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases - Scope Modeling - User Stories
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

10. The BA is a stakeholder in ______ business analysis activities.
Structural Rules
All
The Sponsor
Onion Diagram

11. According to the BABOK 2.0 - what type of analysis generates STAKEHOLDER requirements?
Requirements Analysis
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Business Rules Analysis - Focus Groups - Functional Decomposition - Root Cause Analysis
Functional Decomposition
Requirements (Stated) - Requirements Structure

12. What are the factors of influence by stakeholders on a project?
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Required Capabilities
Business Principles & Practices
Influence on the project - organizational - project health and other stakeholders
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Modeling - Organization Modeling - Data Modeling

13. Three types of organizational structures
Decision Analysis - Problem Tacking - Risk Analysis
Functions - Markets - Matrix
Specific - Measurable - Achievable - Relevant - Time-bound Objectives must be SMART.
SWOT Analysis

14. 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.
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Business Rules Analysis - Decision Analysis - Functional Decomposition - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases
Bottom-up Estimation
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Modeling - Organization Modeling - Data Modeling
Leadership

15. 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.
Implementation Approach
Business Need - Expert Judgment - Organizational Process Assets
Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)

16. What are the techniques used in the task - Define Assumptions & Constraints?
Decision Analysis
Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis
Business Analysis Approach
Share - Enhance - Exploit

17. 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.
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Required Capabilities
The Sponsor
Allocate Requirements
Reporting

18. Familiarity with the range of commercially available solutions or suppliers can assist with the identification of possible alternatives.
Problem Solving
Solution Knowledge
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Metrics & KPIs - Prototyping - Risk Analysis - Structured Walkthrough
Enterprise Analysis

19. Is generally understood to describe just one way that an actor can accomplish a particular goal
Scenario
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
Advantages of Document Analysis
Business Analysis Approach - BA Performance Assessment - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities

20. What are the inputs for the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?
Problem Solving
Requirements (Traced)
Formal Documentation - Presentation - Model
Business Requirements - Identified Defects - Solution Performance Metrics - Solution (Deployed)

21. What are the inputs for the task - Prepare Requirements Package?
Specific - Measurable - Achievable - Relevant - Time-bound Objectives must be SMART.
Decision Analysis - Problem Tacking - Risk Analysis
BABOK
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements - Requirements Structure

22. Use of parameters - multiplied by the number of hours. (COCOMO II - Function Point Counting - Use Case Points - and Story Points)
Transition Requirements
Parametric Estimation
Business Analysis Plan
Delphi Estimation

23. Knowing the dependencies and relationships between requirements helps when determining the sequence in which requirements are to be addressed. Common relations are:
Influence on the project - organizational - project health and other stakeholders
Necessity - Effort - Subset - Cover - Value
Data Dictionary & Glossary - Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshops - Survey/Questionnaire
Throw-away Prototype

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.
Strengths - Weaknesses
Trustworthiness
Requirements Analysis
Ethics

25. 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
Functional Decomposition - Interface Analysis - Scope Modeling - User Stories - Problem or Vision Statement
Rolling Wave
Creative Thinking - Decision Making - Learning - Problem Solving - Systems Thinking
Discounted Cash Flow - Net Present Value - Internal Rate of Return - Average Rate of Return - Pay Back Period - Cost-Benefit Analysis

26. What are the techniques for the task - Verify Requirements?
Problem or Vision Statement
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Problem Tracking - Structured Walkthrough - Checklists
A statement of the needs of a particular stakeholder or class of stakeholders
Ethics

27. Understanding of the competitive forces that shape an industry - understand the various customer segments that the industry services and the demographic or other characteristics common to that segment.
Timeboxing
Industry Knowledge
Observation
Advantages of Document Analysis

28. Includes the standard definition of data elements - their meanings and allowable values.
Specific - Measurable - Achievable - Relevant - Time-bound Objectives must be SMART.
Parametric Estimation
Functions - Markets - Matrix
Data Dictionary

29. What are the techniques used in the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?
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
Decision Analysis - Focus Groups - Observation - Survey/Questionnaire
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets
Cultural Assessment - Operational or Technical Assessment - Stakeholder Impact Analysis

30. Elements identified for each activity and task.
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements - Requirements Structure
Unique Number - Activity Description - Assumptions - Dependencies - Milestones
Assessment of Proposed Solution
Interviews

31. States the business need - identifies key stakeholders and briefly describes the positive impact that meeting the business need will have on those stakeholders.
BABOK
Advantages of Document Analysis
Problem or Vision Statement
Acceptance - Transfer - Avoidance - Mitigation

