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 According to the BABOK® Guide, the requirements analysis and design definition knowledge area “describes the tasks that business analysis professionals 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” (p. 106). This knowledge area focuses on analyzing and defining requirements to ensure that they meet the needs of stakeholders and align with the organization’s objectives. It includes tasks such as modeling requirements, defining acceptance criteria, and creating solution designs. The other options are not correct because:

A. It describes the characteristics of the requirements lifecycle management knowledge area, which “describes the tasks and techniques used to manage and maintain requirements and design information from inception to retirement” (p. 136).

B. It describes the characteristics of the strategy analysis knowledge area, which “describes the business analysis work that must be performed 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” (p. 30).

D. It describes the act of elicitation and collaboration, which is a separate knowledge area that “describes the tasks that business analysis professionals perform in order to obtain information from stakeholders and confirm the results” (p. 50). References:

BABOK® Guide, p. 30, 50, 106, 136

E) Requirements Analysis and Design Definition | The Business Analysis …, section “Introduction”