{"id":2371,"date":"2020-12-29T23:51:43","date_gmt":"2020-12-30T04:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rpchurchill.com\/wordpress\/?p=2371"},"modified":"2021-03-19T14:21:16","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T19:21:16","slug":"added-iiba-cbda-certification-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpchurchill.com\/wordpress\/posts\/2020\/12\/29\/added-iiba-cbda-certification-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Added IIBA-CBDA Certification Today"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today I sat for and passed the Certification in Business Data Analytics (CBDA<\/a>) exam issued by the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA<\/a>). It is the newest of the five active<\/a> certifications I maintain. I sought this certification, as I have previously<\/a>, simply to communicate the level of skill I’ve developed over the course of my career.<\/p>\n

I signed up for the exam yesterday morning, read the 192-page Guide to Business Data Analytics the IIBA provides as a PDF (behind its paywall), and sat for it this evening. I mostly counted on my experience being sufficient to achieve good scores in the six knowledge areas, and that proved to be sufficient. The knowledge areas are:<\/p>\n

Identify the Research Questions \u2013 20% (Domain 1)
\nSource Data \u2013 15% (Domain 2)
\nAnalyze Data \u2013 16% (Domain 3)
\nInterpret and Report Results \u2013 20% (Domain 4)
\nUse Results to Influence Business Decision Making \u2013 20% (Domain 5)
\nGuide Organization-level Strategy for Business Analytics – 9% (Domain 6)<\/p>\n

Since I’ve been working with large volumes of data in many contexts<\/a> over a long period of time, most of the general questions were tractable. Where I felt weakest was on questions about a myriad of specific diagram types that might have been in the guide mentioned above, but not discussed in detail. For future reference I’ve listed the specific tools and diagrams I found mentioned in the guide. Many of these are common and straightforward, but it would have been a better idea to review some in more detail, particularly those that were actually discussed near the end of the PDF, if only briefly (e.g., with an example accompanied by one or two short paragraphs).<\/p>\n

Activity Diagram
\nArchitectural Diagram
\nArea Chart
\nAutocorrelation Plots (Box-Jenkins method)
\nBar Chart
\nBox Plot
\nBox and Whisker Plot
\nBox-Cox Plots \/ Normal Transformation
\nBullet Chart
\nBusiness Model Canvas
\nButterfly Chart
\nChord
\nContour Plot
\nCorrelation Map
\nCumulative Error Plot
\nLogical Data Flow Diagram
\nPhysical Data Flow Diagram
\nDecision Tree
\nDensity Plot
\nEntity Relationship Diagram
\nError Residue Graph
\nFlow Diagram
\nFunnel Chart
\nFusion Chart
\nHeat Map
\nHistogram
\nLag Plot
\nLine Chart
\nLog Plot
\nLognormal Plot
\nMap Plot
\nOnion Diagram
\nOrganizational Chart
\nPair Plot
\nPie Chart
\nPrincipal Component Analysis (PCA) Plot
\nProbability Distribution Graph
\nReceiver Operating Characteristics (ROC) Curve
\nResidual Plot
\nRun-Sequence Plot
\nScatter Plot
\nSequence Diagram
\nSilhouette Plot
\nSpider Chart
\nStakeholder Matrix
\nSunburst Chart
\nVenn Diagram
\nWaterfall
\nWeibull Plot<\/p>\n

No one person uses all of them or could reasonably be expected to know them, so maybe that’s the rationale for the super low passing threshold, which may only have been 40%.<\/p>\n

The exam<\/a> involved 75 questions in 120 minutes. There was little specific mention of Artificial Intelligence or Machine Learning techniques, except as generalities.<\/p>\n

The interesting thing about this one is that it has to be renewed every year (instead of every three), but you only need 20 CDUs (instead of the 60 that are typical for some my other certs), so the idea is clearly that you stay engaged with the material to keep up with ongoing developments.<\/p>\n

I don’t know how useful this will be. As of the end of November only 117 people had earned it. (Edit: 159 as of 3\/17\/21).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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