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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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1. 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.
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets
Requirements - Requirements Management Plan
Business Analysis Process Assets
Expert Judgment

2. What are the attributes of a Data Model?
Organizational Knowledge
Advantages of a Data Dictionary & Glossary
Name - Value/Meanings - Description
Emotional and Cognitive

3. What techniques are used in the task - Define Solution Scope?
Organizational Readiness Assessment
Strengths - Weaknesses
Functional Decomposition - Interface Analysis - Scope Modeling - User Stories - Problem or Vision Statement
Reporting

4. Investigating how a solution is actually used after it is deployed and assessing the effect it has had - both positive and negative.
Lessons Learned Process
Evaluate Solution Performance
Underlying Competencies
System

5. Name the 2 types of Software categories that assist in BA productivity.
Decision Analysis
General Purpose Applications & Specialized Applications
Assessment of Proposed Solution
Functional Decomposition

6. Techniques used in the task Plan Requirements Management Process.
Solution (Constructed) - Requirements (Prioritized and Validated)
Interviews - Lessons Learned Process - Metrics and KPIs - Problem Tracking - Process Modeling - Root Cause Analysis - Survey/Questionnaire - Variance Analysis
Decision Analysis - Problem Tacking - Risk Analysis
Requirements (Verified)

7. A formal written specification with possible walk-thru - an informal one is possibly verbal or email Communication
Formal requirements presentation to stakeholders
They describe what a solution must be capable of doing to meet the needs of one or more stakeholder groups
Data Flow Diagrams
Name - Value/Meanings - Description

8. What is the output to the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?
BABOK
Business Requirements - Identified Defects - Solution Performance Metrics - Solution (Deployed)
Prepare for Elicitation - Conduct Elicitation Activity - Document Elicitation Results - Confirm Elicitation Results
Solution Performance Assessment

9. What are the inputs to the task - Prioritize Requirements?
Coverage Matrix - Table or spreadsheet used to manage tracing.
Define Business Need - Access Capability Gaps - Determine Solution Approach - Define Solution Scope - Define Business Case
Business Case - Business Need - Requirements - Requirements Management Plan - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets

10. What are the inputs to the task Plan Requirements Management Process?
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving - Behavioral Characteristics - Business Knowledge - Communication Skills - Interaction Skills - Software Application
Automate or Simplify Work - Improve Access to Information - Reduce Complexity of Interfaces - Increase Consistency of Behavior - Eliminate Redundancy
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets
Scheduled Resources - Supporting Materials

11. What is the output of the task Confirm Elicitation Results?
Solution Assessment & Validation
Requirements (Traced)
Requirements (Stated - Confirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Confirmed)
Business Need

12. 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
Data Dictionary & Glossary
Requirements Management Plan
Relationship to Time - Relationship to Task Completion - Relationship to Contracts - Relationships to Formal and Informal Authority
Decision Making

13. Involved motivating people to act in ways that enable them to work together to achieve shared goals and objectives.
Stakeholder Matrix
Requirements Analysis
Leadership
Requirements (Traced)

14. Issues that may influence the replacement or elimination decision of a system include:
Business Need - Expert Judgment - Organizational Process Assets
Compliance with regulatory or other standards
Determine the Process - Who will Authorize Changes - Impact Analysis - Wording of the Request - Coordinate Prioritization of Change
Ongoing Cost versus Initial Investment - Opportunity Costs - Necessity - Sunk Costs

15. Documents terms unique to a domain.
Underlying Competencies
Historic Analysis
Automate or Simplify Work - Improve Access to Information - Reduce Complexity of Interfaces - Increase Consistency of Behavior - Eliminate Redundancy
Glossary

16. 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.
Underlying Competencies
Requirements Workshop
Requirements (Maintained and Reusable)
Requirements Management & Communication

17. What are the strategies for a negative risk?
Acceptance - Transfer - Avoidance - Mitigation
Fishbone Diagram - Five Whys
Prioritize Requirements - Organize Requirements - Specify & Model Requirements - Define Assumptions & Constraints - Verify Requirements - Validate Requirements
Coverage Matrix - Table or spreadsheet used to manage tracing.

