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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning
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1. Corrective or preventative measures uncovered while performing a Business Analysis Performance Assessment will result in changes to what plan?
Advantages of Document Analysis
Opportunity Cost
Business Analysis Plan
Assumptions & Constraints
2. Performed to communicate - verify and validate requirements. Is a working session where invited participants review and discuss a set of requirements
Requirements - Requirements Management Plan
Structured Walkthrough
Relationship to Time - Relationship to Task Completion - Relationship to Contracts - Relationships to Formal and Informal Authority
Business Analysis Plan
3. This knowledge area describes the tasks that are performed in order to ensure that solutions meet the business need and to facilitate successful implementation.
Strengths - Weaknesses
Sequence Diagrams
Solution Assessment & Validation
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Models - Focus Groups - Interviews - Survey/Questionnaire - Organizational Modeling - Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Force Field Analysis
4. Measures progress towards a strategic goal or objective.
Scenarios & Use Cases
Key Performance Indicator (KPI )
Data Flow Diagrams
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Data Flow Diagrams - Process Models - Focus Groups - Interviews - Survey/Questionnaire - Organizational Modeling - Problem Tracking - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Force Field Analysis
5. What are the techniques used in the task - Determine Solution Approach?
Glossary
Goals
Facilitation & Negotiation - Leadership & Influencing - Teamwork
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Decision Analysis - Estimation - SWOT Analysis - Feasibility Analysis
6. What is the output of the Plan Business Analysis Approach?
Evaluation
Business Analysis Approach
Tracing Requirements
Organizational Knowledge
7. 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.
Problem or Vision Statement
Requirements Analysis
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements (Stated) - Solution Scope
Prepare Requirements Package
8. Industry Knowledge - Organization Knowledge - Solution Knowledge What are the elements of Business Knowledge?
A statement of the needs of a particular stakeholder or class of stakeholders
Business Principles & Practices
Coverage Matrix - Table or spreadsheet used to manage tracing.
Assumptions & Constraints
9. When performing root cause analysis as part of the Validate Solution task - what stakeholder may be involved?
Problem Tracking - Baselining - Signoff
Plan Business Analysis Approach - Conduct Stakeholder Analysis - Plan Business Analysis Activities - Plan Business Analysis Communication - Plan Requirements Management Process - Manage BA Performance
Rolling Wave
Implementation SME
10. Communication of requirements does what for stakeholders?
Organization Modeling
Facilitation & Negotiation - Leadership & Influencing - Teamwork
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Decision Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Brings them to a Communication on understanding
11. 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.
Sequence Diagrams
Solution Scope Definition - Implementation Approach - Dependencies
Functions - Markets - Matrix
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Solution Performance Assessment
12. The process of informing stakeholders of metrics of indicators in specified formats at specified intervals.
Assumptions & Constraints - Required Capabilities - Solution Approach
Reporting
Assumptions & Constraints - Business Need - Solution Scope - Stakeholder Concerns
Assessment of Proposed Solution
13. What are the inputs to the task Plan Requirements Management Process?
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets
Responsible - Accountable - Consulted - Informed
Primary stakeholders in the Organize Requirements task
Requirements (Allocated)
14. What is the output of the Manage Business Analysis Performance task?
Fishbone Diagram - Five Whys
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
Industry Knowledge
Decision Analysis - Problem Tacking - Risk Analysis
15. A means to elicit ideas and attitudes about a specific product - service or opportunity in an interactive group environment. The participants share their impressions - preferences and needs - guided by a moderator. - Effective for learning people's a
Solution Scope Definition - Implementation Approach - Dependencies
Enterprise Analysis - often the starting point for initiating a new project
Focus Group
Assumptions & Constraints - Requirements (Prioritized and Approved) - Solution Options
16. 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.
Name - Value/Meanings - Description
Bottom-up Estimation
Rolling Wave
Requirements (Verified)
17. The knowledge area that covers how BAs determine which activities are necessary in order to complete a business analysis effort.
