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Business Analyst Exam Overview

Exam Guide, Scheduling your Exam, Recommended Courses, and Quick Facts

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Customer Discovery

Exam Weight 17%

+400 points
Module

Essential Business Analyst Skills

Explore fundamental skills that drive successful projects.

~35 mins
+400 points
Module

Drucker School—Business Performance Basics

Create a blueprint for your organizational actions by answering five questions.

~35 mins
+300 points
Module

Organizational Alignment (V2MOM)

Use the V2MOM process to get aligned on goals and strategies across the company.

~55 mins
+100 points
Module

Admin & BA Job Comparison: Quick Look

Learn what Salesforce admins and business analysts do, and how their roles are different.

~5 mins
+100 points
Module

Salesforce Business Analyst: Quick Look

Learn what Salesforce business analysts do and the skills they need to succeed.

~5 mins
+400 points
Module

Business Analyst Best Practices

Improve your skills as a business analyst with pro tips from the experts.

~35 mins
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Business Analyst: Skilling Up for the Implementation Lifecycle

Community-led session focused on the skills needed for a Business Analyst.

~25 mins
+300 points
Module

Salesforce Agile Basics

Discover how Salesforce became agile and revolutionized product development.

~20 mins
+500 points
Module

Scrum and Kanban at Salesforce

Discover two workflows that Salesforce teams use for agile development.

~30 mins
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Features Evaluated in Salesforce Optimizer

Trailblazer Community Documentation

~5 mins
~5 mins
+900 points
Module

Security Basics

Educate your users, protect your Salesforce org, and encourage a culture of security.

~1 hr 20 mins
+300 points
Module

Salesforce 101

Learn how to connect with your customers in a whole new way with Salesforce.

~25 mins
Task

Collaboration with Stakeholders

Exam Weight 23%

+500 points
Module

Drucker School—Organizational Change Leadership

Stay competitive with the Drucker principles for driving change within your organization.

~55 mins
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What is Sales Enablement?

Trailblazer Community Documentation

~5 mins
+500 points
Module

Content Strategy Development

Develop a content strategy that aligns customer needs with business objectives.

~50 mins
+200 points
Module

Trust and Influence

Explore tactics for building trust and strategies to influence a desired outcome.

~35 mins
+500 points
Module

Journey Mapping

Improve your solution design by mapping how customers experience your product or service.

~30 mins
+300 points
Module

Innovation Customer Discovery

Learn tactics for rapid research that will help you better understand your customers.

~1 hr 5 mins
+300 points
Module

Innovation Ideation & Prototyping

Work as a team to generate and prioritize ideas and build rapid prototypes.

~50 mins
+300 points
Module

Diagramming Essentials

Develop impactful Salesforce diagrams with Lucidchart.

~15 mins
+100 points
Module

Virtual Whiteboarding: Quick Look

Learn tips and best practices for whiteboarding during a virtual meeting.

~15 mins
+500 points
Module

Salesforce Adoption Strategies

Get your sales reps using Salesforce to succeed.

~35 mins
+200 points
Module

Sales Operations Use Case and Best Practices

Get practical tips on process improvement and collaboration.

~10 mins
+200 points
Module

Relationship Building

Respond to your teammates with empathy and foster an environment of trust.

~15 mins
Task

Business Process Mapping

Exam Weight 12%

+300 points
Module

Process Mapping for Business Analysts

Use process mapping to improve business processes.

~15 mins
+400 points
Module

Business Process Mapping

Increase efficiency and alignment by mapping processes.

~30 mins
+400 points
Module

User Experience Basics

Dig into user experience process, tools, techniques, and best practices.

~30 mins
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How to Build Salesforce Diagrams

Salesforce Architect Blog

~10 mins
Task

Requirements

Exam Weight 18%

~10 mins
~10 mins
+600 points
Module

Git and GitHub Basics

Learn about version control systems and practice using Git and GitHub.

~1 hr 40 mins
Task

User Stories

Exam Weight 18%

+200 points
Module

User Story Creation

Discover the importance of user stories and learn how to write them.

~15 mins
+500 points
Module

Salesforce DevOps with Copado

Learn Copado’s take on how DevOps helps you deliver innovation faster with less risk.

~50 mins
Task

Development Support and User Acceptance

Exam Weight 12%

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User Acceptance Testing

Trailhead video on User Acceptance Testing

+100 points
Module

User Acceptance Testing

Learn why user acceptance testing is important to a project's success.

~20 mins
+800 points
Module

Advanced Salesforce Release Readiness Strategies

Learn how to leverage new Salesforce features across your organization.

~50 mins
~10 mins
Task

Additional Preparation

Additional resources to help prepare you for certification.

+700 points
Module

Cert Prep: Salesforce Business Analyst

Use practice quizzes and flashcards to study for the Business Analyst certification exam.

~35 mins
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System Overview: User Interface

Trailblazer Community Documentation

~5 mins