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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning
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1. The purpose is to measure the performance of solutions - solution components - and other matters of interest to stakeholders.
Document Analysis
Requirements Structure
Estimation - Functional Decomposition - Risk Analysis
Metrics & KPIs
2. 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
Facilitation
Plan Business Analysis Approach - Conduct Stakeholder Analysis - Plan Business Analysis Activities - Plan Business Analysis Communication - Plan Requirements Management Process - Manage BA Performance
Requirements (Stated - Unconfirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Unconfirmed)
Automate or Simplify Work - Improve Access to Information - Reduce Complexity of Interfaces - Increase Consistency of Behavior - Eliminate Redundancy
3. What is the output of the task - Verify Requirements?
Requirements (Verified)
Solution Assessment & Validation
Relationships - Impact Analysis - Configuration Management System
Business Case; Stakeholder - Solution or Transition Requirements (Verified)
4. What is the output of the task - Specify & Model Requirements?
Relationship to Time - Relationship to Task Completion - Relationship to Contracts - Relationships to Formal and Informal Authority
Non-functional Requirements Analysis
Personal Organization
Requirements (Analyzed)
5. Name the 2 types of Software categories that assist in BA productivity.
Prepare Requirements Package
Interviews - Observation
General Purpose Applications & Specialized Applications
System
6. How is the Operational Support stakeholder utilized in the Evaluate Solution Performance task?
Elimination
Prepare Requirements Package
Focus Group
This person will be involved in monitoring the performance and effectiveness of a solution or its components.
7. What are the techniques used in the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?
Conduct Elicitation Activity
Decision Analysis - Focus Groups - Observation - Survey/Questionnaire
Document Analysis
Data Flow Diagrams
8. What are the tasks in Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring?
Business Need - Solution Scope & Business Case - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Plan Business Analysis Approach - Conduct Stakeholder Analysis - Plan Business Analysis Activities - Plan Business Analysis Communication - Plan Requirements Management Process - Manage BA Performance
To record the conflict in the Requirements Issues Log.
Problem Tracking
9. What are the Composite Data Elements?
Sequences - Repetitions - Optional Elements
Business Analysis Performance Metrics - Business Analysis Plan - Organization Performance Standards - Requirements Management Plan
Relationships - Impact Analysis - Configuration Management System
Name - Aliases - Values/Meanings - Description
10. 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.
BABOK
Evaluation
Vertical Prototype
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Decision Analysis - Vendor Assessment
11. What are the inputs for the task - Define Transitional Requirements?
Perform tailoring exercises
Advantages of Document Analysis
Organizational Readiness Assessment - Requirements (Stated) - Solution (Deployed) - Solution (Designed)
Decision Analysis - Process Modeling - Structured Walkthrough
12. To identify interfaces between solutions and/or solution components and define requirements that describe how they will interact.
Share - Enhance - Exploit
Responsible - Accountable - Consulted - Informed
User Classes - Profiles or Roles; Concepts & Relationships - Events - Processes - Rules
Interface Analysis
13. What are the inputs for the task - Define Solution Scope?
Historic Analysis
Assumptions & Constraints - Required Capabilities - Solution Approach
Interviews
Data Flow Diagrams
14. What should be considered when establishing a Change Management process?
Determine the Process - Who will Authorize Changes - Impact Analysis - Wording of the Request - Coordinate Prioritization of Change
Business Need - Solution Scope & Business Case - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Business Goals & Objectives - Requirements (Stated)
Onion Diagram
15. What are the 3 elements in the Assess Organizational Readiness?
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Solution Performance Assessment
Cultural Assessment - Operational or Technical Assessment - Stakeholder Impact Analysis
Requirements Structure
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
16. What are the tasks in the knowledge area - Requirements Analysis?
Prioritize Requirements - Organize Requirements - Specify & Model Requirements - Define Assumptions & Constraints - Verify Requirements - Validate Requirements
Coverage Matrix - Table or spreadsheet used to manage tracing.
