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PMI Professional in Business Analysis (PMI-PBA)®

PMI certification recognizing an individual's expertise in business analysis and its application to project success.

Licensing authority: Project Management Institute

Initial by examination
PMI-PBA examination
Applicability
The current PMI certification page adopts the ECO downloaded in this run. No official credential, route or version effective-start date is stated; dates remain null rather than being inferred from retrieval, copyright, PDF metadata or investigation date.
Application
Submit the application with experience and training documentation; provide eligibility documentation if selected for audit. After application acceptance, pay the exam fee, complete the stated identity verification, and schedule the examination individually.
Eligibility Alternatives
[{"education":"Secondary degree (high school diploma, associate's degree or global equivalent)","experience":"60 months as a business analysis practitioner earned in the last 8 years","training":"35 contact hours in business analysis practices"},{"education":"Bachelor's degree or higher degree (or global equivalent)","experience":"36 months as a business analysis practitioner earned in the last 8 years","training":"35 contact hours in business analysis practices"},{"education":"Bachelor's or postgraduate degree from a GAC accredited program (bachelor's or master's degree or global equivalent)","experience":"Minimum two years/24 months unique nonoverlapping professional business analysis experience","training":"35 contact hours of formal education"}]
Examination
The same PMI-PBA examination applies to the three educational/experience eligibility alternatives; those alternatives are qualifications, not separate examinations or exam-free routes.

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
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