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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning
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1. What is the output of the task - Assess Organizational Readiness?
Organizational Readiness Assessment
Perform tailoring exercises
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Data Modeling - Functional Decomposition - Organizational Modeling - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases - Scope Modeling - User Stories
Operative Rules
2. To define the rules that govern decisions in an organization and that define - constrain or enable organization operations.
Business Rule
Business Rules Analysis
Survey/Questionnaire
Allocate Requirements
3. What are the tasks for the knowledge area - Requirements Management & Communication?
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Organizational Process Assets
Data Dictionary & Glossary
Specific - Measurable - Achievable - Relevant - Time-bound Objectives must be SMART.
Manage Solution Scope & Requirements - Manage Requirements Traceability - Maintain Requirements for Re-use - Prepare Requirements Package - Communicate Requirements
4. What are the inputs to the task - Define Business Need?
Elimination of Dominated Alternative - Ranking Objects on a Similar Scale
Data Dictionary & Glossary
Business Goals & Objectives - Requirements (Stated)
Acceptance Criteria
5. 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.
Business Analysis Approach - BA Performance Assessment - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Requirements (Allocated)
Requirements Workshop
Organize Requirements
6. 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
Requirements (Prioritized)
Parametric Estimation
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
7. Name the 2 types of Stakeholder maps.
Define Business Need - Access Capability Gaps - Determine Solution Approach - Define Solution Scope - Define Business Case
Assumptions & Constraints - Business Need - Solution Scope - Stakeholder Concerns
Stakeholder Matrix - Onion Diagram
Expert Judgment
8. What are the techniques used in the task Document Elicitation Results?
Cohesive - Complete - Consistent - Correct - Feasible - Modifiable - Unambiguous - Testable
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Problem Tracking - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Confirm Elicitation Results
Requirements Documentation - Requirements for Vendor Selection
9. What are the techniques used in the task Conduct Stakeholder Analysis?
Business Case; Stakeholder - Solution or Transition Requirements (Verified)
Requirements - Requirements Management Plan
Estimation - Functional Decomposition - Risk Analysis
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
10. What are the elements of the task Plan Requirements Management Process?
General Purpose Applications & Specialized Applications
Repository - Traceability - Requirement Attributes - Prioritization Process - Change Management - Tailoring the Requirements Management Process
Decision Analysis
Elimination
11. The goal of this task is to ensure that all requirements support the delivery of value to the business - fulfill its goal and objectives and meet a stakeholder need.
Problem or Vision Statement
Enterprise Architecture - Solution Scope - Solution (Designed) - Stakeholder Concerns
Prepare for Elicitation - Conduct Elicitation Activity - Document Elicitation Results - Confirm Elicitation Results
Validate Requirements
12. 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.
Observation
Term and Fact Model
Business Principles & Practices
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements (Stated) - Solution Scope
13. Characteristics that are common to all organizations with a similar purpose and structure - whether or not the are in the same industry.
Requirements Management & Communication
Unique Number - Activity Description - Assumptions - Dependencies - Milestones
Business Principals
Requirements (Stated - Confirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Confirmed)
14. This knowledge area describes the behaviors - knowledge and other characteristics that support the effective performance of a BA.
Requirements Analysis
Underlying Competencies
Elicitation Results
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Requirements - Requirements Package
15. 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.
Enterprise Analysis - often the starting point for initiating a new project
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements - Requirements Structure
Business Requirements - Stakeholder Requirements - Solution Requirements - Transition Requirements
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Problem Tracking - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
16. What is the output of the task - Assess Proposed Solution?
Business Analysis Performance Assessment - Business Analysis Process Assets - Includes a comparison of planned versus actual performance - understanding the root cause of variances from the plan and other information to help understand the level of
Assessment of Proposed Solution
Industry Knowledge
Elicitation
17. 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
Unique Number - Activity Description - Assumptions - Dependencies - Milestones
Clear - Relevant - Economical - Adequate - Quantifiable
Timeboxing
Allocate Requirements
18. According to the BABOK 2.0 - what type of analysis generates STAKEHOLDER requirements?
Requirements Analysis
Influence on the project - organizational - project health and other stakeholders
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Solution Performance Assessment
Formal Documentation - Presentation - Model
19. 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.
Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring
Evaluation
Scenarios & Use Cases
Decision Analysis - Estimation - Metrics & KPIs - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Vendor Assessment
20. What are the inputs to the task Manage Requirements Traceability?
Requirements - Requirements Management Plan
Three-point Estimation
All
Solution Knowledge
21. This technique shows how information is input - processed - stored and output from a system in a visual representation.
Requirements (Validated)
Requirements (Allocated)
Data Flow Diagrams
Define Transitional Requirements
22. What are the inputs to the task - Organize Requirements?
Prepare for Elicitation - Conduct Elicitation Activity - Document Elicitation Results - Confirm Elicitation Results
Assumptions & Constraints - Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution Options
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements (Stated) - Solution Scope
The Sponsor
23. 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.
Organizational Readiness Assessment
User Classes - Profiles or Roles; Concepts & Relationships - Events - Processes - Rules
Requirements Analysis
Sequences - Repetitions - Optional Elements
24. 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.
