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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning
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1. 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.
Non-functional Requirements Analysis
Solution Knowledge
Specific - Measurable - Achievable - Relevant - Time-bound Objectives must be SMART.
Advantages of a Data Dictionary & Glossary
2. Shows how the behavior of a concept - entity or object changes in response to events during its lifetime - and defines which events cause a transition between those states.
Validate Solution
Requirements (Analyzed)
Emotional and Cognitive
State Diagrams
3. Industry Knowledge - Organization Knowledge - Solution Knowledge What are the elements of Business Knowledge?
Business Case - Business Need - Requirements - Requirements Management Plan - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Business Principles & Practices
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
Sequences - Repetitions - Optional Elements
4. The knowledge area that covers how BAs determine which activities are necessary in order to complete a business analysis effort.
Leadership
Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring
Data - Ongoing Work - Organizational Change
MoSCoW Analysis
5. 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.
Sequence Diagrams
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Problem Tracking - Structured Walkthrough - Checklists
Vendor Assessment
Historic Analysis
6. This knowledge area describes the behaviors - knowledge and other characteristics that support the effective performance of a BA.
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Facilitation & Negotiation - Leadership & Influencing - Teamwork
Requirements Structure
Underlying Competencies
7. What are the techniques used in the task - Define Transition Requirements?
Estimation - Functional Decomposition - Risk Analysis
Reliability - Performance Efficiency - Operability - Security - Compatibility - Maintainability - Transferability
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Modeling - Organization Modeling - Data Modeling
Assumptions & Constraints - Business Need - Solution Scope - Stakeholder Concerns
8. Benefits that could have been achieved with an alternative investment rather than this one.
User Classes - Profiles or Roles; Concepts & Relationships - Events - Processes - Rules
Opportunity Cost
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Decision Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Analogous Estimation
9. What are the techniques used in Plan Business Analysis Activities?
Assess Proposed Solution - Allocate Requirements - Assess Organizational Readiness - Define Transition Requirements - Validate Solution - Evaluate Solution Performance
Requirements (Stated) - Requirements Structure
Estimation - Functional Decomposition - Risk Analysis
Requirements (Analyzed)
10. 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 -
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Business Rules Analysis - Decision Analysis - Functional Decomposition - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases
Automate or Simplify Work - Improve Access to Information - Reduce Complexity of Interfaces - Increase Consistency of Behavior - Eliminate Redundancy
Coverage Matrix - Table or spreadsheet used to manage tracing.
Onion Diagram
11. The BA is a stakeholder in ______ business analysis activities.
Business Analysis Plan
All
Leadership
Organization Modeling
12. What are the techniques used in the task - Assess Capability Gaps?
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements
Document Analysis - SWOT Analysis
Decision Analysis
User Story
13. The goal of this task is to meet with stakeholder(s) to gather information regarding their needs.
Three-point Estimation
Reporting
Solution Performance Assessment
Conduct Elicitation Activity
14. A continuous process of collecting data to determine how well a solution has been implemented compared to expected results.
Reliability - Validity - Timeliness
Monitoring
MoSCoW Analysis
Solution Scope
15. 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.
Creative Thinking - Decision Making - Learning - Problem Solving - Systems Thinking
Decision Analysis - Problem Tacking - Risk Analysis
User Story
Allocate Requirements
16. Corrective or preventative measures uncovered while performing a Business Analysis Performance Assessment will result in changes to what plan?
Solution Knowledge
Business Policy
Business Analysis Plan
Estimation - Functional Decomposition - Risk Analysis
17. Elicitation Results are the inputs for the ____________
Document Elicitation Results task
Vendor Assessment
Implementation Approach
Requirements Management Plan
18. The decomposition of activities and tasks creates?
Business Requirements - Stakeholder Requirements - Solution Requirements - Transition Requirements
Activity List
Focus Group
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Requirements - Requirements Package
19. What is the output of the Manage Business Analysis Performance task?
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Business Rules Analysis - Decision Analysis - Functional Decomposition - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases
Three-point Estimation
Functions - Markets - Matrix
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
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
Perform tailoring exercises
Activity List
Systems Thinking
Rolling Wave
21. This knowledge area describes the tasks that are performed in order to ensure that solutions meet the business need and to facilitate successful implementation.
Decision Analysis - Risk Analysis - MoSCoW Analysis - Timeboxing/Budgeting - Voting
Fishbone Diagram - Five Whys
Requirements (Stated - Confirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Confirmed)
Solution Assessment & Validation
22. 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
Monitoring
Timeboxing
Business Analysis Plan
Business Analysis Communication Plan
23. What are the inputs to the task - Determine Solution Approach?
Enterprise Analysis - often the starting point for initiating a new project
Facilitation & Negotiation - Leadership & Influencing - Teamwork
User Story
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Required Capabilities
24. Who is the primary stakeholder in the Define Business Case task?
Requirements (Verified)
The Sponsor
Business Rules Analysis
Estimation
25. Measures progress towards a strategic goal or objective.
Key Performance Indicator (KPI )
Problem Solving
Business Need - Solution Scope & Business Case - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Tracing Requirements
