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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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1. 7 knowledge areas of ________ : Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring - Elicitation - Requirements Management & Communication - Enterprise Analysis - Requirements Analysis - Solution Assessment & Validation - Underlying Competencies
MoSCoW Analysis
BABOK
Expert Judgment
Risk - assumptions - constraints - etc.

2. 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
Data Dictionary & Glossary
Functions - Markets - Matrix
Systems Thinking

3. What are the techniques used in Plan Business Analysis Approach?
Data Dictionary
Requirements (Allocated)
Oral Communications - Teaching - Written Communication
Decision Analysis - Process Modeling - Structured Walkthrough

4. This will impose constraints to the effort to deploy the solution - including relationships that may exist between solution components.
Reporting
Requirements Structure
State Diagrams
Dependencies

5. What is the output of the task - Assess Capability Gaps?
Structured Walkthrough
Goals
General Purpose Applications & Specialized Applications
Required Capabilities

6. Two techniques used in Root Cause Analysis?
Emotional and Cognitive
Structured Walkthrough
Requirements (Stated) - Stakeholder Concerns
Fishbone Diagram - Five Whys

7. The BA is a stakeholder in ______ business analysis activities.
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Problem Tracking - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Term and Fact Model
All
Requirements Analysis

8. A systematic approach designed to elicit information from a person or group of people in an informal or formal setting by talking to an interviewee - asking relevant questions and documenting the responses.
All
Business Analysis Process Assets
Interviews
Decision Analysis

9. What is the output of the task - Organize Requirements?
Structural Rules
Requirements Structure
Communicated Requirements
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

10. Industry Knowledge - Organization Knowledge - Solution Knowledge What are the elements of Business Knowledge?
Strengths - Weaknesses
Structural Rules
Business Principles & Practices
Solution Scope

11. What are the techniques used in the task - Validate Solution?
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Problem Tracking - Root Cause Analysis
Business Domain - Corporate Culture & Environment - Skills of the Analyst - Requirement Deliverable
Cultural Assessment - Operational or Technical Assessment - Stakeholder Impact Analysis
Solution Assessment & Validation

12. This technique represents the types of peoples - places - things and concepts that are important to the business - attributes associated with them and the significant business relationships among them.
Specific - Measurable - Achievable - Relevant - Time-bound Objectives must be SMART.
Data Modeling
Operative Rules
Assessment of Proposed Solution

13. What are the characteristics of Interaction Skills?
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Business Rules Analysis - Focus Groups - Functional Decomposition - Root Cause Analysis
Elicitation
Reporting
Facilitation & Negotiation - Leadership & Influencing - Teamwork

14. 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.
Business Principles & Practices
Decision Analysis
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Scenario

15. A specific - actionable - testable directive that is under the control of an organization and supports a business policy.
Interface Analysis
Business Rule
General Purpose Applications & Specialized Applications
Identified Defects - Mitigating Actions - Solution Validation Assessment

16. What are the techniques used in the task - Define Transition Requirements?
To record the conflict in the Requirements Issues Log.
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Modeling - Organization Modeling - Data Modeling
Responsible - Accountable - Consulted - Informed
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

17. Define requirements for capabilities needed to move from an existing solution to a new solution.
The Business Analysis Communication Plan
Define Transitional Requirements
Ongoing Cost versus Initial Investment - Opportunity Costs - Necessity - Sunk Costs
Business Analysis Plan

18. Prioritizes requirements based on a allocated fixed amount of money.
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Solution Performance Assessment
Budgeting
Interviews - Observation
SWOT Analysis

19. What techniques are used in the task - Define Solution Scope?
This person will be involved in monitoring the performance and effectiveness of a solution or its components.
Leadership
Functional Decomposition - Interface Analysis - Scope Modeling - User Stories - Problem or Vision Statement
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets

20. Set of requirements that will be used to choose between multiple solutions.
Decision Analysis - Estimation - Metrics & KPIs - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Business Analysis Performance Metrics - Business Analysis Plan - Organization Performance Standards - Requirements Management Plan
Evaluation Criteria
Problem Tracking

21. What are the inputs to the task - Organize Requirements?
Prioritize Requirements - Organize Requirements - Specify & Model Requirements - Define Assumptions & Constraints - Verify Requirements - Validate Requirements
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements (Stated) - Solution Scope
Decision Analysis
State Diagrams

22. 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.
Three-point Estimation
Lessons Learned Process
Allocate Requirements
Enterprise Analysis - often the starting point for initiating a new project

23. What does RACI stand for?
Estimation - Functional Decomposition - Risk Analysis
Responsible - Accountable - Consulted - Informed
Automate or Simplify Work - Improve Access to Information - Reduce Complexity of Interfaces - Increase Consistency of Behavior - Eliminate Redundancy
Data Modeling

24. 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.
Functions - Markets - Matrix
Monitoring
Requirements Analysis
Stakeholder Matrix - Onion Diagram

25. What is the output of the task - Define Transition Requirements?
This person will be involved in monitoring the performance and effectiveness of a solution or its components.
Business Case; Stakeholder - Solution or Transition Requirements (Verified)
Transition Requirements
User Story

26. 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.
Bottom-up Estimation
Compliance with regulatory or other standards
Prepare Requirements Package
Business Analysis Communication Plan

27. Divides requirements into 4 categories - Must - Should - Could - Won't
To record the conflict in the Requirements Issues Log.
Organization Modeling
MoSCoW Analysis
Root Cause Analysis

