Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP) Certification

COURSES INCLUDED

BUSINESS ANALYSIS OVERVIEW
Implementing process and system changes to an organization requires fully analyzing the business to enable careful planning. The globally recognized standards of practice in the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK), guide the business analyst in the proper analytics to ensure that the needs of the organization are well understood so that solutions are designed to meet those needs. In this course, you’ll learn about the final tasks in the requirements analysis and design definition knowledge area. Defining a requirements architecture, defining design options, and analyzing potential value and recommending solutions.
11 videos | 43m Assessment

THE BA PLANNING AND MONITORING KNOWLEDGE AREA
The Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK), outlines the globally recognized standards of practice to use when thoroughly analyzing the business. This course explores the solution evaluation knowledge area. You’ll learn about how the tasks in the Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring Knowledge Areas produce documents that direct you, as a business analyst, throughout a project. You’ll also learn how to plan your business analytics to identify performance improvements.
18 videos | 1h 11m Assessment

THE BA ELICITATION AND COLLABORATION KNOWLEDGE AREA
Designing effective solutions requires eliciting useful information from stakeholders. This means building good relationships, establishing strong collaboration and monitoring stakeholder activities. Using the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK), as an aid to analyzing the business, a business analyst can ensure the needs of the organization are met, and that design solutions meet those needs. In this course, you’ll learn about the inputs, guidelines and analytics techniques that are used in elicitation and collaboration tasks.
18 videos | 1h 4m Assessment

THE REQUIREMENTS LIFE CYCLE MANAGEMENT KNOWLEDGE AREA
The requirements life cycle guides business analysts in managing requirements throughout their life span. Using the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK) as an aid to analyzing the business ensures the relationships between requirements and designs are understood, traced, and approved, so that solutions meet stakeholder needs. In this course, you’ll learn about the analysis and analytics tasks in the requirements lifecycle management knowledge area.
11 videos | 40m Assessment

THE STRATEGY ANALYSIS KNOWLEDGE AREA
Before the solution to a business problem can be implemented, a business analyst must perform a strategy analysis. Analyzing the business using the standards of practice in the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK), can aid in assessing the organization’s current state, as well as its desired future state, to determine what the change strategy will look like. In this course, you’ll explore documentation techniques, business and use cases, metrics, and acceptance and evaluation criteria for effective business analytics work.
9 videos | 44m Assessment

RADD KNOWLEDGE AREA: PART 1
Using the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK) as a guide to analyzing the business helps the business analyst develop requirements that represent value to stakeholders and align with business goals. In this course you’ll learn about personal skills required by for effective business analytics. You’ll learn about three key tasks in the requirements analysis and design definition knowledge area: specifying and modeling requirements, verifying requirements, and validating requirements.
9 videos | 28m Assessment

RADD KNOWLEDGE AREA: PART 2
The Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK) helps the business analyst to follow a globally recognized standard of practice when analyzing the business. This course explores the competencies fundamental to business analytics and analysis, including behavioral characteristics, business knowledge, and the tools and technology knowledge necessary for effective business analysis work.
10 videos | 33m Assessment

THE SOLUTION EVALUATION KNOWLEDGE AREA
Standards of analytics practice in the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK) help guide the business analyst in tasks and requirements for analyzing the business. In this course, you’ll learn about the business analysis solution evaluation knowledge area and its necessary analytics. You’ll cover the characteristics of Agile, business intelligence, information technology, business architecture, and business process management perspectives.
10 videos | 41m Assessment

BUSINESS ANALYSIS ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES
One definition of business analysis is the decomposition of a problem or process into its basic elements to identify a solution or opportunity for change. In order to carry out this analysis, a business analyst must understand and regularly use analytics tools and models to help in the scoping, planning, and decision-making process. In this course, you’ll learn some key principles covered in the business analysis body of knowledge (BABOK) framework, which explains the business tasks that must be performed to deliver a solution that provides value for an organization. This framework includes effective techniques that you can use when analyzing the business environment your organization operates in.
16 videos | 1h 17m Assessment

BUSINESS ANALYSIS ACTIVITIES AND TOOLS
When carrying out a business analysis activity, you’ll often need to synthesize and parse vast quantities of data. To get meaningful and useful information from this raw data, you must be competent in a wide range of business analytics tools and techniques. In this course, you’ll learn about the different tools to use when analyzing the business challenges your organization is facing. You’ll also explore some of the key models and activities covered in the business analysis body of knowledge (BABOK) framework, which describes the tasks that a business analyst must perform to deliver an effective solution to a problem.
16 videos | 1h 17m Assessment

BUSINESS ANALYSIS DOCUMENTATION & CRITERIA
Explore documentation techniques, business and use cases, metrics, and acceptance and evaluation criteria for effective business analysis work.
12 videos | 41m Assessment

PERSONAL SKILLS FOR EFFECTIVE BUSINESS ANALYSIS
The effective use of analytics tools and techniques is a key requirement when analyzing the business problems your organization is currently dealing with. However, it’s vital that you also possess a strong set of personal skills to help you process and understand the large amounts of data you’ll likely come across during your analysis. In this course, you’ll learn about some of the personal competencies required by a business analyst. These skills are covered in the business analysis body of knowledge (BABOK), and include analytical thinking and problem solving, interaction skills, and communication skills.
11 videos | 39m Assessment

BUSINESS ANALYSIS PROFESSIONAL EFFECTIVENESS COMPETENCIES
In addition to personal skills such as problem-solving ability and communication skills, a business analyst must also possess a core set of professional competencies in order to do their job effectively. In this course, you’ll learn about some of the professional competencies that are fundamental to business analysis, and which are featured in the business analysis body of knowledge (BABOK). You’ll explore the behavioral characteristics and business knowledge needed when analyzing the business challenges your organization must overcome. You’ll also learn about the analytics tools and technology knowledge necessary to carry out a detailed and useful business analysis.
12 videos | 28m Assessment

PERSPECTIVES FOR EFFECTIVE BUSINESS ANALYSIS
When analyzing the business problems, or internal processes, that exist in your organization, you must be knowledgeable in the characteristics, required competencies, methodologies and analytics tools involved. You’ll also need to understand how different business analysis perspectives apply or can be combined depending on your organization’s context. In this course, you’ll learn about characteristics of Agile and business intelligence. The course also covers different perspectives of information technology, business architecture, and business process management – perspectives that are also feature in the business analysis body of knowledge (BABOK) framework, which outlines the tasks that a business analyst must perform to deliver an effective solution to a problem.
15 videos | 1h 18m Assessment