This is your self-study question bank for the BCS International Diploma in Business Analysis oral examination. Use it on your own to learn, practise and remember the key concepts across the whole oral syllabus. It works alongside your one-to-one mock oral interviews with your coach, which test you on realistic scenarios under exam conditions; it does not replace them.
How to use it
- Read each question and answer it out loud, as you would to an examiner, before you type or reveal anything.
- Click Hint to see the model answer, and compare it with yours. Note the exact BCS terms used: examiners listen for them.
- Practise elaborating: for each answer, add an example and say when the technique would not be suitable.
- Repeat each section until you can answer every question confidently without the hint.
Suggested order: the sections follow the syllabus, so work through them in order. Sections 1 to 3 cover the business context (the BA role, strategy analysis, performance measurement and business change); Sections 4 to 9 cover stakeholders, investigation, gap analysis and the business case; Sections 10 to 17 cover requirements, modelling and process improvement. Finish with Section 18, which asks you to apply what you have learned to short scenarios. In the real exam, questions may be worded differently or set in a scenario, so understand the reasoning behind each answer rather than memorising the words.
