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Professional in Business Analysis (PBA)

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

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Course
$405 (Member) / $555 (Non-member) USD
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Difficulty
Difficulty: 4 of 5 (Advanced)
Advanced
Exam cost
$405 (Member) / $555 (Non-member) USD
Courses on path
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Official source
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Exam code
  • PMI-PBA

Exam datasheet

Exam length
240 minutes
Questions
200
Passing score
Not publicly disclosed
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
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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
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Every certification includes

Expert-led video training
Virtual labs
Certification practice exams
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. Professional level

    4 certs

    Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM)

    CAPM

    Professional in Business Analysis (PBA)

    PMI-PBA

    You are here

    Program Management Professional (PgMP)

    PgMP

    Risk Management Professional (RMP)

    PMI-RMP

Customer outcome

Make PBA a coverage number your auditor can quote

Professional in Business Analysis (PBA) certified engineers are easy to count and easy to prove. CBT Nuggets bundles the prep into a single team playlist so leadership sees who's on the path, who finished, and who's exam-ready — without spreadsheets.

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1 path
from foundation to credential — assigned and tracked as one playlist

Coverage proof

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

Standardizing your team on PBA gives leadership and auditors a coverage number they can quote — and gives PMI incident response a baseline of capability you can predict instead of hoping for.

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 Professional in Business Analysis (PBA) fit into our internal compliance and governance program?

Team reporting in CBT Nuggets documents assigned training, completion, and certification coverage for internal governance or external audit conversations. Pair the Professional in Business Analysis (PBA) path with your auditor's control crosswalk for the formal compliance mapping your specific framework requires.

What's the ROI of certifying our team on Professional in Business Analysis (PBA)?

IT Directors typically frame Professional in Business Analysis (PBA) ROI in operational terms — faster troubleshooting, defensible role coverage, predictable onboarding velocity, and audit-ready training documentation. The metrics that matter aren't seat-time or completion percentages; they're mean time to resolve, time-to-productivity for new PMI hires, and certification coverage by role.

How does CBT Nuggets Professional in Business Analysis (PBA) training compare to Pluralsight, LinkedIn Learning, or Udemy Business?

CBT Nuggets Professional in Business Analysis (PBA) courses are built by named expert trainers (not crowd-sourced contributors), include hands-on virtual labs in many courses, and include certification practice exams mapped to the vendor's published exam objectives. Team admin reporting tracks assignment, completion, and exam-readiness per engineer — the surface managers actually use to manage team training programs. See /compare for the full feature comparison.

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

From the admin console, managers create a training playlist (one or more courses on the Professional in Business Analysis (PBA) path), assign it to specific engineers or role groups, and track completion + practice-exam scores per learner. Team-wide reporting rolls up to a single dashboard you can export for monthly leadership reviews or quarterly compliance reporting. No spreadsheet, no per-engineer license fiddling.

How long does it take to certify a team on Professional in Business Analysis (PBA)?

Depends on the cert and the team's starting baseline. Entry-level PMI certs typically run 4–6 weeks per engineer from a cold start; associate-level certs run 8–12 weeks; professional/expert tracks can run 3–6 months. Most teams budget the full quarter for any associate-level certification so engineers have time to actually apply the lab work before the exam.

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

CBT Nuggets updates PMI course content as exam objectives refresh — typically within weeks of the vendor's release. When PMI restructures or renames a track (a common pattern), the assigned training paths stay aligned with the same team training plan; managers don't have to rebuild the playlist from scratch. The training stays current without anyone losing their certification status mid-stream.

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