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Business rules buried in code are a liability. Decision modeling makes them explicit, reviewable, and owned by the business using DMN tables.

Strategy Analysis (BABOK KA 4) is where BA work earns its keep. Define the need before discussing the solution. Current state, future state, risks, change strategy.

Elicitation is not gathering requirements. Requirements emerge through conversation, observation, and analysis. Here is how to do it well and what BABOK KA 2 actually covers.

Getting requirements right is the easy part. Requirements Lifecycle Management (BABOK KA 3) is about keeping them right through trace, maintain, prioritize, assess, and approve.

A requirement is only as useful as it is well-written. BABOK defines specific quality criteria including atomic, unambiguous, testable, and consistent that every requirement should meet.

Traceability means you can follow any requirement back to its source and forward to its test case. Without it, change impact analysis is guesswork.

These two are consistently confused — and CBAP exams test them precisely because of that confusion.