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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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1. Techniques used in the task Plan Requirements Management Process.
Business Analysis Process Assets
Implementation Approach
Decision Analysis - Problem Tacking - Risk Analysis
Required Capabilities

2. Name the 2 types of Software categories that assist in BA productivity.
Elicitation Results
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
General Purpose Applications & Specialized Applications
Business Need - Solution Scope & Business Case - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities

3. What is the output of the task Document Elicitation Results?
Solution Assessment & Validation
Requirements (Stated) - Stakeholder Concerns
Business Value - Business or Technical Risk - Implementation Difficulty - Likelihood of Success - Regulatory or Policy Compliance - Relationship to Other Requirements - Stakeholder Agreement - Urgency
User Story

4. The goal of this task is to create a set of views of the requirements for the new business solution that are comprehensive - complete - consistent and understood from all stakeholder perspectives.
Activity List
Problem Tracking
Absolute Reference - Author - Complexity - Ownership - Priority - Risks - Source - Stability - Status - Urgency
Organize Requirements

5. What are the inputs to the task Manage Requirements Traceability?
Decision Analysis - Process Modeling - Structured Walkthrough
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets
Requirements - Requirements Management Plan
Throw-away Prototype

6. 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.
Dependencies
Systems Thinking
Leadership
Decision Analysis

7. What are the techniques used in Plan Business Analysis Communication?
Solution (Constructed) - Requirements (Prioritized and Validated)
Structured Walkthrough
Creative Thinking - Decision Making - Learning - Problem Solving - Systems Thinking
Leadership

8. Are used to model the logic of usage scenarios - by showing the information passed between objects in the system through the execution of the scenario. Shows how classes and objects interact during a scenario.
Assess Organization Readiness
Sequence Diagrams
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Organizational Process Assets
Key Performance Indicator (KPI )

9. 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.
Bottom-up Estimation
Functions - Markets - Matrix
Requirements Structure
Brainstorming

10. What is the output of the task - Maintain Requirements for Re-use?
Vendor Assessment
Oral Communications - Teaching - Written Communication
Requirements (Maintained and Reusable)
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements

11. What is the output of the Plan Business Analysis Approach?
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Problem Tracking - Root Cause Analysis
Business Analysis Approach
Metrics & KPIs
Requirements Workshop

12. The knowledge area that covers how BAs determine which activities are necessary in order to complete a business analysis effort.
Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring
Business Analysis Plan
Cohesive - Complete - Consistent - Correct - Feasible - Modifiable - Unambiguous - Testable
Business Analysis Communication Plan

13. A structured way to capture requirements. May be used to scope - discover - define - prioritize and reach closure on requirements for the target system. Considered one of the most effective ways to deliver high quality requirements quickly.
Interface Analysis
Vendor Assessment
Requirements Workshop
Benchmarking

14. What are the inputs to the task - Organize Requirements?
Trustworthiness
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements (Stated) - Solution Scope
Enterprise Analysis - often the starting point for initiating a new project
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Organizational Process Assets

15. What are the techniques used in the task Conduct Stakeholder Analysis?
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
Document Elicitation Results task
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Requirements - Requirements Package

16. What are the inputs to the task - Communicate Requirements?
Business Analysis Plan
Formal Documentation - Presentation - Model
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
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Requirements - Requirements Package

17. A package should contain a consistent - cohesive and coherent set of requirements. This describes the ____________.
Business Analysis Approach - BA Performance Assessment - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Requirements (Allocated)
Requirements Structure
Ongoing Cost versus Initial Investment - Opportunity Costs - Necessity - Sunk Costs

18. Approach to decision making that examines and models the possible consequences of different decisions. Make an optimal decision under conditions of uncertainty.
Requirements (Stated) - Stakeholder Concerns
Define Transitional Requirements
Decision Analysis
Ethics

19. What is the output of the task - Determine Solution Approach?
Business Rule
Requirements Structure
User Story
Solution Approach

