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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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1. What are the inputs to the task - Assess Organizational Readiness?






2. A structured examination of the aspects of a situation to establish the root causes and resulting effects of the problem. A critical element is to ensure that the current business thinking and processes are challenged. The purpose is to determine the






3. What are the strategies for a positive risk?






4. Are used to describe the scope of analysis or the scope of a solution. Serve as a basis for defining and delimiting the scope of business analysis and project work. Allow the definition of a "complete" scope—that is - the boundaries of the scope corr






5. Two techniques used in Root Cause Analysis?






6. What are the strategies for a negative risk?






7. Understanding of the business architecture of the organization that is being analyzed. Understanding business models (generates profit) - org structure - relationships between business units and the persons who occupy key stakeholder positions.






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






9. What is the output of the task - Define Assumptions & Constraints?






10. 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.






11. A good indicator has 5 characteristics:






12. 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. -






13. Two types of conflict.






14. A diagram indicating how involved the stakeholder is with the solution.






15. What are the inputs for the task Prepare for Elicitation?






16. What are some of the key variables used in determining the priority of a requirement?






17. Is generally understood to describe just one way that an actor can accomplish a particular goal






18. Ability to find information - on-time completion of tasks - efficiency in the completion of work - ability to easily identify all outstanding work and the status of each work item.






19. A formal written specification with possible walk-thru - an informal one is possibly verbal or email Communication






20. What techniques are used in the task Prepare for Elicitation?






21. What is a STAKEHOLDER requirement - according to the BABOK 2.0?






22. What is the output of the Manage Business Analysis Performance task?






23. Strengths - Weaknesses - Opportunities - Threats - A valuable tool to quickly analyze various aspects of the current state of the business process undergoing change.






24. What is the output of the task - Validate Requirements?






25. What is the output of the task Manage Solution Scope & Requirements?






26. What techniques are used in the task - Prepare Requirements Package?






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






28. 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.






29. This knowledge area describes the problem definition and analysis - business case development - feasibility studies and the definition of solution scope.






30. Details user interface requirements and integrates them with other requirements such as use cases - scenarios - data and business rules. Stakeholders often find this to be a concrete means of identifying - describing and validating their interface ne






31. What are the elements of the area - Analytical Thinking and Problem Solving - Successful generation of new ideas - application of new ideas to resolve existing problems - willingness of stakeholders to accept new approaches.






32. What are the techniques used in the task Document Elicitation Results?






33. What are the characteristics of Interaction Skills?






34. What does SMART stand for?






35. Elements identified for each activity and task.






36. What is the output of the task - Organize Requirements?






37. 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






38. 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.






39. What are the likely sources of transition requirements?






40. 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.






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






42. Issues that may influence the replacement or elimination decision of a system include:






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






44. What are the different types of learning styles?






45. Knowing the dependencies and relationships between requirements helps when determining the sequence in which requirements are to be addressed. Common relations are:






46. The goal of this task is validate that the stated requirements expressed by the stakeholder match the stakeholder's understanding of the problem and the stakeholder's needs. Analyst's understanding conforms to the actual desire or intentions of the s






47. What is the output of the task - Define Business Need?






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 are the techniques used in the task - Define Business Case?






50. What are the tasks in the knowledge area - Enterprise Analysis?