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IBM Business Analyst Professional Certificate
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IBM Business Analyst Professional Certificate

Get job-ready as a Business Analyst. Build the essential skills, technical expertise, and hands-on experience with key business analysis tools

Daniel C. Yeomans
Shubhra Das
Skill-Up EdTech Team

Instructors: Daniel C. Yeomans

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Earn a career credential that demonstrates your expertise
4.9

(18 reviews)

Beginner level

Recommended experience

3 months
at 5 hours a week
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

  • Job-ready skills you need to kickstart your career as a business analyst (Aligned with the BABOK Guide)

  • Develop hands-on practical skills and prepare for ECBA certification valued by employers

  • Strategies and methods for process modeling, requirements gathering, stakeholder engagement, and project management

  • Fundamental concepts, tools, and techniques for systems analysis, data analysis, and visualization

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Professional Certificate - 6 course series

Introduction to Business Analysis

Course 113 hours4.9 (13 ratings)

What you'll learn

  • Job-ready skills you need to kickstart your career as a business analyst (Aligned with the BABOK Guide)

  • Develop hands-on practical skills and prepare for ECBA certification valued by employers

  • Strategies and methods for process modeling, requirements gathering, stakeholder engagement, and project management

  • Fundamental concepts, tools, and techniques for systems analysis, data analysis, and visualization

Skills you'll gain

Category: Entity relationship diagrams (ERDs)
Category: Process modeling techniques
Category: Data flow diagrams (DFDs)
Category: Agile business analysis
Category: BABOK framework

Excel Basics for Data Analysis

Course 211 hours4.8 (8,696 ratings)

What you'll learn

  • Display working knowledge of Excel for Data Analysis.

  • Perform basic spreadsheet tasks including navigation, data entry, and using formulas.

  • Employ data quality techniques to import and clean data in Excel.

  • Analyze data in spreadsheets by using filter, sort, look-up functions, as well as pivot tables.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Data Analysis
Category: Microsoft Excel
Category: IBM Cognos Analytics
Category: Dashboard
Category: Data Visualization

Data Visualization and Dashboards with Excel and Cognos

Course 315 hours4.7 (3,912 ratings)

What you'll learn

  • Create basic visualizations such as line graphs, bar graphs, and pie charts using Excel spreadsheets.

  • Explain the important role charts play in telling a data-driven story. 

  • Construct advanced charts and visualizations such as Treemaps, Sparklines, Histogram, Scatter Plots, and Filled Map Charts.

  • Build and share interactive dashboards using Excel and Cognos Analytics.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Business Analytics
Category: Process modeling
Category: Process Modeling
Category: Systems Analysis
Category: Data analysis and visualization
Category: Systems analysis
Category: Business Analytics
Category: BABOK
Category: BABOK
Category: Data Analysis and Visualization
Category: ECBA Certification

What you'll learn

  • Job-ready skills in process modeling and requirements gathering for business analysis without any prior experience

  • How to apply BABOK principles in real-world scenarios

  • Methodologies for process mining and utilizing tools for comprehensive analysis to derive actionable business insights

  • Effective system modeling by creating entity-relationship diagrams (ERDs), data flow diagrams (DFDs), and applying unified modeling language (UML)

Skills you'll gain

Category: Business Analysis
Category: International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA)
Category: Business Analyst Exam
Category: Exam for Entry Certificate in Business Analysis (ECBA)
Category: Business Analysis Certificate

What you'll learn

  • Job-ready skills in project and stakeholder management that employers value in a good business analyst

  • The fundamental concepts of project management, including project phases, communication strategies, stakeholder, and risk management

  • How to apply various project management tools to effectively manage projects, conduct risk assessments, and plan communication strategies

  • How to implement effective communication strategies to engage stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle

Skills you'll gain

Category: Project Lifecycle
Category: Project Management
Category: Stakeholder Management
Category: Risk Management
Category: Communication

What you'll learn

  • The IIBA-ECBA certification education requirements, experience requirements, and the end-to-end sign-up and testing process

  • The nine domains of the IIBA-ECBA test and the percentage of questions from each domain

  • Practice questions and mock exams, simulating the real ECBA test environment

  • Additional study sources and testing tips

Skills you'll gain

Category: Data Science
Category: Spreadsheet
Category: Data Analysis
Category: Microsoft Excel
Category: Pivot Table

Instructors

Daniel C. Yeomans
SkillUp EdTech
24 Courses75,904 learners
Shubhra Das
SkillUp EdTech
6 Courses7,418 learners
Skill-Up EdTech Team
SkillUp EdTech
68 Courses132,250 learners

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