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CCBA® and CBAP® Certifications Study Guide

By : Esta Lessing
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CCBA® and CBAP® Certifications Study Guide

By: Esta Lessing

Overview of this book

Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP®) is a certification from the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA®) for professionals with extensive experience in business analysis. The CCBA® and CBAP® validates your proficiency in various aspects of business analysis and your ability to tackle challenging projects, work effectively with stakeholders, and identify and deliver business value. You’ll start by learning about the benefits of CCBA® and CBAP® certifications for your career progression before focussing on the six core knowledge areas explained thoroughly in each chapter. These include topics such as business analysis planning and monitoring, elicitation and collaboration, requirements life cycle management, strategy analysis, requirements analysis, and design definition as well as solution evaluation. The book includes the essential underlying competencies and techniques to ensure a complete understanding of the BABOK® v3 guide content. Each chapter delves into the essential concepts and business analysis task considerations utilizing practical examples. Finally, you’ll assess your knowledge through mock exam questions based on real-world case studies. By the end of this book, you’ll have gained the business analysis skills needed to prepare for the certification exams and to advance in your career.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
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Mock Exam Questions: Theory

Requirements Analysis and Design Definition

This chapter covers the tasks that are used to structure the requirements that we have elicited and gathered.

During this chapter, you will learn what it means to verify and validate requirements, define the requirements architecture, and define the possible solution options that could be pursued. We will also describe the task of analyzing the potential value and provide guidelines for recommending a solution.

This chapter dives into some of the BABOK® v3 guide tasks—specifying and modeling requirements, verifying requirements, validating requirements, defining the requirements architecture, defining solution options, and analyzing the potential value and recommending a solution. We will also bring each task into the real world with scenarios and examples.

By the end of this chapter, you will understand the following concepts...