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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

Task: Plan Stakeholder Engagement

According to the BABOK® v3 Guide, the purpose of Plan Stakeholder Engagement is as follows:

"to plan an approach for establishing and maintaining effective working relationships with the stakeholders.”

Here is a football analogy: a good way to think about this task is to consider the stakeholders as members of a football team. Every team member has a different role to play, directly or indirectly, but ultimately, everyone has the same goal. Some play positions that are only required for part of the game and other team members stay for the whole duration of the game. There are stakeholders who don’t actively play in the game but they contribute by bringing water to the players or by putting the score on the board. The business analysis team needs to understand who all the different stakeholders are and understand what type...