The BCS Practitioner Certificate in Systems Modelling Techniques builds your ability to analyse system requirements and represent them clearly. You’ll explore core approaches to systems analysis and data modelling, learning how each technique can be used to inform solution development. You’ll also discover how to communicate technical and functional information more effectively.
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BCS Systems Modelling Techniques
Strengthen your approach to systems analysis
This course is designed for delegates who need to represent complex system information with greater clarity. It is particularly relevant for those involved in shaping requirements or supporting systems change, where accurate modelling can improve shared understanding. The training develops your ability to use structured models to explain system functionality and data.
Learning objectives
- Understand modelling approaches and standards
- Analyse requirements from multiple perspectives
- Build models of system functionality
- Apply data modelling techniques
- Model system behaviour and interactions
- Assess models against business objectives
- Connect analysis outputs to design activities
- Interpret relationships between modelling artefacts
Key facts
Certification
BCS Practitioner Certificate in Systems Modelling Techniques
Who it’s for
This course is suitable for anyone involved in systems modelling or related analysis activities.
Prerequisites
There are no specific prerequisites for entry to this course.
Exam information
The examination is a one-hour, open-book exam based on a business scenario with 15 minutes reading time. The pass mark is 50%.
Optional extras
Pass Protect exam insurance
Pre-course
No mandatory pre-course learning is required for this course.
Course syllabus
Dive into the detail of the course by looking at the syllabus below.
- Systems modelling
- The need for modelling and modelling standards
- Rationale for the selected approach
- The approach and Systems Development Lifecycle
- Place of models within the Systems Development Lifecycle
- Modelling the IT system from different perspectives
- Interaction of the selected models
- Validating and verifying models
- Systems modelling in context
- Monitoring analysis against business objectives and system requirements
- The bridge to design, software package selection and development
- Use case modelling
- Modelling user requirements
- Use cases
- Actors and the system boundary
- Use case diagrams
- Generalising actors and use cases
- Use case descriptions
- Activity diagrams
- Activity diagrams – notation
- Using activity diagrams to model processing
- Using activity diagrams to model use case descriptions
- Static modelling
- Analysis class modelling rationale
- Objects and classes
- Class diagrams and object diagrams
- Abstraction and encapsulation
- Representing classes: name, attributes and operations
- Defining attributes: adornments
- Associations
- Dynamic modelling
- Use case realisation
- Sequence diagrams
- State machine diagrams
- Communication diagrams
- Modelling functionality
- Modelling processes using a data flow diagram
- Elementary process descriptions
- Types of data flow diagrams
- Static modelling
- Modelling data using entity relationship diagrams
- Supporting documentation
- Dynamic modelling
- Analysing the behaviour of entities
- Documenting navigation paths
FAQs
Prepare for the BCS Certificate in Systems Modelling Techniques exam, while building the skills to understand and improve systems. You’ll learn how modelling can strengthen requirements analysis, improve shared understanding and support better design decision-making. Develop recognised capability that can strengthen your progression in business analysis or related delivery roles.
Who should attend this course?
This course is suitable for professionals who need to analyse and document system requirements using recognised modelling techniques. It can benefit those involved in systems analysis, requirements definition, solution development or related change initiatives.
What certification does this course support?
The course prepares candidates for the BCS Practitioner Certificate in Systems Modelling Techniques. The certification focuses on understanding and applying modelling techniques that represent system functionality and behaviour from different perspectives.
What modelling techniques are covered?
The syllabus covers systems modelling techniques used to represent functionality, data and system behaviour. Topics include UML-based modelling approaches, use case modelling, activity diagrams, class modelling, entity relationship modelling, sequence diagrams and related analysis techniques.
How does systems modelling support my work?
Systems modelling provides structured techniques for understanding requirements, analysing business needs and communicating complex information more clearly. By creating models that represent different aspects of a system, teams can develop a shared understanding that supports analysis and development activities.
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