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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning
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1. What are the likely sources of transition requirements?
Data - Ongoing Work - Organizational Change
Requirements Structure
Decision Analysis - Process Modeling - Structured Walkthrough
Define Transitional Requirements
2. Name the 2 types of Stakeholder maps.
Dependencies
Stakeholder Matrix - Onion Diagram
Cohesive - Complete - Consistent - Correct - Feasible - Modifiable - Unambiguous - Testable
Requirements Workshop
3. What are the attributes of a Data Model?
Analogous Estimation
Onion Diagram
Requirements Analysis
Name - Value/Meanings - Description
4. The process of informing stakeholders of metrics of indicators in specified formats at specified intervals.
Requirements Structure
Reporting
Leadership
Requirements (Verified)
5. 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
Automate or Simplify Work - Improve Access to Information - Reduce Complexity of Interfaces - Increase Consistency of Behavior - Eliminate Redundancy
Structured Walkthrough
Benefits - Costs - Risk Assessment - Results Measurement
6. 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
Ethics
Formal requirements presentation to stakeholders
Timeboxing
7. 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.
Business Principals
Requirements (Stated) - Requirements Structure
Assessment of Proposed Solution
Validate Requirements
8. Involves assessing a situation - understanding it as fully as possible - and making judgments about possible solutions to the problem.
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving
Business Need - Solution Scope & Business Case - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Automate or Simplify Work - Improve Access to Information - Reduce Complexity of Interfaces - Increase Consistency of Behavior - Eliminate Redundancy
User Classes - Profiles or Roles; Concepts & Relationships - Events - Processes - Rules
9. What are the techniques used in the task - Validate Solution?
Benefits - Costs - Risk Assessment - Results Measurement
Ethics - Trustworthiness - Personal Organization
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Problem Tracking - Root Cause Analysis
Transition Requirements
10. 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.
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Business Rules Analysis - Decision Analysis - Functional Decomposition - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases
Ethics
Cohesive - Complete - Consistent - Correct - Feasible - Modifiable - Unambiguous - Testable
Enterprise Analysis
11. This knowledge area describes how the BA assesses proposed solutions and determines which solution best fits the business need - identifies gaps and shortcomings to solutions and determines necessary workarounds or changes to the solution.
Problem Tracking
Business Analysis Process Assets
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Solution Assessment & Validation
12. What are the inputs to the task - Prioritize Requirements?
Influence on the project - organizational - project health and other stakeholders
Scheduled Resources - Supporting Materials
Business Case - Business Need - Requirements - Requirements Management Plan - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Opportunity Cost
13. Domain SME - End User - Implementation SME - and Sponsor: They Affected by analysis techniques used to organize requirements since they need to verify and validate the requirements.
Coverage Matrix - Table or spreadsheet used to manage tracing.
Relationships - Impact Analysis - Configuration Management System
Requirements (Traced)
Primary stakeholders in the Organize Requirements task
14. What is the output of the task - Validate Requirements?
Oral Communications - Teaching - Written Communication
Timeboxing
Requirements (Validated)
Lessons Learned Process
15. What are the inputs to the task - Allocate Resources?
Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution (Designed) - Solution Scope
Structured Walkthrough
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
Interviews - Observation
16. What are the techniques used in the task - Assess Proposed Solution?
Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Problem Tracking - Prototyping - Requirements Workshop - Survey/Questionnaire
Functions - Markets - Matrix
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Decision Analysis - Vendor Assessment
General Purpose Applications & Specialized Applications
17. The people involved - the interactions between them - the external forces affecting their behavior and all other relevant elements and factors.
Stakeholder Concerns
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets
Parametric Estimation
System
18. What are the inputs to the task Plan Requirements Management Process?
Trustworthiness
Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis
Prioritize Requirements - Organize Requirements - Specify & Model Requirements - Define Assumptions & Constraints - Verify Requirements - Validate Requirements
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets
19. What should be considered when establishing a Change Management process?
Relationships - Impact Analysis - Configuration Management System
Determine the Process - Who will Authorize Changes - Impact Analysis - Wording of the Request - Coordinate Prioritization of Change
Problem Tracking
Requirements Workshop
20. A requirement that does not deliver direct or indirect value to a stakeholder is a strong candidate for what?
Define Business Need - Access Capability Gaps - Determine Solution Approach - Define Solution Scope - Define Business Case
Impact Analysis - Requirements Coverage - Requirements Allocation
The Business Analysis Communication Plan
Elimination
21. What are the techniques used in the task Define Business Need?
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Business Rules Analysis - Focus Groups - Functional Decomposition - Root Cause Analysis
Stakeholder Matrix
Transition Requirements
Monitoring
22. What are the elements of Communication Skills?
Organization Modeling
Evaluate Solution Performance
Requirements (Any Except Stated)
Oral Communications - Teaching - Written Communication
23. Communicated Requirements mean what to stakeholders?
Three-point Estimation
Requirements - Requirements Management Plan
Scheduled Resources - Supporting Materials
That they understand them and the current state the requirements are in
24. What are the techniques used in the task - Assess Capability Gaps?
Business Analysis Plan
Document Analysis - SWOT Analysis
Assumptions & Constraints - Required Capabilities - Solution Approach
Business Analysis Process Assets
25. Three key factors when assessing the quality of indicators and their metrics
Requirements Structure
Name - Aliases - Values/Meanings - Description
Vertical Prototype
Reliability - Validity - Timeliness
26. What are the inputs for the task Plan Business Analysis Activities?
Business Analysis Approach - BA Performance Assessment - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Business Analysis Plan
Enterprise Architecture - Solution Scope - Solution (Designed) - Stakeholder Concerns
Problem Tracking - Baselining - Signoff
27. A specific - actionable - testable directive that is under the control of an organization and supports a business policy.
