Practice deliberately
Build a custom practice session: choose knowledge areas, tasks and techniques, question styles, session length, timing, and whether explanations appear as you go or wait until the end.
About the simulator
Readiness should be something you can see.
Measurable CBAP®, CCBA® and ECBA™ preparation: focused practice, explanations, review and performance insights.
CBAP®, CCBA® and ECBA™ are available now. ECBA includes four banks: current English, and previous-blueprint French (France), French (Canada) and Brazilian Portuguese. One ECBA purchase includes all four; progress is tracked separately per bank.
Scale
Depth you can work through for months.
Across the catalogue: 1,300+ CBAP® questions, 1,300 CCBA® questions and 500 per ECBA™ bank, including localized variants. Case-study and explanation-entry figures below concern CBAP; available settings depend on the certification.
4,600+
180+
10,500+
70+
200+
20
12+
EN / FR / PT-BR
What you can do
Four ways to work, one picture of your progress.
Practice, simulation, review and measurement are not four separate tools you have to reconcile yourself. Everything you do in one is carried into the next, so your preparation builds instead of starting over.
Sit the exam
CBAP®: 120 questions in 210 minutes. CCBA®: 130 questions in 180 minutes. ECBA™: 50 questions in 75 minutes for current English, or 60 minutes for previous-blueprint banks. Answers and explanations stay hidden until completion.
Review what happened
Review explanations, references, notes and highlights. CBAP and CCBA include English explanations with optional paid French access; ECBA questions and explanations follow the bank’s language, with no separate language purchase.
Measure where you are
Readiness, coverage, pace, strengths and priorities — each carrying its own minimum question count, so no number claims more than the work behind it supports.
Content and review
Written by a practitioner. Kept under review.
Every question, case study, and explanation here is written by a practicing business analyst rather than compiled from a syllabus — and then revised as the material is used: wording tightened, weak options replaced, explanations expanded where they were doing too little work. The aim is content that reflects how decisions are actually made on projects, with the reasoning behind each one written out in full.
Written as decisions
Situations with competing defensible answers, not definitions with three wrong ones. Recognition is easy to test and predicts little; choosing between plausible options is what the exam is watching.
Every option explained
Not only why the correct answer is correct. Why the one you chose was weaker — traced to its task and its technique — because that is where the reasoning actually changes.
Referenced, not asserted
Explanations point to the BABOK® Guide so you can locate the reasoning in the profession's own vocabulary rather than taking ours for it.
- CBAP®-certified Business Analyst
- 10+ years of IT project experience
- Former mentoring experience with the IIBA Montréal Chapter
- PhD
These credentials reflect the background of the person who creates and reviews the content. They are not a review, an approval, or an endorsement by IIBA® or any certification body.
Performance
What the numbers are actually telling you.
A score reports how one session went. These report what to do about it — and each one states the limits of what it can claim.
Readiness
One indicator combined from six measures of your work, shown with the confidence its question count supports rather than as a prediction of your result.
Coverage
Which knowledge areas, tasks and techniques you have genuinely practiced — and which ones you have been quietly avoiding.
Pace and endurance
Time per question, and whether your accuracy holds across a full-length sitting or falls away in the last hour.
Trend
How each measure is moving over time, so one poor session reads as a data point rather than a verdict.
Recommendations
A next action, not a report card.
Results that only describe you leave the hardest part — deciding what to do — exactly where it was. Every view here ends in something to do next, with the reasoning shown so you can disagree with it.
What to work on first
The single area where the next hour of practice is worth the most, chosen from coverage and accuracy together rather than from your weakest score alone.
Where attention is thin
Tasks and techniques you have answered too few questions in for any measure to mean much yet.
When to simulate
Full simulations cost a morning. The simulator says when you have enough practice behind you for one to tell you something useful.
CBAP assessment and profile
Start from where you actually are.
Preparation that begins with question one of one thousand ignores everything you already know. The assessment and profile exist to make the starting point specific.
Candidate assessment
A 17-question initial assessment gives you starting signals about how you approach questions and what to practice first. Eligibility guidance is available separately.
Your profile
Three complementary profiles—thinking modes, decision abilities and question families—help you choose focused practice. They guide preparation rather than predict an exam result.
Goals and the study week
Set your own targets and follow a suggested week built around them, so each day has a defined focus instead of an open-ended session.
Exam simulation
Conditions, not just questions.
The exam tests judgment under time and fatigue. A question bank cannot rehearse that; a simulation can.
Full length, full timer
CBAP®: 120 questions in 210 minutes, mainly case-study and scenario-based. CCBA®: 130 self-contained scenario questions in 180 minutes. ECBA™: 50 standalone questions in 75 minutes for current English or 60 minutes for previous-blueprint banks, following each bank’s domain distribution.
Answers stay hidden
Nothing is revealed until the simulation is complete — no checking as you go, which is the habit that makes practice scores flattering.
Exam navigation
Flag, skip and return exactly as you would on the day, so the mechanics are familiar before they matter.
Endurance
The measure most candidates never rehearse: whether the judgment you have in hour one is still there in hour three.
Why this works
Drilling questions teaches recognition. This teaches judgment.
The difference is not how many questions there are. It is what happens after each one.
A bank tells you the answer was B.
Here, you read why B was stronger than the option you chose, traced to the task and technique it belongs to.
A bank gives you a percentage.
Here, you get readiness, coverage, pace and trend — each with the limits of what it can claim stated beside it.
A bank leaves you to decide what to do next.
Here, the next action is named and its reasoning shown, so preparation has a direction between sessions.
Results over reassurance
Your results are shown honestly—including weak areas—so every practice session can lead to a useful next step.
Judgment over recall
The simulator is built around decisions in context, not isolated definitions or memorization alone.
Progress you can act on
Practice, review, and performance analysis work together to make readiness visible and specific.
Part of Lanalyste.Ca
The simulator is the exam-preparation environment within the wider Lanalyste platform for business analysts.