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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

Business Analysis Core Concept Model™

Before we delve into each of the specific tasks in Requirements Analysis and Design Definition, let's understand how this knowledge area applies to BACCM™ with an example.

The six core concepts that are described in BACCM™ include the following:

  • Change
  • Need
  • Solution
  • Stakeholder
  • Value
  • Context

Here, we will consider how Requirements Analysis and Design Definition as a knowledge area applies to BACCM™ through the use of a practical example.

Change

This core concept refers to how elicitation results are transformed into requirements and designs in order to define change.

Let's look at an example to bring this concept around change to life.

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