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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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1. 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.






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






3. What are the inputs for the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?






4. What are the characteristics of Interaction Skills?






5. Uses history as a basis for estimating. It is similar to analogous estimation - but is used not only for the top-down estimate - but for the detailed tasks as well.






6. The goal of this task is to meet with stakeholder(s) to gather information regarding their needs.






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






8. Describes all the possible outcomes of an attempt to accomplish a particular goal that the solution will support.






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






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






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






12. This knowledge area describes the behaviors - knowledge and other characteristics that support the effective performance of a BA.






13. What is the output of the task - Specify & Model Requirements?






14. What are the inputs to the task Manage Solution Scope & Requirements?






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






16. The goal of tracing is to ensure that requirements are linked back to a business objective. Creation of this relationship helps in what other traceability activities?






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






18. Name the 2 types of Software categories that assist in BA productivity.






19. What are the inputs to the task - Specify & Model Requirements?






20. Two effective trade-off methods.






21. The BA is a stakeholder in ______ business analysis activities.






22. What are the techniques used in the task - Assess Proposed Solution?






23. 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.






24. What are the internal factors in a SWOT Analysis?






25. Two techniques used in Root Cause Analysis?






26. This knowledge area involves analyzing stakeholder needs to define solutions that meet those needs - assessing the current state of the business to identify and recommend improvements and the verification and validation of the resulting requirements.






27. What are the techniques used in the task - Define Transition Requirements?






28. 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






29. What stakeholder receives noticeable negative impact if information is incorrectly transferred from the old to new solution?






30. 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.






31. What are the tasks in the knowledge area - Requirements Analysis?






32. 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 -






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






34. This task describes the work required to decide which formats are appropriate for a particular project and its stakeholders. The requirements must be clear - concise - accurate and at the appropriate level of detail to assure clear understanding by t






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






36. What is the output of the task Conduct Elicitation Activity?






37. What is the output of the task - Define Transition Requirements?






38. Checklist of characteristics to consider when considering non-functional requirements.






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






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






41. Understanding of the competitive forces that shape an industry - understand the various customer segments that the industry services and the demographic or other characteristics common to that segment.






42. Set of requirements that will be used to choose between multiple solutions.






43. What are the strategies for a positive risk?






44. What are the inputs for the task - Maintain Requirements for Re-use?






45. What are the likely sources of transition requirements?






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






47. 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






48. Technique involving refinement of estimates. Estimate the details for activities in the current iteration or increment and provide an analogous estimate for the entire scope of work. As the end of the iteration approaches - estimates for the next ite






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






50. Involved motivating people to act in ways that enable them to work together to achieve shared goals and objectives.