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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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1. When performing root cause analysis as part of the Validate Solution task - what stakeholder may be involved?






2. Rules that the organization chooses to enforce as a matter of policy. They are intended to guide the actions of people working within the organization. They may oblige people to take certain actions - prevent people from taking actions - or prescribe






3. What are the techniques used in the task - Validate Requirements?






4. What are the techniques used in the task Conduct Stakeholder Analysis?






5. What is the output of the task - Maintain Requirements for Re-use?






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






7. What are some of the commonly used requirement attributes?






8. 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






9. Business rules require a defined glossary of terms and an understanding of the relationships between them - this is known as:






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






11. Organizational culture - Stakeholder preference - complexity - organizational maturity and availability of resources are all factors used to do what?






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






13. What is the output of the task - Allocate Resources?






14. According to the BABOK 2.0 - what type of analysis generates STAKEHOLDER requirements?






15. Includes the standard definition of data elements - their meanings and allowable values.






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






17. What are the inputs to the task - Define Business Case?






18. 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.






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






20. States the business need - identifies key stakeholders and briefly describes the positive impact that meeting the business need will have on those stakeholders.






21. Maps the level of stakeholder influence and interest in a project.






22. Involves assessing a situation - understanding it as fully as possible - and making judgments about possible solutions to the problem.






23. A non-actionable directive that supports a business goal.






24. Ensure that the solution meets the business need and determine the most appropriate response to identified defects.






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






26. What are the techniques used in the task - Assess Organizational Readiness?






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






28. The purpose is to compile and document successes - opportunities for improvement - failures - and recommendations for improving the performance of future projects or project phases






29. A package should contain a consistent - cohesive and coherent set of requirements. This describes the ____________.






30. 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.






31. Documents terms unique to a domain.






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






33. What is the output of the task Plan Business Analysis Activities?






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






35. 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.






36. Agreement by stakeholders that analysis models effectively and completely describe the domain - identification of related problems or issues from multiple areas in the domain - rapid absorption of new information or new domain.






37. What are the inputs to the Plan Business Analysis Approach?






38. What is the output of the task Document Elicitation Results?






39. Models a deep - and usually narrow slice of the entire system's functionality.






40. 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.






41. A means to elicit requirements by studying available documentation on existing and comparable solutions and identifying relevant information. - Not starting from a blank page.- Leveraging existing materials to discover and/or confirm requirements. -






42. Benefits that could have been achieved with an alternative investment rather than this one.






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






44. Describes the effect a new solution will have on an organization and whether the organization is prepared for the organizational change the solution implementation will cause.






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






46. Two techniques used in Root Cause Analysis?






47. Approach to decision making that examines and models the possible consequences of different decisions. Make an optimal decision under conditions of uncertainty.






48. Investigating how a solution is actually used after it is deployed and assessing the effect it has had - both positive and negative.






49. What techniques are used in the task Manage Requirements Traceability?






50. What is the output of the task - Assess Proposed Solution?