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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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1. The BA is a stakeholder in ______ business analysis activities.
All
They describe what a solution must be capable of doing to meet the needs of one or more stakeholder groups
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Organizational Process Assets
Ethics - Trustworthiness - Personal Organization

2. To assess the ability of a potential vendor to meet commitments regarding a product or service
Vendor Assessment
This person will be involved in monitoring the performance and effectiveness of a solution or its components.
Business Need
Organize Requirements

3. Provides an organized approach to tracking - management - and resolution of defects - issues - problems - and risks throughout business analysis activities. Management of issues is important so that they can be resolved in a timely manner to ensure s
Glossary
Problem Tracking
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Modeling - Organization Modeling - Data Modeling
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities

4. What are the elements of the task Plan Requirements Management Process?
Requirements (Allocated)
Decision Analysis - Risk Analysis - MoSCoW Analysis - Timeboxing/Budgeting - Voting
A statement of the needs of a particular stakeholder or class of stakeholders
Repository - Traceability - Requirement Attributes - Prioritization Process - Change Management - Tailoring the Requirements Management Process

5. What are the techniques used in the task Conduct Elicitation Activity?
Budgeting
Name - Value/Meanings - Description
Prototyping
Data Dictionary & Glossary - Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshops - Survey/Questionnaire

6. Corrective or preventative measures uncovered while performing a Business Analysis Performance Assessment will result in changes to what plan?
Business Analysis Plan
Use Case
Root Cause Analysis
Business Rule

7. What are the inputs for the task - Define Solution Scope?
Throw-away Prototype
SWOT Analysis
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Metrics & KPIs - Prototyping - Risk Analysis - Structured Walkthrough
Assumptions & Constraints - Required Capabilities - Solution Approach

8. 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.
Budgeting
Enterprise Analysis - often the starting point for initiating a new project
Document Analysis
Decision Analysis - Process Modeling - Structured Walkthrough

9. The objective of this technique is to determine how companies achieve their superior performance levels and use that information to design projects to improve operations of the enterprise.
Requirements (Traced)
Benchmarking
Requirements Management Plan
This person will be involved in monitoring the performance and effectiveness of a solution or its components.

10. Elements of a Requirements Management Plan include?
Dependencies
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
Relationships - Impact Analysis - Configuration Management System
Ethics

11. Investigating how a solution is actually used after it is deployed and assessing the effect it has had - both positive and negative.
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Solution Performance Assessment
Business Analysis Process Assets
Evaluate Solution Performance
Trustworthiness

12. What is the output of the task Conduct Elicitation Activity?
Evaluation Criteria
Focus Group
Requirements (Verified)
Elicitation Results

13. What is the output of the task - Organize Requirements?
Problem Solving
Requirements Structure
Data Dictionary & Glossary - Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshops - Survey/Questionnaire
Interviews - Observation

14. What are the inputs to the Plan Business Analysis Approach?
Business Need - Expert Judgment - Organizational Process Assets
Organizational Knowledge
Key Performance Indicator (KPI )
Responsible - Accountable - Consulted - Informed

15. What is the output of the task - Verify Requirements?
Key Performance Indicator (KPI )
Decision Analysis
Requirements (Verified)
Necessity - Effort - Subset - Cover - Value

16. Name some commonly used financial valuation techniques.
Unique Number - Activity Description - Assumptions - Dependencies - Milestones
Goals
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Decision Analysis - Estimation - SWOT Analysis - Feasibility Analysis
Discounted Cash Flow - Net Present Value - Internal Rate of Return - Average Rate of Return - Pay Back Period - Cost-Benefit Analysis

17. What is the output of the task - Prepare Requirements Package?
Data - Ongoing Work - Organizational Change
Functions - Markets - Matrix
Dependencies
Requirements Package

18. 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.
Brings them to a Communication on understanding
Requirements Analysis
Coverage Matrix - Table or spreadsheet used to manage tracing.
Acceptance & Evaluation Technique

19. 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
Decision Analysis - Process Modeling - Structured Walkthrough
Reliability - Validity - Timeliness
Business Principles & Practices

20. Divides requirements into 4 categories - Must - Should - Could - Won't
Three-point Estimation
MoSCoW Analysis
Organization Modeling
Influence on the project - organizational - project health and other stakeholders

21. A means of eliciting requirements by conducting an assessment of the stakeholder's work environment. This technique is appropriate when documenting details about current processes or if the project is intended to enhance or change a current process.
Requirements Package
Observation
Requirements (Stated - Unconfirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Unconfirmed)
Horizontal Prototype

22. What are the inputs to the task - Determine Solution Approach?
Ethics - Trustworthiness - Personal Organization
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Required Capabilities
Vendor Assessment
Creative Thinking - Decision Making - Learning - Problem Solving - Systems Thinking

23. What are the inputs to the task Manage Solution Scope & Requirements?
Share - Enhance - Exploit
Evaluate Solution Performance
Requirements Structure
Requirements Management Plan - Solution Scope - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities - Stakeholder/Solution or Transition Requirements (Communicated or Traced)

24. What are the inputs to the task - Specify & Model Requirements?
Requirements Structure
Compliance with regulatory or other standards
Requirements (Stated) - Requirements Structure
Elicitation Results

25. What are the likely sources of transition requirements?
Prepare Requirements Package
Decision Analysis - Process Modeling - Structured Walkthrough
Business Rule
Data - Ongoing Work - Organizational Change

26. Combination of expert judgment and history. Individual estimates - sharing the estimates with experts - and having several rounds until consensus is reached. An average of the three estimates is used
Stakeholder Matrix - Onion Diagram
Reporting
Delphi Estimation
Solution Performance Assessment

