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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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






2. 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.






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






4. Are used to model the logic of usage scenarios - by showing the information passed between objects in the system through the execution of the scenario. Shows how classes and objects interact during a scenario.






5. 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.






6. What stakeholder receives noticeable negative impact if information is incorrectly transferred from the old to new solution?






7. What techniques are used in the task Prepare for Elicitation?






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






9. Prioritizes requirements based on a allocated fixed amount of money.






10. Means of eliciting information from many people - sometimes anonymously - in a relatively short period of time






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






12. What are the inputs to the task - Assess Proposed Solution?






13. Creates a conceptual model of the work that needs to be completed to deliver the new business solution.






14. What are the classifications used to describe requirements






15. What are the techniques used in the task Manage Solution Scope & Requirements?






16. When a requirement is changed - the BA can easily review all the related requirements and software components in order to understand the impact of the change.






17. What is the output of the task - Prepare Requirements Package?






18. What is the output of the Plan Business Analysis Approach?






19. To identify interfaces between solutions and/or solution components and define requirements that describe how they will interact.






20. What are the techniques used in Plan Business Analysis Communication?






21. 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






22. What is the output of the task Plan Business Analysis Communication?






23. Describes the effect a new solution will have on an organization and whether the organization is prepared for the organizational change the solution implementation will cause.






24. A good indicator has 5 characteristics:






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






26. What should be considered when establishing a Change Management process?






27. What are the inputs to the task - Verify Requirements?






28. An organized structure for the requirements and a documented set of relationships between them. Is used so the analyst and stakeholders know where a specific requirement should be found. Should have a clear implicit scope (clear to the stakeholders w






29. How is the Operational Support stakeholder utilized in the Evaluate Solution Performance task?






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






31. What are the techniques used in the task Manage Business Analysis Performance?






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






33. 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.






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






35. This prototype extends the initial interface requirements into a fully functioning system and requires a specialized prototyping tool or language.






36. This task describes the work required to decide which formats are appropriate for a particular project and its stakeholders. The requirements must be clear - concise - accurate and at the appropriate level of detail to assure clear understanding by t






37. Maps the level of stakeholder influence and interest in a project.






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






39. Two techniques used in Root Cause Analysis?






40. What are the techniques used in the task Define Business Need?






41. Two types of conflict.






42. Communicated Requirements mean what to stakeholders?






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






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






45. According to the BABOK 2.0 - what type of analysis generates STAKEHOLDER requirements?






46. List 3 possible forms of a requirements packages.






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






48. What are the inputs for the task - Evaluate Solution Performance?






49. 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.






50. 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.