Foundation Certificate in Business Analysis Practice Exam
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Foundation Certificate in Business Analysis Practice Exam
The Foundation Certificate in Business Analysis is an entry-level certification designed to equip individuals with the fundamental knowledge and practices of business analysis. The exam will help you acquire a comprehensive grasp of business analysis, encompassing:
- Understanding the role and competencies expected of a business analyst
- Identifying and assessing options for enhancing business operations
- Utilizing investigative techniques such as interviews, workshops, prototyping, and scenario analysis
- Categorizing, analyzing, and effectively managing stakeholders
- Crafting a business case and evaluating feasibility
- Documenting, managing, and validating requirements
Who should take the exam?
The foundation certificate is for individuals seeking to gain insight into business analysis, aid in change management, and enhance business operations. It is suitable for business analysts, business managers, team members, business change managers, and project managers.
Exam Details
- Exam Name: Foundation Certificate in Business Analysis
- Exam Languages: English
- Exam Questions: 40 Questions
- Time: One hour
- Passing Score: 65%
Course Outline
The Foundation Certificate in Business Analysis Exam covers the given topics -
Domain 1: Overview of Business Analysis (5%)
- Describe the business change lifecycle.
- List the key principles of business analysis.
- Describe the variants of the business analyst role.
Domain 2: The Competencies of a Business Analyst (2.5%)
- Explain the concept of the T-shaped Professional
- Identify the three areas of business analysis competency
Domain 3: Understand Strategy Analysis (7.5%)
- The context for strategy
- Define the factors assessed using PESTLE to analyse an external environment.
- Idenitfy the elements of the VMOST technique used to analyse an internal environment.
- Describe the following elements of performance measurement.
- Describe the structure of a SWOT analysis
Domain 4; Understand The Business Analysis Service Framework (2.5%)
- Identify the activities in the Business Analysis Service Framework (BASF).
Domain 5: Investigation Business Situation (12.5%)
- Interviews
- Observation
- Workshops
- Scenarios
- Prototyping
- Quantitative approaches
Domain 6: Stakeholder Analysis and Management (10%)
- Stakeholder categories and identification
- Analyzing stakeholders
- Stakeholder management strategies
- Managing stakeholders
- Understanding stakeholder perspectives
- Business activity models
Domain 7: Improving Business Processes (12.5%)
- Explain the business process hierarchy
- List the following techniques used to model the enterprise level processes.
- Describe the following aspects of the event-response level
- Describe the following aspects of the actor-task level
- Identify generic approaches to improving business processes
- Define the purpose of customer journey maps.
Domain 8: Defining the solution (7.5%)
- Gap analysis
- Introduction to Business Architecture
- Definition of Business Architecture
- Business Architecture techniques
Domain 9: Making a Business Case (5%)
- The business case in the project lifecycle
- Identifying options
- Assessing project feasibility
- Structure of a business case
- Investment appraisal
Domain 10: Establishing the Requirements (10%)
- A framework for requirements engineering
- Actors in requirements engineering
- Requirements elicitation
- Requirements analysis
- Requirements validation
Domain 11: Documenting and Modelling Requirements (10%)
- Identify the following documentation styles.
- List the elements of a requirements catalogue.
- Describe the format of user stories.
- Describe the elements of the use case diagram used to model functional requirements.