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Reader Question: “I am getting ready to send in my CBAP application, and I am wondering if it’s ok to submit the same person both as project contact and reference. The person I would like to use as reference was a project manager in two of my projects and is the only person I kept [...]
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Let’s face it, who has time for traditional face-to-face study groups anymore? Being a mother of two while running a small company and trying to keep up with friends, family, and managing a household, there is no way you can pencil me in for anything face to face these days. That’s why I love the concept [...]
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Reader’s Question: “I’m wondering about the CBAP® certification. Is the work experience component to be 7500 hours with the title of “Business Analyst”, or do all activities that a business analyst would perform count towards these hours? For example, if you have been a BA for 2 years (4000 hours), and QA for 3 years [...]
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As I prepared for my CBAP exam, one of the big areas of contention was the use of exam simulators. At first, around week 3, I found them to be very helpful in gauging whether my review of the BABOK material was adequately in-depth to sit for the exam. But as time wore on, I [...]
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I arrived at the exam center 30 minutes early. It was a beautiful Colorado fall day that felt more like late summer. The exam center was on a community college campus, so I was surrounded by young students and lots of energy. After confirming the location and logistics, I found a comfy seat in the [...]
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Just a quick post to ask you to send me good vibes. Today is the day I sit for the CBAP. Around 1 pm MST, I’ll be at Red Rocks Community College here in Golden, Colorado, beginning the first of those 150 questions. Since the middle of last week, I’ve done a lot of last [...]
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Up until this point I’ve been taking sample CBAP exams by knowledge area. These are great because they help me determine if I understand a particular knowledge area or not. But they are obviously limited since I’m not being tested on a sequence of questions across multiple knowledge areas. This past week I took my [...]
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Two weeks to go until exam day and in the nitty gritty of my BAMentor prep course (with my super-amazing instructor, Kym Byron). Last night we went over some of the key techniques in Requirements Analysis – data modeling, data flow diagrams, sequence diagrams, user stories, and the like. Some of this seemed so readily [...]
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A reader asks: I have just read Quickly solidifying a senior role within the BA profession: Interview with Jennifer Banzon. In this article Jennifer gives an advice to take ” a more informal study group to learn the body of knowledge first”. I liked this idea a lot. But.. I live in Lithuania and we don’t [...]
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I will try not to make this another rant. But the harsh truth is that I am frustrated. I’m a reasonably intelligent person. I have historically been a good test taker. Yet, CBAP preparation questions keep stumping me again and again. Most often it is not the material, which I have a generally good understanding [...]
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