CBAP Certification Prep Training Course Overview

Adaptive US is the only training organization to offer 100% Success or 100% Refund Guarantee on your CBAP training. As part of the 100% Success or 100% Refund, Adaptive pays a retake fee of USD 295 for the CBAP retake examination to IIBA, in the off chance that a student fails to clear the exam in the first attempt after following our suggested approach. If the student is unsuccessful in the 2nd attempt after following our recommended approach, Adaptive will pay the retake fees once more, and for the 3rd unsuccessful attempt, Adaptive will refund the training fees paid by the student (course fees-Payments made to IIBA for membership and application filing). We succeed with your success and fail with your failure. Back to Deliverables

Technology today offers tremendous opportunities to improve businesses. Business Analyst is a role where one can contribute to the organization's strategy, its offerings, its revenue, and its margin. It offers a great opportunity to interact with many stakeholders, develop innovative solutions and improve existing solutions. Business Analysts are the bridge between Business stakeholders and Technology Architects. The demand for Business Analysts is at an all-time high and the benefits are worth taking-up business analysis as a career choice. As a Business Analyst, one will always have a challenging and new job role or project in hand due to the uniqueness of each problem in varied companies. This is among the most popular certification courses for Business Analysts and is an infallible way to a successful career. Some of the benefits of getting this certification are:

• According to the 2020 Business Analysis Salary Survey Report by IIBA, BAs who hold this certification earn 59% more than non-certified individuals.
• It is an established credential and makes a business analyst's competence known and recognized globally by peers and management.

• It provides better career growth and job opportunities.
• The knowledge and skills acquired through this certification enable one to become an effective and efficient BA.
• It demonstrates continuous dedication to the profession to prospective employers.
• It helps BAs achieve reliable, quality results with enhanced efficiency and consistency.
• Industry reports predict that business analysis is one of the fastest-growing IT occupations and one of the top desired skills for tech workers.
• It also gives a positive feeling and enhanced confidence about achieving a milestone in one's BA career.

This certification from IIBA is aimed at business analysis professionals having 5 years of experience. It is a competency-based certification based on BABoK v3.

To earn this certification, applicants must meet the following criteria such as:

1. 7500 hours in the last 10 years, 900 hours of which should be in four out of the six Knowledge areas from BABOK® Guide Version 3 
2. 35 hours of Professional Development (PD Hours) in the past four years
3. Two references from a career manager, client or Certified Business Analysis Professional – CBAP®
4. A Signed Code of Conduct with IIBA

Adaptive US provides application review for this and filing support There is a good chance that you may ignore some part of your work experience and not count them as relevant BA experience. This certification is most suited for senior business analysts having a minimum of 5 years of experience performing the business analysis tasks.

What counts as a business analysis experience

• Requirements gathering and elicitation
• Requirements management
• Requirements analysis
• Process analysis
• Process Mapping
• Process Modeling
• Process set up/definition
• Requirements planning
• Solution evaluation
• The solution set up/structuring
• Solution selection
• ERP implementation-related activities

What does not count as a business analysis experience

• Managing requirements engineers
• Design/Development
• Coding
• Testing
• Project Management
• Status Reporting
• Operations

As part of the Adaptive US training program, the coach will guide you through the entire application filing process.

This certification is provided by the IIBA upon passing the CBAP exam of 3.5 hours.

The application for this certification exam happens through the IIBA website. The detailed steps on how to fill the IIBA application form can be found in the CBAP Handbook in the IIBA website.

Adaptive US offers an application simulator, which takes care of all the requirements from IIBA for this certification examination.

Individuals who have attained this designation must demonstrate an ongoing professional commitment to the business analysis profession by satisfying the CBAP Recertification criteria. Please check the Recertification Handbook in the IIBA website for details.

This certification is achieved after appearing for the exam that is 3.5 hours long. The exam has 120 multiple choice questions with only one correct option.

• The  questions are a mix of scenario-based questions  (~65-70%) and case based questions (~30-35%).
• Case based questions are  usually long cases (1-1.5 pages of information) with multiple questions (3 to 5 questions) about the case
The exam assesses the candidates practical application of the defined competencies for this level 3 certification in the IIBA Certification Framework. The current exam pattern is based on v3.0 of the BABOK Guide is as follows:

Explore FREE exam model questions in Adaptive's Learning Portal - Thinkific 

Examination weightage KA wise

The  exam fee/cost is as follows:

The first attempt of the exam is $350.00 USD for IIBA members and $505.00 USD for non-members, plus GST/HST for Canadian residents. The second attempt of the  exam is $295.00 USD for IIBA members and $450.00 USD for non-members, plus GST/HST for Canadian residents. The  application fee to be paid to IIBA is $145 for IIBA members as well as non-members, plus GST/HST for Canadian residents.
View more details on CBAP certification cost.

According to the 2021 Annual Business Analysis Salary Survey Summary Report by IIBA, holders of this certification earn 26% more than non-certified respondents. The average earnings for top 1/3 of CBAP holders is $120,395 USD.

You will get 35 IIBA PD hours/35 IIBA PDUs/ 35 CDU credits upon completion of the course. 35 IIBA PD hours/35 IIBA PDUs can be claimed by participants who wish to write the CBAP Certification exam, as this is mandated by IIBA as a pre-requisite to appear for the exam. 35 CDUs can be claimed by participants who are already certified by IIBA® (either CBAP or CCBA) and need to accumulate 60 CDUs every 3 years to renew their certification.

