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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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1. Documents terms unique to a domain.
Parametric Estimation
Glossary
Transition Requirements
Solution Knowledge

2. 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
Business Policy
Analogous Estimation
Lessons Learned Process

3. Elements identified for each activity and task.
Unique Number - Activity Description - Assumptions - Dependencies - Milestones
Analogous Estimation
BABOK
Leadership

4. Communicated Requirements mean what to stakeholders?
Non-functional Requirements Analysis
That they understand them and the current state the requirements are in
Throw-away Prototype
Vendor Assessment

5. 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.
Ethics - Trustworthiness - Personal Organization
Organizational Readiness Assessment - Requirements (Stated) - Solution (Deployed) - Solution (Designed)
Requirements (Allocated)
Learning

6. Name the 2 types of Software categories that assist in BA productivity.
All
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving - Behavioral Characteristics - Business Knowledge - Communication Skills - Interaction Skills - Software Application
General Purpose Applications & Specialized Applications
Leadership

7. What are the techniques used in the task Define Business Need?
They describe what a solution must be capable of doing to meet the needs of one or more stakeholder groups
Business Requirements - Identified Defects - Solution Performance Metrics - Solution (Deployed)
MoSCoW Analysis
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Business Rules Analysis - Focus Groups - Functional Decomposition - Root Cause Analysis

8. What are the techniques used in the task - Determine Solution Approach?
Data Flow Diagrams
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Metrics & KPIs - Prototyping - Risk Analysis - Structured Walkthrough
Budgeting
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Decision Analysis - Estimation - SWOT Analysis - Feasibility Analysis

9. What is the output of the task - Define Transition Requirements?
System
Business Analysis Approach
Bottom-up Estimation
Transition Requirements

10. What are the elements of the task Plan Requirements Management Process?
Repository - Traceability - Requirement Attributes - Prioritization Process - Change Management - Tailoring the Requirements Management Process
Facilitation & Negotiation - Leadership & Influencing - Teamwork
Organizational Readiness Assessment
Implementation Approach

11. What are the tasks in Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring?
The Business Analysis Communication Plan
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Problem Tracking - Root Cause Analysis
Plan Business Analysis Approach - Conduct Stakeholder Analysis - Plan Business Analysis Activities - Plan Business Analysis Communication - Plan Requirements Management Process - Manage BA Performance
Vendor Assessment

12. This knowledge area describes how the BA assesses proposed solutions and determines which solution best fits the business need - identifies gaps and shortcomings to solutions and determines necessary workarounds or changes to the solution.
BABOK
Decision Analysis - Focus Groups - Observation - Survey/Questionnaire
Solution Assessment & Validation
Assess Proposed Solution - Allocate Requirements - Assess Organizational Readiness - Define Transition Requirements - Validate Solution - Evaluate Solution Performance

13. What is the output to the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?
They describe what a solution must be capable of doing to meet the needs of one or more stakeholder groups
Decision Analysis - Problem Tacking - Risk Analysis
This person will be involved in monitoring the performance and effectiveness of a solution or its components.
Solution Performance Assessment

14. A continuous process of collecting data to determine how well a solution has been implemented compared to expected results.
Conduct Elicitation Activity
Monitoring
Solution Assessment & Validation
Assess Organization Readiness

15. Models a deep - and usually narrow slice of the entire system's functionality.
Decision Analysis - Risk Analysis - MoSCoW Analysis - Timeboxing/Budgeting - Voting
System
Solution Scope Definition - Implementation Approach - Dependencies
Vertical Prototype

16. What describes how - when and why the business analyst will work with stakeholders?
Coverage Matrix - Table or spreadsheet used to manage tracing.
The Business Analysis Communication Plan
Solution Knowledge
Business Analysis Approach - BA Performance Assessment - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities

17. Prioritizes requirements based on a allocated fixed amount of money.
Root Cause Analysis
Reporting
Business Analysis Performance Assessment - Business Analysis Process Assets - Includes a comparison of planned versus actual performance - understanding the root cause of variances from the plan and other information to help understand the level of
Budgeting

