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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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1. What are the general modeling concepts that are relevant to business analysis?






2. Includes the standard definition of data elements - their meanings and allowable values.






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






4. What are the attributes of a Data Model?






5. What factors guide technique selection?






6. What are the techniques used in the task - Validate Solution?






7. What are the techniques used in the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?






8. What is the output of the task - Define Assumptions & Constraints?






9. 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.






10. To define the rules that govern decisions in an organization and that define - constrain or enable organization operations.






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






12. 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






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






14. What are the techniques used in the task - Assess Organizational Readiness?






15. 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.






16. What are the techniques used in the task Confirm Elicitation Results?






17. What are the techniques used in the task Conduct Elicitation Activity?






18. 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






19. Investigating how a solution is actually used after it is deployed and assessing the effect it has had - both positive and negative.






20. What are the inputs for the task - Maintain Requirements for Re-use?






21. Issues that may influence the replacement or elimination decision of a system include:






22. 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.






23. This knowledge area describes the tasks that are performed in order to ensure that solutions meet the business need and to facilitate successful implementation.






24. What are the inputs for the task - Prepare Requirements Package?






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






26. What is the output of the task - Communicate Requirements?






27. Requires the team to focus on examining the premises - assumptions - observations and expectations of the team members. This type of conflict can have a beneficial effect of strengthening the foundations of the analysis and the solution.






28. 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.






29. What are the techniques used in the task - Allocate Resources?






30. What are the inputs for the task Prepare for Elicitation?






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






32. 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.






33. 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 -






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






35. What are the inputs of the task Plan Business Analysis Communication?






36. What are the tasks in the knowledge area - Requirements Analysis?






37. What are the different types of learning styles?






38. Who is the primary stakeholder in the Define Business Case task?






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






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






41. 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.






42. What are the Primitive Data Elements?






43. When performing root cause analysis as part of the Validate Solution task - what stakeholder may be involved?






44. 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.






45. What are the Cultural diversity issues that should be taken into account when planning communication?






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






47. What is the output of the task - Prioritize Requirements?






48. To identify and manage areas of uncertainty that can impact an initiative - solution - or organization.






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






50. Confidence in the decision analysis process that a decision is correct - new information or alternative that cause a decision to be revisited are new and not simply overlooked - decisions are effective in addressing underlying problem - impact of unc