18. 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
Problem Tracking
Data - Ongoing Work - Organizational Change
Business Need
Conduct Elicitation Activity

19. When a conflict arises between stakeholders on one or more documented requirements - the first thing that needs to take place is what?
Ongoing Cost versus Initial Investment - Opportunity Costs - Necessity - Sunk Costs
Requirements Management Plan - Solution Scope - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities - Stakeholder/Solution or Transition Requirements (Communicated or Traced)
To record the conflict in the Requirements Issues Log.
Define Transitional Requirements

20. 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.
Impact Analysis
Organizational Readiness Assessment
Requirements Structure
Automate or Simplify Work - Improve Access to Information - Reduce Complexity of Interfaces - Increase Consistency of Behavior - Eliminate Redundancy

21. An excellent way to foster creative thinking about a problem. The goal is to produce numerous new ideas and to derive themes for further analysis. - Ability to elicit many ideas in a short time period. - - Non-judgmental environment enables creative
Specific - Measurable - Achievable - Relevant - Time-bound Objectives must be SMART.
Strengths - Weaknesses
Brainstorming
Sequence Diagrams

22. Creates a conceptual model of the work that needs to be completed to deliver the new business solution.
Benefits - Costs - Risk Assessment - Results Measurement
Functional Decomposition
Assess Organization Readiness
Problem Solving

23. What are the internal factors in a SWOT Analysis?
Elimination of Dominated Alternative - Ranking Objects on a Similar Scale
Strengths - Weaknesses
Compliance with regulatory or other standards
Solution Scope Definition - Implementation Approach - Dependencies

24. Strengths - Weaknesses - Opportunities - Threats - A valuable tool to quickly analyze various aspects of the current state of the business process undergoing change.
Data Flow Diagrams
Data - Ongoing Work - Organizational Change
SWOT Analysis
Personal Organization

25. Communication of requirements does what for stakeholders?
Use Case
Brings them to a Communication on understanding
Allocate Requirements
Personal Organization

26. This knowledge area describes the problem definition and analysis - business case development - feasibility studies and the definition of solution scope.
Solution Performance Assessment
Document Analysis - SWOT Analysis
Glossary
Enterprise Analysis

27. What are the techniques used in the task Document Elicitation Results?
Goals
All
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Problem Tracking - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving

28. 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.
Document Elicitation Results task
Elicitation Results
Cohesive - Complete - Consistent - Correct - Feasible - Modifiable - Unambiguous - Testable
Benchmarking

29. Elicitation Results are the inputs for the ____________
Document Elicitation Results task
Sequence Diagrams
Business Analysis Performance Metrics - Business Analysis Plan - Organization Performance Standards - Requirements Management Plan
Tracing Requirements

30. 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.
Automate or Simplify Work - Improve Access to Information - Reduce Complexity of Interfaces - Increase Consistency of Behavior - Eliminate Redundancy
Facilitation & Negotiation - Leadership & Influencing - Teamwork
Evaluation Criteria
Solution Scope

31. Are written to describe how an actor interacts with a solution to accomplish one or more of that actor's goals - or to respond to an event.
Assumptions & Constraints - Required Capabilities - Solution Approach
Scenarios & Use Cases
Perform tailoring exercises
Define Transitional Requirements

32. Elements of a Requirements Management Plan include?
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Business Rules Analysis - Decision Analysis - Functional Decomposition - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases
Relationships - Impact Analysis - Configuration Management System
Business Goals & Objectives - Requirements (Stated)
System

33. 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.
Requirements (Prioritized)
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Implementation Approach
Solution Performance Assessment

