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CBAP Business Analysis And Planning

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1. 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






2. Limited to "as-is" perspective. - Existing documentation may not be up-to-date or valid. - Can be a time-consuming and even tedious process to locate the relevant information






3. What is the output of the task - Verify Requirements?






4. Knowing the dependencies and relationships between requirements helps when determining the sequence in which requirements are to be addressed. Common relations are:






5. What are the factors of influence by stakeholders on a project?






6. Requires the team to focus on examining the premises - assumptions - observations and expectations of the team members. This type of conflict can have a beneficial effect of strengthening the foundations of the analysis and the solution.






7. 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.






8. What are the inputs for the task Prepare for Elicitation?






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






10. Long-term - ongoing and qualitative statements of a state or condition that the organization is seeking to establish and maintain.






11. What are the inputs to the task - Organize Requirements?






12. Approach to decision making that examines and models the possible consequences of different decisions. Make an optimal decision under conditions of uncertainty.






13. What are the likely sources of transition requirements?






14. Are written to describe how an actor interacts with a solution to accomplish one or more of that actor's goals - or to respond to an event.






15. To define the rules that govern decisions in an organization and that define - constrain or enable organization operations.






16. 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






17. Characteristics that are common to all organizations with a similar purpose and structure - whether or not the are in the same industry.






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






19. What are the elements of the task - Define Solution Scope?






20. What is the output of the task Confirm Elicitation Results?






21. What is the output of the task - Determine Solution Approach?






22. Benefits that could have been achieved with an alternative investment rather than this one.






23. Technique involving refinement of estimates. Estimate the details for activities in the current iteration or increment and provide an analogous estimate for the entire scope of work. As the end of the iteration approaches - estimates for the next ite






24. What are the tasks in Business Analysis Planning & Monitoring?






25. What are some examples of stakeholder concerns?






26. What are the techniques used in the task - Prioritize Requirements?






27. What are the techniques used in the task Document Elicitation Results?






28. What is the output of the task - Prioritize Requirements?






29. What is the output of the task Manage Solution Scope & Requirements?






30. The people involved - the interactions between them - the external forces affecting their behavior and all other relevant elements and factors.






31. The purpose is to compile and document successes - opportunities for improvement - failures - and recommendations for improving the performance of future projects or project phases






32. What does RACI stand for?






33. List 3 possible forms of a requirements packages.






34. What are the techniques used in the task - Define Transition Requirements?






35. Define the requirements that must be met in order for a solution to be considered acceptable to key stakeholders.






36. What are the techniques used in the task Conduct Stakeholder Analysis?






37. Communicated Requirements mean what to stakeholders?






38. Techniques used in the task Plan Requirements Management Process.






39. This technique shows how information is input - processed - stored and output from a system in a visual representation.






40. What are the inputs to the task - Allocate Resources?






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






42. What are the techniques used in the task - Assess Proposed Solution?






43. What are the techniques used in the task - Communicate Requirements?






44. Performed to communicate - verify and validate requirements. Is a working session where invited participants review and discuss a set of requirements






45. What are the inputs to the task - Validate Requirements?






46. What are the inputs for the task Confirm Elicitation Results?






47. A formal written specification with possible walk-thru - an informal one is possibly verbal or email Communication






48. Measures progress towards a strategic goal or objective.






49. 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.






50. Who is the primary stakeholder in the Define Business Case task?