• Examination payment: $250 for IIBA members, $400 for nonmembers
• Retake payment: $195 for IIBA members, $350 for nonmembers

IIBA Certification in Enterprise Knowledge Analytics (CBDA)

The Certification in Enterprise Knowledge Analytics (IIBA-CBDA) from the IIBA is a brand new certification that “acknowledges your capability to successfully execute analysis-related work in help of enterprise analytics initiatives.” To cross the examination, you will have to look at a real-world enterprise drawback, establish the info sources and tips on how to acquire knowledge, analyze the info, interpret and report outcomes from the info. You’ll then have to reveal how these outcomes can affect enterprise decision-making and information company-level methods for enterprise analytics.

• Examination payment: $250 for IIBA members, $400 for nonmembers
• Retake payment: $195 for IIBA members, $350 for nonmembers

IQBBA Licensed Superior Degree Enterprise Analyst (CALBA) 

The IQBBA Licensed Superior Degree Enterprise Analyst (CALBA) certification builds off the CFLBA basis stage cert, with the examination masking extra superior analytics abilities and information. You’ll be examined in your information of enterprise evaluation course of administration, necessities administration, and strategic evaluation and optimization. The three modules cowl higher-level ideas of enterprise analytics similar to technique definition, resolution analysis and optimization, enterprise evaluation processes, folks administration, related instruments and software program, change administration, battle administration, and extra. The examination is a number of selection and you may select to take a course prior, or research by yourself time and take the examination when you find yourself prepared. The IQBBA introduced an expert-level certification, however as of this writing it has not but been launched.

• Examination payment: Varies by location

IQBBA Licensed Agile Enterprise Evaluation (CABA)

The IQBBA Licensed Agile Enterprise Evaluation (CABA) certification is designed to assist deliver extra readability to how agile might help maximize the effectiveness of enterprise analytics. It goals to assist enterprise analysts have higher affect on agile software program improvement tasks. The examination covers tips on how to establish the function of a enterprise analyst in an agile improvement venture, tips on how to set up the duties of a enterprise analyst on an agile workforce, and tips on how to combine the idea of steady enchancment into analytics. The certification helps set up the function of a enterprise analyst in an agile setting and gives a blueprint on tips on how to combine agile into the enterprise analytics course of.

• Examination payment: Varies by location

IREB Licensed Skilled for Necessities Engineering (CPRE)

The Worldwide Necessities Engineering Board (IREB) gives the Licensed Skilled for Necessities Engineering (CPRE) certification is designed for these working in necessities engineering (RE), and it’s supplied at three ranges. The Basis Degree is first, the place you’ll be licensed within the fundamentals of RE. The Superior Degree is subsequent, the place you’ll be able to select between three paths, together with Necessities Elicitation and Consolidation, Necessities Modeling and Necessities Administration — however you’ll want to attend 12 months after finishing the primary examination to take the superior stage examination. The Knowledgeable Degree certifies you on the “highest stage of skilled information,” which incorporates each your hands-on expertise in addition to your information and abilities gained by means of earlier certifications.

Your certification won’t expire, and you’ll not have to renew it. The IREB states that the CPRE is “primarily based on the elemental strategies and approaches of Necessities Engineering, and these alter solely slowly,” so presently, they don’t see a necessity for renewal.

• Examination payment: Varies by testing middle

PMI Skilled in Enterprise Evaluation (PBA) Certification

The PMI Skilled in Enterprise Evaluation (PBA) certification is designed for enterprise analysts who work with tasks or packages, or venture and program managers who work with analytics. It’s supplied by means of the Challenge Administration Institute (PMI), which focuses on widely known venture administration certifications, such because the PMP. The certification focuses on enterprise evaluation coaching by means of hands-on tasks and testing on enterprise evaluation ideas, instruments and fundamentals.

In case you’ve already earned a bachelor’s diploma, you’ll want not less than three years’ expertise, or 4,500 hours, in enterprise evaluation consecutively inside the previous eight years to earn this certification. And not using a bachelor’s diploma, you’ll want 5 years or 7,500 hours expertise.

You’ll be required to earn 60 skilled improvement items inside three years after finishing the certification to keep up your renewal standing. In case you let your renewal lapse, your credentials might be suspended for one 12 months till you fulfill the necessities — after that, will probably be terminated and also you’ll have to reapply.

• Examination payment: $405 for PMI members, $555 for nonmembers