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Salesforce Certified Business Analyst
Salesforce professional certification for understanding business needs, capturing requirements and collaborating with stakeholders on Salesforce solutions.
Licensing authority: Salesforce · Application information
Initial by examination
- Applicability
- Current official guide expressly aligns the exam to Winter '25; no official start or retirement date is stated, so date boundaries remain null.
- Conduct
- Accept the Salesforce Certification Program Agreement and Code of Conduct at the start of the exam.
- Prerequisite
- None, as stated by the exam guide.
- Qualification
- Take and pass the Business Analyst examination; passing score 72%.
- Recommended Experience
- Audience description: two years of Business Analyst experience and two years of Salesforce Platform experience; experience and self-study are recommended, without a prerequisite certification.
- Scheduling
- Select an appointment through Trailhead Academy: choose the exam and online-proctored or onsite option, then date/time or local venue/time slot. Online candidates review system requirements, confirm ID requirements and run the system test. Onsite candidates bring ID whose name exactly matches the booking.
Salesforce Certified Business Analyst Exam
- Provider
- Salesforce; delivery through Pearson VUE / Pearson OnVUE
- Format
- Proctored multiple-choice examination; no hard-copy or online reference materials.
- Exam questions
- Total questions: 60–65; Scored questions: 60; Unscored questions: 0–5; The total includes the scored and unscored questions.
- Time limit
- 105 minutes
- Passing score
- 72%
- Exam fee
- Registration US$200 or JPY 30,000; retake US$100 or JPY 15,000; plus applicable taxes as required per local law.
Examination outline
Customer Discovery (17%)
- Business strategies, goals, initiatives, challenges and project scope
- Existing product usage and current state
- Business Analyst roles across the implementation lifecycle
- Implementation lifecycle and business analysis planning
- Salesforce environment opportunities and constraints
- Salesforce capabilities, business needs and potential solutions
Collaboration with Stakeholders (23%)
- Discovery planning for target stakeholders
- Key stakeholder relationships and business-technical liaison
- Scenario-based business needs elicitation techniques
- Current state analysis to agreed future state design
- Scenario-based competing priorities and consensus
Business Process Mapping (12%)
- Complex process scope and manageable steps
- Process analysis, documentation and future state visualization
- Version-controlled business process documentation
Requirements (18%)
- Scope, requirements and user story distinctions
- Stakeholder identification, validation and prioritization of requirements
- Version-controlled requirements documentation
User Stories (18%)
- User story components and analysis
- Development-ready acceptance criteria conveying requirements
- Version-controlled user story documentation
Development Support and User Acceptance (12%)
- Support and validation of project delivery against requirements
- Support and validation of user acceptance testing against requirements
Examination sources
- Salesforce Certified Business Analyst Exam Guide
Purpose of This Exam Guide
- Salesforce Certified Business Analyst Exam Guide
About the Exam — Version
- Salesforce Certified Business Analyst Exam Guide
Exam Outline — introduction through all six domains and objectives, DOM blocks 79–107
- Salesforce Certified Business Analyst Exam Guide
Exam Outline — Customer Discovery allocation
- Salesforce Certified Business Analyst Exam Guide
Exam Outline — Collaboration with Stakeholders allocation
- Salesforce Certified Business Analyst Exam Guide
Exam Outline — Business Process Mapping allocation
- Salesforce Certified Business Analyst Exam Guide
Exam Outline — Requirements allocation
- Salesforce Certified Business Analyst Exam Guide
Exam Outline — User Stories allocation
- Salesforce Certified Business Analyst Exam Guide
Exam Outline — Development Support and User Acceptance allocation
- Salesforce Certified Business Analyst Exam Guide
Audience Description — not-expected activities
- Salesforce Certified Business Analyst Exam Guide
About the Exam — content, duration, passing score and version
- Salesforce Certified Business Analyst Exam Guide
About the Exam — additional unscored item paragraph
- Salesforce Certified Business Analyst Exam Guide
About the Exam — fees, delivery, references and prerequisite
- Schedule a Salesforce Certification Exam
Schedule an Online-Proctored Exam (Pearson OnVUE) — Registration Steps
- Schedule a Salesforce Certification Exam
Schedule an Exam at a Testing Center (Pearson VUE) — requirements and registration
- Schedule a Salesforce Certification Exam
Schedule an Online-Proctored Exam (Pearson OnVUE) — Pre-registration Requirements