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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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1. 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. -






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






3. 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.






4. A specific - actionable - testable directive that is under the control of an organization and supports a business policy.






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






6. 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.






7. What are some of the commonly used requirement attributes?






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






9. 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 -






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






11. What describes how - when and why the business analyst will work with stakeholders?






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






13. What does SMART stand for?






14. What are the inputs to the task - Define Business Need?






15. What are the inputs to the task - Define Business Case?






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






17. 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






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






19. What are the techniques used in the task - Prioritize Requirements?






20. What are the inputs to the Plan Business Analysis Approach?






21. 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.






22. What are the classifications used to describe requirements






23. 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.






24. 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.






25. The purpose is to measure the performance of solutions - solution components - and other matters of interest to stakeholders.






26. 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






27. The minimum set of requirements that must be met in order for a particular solution to be worth implementing.






28. Long-term - ongoing and qualitative statements of a state or condition that the organization is seeking to establish and maintain.






29. What are the Composite Data Elements?






30. What are the techniques used in Plan Business Analysis Activities?






31. Define the requirements that must be met in order for a solution to be considered acceptable to key stakeholders.






32. Using this technique the business analyst has collected the deliverables - activities - tasks - and estimates from all the involved stakeholders and rolls them up to get a total for all the activities and tasks.






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






34. 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.






35. 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.






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






37. What is the output to the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?






38. 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






39. 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.






40. Set of requirements that will be used to choose between multiple solutions.






41. Revised process and templates for BA deliverables should be analyzed and documented and lessons learned should be recorded.






42. This technique shows how information is input - processed - stored and output from a system in a visual representation.






43. What are the inputs to the task - Determine Solution Approach?






44. What is the output of the task Prepare for Elicitation?






45. What are the inputs to the task - Assess Capability Gaps?






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






47. What are the techniques used in the task - Assess Capability Gaps?






48. Business rules require a defined glossary of terms and an understanding of the relationships between them - this is known as:






49. What is the output of the task - Maintain Requirements for Re-use?






50. 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.