Who this is for
- Business analysts with substantial experience.
- Project and product professionals who already do analysis and want it recognised.
- Consultants targeting senior BA mandates in Nigeria and abroad.
Edge Line® Careers · IIBA · Exam preparation
Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP)
Validate your advanced business-analysis expertise and strengthen your ability to identify business needs, manage requirements and recommend valuable solutions.
Next cohort
10 October 2026
10 October 2026
Exam-prep cohort · 35 PD hours
Virtual · Zoom · Zoom (strictly virtual)
Request pricing.
Course overview
Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP)® is the credential experienced analysts use when they want senior, consulting or international work — not another year of writing requirements nobody senior reads. It tells a hiring manager you can define a solution that is actually valuable, which is the work that carries lead pay and a seat in the decision.
Why the market wants this
Transformation programmes fail on unclear needs. Organisations pay seniors who can hold requirements, stakeholders and value in one conversation. CBAP® is how they screen for that.
Why enrol on this intake
The virtual class date on the page is 10 October 2026. The IIBA exam is a separate invoice. Senior BA roles are not filled by people who plan to certify later.
Enrol nowWhat you stand to gain
Pay
Senior BA and consulting rates assume a credential and a body of work. CBAP® is the credential.
Leadership
You are prepared to recommend the solution, not only to collect notes from other people.
Promotion
It is the difference between senior analyst and ‘the person who writes the BRD’.
Remote and international work
CBAP® is read by international consultancies and remote product teams. Your experience becomes portable.
Edge Line® Careers exam prep
Why this credential.
Validate your advanced business-analysis expertise and strengthen your ability to identify business needs, manage requirements and recommend valuable solutions. Designed for experienced business analysts seeking senior, consulting and international opportunities. CBAP® is IIBA’s designation for practitioners with five or more years of BA work.
Business analysts with 7,500 hours of BA work in the last 10 years.
Consultants and senior BAs targeting IIBA’s professional designation.
Professionals who can evidence 35 professional-development hours in the last 4 years.
The exam you will sit.
Facts below follow the current public outline. Our advisers walk you through eligibility and the application.
- Awarding body
- IIBA
- Questions
- 120 · scenario and case-based
- Time
- 210 minutes (3.5 hours)
- Delivery
- Online remote or PSI test centre
- Experience
- 7,500 hours in last 10 years
- Our class
- 10 October 2026
Content outline
After each block: what you will do, and the strength you leave with.
Requirements analysis and design definition
30%
Exam weight
You specify a solution that is actually valuable: models, options, and the design the business can accept. This is 30% of CBAP® — the heaviest knowledge area on the IIBA blueprint. Strength you leave with: you stop collecting requirements and start defining the thing that should exist.
Requirements life cycle management
15%
Exam weight
You keep requirements alive: trace them, prioritise them, and change them without the project falling over. Strength you leave with: a late change is a controlled decision, not a surprise. 15% of the paper.
Strategy analysis
15%
Exam weight
You describe current state, future state and the change strategy in language a sponsor will fund. Strength you leave with: you are in the strategy conversation, not only in the workshop. 15% of CBAP®.
Business analysis planning and monitoring
14%
Exam weight
You plan and govern the BA work itself: approach, stakeholders, information, and how you will know you are on track. Strength you leave with: you can run the analysis, not only do the analysis. 14% of the blueprint.
Solution evaluation
14%
Exam weight
You assess whether the solution delivered the value it was bought for — and what to do if it did not. Strength you leave with: you are useful after go-live, not only before. 14% of CBAP®.
Elicitation and collaboration
12%
Exam weight
You get the information and keep stakeholders with you: prepare, conduct, confirm, communicate. Strength you leave with: people still answer your questions in week twelve. Smallest slice at 12% — still the skill that makes the other 88% possible.
| Domain | Weight | Strength you leave with |
|---|---|---|
| Requirements analysis and design definition | 30% | You can specify a solution that is actually valuable. |
| Requirements life cycle management | 15% | You can trace, prioritise and change requirements without chaos. |
| Strategy analysis | 15% | You can describe current state, future state and the change path. |
| Business analysis planning and monitoring | 14% | You can govern the BA work itself. |
| Solution evaluation | 14% | You can say whether the solution delivered the value. |
| Elicitation and collaboration | 12% | You can get the information and keep stakeholders with you. |
Eligibility — what the body actually checks.
- Minimum 7,500 hours of business-analysis work in the last 10 years (IIBA).
- At least 900 hours in 4 of the 6 BABOK® knowledge areas (minimum 3,600 of the 7,500).
- 35 professional-development hours in the last 4 years, BABOK®-aligned and facilitated.
- Two references (CBAP®/CCBA® holder, career manager or client). Code of conduct and terms.
How we prepare you.
- 01
BABOK® map
Six knowledge areas and how the 120-question blueprint uses them.
- 02
Strategy and planning
Planning, monitoring and strategy analysis at blueprint weight.
- 03
Elicitation and requirements life cycle
Collaboration plus managing requirements after they exist.
- 04
Analysis, design and evaluation
The 30% core plus solution evaluation.
- 05
Case-study mocks
Scenario and case items at 3.5 hours. Application support. Exam invoiced separately.
What the training includes
- Certificate of Completion
- 35 contact hours (PDUs) documented for your CBAP® application
- CBAP® training materials
- Recordings of every class session
- LMS access for up to 6 months
- 700+ exam-style questions, mocks and simulators
- Application and exam-booking assistance