27. Creates a conceptual model of the work that needs to be completed to deliver the new business solution.
Functional Decomposition
Delphi Estimation
User Classes - Profiles or Roles; Concepts & Relationships - Events - Processes - Rules
Budgeting

28. What are the inputs to the task Manage Business Analysis Performance?
Analogous Estimation
Business Analysis Performance Metrics - Business Analysis Plan - Organization Performance Standards - Requirements Management Plan
Observation
Scheduled Resources - Supporting Materials

29. What are the techniques for the task - Verify Requirements?
Decision Analysis
Creative Thinking - Decision Making - Learning - Problem Solving - Systems Thinking
Interface Analysis
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Problem Tracking - Structured Walkthrough - Checklists

30. What are the techniques used in the task Manage Solution Scope & Requirements?
Ethics - Trustworthiness - Personal Organization
Problem Tracking - Baselining - Signoff
Data Dictionary
Interviews

31. 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
Decision Making
Evaluation
Relationship to Time - Relationship to Task Completion - Relationship to Contracts - Relationships to Formal and Informal Authority
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Data Modeling - Functional Decomposition - Organizational Modeling - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases - Scope Modeling - User Stories

32. Defines the key terms and data relevant to a business domain.
Assumptions & Constraints - Business Need - Solution Scope - Stakeholder Concerns
Data Dictionary & Glossary
Strengths - Weaknesses
Share - Enhance - Exploit

33. 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.
Sequences - Repetitions - Optional Elements
Industry Knowledge
Advantages of a Data Dictionary & Glossary
Impact Analysis

34. 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.
Analogous Estimation
Sequences - Repetitions - Optional Elements
A statement of the needs of a particular stakeholder or class of stakeholders
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Modeling - Organization Modeling - Data Modeling

35. What is the output of the task Prepare for Elicitation?
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
Scheduled Resources - Supporting Materials
Prepare for Elicitation - Conduct Elicitation Activity - Document Elicitation Results - Confirm Elicitation Results
Lessons Learned Process

36. What are the techniques used in the task - Validate Solution?
Compliance with regulatory or other standards
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Problem Tracking - Root Cause Analysis
Dependencies
Determine the Process - Who will Authorize Changes - Impact Analysis - Wording of the Request - Coordinate Prioritization of Change

37. What is the output of the Plan Business Analysis Approach?
Expert Judgment
Risk Analysis
Requirements (Allocated)
Business Analysis Approach

38. Three types of organizational structures
Focus Group
Functions - Markets - Matrix
Expert Judgment
Requirements Analysis

39. States the business need - identifies key stakeholders and briefly describes the positive impact that meeting the business need will have on those stakeholders.
Problem or Vision Statement
Glossary
System
Solution Performance Assessment

40. Elicitation Results are the inputs for the ____________
Interviews - Observation
Document Elicitation Results task
Throw-away Prototype
State Diagrams

41. What are the techniques used in the task - Assess Organizational Readiness?
Organizational Knowledge
Term and Fact Model
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Models - Focus Groups - Interviews - Survey/Questionnaire - Organizational Modeling - Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Force Field Analysis
Problem or Vision Statement

42. What are the inputs for the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?
Business Analysis Performance Metrics - Business Analysis Plan - Organization Performance Standards - Requirements Management Plan
Document Analysis
Business Requirements - Identified Defects - Solution Performance Metrics - Solution (Deployed)
Structured Walkthrough

43. Performed to communicate - verify and validate requirements. Is a working session where invited participants review and discuss a set of requirements
Solution Scope
Business Case
Requirements (Analyzed)
Structured Walkthrough

44. Stakeholders involved the BA in decision making - acceptance of the BA's recommendations - willingness to discuss difficult or controversial topics with the BA - stakeholders willing to support or defend the BA when problems occur.
Perform tailoring exercises
Trustworthiness
Solution Knowledge
Personal Organization

45. What is the output of the task - Define Business Case?
Scope Modeling
Business Case
Interviews - Lessons Learned Process - Metrics and KPIs - Problem Tracking - Process Modeling - Root Cause Analysis - Survey/Questionnaire - Variance Analysis
Elicitation

46. Name the 2 types of Software categories that assist in BA productivity.
General Purpose Applications & Specialized Applications
Solution Assessment & Validation
Transition Requirements
Decision Analysis - Focus Groups - Observation - Survey/Questionnaire

47. Knowing the dependencies and relationships between requirements helps when determining the sequence in which requirements are to be addressed. Common relations are:
Rolling Wave
Assess Proposed Solution - Allocate Requirements - Assess Organizational Readiness - Define Transition Requirements - Validate Solution - Evaluate Solution Performance
Focus Group
Necessity - Effort - Subset - Cover - Value

48. What are the factors of influence by stakeholders on a project?
Requirements Analysis
Influence on the project - organizational - project health and other stakeholders
Ongoing Cost versus Initial Investment - Opportunity Costs - Necessity - Sunk Costs
Data Dictionary & Glossary

49. The knowledge area that covers how BAs determine which activities are necessary in order to complete a business analysis effort.
Requirements Analysis
Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring
Assess Organization Readiness
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving - Behavioral Characteristics - Business Knowledge - Communication Skills - Interaction Skills - Software Application

50. What is the output of the task Confirm Elicitation Results?
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Requirements - Requirements Package
Business Policy
Decision Analysis - Focus Groups - Observation - Survey/Questionnaire
Requirements (Stated - Confirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Confirmed)