34. What are the techniques used in the task Confirm Elicitation Results?
Business Case; Stakeholder - Solution or Transition Requirements (Verified)
Glossary
Underlying Competencies
Interviews - Observation

35. The skill of moderating discussions among a group or enable all participants to effectively articulate their views on a topic under discussion and to further ensure that participants in the discussion are able to recognize and appreciate the differin
Facilitation
Creative Thinking - Decision Making - Learning - Problem Solving - Systems Thinking
Business Case
Requirements Analysis

36. Prioritizes requirements based on a allocated fixed amount of money.
Advantages of Document Analysis
Advantages of a Data Dictionary & Glossary
Budgeting
Cognitive Conflict

37. A package should contain a consistent - cohesive and coherent set of requirements. This describes the ____________.
Estimation - Functional Decomposition - Risk Analysis
Underlying Competencies
Requirements Structure
Requirements Management Plan - Solution Scope - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities - Stakeholder/Solution or Transition Requirements (Communicated or Traced)

38. What are some examples of stakeholder concerns?
Risk - assumptions - constraints - etc.
Industry Knowledge
Requirements (Any Except Stated)
Structured Walkthrough

39. What are the inputs to the task - Define Business Case?
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Scenarios & Use Cases
Assumptions & Constraints - Business Need - Solution Scope - Stakeholder Concerns
Solution Scope

40. What are the likely sources of transition requirements?
Relationship to Time - Relationship to Task Completion - Relationship to Contracts - Relationships to Formal and Informal Authority
Identified Defects - Mitigating Actions - Solution Validation Assessment
Assumptions & Constraints - Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution Options
Data - Ongoing Work - Organizational Change

41. What are the techniques used in the task - Validate Solution?
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Problem Tracking - Root Cause Analysis
Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring
Glossary
Business Analysis Performance Metrics - Business Analysis Plan - Organization Performance Standards - Requirements Management Plan

42. Checklist of characteristics to consider when considering non-functional requirements.
Reliability - Performance Efficiency - Operability - Security - Compatibility - Maintainability - Transferability
Delphi Estimation
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Problem Tracking - Structured Walkthrough - Checklists
Business Need - Expert Judgment - Organizational Process Assets

43. 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
Coverage Matrix - Table or spreadsheet used to manage tracing.
Prioritize Requirements - Organize Requirements - Specify & Model Requirements - Define Assumptions & Constraints - Verify Requirements - Validate Requirements
Requirements Package

44. What are the inputs for the task - Prepare Requirements Package?
Determine the Process - Who will Authorize Changes - Impact Analysis - Wording of the Request - Coordinate Prioritization of Change
Acceptance & Evaluation Technique
Requirements (Any Except Stated)
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements - Requirements Structure

45. What is the output of the task - Assess Organizational Readiness?
Requirements (Traced)
Enterprise Analysis - often the starting point for initiating a new project
Organizational Readiness Assessment
Verify Requirements

46. 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.
Advantages of Document Analysis
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets
Allocate Requirements
Requirements Workshop

47. A specific - actionable - testable directive that is under the control of an organization and supports a business policy.
Systems Thinking
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Models - Focus Groups - Interviews - Survey/Questionnaire - Organizational Modeling - Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Force Field Analysis
Business Rule
Impact Analysis

48. What is the output of the task Conduct Elicitation Activity?
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Data Modeling - Functional Decomposition - Organizational Modeling - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases - Scope Modeling - User Stories
The Sponsor
Document Elicitation Results task
Elicitation Results

49. What is the output of the task Document Elicitation Results?
Verify Requirements
Throw-away Prototype
Requirements (Stated) - Stakeholder Concerns
Business Requirements - Stakeholder Requirements - Solution Requirements - Transition Requirements

50. What are the different types of learning styles?
Communicated Requirements
Cultural Assessment - Operational or Technical Assessment - Stakeholder Impact Analysis
Visual Learner - Auditory Learner - Kinesthetic Learner
Requirements Package