9.e Topics which can make a difference in business analyst certification

Business careers are thriving these days and the need for trained business analysts is increasing daily. The business analysts provide a different outlook, insight and unique perspective on the needs and problems of business. That being said business analysts certification is the opportunity to make a career in business analysis and management. These certification courses and provided online. There may be many things to study for this certification but here are a few topics that can prove to be the difference or can be important in gaining a business analysis certification:

  • The topic that can be deemed as an important one that carries the most load of the certification examinations isInvestigation technique which carries about 15% of the total marks in the examination. Further under this topic the other subtopic includes:
  • Interviews: Where you need to study about the various advantages and disadvantages of interviewing, preparation for interviewing, the various methods and techniques for an interview and at last the following up of the interview.
  • Observation which includes the advantages and disadvantages of observations, formal observations, the analysis of protocols, shadowing and other ethnographic studies
  • Workshops under which lie again the various advantages and disadvantages of worshops, preparing and facilitating the workshop, the various techniques and methods used in the workshops and finally the process of follow up of the workshop
  • Scenarios: The various advantages and disadvantages of scenarios are important under this subtopic and you need to have a keen and proper knowledge regarding the concept of developing scenarios and documentation of scenarios.
  • The Pros and Cons of prototyping
  • The Quantitative approaches to business analysis which includes the questionnaires, the analysis of the documents. The sampling of the activities and the records which are kept for special purposes.
  • The method of proper documentation of the contemporary business situations which includes the overall pictures and finding of the maps are the other important sub topics that can make contribute to an overall difference and increase on the chances of gaining a certification in business analysis.
  • Business and Financial cases making: It is another of them topics that can prove to be quite important for the examinations of the business analysis certification process the area you will need to cover in this topic are:
  • The case of a business in the lifecycle of a project. How the aspect of business effects the overall lifecycle of the project and the role of business in the overall lifecycle of such project are the points you need to consider seriously
  • The various options of identifications
  • The assessment of Project feasibility which further includes the various different types of feasibility options such as business feasibility, technical and financial feasibilities.
  • The general structures of a business case/scenario: Under this subtopic you will need to get a good idea about the various contents of a business case and the different categories of benefits and cost, the assessment of impact and risk factors.
  • The appraisal of investment in the business case where you can check on various payback and cash flow (discounted) and the internal rate of return.
  • Business cases representation and
  • The advantages of realization approach.
  • Models of Business Process : The other important topic to prepare on.
  • The various contexts of an organization which includes the knowledge on the function of an organization
  • A different and alternative perspectives on Organization
  • Business Processes organizational view
  • Value chain and propositions.
  • The various business process models which include the development of business process model.
  • Analysis on the business process model
  • Improvement of the business processes or the designated business process, here you need to study the
  • Simplification of the process
  • Bottleneck Removal
  • Changing the sequence of the task
  • Redesign of the process
  • Redefinition of the process boundaries.
  • Requirement of modeling
  • The various functions of modeling systems which includes the usage of case diagrams and the <>, <> constructions
  • Model of the system data under which the various diagrams on the entity relationship: Entities, attributes and relationship and the various types of relationships
  • Class Models which includes the various objects and classes, their attributes and associations.

Apart from these topics you can also focus on the topic: Gathering the requirements which includes various problems regarding the requirements and

  1. Requirements engineering Process
  2. Requirements engineering actors
  3. The building of the requirements lists
  4. Analysis of the requirements
  5. Validation of the requirements

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