Three of the sixteen Certified Business Analysis Professionals are B2T Training staff: Barbara Carkenord, Kevin Quilliams, and Kupe. We are frequently asked about our exam experience. And many people ask us a number of questions related to the IIBA CBAP exam and application process. Many of you may have similar questions and we thought it would be helpful to dedicate a series of blog entries to answer these questions and provide our expertise.
There will be an entry covering each of the topics below:
- Application process
- Exam format
- Exam preparation
I hope you find this set of blog entries useful in your pursuit of becoming the next CBAP. I am sure you all have many questions. Go ahead and ask by adding a comment to this blog. We'll start answering them in future blog entries. We are here to help!
May 30th, 2007 at 9:24 am
Kupe, Barbara and Kevin,
Many thanks for this blog - it has been most helpful.
A question for you on exam preparation. Are there any books you would recommend reading in addition to the BOK, or would you suggest focusing all study energies on the BOK?
Thanks.
Rosie
May 30th, 2007 at 10:13 am
We are glad you are finding these blog entries useful.
I feel most of your studies should be focused on the BABOK, but you may find that there are concepts, tasks, and/or techniques covered in the BABOK that you need more information to help you really understand the point being covered. For example, the BABOK lists User Stories as a technique for documenting requirements. The BABOK covers that technique at a high-level and I have had no experience using User Stories. When I was preparing for the exam I found a book that explained User Stories in detail and I read enough to be familiar with this technique.
So, the books outside of the BOK to help you prepare are going to be based on your experience and knowledge. Use the references listed in the BOK after each KA to narrow down your search for the right book. In addition wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page, has a lot of information related business analysis.
I hope that helps.
-Kupe
May 30th, 2007 at 4:31 pm
Kupe,
Many thanks for your response. I have forwarded this link to our noontime BA study group (at SunTrust) , as this question came up in today’s study group session.
Rosie
July 17th, 2008 at 10:29 pm
Hi
I am sure the question would have been combination of Scenarios as well as streight questions. (if not please advise).
Want to know if there is more number of questions that pertain to scenario rather than streight selection questions like you read a book and then select an answer which is kind of very much given in the book. ( I hope I have cleared my question)
July 28th, 2008 at 8:26 am
Yes there is a combination of knowledge based questions and scenario based. A good number of the questions ask for the “best” answer. So 2 answers given may be technicially correct, but one is the best.
Good luck!!!