Important Techniques for CBAP Certification Examination
This again is a very frequent question that we receive from our CBAP participants. BABoK V3 has 50 techniques and obviously, all techniques would not be of equal importance for all three certifications. Some techniques are more important to junior business analysts and some techniques are used more by the Senior Business Analysts.
In this article, we are going to categorize the techniques into three categories based on their complexity levels. Low complexity techniques are more useful for ECBA aspirants. Medium and high complex ones are more important for CBAP examination aspirants. High complexity techniques would require CBAP practitioners more time and effort to understand and be comfortable with.
You must be wondering how did we come up with this list?
It’s primarily based on inputs from many of our past CBAP participants regarding what kind of techniques challenged them more during the CBAP certification examination. Secondly, most business analysts start their careers as requirements analysts and as part of requirement analysis work, they use some techniques more extensively than others. Techniques that typically belong to strategy analysis planning and solution evaluation are the techniques where usually many have a lesser comfort level and obviously, they need to pay more attention to those techniques. Three specific areas that we would advise CBAP participants to pay attention are the techniques related to Financial Analysis, Decision Analysis, and UML.
Here are a few blogs and videos that we published which will help CBAP aspirants:
Estimation
https://www.adaptiveus.com/business-analysis-estimation-technique/
Metrics and KPI
https://www.adaptiveus.com/business-analysis-world-indicators/
Data and Concept model
https://www.adaptiveus.com/concept-model-vs-data-model/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdvgaxqTkmE&feature=youtu.be
Process analysis
https://www.adaptiveus.com/process-modeling-vs-process-analysis/
Business model canvas
https://www.adaptiveus.com/balanced-scorecard-vs-business-model-canvas/
Non-functional requirements
https://www.adaptiveus.com/blog/non-functional-requirements
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