BCS Business Analysis International Diploma

Employers today have set this certification as a base for recruitment to top Analyst jobs in the industry. The International Diploma is something what every Business Analyst wants to have on his/her resume. Business Analysis in an organisation helps to recognize problems and mitigate them by providing solutions. A Business Analyst can show his skills and knowledge by acquiring The International Diploma.

Exams

The delegates have to pass 3 written and one oral exam to get certified with the BCS International Diploma in Business Analysis. A total of 5 modules are required to be cleared as has been shown below:

• Core Modules – Pass Both of The Following
  • Requirement Engineering
  • Business Analysis Practice
• Knowledge Base Modules – Pass Any One of The Following
  • Business Analysis Foundation
  • Business Change
  • Commercial Awareness
  • IS Project Management
• Practitioner Modules – Pass Any One of The Following
  • Modelling Business Processes
  • Systems Modelling Techniques
  • Systems Development Essentials
• Oral Exam

The Oral exam is the last of all the modules. It lasts for a duration of 50 minutes during which the two examiners can ask anything from the candidate regarding all the modules of the International Diploma.

Course Content

• The business context (K Level 4/5)
  • The basis for business analysis
  • Parts of the economy
  • Analysing the Business environment
  • The allowed and the guiding framework for business analysis
  • Understanding the SWOT analysis
  • Measuring business performance
  • Business analysis inside the business change lifecycle
• Lifecycle Stages
• Business analysis and its Techniques (K Level 4/5)
  • Examining and documenting business circumstances
  • Analysing Stakeholders and business viewpoints
  • Prototype business activities
  • Business events
  • Business rules
  • Gap analysis
• Developing Business Cases (K Level 4/5)
  • Rules for making business cases
  • Business case – Its contents
  • Options
  • The financial case
  • Techniques of Investment Evaluation
  • Risk analysis
  • Impact analysis
  • Business Case Lifecycle
• Defining Requirements (K Level 4/5)
  • Understanding Requirement Engineering
  • Knowing about Requirement Elicitation
  • Learning what is Requirement Analysis
  • Understanding Requirement Validation
• Requirements management and documentation (K Level 4/5)
  • Requirements management
  • Change control & Version control
  • Requirements Management Tools
  • Requirement Types
  • Documenting requirements
  • Prototyping Requirements
• Knowledge-based specialism (K Level 2/3)
  • Relevance of the selected module to business analysis
  • The all-inclusive view of a business system
  • Business Analysis in relation to
    • Professionalism
    • Projects
  • Practitioner specialism (K Level 2/3)
    • Business analyst role – its relevance
    • Module significance to an organisation
    • Description of the module