All candidates who wish to take IIBA certifications must read and agree to a mandatory Code of Conduct prior to applying in order to be able to proceed with your application. For more information on this, please visit the IIBA website.

This certification opens doors to a rewarding and successful career in business analysis. It gives greater confidence and fulfilment at work. The salary increase that comes with attaining this credential from IIBA is totally worth it in comparison to the investment that has to be made into it. It also gives you an opportunity to become part of an elite group of professionals who are known for their dedication and commitment to the field of business analysis.

We typically recommend 150-200 hours of preparation after attending the training session. Follow the below given process to ace the exam:

• Prepare a schedule and stick to the schedule (Grab your FREE copy of  the week wise exam preparation plan from Adaptive's Learning Portal - Thinkific > Exam Prep Help section & learn how to pass this certification exam in 12 weeks!)
• Start your preparation with the Adaptive CBAP study guide
• Take up one chapter at a time from the Adaptive US Study guide and test your understanding with the chapter based scenario and case study questions
• Complete the IIBA application filing with Adaptive US' application simulator that we provide as part of the training deliverable
• Revise the concepts by reading the Adaptive US Study guide 2/3 times and BABoK Study guide 2/3 times
• Attempt the 6 Adaptive US simulations comprising of 120 questions and review incorrect answers. In total, Adaptive provides 2300+ exam model questions to test your preparation
• Once you score about 85%+ in the model questions, you are ready to appear for the exam
• Book your exam dates 4 or 6 weeks later, preferably on a Monday
• Take the exam and become a proud holder of the CBAP® credential

There is 155 USD discount for IIBA members on the examination fees.

Self-study is not recommended for this certification exam for the following reasons:

• You need 35 PDUs for the IIBA application process and PD hours are obtained only from the live training.
• Clearing this exam is quite hard as there are no direct questions
• All the questions require deeper understanding of concepts, tasks and techniques, which comes only with the guidance, and mentoring of experienced coaches and study materials.
• Time management remains a big challenge till date and the exam prep tricks and tips from our coaches helps our participants to sail through this challenge.

The exam candidates will be notified immediately on screen once they submit their computer-based exam. For those who fail the exam, they will be provided with additional information, specifically the Knowledge Areas that require their attention.

You may take the exam up to 3 times within the 1-year application expiry period. There is no wait time between exam sittings. If you take the exam all 3 times and do not pass, you must wait until your application expires before you can reapply

The exam has 2 types of questions - scenario based and case-based. Adaptive's Learning Portal - Thinkific provides sample questions of both types.

Read on to move ahead in your BA career.

Yes, you have been a Business Analyst, done and lived the analyst role, been through all this, now it doesn't seem so interesting anymore.

Is this something you have been through as a Senior BA / BA Manager?

So what next?

Here is a very broad guideline for the career progression of a BA.

Four common career paths BAs can pursue are:
1. Business analysis
2. Product management
3. Project management
4. Consulting

However having said that it depends on the persons interest, domain/technical knowledge, interest to learn new concepts and risk-taking ability which determines largely the career progress.

If you are risk-taking and open to learn new concepts/domain, you can change your domain and move to a new field and establish yourself to be a good player in the field. This gives you good exposure and makes your career prospects broader. That makes you a good candidate for a senior executive position.

If you love what you are good at and aim to become an expert in the same without changing gears then you can master your domain including getting into other areas in the same domain. This can include having a good hold on the tools and products prevalent in the domain. This can make you a great specialist and unique in the field, which is invaluable for your career.

You can make yourself a great consultant in a particular field and can think of working with multiple clients to give them a part of your time and expert guidance. In return, this gives you the flexibility and the rich experience of working with multiple clients.

There is no better time than now to start something good.

Go and Kiss the world as per your taste and interest, the world is all yours if you can make it and believe in yourself.

There is no official data from IIBA to answer this question as IIBA does not disclose this information. However, from our experience and the experience of our past students, we know that it is safe to assume that the exam's passing score is more than 70%. Hence, we suggest targeting 85%+ in the mock tests in order to be successful in the final exam.

All exam dumps pertaining to this certification are essentially fraud. IIBA guards the exam content in an extremely secured manner. Given the complexity level of this exam, there is not even 1% chance of passing this exam with so-called exam dumps. 

However, there are model exam questions prepared by experts which resemble the actual exam questions. Explore Adaptive's FREE CBAP model questions prepared by experts who are part of the IIBA exam setting committee.

Adaptive provides 6 simulators (Highest by any EEP) and these have been validated by hundreds of our past certified students.

Explore model questions in Adaptive's Learning Portal - Thinkific.

The average earnings for top 1/3 of CBAP holders is $120,395 USD. Business Analysis Professionals who hold this certification earn 26% more vs non-certified professionals as per the 2021 IIBA Salary Survey.

3 to 4 months is a reasonable duration to complete this certification preparation.

Grab your FREE copy of the week wise exam preparation plan from Adaptive's Learning Portal - Thinkific > Exam Prep Help section and see how you can achieve your certification goal in 12 weeks!

This certification is valid for 3 years.

Recertification does not require one to rewrite the exam.

Adaptive US assists you fully in the application process (as per the product plans)

Adaptive's Learning Portal - Thinkific provides sample questions.

Yes - it is.

Master Class and Ultimate Plan with IIBA Fees options are available.