What are the six knowledge areas in the BABOK Guide?
Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring, Elicitation and Collaboration, Requirements Life Cycle Management, Strategy Analysis, Requirements Analysis and Design Definition, and Solution Evaluation.
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The BABOK Guide (Business Analysis Body of Knowledge), maintained by IIBA, organizes business analysis practice into six knowledge areas: Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring (how the BA approach is planned and governed), Elicitation and Collaboration (gathering information from stakeholders), Requirements Life Cycle Management (tracing and maintaining requirements), Strategy Analysis (defining the future state and business need), Requirements Analysis and Design Definition (structuring and modeling requirements), and Solution Evaluation (assessing whether the delivered solution meets the business need).
CBAP exam questions are written against these six areas, so being able to name them and place a given technique (e.g. MoSCoW prioritization, or a stakeholder matrix) under its correct knowledge area is a frequent exam and interview pattern.
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