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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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






2. What are the output(s) of the task - Validate Solution?






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






4. What are the strategies for a negative risk?






5. 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.






6. What does RACI stand for?






7. What is the output of the task Confirm Elicitation Results?






8. What are the techniques used in the task Manage Solution Scope & Requirements?






9. 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






10. What are some of the key variables used in determining the priority of a requirement?






11. What are the elements of Communication Skills?






12. The knowledge area that describes how a BA manages conflicts - issues and changes in order to ensure that stakeholders and the project team remain in agreement on the solution scope - how requirements are communicated to stakeholders and how knowledg






13. What is the output of the task Plan Requirements Management Process?






14. What are the Behavioral Characteristics a BA should exhibit?






15. 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






16. 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






17. What is the output of the task - Determine Solution Approach?






18. 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.






19. What are the likely sources of transition requirements?






20. Understanding of how a change to a component affects the system as a whole - identification of reinforcing and compensating feedback loops - understanding of how systems adapt to external pressures and changes - A system as a whole will have properti






21. Models a shallow - and possibly wide view of the system's functionality. It typically does not have any business logic running behind the visualization.






22. The purpose of _______________ is to ensure that a stakeholder's actual underlying needs are understood - rather than the their stated or superficial desires.






23. What are the tasks in Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring?






24. How is the Operational Support stakeholder utilized in the Evaluate Solution Performance task?






25. A means to elicit requirements by studying available documentation on existing and comparable solutions and identifying relevant information. - Not starting from a blank page.- Leveraging existing materials to discover and/or confirm requirements. -






26. What is the output of the task - Manage Requirements Traceability?






27. Models a deep - and usually narrow slice of the entire system's functionality.






28. Details user interface requirements and integrates them with other requirements such as use cases - scenarios - data and business rules. Stakeholders often find this to be a concrete means of identifying - describing and validating their interface ne






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






30. What are the underlying competencies a BA should possess?






31. 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.






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






33. What are the tasks in the knowledge area - Solution Assessment & Validation?






34. What are some of the ways a BA can help to improve the operations of a business? Acceptance and Evaluation Criteria Definition - Business Rules Analysis - Data Dictionary and Glossary - Data Flow Diagrams - Data Modeling - Functional Decomposition -






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






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






37. What is the output of the task - Verify Requirements?






38. What are the inputs to the task - Define Assumption & Constraints?






39. 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






40. Familiarity with the range of commercially available solutions or suppliers can assist with the identification of possible alternatives.






41. A package should contain a consistent - cohesive and coherent set of requirements. This describes the ____________.






42. What is the output of the task - Define Business Need?






43. States the business need - identifies key stakeholders and briefly describes the positive impact that meeting the business need will have on those stakeholders.






44. What are the inputs to the task - Organize Requirements?






45. What are the inputs to the task - Validate Requirements?






46. 7 knowledge areas of ________ : Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring - Elicitation - Requirements Management & Communication - Enterprise Analysis - Requirements Analysis - Solution Assessment & Validation - Underlying Competencies






47. What are the inputs to the task Manage Requirements Traceability?






48. Decisions are made with the interest of all stakeholders considered - reasons for a decision are cleared articulated - prompt and full disclosure of conflicts of interest - honesty regarding one's abilities and the performance of one's work.






49. What are the elements of the task - Define Solution Scope?






50. Industry Knowledge - Organization Knowledge - Solution Knowledge What are the elements of Business Knowledge?