BCS Business Analysis Foundation Certificate

Develop your all-round BA skills with the BCS Foundation Certificate. Gain a full overview of the BA ecosystem, focusing on requirements engineering and beyond.

Take the first step on a career path with high earning potential and strong job prospects.

Certify your Business Analysis (BA) skills with the BCS Business Analysis Foundation course, and uncover the benefits. This course will boost your value when applying for new roles, and also enhance your significance in a project team. The BA Foundation certificate is a practical course that is particularly useful for current or aspiring Business Analysts wanting to develop their knowledge of the field in which they work, focusing on requirements engineering and beyond.

Use this course as your gateway to further BCS BA certifications or go one step further and get the Diploma!

Target Audience:

This course has no prerequisites and is able to be undertaken by anyone interested in Business Analysis. It is designed for:

  • Current and prospective Business Analysts looking to improve their BA knowledge.
  • Business Analysts looking to accredit their skills for recognition among employers, clients and peers.
  • BA’s of any level looking to achieve the BCS International Diploma in Business Analysis.
  • Anyone looking to understand Business Analysis terminology.
  1. Identify the role and competencies of a business analyst
  2. Understand and elicit strategy analysis
  3. Demonstrate business system and business process modelling
  4. Implement stake holder management
  5. Utilise investigation and modelling techniques
  6. Elicit requirements
  7. Show business case development
  8. Understand management of business change
  1. Introduction to Business Analysis
  2. Role of the Business Analyst
  3. Business strategy analysis
  4. The Business Analysis process model
  5. Investigation techniques
  6. Stakeholder analysis
  7. Modelling the business system
  8. Business process modelling
  9. Requirements engineering
  10. Modelling the IT system
  11. Making a business and financial case
  12. Managing business change

Candidates take a 1 hour, 40-question, multiple-choice exam, scheduled on the final day of the face-to-face course.

Please note! Exam fee is not included in the course price, and will be invoiced extra. Due to currency changes, please contact us for exam fee. 

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