Knowledge areas - Core Concept

Question 1

[Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring] - [Change]

Answer 1

Are responsible for determining how changes to business analysis results will be requested and authorized.

Question 2

[Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring] - [Need]

Answer 2

Choose a business analysis approach that provides adequate analysis for the change.

Question 3

[Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring] - [Solution]

Answer 3

Evaluate if business analysis performance was a key contributor to the successful implementation of a solution.

Question 4

[Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring] - [Stakeholder]

Answer 4

Perform a stakeholder analysis to ensure planning and monitoring activities reflect stakeholder needs and account for stakeholder characteristics.

Question 5

[Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring] - [Value]

Answer 5

Conduct performance analysis to ensure business analysis activities continue to produce sufficient value for the stakeholders.

Question 6

[Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring] - [Context]

Answer 6

Ensure a complete understanding of the context under analysis in order to develop an efficient business analysis approach.

Question 7

[Elicitation and Collaboration] - [Change]

Answer 7

Use a variety of elicitation techniques to fully identify the characteristics of the change including concerns that stakeholders have about the change. The change itself may determine the appropriate types and extent of elicitation and collaboration.

Question 8

[Elicitation and Collaboration] - [Need]

Answer 8

Elicit, confirm, and communicate needs and supporting business analysis information. As elicitation is iterative and incremental, the understanding of needs may evolve over time.

Question 9

[Elicitation and Collaboration] - [Solution]

Answer 9

Elicit, confirm, and communicate necessary or desired characteristics of proposed solutions.

Question 10

[Elicitation and Collaboration] - [Stakeholder]

Answer 10

Manage the collaboration with the stakeholders who participate in the business analysis work. All stakeholders may participate in different roles and at different times during a change.

Question 11

[Elicitation and Collaboration] - [Value]

Answer 11

Collaborate with stakeholders to assess the relative value of information provided through elicitation, and apply a variety of techniques to confirm and communicate that value.

Question 12

[Elicitation and Collaboration] - [Context]

Answer 12

Apply a variety of elicitation techniques to identify business analysis information about the context that may affect the change.

Question 13

[Requirements Life Cycle Management] - [Change]

Answer 13

Manage how proposed changes to requirements and designs are evaluated during an initiative.

Question 14

[Requirements Life Cycle Management] - [Need]

Answer 14

Trace, prioritize and maintain requirements to ensure that the need is met.

Question 15

[Requirements Life Cycle Management] - [Solution]

Answer 15

Trace requirements and designs to solution components to ensure that the solution satisfies the need.

Question 16

[Requirements Life Cycle Management] - [Stakeholder]

Answer 16

Work closely with key stakeholders to maintain understanding, agreement, and approval of requirements and designs.

Question 17

[Requirements Life Cycle Management] - [Value]

Answer 17

Maintain requirements for reuse to extend value beyond the current initiative.

Question 18

[Requirements Life Cycle Management] - [Context]

Answer 18

Analyze the context to support tracing and prioritization activities.