IIBA CBDA Certification in Business Data Analytics (IIBA – CBDA) Online Training
IIBA CBDA Online Training
The questions for CBDA were last updated at Jul 18,2025.
- Exam Code: CBDA
- Exam Name: Certification in Business Data Analytics (IIBA - CBDA)
- Certification Provider: IIBA
- Latest update: Jul 18,2025
The interplay between enterprise systems and data analytics can be envisioned at various layers.
The layer that connects the business processes to data analytics is the:
- A . information layer
- B . physical layer
- C . technical layer
- D . infrastructure layer
The team has completed their analysis on a vast amount of collected data and agree on their recommendations for action.
However, they are having difficulty in developing the appropriate messages to support their recommendations. The business analysis professional suggests which technique to assist the team?
- A . T-Testing
- B . Simulation
- C . Visioning
- D . Storyboarding
A database analyst is modelling a database for a large toy manufacturer.
Which statement describes a logical database model?
- A . The layer of views created to summarize data or provide another perspective of certain data
- B . A model that depicts the actual design of the relational database
- C . An abstraction of the conceptual data model that includes rules of normalization
- D . Modelling that involves objects being defined at the schema level
A professional association is funded by membership fees. The membership renewal occurs every 5 years. Although, they have a strong subscription rate each year, their renewal rate is low. They are working with an external firm specializing in Business Analytics to identify the groups of customers that have a high likelihood of cancelling their subscription after their first 5-year term ends.
This type of study is called:
- A . Untrained learning
- B . Supervised learning
- C . Trained learning
- D . Unsupervised learning
Which attributes from the Order entity will need to be normalized to avoid redundancies?
. Orderld
. OrderDate
. Itemld
. ItemName
. Quantity
. ItemPrice
- A . OrderDate ItemPrice
- B . ItemName ItemPrice
- C . OrderDate ItemName
- D . Item Name Quantity
The architecture team puts forth a solution architecture that integrates multiple data sources from within and outside the organization. The architecture provides the foundation to source a new analytics program.
If one of the objectives of the analytics team was to provide ‘one source of the truth’, this objective would be referring to which of the following?
- A . Identifying one key stakeholder, who can make final decisions about which sources to relate/merge
- B . Evaluating the completeness, validity, and reliability of the data from source systems
- C . Ensuring stakeholders always have clear insight into the final requirements at all times
- D . Enforcing master data management principles and practices
As the team discusses how to utilize the results of their data analysis to put forth a business recommendation, an analyst on the team voices concern over the current organizational culture presenting a roadblock to their ability to influence business decision making.
Which of the following would be a justifiable concern at this stage of the team’s efforts?
- A . Difficulty bringing business stakeholders to a shared understanding about value when sharing data assets across business domains
- B . Changing the mindsets of business stakeholders to trust insights gleaned from data over experience and intuition
- C . Applying a myopic view of data and establishing data silos which create roadblocks to exploring
available data sources - D . Finding data that creates value creating difficulties, as not all data helps a business make better decisions
An analytics team is interested in reviewing the results of a public opinion poll that is going to be conducted at the end of the month. One of the factors the team is interested in, is ensuring the result set is statistically significant.
Why would this factor be important to the team?
- A . To make sure the criteria for the target audience is met
- B . Guarantee that the objectives of the poll are met
- C . Improve the likelihood of receiving a response rate of 100%
- D . Ensure that results are not biased or random
The outcome from an analytics initiative has resulted in key stakeholders wanting to move forward
with a project to redesign the company’s website. The business analyst has called a meeting to work on drafting a plan to assess the level of effort required to complete this work. Many of the invited participants redesigned the website before and were invited so they could provide estimates using their knowledge and experience from the past.
The business analyst is using which method to estimate this work?
- A . Rolling wave
- B . PERT
- C . Parametric
- D . Rough order of magnitude
The analytics team has been asked to provide an estimate of the number of customers they expect to have in 12 months. They debated how accurate that figure needs to be and determined that based on the availability of good data, they could predict within + or – 10%.
This is an example of a:
- A . ROM estimate
- B . Delphi estimate
- C . Parametric estimate
- D . Definitive estimate