Terms
Knowledge Areas
Tools
Roles
Methodologies
100

Can be referred to as non-functional requirements

What are quality attributes?

100

The knowledge area containing the "Assess Risk" task

What is strategy analysis?

100

Helps categorize potential root causes of an issue

What is a fishbone diagram?

100

A type of stakeholder who must approve the business analysis approach to ensure that it is compatible with other project activities

Who is the project manager?

100

Focuses on continuously improving and sustaining the quality of products and services

What is TQM?

200

Used to help familiarize the project team with the existing solution scope.    

What is a context scope diagram?

200

Aims to understand stakeholder needs and start to discover potential solutions that may fulfil these needs

Elicitation and Collaboration

200

Used to define the requirements of the particular product or software to achieve the desired result for a client.

What is a Business Requirement Document?

200

A type of stakeholder responsible for authorizing the actions needed to meet the identified business need

Who is a sponsor?

200

Focuses on the improvement of processes

What is BPM?

300

A task that cannot be started until another task is completed. 

What is a dependency

300

Includes specific tasks Business Analysts perform in order to manage and maintain requirements and design information

What are Requirements Life Cycle Management?

300

Used to define the boundaries of control, change, a solution, or a need

Scope Model

300

Stakeholders who are indirectly affected, either positively or negatively, by an effort or the actions of an organization

Who are secondary stakeholders?

300

A methodology that follows these 6 phases: assess, design, model, implement, monitor and modify.

What is BPM (Business Process Management)?

400

A task that requires a BA to consider the value that each link is supposed to deliver, as well as the nature and use of the specific relationships that are being created.

What is tracing requirements?

400

The knowledge area where a set of requirements are sufficient in detail, internally consistent and of high quality. 

What is Requirements Analysis Design Definition?

400

Management of the what and how a business does what it does – its main processes, the oversight of how these processes unfold, and, typically, the technology that enables and mediates them.

What is ERG (Enterprise Resource Planning)?

400

A communication style that, for example, defines a software's architecture and high-level functionality before breaking these down into modules and detailed coding tasks.

What is a top-down approach?

500

A well structured document that demonstrates the reason for initiating a project.

What is a business case?

500

The next step after assessing the business value associated with a potential solution.

What is, recommend a solution?

500

Used to clarify roles and responsibilities in cross-functional projects and processes.

What is a RACI (Responsible, Accountable, Consulted & Informed)?  

Or

What is a RAM (Responsibility Assignent Matrix)?

500

Focuses on detecting, reducing or eliminating errors.

What is TQM (Total Quality Management)?

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