IIBA CBDA Certification Training

Business data analytics is a practice by which a specific set of techniques, competencies, and procedures are applied to perform continuous exploration, iteration, and investigation of past and current business data to obtain insights about a business that can improve decision-making. It uses business analysis and analytics disciplines to create better business outcomes through evidence-driven business decisions.

There are no eligibility criteria for this certification, but IIBA recommends relevant work experience of two to three years of analysis-related business analytics work.

The certification cost is $450 for members and $575 for non-members.
The retake fee is $400 for members and $525 for non-members.
The renewal fee is $30 for members and $50 for non-members.

The IIBA CBDA exam is offered as an online remote proctored exam that requires a desktop or laptop, an internet connection, a working webcam, and a microphone.
The exam tests your ability to answer questions focused on real-world scenarios. It is aligned with the six Blueprint Domains (Knowledge Areas). Each domain has a different weightage. The exam consists of 75 multiple-choice, scenario-based questions to be completed within 2 hours. Passing marks are based on the cut score using a psychometric procedure.

Business data analytics strikes a balance between business analysis and data analytics, which helps obtain insights that can improve decision-making. Your strong business analysis skills, combined with the competencies and knowledge required for a business analytics project, will make you eligible for many exciting and in-demand opportunities. Earning this certification informs employers of your passion for and competencies in performing business analysis on analytics initiatives.

A Business Analysts's activities involve understanding enterprise problems and goals, analyzing needs and solutions, devising strategies, driving change, and facilitating stakeholder collaboration. In addition to this, a Business Data Analyst works with data and other related activities like collecting correct data, preparing data, exploratory data analysis, deriving insights from data, communicating findings, and guiding organizational-level analytics strategy.

Certainly not! Various professionals like analysts, developers, testers, data scientists, consultants, data storytellers, business development, transformation managers can benefit from this certification. Business professionals can understand more about using data to solve problems. Data professionals can understand the business aspect of what happens before and after analyzing data, basically the end-to-end cycle. In fact, any professional working with data can benefit from this certification.