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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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1. This technique shows how information is input - processed - stored and output from a system in a visual representation.
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Business Rules Analysis - Focus Groups - Functional Decomposition - Root Cause Analysis
Business Requirements - Identified Defects - Solution Performance Metrics - Solution (Deployed)
Data Flow Diagrams
Requirements Workshop

2. What are the techniques used in the task Conduct Elicitation Activity?
Data Dictionary & Glossary - Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshops - Survey/Questionnaire
Organization Modeling
Fishbone Diagram - Five Whys
Functional Decomposition - Interface Analysis - Scope Modeling - User Stories - Problem or Vision Statement

3. What is the output of the task Prepare for Elicitation?
Determine the Process - Who will Authorize Changes - Impact Analysis - Wording of the Request - Coordinate Prioritization of Change
Discounted Cash Flow - Net Present Value - Internal Rate of Return - Average Rate of Return - Pay Back Period - Cost-Benefit Analysis
All
Scheduled Resources - Supporting Materials

4. What are the tasks of the Elicitation Knowledge Area?
Decision Analysis
Root Cause Analysis
Stakeholder Concerns
Prepare for Elicitation - Conduct Elicitation Activity - Document Elicitation Results - Confirm Elicitation Results

5. What are the characteristics of Interaction Skills?
Validate Requirements
Learning
Non-functional Requirements Analysis
Facilitation & Negotiation - Leadership & Influencing - Teamwork

6. A means of eliciting requirements by conducting an assessment of the stakeholder's work environment. This technique is appropriate when documenting details about current processes or if the project is intended to enhance or change a current process.
Business Rule
Solution Scope
Observation
Data Dictionary & Glossary

7. What are the tasks in Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring?
Enterprise Analysis
User Story
A statement of the needs of a particular stakeholder or class of stakeholders
Plan Business Analysis Approach - Conduct Stakeholder Analysis - Plan Business Analysis Activities - Plan Business Analysis Communication - Plan Requirements Management Process - Manage BA Performance

8. What are the inputs for the task - Define Transitional Requirements?
Necessity - Effort - Subset - Cover - Value
Absolute Reference - Author - Complexity - Ownership - Priority - Risks - Source - Stability - Status - Urgency
Organizational Readiness Assessment - Requirements (Stated) - Solution (Deployed) - Solution (Designed)
Business Analysis Plan

9. Corrective or preventative measures uncovered while performing a Business Analysis Performance Assessment will result in changes to what plan?
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Metrics & KPIs - Prototyping - Risk Analysis - Structured Walkthrough
Business Analysis Plan
Requirements (Validated)
Operative Rules

10. What is the output of the task Manage Solution Scope & Requirements?
Prepare Requirements Package
Interviews - Lessons Learned Process - Metrics and KPIs - Problem Tracking - Process Modeling - Root Cause Analysis - Survey/Questionnaire - Variance Analysis
Requirements (Approved)
Structural Rules

11. Techniques used in the task Plan Requirements Management Process.
Ethics
Problem Solving
Decision Analysis - Problem Tacking - Risk Analysis
Assess Organization Readiness

12. When a conflict arises between stakeholders on one or more documented requirements - the first thing that needs to take place is what?
Root Cause Analysis
Stakeholder Concerns
Systems Thinking
To record the conflict in the Requirements Issues Log.

13. What are some of the commonly used requirement attributes?
Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Evaluation
Data Dictionary & Glossary
Absolute Reference - Author - Complexity - Ownership - Priority - Risks - Source - Stability - Status - Urgency

14. What are the likely sources of transition requirements?
Business Need - Solution Scope & Business Case - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Advantages of a Data Dictionary & Glossary
Data - Ongoing Work - Organizational Change
Brainstorming

15. 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.
Data - Ongoing Work - Organizational Change
Requirements (Stated) - Stakeholder Concerns
Scenarios & Use Cases
Elicitation Results

16. What are the inputs to the task - Allocate Resources?
Acceptance & Evaluation Technique
Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution (Designed) - Solution Scope
Business Analysis Communication Plan
Business Requirements - Stakeholder Requirements - Solution Requirements - Transition Requirements

17. While eliciting requirements it is important to guard against scope creep - This activity will ensure that the requirements should be included since they meet the business goal/objectives.
Requirements Management & Communication
Requirements Structure
Tracing Requirements
Determine the Process - Who will Authorize Changes - Impact Analysis - Wording of the Request - Coordinate Prioritization of Change

