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EXIN BCS Foundation Certificate in Business Analysis
- Provider
- EXIN
- Format
- Closed-book multiple-choice knowledge examination; notes and electronic equipment/aides are prohibited.
- Exam questions
- Total questions: 40.
- Time limit
- 60 minutes
- Passing score
- 65% (26/40 questions)
Examination outline
What is business analysis? (5%)
- Business change lifecycle
- Key business analysis principles
- Business analyst role variants
The competencies of a business analyst (2.5%)
- T-shaped professional
- Three competency areas
The strategic context for business analysis (7.5%)
- Strategic context
- PESTLE external analysis
- VMOST internal analysis
- Performance measurement
- SWOT structure
- Strategy execution techniques
The Business Analysis Service Framework (BASF) (2.5%)
- BASF activities
Investigating the business situation (12.5%)
- Workshops
- Observation
- Interviews
- Scenarios
- Prototyping
- User role analysis
- Quantitative approaches
- Diagrammatic situation recording
Analyzing and managing stakeholders (10%)
- Stakeholder wheel categories
- Power/interest grid and management strategies
- RACI responsibilities
Improving business services and processes (12.5%)
- Business process hierarchy
- Enterprise-level modelling techniques
- Event-response level
- Actor-task level
- As-is process model
- Generic process improvement
- Customer journey maps
Defining the solution (7.5%)
- Gap analysis process
- POPIT in gap analysis
- Developing options
- Design thinking
Making the business case (5%)
- Business case lifecycle
- Feasibility assessment areas
- Business case structure
- Agile business cases
- CARDI log
- Investment appraisal
Establishing the requirements (10%)
- Requirements engineering framework
- Requirements engineering actors
- Requirements types
- Requirements hierarchy
- Requirements elicitation
- Requirements analysis
Documenting and modelling requirements (10%)
- Documentation styles
- Requirements catalogue
- User story format
- Use case diagram elements
- Class model elements
- Agile product backlog
- Business requirements document structure
Validating and managing requirements (5%)
- Requirements validation types
- Requirements management
Delivering the requirements (5%)
- Delivery lifecycles
- Lifecycle advantages and disadvantages
Delivering the business solution (5%)
- Analyst role across business change lifecycle
- Analyst role in design, development and test
- Implementation approaches
- Benefits plan in realization
Examination sources
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p.7, Weight column sections 1–6; full table visually checked
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p.8, Weight column sections 7–13; full continuation visually checked
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p.9, Weight column section 14 and total; full table visually checked
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p.5, Requirements for certification
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