20. This knowledge area describes the problem definition and analysis - business case development - feasibility studies and the definition of solution scope.
Compliance with regulatory or other standards
Lessons Learned Process
Elicitation Results
Enterprise Analysis

21. Three types of organizational structures
Solution Knowledge
Functions - Markets - Matrix
Requirements Structure
Root Cause Analysis

22. What is the output of the task - Assess Organizational Readiness?
Solution Assessment & Validation
Underlying Competencies
Organizational Readiness Assessment
Sequence Diagrams

23. What is the output of the task Plan Business Analysis Activities?
This person will be involved in monitoring the performance and effectiveness of a solution or its components.
Validate Solution
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Business Rules Analysis - Decision Analysis - Functional Decomposition - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases
Business Analysis Plan

24. What is the output of the Manage Business Analysis Performance task?
Requirements Package
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
Relationships - Impact Analysis - Configuration Management System
Evaluation Criteria

25. What is a STAKEHOLDER requirement - according to the BABOK 2.0?
Problem Solving
Structural Rules
A statement of the needs of a particular stakeholder or class of stakeholders
Root Cause Analysis

26. What is the output of the task Confirm Elicitation Results?
Requirements (Stated - Confirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Confirmed)
Non-functional Requirements Analysis
Evaluate Solution Performance
Learning

27. 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
Assumptions & Constraints - Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution Options
Decision Analysis - Estimation - Metrics & KPIs - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Acceptance Criteria

28. Involves assessing a situation - understanding it as fully as possible - and making judgments about possible solutions to the problem.
Non-functional Requirements Analysis
Ongoing Cost versus Initial Investment - Opportunity Costs - Necessity - Sunk Costs
Structured Walkthrough
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving

29. 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.
Enterprise Analysis - often the starting point for initiating a new project
Enterprise Architecture - Solution Scope - Solution (Designed) - Stakeholder Concerns
Relationship to Time - Relationship to Task Completion - Relationship to Contracts - Relationships to Formal and Informal Authority
Problem or Vision Statement

30. What are the tasks in Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring?
Business Analysis Process Assets
Functional Decomposition - Interface Analysis - Scope Modeling - User Stories - Problem or Vision Statement
Advantages of Document Analysis
Plan Business Analysis Approach - Conduct Stakeholder Analysis - Plan Business Analysis Activities - Plan Business Analysis Communication - Plan Requirements Management Process - Manage BA Performance

31. What is the output of the task - Assess Capability Gaps?
Timeboxing
Required Capabilities
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Organizational Process Assets
Lessons Learned Process

32. Knowing the dependencies and relationships between requirements helps when determining the sequence in which requirements are to be addressed. Common relations are:
Advantages of a Data Dictionary & Glossary
Scenarios & Use Cases
Requirements Workshop - Structured Walkthrough
Necessity - Effort - Subset - Cover - Value

33. What is the output of the task Manage Solution Scope & Requirements?
Solution (Constructed) - Requirements (Prioritized and Validated)
Ongoing Cost versus Initial Investment - Opportunity Costs - Necessity - Sunk Costs
Requirements (Approved)
Interviews

34. Strengths - Weaknesses - Opportunities - Threats - A valuable tool to quickly analyze various aspects of the current state of the business process undergoing change.
Benchmarking
SWOT Analysis
Enterprise Analysis
Requirements (Any Except Stated)

35. What are the Cultural diversity issues that should be taken into account when planning communication?
Leadership
Solution Knowledge
General Purpose Applications & Specialized Applications
Relationship to Time - Relationship to Task Completion - Relationship to Contracts - Relationships to Formal and Informal Authority

