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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning
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1. What are the different types of learning styles?
Business Analysis Communication Plan
Cognitive Conflict
Visual Learner - Auditory Learner - Kinesthetic Learner
Scope Modeling
2. What are the inputs for the task - Maintain Requirements for Re-use?
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements
Industry Knowledge
Problem or Vision Statement
Transition Requirements
3. 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
Root Cause Analysis
Brings them to a Communication on understanding
Trustworthiness
Prepare Requirements Package
4. Maps the level of stakeholder influence and interest in a project.
Formal Documentation - Presentation - Model
Stakeholder Matrix
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements - Requirements Structure
Term and Fact Model
5. This knowledge area describes the problem definition and analysis - business case development - feasibility studies and the definition of solution scope.
Problem Solving
Reporting
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
Enterprise Analysis
6. What are the techniques for the task - Verify Requirements?
Business Requirements - Identified Defects - Solution Performance Metrics - Solution (Deployed)
Prioritize Requirements - Organize Requirements - Specify & Model Requirements - Define Assumptions & Constraints - Verify Requirements - Validate Requirements
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Problem Tracking - Structured Walkthrough - Checklists
Organizational Readiness Assessment
7. Are used to model the logic of usage scenarios - by showing the information passed between objects in the system through the execution of the scenario. Shows how classes and objects interact during a scenario.
Budgeting
BABOK
Business Case; Stakeholder - Solution or Transition Requirements (Verified)
Sequence Diagrams
8. Elements of a Requirements Management Plan include?
The Sponsor
Relationships - Impact Analysis - Configuration Management System
Business Analysis Approach
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Problem Tracking - Root Cause Analysis
9. 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.
Historic Analysis
Sequences - Repetitions - Optional Elements
Allocate Requirements
Solution Scope Definition - Implementation Approach - Dependencies
10. 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.
Requirements Package
Organize Requirements
Business Principles & Practices
Facilitation & Negotiation - Leadership & Influencing - Teamwork
11. What are the likely sources of transition requirements?
Data - Ongoing Work - Organizational Change
Interface Analysis
Elicitation
Share - Enhance - Exploit
12. Divides requirements into 4 categories - Must - Should - Could - Won't
Activity List
Organization Modeling
Determine the Process - Who will Authorize Changes - Impact Analysis - Wording of the Request - Coordinate Prioritization of Change
MoSCoW Analysis
13. What is the output of the task - Define Business Need?
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Decision Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Clear - Relevant - Economical - Adequate - Quantifiable
Business Need
Requirements Analysis
14. A non-actionable directive that supports a business goal.
Solution Approach
Specific - Measurable - Achievable - Relevant - Time-bound Objectives must be SMART.
User Classes - Profiles or Roles; Concepts & Relationships - Events - Processes - Rules
Business Policy
15. What are the tasks in the knowledge area - Requirements Analysis?
Enterprise Architecture - Solution Scope - Solution (Designed) - Stakeholder Concerns
Business Rules Analysis
Prioritize Requirements - Organize Requirements - Specify & Model Requirements - Define Assumptions & Constraints - Verify Requirements - Validate Requirements
Cohesive - Complete - Consistent - Correct - Feasible - Modifiable - Unambiguous - Testable
16. What are the inputs to the task - Validate Solution?
Solution (Constructed) - Requirements (Prioritized and Validated)
Manage Solution Scope & Requirements - Manage Requirements Traceability - Maintain Requirements for Re-use - Prepare Requirements Package - Communicate Requirements
Enterprise Architecture - Solution Scope - Solution (Designed) - Stakeholder Concerns
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Requirements - Requirements Package
17. 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.
Required Capabilities
Enterprise Analysis - often the starting point for initiating a new project
Requirements Structure
Clear - Relevant - Economical - Adequate - Quantifiable
18. Involved motivating people to act in ways that enable them to work together to achieve shared goals and objectives.
Reporting
Leadership
Facilitation
Business Case; Stakeholder - Solution or Transition Requirements (Verified)
19. Used to describe the roles - responsibilities and reporting structures that exist within an organization and to align those structures with the organization's goals.
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Decision Analysis - Estimation - SWOT Analysis - Feasibility Analysis
Organization Modeling
Functional Decomposition
Scenarios & Use Cases
20. What are the attributes of a Data Model?
Assess Organization Readiness
Structural Rules
Name - Value/Meanings - Description
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Problem Tracking - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
21. 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
Timeboxing
Define Transitional Requirements
Organization Modeling
Organize Requirements
22. What are the Composite Data Elements?
BABOK
Requirements Analysis
Sequences - Repetitions - Optional Elements
Assess Organization Readiness
23. What is the output of the task Plan Requirements Management Process?
Requirements (Stated - Confirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Confirmed)
Industry Knowledge
Requirements Management Plan
Formal Documentation - Presentation - Model
24. What are the tasks in Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring?
Responsible - Accountable - Consulted - Informed
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements Management Plan - Scheduled Resources - Solution Scope & Business Case - Supporting Materials
Business Case; Stakeholder - Solution or Transition Requirements (Verified)
Plan Business Analysis Approach - Conduct Stakeholder Analysis - Plan Business Analysis Activities - Plan Business Analysis Communication - Plan Requirements Management Process - Manage BA Performance
25. To assess the ability of a potential vendor to meet commitments regarding a product or service
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Vendor Assessment
Scenario
Allocate Requirements
26. 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
Learning
Business Case
Delphi Estimation
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Metrics & KPIs - Prototyping - Risk Analysis - Structured Walkthrough
27. What are the techniques used in the task Manage Business Analysis Performance?
Reporting
Interviews - Lessons Learned Process - Metrics and KPIs - Problem Tracking - Process Modeling - Root Cause Analysis - Survey/Questionnaire - Variance Analysis
State Diagrams
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Decision Analysis - Vendor Assessment
28. Elements identified for each activity and task.
Business Analysis Performance Metrics - Business Analysis Plan - Organization Performance Standards - Requirements Management Plan
MoSCoW Analysis
To record the conflict in the Requirements Issues Log.