Emotional and Cognitive
Problem Tracking - Baselining - Signoff
17. 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.
Ethics
Discounted Cash Flow - Net Present Value - Internal Rate of Return - Average Rate of Return - Pay Back Period - Cost-Benefit Analysis
Decision Analysis - Focus Groups - Observation - Survey/Questionnaire
Structural Rules
18. A non-actionable directive that supports a business goal.
Business Need - Solution Scope & Business Case - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Solution Performance Assessment
Bottom-up Estimation
Business Policy
19. 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.
Advantages of a Data Dictionary & Glossary
Problem Tracking - Baselining - Signoff
Focus Group
The Sponsor
20. A means to elicit ideas and attitudes about a specific product - service or opportunity in an interactive group environment. The participants share their impressions - preferences and needs - guided by a moderator. - Effective for learning people's a
Requirements Structure
Focus Group
Validate Requirements
Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis
21. A brief description of functionality that users need from a solution to meet a business objective. The goal they are trying to accomplish - and any additional information that may be critical to understanding the scope of the story.
Business Analysis Plan
Evaluation Criteria
User Story
Transition Requirements
22. What are the inputs for the task Confirm Elicitation Results?
Monitoring
Business Policy
Facilitation & Negotiation - Leadership & Influencing - Teamwork
Requirements (Stated - Unconfirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Unconfirmed)
23. What is the output of the task - Define Business Need?
Business Rule
Interface Analysis
Business Analysis Communication Plan
Business Need
24. What knowledge area discusses the business analysis activities necessary to identify a business need - problem or opportunity - define the capture of the solution and justify the investment necessary to deliver the solution.
Define Business Case
Enterprise Analysis - often the starting point for initiating a new project
Vertical Prototype
Key Performance Indicator (KPI )
25. The purpose is to describe the required qualities of a system - such as its usability and performance characteristics.
Business Need - Expert Judgment - Organizational Process Assets
Stakeholder Concerns
Non-functional Requirements Analysis
Leadership
26. Use of a similar project as the basis for developing estimates for the current project. Also known as "top-down" estimating. This is usually done at the beginning of the project or project phase and more detailed estimates follow as more is known.
Scenarios & Use Cases
Problem Solving
Structured Walkthrough
Analogous Estimation
27. Use of parameters - multiplied by the number of hours. (COCOMO II - Function Point Counting - Use Case Points - and Story Points)
Interviews
Transition Requirements
Parametric Estimation
Evaluate Solution Performance
28. Knowing the dependencies and relationships between requirements helps when determining the sequence in which requirements are to be addressed. Common relations are:
Elimination
Necessity - Effort - Subset - Cover - Value
Assumptions & Constraints - Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution Options
Acceptance Criteria
29. What are the factors of influence by stakeholders on a project?
Acceptance & Evaluation Technique
Organizational Knowledge
Influence on the project - organizational - project health and other stakeholders
Manage Solution Scope & Requirements - Manage Requirements Traceability - Maintain Requirements for Re-use - Prepare Requirements Package - Communicate Requirements
30. This knowledge area describes the behaviors - knowledge and other characteristics that support the effective performance of a BA.
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements
Requirements Workshop - Structured Walkthrough
Underlying Competencies
Learning
31. Most optimistic estimate; most pessimistic estimate; most likely estimate
All
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets
Three-point Estimation
Responsible - Accountable - Consulted - Informed
32. What is the output of the task - Prepare Requirements Package?
Cognitive Conflict
Influence on the project - organizational - project health and other stakeholders
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Problem Tracking - Root Cause Analysis
Requirements Package
33. Estimating relies on the expertise of those who have performed the work in the past. These experts can be internal or external to the project team or to the organization.
Manage Solution Scope & Requirements - Manage Requirements Traceability - Maintain Requirements for Re-use - Prepare Requirements Package - Communicate Requirements
SWOT Analysis
Data Dictionary
Expert Judgment
34. 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.
