PMI Professional in Business Analysis (PMI-PBA)® Exam Preparation Course

What Will You Gain?
ALTAWAIL is a PMI Authorized Training Partner (ATP). This program provides 35 contact hours of formal education in business analysis practices. It is designed to align with the PMI-PBA® Examination Content Outline and current PMI requirements.

• Assess business problems and opportunities and define an appropriate solution scope.
• Clarify business needs, value propositions, project goals, and stakeholder expectations.
• Plan business analysis activities and establish effective mechanisms for requirements management.
• Elicit, analyze, document, prioritize, and validate requirements, and obtain stakeholder approval.
• Monitor requirements throughout their lifecycles and manage changes to them.
• Evaluate implemented solutions and their alignment with requirements, acceptance criteria, business needs, and expected value.
• Select and use appropriate business analysis tools and techniques to support decision-making and improve project outcomes.

• Professionals in business analysis, requirements, systems, and operations.
• Project and program managers, as well as product owners and product managers, whose responsibilities include identifying business needs or managing requirements.
• Consultants and PMO professionals who support business analysis activities.
• Individuals seeking to develop their business analysis capabilities or prepare for the PMI-PBA® certification.

• Business needs, problems, opportunities, and value assessment.
• Stakeholder identification, analysis, engagement, and communication.
• Business analysis planning and requirements management.
• Requirements management, including elicitation, analysis, prioritization, specification, validation, and approval.
• Requirements traceability, lifecycle monitoring, status communication, and change management.
• Solution validation, gap analysis, stakeholder approval, and value evaluation.

• Practical case studies and scenario-based discussions.
• Group activities, workshops, simulations, and collaborative exercises.
• Experiential exercises aligned with business analysis practices, tools, and techniques.
• Instructor-led explanations, facilitated discussions, and structured problem-solving.
• Knowledge checks and an end-of-course assessment.

If a participant already holds a PMI certification, this course may qualify for PDUs. The final allocation across Ways of Working, Power Skills, and Business Acumen will be based on the approved course content and PMI reporting requirements.

Candidates must complete 35 contact hours of education in business analysis practices and satisfy one of the following education and professional-experience pathways:

Set A

• A high school diploma, an associate degree, or a global equivalent.
• At least 60 months working as a business analysis practitioner, earned within the past eight years.

Set B

• A bachelor’s degree or higher, or global equivalent.
• At least 36 months working as a business analysis practitioner, earned within the past eight years.

Set C

• A bachelor’s or postgraduate degree from a GAC-accredited program, or global equivalent.
• At least 24 months of unique, non-overlapping professional business analysis experience.

Note: Eligibility requirements are governed by PMI policies and may change. Applicants should verify the current requirements on PMI.org before submitting their applications.

1. Fulfill the eligibility requirements

   Confirm the applicable education and professional-experience pathway and completion of 35 contact hours of business analysis education.

2. Complete the PMI-PBA® exam preparation program

   Attend the training sessions and complete the required activities and assessment to receive evidence of 35 contact hours.

3. Submit the PMI application

   Create an account on PMI.org, document the required education, training, and business analysis experience, and submit the application for review.

4. Complete the audit if selected

   Provide the education, training, and professional-experience documentation requested by PMI.

5. Pay, schedule, and take the examination

   Once the application is approved, the applicable fees are paid, a test date is scheduled, and the test is taken using one of the approved and available testing options.

6. Earn and Maintain the Certification

   Pass the examination to earn the PMI-PBA® certification. Maintain it by earning and reporting 60 PDUs during each three-year certification cycle and completing PMI’s renewal requirements.

• Define or review business problems/opportunities
• Define or review business problems/opportunities
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  Collaborate in developing project goals and objectives
• Identifying stakeholders.
• Determine stakeholder values regarding the product

• Review business case, goals, and objectives
• Define strategy for requirements traceability
• Develop requirements management plan
• Select methods for requirements change control
• Select methods for document control
• Define business metrics and acceptance criteria

• Elicit or identify requirements
• Analyze, decompose, and elaborate requirements
• Evaluate product options and capabilities
• Allocate accepted or deferred requirements
• Obtain sign-off on requirements baseline
• Write requirements specifications
• Validate requirements
• Elaborate detailed metrics and acceptance criteria

• Track requirements using traceability artifacts
• Monitor requirements throughout their lifecycles
• Update requirement status
• Communicate requirements status to stakeholders
• Manage changes to requirements

• Validate solution test results against acceptance criteria
• Analyze and communicate identified gaps and deltas
• Obtain stakeholder sign-off on developed solution
• Evaluate deployed solution against business case

Note: The percentages shown represent the approximate weighting of each domain in the PMI-PBA® examination and do not represent the distribution of course hours.