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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: Identify Business Analysis Performance Improvements

According to the BABOK® v3 Guide, the purpose of Identify Business Analysis Performance Improvements is as follows:

"to assess business analysis work and to plan to improve processes where required."

As we gain more experience in our roles as business analysts, we will naturally also learn how to perform better in the same situations we may have been unsure about in a previous role. However, by formally identifying ways to monitor and improve performance on a project, it is necessary to identify, more specifically, performance measures and perform analysis using those measures in order to be able to then report on the business analysis performance results. Ultimately, as a business analyst or a business analysis team, it should always be our goal to identify actions we can take to correct, prevent, or improve...