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Professional in Business Analysis (PBA)

Standardize your team on Professional in Business Analysis (PBA) with a structured PMI training path — team admin reporting included on every CBT Nuggets Teams seat.

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Course
5
Core skills
$405 (Member) / $555 (Non-member)
Exam fee (PMI)
Project management team in planning session reviewing Gantt charts
Difficulty
Difficulty: 4 of 5 (Advanced)
Advanced
Exam fee (PMI)
$405 (Member) / $555 (Non-member)
Courses on path
1
Official source
PMI’s official exam page
Exam code
  • PMI-PBA

Exam datasheet

Prerequisites
Bachelor’s degree or higher degree (or global equivalent), 36 months working as a practitioner of business analysis. This experience must have been earned in the last 8 years. 35 contact hours earned in the topic of business analysis practices.
Recommended experience
At least 2 years of professional business analysis experience
Recertification
3 years
Testing center

Exams

Exams for this certification

Exam fees per engineer, paid to the exam vendor$405 (Member) / $555 (Non-member)

Exam — Required

Every engineer on the Professional in Business Analysis (PBA) path takes PMI-PBA.

  1. PMI-PBAPMI Professional in Business Analysis (PMI-PBA)®
    Exam fee
    $405 (Member) / $555 (Non-member)
    Exam length
    240 minutes
    Questions
    200
    Passing score
    Not publicly disclosed

    Exam blueprint: PMI-PBA

Skills your team builds

Needs AssessmentPlanningAnalysisTraceability and MonitoringEvaluation

Training path

Your team's training path

One CBT Nuggets course covers the full Professional in Business Analysis (PBA) path. Your team can start today and have admin reporting visible from day one.

  1. Start here · primary course

    PMI-PBA Certification

    Get 35 hours of approved PMI-PBA certification training. This course helps you build advanced business analysis skills, develop a portfolio of professional analysis artifacts, and earn PMI’s Professional in Business Analysis certification. You’ll work through challenging scenarios that reflect how experienced analysts identify business problems, engage stakeholders, define requirements, and evaluate whether solutions deliver real value. This PMI-PBA training includes exercises in stakeholder interviews, requirements prioritization, process modeling, and business case development. You’ll produce practical deliverables like requirements documentation, stakeholder analysis, and business cases that you can download, reuse in your own work, and include in a professional portfolio.

    Bob Mahler
    292 videos39h
    Open course

Every certification course includes

  • Expert-led video training
  • Per-team completion reporting

PMI career ladder

Where Professional in Business Analysis (PBA) sits in your team's PMI progression

The cert your team is on now, plus the levels above and below. Use this to map an engineer's next-step credential or to plan headcount coverage across tiers.

  1. Associate level

    1 cert

    Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM)

    CAPM

  2. Professional level

    3 certs

    Professional in Business Analysis (PBA)

    PMI-PBA

    You are here

    Program Management Professional (PgMP)

    PgMP

    Risk Management Professional (RMP)

    PMI-RMP

Customer outcome

Build PBA capability across the whole team, not one engineer

Assign the Professional in Business Analysis (PBA) course to the engineers who need it, and the team report shows who has started, who has finished — the view leadership uses to see PMI skills coverage across the team and where the gaps are.

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Team capability

Make PBA a number on your team capability sheet, not a single engineer’s certificate.

Standardizing your team on PBA gives leadership a clear picture of PMI skills coverage — who has completed the training, who is still on the path, and where the gaps are — so staffing and escalation plans rest on known capability instead of on one engineer.

Credential: Professional in Business Analysis (PBA)

Exam
  • PMI-PBA

Frequently asked questions about Professional in Business Analysis (PBA) training

Common questions IT directors ask when evaluating Professional in Business Analysis (PBA) training for their team.

How does the PMI-PBA credential fit into our governance or compliance program?

IT leaders often cite PMI-PBA when documenting that the people who define requirements and approve solutions hold a recognized business analysis credential. CBT Nuggets team reporting provides per-learner progress, completion and completion exports that can support that training record. Your auditor's control crosswalk determines any formal mapping to a specific framework.

Which team members should hold the Professional in Business Analysis (PBA), and what can a certified team own?

The credential suits analysts, product owners and project leads who translate business problems into requirements for IT delivery. The linked course is built around defining the business problem, assessing current workflows, defining the future state, and planning the analysis approach. It continues through prioritization, decision-making, solution validation and verification, and benefits realization, so a certified team can own work from initial problem framing to measuring delivered value.

What does CBT Nuggets Professional in Business Analysis (PBA) training include for a team?

CBT Nuggets Professional in Business Analysis (PBA) courses are built by named expert trainers. Where a course includes hands-on virtual labs or a practice exam mapped to PMI's published exam objectives, the course list on this page says so. Team admin reporting tracks assignment, completion and exam readiness per engineer — the view managers use to run a team training program.

How do I assign and track Professional in Business Analysis (PBA) training for my team?

From the admin console, managers assign the Professional in Business Analysis (PBA) courses directly to specific engineers or role groups and track completion and practice-exam scores per learner. Team-wide reporting rolls up to a single dashboard you can review or export for leadership reviews or compliance reporting.

How long does it take to prepare a team for the PMI-PBA exam?

The linked live courses contain about 39 hours of video, which gives Training Managers a planning baseline for assigning the material. Actual time to certify depends on each team member's starting point in business analysis practice and how much time they can dedicate to the training.

What if PMI updates the Professional in Business Analysis (PBA) exam objectives?

CBT Nuggets updates PMI course content as exam objectives refresh, and this page shows the current exam's status and any retirement date the vendor has announced. When PMI restructures or renames a track, the assigned training stays aligned with the same team training plan, and the training stays current without anyone losing their progress mid-stream.

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