18. What are the techniques used in the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?
Requirements (Allocated)
Scope Modeling
Decision Analysis - Focus Groups - Observation - Survey/Questionnaire
Primary stakeholders in the Organize Requirements task

19. Elements of a Requirements Management Plan include?
Relationships - Impact Analysis - Configuration Management System
Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Determine the Process - Who will Authorize Changes - Impact Analysis - Wording of the Request - Coordinate Prioritization of Change
Structured Walkthrough

20. Name the 2 types of Software categories that assist in BA productivity.
Parametric Estimation
General Purpose Applications & Specialized Applications
Solution Knowledge
Throw-away Prototype

21. What are the inputs to the task Manage Business Analysis Performance?
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Business Rules Analysis - Decision Analysis - Functional Decomposition - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases
Enterprise Analysis - often the starting point for initiating a new project
Systems Thinking
Business Analysis Performance Metrics - Business Analysis Plan - Organization Performance Standards - Requirements Management Plan

22. 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.
Brainstorming
Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring
Estimation
Implementation Approach

23. What are the techniques used in the task Manage Solution Scope & Requirements?
Problem Tracking - Baselining - Signoff
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Relationship to Time - Relationship to Task Completion - Relationship to Contracts - Relationships to Formal and Informal Authority
Business Rule

24. What are the elements of the task Plan Requirements Management Process?
Solution Approach
Repository - Traceability - Requirement Attributes - Prioritization Process - Change Management - Tailoring the Requirements Management Process
Expert Judgment
Requirements Workshop

25. What is the output of the task Conduct Stakeholder Analysis?
Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Acceptance Criteria
Elimination
Rolling Wave

26. Measures progress towards a strategic goal or objective.
Key Performance Indicator (KPI )
Requirements (Stated) - Requirements Structure
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Required Capabilities
Define Business Case

27. Rules that the organization chooses to enforce as a matter of policy. They are intended to guide the actions of people working within the organization. They may oblige people to take certain actions - prevent people from taking actions - or prescribe
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Problem Tracking - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Operative Rules
Assumptions & Constraints
Influence on the project - organizational - project health and other stakeholders

28. What are the characteristics of quality for a requirements?
Evaluation
Cohesive - Complete - Consistent - Correct - Feasible - Modifiable - Unambiguous - Testable
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Decision Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Decision Analysis

29. Industry Knowledge - Organization Knowledge - Solution Knowledge What are the elements of Business Knowledge?
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Solution Performance Assessment
Evaluation Criteria
Business Principles & Practices
Business Principals

30. What are the techniques used in the task - Validate Requirements?
Perform tailoring exercises
Metrics & KPIs
Specific - Measurable - Achievable - Relevant - Time-bound Objectives must be SMART.
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Metrics & KPIs - Prototyping - Risk Analysis - Structured Walkthrough

31. What are the tasks in the knowledge area - Requirements Analysis?
Relationship to Time - Relationship to Task Completion - Relationship to Contracts - Relationships to Formal and Informal Authority
Prioritize Requirements - Organize Requirements - Specify & Model Requirements - Define Assumptions & Constraints - Verify Requirements - Validate Requirements
Benefits - Costs - Risk Assessment - Results Measurement
Manage Solution Scope & Requirements - Manage Requirements Traceability - Maintain Requirements for Re-use - Prepare Requirements Package - Communicate Requirements

32. What are the inputs to the task Manage Solution Scope & Requirements?
Solution Knowledge
Requirements Management Plan - Solution Scope - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities - Stakeholder/Solution or Transition Requirements (Communicated or Traced)
Lessons Learned Process
Requirements (Any Except Stated)

33. When performing root cause analysis as part of the Validate Solution task - what stakeholder may be involved?
Metrics & KPIs
Organizational Readiness Assessment - Requirements (Stated) - Solution (Deployed) - Solution (Designed)
Implementation SME
Organize Requirements

34. What techniques are used in the task Prepare for Elicitation?
Solution (Constructed) - Requirements (Prioritized and Validated)
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Customer
Stakeholder Concerns

35. 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
Confirm Elicitation Results
Analogous Estimation
Business Requirements - Stakeholder Requirements - Solution Requirements - Transition Requirements
Requirements - Requirements Management Plan

