IIBA^® CCBA^® Exam Prep and Certification Training — Essential Knowledge

CCBA Certification Course Outline

• Preparing for a Fact-Based Knowledge Exam

  • Identifying the goal of the exam and what will be tested
  • Demonstrating command of core Business Analysis (BA) facts and the BA process
  • Recalling technical content and best practise techniques

• The BA Professional and Key Concepts

  Positioning business analysis and BABOK^®v3 knowledge areas

  • Describing the role of the Business Analyst
  • Identifying underlying competencies and knowledge areas

  Describing the core concepts

  • Recognising a conceptual framework for BA work
  • Defining a BA vocabulary of key terms
  • Comparing the variety of stakeholders and requirements

• Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring

  Summarising the focus of BAPM tasks

  • Planning Business Analysis Approach
  • Planning Stakeholder Engagement
  • Planning Business Analysis Governance
  • Identifying BA Performance Improvements

  Constructing a plan for product specification

  • Choosing a methodology to guide the work
  • Managing the 3Rs

• Elicitation and Collaboration

  Summarising the focus of EC tasks

  • Preparing for elicitation
  • Conducting elicitation
  • Confirming results
  • Communicating information
  • Managing collaboration

  Describing elicitation tasks

  • Developing an activity plan
  • Acquiring and confirming stakeholder knowledge

• Requirements Life Cycle Management

  Summarising the focus of RLCM tasks

  • Tracing requirements by applying criteria
  • Maintaining requirements for reuse
  • Prioritising within a project
  • Assessing changes to requirements
  • Approving a set of requirements

  Explaining requirements states

  • Recognising life cycle attributes
  • Gaining approvals for work completed

• Strategy Analysis

  Summarising the focus of SA tasks

  • Analysing current state
  • Defining future state
  • Assessing risks
  • Defining change strategy

  Identifying the business need

  • Listing the business requirements
  • Defining the solution scope

• Requirements Analysis and Design Definition

  Summarising the focus of RADD tasks

  • Specifying and modelling requirements
  • Verifying requirements
  • Validating requirements
  • Defining a requirements architecture
  • Defining design options
  • Analysing potential value

  Choosing techniques based on the task

  • Describing the modelling and analysis required
  • Identifying a checklist for validating and verifying

• Solution Evaluation

  Summarising the focus of SE tasks

  • Measuring solution performance
  • Analysing performance measures
  • Assessing solution limitations
  • Assessing enterprise limitations
  • Recommending actions to increase value

  Interpreting the implemented value

  • Newly implemented or legacy existing
  • Illustrating the business value