18. What are the techniques used in the task - Define Business Case?
Customer
Decision Analysis - Estimation - Metrics & KPIs - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Vendor Assessment
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
Requirements (Maintained and Reusable)

19. What is the output of the task - Manage Requirements Traceability?
Requirements Structure
Business Case
Requirements (Traced)
Data Dictionary & Glossary

20. Most optimistic estimate; most pessimistic estimate; most likely estimate
Facilitation
Business Domain - Corporate Culture & Environment - Skills of the Analyst - Requirement Deliverable
Three-point Estimation
Assess Organization Readiness

21. What are the strategies for a positive risk?
Share - Enhance - Exploit
Business Analysis Process Assets
Visual Learner - Auditory Learner - Kinesthetic Learner
Requirements Management Plan

22. What are the techniques used in the task - Define Transition Requirements?
Facilitation
They describe what a solution must be capable of doing to meet the needs of one or more stakeholder groups
To record the conflict in the Requirements Issues Log.
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Modeling - Organization Modeling - Data Modeling

23. What are stakeholder requirements?
They describe what a solution must be capable of doing to meet the needs of one or more stakeholder groups
Requirements Workshop - Structured Walkthrough
The Business Analysis Communication Plan
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities

24. Involves assessing a situation - understanding it as fully as possible - and making judgments about possible solutions to the problem.
Implementation SME
Requirements - Requirements Management Plan
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving
To record the conflict in the Requirements Issues Log.

25. What are some of the commonly used requirement attributes?
Business Analysis Approach - BA Performance Assessment - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Absolute Reference - Author - Complexity - Ownership - Priority - Risks - Source - Stability - Status - Urgency
Cohesive - Complete - Consistent - Correct - Feasible - Modifiable - Unambiguous - Testable
Requirements (Prioritized)

26. What is the output of the task Conduct Elicitation Activity?
Evaluation Criteria
Elicitation Results
Scenario
Onion Diagram

27. This knowledge area describes the behaviors - knowledge and other characteristics that support the effective performance of a BA.
Underlying Competencies
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 Analysis Performance Metrics - Business Analysis Plan - Organization Performance Standards - Requirements Management Plan
Visual Learner - Auditory Learner - Kinesthetic Learner

28. What are the inputs to the task - Validate Requirements?
Requirements Workshop - Structured Walkthrough
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Modeling - Organization Modeling - Data Modeling
Business Analysis Performance Assessment - Business Analysis Process Assets - Includes a comparison of planned versus actual performance - understanding the root cause of variances from the plan and other information to help understand the level of
Business Case; Stakeholder - Solution or Transition Requirements (Verified)

29. The purpose of _______________ is to ensure that a stakeholder's actual underlying needs are understood - rather than the their stated or superficial desires.
Throw-away Prototype
Elicitation
To record the conflict in the Requirements Issues Log.
Structured Walkthrough

30. 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
Name - Value/Meanings - Description
Delphi Estimation
Plan Business Analysis Approach - Conduct Stakeholder Analysis - Plan Business Analysis Activities - Plan Business Analysis Communication - Plan Requirements Management Process - Manage BA Performance
Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis

31. 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
Interface Analysis
Scheduled Resources - Supporting Materials
Requirements Structure
Ethics

32. What are the internal factors in a SWOT Analysis?
Impact Analysis - Requirements Coverage - Requirements Allocation
Assumptions & Constraints
Strengths - Weaknesses
Document Analysis

33. What is the output of the task - Prepare Requirements Package?
Decision Analysis - Risk Analysis - MoSCoW Analysis - Timeboxing/Budgeting - Voting
Vertical Prototype
Requirements Package
User Story

34. Models a shallow - and possibly wide view of the system's functionality. It typically does not have any business logic running behind the visualization.
Absolute Reference - Author - Complexity - Ownership - Priority - Risks - Source - Stability - Status - Urgency
Horizontal Prototype
Requirements Documentation - Requirements for Vendor Selection
Assess Proposed Solution - Allocate Requirements - Assess Organizational Readiness - Define Transition Requirements - Validate Solution - Evaluate Solution Performance