Requirements (Prioritized)
SWOT Analysis
Fishbone Diagram - Five Whys
Learning
35. List 3 possible forms of a requirements packages.
Formal Documentation - Presentation - Model
Three-point Estimation
Survey/Questionnaire
Monitoring
36. Gathering information relevant to a decision - breaking down the information relevant to a decision - making comparisons and tradeoffs between similar and dissimilar options and identifying the option that is most desirable.
Impact Analysis
Discounted Cash Flow - Net Present Value - Internal Rate of Return - Average Rate of Return - Pay Back Period - Cost-Benefit Analysis
Decision Analysis
Tracing Requirements
37. 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
Bottom-up Estimation
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Problem Tracking - Root Cause Analysis
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements
38. Measures progress towards a strategic goal or objective.
Functional Decomposition - Interface Analysis - Scope Modeling - User Stories - Problem or Vision Statement
Key Performance Indicator (KPI )
Define Business Need - Access Capability Gaps - Determine Solution Approach - Define Solution Scope - Define Business Case
Emotional and Cognitive
39. 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.
Problem Solving
Problem Tracking - Baselining - Signoff
Business Need - Solution Scope & Business Case - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Solution Scope
40. 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
Structured Walkthrough
Benefits - Costs - Risk Assessment - Results Measurement
Estimation
Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution (Designed) - Solution Scope
41. The goal of this task is to meet with stakeholder(s) to gather information regarding their needs.
Business Requirements - Identified Defects - Solution Performance Metrics - Solution (Deployed)
Prepare for Elicitation - Conduct Elicitation Activity - Document Elicitation Results - Confirm Elicitation Results
Conduct Elicitation Activity
Sequences - Repetitions - Optional Elements
42. This technique represents the types of peoples - places - things and concepts that are important to the business - attributes associated with them and the significant business relationships among them.
Cohesive - Complete - Consistent - Correct - Feasible - Modifiable - Unambiguous - Testable
Data Modeling
Lessons Learned Process
Emotional and Cognitive
43. What is the output of the Plan Business Analysis Approach?
Data Dictionary & Glossary - Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshops - Survey/Questionnaire
Business Analysis Approach
Confirm Elicitation Results
Dependencies
44. Shows how the behavior of a concept - entity or object changes in response to events during its lifetime - and defines which events cause a transition between those states.
State Diagrams
Reliability - Validity - Timeliness
Ethics
Business Analysis Communication Plan
45. Checklist of characteristics to consider when considering non-functional requirements.
Requirements (Stated) - Requirements Structure
Reliability - Performance Efficiency - Operability - Security - Compatibility - Maintainability - Transferability
Trustworthiness
Solution Performance Assessment
46. What describes how - when and why the business analyst will work with stakeholders?
Metrics & KPIs
Vertical Prototype
The Business Analysis Communication Plan
Data - Ongoing Work - Organizational Change
47. Provides an organized approach to tracking - management - and resolution of defects - issues - problems - and risks throughout business analysis activities. Management of issues is important so that they can be resolved in a timely manner to ensure s
Problem Tracking
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Decision Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Name - Aliases - Values/Meanings - Description
Requirements (Traced)
48. What are some of the commonly used requirement attributes?
Elicitation
Absolute Reference - Author - Complexity - Ownership - Priority - Risks - Source - Stability - Status - Urgency
Historic Analysis
SWOT Analysis
49. 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
Analogous Estimation
Throw-away Prototype
Requirements Structure
Interviews - Lessons Learned Process - Metrics and KPIs - Problem Tracking - Process Modeling - Root Cause Analysis - Survey/Questionnaire - Variance Analysis
50. 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
Document Analysis
Brainstorming
Organizational Readiness Assessment
Repository - Traceability - Requirement Attributes - Prioritization Process - Change Management - Tailoring the Requirements Management Process