36. Organizational culture - Stakeholder preference - complexity - organizational maturity and availability of resources are all factors used to do what?
Business Rule
Perform tailoring exercises
Repository - Traceability - Requirement Attributes - Prioritization Process - Change Management - Tailoring the Requirements Management Process
Prioritize Requirements - Organize Requirements - Specify & Model Requirements - Define Assumptions & Constraints - Verify Requirements - Validate Requirements

37. This prototype seeks to quickly uncover and clarify interface requirements using simple tools - sometimes just paper and pencil. The focus is on functionality that is not easily elicited by other techniques - has conflicting viewpoints - or is diffic
Throw-away Prototype
Onion Diagram
Define Business Case
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Organizational Process Assets

38. What is a STAKEHOLDER requirement - according to the BABOK 2.0?
Relationship to Time - Relationship to Task Completion - Relationship to Contracts - Relationships to Formal and Informal Authority
A statement of the needs of a particular stakeholder or class of stakeholders
Tracing Requirements
Functional Decomposition - Interface Analysis - Scope Modeling - User Stories - Problem or Vision Statement

39. 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
Delphi Estimation
Requirements (Verified)
Business Value - Business or Technical Risk - Implementation Difficulty - Likelihood of Success - Regulatory or Policy Compliance - Relationship to Other Requirements - Stakeholder Agreement - Urgency
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements Management Plan - Scheduled Resources - Solution Scope & Business Case - Supporting Materials

40. Models a deep - and usually narrow slice of the entire system's functionality.
Vertical Prototype
Define Business Need - Access Capability Gaps - Determine Solution Approach - Define Solution Scope - Define Business Case
Solution Assessment & Validation
Confirm Elicitation Results

41. What does RACI stand for?
Business Case; Stakeholder - Solution or Transition Requirements (Verified)
Business Analysis Performance Metrics - Business Analysis Plan - Organization Performance Standards - Requirements Management Plan
Business Rules Analysis
Responsible - Accountable - Consulted - Informed

42. Prioritizes requirements based on the amount of work that the project team is capable of delivering in a set period of time. Approaches include: All-in - All Out - Selective
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements (Stated) - Solution Scope
Parametric Estimation
Interviews - Lessons Learned Process - Metrics and KPIs - Problem Tracking - Process Modeling - Root Cause Analysis - Survey/Questionnaire - Variance Analysis
Timeboxing

43. What are the techniques used in the task - Define Transition Requirements?
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Modeling - Organization Modeling - Data Modeling
Define Business Need - Access Capability Gaps - Determine Solution Approach - Define Solution Scope - Define Business Case
Onion Diagram
Solution Performance Assessment

44. Useful for ensuring that all stakeholders are in agreement on the format and content of relevant information. Capturing these definitions in a single model ensures that these terms will be used consistently.
Observation
Reporting
Bottom-up Estimation
Advantages of a Data Dictionary & Glossary

45. What are the techniques used in the task Document Elicitation Results?
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Problem Tracking - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Enterprise Architecture - Solution Scope - Solution (Designed) - Stakeholder Concerns
Relationship to Time - Relationship to Task Completion - Relationship to Contracts - Relationships to Formal and Informal Authority
Decision Analysis

46. What are the 3 elements in the Assess Organizational Readiness?
Historic Analysis
Requirements Management Plan
Decision Analysis - Estimation - Metrics & KPIs - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Cultural Assessment - Operational or Technical Assessment - Stakeholder Impact Analysis

47. To identify and manage areas of uncertainty that can impact an initiative - solution - or organization.
Risk Analysis
Lessons Learned Process
Business Analysis Communication Plan
Prepare Requirements Package

48. 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
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Decision Analysis - Estimation - SWOT Analysis - Feasibility Analysis
Reporting
Scope Modeling
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Brainstorming - Interviews - Organizational Modeling - Process Modeling - Requirements Workshop - Risk Analysis - Scenarios & Use Cases - User Stories - Scope Modeling - Survey/Questionnaire - RACI Matrix

49. States the business need - identifies key stakeholders and briefly describes the positive impact that meeting the business need will have on those stakeholders.
Monitoring
Requirements - Requirements Management Plan
Problem or Vision Statement
This person will be involved in monitoring the performance and effectiveness of a solution or its components.

50. What are the strategies for a positive risk?
Requirements - Requirements Management Plan
Functions - Markets - Matrix
Risk Analysis
Share - Enhance - Exploit