36. A means to elicit ideas and attitudes about a specific product - service or opportunity in an interactive group environment. The participants share their impressions - preferences and needs - guided by a moderator. - Effective for learning people's a
Interviews - Lessons Learned Process - Metrics and KPIs - Problem Tracking - Process Modeling - Root Cause Analysis - Survey/Questionnaire - Variance Analysis
Share - Enhance - Exploit
Focus Group
Requirements (Maintained and Reusable)

37. What are some of the key variables used in determining the priority of a requirement?
Facilitation & Negotiation - Leadership & Influencing - Teamwork
A statement of the needs of a particular stakeholder or class of stakeholders
Assumptions & Constraints - Business Need - Solution Scope - Stakeholder Concerns
Business Value - Business or Technical Risk - Implementation Difficulty - Likelihood of Success - Regulatory or Policy Compliance - Relationship to Other Requirements - Stakeholder Agreement - Urgency

38. What are the Behavioral Characteristics a BA should exhibit?
Ethics - Trustworthiness - Personal Organization
Validate Solution
Business Goals & Objectives - Requirements (Stated)
Allocate Requirements

39. What is the output of the task - Communicate Requirements?
Confirm Elicitation Results
Throw-away Prototype
Communicated Requirements
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Business Rules Analysis - Decision Analysis - Functional Decomposition - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases

40. Elicitation Results are the inputs for the ____________
Creative Thinking - Decision Making - Learning - Problem Solving - Systems Thinking
Document Elicitation Results task
Elicitation
Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution (Designed) - Solution Scope

41. A non-actionable directive that supports a business goal.
Use Case
Business Policy
Decision Analysis - Process Modeling - Structured Walkthrough
Business Analysis Process Assets

42. Confidence in the problem solving process that a selected solution is correct - new solution options can be evaluated effectively using the problem solving framework - selected solutions meet the defined objectives and solve the underlying problem -
Name - Aliases - Values/Meanings - Description
Business Analysis Plan
Problem Solving
Requirements (Stated) - Stakeholder Concerns

43. What should be considered when establishing a Change Management process?
Enterprise Analysis - often the starting point for initiating a new project
Business Case; Stakeholder - Solution or Transition Requirements (Verified)
Risk Analysis
Determine the Process - Who will Authorize Changes - Impact Analysis - Wording of the Request - Coordinate Prioritization of Change

44. Two types of conflict.
Emotional and Cognitive
Interviews - Lessons Learned Process - Metrics and KPIs - Problem Tracking - Process Modeling - Root Cause Analysis - Survey/Questionnaire - Variance Analysis
Estimation
Horizontal Prototype

45. What are the tasks for the knowledge area - Requirements Management & Communication?
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Modeling - Organization Modeling - Data Modeling
Requirements Structure
Manage Solution Scope & Requirements - Manage Requirements Traceability - Maintain Requirements for Re-use - Prepare Requirements Package - Communicate Requirements
Analogous Estimation

46. When a conflict arises between stakeholders on one or more documented requirements - the first thing that needs to take place is what?
Interviews - Lessons Learned Process - Metrics and KPIs - Problem Tracking - Process Modeling - Root Cause Analysis - Survey/Questionnaire - Variance Analysis
Interviews
To record the conflict in the Requirements Issues Log.
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Solution Performance Assessment

47. Name some commonly used financial valuation techniques.
Discounted Cash Flow - Net Present Value - Internal Rate of Return - Average Rate of Return - Pay Back Period - Cost-Benefit Analysis
Parametric Estimation
Name - Aliases - Values/Meanings - Description
The Sponsor

48. What are the inputs to the Plan Business Analysis Approach?
Business Need - Expert Judgment - Organizational Process Assets
Requirements Package
Throw-away Prototype
Business Need

49. This knowledge area describes the behaviors - knowledge and other characteristics that support the effective performance of a BA.
Budgeting
Requirements Management & Communication
Underlying Competencies
Dependencies

50. 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.
Allocate Requirements
Business Analysis Approach - BA Performance Assessment - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Requirements Workshop - Structured Walkthrough
Requirements (Traced)