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Salesforce BA-201 Exam Syllabus Topics:
| Section | Weight | Objectives |
|---|---|---|
| Topic 1: Customer Discovery | 17% | - Analyze current state and future state processes - Conduct stakeholder interviews and workshops - Identify business needs, pain points, and objectives - Document business requirements and user stories |
| Topic 2: Business Process Mapping | 17% | - Map current and future business processes - Create process flow diagrams and documentation - Identify process gaps and improvement opportunities - Analyze impact of changes on stakeholders |
| Topic 3: User Story Development | 20% | - Write clear and actionable user stories - Define acceptance criteria for user stories - Break down epics into manageable user stories - Manage user story backlog and prioritization |
| Topic 4: Collaboration with Stakeholders | 23% | - Conduct effective meetings and presentations - Build consensus on requirements and solutions - Manage stakeholder expectations and priorities - Facilitate communication between business and technical teams |
| Topic 5: Requirements Management | 23% | - Prioritize requirements based on business value - Validate and verify requirements with stakeholders - Manage requirements traceability - Elicit and document functional and non-functional requirements |
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Salesforce Certified Business Analyst is an official Salesforce certification exam, identified by exam code BA-201. Passing earns you the Salesforce Business Analyst certification, classified at the Intermediate level. It also connects with Salesforce Certified Administrator, so it can serve as a stepping stone in a wider certification plan. In hiring, certificates work as a quick, quantitative standard, and this one tells employers your skills passed the vendor's own measurement.
Salesforce Certified Business Analyst candidates answer 65 questions within 105 minutes. Efficiency under the clock is a trainable skill, not a talent: decide your per-question budget in advance, flag anything that threatens it, and keep moving. Running timed simulations in the ExamTorrent test engine until you finish with time to spare is the most reliable way to make exam day feel controlled rather than rushed.
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The Salesforce Certified Business Analyst syllabus is organized into 5 domains, with the largest being Requirements Management (23%), Business Process Mapping (17%), and Customer Discovery (17%). The complete breakdown appears in the topics section above; a clear classification of what the exam tests is the first step toward efficient preparation.
Salesforce Certified Business Analyst Sample Questions:
The sales team at Cloud Kicks is rolling out a new sales methodology. To incorporate the requested changes, the business analyst working with the technical team identifies several integrations that touch the Opportunity object and could be impacted by the changes. The project manager wants the solution to include unit testing, code reviews, and functional testing.
What does the project team need to agree upon to ensure the work is ready to be deployed?
- A. Entity relationship diagram
- B. Definition of done
- C. User acceptance criteria
Correct Answer: B 🗳️
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Universal Container wants to build a Salesforce application to manage its recruitment lifecycle. The project lead wants to identify the key recruitment steps and stakeholders in a visual format.
What should the business analyst do to meet the requirement?
- A. Map the business process.
- B. Create an entity relationship diagram.
- C. Review department procedures and consult the org chart.
Correct Answer: A 🗳️
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After the completion of the most recent sprint at Cloud Kicks (CK), the business analyst (BA) provided a demo of three user stories for the customer support solution to a senior executive. During the demo, the BA showcased the following Salesforce functionalities:
1. Searching for an account
2. Creating a new case
3. Closing a case
After the demo, the BA received poor feedback stating that the executive was unsure about the definition of a
"case."
What should the BA do differently in the next demo?
- A. Update the environment to use language specific to CK.
- B. Confirm each user story includes a clear who, what, and why.
- C. Explain that the term is a Salesforce industry standard.
Correct Answer: B 🗳️
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Support managers at Cloud Kicks have received urgent feedback from staff that record pages are slow to respond and users and growing frustrated. The business analyst (BA) has been asked to evaluate to determine which pages are being accessed most frequently and which pages are the slowest to load.
What is the first step the BA should take to help resolve the issue?
- A. Confirm steps to reproduce the issue.
- B. Update page layouts in production.
- C. Create a test plan for each web browser.
Correct Answer: A 🗳️
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After stakeholders formally signed off on requirements, the business analyst (BA) received numerous emails requesting changes to Salesforce during uses acceptance testing (UAT). The BA quickly became overwhelmed by the requests and needs a way to organize and peritonitis them.
What should the BA use to help them organize these requests?
- A. Change request log
- B. Scope statement specification
- C. Gap analysis document
Correct Answer: A 🗳️
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