Business analyst syllabus

1. BA Introduction

• Introduction to Business Analysis
• Skills required to be a good BA
• BA Roles and Responsibilities
• BA Capabilities
• Market Trend for BA Roles

2. Requirement Engineering

• Requirement & Types of Requirements
• Requirement Engineering
• Elements of Requirement Engineering
• Requirements Change Management
• Configuration Management
• Requirement Document Template

3. BA Requirement Prioritization

• Why to prioritize requirements
• Factors to consider while prioritizing requirements
• Participants of Requirement Prioritization
• Process to follow while prioritizing requirements

4. Elicitation & Enterprise Analysis

• Prepare Elicitation
• Conduct Elicitation
• Document Elicitation
• Define Business Need
• Assess Capability Gaps
• Define Solution Scope

5. Business Analysis Documents

• What is a BRD document
• What are the various sections of BRD document
• What is a SRS Documents & Sections
• FRD
• Major differences between the documents

6. BA Techniques

• Brainstorming
• Prototyping
• Root Cause Analysis

7. Use Cases & UML

• What is a Use Case
• Use Case Templates
• Real life example of a use case document
• What is UML
• Why it is used
• UML Diagrams (Activity, Use Case)

8. Non-Functional Requirements

• What are non-functional requirements?
• What is the significance of non-functional requirements?
• How the non-functional requirements are gathered
• Non-functional requirements document template

9. Flow Charts & Wireframe or Mock-ups

• What is flow chart diagram
• Different symbols used in a Flow chart diagram
• How flow chart diagram is used in a software project
• How flow chart diagrams can be drawn using Microsoft Visio
• Real life example of a flow chart diagram
• What is a wireframe
• Why is wireframe used
• An example wireframe

10. Traditional SDLC Models

• What is a Software project
• What is SDLC
• Different phases of SDLC
• Models of SDLC
• Waterfall Model

11. Agile Model

• Agile Introduction
• Scrum
• KANBAN
• Extreme Programming
• FDD
• DSDM

12. BA Value Adds & Testing In-depth concepts of Software testing

• Different types of testing
• Role of a BA during testing

13. Sample Project Study

• Walkthrough of BRD and FSD documents

14. Database Management Concepts and SQL

• Database Management Systems & RDBMS
• SQL Concepts
• Data Definition Language (DDL)
• Data Manipulation Language (DML)
• Joins

15. BA Domain Knowledge Areas

• BFSI
• Health Care

16. Conclusion

• Certification guidance and Support on IIBA syllabus
• Common BA questions asked in an Interview
• How to answer the Interview questions
• Mock Interview