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PMI-PBA examination
- Provider
- Pearson Vue Testing Center or securely online
- Format
- Multiple-choice examination
- Exam questions
- Total questions: 200; Scored questions: 175; Unscored questions: 25; The total includes the scored and unscored questions.
- Time limit
- 240 minutes
Examination outline
Needs Assessment (18%)
- Define or review a business problem or opportunity
- Collect and analyze information to determine the value proposition
- Collaborate in developing project goals and objectives
- Identify stakeholders
- Determine stakeholder values and prioritize requirements
Planning (22%)
- Review the business case and project goals and objectives
- Define requirements traceability strategy
- Develop the requirements management plan
- Select requirements change control methods
- Select document control methods
- Define business metrics and acceptance criteria
Analysis (35%)
- Elicit or identify requirements
- Analyze, decompose, and elaborate requirements
- Evaluate product options and capabilities
- Allocate accepted or deferred requirements
- Obtain sign-off on the requirements baseline
- Write requirements specifications
- Validate requirements
- Elaborate detailed metrics and acceptance criteria
Traceability and Monitoring (15%)
- Track requirements, status, sources, and relationships
- Monitor requirements throughout their lifecycles
- Update requirements status through lifecycle states
- Communicate requirements status
- Manage changes to requirements
Evaluation (10%)
- Validate solution test results and evidence
- Analyze and communicate solution gaps and deltas
- Obtain stakeholder sign-off on the developed solution
- Evaluate the deployed solution
Examination sources
- PMI-PBA current certification page
Exam Content Outline (ECO), current English download link
- PMI-PBA Examination Content Outline
PDF page 5, printed page 1, examination content control
- PMI-PBA Examination Content Outline
PDF page 7, printed page 3, entire domain allocation table
- PMI-PBA Examination Content Outline
PDF pages 8–12, printed pages 4–8, Domains and Tasks, five full task tables
- PMI-PBA Examination Content Outline
PDF pages 13–14, printed pages 9–10, Knowledge and Skills items 1–40
- PMI-PBA Examination Content Outline
PDF pages 15–16, printed pages 11–12, Appendix A test plan and repeated domain table
- PMI-PBA Examination Content Outline
PDF page 7, printed page 3, paragraph preceding domain table
- PMI-PBA Examination Content Outline
PDF page 16, printed page 12, Appendix A, paragraph above table
- PMI-PBA current certification page
About the Exam
- PMI-PBA current certification page
Path to PMI-PBA certification, step 3, acceptance and payment
- PMI-PBA current certification page
Path to PMI-PBA certification, step 3, Schedule your exam
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