PMI-PBA - Professional in Business Analysis - Exams in 2026

PMI-PBA - Professional in Business Analysis

The Business Analysis Certification Program from PM Expert is designed to provide you with the core skills, knowledge and hands-on experience needed to succeed as a Business Analyst in today's global marketplace. The Certification addresses real-world problems that business analysts face, demonstrate how to use business analyst techniques and tools, and use exercises to enhance the transfer of knowledge back to the participant's workplace.

The PMI-PBA program focuses on analyzing current best practices from some of the most successful companies utilizing Business Analysis today. You will learn to better define and manage requirements, elicit information from stakeholders, analyze business processes and find innovative and efficient solutions to even the most challenging business problems.

PMI views business analysis as an essential capability that cascades across and throughout portfolio, program, and project management. As such, the PMI Guide to Business Analysis is aligned to A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide); The Standard for Program Management; The Standard for Portfolio Management; Organizational Project Management Maturity Model (OPM3®) and the Agile Practice Guide. Business Analysis for Practitioners: A Practice Guide is a complement to this standard.

PMI PROFESSIONAL IN BUSINESS ANALYSIS (PMI-PBA) EXAMINATION CONTENT OUTLINE

The following table identifies the proportion of questions from each domain that will appear on the examination. These percentages are used to determine the number of questions related to each domain and task that should appear on the multiple-choice format examination.

Domain 1: Needs Assessment (18%)

The Needs Assessment domain includes activities related to understanding a business problem or opportunity and evaluating various inputs to help develop an effective solution.

Domain 2: Planning (22%)

The Planning domain focuses on the preparation required to effectively manage the business analysis activities that will occur within the project. This includes establishing tools, policies, and procedures for the requirements management plan, requirements traceability, change management, document control, and acceptance criteria.

Domain 3: Analysis (35%)

The Analysis domain centers on requirements management activities. Tasks include the elicitation, analysis, decomposition, acceptance, approval, specification, and validation of the requirements for a product or project.

Domain 4: Traceability and Monitoring (15%)

The Traceability and Monitoring domain includes the activities related to managing the life cycle of requirements. The tasks within this domain comprise the continuous monitoring and documenting of requirements as well as the communication of the requirements status to stakeholders.

Domain 5: Evaluation (10%)

The Evaluation domain includes activities that relate to the assessment of how well the delivered solution fulfills the requirements and meets the business need. Tasks within this domain include testing the solution, determining if there are gaps, and obtaining sign-off.