- Understand the role of business analysis in uncovering business needs, managing requirements, and creating effective solutions to business problems.
- Review how PMI-PBA recognizes expertise in business analysis and the use of business analysis tools and techniques to improve project success.
- Understand PMI’s Role Delineation Study basis for exam development and its alignment with business analysis practices used by practitioners.
- Connect PMI-PBA preparation to project outcomes, business benefit delivery, stakeholder engagement, and professional credibility.
PMI Professional in Business Analysis Certification Training Course
PMI Professional in Business Analysis (PMI-PBA)® Training Course
Prepare for the PMI-PBA® certification and build advanced capability across business needs, requirements discovery, stakeholder engagement, analysis, traceability, monitoring, solution evaluation, and business value realization.
Course focus: Business analysis practices, stakeholder collaboration, requirements management, needs assessment, planning, analysis, traceability, monitoring, evaluation, project alignment, and PMI-PBA exam readiness.
Course Overview
Develop the business analysis capability to uncover needs, manage requirements, and shape project outcomes.
Accumentum’s PMI Professional in Business Analysis (PMI-PBA)® Training Course prepares experienced professionals to pursue PMI-PBA certification and strengthen the business analysis practices needed to improve project and program success.
PMI describes business analysis as a growing area of importance to projects and programs. Practitioners use business analysis to uncover business needs, manage requirements, and create effective solutions to business problems.
The PMI-PBA certification recognizes an individual’s expertise in business analysis and the use of business analysis tools and techniques to improve project success. PMI states that the certification carries a high level of professional credibility.
This course aligns with PMI’s current PMI-PBA certification structure and exam content areas: Needs Assessment, Planning, Analysis, Traceability and Monitoring, and Evaluation. Learners build exam readiness while reinforcing stakeholder engagement, requirements discovery, requirements analysis, solution evaluation, business value alignment, and business benefit realization.
200PMI-PBA exam questions, according to PMI’s current certification page.
240Minutes of exam time for the PMI-PBA certification exam.
60PDUs required in each 3-year cycle to maintain the PMI-PBA certification.
Course Objectives
Build PMI-PBA exam readiness and practical business analysis capability.
01
Uncover Business Needs
Strengthen the ability to identify, analyze, and communicate business needs that shape project direction and expected business benefits.
02
Manage Requirements
Develop structured practices for requirements discovery, analysis, documentation, traceability, monitoring, and change awareness.
03
Engage Stakeholders
Build confidence working with stakeholders to define business requirements and support project outputs that deliver expected value.
04
Evaluate Solutions
Apply business analysis tools and techniques to assess solution performance, project outcomes, and business benefit delivery.
Who Should Attend
- Business analysts preparing to validate their experience and expertise through PMI-PBA certification.
- Project managers, program managers, product professionals, analysts, consultants, and delivery leaders who manage requirements or support business solution outcomes.
- Professionals responsible for requirements discovery, stakeholder collaboration, needs assessment, analysis, traceability, solution evaluation, and business benefit realization.
- Practitioners who work with stakeholders to define organizational business requirements and shape project outputs that deliver expected business benefits.
Eligibility and Recommended Readiness
- Set A: Secondary degree, 60 months working as a practitioner of business analysis within the last 8 years, and 35 contact hours in business analysis practices.
- Set B: Bachelor’s degree or higher, 36 months working as a practitioner of business analysis within the last 8 years, and 35 contact hours in business analysis practices.
- Set C: Bachelor’s or postgraduate degree from a GAC-accredited program, 24 months of unique nonoverlapping professional business analysis experience, and 35 contact hours of formal education.
- Learners should be prepared to document business analysis experience, project roles and responsibilities, completed training, and qualifying education.
Pathway Map
The PMI-PBA training course covers the complete business analysis certification pathway.
The curriculum connects PMI’s PMI-PBA exam structure with practical business analysis work across needs assessment, planning, analysis, traceability, monitoring, evaluation, stakeholder engagement, requirements management, application preparation, exam readiness, and certification maintenance.
Course Content
Full PMI-PBA curriculum breakout.
- Prepare for the Needs Assessment exam content area, which PMI lists as 18% of the PMI-PBA exam.