28. Means of eliciting information from many people - sometimes anonymously - in a relatively short period of time
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria Definition - Problem Tracking - Structured Walkthrough - Checklists
Requirements (Validated)
Discounted Cash Flow - Net Present Value - Internal Rate of Return - Average Rate of Return - Pay Back Period - Cost-Benefit Analysis
Survey/Questionnaire

29. What should be considered when establishing a Change Management process?
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Decision Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Evaluation
Determine the Process - Who will Authorize Changes - Impact Analysis - Wording of the Request - Coordinate Prioritization of Change
Requirements (Analyzed)

30. Long-term - ongoing and qualitative statements of a state or condition that the organization is seeking to establish and maintain.
Business Requirements - Identified Defects - Solution Performance Metrics - Solution (Deployed)
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Required Capabilities
Business Analysis Approach - BA Performance Assessment - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Goals

31. What are the elements of the task Plan Requirements Management Process?
Name - Value/Meanings - Description
Interviews
Repository - Traceability - Requirement Attributes - Prioritization Process - Change Management - Tailoring the Requirements Management Process
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements Management Plan - Scheduled Resources - Solution Scope & Business Case - Supporting Materials

32. Name the 2 types of Software categories that assist in BA productivity.
Survey/Questionnaire
Vendor Assessment
General Purpose Applications & Specialized Applications
Cognitive Conflict

33. What are the inputs to the task Manage Business Analysis Performance?
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Decision Analysis - Estimation - SWOT Analysis - Feasibility Analysis
Business Analysis Performance Metrics - Business Analysis Plan - Organization Performance Standards - Requirements Management Plan
Assumptions & Constraints - Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution Options
Decision Analysis - Risk Analysis - MoSCoW Analysis - Timeboxing/Budgeting - Voting

34. What are the inputs to the task - Verify Requirements?
Prepare for Elicitation - Conduct Elicitation Activity - Document Elicitation Results - Confirm Elicitation Results
Requirements - Requirements Management Plan
Requirements (Any Except Stated)
Compliance with regulatory or other standards

35. What is the output of the task - Communicate Requirements?
Communicated Requirements
Identified Defects - Mitigating Actions - Solution Validation Assessment
Key Performance Indicator (KPI )
Enterprise Architecture - Solution Scope - Solution (Designed) - Stakeholder Concerns

36. 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.
Opportunity Cost
Requirements (Prioritized)
Implementation Approach
State Diagrams

37. Measures progress towards a strategic goal or objective.
A statement of the needs of a particular stakeholder or class of stakeholders
Key Performance Indicator (KPI )
Facilitation & Negotiation - Leadership & Influencing - Teamwork
Define Transitional Requirements

38. What are the techniques used in the task Manage Solution Scope & Requirements?
Business Case - Business Need - Requirements - Requirements Management Plan - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Reporting
Elimination
Problem Tracking - Baselining - Signoff

39. To identify and manage areas of uncertainty that can impact an initiative - solution - or organization.
Communicated Requirements
Risk Analysis
Requirements Analysis
Stakeholder Matrix - Onion Diagram

40. To define the rules that govern decisions in an organization and that define - constrain or enable organization operations.
Coverage Matrix - Table or spreadsheet used to manage tracing.
Elimination
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 Rules Analysis

41. What are the Composite Data Elements?
Throw-away Prototype
Expert Judgment
Enterprise Analysis
Sequences - Repetitions - Optional Elements

42. What is the output of the task Conduct Stakeholder Analysis?
Define Business Case
Stakeholder Concerns
Tracing Requirements
Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities

43. What is a STAKEHOLDER requirement - according to the BABOK 2.0?
A statement of the needs of a particular stakeholder or class of stakeholders
Business Value - Business or Technical Risk - Implementation Difficulty - Likelihood of Success - Regulatory or Policy Compliance - Relationship to Other Requirements - Stakeholder Agreement - Urgency
Visual Learner - Auditory Learner - Kinesthetic Learner
This person will be involved in monitoring the performance and effectiveness of a solution or its components.

44. What is the output of the task - Validate Requirements?
They describe what a solution must be capable of doing to meet the needs of one or more stakeholder groups
Requirements (Validated)
Business Analysis Plan
Business Need - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements Management Plan - Scheduled Resources - Solution Scope & Business Case - Supporting Materials

45. What describes how - when and why the business analyst will work with stakeholders?
The Business Analysis Communication Plan
Bottom-up Estimation
Historic Analysis
Scenarios & Use Cases

46. Techniques used in the task Plan Requirements Management Process.
Requirements - Requirements Management Plan
Decision Analysis - Problem Tacking - Risk Analysis
Document Analysis - SWOT Analysis
Requirements Management Plan - Solution Scope - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities - Stakeholder/Solution or Transition Requirements (Communicated or Traced)

47. This prototype extends the initial interface requirements into a fully functioning system and requires a specialized prototyping tool or language.
Solution Knowledge
Evolutionary or Functional Prototype
Ethics - Trustworthiness - Personal Organization
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Modeling - Organization Modeling - Data Modeling

48. 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
Throw-away Prototype
Requirements (Analyzed)
Transition Requirements
Solution Assessment & Validation

49. What are the inputs for the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?
Business Requirements - Identified Defects - Solution Performance Metrics - Solution (Deployed)
Business Domain - Corporate Culture & Environment - Skills of the Analyst - Requirement Deliverable
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Organizational Process Assets
Define Business Case

50. What is the output of the Manage Business Analysis Performance task?
Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis
Elicitation Results
Advantages of a Data Dictionary & Glossary
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