CBAP Certification Study Guide (2nd Edition)

Good solid CBAP prep stuff with excellent review questions

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I used this book and passed the CBAP exam. The material is explained well and does a great job of highlighting the BABOK nuances. I particularly liked the practice exam questions. They were relevant and did a great job of preparing me for the exam. I previously purchased other exam preparation materials (CBAP Exam Prep - Carkenord; All-in-One CBAP - Joe Phillips) and subsequently discarded them

I am very glad that I got an efficient Study guide for my CBAP preparation. I am very thankful for the Authors of this Study guide and I passed the exam in my 1st attempt. Just want to share the trend. Initially I was going through only BABOK in one of IIBA Local Chapters and my score used to range between 50% and 60%. I was little worried and then I came across this study guide in Amazon. It really helped me understand the BABOK easily. With the help of this Study guide & BABOK my score of the practice exams ranged between 65% and 75%. Then comes the interesting part - Exam simulation - Trial offer for 5 days. After completing several drill and full simulation exams my scoring ranged between 80% and 90%. It really helped to face the actual CBAP exam with full confident. But please note 90% in simulation does not mean that you are all set for exam. As mentioned in the study guide, BABOK should be one's primary study material. However, my only comment about this Study guide, Stakeholders and their roles are not captured detailed in each KAs/Tasks in this study guide. I strongly recommend to go through the Stakeholders part in BABOK under each KA/Task. Its really worthful to buy this study guide especially for the trial period of simulation exams. The actual exam is almost similar to the simuulation exams but for sure you need to study every line in BABOK. I strongly recommend this study guide to my friends. Good luck. Regards, Saba CBAP, AINS

I passed the CBAP exam with around a month of part time study and rely on mostly the materials in this book. However, this study guide cannot be the sole resource to prepare for the exam, the key is to do lots of full CBAP exam simulator. (see bottom paragraph regarding my take on online exams) I have a few suggested improvements and this study guide will worth 5 stars IMHO: 1) I believe the authors purposely not discuss the stakeholders for each task, however, I found that in the actual test, there are quite a few questions on stakeholders. Luckily I discovered that when I did the online exam and referenced back to BABOK to study the details before the exam. If the author can just provide a brief summary on stakeholder involvements for each task, that will be great. 2) This guide discuss techniques together with the knowledge areas which is great (unlike BABOK have a separate chapter on techniques). However, the content and key points on the techniques stayed at a high/summary level, in the actual exams there are MANY scenario based questions on the techniques. 3) Provide a combo deal - purchase this guide and get a discount on watermark online exams :) They did give you free 5 days pass but definitely not enough. I purchased Watermark as well as BAMentor online exams, the questions are worded quite differently between the two vendors. I would say watermark is pretty straight forward and tend to focus on the content in the study guide. Also you can only review the most recent exam you took. I felt BA Mentor online exam is closer to the actual exam question style (i.e. not easy to understand what they are really asking). They also test concept in the BABOK which Watermark didn't even mention in their guide; and allow to review all previous exams that you have taken. So it is up to you which one you want to spend money on or both. (I recommend to get both especially if you have limited exam prep time, like me) I still highly recommend this guide since it is organized in a way to make it easy to understand and memorize the key concepts so that they can be readily recalled during the exam.