ECBA

Question 1

What Business Analysis is?

Answer 1

BA is the practice of enabling a change in an enterprise by defining needs and recommending solutions that deliver value to stakeholder

Question 2

How Business Analysis enables changes?

Answer 2

It helps to articulate needs and rationale for change and to design and describe solutions that can deliver value

Question 3

How Business Analysis can be used?

Answer 3

It can be used to understand the current state, define the future state and determine the activities required to move from current to future state

Question 4

What are the responsibilities of a Business Analyst?

Answer 4

A Business Analyst is responsible for eliciting the actual needs of stakeholder in order to determine the underlying issues and causes. Are responsible also for discovering, synthesizing and analyzing info from various sources within the organization

Question 5

What knowledge areas are?

Answer 5

Collection of logically (but not sequentially) related tasks.
Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring
Elicitation and Collaboration
Requirement Life Cycle Management
Strategy Analysis
Requirements Analysis and Design Definition
Solution Evaluation

Question 6

What are the concept of the Business Analysis Core Concept Model?

Answer 6

Change, Need, Solution, Value, Stakeholder, Context

Question 7

What Change is?

Answer 7

The act of transformation in response to a need

Question 8

What a need is

Answer 8

A problem or an opportunity to address

Question 9

What solution is?

Answer 9

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

Question 10

What value is?

Answer 10

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

Question 11

Stakeholder

Answer 11

Individual, group or org. that may impact, be impacted by or may perceive itself as impacted by the solution

Question 12

Context

Answer 12

Circumstances that influence, are influenced by and provide understanding for the change

Question 13

What does the BACCM encompass?

Answer 13

What business analysis is and what it means to those performing its activities

Question 14

What does design mean?

Answer 14

It’s a usable representation of a solution

Question 15

What does requirement mean?

Answer 15

It’s a usable representation of a need

Question 16

What Business Requirements are?

Answer 16

Highest representation of a need like statement of goals, objectives and outcomes that describe why a change has been initiated.

Question 17

What Stakeholder Requirements are?

Answer 17

Describe the need of a stakeholder that must be met in order to achieve the business requirements. They may serve as bridge between business and solution requirements

Question 18

What Solution Requirements are?

Answer 18

Describe capabilities and qualities of a solution that meets stakeholder requirements.

Question 19

What are the two categories of Solution Requirements?

Answer 19

Functional and Non-Functional Requirements

Question 20

What Functional Requirements are?

Answer 20

Describe the capabilities that a solution must have in terms of behavior and info that the solution will manage

Question 21

What Non-Functional Requirements are?

Answer 21

Describe conditions under which the solution must remain effective or qualities that a solution must have

Question 22

What Transition Requirements are?

Answer 22

Describe capabilities and conditions that the solution must have to facilitate the transition from current to future state. They are Temporary because they are not needed once the change is complete. Ex. are: training, data conversion and business continuity