35. Confidence in the problem solving process that a selected solution is correct - new solution options can be evaluated effectively using the problem solving framework - selected solutions meet the defined objectives and solve the underlying problem -
Problem Solving
Elicitation
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Solution Performance Assessment
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Problem Tracking - Structured Walkthrough - Checklists

36. What stakeholder receives noticeable negative impact if information is incorrectly transferred from the old to new solution?
Customer
Manage Solution Scope & Requirements - Manage Requirements Traceability - Maintain Requirements for Re-use - Prepare Requirements Package - Communicate Requirements
Solution Scope
Document Analysis

37. 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.
Data Dictionary & Glossary - Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshops - Survey/Questionnaire
Sequences - Repetitions - Optional Elements
Requirements Structure
Organize Requirements

38. What are the tasks in the knowledge area - Requirements Analysis?
Prioritize Requirements - Organize Requirements - Specify & Model Requirements - Define Assumptions & Constraints - Verify Requirements - Validate Requirements
Requirements Management Plan - Solution Scope - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities - Stakeholder/Solution or Transition Requirements (Communicated or Traced)
Business Rule
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Problem Tracking - Root Cause Analysis

39. What are the inputs for the task Prepare for Elicitation?
Business Need - Solution Scope & Business Case - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Influence on the project - organizational - project health and other stakeholders
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Problem Tracking - Root Cause Analysis
Reporting

40. What are the 3 elements in the Assess Organizational Readiness?
Required Capabilities
Requirements (Validated)
Cultural Assessment - Operational or Technical Assessment - Stakeholder Impact Analysis
Dependencies

41. Benefits that could have been achieved with an alternative investment rather than this one.
Implementation Approach
Determine the Process - Who will Authorize Changes - Impact Analysis - Wording of the Request - Coordinate Prioritization of Change
Opportunity Cost
Prototyping

42. What are the characteristics of a Problem Record?
Implementation SME
Solution (Constructed) - Requirements (Prioritized and Validated)
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
Cultural Assessment - Operational or Technical Assessment - Stakeholder Impact Analysis

43. What are the tasks of the Elicitation Knowledge Area?
Prepare for Elicitation - Conduct Elicitation Activity - Document Elicitation Results - Confirm Elicitation Results
Data Dictionary & Glossary - Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshops - Survey/Questionnaire
Reliability - Validity - Timeliness
Requirements Documentation - Requirements for Vendor Selection

44. What are the strategies for a negative risk?
Evaluation
Acceptance - Transfer - Avoidance - Mitigation
Solution Knowledge
Stakeholder Matrix

45. This will impose constraints to the effort to deploy the solution - including relationships that may exist between solution components.
Budgeting
Requirements (Validated)
Name - Value/Meanings - Description
Dependencies

46. What are the inputs for the task Plan Business Analysis Activities?
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Problem Tracking - Root Cause Analysis
Operative Rules
Business Analysis Approach - BA Performance Assessment - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Document Elicitation Results task

47. What are the techniques used in the task - Communicate Requirements?
Creative Thinking - Decision Making - Learning - Problem Solving - Systems Thinking
Requirements Workshop - Structured Walkthrough
Glossary
User Story

48. What are the elements of the task - Define Solution Scope?
Solution Scope Definition - Implementation Approach - Dependencies
Data Modeling
Customer
That they understand them and the current state the requirements are in

49. What are the techniques used in the task Manage Business Analysis Performance?
Interviews - Lessons Learned Process - Metrics and KPIs - Problem Tracking - Process Modeling - Root Cause Analysis - Survey/Questionnaire - Variance Analysis
Decision Making
Data Modeling
Assess Organization Readiness

50. What are the inputs for the task - Define Solution Scope?
Document Analysis
Sequence Diagrams
Assumptions & Constraints - Required Capabilities - Solution Approach
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements