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Understand the legal and regulatory framework for business analysis
Learn to model business activities
Know the relevance of the business analyst role
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With delegates turning up for the various courses of BCS, BCS deemed it fit to introduce a level of certification whereby the true knowledge of the delegates could be tested both in written and verbally or orally as well. This came up as the BCS International Diploma in Business Analysis. The candidates are required to clear four different exams and having done this they should appear for an oral examination also.

Who should take this course

The International Diploma is designed for business and IT professionals who want to enhance their business analysis skills. This BCS International Diploma is meant for business analysts, business managers, their staff, business change managers and project managers.

Prerequisites

The delegates coming to the examination hall should bring some photographic identification to the hall for validation prior to the exam (Driving License, Passport and named Work ID badges are all acceptable). For further information, please refer to the Identification Policy which can be found on the BCS website. The delegates, as an examination policy, are required to arrive at least 15 minutes ahead of the allocated start time as this helps to keep the examination schedule running smoothly.

Delegates will be expected to have the experience to environments as a business analyst, project manager, change management, quality or a similar role. In addition, they will be expected to have reviewed allploma. the courses and their syllabus that fall under this diploma.

Develop the appropriate skills and proficiencies required by a Business Analyst
Instil a business analysis process model approach to change initiatives and organisational problem solving
Understand how a business strategy is evolved
How to identify and document business issues?
Consider the stakeholders viewpoints who will be affected or are interested in the change project and document their views
How to lead and work within a formal requirements engineering framework
Identify and develop a business case which would be used to justify a project
Modelling techniques and notation to present business processes

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Course Overview

The BCS International Diploma in Business Analysis is a leading industry standard that every Business Analysts would like to have on their resume. Business Analysis plays a vital role within an organisation, helping to identify business needs and providing solutions to the business problems. The BCS International Diploma in Business Analysis is now an industry recognised certification that is accepted globally. The certification proves the knowledge, skills and capabilities of a Business Analyst.

Exams

The candidates need to pass four exams overall and then the oral exam. The delegate will have to pass both the Core Mod The Path To the International Diploma ule exams – Business Analysis Practice and Requirements Engineering. Then pass one exam from the Knowledge Based Module which contains Business Analysis Foundation, Business Change, Commercial Awareness, and IS Project Management. To complete the four exams it is mandatory for the delegate to complete one exam of his/her choice from the Practitioner Module which is comprised of Modeling Business Process, Benefits Management and Business Acceptance, Systems Modelling Techniques, and Systems Development Essentials. After these four exams come to the final and last Oral exam during which the delegates have to sit with two examiners who can query the delegate anything regarding the modules that have been covered by the delegate. Also, the examiners can ask the delegate questions regarding the skills the candidate already has. The delegate is given 50 minutes to answer these queries.

The business context (K Level 4/5)
- The rationale for business analysis
- Sectors of the economy
- Business environment analysis
- The legal and regulatory framework for business analysis
- SWOT analysis
- Business performance measurement
- Business analysis within the lifecycle for business change
Stages of the lifecycle
Business analysis techniques (K Level 4/5)
- Investigating and documenting business situations
- Stakeholder analysis and business perspectives
- Modelling business activities
- Business events
- Business rules
- Gap analysis
Business case development (K Level 4/5)
- Rationale for making a business case
- Contents of a business case
- Options
- The financial case
- Investment appraisal techniques
- Risk analysis
- Impact analysis
- Lifecycle for the business case
Requirements definition (K Level 4/5)
- Requirements engineering
- Requirements elicitation
- Requirements analysis
- Requirements validation
Requirements management and documentation (K Level 4/5)
- Requirements management
- Change control
- Version control
- Tools in requirements management
- Types of requirements
- Documenting requirements
- Requirements modelling
Knowledge-based specialism (K Level 2/3)
- Relevance of the selected module to business analysis
- The holistic view of a business system
- Professionalism and business analysis
- Projects and business analysis
Practitioner specialism (K Level 2/3)
- Relevance to the business analyst role
- Relevance of the module to an organisation

Description of the module

International Diploma

Exemptions for the BCS International Diploma in Business Analysis

IIBA exemption: Holders of The Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP®) qualifications are exempt from the Requirements Engineering module and the knowledge-based specialist module.

IREB exemption: If the delegates have completed IREB’s Certified Professional for Requirements Engineering (CPRE) Foundation level, then they don’t need to take the BCS Certificate in Requirements Engineering.

Organisational Context exemption: If the delegates have attained the Organisational Context module, this can count towards their Diploma. They won’t need to attain Commercial Awareness, the module that has replaced Organisational Context

What Next?

As the saying goes “This is not the end but just the beginning”. The completion of this course and the certification helps the delegates to start preparing for the next step – the Advanced International Diploma in Business Analysis.

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Burton upon Trent is a town on the stream Trent in East Staffordshire. It was having a populance of 72,299 in 2011. Burton is well known for preparing beer. The town previously produced around Burton Abbey. Burton Bridge was also the site of two fights, in 1322 when Edward II overwhelmed the rebel Earl of Lancaster and 1643 when royalists apprehended the town during the First English Civil War. William Lord Paget and his descendants were responsible for dispersal of the manor house within the grounds of abbey and facilitating the delay of the River Trent Navigation to Burton. Burton developed as a busy market town by the early modern period.

Government:

Burton is the managerial centre for the area of East Staffordshire and forms part of the Burton electorate. The local Member of Assembly is the Traditional Party's Andrew Griffiths, who has indicated the Burton electorate since May 2010. The Traditionalists detached the seat from Labor in the 2010 general election with an 8.7% swing.

In 1978 it was combined as a municipal borough. The combined area was divided between the counties of Staffordshire and Derbyshire - the Local Government Act 1888 combined the total of the area in Staffordshire, including the former Derbyshire parishes of Stapenhill and Winshill. It developed a county borough in 1901, having touched the 50,000 population obligatory.

It never significantly exceeded the population of 50,000, and at a population of 50,201 in the 1971 survey was the smallest county area in England after Canterbury. The Local Government Commission for England optional in the 1960s that it be relegated to a non-county borough within Staffordshire, but this was not applied.

Geography:

It is nearly 109 miles north-west of London, approx. 30 miles to northeast of Birmingham, which is the UK's second largest city and about 23 miles east of the county town Stafford. It is located at the eastern part of the county of Staffordshire; it's an against the course of the River Trent creating part of the county boundary.

Demography:

The total population of town is 43,784 in the 2001 Survey. Winshill and Stapenhill were treated distinctly and together had a additional population of 21,985. According to the 2001 survey, 71% of the town's population classify themselves as Christian, 12% as a nonbeliever or doubting and 8.5% Muslim. In the 2011 census shows that the population of the town is 72,299.