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EXIN BCS Foundation Certificate in Business Analysis

Foundation-level certification validating knowledge for a business analysis role.

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Initial by examination
EXIN BCS Foundation Certificate in Business Analysis
Certification Requirement
Pass the EXIN BCS Business Analysis Foundation exam.
Date Applicability
Current product adopts the freshly obtained English guide. No official start/end date was published; retrieval, publication and sample-paper editions are not substituted for effective dates.
Delivery
Actual product/channel availability applies; center availability varies; remote requires computer, internet, webcam and microphone.
Language
English only
Preparation
Accredited training strongly recommended, not mandatory; self-study permitted. Recommended 18 contact hours and 56 hours study effort (2 ECTS), depending on existing knowledge, are not prerequisite examinations.
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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
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