Acquire foundational business analysis skill with ECBA™ certification from IIBA, covering fundamental principles and key concepts for new professionals.

Syllabus

Introduction to Business Analyisis

In this track, you will be introduced the BABOB Guide and learn about the fundamentals concepts essential for understanding business analysis.

Planning and Monitoring

In this track, you will learn how business analysts careful plan and continuously monitor business analysis inititiates to ensure alignment with stakeholder needs and organizational goals.

Elicitation and Collaboration

In this track, learn how to plan and conduct elicitation activities, confirm and communicate the results, and manage stakeholder collaboration. And, examine the importance of maintaining strong relationships and ensuring stakeholder engagement to support effective analysis and change.

Requirements and Designs Life Cycle Management

In this track, explore the tasks involved in managing the life cycle of requirements and designs, from tracing and maintaining information to prioritizing, assessing changes, and gaining approvals.

Strategy Analysis

In this track, learn how to conduct strategy analysis by identifying business needs, evaluating capabilities and constraints, and defining achievable outcomes. You will also learn how to assess enterprise readiness, develop transition strategies, and evaluate potential value to determine whether proposed solutions are viable.

Requirements Analysis and Design Definition (RADD)

In this track, learn how to specify and model requirements using diagrams and matrices, verify their quality against established standards, and validate that they support business objectives and deliver stakeholder value. Then, learn how to create a cohesive requirements architecture that connects models, ensures completeness, and supports stakeholder communication. Explore how to define and evaluate design options based on validated requirements and improvement opportunities. Finally, discover how to assess the potential value of each option to recommend the solution that best meets business needs and maximizes stakeholder value.

Solution Evaluation

In this track, you will learn how to assess solution performance through both qualitative and quantitative measures, examine data patterns, and pinpoint the underlying causes of performance discrepancies. You'll also explore methods for evaluating both solution and enterprise constraints that may affect value delivery. Ultimately, you will discover how to propose actions to enhance performance and meet strategic goals.

Techniques

This track covers essential analytical techniques like benchmarking, document and process analysis, data flow diagrams, data mining, and prototyping. It includes risk and financial analysis, root cause analysis, SWOT, and decision modeling. It also teaches business analysis tools, such as brainstorming, mind mapping, interviews, workshops, and stakeholder collaboration. Documentation techniques, such as developing glossaries, writing business cases, and analyzing requirements, are also included to create structured and impactful analysis documentation.

Underlying Competencies

This track covers essential personal and professional skills for business analysis. Personal skills include analytical thinking, problem-solving, decision-making, interpersonal skills, and communication competencies. Professional competencies encompass ethical decision-making, trust-building, time management, adaptability, organization, business acumen, industry knowledge, and the use of methodologies and tools.

Perspectives

In this track, you will explore five key business analysis perspectives: Agile, Business Intelligence, Information Technology, Business Architecture, and Business Process Management.

Take the Practice Exam

Practice exams are designed to help you prepare for the exam and perform on exam day. Study at your own pace, whenever you want, and wherever you are most comfortable. Practice with exam-like questions.