Strengths - Weaknesses
Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring
Requirements (Prioritized)
State Diagrams
18. Maps the level of stakeholder influence and interest in a project.
Stakeholder Matrix
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Requirements - Requirements Package
Repository - Traceability - Requirement Attributes - Prioritization Process - Change Management - Tailoring the Requirements Management Process
Plan Business Analysis Approach - Conduct Stakeholder Analysis - Plan Business Analysis Activities - Plan Business Analysis Communication - Plan Requirements Management Process - Manage BA Performance
19. What are the tasks in the knowledge area - Enterprise Analysis?
Observation
Document Analysis
Requirements (Any Except Stated)
Define Business Need - Access Capability Gaps - Determine Solution Approach - Define Solution Scope - Define Business Case
20. What are the tasks in Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring?
Estimation - Functional Decomposition - Risk Analysis
Plan Business Analysis Approach - Conduct Stakeholder Analysis - Plan Business Analysis Activities - Plan Business Analysis Communication - Plan Requirements Management Process - Manage BA Performance
Elicitation Results
Solution Assessment & Validation
21. What are the elements of Communication Skills?
Business Requirements - Stakeholder Requirements - Solution Requirements - Transition Requirements
Automate or Simplify Work - Improve Access to Information - Reduce Complexity of Interfaces - Increase Consistency of Behavior - Eliminate Redundancy
They describe what a solution must be capable of doing to meet the needs of one or more stakeholder groups
Oral Communications - Teaching - Written Communication
22. A formal written specification with possible walk-thru - an informal one is possibly verbal or email Communication
Formal requirements presentation to stakeholders
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Decision Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Functional Decomposition
Prepare for Elicitation - Conduct Elicitation Activity - Document Elicitation Results - Confirm Elicitation Results
23. What is the output of the task - Prioritize Requirements?
Business Analysis Approach - Business Analysis Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Stakeholder Lists - Roles & Responsibilities
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Decision Analysis - Estimation - SWOT Analysis - Feasibility Analysis
Requirements (Prioritized)
Leadership
24. Means of eliciting information from many people - sometimes anonymously - in a relatively short period of time
Survey/Questionnaire
Business Analysis Process Assets
Organizational Readiness Assessment - Requirements (Stated) - Solution (Deployed) - Solution (Designed)
Elimination of Dominated Alternative - Ranking Objects on a Similar Scale
25. What are the techniques used in the task - Organize Requirements?
Requirements (Traced)
Relationship to Time - Relationship to Task Completion - Relationship to Contracts - Relationships to Formal and Informal Authority
Business Rules Analysis - Data Flow Diagrams - Data Modeling - Functional Decomposition - Organizational Modeling - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases - Scope Modeling - User Stories
Evaluation
26. While eliciting requirements it is important to guard against scope creep - This activity will ensure that the requirements should be included since they meet the business goal/objectives.
Tracing Requirements
Solution Scope Definition - Implementation Approach - Dependencies
Document Elicitation Results task
Solution Scope
27. What is the output of the task - Define Assumptions & Constraints?
Term and Fact Model
Creative Thinking - Decision Making - Learning - Problem Solving - Systems Thinking
Assumptions & Constraints
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Decision Analysis - Vendor Assessment
28. According to the BABOK 2.0 - what type of analysis generates STAKEHOLDER requirements?
Requirements Analysis
Risk - assumptions - constraints - etc.
Dependencies
Business Case; Stakeholder - Solution or Transition Requirements (Verified)
29. What is the output of the task - Verify Requirements?
Tracing Requirements
SWOT Analysis
Requirements (Verified)
Business Need - Enterprise Architecture - Organizational Process Assets
30. Two types of conflict.
Confirm Elicitation Results
Formal requirements presentation to stakeholders
Emotional and Cognitive
Functional Decomposition - Interface Analysis - Scope Modeling - User Stories - Problem or Vision Statement
31. 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
Requirements Management Plan - Solution Scope - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities - Stakeholder/Solution or Transition Requirements (Communicated or Traced)
Systems Thinking
Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving
Organizational Knowledge
32. This task determines if an organization can justify the investment required to deliver a proposed solution.
Decision Analysis - Estimation - Metrics & KPIs - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Focus Group
Decision Analysis - Process Modeling - Structured Walkthrough
Define Business Case
33. What are the inputs to the task - Organize Requirements?
Throw-away Prototype
Repository - Traceability - Requirement Attributes - Prioritization Process - Change Management - Tailoring the Requirements Management Process
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements (Stated) - Solution Scope
Business Value - Business or Technical Risk - Implementation Difficulty - Likelihood of Success - Regulatory or Policy Compliance - Relationship to Other Requirements - Stakeholder Agreement - Urgency
34. What are the inputs to the task - Communicate Requirements?
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Requirements - Requirements Package
Monitoring
Necessity - Effort - Subset - Cover - Value
Specific - Measurable - Achievable - Relevant - Time-bound Objectives must be SMART.
