IIBA CPOA Certification Training

Products offers tremendous opportunities to improve businesses. Product Owner Analyst is a role where one can contribute to the organization's strategy, its offerings, its revenue, and its margin by developing successful products. It offers great opportunity to interact with many stakeholders, develop innovative solutions and improving existing products.

The demand for Product Analysts is at an all-time high and the benefits are worth taking-up product analysis as a career choice.

As a Product Analyst, one will always have a challenging and a new job role or project in hand due to the uniqueness of each problem in varied companies. The CPOA certification from IIBA is a popular certification for jump-starting a career as a Product Analyst. Some of the benefits of getting CPOA certified are:

• CPOA is framed rightly to suit the needs of an entry level Product Owner Analyst focusing on requirements analysis, modelling, requirements life cycle management with good amount of emphasis on modeling concepts and tools. 
• CPOA is an established credential and makes a Product 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 the CPOA certification enables one to become an effective and efficient BA.
• It demonstrates continuous dedication to the profession to prospective employers.
• It helps POs achieve reliable, quality results with enhanced efficiency and consistency.
• Business Analysis is one of the highest growing occupations, with 14% growth projected between 2014-2024 *Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
• It also gives a positive feeling and enhanced confidence about achieving a milestone in one's PO career.

The CPOA certification from IIBA is aimed at business analysis professionals who are new to the product analysis space. It is a competency-based certification based on CPOA Guide.

• No Work Experience required
• No prior domain expertise required.
• Agree to Code of Conduct. Agree to Terms and Conditions.
• No references required

CPOA certification targets those who

• Work as Business Analysis Professionals
• Support Product Owners in their work
• Execute Product Ownership related work
• Are considering a Product Owner career path
• Work as Product owners

The application for CPOA Certification Exam happens through the IIBA website. 

The CPOA certification is achieved after appearing for the CPOA exam, which is 1.5 hours long. The exam has 60 multiple choice questions with only one correct option. The CPOA comprises of knowledge-based questions.

The CPOA cost is as follows:
First attempt CPOA exam fee is $250.00 USD for IIBA members and $400.00 USD for non-members, plus GST/HST for Canadian residents.
CPOA Certification Cost - Components and break up:

We typically recommend 60-80 hours of preparation after attending the CPOA training session. Follow the below given process to ace the exam:

• Prepare a schedule and stick to the schedule
• Start your preparation with the Adaptive CPOA study guide
• Take up one chapter at a time from the Adaptive US CPOA Study guide and test your understanding with the chapter end knowledge-based questions
• Complete the IIBA application filing 
• Revise the concepts by reading the Adaptive US CPOA Study guide 2/3 times
• Attempt the 4 Adaptive US CPOA simulations comprising of 60 questions and review incorrect answers. In total, Adaptive provides 400+ CPOA model questions to test your preparation
• Once you score about 85%+ in the CPOA model questions, you are ready to appear for the CPOA exam
• Book your exam dates 3 or 4 weeks later, preferably on a Monday
• Take the exam and become a proud holder of the CPOA credential

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: iiba.org

There is 150 USD discount for IIBA members on the examination fees.

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 CPOA participants, we know that it is safe to assume that the CPOA exam passing score is more than 70%. Hence, we suggest targeting 85%+ in the CPOA mock tests in order to be successful in the CPOA final exam.

Yes. It is allowed.

The CPOA  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 domains that require their attention.

There's no limit on the number of attempts and there's no wait time between exam sittings. 

• CPOA certificate programme gives professionals the opportunity to learn key principles that will help them manage the hurdles of designing successful products.

• By acquiring core POA abilities, this certificate assists professionals who work as product owners, support product owners in their job, execute product ownership related activities, or are considering product ownership as a career route to reach their goals.

• CPOA Certificate holders will obtain tactical skills to improve product development processes armed with knowledge of important tools and methodologies such as product roadmaps, value stream mapping, user story mapping, minimum viable product, and story decomposition.

Also,

• Integrating product ownership and business analysis 

• Understanding roles and responsibilities in product management 

• Applying Agile and product ownership analysis