Babok CCBA Prep Flashcards

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This Knowledge Area describes the work that must be performed to collaborate with stakeholders in order to identify a need of strategic or tactical importance, enable the enterprise to address that need, and align the resulting strategy for the change with higher and lower-level strategies.

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Strategy Analysis

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This Knowledge Area describes the tasks that BA’s perform in order to manage and maintain requirements and design information from inception to retirement.

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Requirements Life Cycle Management

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This Knowledge Area describes the tasks that BA’s perform to prepare for and conduct elicitation activities and confirm the results obtained.

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Elicitation and Collaboration

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This knowledge area describes the tasks that BA’s perform to organize and coordinate the efforts of business analysts and stakeholders.

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Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring

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5
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Name the six Knowledge Areas found within the BABOK Guide.

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  • Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring
  • Elicitation and Collaboration
  • Requirements Life Cycle Management
  • Strategy Analysis
  • Requirements Analysis and Design Definition
  • Solution Evaluation
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6
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Knowledge Areas

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Represents areas of specific business expertise that encompass several tasks

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This Knowledge Area covers the incremental and iterative activities ranging from the initial concept and exploration of the need through the transformation of those needs into a particular solution.

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Requirements Analysis and Design Definition

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This Knowledge Area describes the process of assessing performance and value delivered by a solution in use by the enterprise, and to recommend removal of barriers or constraints that prevent the full realization of the value.

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Solution Evaluation

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Task

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A discrete piece of work that may be performed formally or informally as part of business analysis

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Information that is necessary for a task to begin

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Inputs

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Information consumed or transformed to produce an output

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Inputs

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Perspectives

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Used to provide focus to tasks and techniques specific to the context of the initiative.

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13
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The items listed below are examples of what?

  • Agile
  • Business Intelligence
  • Information Technology
  • Business Architecture
  • Business Process Management
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Perspectives

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14
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List the six core concepts in the BACCM?

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  • Change
  • Need
  • Solution
  • Stakeholder
  • Value
  • Context
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Change

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The act of transformation in response to a need.

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Need

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A problem or opportunity to be addressed.

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Solution

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A specific way of satisfying one or more needs in a context.

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Stakeholder

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A group or individual with a relationship to the change, the need, or the solution.

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Value

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The worth, importance, or usefulness of something to a stakeholder within a context.

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Context

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The circumstances that influence, are influenced by, and provide understanding of the change.

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21
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_________ is the practice of enabling change in an enterprise by defining needs and recommending solutions that deliver value.

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Business Analysis

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22
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This is defined as being a usable representation of a solution.

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Design

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______ focuses on understanding how value might be realized by a solution if it is built.

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Design

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This is a proposal for doing something or achieving something.

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Plan

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25
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This is a usable representation of a need.

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Requirement

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Risk

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The effect of uncertainty on the value of a change, a solution, or the enterprise.

27
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Business Requirements

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Statement of goals, objectives, and outcomes that describe why a change has been initiated.

28
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This type of requirement can apply to the whole of an enterprise, a business area, or a specific initiative

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Business Requirements

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Stakeholder Requirements

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Describe the needs of stakeholders that must be met in order to achieve the business requirements.

30
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This type of requirement serves as a bridge between business and solution requirements.

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Stakeholder Requirements

31
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What are the two sub-categories that Solution Requirements can be divided into?

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  • Functional Requirements

- non-Functional requirements or quality of service requirements

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Solution Requirements

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Describes the capabilities and qualities of a solution that meets the stakeholder requirements. It provides the appropriate level of detail to allow for the development and implementation of a given solution.

33
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This type of requirement provides the appropriate level of detail to allow for the development and implementation of a given solution.

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Solution Requirements

34
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_______ describe the capabilities that a solution must have in terms of the behavior and information that the solution will manage

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Functional Requirements

35
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_______ describes conditions under which a solution must remain effective or qualities that a solution must have

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Non-functional Requirements A.K.A Quality of Service Requirements

36
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Transition Requirements

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Describes the capabilities that the solution must have and the conditions the solution must meet to facilitate transition from the current state to the future state.