- Identify business problems, opportunities, needs, objectives, assumptions, constraints, and expected business benefits.
- Connect needs assessment to project justification, solution direction, stakeholder expectations, and value delivery.
- Practice exam-style scenarios involving business needs, project alignment, decision support, and benefit-driven analysis.
- Prepare for the Planning exam content area, which PMI lists as 22% of the PMI-PBA exam.
- Review business analysis planning, stakeholder planning, requirements activities, communication needs, and analysis approach selection.
- Understand how effective planning supports requirements discovery, analysis quality, stakeholder alignment, and project control.
- Apply planning concepts to PMI-PBA-style scenarios involving stakeholder expectations, project context, requirements strategy, and analysis readiness.
- Prepare for the Analysis exam content area, which PMI lists as 35% of the PMI-PBA exam.
- Review requirements elicitation, analysis, modeling, documentation, validation, prioritization, and solution alignment.
- Understand how practitioners spearhead discovery, analysis, and overall management of project requirements.
- Practice analysis-focused scenarios involving requirements quality, stakeholder input, solution fit, and expected business benefit.
- Review how PMI-PBA candidates work with stakeholders to define organizational business requirements.
- Connect stakeholder collaboration to project outputs, requirements decisions, business benefit realization, and solution acceptance.
- Understand the importance of engaging stakeholders early to ensure essential requirements are adequately addressed.
- Practice scenario-based stakeholder engagement decisions involving communication, requirements clarification, conflicting needs, and project value.
- Prepare for the Traceability and Monitoring exam content area, which PMI lists as 15% of the PMI-PBA exam.
- Review requirements traceability, monitoring, change awareness, status communication, and alignment with project outputs.
- Understand how traceability helps confirm requirements remain connected to business needs and expected benefits.
- Practice exam-style questions involving requirements change, traceability gaps, monitoring activities, and project alignment decisions.
- Prepare for the Evaluation exam content area, which PMI lists as 10% of the PMI-PBA exam.
- Review solution evaluation, acceptance considerations, outcome review, benefit alignment, and post-delivery performance awareness.
- Understand how business analysis supports project success by confirming that solutions address business problems and deliver expected benefit.
- Practice evaluation scenarios involving solution fit, stakeholder feedback, project value, and business outcome measurement.
- Review PMI’s path to PMI-PBA certification: check eligibility, complete the application, pay and schedule the exam, study, and take the exam.
- Understand how to document experience, past projects, roles and responsibilities, training completed, institutions attended, courses completed, and qualifying hours.
- Review PMI’s audit support expectations, including education documentation, experience verification, and proof of relevant training if selected.
- Understand scheduling options through a Pearson VUE Testing Center or secure online testing and PMI’s stated allowance of up to three attempts in one year if a candidate does not pass.
- Understand PMI-PBA maintenance expectations, including 60 Professional Development Units in each 3-year cycle.
- Review qualifying PDU activities listed by PMI, including learning, teaching others, presenting, reading, volunteering, and content creating.
- Connect certification maintenance to continued business analysis growth, stakeholder effectiveness, and project delivery maturity.
- Develop a professional development mindset that treats PMI-PBA as an ongoing credential pathway rather than a one-time exam event.
- Review the five PMI-PBA associated exam content areas listed by PMI: Needs Assessment, Planning, Analysis, Traceability and Monitoring, and Evaluation.
- Prepare for the PMI-PBA exam format, including 200 questions and 240 minutes of exam time.
- Reinforce the associated exam content weighting: Needs Assessment at 18%, Planning at 22%, Analysis at 35%, Traceability and Monitoring at 15%, and Evaluation at 10%.
- Complete certification-focused review activities that connect business analysis terminology, scenario-based decision-making, stakeholder context, requirements management, and project benefit delivery.
Course Features
Designed for practical PMI-PBA training and business analysis certification preparation.
Exam Content Review
Prepare across PMI’s PMI-PBA exam content areas, including Needs Assessment, Planning, Analysis, Traceability and Monitoring, and Evaluation.
Stakeholder Focus
Strengthen the ability to work with stakeholders to define business requirements and shape project outputs that deliver expected business benefit.
Requirements Practice
Review discovery, analysis, requirements management, prioritization, traceability, monitoring, and requirements-driven project alignment.
