Certified Business Analyst Professional (CBAP®)
Course number: CGICBAP40
The CBAP® course empowers you to develop skills to be proficient in business analysis and enables you to pass your IIBA–CBAP® certification exam. The training is aligned to the 2016 release of CBAP® by IIBA, it will help you build expertise in the 6 knowledge areas defined in BABOK® Guide Version 3 namely: business analysis planning and monitoring, elicitation, requirements management and communication, enterprise analysis, requirements analysis along with solution assessment & validation.
What are the course objectives?
After you finish the course, you’ll be able to:
- Appear for and pass the IIBA-CBAP® exam
- Understand Business Analysis Key Concepts
- Understand Business Analysis Core Concept Models
- Gain understanding of 30 business analysis tasks in 6 knowledge areas
- Gain understanding in 50 business analysis tools and techniques
- Understand 5 business analysis perspectives of Agile, Business Intelligence, Information Technology, Business Architecture and Business Process Management
Prerequisites
Meet or be aware of the following IIBA-CBAP® certification exam requirements prior to attending class:
- Minimum 7500 hours of BA work experience aligned with the BABOK Guide in the last 10 years
- Minimum 900 hours in four of the six knowledge areas
- Minimum 21 hours of professional development in the past four years
- Two references from a career manager, client, or CBAP recipient
- Signed code of conduct
- Minimum of a high school degree or equivalent
Target Audience
- Those with business analysis experience who wish to become CBAP or CCBA certified
- Intermediate- to advanced-level business analysts
- Business systems analysts
- Systems analysts
- Project managers or team leaders
- Systems architects or designers
Certification
Certified Business Analyst Professional (CBAP®)
Exam
Students who attend the CBAP training program will be able to take the below certification exams based on their experience.
1. Entry Certificate in Business Analysis™ (ECBA™) – 0 years of experience
2. Certification of Capability in Business Analysis™ (CCBA®) – 2 years of experience
3. Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP®) – 3.5 years of experience
1. ECBA Eligibility
• Ensure you register an account with IIBA
• Complete a minimum of 21 Professional Development (PD) hours within the last four years.
• Agree with the Code of Conduct.
• Agree with Terms and Conditions
2. CCBA Eligibility
To earn the CCBA designation, candidates must:
• Complete a minimum of 3,750 hours of Business Analysis work experience in the last 7 years.
• Within these 3750 minimum hours required, a minimum of 900 hours must be completed in each of 2 of the 6 BABOK® Guide Knowledge Areas OR, a minimum of 500 hours must be completed in each of 4 of the 6 BABOK® Guide Knowledge Areas.
• Complete a minimum of 21 hours of Professional Development within the last 4 years.
• Provide references.
• Agree to Code of Conduct.
• Agree to Terms and Conditions.
• Pass the exam.
3. To earn the CBAP designation, candidates must:
• Complete a minimum of 7,500 hours of Business Analysis Work experience in the last 10 years.
• Within this experience, a minimum of 900 hours completed in 4 of the 6 BABOK® Guide Knowledge Areas, for a total of at least 3,600 of the required 7,500 total.
• Complete a minimum of 35 hours of Professional Development in the last 4 years.
• Provide two references.
• Agree to Code of Conduct.
• Agree to Terms and Conditions.
• Pass the exam
Please visit the following website for more information regarding certifications:
https://www.iiba.org/business-analysis-certifications/iiba-certifications/
Accreditation
Post class completion, students can appear for one of the following exams, based on their experience:
1. Entry Certificate in Business Analysis™ (ECBA™) – 0 years of experience
2. Certification of Capability in Business Analysis™ (CCBA®) – 2 years of experience
3. Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP®) – 3.5 years of experience
Course Outline
- What is IIBA?
- Benefits of IIBA Professional Certification
- Eligibility for CBAP certification
- The exam application process
- The exam outline
- CBAP exam blueprint
- Recertification
- What is business analysis?
- What does a business analyst do?
- Business Analysis Core Concept Model the Knowledge Areas defined in BABOK Version 3
- What are the underlying competencies of a business analyst?
- The techniques and perspectives in business analysis
- How to plan Business Analysis Approach
- How to plan Stakeholder Engagement
- How to plan Business Analysis Information Management and Governance
- How to identify Business Analysis Performance Improvements
- Understand tools and techniques used in Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring
- Prepare and conduct an elicitation
- Confirm the results of elicitation
- Communicate the business analysis information
- Manage stakeholder collaboration
- Trace requirements
- Maintain requirements
- Prioritize requirements
- Assess changes to the requirements
- Approve the requirements
- Analyze the Current State
- Define the Future State
- Assess Risks
- Define the Change Strategy
- Specify and Model Requirements
- Verify Requirements
- Validate Requirements
- Define Requirements Architecture
- Define Design Options
- Analyze Potential Value and Recommend Solution
- Measure Solution Performance
- Analyze Performance Measures
- Assess the limitations of the solution
- Assess the limitations of an enterprise
- Recommend Actions to Increase Solution Value
- Describe agile business analysis
- Change scope
- Define the business analysis scope
- Approaches and techniques
- The underlying competencies
- The impact on knowledge areas
- What is Business Intelligence?
- Change scope
- Define the business analysis scope
- The methodologies and approaches
- The underlying competencies
- The impact on knowledge areas
- About Information technology (IT)
- Change scope
- Define the business analysis scope
- The methodologies
- The underlying competencies
- The impact on knowledge areas
- About Business Architecture
- Change Scope
- Define the Business analysis scope
- The Reference models and techniques
- The underlying competencies
- The impact on knowledge areas
- About Business Process Management
- Change Scope
- Define the Business analysis scope
- The frameworks, methodologies, and techniques
- The underlying competencies
- The impact on knowledge areas
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