PMIPMI Professional in Business Analysis
The PMI Professional in Business Analysis (PMI-PBA) certification validates your expertise in defining requirements, engaging stakeholders, and driving successful business outcomes. It is designed for business analysts who work with project teams to bridge the gap between strategic objectives and project deliverables. Earning the PMI-PBA demonstrates your ability to apply a structured, standards-based approach to business analysis, enhancing your credibility and career potential.
798 practice questions · Updated 2026-07-30
5Domains
28Objectives
189Concepts
798Questions
PMI-PBA Curriculum
Every domain, objective, and concept the PMI-PBA exam measures.
- Identify Stakeholders
- Gather Stakeholder Input
- Define Business Need
- Align with Organizational Goals
- Assess Current State
- Determine Desired Future State
- Identify Gaps
- Document Business Need
- Identify Stakeholders
- Analyze Stakeholder Influence and Impact
- Determine Stakeholder Engagement Approach
- Define Stakeholder Communication Strategy
- Assess Business Value
- Determine Feasibility
- Identify Risks and Constraints
- Recommend Solution Approach
- Obtain Stakeholder Agreement
- Define business need
- Identify stakeholders
- Gather stakeholder input
- Analyze stakeholder input
- Assess current state
- Determine desired state
- Identify gaps
- Document business need
- Define the business need
- Identify stakeholders
- Analyze stakeholder influence and impact
- Gather stakeholder input
- Define the business case
- Assess feasibility
- Determine solution approach
- Document the needs assessment
- Validate the business need
- Plan Business Analysis Approach
- Identify Stakeholders
- Define Stakeholder Engagement
- Plan Business Analysis Activities
- Plan Business Analysis Deliverables
- Plan Communication
- Plan Requirements Management
- Plan Traceability
- Plan Requirements Change Management
- Plan Solution Evaluation
- Plan Business Analysis Governance
- Plan Business Analysis Information Management
- Facilitate stakeholder identification
- Define stakeholder roles and responsibilities
- Analyze stakeholder influence and impact
- Determine stakeholder communication needs
- Establish stakeholder engagement strategy
- Define business analysis performance standards
- Establish performance metrics
- Plan performance reporting
- Monitor and evaluate performance
- Implement corrective actions
- Plan business analysis work
- Conduct stakeholder analysis
- Define business analysis governance
- Plan business analysis information management
- Identify business analysis performance improvements
- Plan business analysis work
- Identify stakeholders
- Determine business analysis approach
- Plan stakeholder engagement
- Plan business analysis governance
- Plan business analysis information management
- Identify business analysis performance improvements
- Define the business analysis performance standards
- Determine the business analysis performance metrics
- Establish the business analysis performance reporting process
- Communicate business analysis performance
- Analyze current state
- Determine future state
- Assess gaps
- Define requirements
- Validate requirements
- Prioritize requirements
- Obtain sign-off
- Elicit requirements
- Analyze requirements
- Decompose requirements
- Allocate requirements
- Verify requirements
- Validate requirements
- Manage requirements traceability
- Manage requirement changes
- Obtain sign-off
- Elicit requirements
- Analyze requirements
- Decompose requirements
- Allocate requirements
- Verify requirements
- Validate requirements
- Define acceptance criteria
- Obtain sign-off
- Evaluate product options
- Evaluate solution options
- Assess feasibility
- Conduct cost-benefit analysis
- Identify and analyze risks
- Recommend optimal solution
- Task 5 Overview
- Sub-task 5.1
- Sub-task 5.2
- Sub-task 5.3
- Integration with Other Tasks
- Define acceptance criteria
- Validate acceptance criteria
- Obtain sign-off on acceptance criteria
- Task 7 Overview
- Inputs to Task 7
- Tools and Techniques
- Outputs of Task 7
- Requirements Analysis
- Requirements Prioritization
- Requirements Validation
- Requirements Approval
- Traceability and Impact Analysis
- Communication and Collaboration
- Task 8 Overview
- Sub-task 8.1
- Sub-task 8.2
- Sub-task 8.3
- Sub-task 8.4
- Define traceability approach
- Define traceability relationship types
- Define traceability repository structure
- Define traceability governance
- Define traceability reporting
- Define traceability approach
- Select traceability tools
- Define traceability relationships
- Establish traceability matrix
- Monitor requirements status
- Manage requirement changes
- Report traceability results
- Define traceability approach
- Establish traceability matrix
- Identify traceability artifacts
- Determine traceability granularity
- Define traceability process
- Define traceability tools and techniques
- Define traceability roles and responsibilities
- Define traceability governance
- Define traceability metrics
- Define traceability reporting
- Traceability and Monitoring Overview
- Establishing Traceability
- Monitoring Requirements
- Managing Changes
- Reporting and Communication
- Traceability and Monitoring Overview
- Establishing Traceability
- Traceability Matrix
- Monitoring Requirements
- Managing Changes to Requirements
- Reporting and Communicating Status
- Verifying and Validating Requirements
- Tools and Techniques for Traceability
- Evaluate solution performance
- Evaluate solution acceptance
- Evaluate solution implementation
- Evaluate solution value
- Evaluate solution performance
- Evaluate solution acceptance
- Evaluate solution implementation
- Evaluate solution value
- Evaluate solution risks
- Evaluate solution defects
- Evaluate solution compliance
- Evaluate solution usability
- Evaluate solution maintainability
- Evaluate solution scalability
- Evaluate solution security
- Evaluate solution integration
- Evaluate solution performance metrics
- Evaluate solution stakeholder feedback
- Evaluate solution lessons learned
- Evaluate solution performance
- Evaluate solution acceptance
- Evaluate solution delivery
- Evaluate solution value
- Evaluate solution risks
- Evaluate Solution Options
- Assess Organizational Readiness
- Evaluate Solution Performance
- Identify Gaps and Improvement Opportunities
- Recommend Solution Adjustments
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