32. What are the techniques used in the task - Define Transition Requirements?
Root Cause Analysis
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Modeling - Organization Modeling - Data Modeling
Compliance with regulatory or other standards
Structured Walkthrough

33. What is the output of the task - Prioritize Requirements?
Scope Modeling
Business Analysis Performance Metrics - Business Analysis Plan - Organization Performance Standards - Requirements Management Plan
Requirements (Prioritized)
Delphi Estimation

34. Documents terms unique to a domain.
Expert Judgment
Glossary
Define Business Case
Budgeting

35. What is the output of the Manage Business Analysis Performance task?
Brainstorming
Repository - Traceability - Requirement Attributes - Prioritization Process - Change Management - Tailoring the Requirements Management Process
Root Cause 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

36. What are the Primitive Data Elements?
Leadership
Name - Aliases - Values/Meanings - Description
Trustworthiness
Assumptions & Constraints

37. What is the output of the task Document Elicitation Results?
Business Requirements - Stakeholder Requirements - Solution Requirements - Transition Requirements
Systems Thinking
Evolutionary or Functional Prototype
Requirements (Stated) - Stakeholder Concerns

38. The knowledge area that describes how a BA manages conflicts - issues and changes in order to ensure that stakeholders and the project team remain in agreement on the solution scope - how requirements are communicated to stakeholders and how knowledg
Requirements Management & Communication
Problem Tracking
Activity List
Identified Defects - Mitigating Actions - Solution Validation Assessment

39. The goal of this task is to meet with stakeholder(s) to gather information regarding their needs.
Survey/Questionnaire
Structured Walkthrough
Conduct Elicitation Activity
Root Cause Analysis

40. What is the output of the task - Define Business Need?
Assumptions & Constraints
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Solution Performance Assessment
Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Business Need

41. This technique shows how information is input - processed - stored and output from a system in a visual representation.
Clear - Relevant - Economical - Adequate - Quantifiable
Data Flow Diagrams
Activity List
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Models - Focus Groups - Interviews - Survey/Questionnaire - Organizational Modeling - Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Force Field Analysis

42. Ensure that the solution meets the business need and determine the most appropriate response to identified defects.
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements (Stated) - Solution Scope
Prototyping
Cultural Assessment - Operational or Technical Assessment - Stakeholder Impact Analysis
Validate Solution

43. What are the underlying competencies a BA should possess?
Business Value - Business or Technical Risk - Implementation Difficulty - Likelihood of Success - Regulatory or Policy Compliance - Relationship to Other Requirements - Stakeholder Agreement - Urgency
Activity List
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving - Behavioral Characteristics - Business Knowledge - Communication Skills - Interaction Skills - Software Application
Absolute Reference - Author - Complexity - Ownership - Priority - Risks - Source - Stability - Status - Urgency

44. Involved motivating people to act in ways that enable them to work together to achieve shared goals and objectives.
General Purpose Applications & Specialized Applications
Relationships - Impact Analysis - Configuration Management System
Leadership
Business Analysis Plan

45. What are the output(s) of the task - Validate Solution?
Requirements (Analyzed)
Root Cause Analysis
Identified Defects - Mitigating Actions - Solution Validation Assessment
Clear - Relevant - Economical - Adequate - Quantifiable

46. What are the inputs to the task - Validate Solution?
Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Business Rules Analysis - Focus Groups - Functional Decomposition - Root Cause Analysis
Solution (Constructed) - Requirements (Prioritized and Validated)
Solution Approach

47. Defines the key terms and data relevant to a business domain.
Stakeholder Matrix
Requirements Analysis
Assess Proposed Solution - Allocate Requirements - Assess Organizational Readiness - Define Transition Requirements - Validate Solution - Evaluate Solution Performance
Data Dictionary & Glossary

48. What describes how - when and why the business analyst will work with stakeholders?
The Business Analysis Communication Plan
Strengths - Weaknesses
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Data Modeling - Functional Decomposition - Organizational Modeling - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases - Scope Modeling - User Stories
Requirements (Traced)

49. Define the requirements that must be met in order for a solution to be considered acceptable to key stakeholders.
Acceptance & Evaluation Technique
Requirements (Allocated)
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving
Repository - Traceability - Requirement Attributes - Prioritization Process - Change Management - Tailoring the Requirements Management Process

50. What are the techniques used in the task - Define Business Case?
Decision Analysis - Estimation - Metrics & KPIs - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Leadership
Requirements (Verified)
Document Elicitation Results task