Certification of Competency in Business Analysis (CCBA ®) Central

Course details

Business Systems Analyst, Systems Analyst, Project Manager/Leader, Requirements 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

• Brainstorming, Prototyping, Functional
• Decomposition

Lesson 4: Requirements Analysis, Verification and Validation

• 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 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: Case Study

Certification Requirements

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

• High school or equivalent education
• Minimum 3750 hours of BA work experience aligned with the BABOK® guide in the last 7 years
• Minimum 900 hours in each of two of the six knowledge areas, or 500 hours in each of four of the six knowledge areas
• Minimum 3 days of formal BA education in the past 4 years
• Two references from a career manager, client or CBAP® recipient
• Signed code of conduct