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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 Business Analysis Information Management

According to the BABOK® v3 Guide, the purpose of Plan Business Analysis Information Management is as follows:

"to develop an approach for how business analysis information will be stored and accessed.”

Business analysis information includes all the different artifacts that are generated during the different business analysis activities in a project. Examples include everything from scope statements, models, and elicitation meeting notes to requirements documentation and designed prototypes! If you start listing all the different types of business analysis information types that could be generated by a team, it is easy to realize that a plan should be agreed early on in the project for managing, linking, and tracking all the different business analysis information types.

Ideally, as a business analyst, you should...