26. Elements identified for each activity and task.
Unique Number - Activity Description - Assumptions - Dependencies - Milestones
Assess Organization Readiness
Systems Thinking
Reliability - Validity - Timeliness
27. What is the output of the task - Define Transition Requirements?
Transition Requirements
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements - Requirements Structure
Communicated Requirements
Document Analysis
28. What is the output to the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Problem Tracking - Structured Walkthrough - Checklists
Lessons Learned Process
Solution Performance Assessment
Requirements Analysis
29. What are the inputs to the task - Verify Requirements?
Decision Analysis - Risk Analysis - MoSCoW Analysis - Timeboxing/Budgeting - Voting
Requirements (Any Except Stated)
Stakeholder Matrix
Business Need
30. What is the output of the task Document Elicitation Results?
Risk Analysis
Decision Making
Scheduled Resources - Supporting Materials
Requirements (Stated) - Stakeholder Concerns
31. Ability to find information - on-time completion of tasks - efficiency in the completion of work - ability to easily identify all outstanding work and the status of each work item.
The Sponsor
Automate or Simplify Work - Improve Access to Information - Reduce Complexity of Interfaces - Increase Consistency of Behavior - Eliminate Redundancy
To record the conflict in the Requirements Issues Log.
Personal Organization
32. Is generally understood to describe just one way that an actor can accomplish a particular goal
Benefits - Costs - Risk Assessment - Results Measurement
Scenario
Problem Solving
SWOT Analysis
33. What are the inputs for the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?
Conduct Elicitation Activity
Business Requirements - Identified Defects - Solution Performance Metrics - Solution (Deployed)
Functional Decomposition
Requirements Analysis
34. What is the output of the task - Prioritize Requirements?
Business Analysis Performance Metrics - Business Analysis Plan - Organization Performance Standards - Requirements Management Plan
Requirements (Prioritized)
Interviews - Observation
Confirm Elicitation Results
35. What are the inputs to the task Conduct Stakeholder Analysis?
Acceptance & Evaluation Technique
Use Case
Business Rule
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Organizational Process Assets
36. What describes how - when and why the business analyst will work with stakeholders?
Business Goals & Objectives - Requirements (Stated)
Elicitation Results
The Business Analysis Communication Plan
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Models - Focus Groups - Interviews - Survey/Questionnaire - Organizational Modeling - Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Force Field Analysis
37. An important tool in defining the scope of work and developing estimates. Decomposes the project scope into smaller and smaller pieces - creating a hierarchy of work.
Facilitation & Negotiation - Leadership & Influencing - Teamwork
Verify Requirements
Decision Analysis
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
38. 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. -
Estimation
Clear - Relevant - Economical - Adequate - Quantifiable
Document Analysis
Name - Aliases - Values/Meanings - Description
39. Rules that the organization chooses to enforce as a matter of policy. They are intended to guide the actions of people working within the organization. They may oblige people to take certain actions - prevent people from taking actions - or prescribe
Operative Rules
Requirements (Verified)
Data - Ongoing Work - Organizational Change
Requirements Structure
40. What are the classifications used to describe requirements
Assumptions & Constraints - Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution Options
Business Need
Business Requirements - Stakeholder Requirements - Solution Requirements - Transition Requirements
State Diagrams
41. 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.
Business Analysis Approach - BA Performance Assessment - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Brings them to a Communication on understanding
Validate Requirements
Solution Scope
42. States the business need - identifies key stakeholders and briefly describes the positive impact that meeting the business need will have on those stakeholders.
Problem or Vision Statement
Requirements (Verified)
Ethics
Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring
43. What are the techniques used in the task - Define Assumptions & Constraints?
Prioritize Requirements - Organize Requirements - Specify & Model Requirements - Define Assumptions & Constraints - Verify Requirements - Validate Requirements
Business Need
Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis
Unique Number - Activity Description - Assumptions - Dependencies - Milestones
44. What are the Composite Data Elements?
Sequences - Repetitions - Optional Elements
Underlying Competencies
Leadership
Requirements Management Plan
45. Divides requirements into 4 categories - Must - Should - Could - Won't
Structured Walkthrough
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Data Modeling - Functional Decomposition - Organizational Modeling - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases - Scope Modeling - User Stories
Sequences - Repetitions - Optional Elements
MoSCoW Analysis
46. A non-actionable directive that supports a business goal.
Requirements (Prioritized)
Required Capabilities
Business Policy
Solution Performance Assessment
47. What are the inputs to the task - Communicate Requirements?
Specific - Measurable - Achievable - Relevant - Time-bound Objectives must be SMART.
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Requirements - Requirements Package
System
Unique Number - Activity Description - Assumptions - Dependencies - Milestones
48. 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.
Ongoing Cost versus Initial Investment - Opportunity Costs - Necessity - Sunk Costs
Requirements (Stated) - Requirements Structure
Delphi Estimation
Observation
49. Stakeholders involved the BA in decision making - acceptance of the BA's recommendations - willingness to discuss difficult or controversial topics with the BA - stakeholders willing to support or defend the BA when problems occur.
Business Need - Expert Judgment - Organizational Process Assets
Trustworthiness
Assess Organization Readiness
Requirements Structure
50. What is the output of the task - Specify & Model Requirements?
Business Analysis Communication Plan
Requirements (Analyzed)
Industry Knowledge
Absolute Reference - Author - Complexity - Ownership - Priority - Risks - Source - Stability - Status - Urgency