CCBA® Work History: Requires a minimum of 3,750 hours (approx. 2-3 years of work) of
business analysis work experience within the last 7 years that align with the BABOK® Guide.
This includes a minimum of 900 hours each in each of 2 Knowledge Areas OR a minimum of
500 hours each in each of 4 Knowledge Areas.
CBAP® Work History: Requires a minimum of 7,500 hours (approx. 5+ years of work) of
business analysis work experience within the last 10 years that align with the BABOK® Guide.
This includes a minimum of 900 hours each in each of 4 of 6 Knowledge Areas, for a total of at
least 3,600 of the required 7,500 total.
The 6 knowledge areas of BABOK Guide are:
· Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring: describes the tasks used to organize and coordinate business analysis efforts.
· Elicitation and Collaboration: describes the tasks used to prepare for and conduct elicitation activities and confirm the results.
· Requirements Life Cycle Management: the tasks used to manage and maintain requirements and design information from inception to retirement.
· Strategy Analysis: describes the tasks used to identify the business need, address that need, and align the change strategy within the enterprise.
· Requirements Analysis and Design Definition: describes the tasks used to organize requirements, specify and model requirements and designs, validate and verify information, identify solution options, and estimate the potential value that could be realized.
· Solution Evaluation: describes the tasks used to assess the performance of and value delivered by a solution and to recommend improvements on increasing values.