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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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1. What are the inputs to the task - Prioritize Requirements?






2. An important tool in defining the scope of work and developing estimates. Decomposes the project scope into smaller and smaller pieces - creating a hierarchy of work.






3. Understanding of how a change to a component affects the system as a whole - identification of reinforcing and compensating feedback loops - understanding of how systems adapt to external pressures and changes - A system as a whole will have properti






4. Documents terms unique to a domain.






5. The systematic and objective assessment of a solution to determine its status and efficacy in meeting objectives over time - and to identify ways to improve the solution to better meet objectives.






6. Techniques used in the task Plan Requirements Management Process.






7. What are the techniques used in the task - Prioritize Requirements?






8. 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






9. Forecast the cost and effort involved in pursuing a course of action. Used to develop a better understanding of the possible range of costs and effort associated with any initiative






10. This prototype extends the initial interface requirements into a fully functioning system and requires a specialized prototyping tool or language.






11. What does RACI stand for?






12. What are the techniques used in the task - Define Business Case?






13. What techniques are used in the task - Define Solution Scope?






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






15. Revised process and templates for BA deliverables should be analyzed and documented and lessons learned should be recorded.






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






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






18. Two techniques used in Root Cause Analysis?






19. What are the inputs of the task Plan Business Analysis Communication?






20. The knowledge area that covers how BAs determine which activities are necessary in order to complete a business analysis effort.






21. What are the inputs for the task Plan Business Analysis Activities?






22. What are the techniques used in the task - Assess Capability Gaps?






23. The decomposition of activities and tasks creates?






24. What is the output of the task Plan Business Analysis Communication?






25. What are the techniques used in the task - Communicate Requirements?






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






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






28. The minimum set of requirements that must be met in order for a particular solution to be worth implementing.






29. What are the inputs to the task - Define Business Need?






30. What are the inputs for the task Confirm Elicitation Results?






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






32. An organized structure for the requirements and a documented set of relationships between them. Is used so the analyst and stakeholders know where a specific requirement should be found. Should have a clear implicit scope (clear to the stakeholders w






33. What are the techniques used in the task - Define Assumptions & Constraints?






34. What is the output of the task Conduct Stakeholder Analysis?






35. What are the elements of the task Plan Requirements Management Process?






36. What is the output of the task - Define Business Case?






37. What are the techniques used in the task - Organize Requirements?






38. What are the inputs to the task Conduct Elicitation Activity?






39. 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






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






41. 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.






42. 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






43. Rules that are intended to help determine when something is or is not true - or when things fall into a specific category. They are expressed as rules because they describe categorizations that may change over time.






44. This task ensures that requirement specifications and models meet the necessary standard of quality to allow them to be used effectively to guide further work. Requirements have been defined correctly.






45. Most optimistic estimate; most pessimistic estimate; most likely estimate






46. What is the output of the task - Prioritize Requirements?






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






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






49. 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






50. Communication of requirements does what for stakeholders?