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What is the practice of enabling change in the context of an enterprise by defining needs and recommending solutions that deliver value to stakeholders.
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Business Analysis
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Define Business Analyst
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Any person who performs business analysis, no matter their job title or organizational role.
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What are the Business Analysis Knowledge Areas in the BABOK V3
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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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Which Knowledge Area is described as the tasks that business analysts 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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Which Knowledge Area is described as the tasks that business analysts perform to prepare for and conduct elicitation activities and confirm the results obtained. it also describes the communication with stakeholders once the business analysis information is assembled and the ongoing collaboration with them throughout the business analysis activities |
Elicitation and Collaboration
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Which Knowledge Area is described as the tasks that business analysts must 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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Which Knowledge are is described as the business analysis work that must be done to collaborate with stakeholders in order to identify a need of strategic or tactical importance (the business need), 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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Which Knowledge Area is described as the tasks that business analysts perform to structure and organize requirements discovered during elicitation activities, specify and model requirements and designs, validate and verify information, identify solution options that meet business needs, and estimate the potential value that could be realized for each solution option.
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Requirements Analysis and Design Definition
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Which knowledge area is described as the tasks that business analysts perform to assess the performance of and value delivered by a solution in use by the enterprise, and to recommend removal of barriers or constraints that prevent full realization of the value.
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Solution Evaluation
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What is a task?
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A piece of work that may be performed formally or informally as part of business analysis.
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What are the different perspectives used within business analysis work?
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- Agile - Business Intelligence - Information Technology - Business Architecture - Business Process Management |
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What are the six core concepts in the BACCM?
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- Change - Need - Solution - Stakeholder - Value - Context |
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Define Change
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The act of transformation in response to a need.
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Define Need
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A problem or opportunity to be addressed.
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Define Solution
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A specific way of satisfying one or more needs in a context. Also called "organizational capabilities" |
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Define Stakeholder
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A group or individual with a relationship to the change, the need or the solution. |
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Define value
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the worth, importance, or usefulness of something to a stakeholder within a context.
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Define Context
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the circumstances that influence, are influenced by, and provide understanding of the change.
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What is a usable representation of a solution.
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Design
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What is a system of one of more organizations and the solutions (aka organizational capabilities) they use to pursue a shared set of common goals.
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Enterprise
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What is an autonomous group of people under the management of a single individual or board, that works towards common goals and objectives.
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Organization
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What is a proposal for doing or achieving something. It describe a set of events, the dependencies among the events, the expected sequence, the schedule, the results or outcomes, the materials and resources needed, and the stakeholders involved.
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A Plan
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What is a usable representation of a need. It focuses on what kind of value could be delivered if the requirement is fulfilled.
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Requirement |
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Define Risk
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Risk is the effect of uncertainty on the value of a change, a solution, or the enterprise.
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List the types of requirements
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- Business Requirements - Stakeholder Requirements - Solution Requirements - Functional Requirements - Non Functional Requirements - Tranistion Requirements |
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Which type of requrement is described as Statements of goals, objectives, and outcomes that describe why a change has been initiated. They can apply to the whole of an enterprise, a business area, or a specific initiative. |
Business Requirements
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What describes the needs of stakeholders that must be met in order to achieve the business requirements. They may serve as a bridge between the business and solution requirements.
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Stakeholder Requirements
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What defines the capabilities and qualities of a solution that meets the stakeholder requirements. They provide the appropriate level of detail to allow for the development and implementation of the solution. They are divided into Functional and Non Functional requirements
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Solution Requirements
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What describes 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
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What type of requirements do not relate directly to the behavior of functionality of the solution, but rather describe conditions under which the solution must remain effective or qualities that a solution must have.
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Non Functional Requirements (aka quality of service requirements) |
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What are Transition Requirements
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describe 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, but which are not needed once the change is complete.
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List the types of Stakeholders defined in the BABOK V3 |
- Business Analyst - Customer - Domain SME - End User - Implementation SME - Operational Support - Project Manager - Regulator - Sponsor - Supplier - Tester |
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Which Stakeholder uses or may use products or services produced by the enterprise and may have contractual or moral rights that the enterprise is obliged to meet
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A Customer
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Which Stakeholder is defined as any individual with in-depth knowledge of a topic relevant to the business need or solution scope.
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Domain SME
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Which Stakeholders directly interact with the solution. They can include all participants in a business process or who use the product or solution
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End Users
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Define Implementation SME
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any stakeholder who has specialized knowledge regarding the implementation of one or more solution components.
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Which Stakeholder is responsible for the day-to-day management and maintenance of a system or product
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Operational Support
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Which Stakeholder is responsible for managing the work required to deliver a solution that meets a business need, and for ensuring that the project's objectives are met while balancing the project factors including scope, budget, schedule, resources, quality and, risk.
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Project Manager
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Define Regulator
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responsible for the definition and enforcement of standards.
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Which Stakeholder is responsible for initiating the effort to define a business need and develop a solution that meets that need.
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Sponsor
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Which Stakeholder is outside the boundary of a given organization or organizational unit. They provide products or services to the organization and may have contractual or moral rights and obligations that must be considered.
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Supplier
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Which stakeholder is responsible for determining how to verify that the solution meets the requirements defined by the business analyst, as well as conducting the verification process. |
Tester (aka quality assurance analyst) |
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What is the difference between Requirements and Designs?
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Requirements are focused on needs. Designs are focused on the solution
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