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General flashcards to prepare for the Certified Business Analyst Professional certification exam.
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BEERS RU (Knowledge Areas) *BA planning and monitoring *Elicitation *Enterprise Analysis *Requirements Analysis *Solution assessment and validation *Requirement mgmt and communication *[Underlying Competencies]
What are the BA Outcomes? * Reduce waste * Create solutions * Complete projects on time * Improve efficiency * Document the right requirements
What is the Domain? The area undergoing analysis
What is the solution(s)? A set of changes to the current state of an organization to move from how things work today to the envisioned "to-be" state (The scope of the solution is usually narrower than the scope of a domain (Move from where they are to where they think they should be)
What is a requirement? 1. condition or capability needed by a stakeholder to solve a problem or achieve an objective 2. A condition or capability that must be met or possessed by a solution or solution component to satisfy a contract, standard, specification, or other formally imposed documents 3. A documented representation of a condition or capability as in (1) or (2) (CAN'T be verbal MUST be documented)
Are requirements needs, wishes, desires, or all of the above? Needs. Requests are wishes and desires
What are the Requirement Types? Business Stakeholder Solution Transition
What are the solution sub-types? Functional and non-functional (requirements)
POET (BA Behavioral Characteristics) *Personal Organization *Ethics *Trustworthiness
TOW (BA Communication Skills) *Teaching *Oral *Written
FLINT (BA Interaction Skills) *Facilitation *Negotiation *Leadership *Influencing *Teamwork
A SCAMP (Planning and Monitoring) *Plan BA Approach *Conduct Stakeholder Analysis *Plan BA Activities *Plan BA Communication *Plan Requirements Management Process *Manage BA Performance
What is IDDP in Planning and Monitoring? Identify, Define, Develop, Plan
What are the Requirements and Elicitation Tasks? (PC in DC) Prepare, conduct, document, confirm
How many tasks in Planning and Monitoring? 6
How many tasks in Requirements Elicitation? 4
What are the Elicitation Techniques? (BIRDS OF PI) *Brainstorming *Interface analysis *Requirements workshop *Document analysis *Survey/Questionnaire *Observation *Focus Groups *Prototyping *Interviews
What are the requirements management and communication tasks? STREP-C: Fight Strep w/ Vitamin C *Manage Solution Scope *Manage Requirements Traceability *Maintain Requirements for Re-Use *Prepare Requirements Package *Communication Requirements
What are the 5 Conflict Resolution Methods? 1. Forcing: force own decision at others expense 2. Avoiding: Do nothing; walk away 3. Compromising: No one party wins 4. Accommodating: Downplay areas of disagreement 5. Collaborating: Working together
What are the three different requirements traceability directions? 1. Top-down - forward traceability 2. Bottom-up - Start at low level of detail to highest/goal level 3. Sideways - Same level to link together; association
What are the Traceability relationship types? (NESCV) 1. Necessity - when one requirement doesn't make sense without the other 2. Effort - When requirement is easier to implement other requirement at same time (ease of implementation) 3. Subset - When requirement is child of parent requirement; subset; parent-child relationship 4. Cover - When requirement fully includes another requirement; Parent, in parent-child relationship 5. Value - when second requirement brings value (increase or decrease) to original requirement; linked to first
What is a BRD? Business Requirements Document: Business needs of the organization
What is a product roadmap? Long-term technology plan; Multi-year plan; For product to be create and how it will roll out over next period of time
What is a SRS? Software/System Requirements Specification: To be used by development team. More Technical and detailed;Written usually as functional requirements.
What is the supplemental requirements specification? Non-functional requirements; All the ilities
What is the vision document? Use in Enterprise Analysis. Provides high-level purpose for solution; Higher level than BRD for enterprise. Exclude all the details. Just painted picture of future, not the moment
What are the 5 tasks in Enterprise Analysis? N GAS C (No GAS for Cooking) *Define Business Need *Assess Capability Gaps *Determine Solution Approach *Define Solution Scope *Define Business Case
What are the KPI Characteristics? Clear, relevant, economical adequate, quantifiable
What is SWOT? Strengths Weaknesses Opportunities Threats
What diagram was created by Ishikawa? Fishbone diagram
What is a fishbone diagram? Cause and Effect diagramming technique used in root cause analysis to identify underlying causes of an observed problem and the relationship between causes.
What three elements determine how best to present requirements? 1. Audience 2. Format 3. Information
What are the 5 Requirement Analysis Tasks? P O M A V V Pomegranate Martini Made with Vanilla Vodka 1. Prioritize Requirements 2. Organize Requirements - most written as fragments 3. Specify and model requirements 4. Define assumptions and constraints (dependencies) 5. Verification - build system right 6. Validation - building the right system
What are the three ways in which requirements are written/modeled? 1. Textually (words), 2. visually (pictures), 3. Matrix (table or grid)
What is MoSCoW * Must Do: Req must be satisfied. * Should Do: High priority, but not critical. * Could do: Desirable but not necessary...bells and whistles * Won't do: Out of scope; future release
What are business constraints? Limitations imposed by business
What are Technical Constraints? Limitations imposed by technology
Whats the difference between verify and validate? *Verify: written correctly? Written well? * Validate: Ensure requirement brings value (Does it fulfill its goal and relate back to original stakeholder goal?) * Identify assumptions, *define measurable evaluation criteria, *determine business value, * determine dependencies for benefits realization, * evaluate need vs. want
What is RACI Responsible - does the work Accountable - the decision maker Consulted - consulted prior to work Informed - notified of outcome
What is a DFD and who invented? Data flow diagram invented by Todd Demarco
What is an ERD and who invented? Entity-Relationship Diagram invened by Chen
What us UML? Unified Modeling Language Industry standard replacing old ERD
In Multiplicity and Cardinality what does: 0..1 mean? 1 mean? 0..* or *? 1..*
What are the process modeling icons in an activity diagram?
What is the Gaps between AS IS and TO BE processes? The requirements starting point
What are the solution assessment and Validation tasks? PART VP *Assess Proposed solution *Allocate Requirements *Assess Organizational Readiness *Define Transition Requirements *Validate Solution *Evaluate Solution Performance
Is Testing part of the BA work or toolkit? No. BA's DO NOT TEST SOFTWARE. The BA Job stops before testers job begins
What is ORA? Organizational Readiness Assessment Assesses if we are really ready to integrate the changes into the organization
How is "tasks" defined in the BABOK? Performed to accomplish the purpose of a knowledge area
How is "techniques" defined in the BABOK? Techniques alter the way a business analysis task is performed or describe a specific form the output of a task may take Techniques apply across multiple knowledge areas
What are the characteristics of a task? * Accomplishes a result in an output that creates value *Is complete; Can be used by successor tasks *A necessary part of the purpose of the associated knowledge Area
Does the BABOK prescribe or determine the order in which tasks are performed? No, only that the input MUST exist
What is an input? Represents the information and preconditions necessary for a task to begin Generated by a BA task
What is an output? *A necessary result of the work described in the task. *Created, transformed or change state resulting from successful completion of task *May be a deliverable or part of a larger deliverable
The primary purpose of the BABOK® Guide is To define the profession of business analysis
Transition requirements are developed in which knowledge area? Solution Assessment and Validation
What are the inputs to 4.2 Manage Requirements Traceability? (2) Requirements Requirements Management Plan
A problem statement contains 4 key pieces of information Describe the problem Identify the stakeholders affected Describe the impact on each stakeholder Key benefits
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