37
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Requirements relating to data conversion, training, and business continuity is an example of what type of requirement?

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Transition Requirement

38
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This type of stakeholder would likely impose audit standards on a solution.

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Regulator

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Regulator

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Stakeholder responsible for the definition and enforcement of standards

40
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The individual initiates the effort to define a business need and develops a solution that meets that need.

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Sponsor

41
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This stakeholder authorizes the work to be performed, and controls the budget and scope for the initiative.

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Sponsor

42
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A consultant is an alternate role for which type of stakeholder

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Supplier

43
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Requirements or Design? Which is which?

a) View six months of sales data across multiple organizational units in a single view
b) A sketch of a dashboard

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a) Requirements

b) Design

44
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Requirements or Design? Which is which?

a) Process Model
b) Reduce amount of time required to pick and pack a customer order

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a) Design

b) Requirement

45
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Requirements or Designs? Which is which?

_____ are focused on the need; _____ are focused on the solution.

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Requirements, Designs

46
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This type of requirement answers the question: “Why do I want it?”

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Business Requirements

47
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This type of requirement answers the question: “What are the needs?”

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Stakeholder Requirements

48
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This type of requirement answers the question: “What do I want?”

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Solution Requirements

49
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This type of requirement answers the question: “What are the conditions?”

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Transition Requirements

50
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List the five tasks included in the Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring knowledge area.

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  • Plan Business Analysis Approach
  • Plan Stakeholder Engagement
  • Plan Business Analysis Governance
  • Plan Business Analysis Information Management
  • Identify Business Analysis Performance Improvements
51
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This task describes the planning of business analysis work from creation or selection of methodology to planning the individual activities, tasks, and deliverables.

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Plan Business Analysis Approach

52
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This task describes understanding which stakeholders are relevant to the change, what business analysts need from them, what they need from business analysts, and the best way to collaborate.

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Plan Stakeholder Engagement

53
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This task helps ensure that decisions are made properly and consistently, and follows a process that ensures decision makers have the information they need.

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Plan Business Analysis Governance

54
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This task defines how information developed by business analysts (including requirements and designs) is captured, stored, and integrated with other information for long-term use.

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Plan Business Analysis Information Management

55
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This task described managing and monitoring how business analysis work is performed to ensure that commitments are met and continuous learning improvement opportunities are realized

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Identify Business Analysis Performance Improvements

56
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What are the inputs for Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring

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  • Needs

- Performance Objectives (external)

57
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List the resulting outputs produced from the tasks found within the Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring knowledge area.

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  • Business Analysis Approach
  • Stakeholder Engagement Approach
  • Governance Approach
  • Information Management Approach
  • Business Analysis Performance Assessment
58
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The purpose of this task is to define an appropriate method to conduct business analysis activities, how and when these tasks will be produced, and the deliverables that will be produced.

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Plan Business Analysis Approach

59
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Name the input(s) needed for Plan Business Analysis Approach

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Need

60
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List the 11 outputs resulting from the Plan Business Analysis Approach

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  • Plan Stakeholder Engagement
  • Plan Business Analysis Governance
  • Plan Business Analysis Information Management
  • Identify Business Analysis Performance Improvements
  • Prepare for Elicitation
  • Conduct Elicitation
  • Communicate Business Analysis Information
  • Manage Stakeholder Collaboration
  • Analyze Current State
  • Define Change Strategy
  • Assess Risk
61
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This type of approach typically calls for formal documentation and representations, like following a standard template.

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Predictive Approach

62
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This type of approach favors defining requirements and designs through team interaction and gathering feedback on a working solution

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Adaptive Approach

63
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Predictive or Adaptive?

Tasks utilizing the _____ approach are performed in specific phases, while the _____ approach is performed iteratively.

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Predictive, Adaptive

64
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This approach is more formal

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Predictive