IIBA CCBA Exam Preparation – Essential Knowledge

Description

Overview:

This course is a 1-day exam preparation study of fact-based questions.

Prerequisite(s):

IIBA Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK) Comprehensive Study

Audience:

Outline:

Lesson 1: Preparing for a Fact-Based Knowledge Exam

• Identifying the goal of the exam and what will be tested
• Demonstrating command of core Business Analysis (BA) facts and the BA process
• Recalling technical content and best practice techniques

Lesson 2: The BA Professional and Key Concepts

• Positioning business analysis and BABOK?v3 knowledge areas
  • Describing the role of the Business Analyst
  • Identifying underlying competencies and knowledge areas
• Describing the core concepts
  • ?Recognizing a conceptual framework for BA work
  • Defining a BA vocabulary of key terms
  • Comparing the variety of stakeholders and requirements

Lesson 3: Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring

• Summarizing the focus of BAPM tasks
  • ?Planning Business Analysis Approach
  • Planning Stakeholder Engagement
  • Planning Business Analysis Governance
  • Identifying BA Performance Improvements
• Constructing a plan for product specification
  • Choosing a methodology to guide the work
  • Managing the 3Rs

Lesson 4: Elicitation and Collaboration

• Summarizing the focus of EC tasks
  • Preparing for elicitation
  • Conducting elicitation
  • Confirming results
  • Communicating information
  • Managing collaboration
• Describing elicitation tasks
  • ?Developing an activity plan
  • Acquiring and confirming stakeholder knowledge

Lesson 5: Requirements Life Cycle Management

• Summarizing the focus of RLCM tasks
  • Tracing requirements by applying criteria
  • Maintaining requirements for reuse
  • Prioritizing within a project
  • Assessing changes to requirements
  • Approving a set of requirements
• Explaining requirements states
  • Recognizing life cycle attributes
  • Gaining approvals for work completed

Lesson 6: Strategy Analysis

• Summarizing the focus of SA tasks
  • Analyzing current state
  • Defining future state
  • Assessing risks
  • Defining change strategy
• Identifying the business need
  • Listing the business requirements
  • Defining the solution scope

Lesson 7: Requirements Analysis and Design Definition

• Summarizing the focus of RADD tasks
  • Specifying and modeling requirements
  • Verifying requirements
  • Validating requirements
  • Defining a requirements architecture
  • Defining design options
  • Analyzing potential value
• Choosing techniques based on the task
  • Describing the modeling and analysis required
  • Identifying a checklist for validating and verifying

Lesson 8: Solution Evaluation

• Summarizing the focus of SE tasks
  • Measuring solution performance
  • Analyzing performance measures
  • Assessing solution limitations
  • Assessing enterprise limitations
  • Recommending actions to increase value
• Interpreting the implemented value
  • Newly implemented or legacy existing
  • Illustrating the business value