35. What are the Behavioral Characteristics a BA should exhibit?
Cognitive Conflict
Ethics - Trustworthiness - Personal Organization
Decision Analysis - Risk Analysis - MoSCoW Analysis - Timeboxing/Budgeting - Voting
Requirements (Stated - Unconfirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Unconfirmed)
36. What are the classifications used to describe requirements
Organizational Process Assets - Requirements
Brings them to a Communication on understanding
Business Requirements - Stakeholder Requirements - Solution Requirements - Transition Requirements
Prepare Requirements Package
37. A good indicator has 5 characteristics:
Requirements Workshop
Clear - Relevant - Economical - Adequate - Quantifiable
Organization Modeling
Requirements (Verified)
38. Revised process and templates for BA deliverables should be analyzed and documented and lessons learned should be recorded.
Acceptance Criteria
Business Analysis Process Assets
Requirements Structure
Organizational Readiness Assessment - Requirements (Stated) - Solution (Deployed) - Solution (Designed)
39. What are the inputs for the task - Prepare Requirements Package?
Operative Rules
Business Analysis Communication Plan - Organizational Process Assets - Requirements - Requirements Structure
User Classes - Profiles or Roles; Concepts & Relationships - Events - Processes - Rules
System
40. The objective of this technique is to determine how companies achieve their superior performance levels and use that information to design projects to improve operations of the enterprise.
Solution Approach
Identified Defects - Mitigating Actions - Solution Validation Assessment
Benchmarking
Manage Solution Scope & Requirements - Manage Requirements Traceability - Maintain Requirements for Re-use - Prepare Requirements Package - Communicate Requirements
41. What is the output of the task Confirm Elicitation Results?
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
Requirements (Stated - Confirmed) - Stakeholder Concerns (Confirmed)
Requirements (Any Except Stated)
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
42. What are the techniques used in the task Confirm Elicitation Results?
Interviews - Observation
Business Analysis Plan
Requirements Analysis
To record the conflict in the Requirements Issues Log.
43. Details user interface requirements and integrates them with other requirements such as use cases - scenarios - data and business rules. Stakeholders often find this to be a concrete means of identifying - describing and validating their interface ne
Decision Analysis - Estimation - Metrics & KPIs - Risk Analysis - SWOT Analysis - Vendor Assessment
Requirements (Stated) - Requirements Structure
Prototyping
Enterprise Analysis
44. List 3 possible forms of a requirements packages.
Benchmarking - Brainstorming - Business Rules Analysis - Focus Groups - Functional Decomposition - Root Cause Analysis
Formal Documentation - Presentation - Model
Prepare Requirements Package
Structured Walkthrough
45. 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.
Requirements - Requirements Management Plan
Benefits - Costs - Risk Assessment - Results Measurement
Benchmarking
User Story
46. What are the inputs to the task Manage Solution Scope & Requirements?
Assumptions & Constraints
Requirements Management Plan - Solution Scope - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities - Stakeholder/Solution or Transition Requirements (Communicated or Traced)
Implementation Approach
Cognitive Conflict
47. What are the techniques used in the task - Allocate Resources?
Strengths - Weaknesses
Acceptance & Evaluation Criteria - Business Rules Analysis - Decision Analysis - Functional Decomposition - Process Modeling - Scenarios & Use Cases
Problem Tracking - Baselining - Signoff
Enterprise Architecture - Solution Scope - Solution (Designed) - Stakeholder Concerns
48. What does RACI stand for?
SWOT Analysis
Requirements (Maintained and Reusable)
Requirements Management & Communication
Responsible - Accountable - Consulted - Informed
49. What are stakeholder requirements?
They describe what a solution must be capable of doing to meet the needs of one or more stakeholder groups
Cognitive Conflict
Non-functional Requirements Analysis
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
50. What are some of the commonly used requirement attributes?
Leadership
Absolute Reference - Author - Complexity - Ownership - Priority - Risks - Source - Stability - Status - Urgency
Ethics - Trustworthiness - Personal Organization
Business Case - Business Need - Requirements - Requirements Management Plan - Stakeholder List - Roles & Responsibilities
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