Business Rule
Requirements (Stated - Confirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Confirmed)
Personal Organization
Validate Solution
28. Define requirements for capabilities needed to move from an existing solution to a new solution.
State Diagrams
Automate or Simplify Work - Improve Access to Information - Reduce Complexity of Interfaces - Increase Consistency of Behavior - Eliminate Redundancy
Define Transitional Requirements
Facilitation
29. What is the output of the task - Manage Requirements Traceability?
Requirements (Traced)
Ongoing Cost versus Initial Investment - Opportunity Costs - Necessity - Sunk Costs
Three-point Estimation
General Purpose Applications & Specialized Applications
30. The BA is a stakeholder in ______ business analysis activities.
All
Cultural Assessment - Operational or Technical Assessment - Stakeholder Impact Analysis
That they understand them and the current state the requirements are in
Historic Analysis
31. What is the output of the task Prepare for Elicitation?
Decision Analysis
Verify Requirements
Elimination of Dominated Alternative - Ranking Objects on a Similar Scale
Scheduled Resources - Supporting Materials
32. 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
Requirements Management Plan - Solution Scope - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities - Stakeholder/Solution or Transition Requirements (Communicated or Traced)
Business Analysis Approach
Confirm Elicitation Results
33. The purpose is to describe the required qualities of a system - such as its usability and performance characteristics.
Business Need - Solution Scope & Business Case - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
Non-functional Requirements Analysis
Enterprise Analysis
Specific - Measurable - Achievable - Relevant - Time-bound Objectives must be SMART.
34. What is the output of the task Plan Business Analysis Communication?
Scope Modeling
Business Analysis Communication Plan
Elimination
Fishbone Diagram - Five Whys
35. 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 -
Evaluation
Automate or Simplify Work - Improve Access to Information - Reduce Complexity of Interfaces - Increase Consistency of Behavior - Eliminate Redundancy
Trustworthiness
Observation
36. What are the techniques used in the task - Define Assumptions & Constraints?
Requirements (Stated - Confirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Confirmed)
Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis
Requirements Structure
Problem Tracking
37. A brief description of functionality that users need from a solution to meet a business objective. The goal they are trying to accomplish - and any additional information that may be critical to understanding the scope of the story.
Scheduled Resources - Supporting Materials
Business Principles & Practices
Decision Analysis - Problem Tacking - Risk Analysis
User Story
38. Set of requirements that will be used to choose between multiple solutions.
Requirements (Verified)
Impact Analysis - Requirements Coverage - Requirements Allocation
Business Requirements - Stakeholder Requirements - Solution Requirements - Transition Requirements
Evaluation Criteria
39. What is the output of the task - Organize Requirements?
Requirements Structure
Three-point Estimation
Business Principles & Practices
Define Transitional Requirements
40. What are the inputs to the task - Define Business Need?
Strengths - Weaknesses
Business Goals & Objectives - Requirements (Stated)
Assess Organization Readiness
Cohesive - Complete - Consistent - Correct - Feasible - Modifiable - Unambiguous - Testable
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.
Solution Scope
Requirements (Analyzed)
Decision Analysis - Focus Groups - Observation - Survey/Questionnaire
Advantages of a Data Dictionary & Glossary
42. Divides requirements into 4 categories - Must - Should - Could - Won't
All
Data Dictionary & Glossary - Brainstorming - Document Analysis - Focus Groups - Interface Analysis - Interviews - Observation - Prototyping - Requirements Workshops - Survey/Questionnaire
Manage Solution Scope & Requirements - Manage Requirements Traceability - Maintain Requirements for Re-use - Prepare Requirements Package - Communicate Requirements
MoSCoW Analysis
43. What are the internal factors in a SWOT Analysis?
Operative Rules
Strengths - Weaknesses
Throw-away Prototype
Requirements (Analyzed)
44. What are the techniques used in the task Manage Business Analysis Performance?
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
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Modeling - Organization Modeling - Data Modeling
Oral Communications - Teaching - Written Communication
Interviews - Lessons Learned Process - Metrics and KPIs - Problem Tracking - Process Modeling - Root Cause Analysis - Survey/Questionnaire - Variance Analysis
45. Creates a conceptual model of the work that needs to be completed to deliver the new business solution.
Functional Decomposition
Cultural Assessment - Operational or Technical Assessment - Stakeholder Impact Analysis
Define Business Case
Organize Requirements
46. What are the techniques used in the task - Communicate Requirements?
Requirements Workshop - Structured Walkthrough
Confirm Elicitation Results
Decision Analysis - Focus Groups - Observation - Survey/Questionnaire
Non-functional Requirements Analysis
47. To assess the ability of a potential vendor to meet commitments regarding a product or service
Assumptions & Constraints
Business Requirements - Stakeholder Requirements - Solution Requirements - Transition Requirements
Vendor Assessment
Cultural Assessment - Operational or Technical Assessment - Stakeholder Impact Analysis
48. Elicitation Results are the inputs for the ____________
Opportunity Cost
BABOK
Business Principles & Practices
Document Elicitation Results task
49. Define the requirements that must be met in order for a solution to be considered acceptable to key stakeholders.
Acceptance & Evaluation Technique
Document Analysis - SWOT Analysis
Assumptions & Constraints - Required Capabilities - Solution Approach
Requirements (Traced)
50. This prototype extends the initial interface requirements into a fully functioning system and requires a specialized prototyping tool or language.
Scenarios & Use Cases
Implementation SME
Evolutionary or Functional Prototype
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving - Behavioral Characteristics - Business Knowledge - Communication Skills - Interaction Skills - Software Application