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving - Behavioral Characteristics - Business Knowledge - Communication Skills - Interaction Skills - Software Application
Verify Requirements
BABOK
Requirements Management & Communication
25. What are the inputs for the task - Define Solution Scope?
Estimation - Functional Decomposition - Risk Analysis
Assumptions & Constraints - Required Capabilities - Solution Approach
Structural Rules
Share - Enhance - Exploit
26. What are the inputs for the task - Prepare Requirements Package?
Focus Group
Solution Assessment & Validation
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements - Requirements Structure
Allocate Requirements
27. What is the output of the task - Prepare Requirements Package?
Automate or Simplify Work - Improve Access to Information - Reduce Complexity of Interfaces - Increase Consistency of Behavior - Eliminate Redundancy
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Models - Focus Groups - Interviews - Survey/Questionnaire - Organizational Modeling - Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Force Field Analysis
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements - Requirements Structure
Requirements Package
28. What are the techniques used in the task - Communicate Requirements?
Assess Organization Readiness
Requirements Workshop - Structured Walkthrough
Expert Judgment
Functional Decomposition
29. What are the characteristics of a Problem Record?
Requirements (Stated - Unconfirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Unconfirmed)
Requirements Management Plan
Implementation Approach
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
30. This knowledge area describes the tasks that are performed in order to ensure that solutions meet the business need and to facilitate successful implementation.
Solution Assessment & Validation
Functional Decomposition
Clear - Relevant - Economical - Adequate - Quantifiable
Plan Business Analysis Approach - Conduct Stakeholder Analysis - Plan Business Analysis Activities - Plan Business Analysis Communication - Plan Requirements Management Process - Manage BA Performance
31. 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.
Evaluation
Requirements (Traced)
Identified Defects - Mitigating Actions - Solution Validation Assessment
Organizational Readiness Assessment - Requirements (Stated) - Solution (Deployed) - Solution (Designed)
32. 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
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving
Estimation
Name - Aliases - Values/Meanings - Description
Creative Thinking - Decision Making - Learning - Problem Solving - Systems Thinking
33. Most optimistic estimate; most pessimistic estimate; most likely estimate
Focus Group
Three-point Estimation
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Data Modeling - Functional Decomposition - Organizational Modeling - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases - Scope Modeling - User Stories
Systems Thinking
34. The people involved - the interactions between them - the external forces affecting their behavior and all other relevant elements and factors.
System
Term and Fact Model
Define Transitional Requirements
Organizational Knowledge
35. What are the inputs to the task - Define Business Case?
Onion Diagram
Elicitation Results
Reliability - Validity - Timeliness
Assumptions & Constraints - Business Need - Solution Scope - Stakeholder Concerns
36. 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.
Assumptions & Constraints - Business Need - Solution Scope - Stakeholder Concerns
Strengths - Weaknesses
Business Analysis Performance Assessment - Business Analysis Process Assets - Includes a comparison of planned versus actual performance - understanding the root cause of variances from the plan and other information to help understand the level of
Benchmarking
37. What are the elements of Communication Skills?
Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring
Oral Communications - Teaching - Written Communication
Business Analysis Plan
Brings them to a Communication on understanding
38. A structured way to capture requirements. May be used to scope - discover - define - prioritize and reach closure on requirements for the target system. Considered one of the most effective ways to deliver high quality requirements quickly.
Business Analysis Process Assets
A statement of the needs of a particular stakeholder or class of stakeholders
Requirements Workshop
Requirements Workshop - Structured Walkthrough
39. 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
Requirements Package
Ethics - Trustworthiness - Personal Organization
Data - Ongoing Work - Organizational Change
40. What are the inputs for the task Confirm Elicitation Results?
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Data Modeling - Functional Decomposition - Organizational Modeling - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases - Scope Modeling - User Stories
Requirements (Stated - Unconfirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Unconfirmed)
Requirements Management Plan
Assess Proposed Solution - Allocate Requirements - Assess Organizational Readiness - Define Transition Requirements - Validate Solution - Evaluate Solution Performance
41. What are the inputs to the task - Specify & Model Requirements?
Brings them to a Communication on understanding
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements Management Plan - Scheduled Resources - Solution Scope & Business Case - Supporting Materials
Requirements (Stated) - Requirements Structure
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements
42. 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
Specific - Measurable - Achievable - Relevant - Time-bound Objectives must be SMART.
Business Analysis Communication Plan
Facilitation
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving - Behavioral Characteristics - Business Knowledge - Communication Skills - Interaction Skills - Software Application
43. What are the likely sources of transition requirements?
Assess Proposed Solution - Allocate Requirements - Assess Organizational Readiness - Define Transition Requirements - Validate Solution - Evaluate Solution Performance
Data - Ongoing Work - Organizational Change
Key Performance Indicator (KPI )
Assumptions & Constraints - Business Need - Solution Scope - Stakeholder Concerns
44. 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?
Data Dictionary & Glossary - Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshops - Survey/Questionnaire
Impact Analysis - Requirements Coverage - Requirements Allocation
Name - Value/Meanings - Description
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Required Capabilities
45. 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.
Implementation Approach
Evaluation Criteria
Observation
Expert Judgment
46. Two types of conflict.
Emotional and Cognitive
Allocate Requirements
Acceptance - Transfer - Avoidance - Mitigation
Required Capabilities
47. Elements of a Requirements Management Plan include?
MoSCoW Analysis
User Story
Relationships - Impact Analysis - Configuration Management System
Functional Decomposition
48. How is the Operational Support stakeholder utilized in the Evaluate Solution Performance task?
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Required Capabilities
This person will be involved in monitoring the performance and effectiveness of a solution or its components.
General Purpose Applications & Specialized Applications
Formal requirements presentation to stakeholders
49. Business rules require a defined glossary of terms and an understanding of the relationships between them - this is known as:
Business Analysis Approach
They describe what a solution must be capable of doing to meet the needs of one or more stakeholder groups
Term and Fact Model
Decision Analysis - Focus Groups - Observation - Survey/Questionnaire
50. What are the techniques used in the task - Define Transition Requirements?
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Modeling - Organization Modeling - Data Modeling
Focus Group
Discounted Cash Flow - Net Present Value - Internal Rate of Return - Average Rate of Return - Pay Back Period - Cost-Benefit Analysis
Use Case