The Certified Business Analysis Professional™ (CBAP ®) designation is a professional certification for individuals with extensive business analysis (BA) experience. CBAP® recipients are the leading, senior members of the BA community.
For a limited time, IIBA members save 20%* on IIBA’s full suite of certification exams including, ECBA, CCBA, CBAP, IIBA-AAC, IIBA-CBDA, IIBA-CCA, and IIBA-CPOA when they purchase and write the exam between November 1 and December 30, 2024.
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By becoming CBAP certified, you not only validate your advanced business analysis skills but also position yourself for significant financial rewards and career growth. Invest in your future and maximize your salary potential with the CBAP certification.
It demonstrates you have the knowledge, competencies and experience as a highly effective business analysis professional.
It allows you to stand out to employers and peers by showcasing your dedication to your career and the profession of business analysis.
CBAP certified professionals have higher compensation, earn up to 13% more being CBAP certified.
To earn the CBAP® designation, candidates must:
Is CBAP® right for you? The CBAP® certification is for:
CBAP®, remote online proctoring is now available! This new option provides flexibility to take the exam online anywhere in the world. Test centre option is also still available, the choice is yours!
The CBAP® exam consists of 120 multiple choice questions and must be completed within 3.5 hours. Formulated from the BABOK® Guide, exam questions are both scenario and case study-based.
This is a computer-based exam. The CBAP® exam can be taken online via proctor format or at a PSI test center. To be admitted to the exam and more details on preparation for this exam, please review our exam information guidelines.
The Certified Business Analysis Professional™ (CBAP®) offers members of the BA community a variety of benefits, including:
CBAP recognizes your expertise in multiple business domains and your ability to tackle more complex projects, work with stakeholders to define and manage their business requirements, drive business processes, lead the BA effort, and identify opportunities to achieve better business results.
The IIBA® Annual Business Analysis Salary Survey reports that the average salary of respondents with CBAP® certification holders is 13% higher on average in earnings in comparison to non-certification holders.
IIBA is pleased to announce we have introduced digital badges as a way to share and validate business analysis certification achievements.
Business analysis planning and monitoring |
14% |
Elicitation and collaboration |
12% |
Requirements life cycle management |
15% |
Strategy analysis |
15% |
Requirements analysis and design definition |
30% |
Solution evaluation |
14% |
A. Future strengths with current threats
B. Future threats with future strengths
C. Current strengths with future threats
D. Current strengths with current threats
Answer = C
Strengths /Opportunities Strategies
How can the group’s strength be used to exploit potential opportunities?
SO strategies are fairly straightforward to implement.
Strengths / Threats Strategies
How can the group use its strengths to ward off potential threats?
Can the threats be turned into opportunities?
Weaknesses / Opportunities Strategies
Can the group use an opportunity to eliminate or mitigate a weakness?
Does the opportunity warrant the development of new capabilities?
Weaknesses / Threats Strategies
Can the group restructure itself to avoid the threat?
Should the group consider getting out of this market?
WT strategies involve worst-case scenarios.
A. The process flow for entering an order is bi-directional
B. The systems interface for exchanging order details is unidirectional
C. The end-to-end test scenario is initiated by entering orders from a remote system
D. The use case for reporting order activity is an extension of the use case for entering an order
Answer = C
A. Use Case 4 expresses common behavior across several use cases
B. Use Case 1 occurs before Use Case 3
C. Use Case 2 adds unique behavior across several use cases
D. Use Case 3 occurs before Use Case 4
Answer = A
A. Associate actors with use cases
B. Separate processes into swim lanes
C. Create foreign keys for entity relationships
D. Elaborate input and output for data transformations
Answer = D
A. The vice president's high level of influence will cause the BA to leverage the organizational modelling technique.
B. The vice president's decision making authority will cause the BA to develop a new stakeholder engagement approach.
C. The vice president's negative attitude towards the project will cause the BA to leverage the risks analysis and management technique.
D. The vice president's disagreement with the project's objectives will cause the BA to leverage the stakeholder list, map, or personas technique.
Answer = C
A. Create a RACI Matrix
B. Monitor stakeholder engagement
C. Assign stakeholders specific tasks
D. Provide adequate time for group discussions
Answer = A
A. Communication plans
B. Performance objectives
C. Solution scope
D. Traceability repository
Answer = D
A. Document the current solution's existing functionality
B. Develop the performance measures for the new solution
C. Create a wish list of desired performance functionality
D. Review the features of commercial off-the-shelf products
Answer = A
A. When the solution is designed
B. When the solution is fully implemented
C. When the elicitation activities are complete
D. When the solution is in use in some form
Answer = D
*Terms & Conditions:
The 20% exam rebate offer applies to IIBA members in good standing, and who purchase and write the following exams: ECBA™, CCBA®, CBAP®, IIBA®-AAC, IIBA®-CBDA, IIBA®-CCA, and IIBA®-CPOA, between November 1 and December 30, 2024, 11:59 PM, Eastern Time (ET). This promotion only applies to new purchases made during the promotional period. The exam cannot be taken on the same day as the exam purchase. The exam fulfillment provider determines exam scheduling availability. The rebate applies to exam fees and exam rewrite fees only. Only payments made via credit card are eligible for the rebate and refunds will be applied in USD after the exam is completed, with processing taking up to January 15, 2025. Currency exchange rates fluctuate daily, so the refunded amount may differ slightly based on exchange rates. The exam rebate applies only to the exam portion of the IIBA®-CCA and IIBA®-CPOA bundled prices. Non-members are welcome to take advantage of this discount by first becoming an IIBA member before making their eligible purchase and exam booking. The offer does not apply to bulk or volume purchase agreements (VPAs), or members of the partner program (formerly the corporate program). The offer may not be used in conjunction with any other promotional code, discount, or offer. This offer is subject to change without notice. Certain exclusions may apply.