CBAP Exam Prep

Course overview

This is for senior business analysts who already do the work and want the CBAP. Over six weekends you cover the language of the exam, then each knowledge area: planning and monitoring, elicitation and collaboration, the life of a requirement, strategy, analysis and design, and solution evaluation. You revisit the techniques you already use, and the five perspectives: projects, agile, process, intelligence, and architecture. The questions are scenarios. You practise them, including case studies, so the clock is not the first time you see that kind of question. A full exam is 120 scenarios in three and a half hours. To apply, the institute asks for 7,500 hours of business analysis work in the last ten years, 900 hours in four of the six knowledge areas, and 35 hours of professional development in the last four years. This course is 35 hours. The institute decides whether those hours count on your application. We do not submit the application for you, and the exam fee is not in this price. Dates and the fee are on this page.

FAQ’s

What is business analysis, on this exam?

On the CBAP, business analysis is a set of tasks across six knowledge areas, written as scenarios. You are not asked to recite a definition. You are asked which task the situation is really describing. This course walks those tasks.

Why does this exam matter?

The CBAP is the senior credential. It does not make you an analyst. It tells an employer you can work from the body of knowledge under exam conditions. The fee for the exam itself is not included in this course.

What does the application ask for?

The institute asks for 7,500 hours of business analysis work in the last ten years, 900 hours in four of the six knowledge areas, and 35 hours of professional development in the last four years. This course is 35 hours. The institute decides whether those hours count. We do not file the application for you.

How is a business analyst different from a project manager, in the questions?

Many wrong answers are project-manager moves: the date, the budget, the status report. The exam wants the analysis move: the need, the stakeholder, the requirement, the change, or the value. You will practise telling them apart.

What will I practise handing over?

Not a document for its own sake. You will practise the outputs the tasks produce: an approach, a stakeholder plan, confirmed elicitation, traced and approved requirements, a change strategy, a recommended solution, and an action to improve value.

Which ways of working does the exam include?

The guide is not only one method. You will cover the perspectives: information-technology projects, agile, business process, business intelligence, and business architecture. The tasks stay. The setting changes.

What is elicitation, in the exam wording?

Prepare, conduct, confirm, communicate, and manage the collaboration. A scenario about a workshop is often a question about which of those tasks you are in. We use the guide's task names so the wording is not a surprise.

Where does testing show up?

As acceptance, evaluation criteria, and solution evaluation: did it perform, where the solution is limited, where the enterprise is limited, and what you recommend. You will see those as scenarios, not as a test-script class.

How do stakeholders show up in the questions?

As people you plan for, elicit from, collaborate with, and whose change you assess. The question is rarely "be nice to stakeholders". It is which task, and which stakeholder, the situation requires.

What is the difference between a functional and a non-functional requirement, here?

You already know it from the job. The exam asks you to specify, verify, and validate both, and to notice when a quality attribute was left out of the design options. We revise that, we do not reteach the job.

Do I need a particular tool?

No. The exam tests techniques, not products. There are fifty techniques in the guide. This course revises them for people who already use many of them, and spends the last weekend on scenario questions.

What is the exam itself?

One hundred and twenty scenario questions, in three and a half hours, based on the business analysis body of knowledge. You get two timed simulations here. The exam is booked with the institute, and that fee is not in this price. Dates for the course are on this page.

Do you guarantee a job after a cohort?

No. We publish dates, prices, refund terms and consented stories. Placement and income claims are not part of this academy.

What time zone are live sessions in?

Source zone is America/Toronto unless a cohort says otherwise. Session times always name that zone. Convert in your own calendar from the ICS on the cohort card.

Can I join a waitlist if a cohort is full?

Yes. Waitlist captures name, email and optional phone. It does not take payment. Seats that free up are offered in join order.

How does early-bird pricing work?

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What is the refund window?

Full refund before the published cut-off relative to the cohort start; after that the published bands on the Refund page apply. Checkout requires you to accept that policy.