Unique Number - Activity Description - Assumptions - Dependencies - Milestones
29. The purpose is to measure the performance of solutions - solution components - and other matters of interest to stakeholders.
Metrics & KPIs
Cognitive Conflict
Implementation SME
Requirements (Stated) - Stakeholder Concerns
30. Two types of conflict.
Emotional and Cognitive
To record the conflict in the Requirements Issues Log.
That they understand them and the current state the requirements are in
Creative Thinking - Decision Making - Learning - Problem Solving - Systems Thinking
31. The objective of this technique is to determine how companies achieve their superior performance levels and use that information to design projects to improve operations of the enterprise.
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements (Stated) - Solution Scope
Benchmarking
Goals
Enterprise Analysis
32. This task determines if an organization can justify the investment required to deliver a proposed solution.
Underlying Competencies
Systems Thinking
Assess Proposed Solution - Allocate Requirements - Assess Organizational Readiness - Define Transition Requirements - Validate Solution - Evaluate Solution Performance
Define Business Case
33. 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.
Reliability - Performance Efficiency - Operability - Security - Compatibility - Maintainability - Transferability
Advantages of a Data Dictionary & Glossary
System
General Purpose Applications & Specialized Applications
34. What are the elements of Communication Skills?
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
Oral Communications - Teaching - Written Communication
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Determine the Process - Who will Authorize Changes - Impact Analysis - Wording of the Request - Coordinate Prioritization of Change
35. What are the strategies for a negative risk?
Acceptance - Transfer - Avoidance - Mitigation
Scenarios & Use Cases
Decision Analysis - Process Modeling - Structured Walkthrough
Benchmarking
36. What are the 3 elements in the Assess Organizational Readiness?
Clear - Relevant - Economical - Adequate - Quantifiable
Assumptions & Constraints - Required Capabilities - Solution Approach
Transition Requirements
Cultural Assessment - Operational or Technical Assessment - Stakeholder Impact Analysis
37. What are the output(s) of the task - Validate Solution?
Formal Documentation - Presentation - Model
Identified Defects - Mitigating Actions - Solution Validation Assessment
Requirements (Approved)
Decision Analysis - Problem Tacking - Risk Analysis
38. What stakeholder receives noticeable negative impact if information is incorrectly transferred from the old to new solution?
Customer
Influence on the project - organizational - project health and other stakeholders
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Modeling - Organization Modeling - Data Modeling
All
39. What are the techniques used in the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?
Plan Business Analysis Approach - Conduct Stakeholder Analysis - Plan Business Analysis Activities - Plan Business Analysis Communication - Plan Requirements Management Process - Manage BA Performance
Data Modeling
Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution (Designed) - Solution Scope
Decision Analysis - Focus Groups - Observation - Survey/Questionnaire
40. What is the output of the task Document Elicitation Results?
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Requirements (Stated) - Stakeholder Concerns
Requirements Management & Communication
Scenario
41. 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.
Use Case
Creative Thinking - Decision Making - Learning - Problem Solving - Systems Thinking
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Models - Focus Groups - Interviews - Survey/Questionnaire - Organizational Modeling - Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Force Field Analysis
Name - Aliases - Values/Meanings - Description
42. What does RACI stand for?
Prioritize Requirements - Organize Requirements - Specify & Model Requirements - Define Assumptions & Constraints - Verify Requirements - Validate Requirements
Requirements (Stated) - Stakeholder Concerns
Responsible - Accountable - Consulted - Informed
Business Rules Analysis
43. Means of eliciting information from many people - sometimes anonymously - in a relatively short period of time
Data Flow Diagrams
Document Elicitation Results task
Throw-away Prototype
Survey/Questionnaire
44. What is the output of the task - Communicate Requirements?
Requirements Workshop - Structured Walkthrough
Ethics - Trustworthiness - Personal Organization
Communicated Requirements
Requirements Structure
45. What are the inputs for the task - Define Solution Scope?
Requirements Package
Oral Communications - Teaching - Written Communication
User Story
Assumptions & Constraints - Required Capabilities - Solution Approach
46. What are the characteristics of a Problem Record?
Leadership
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 (Stated - Confirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Confirmed)
Glossary
47. Allocate stakeholder and solution requirements among solution components and releases in order to maximize the possible business value given the options and alternatives generated by the design team.
Allocate Requirements
Estimation - Functional Decomposition - Risk Analysis
The Business Analysis Communication Plan
BABOK
48. What are the inputs to the task - Communicate Requirements?
Cognitive Conflict
Organization Modeling
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Requirements - Requirements Package
Vertical Prototype
49. Corrective or preventative measures uncovered while performing a Business Analysis Performance Assessment will result in changes to what plan?
Sequences - Repetitions - Optional Elements
Identified Defects - Mitigating Actions - Solution Validation Assessment
Business Analysis Plan
BABOK
50. 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
Scope Modeling
Interface Analysis
Budgeting
Enterprise Analysis - often the starting point for initiating a new project