Application Readiness
Understand PMI-PBA eligibility, experience documentation, education requirements, audit support, scheduling, and exam-day preparation.
Certification Exam
Prepare for the official PMI Professional in Business Analysis certification exam.
PMI-PBA Exam Readiness
Accumentum’s PMI-PBA Training Course prepares learners to validate business analysis expertise across requirements, stakeholders, analysis, traceability, monitoring, evaluation, and project success.
Upon completing the PMI Professional in Business Analysis (PMI-PBA)® Training Course with Accumentum, learners will be prepared to pursue the official PMI-PBA certification exam and demonstrate readiness across business analysis principles, practices, tools, and techniques.
PMI lists the PMI-PBA exam as 200 questions with 240 minutes of exam time. PMI lists exam languages as English and Chinese Simplified.
PMI’s associated exam content areas include Needs Assessment at 18%, Planning at 22%, Analysis at 35%, Traceability and Monitoring at 15%, and Evaluation at 10%.
PMI-PBA candidates must meet one of PMI’s eligibility requirement sets involving education level, professional business analysis experience, and 35 contact hours in business analysis practices or formal education. PMI also states candidates may take the exam at a Pearson VUE Testing Center or securely online and may attempt the exam up to three times in one year if they do not pass.
Frequently Asked Questions
Understand how Accumentum’s PMI-PBA Certification Training Course supports business analysis certification preparation, eligibility, experience documentation, 35 contact hours, exam readiness, exam content areas, and certification maintenance.
The PMI Professional in Business Analysis (PMI-PBA)® certification recognizes an individual’s expertise in business analysis and the use of business analysis tools and techniques to improve overall project success.
This course is designed for business analysts, project managers, program managers, product professionals, consultants, and professionals responsible for requirements discovery, stakeholder engagement, business analysis planning, analysis, traceability, monitoring, and solution evaluation.
PMI lists three eligibility sets. Set A requires a secondary degree, 60 months of business analysis experience in the last 8 years, and 35 contact hours. Set B requires a bachelor’s degree or higher, 36 months of business analysis experience in the last 8 years, and 35 contact hours. Set C requires a bachelor’s or postgraduate degree from a GAC-accredited program, 24 months of unique nonoverlapping professional business analysis experience, and 35 contact hours of formal education.
PMI requires 35 contact hours earned in the topic of business analysis practices or 35 contact hours of formal education, depending on the eligibility set used.
The PMI-PBA exam includes 200 questions.
PMI lists the PMI-PBA exam time as 240 minutes.
PMI lists the associated PMI-PBA exam content as Needs Assessment at 18%, Planning at 22%, Analysis at 35%, Traceability and Monitoring at 15%, and Evaluation at 10%.
PMI states that candidates can take the PMI-PBA exam at a Pearson VUE Testing Center or securely online after the application is accepted and the exam fee is paid.
PMI states that candidates may attempt the exam up to three times in one year if they do not pass.
PMI-PBA holders need to earn 60 Professional Development Units in each 3-year cycle to maintain the certification. PMI lists qualifying activities including learning, teaching others, presenting, reading, volunteering, and content creating.
Enrollment
Enroll in the PMI Professional in Business Analysis Certification Training Course with Accumentum.
Enroll in Accumentum’s PMI Professional in Business Analysis (PMI-PBA)® Training Course to prepare for the PMI-PBA certification exam and strengthen the business analysis practices needed to improve project and program outcomes.
You will gain structured exam-aligned preparation across Needs Assessment, Planning, Analysis, Traceability and Monitoring, and Evaluation while reinforcing stakeholder collaboration, requirements discovery, requirements management, solution alignment, and business benefit realization.
This course is ideal for experienced business analysis practitioners, project professionals, consultants, analysts, product professionals, and delivery leaders who work with stakeholders to define business requirements and ensure projects deliver expected value. For detailed information, upcoming course dates, cohort availability, and enrollment support, visit Accumentum’s registration page linked below.
Build business analysis capability with PMI-PBA training.
Prepare for the PMI-PBA certification exam while strengthening skills across business needs, stakeholder engagement, requirements discovery, analysis, traceability, monitoring, solution evaluation, business benefit delivery, and project success.