Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP ®)

Course details

Business Systems Analyst, Systems Analyst, Project Manager, Requirement Engineer, Process Analyst, Product Manager, Product Owner, Enterprise Analyst, Business Architect, Management Consultant, Data Analyst, Programmer Analyst or any other liaising with Customers/Vendors

Lesson 1: Enterprise Needs Analysis

• Determining Business Objectives
• Creating Business Architecture

Lesson 2: Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring

• Creating Requirements Plan to Feed into Project Plan
• Identifying and Documenting Requirements Risks
• Reporting on Requirements Progress as Input to Project Status Report

Lesson 3: Requirements Elicitation

• Facilitating Requirements Gathering Workshop

Lesson 4: Requirements Analysis

• Functional Requirements
• Non-Functional Requirements
• User Requirements

Lesson 5: Requirements Management and Communication

• Walkthroughs and Sign-offs of Requirements Package
• Preparing and Conducting
• Requirements Presentation for Senior Executives

Lesson 6: Solution Assessment and Validation

• Reviewing Test Strategy, Test Plans and Test Cases to Ensure Requirements are met; Supporting QA and Testing Team
• Reviewing Defects and Working with Client to Determine Priority of Fix and Manual Work Around

Lesson 7: Underlying Competencies of Business Analyst

Lesson 8: Advanced Business Analysis

• Agile Business Analysis, Agile
• Techniques

Lesson 9: Case Study

Certification Requirements

Each CBAP® applicant must meet the requirements specified in this section to be eligible to write the exam. To earn the CBAP® designation, applicants must meet the following criteria:

• High school or equivalent education
• Minimum 7500 hours of BA work experience aligned with the BABOK® guide in the last 10 years
• Minimum 900 hours in each of four of the six knowledge areas
• Minimum 4 days of formal BA education in the past 4 years
• Two references from a career manager, client or CBAP® recipient
• Signed code of conduct