About this Course

Prepare participants to take Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP®) exam based on the BABOK®v2.0 Edition from the International Institute of Business Analysis. In the evolving world of Business Analysis, there is an increasing demand for effective and experienced Business Analysts who have obtained the IIBA Certified Business Analyst Professional (CBAP®) designation.

The course is about you: understanding your learning style, leveraging your professional background, knowledge and experience, identifying those areas where you need to expand and solidify your knowledge, identifying learning and study techniques that work best for you to help you to make the most of your study time, and focus your time and energy where you will benefit most.  We use a variety of interactive study methods to immerse you in the BABOK® Guide, including practice quizzes, small group breakouts, memorization techniques and online research, all facilitated by a professional CBAP-certified instructor who understands how to help you learn best.  At the end of every module, you will write a practice test, measure your performance, and identify your study priorities.

Audience Profile

You should already have extensive experience gathering, documenting, validating and managing requirements, whether your role was as a business analyst, systems analyst, project lead, project manager or subject matter expert or something similar.  If you are just graduating from school and don’t have much on-the-job experience yet, you can still profit from this course; it will help you to plan and manage your career so that you will be able to earn the professional certification as soon as you qualify

Course Content

During this course, students will:

• Prepare to take the CBAP exam
• Learn BABOKv2.0 terms, definitions, and processes
• Discover styles and types of questions found on the CBAP exam
• Successfully navigate the CBAP/CCBA application process
• Apply to write the exam
• Develop your own personal study plan
• Use the BABOK Guide® as your primary study tool
• Network with other business analysts who are studying, or who have recently taken the exam
• Apply proven study techniques, and
• Identify those areas where you need to study the most

Prerequisites

This course is suitable for experienced people who wish to prepare for the CBAP exam. In order to attain CBAP certification, you must meet the standard IIBA certification qualifications listed on the IIBA webpage (under certification).

Course Outline

1. Introduction

• What is IIBA^TM Certification?
• Why should you earn a professional certification?
• Benefits for your organization
• Available study resources and how to use them

2. Develop Your Personal Study Plan

• Describe what you have to do to apply, and to successfully write the exam.
• Understand your learning style
• Develop your study plan, schedule and budget
• Learn how to measure and track your study progress

3. An overview of the BABOK® Guide

• Introduce the 6 Knowledge Areas, tasks, techniques and underlying competencies
• Start to apply the BABOK® Guide as your primary study reference
• Get familiar with key terms like domain, solution, capability, and requirement
• Understand the roles of key stakeholders in business analysis
• Learn great study tips to the BABOK® Guide

4. The Elicitation Knowledge Area

• Learn how to use a combination of elicitation techniques to elicit unstated and implied requirements, and to confirm elicitation results
• Investigate those techniques with which you are least familiar

5. Enterprise Analysis

• Describe the role business analysis plays before a project is initiated
• Apply key concepts like Business Goals and Objectives, and Business Case

6. Requirements Analysis

• Learn how to use visual models to analyze, document and validate requirements
• Apply key techniques like Prioritization and Backlog Management
• Apply different requirements verification and validation techniques

7. Solution Assessment and Validation

• Understand how to determine the solution approach
• Apply measurement techniques to aid with benefits realization
• Apply techniques to support the smooth implementation of a solution.

8. Requirements Management and Communication Knowledge Area

• Understand how to apply key concepts like traceability and scope control

9. Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring Knowledge Area

• Plan requirements elicitation, documentation and validation on a specific initiative
• Determine the business analysis approach to a plan-driven, or waterfall-type of project, and a change-driven, or iterative (agile) type-of-project
• Describe how to measure and monitor the performance of business analysis work

10. How To Apply To Write The Exam

• Start your application to write the CCBA or CBAP exam, using the spreadsheet provided with this course
• Understand what the IIBA will allow and will not allow as valid BA experience
• Learn how to calculate your eligible hours