Better Business Cases™ Foundation

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Better Business Cases™ Foundation

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We scored 50 real Better Business Cases™ Foundation exam questions 1-10 on question complexity and broke the result down by exam domain.

50 questions scored
6 domains
1.9/10 overall complexity

Complexity by exam domain

Higher scores mean more demanding question formats. The exam score is computed over the whole bank, not averaged across domains.

Exam complexity score1.9/10Gentle · measured across 50 bank questions
  • Introduction to Better Business Cases and the Five Case Model10 questions · complexity 1.8/10 · Gentle

    30% multi-select · 0% scenario · 30% interactive

  • The Commercial Case8 questions · complexity 2.0/10 · Gentle

    38% multi-select · 0% scenario · 25% interactive

  • The Economic Case10 questions · complexity 1.8/10 · Gentle

    30% multi-select · 0% scenario · 30% interactive

  • The Financial Case7 questions · complexity 1.7/10 · Gentle

    29% multi-select · 0% scenario · 29% interactive

  • The Management Case5 questions · complexity 2.8/10 · Gentle

    40% multi-select · 20% scenario · 20% interactive

  • The Strategic Case10 questions · complexity 1.8/10 · Gentle

    30% multi-select · 0% scenario · 30% interactive

Full per-domain breakdown

Blueprint weight, bank size and question format mix for every domain of the exam.

DomainBlueprintQuestionsSingleMultiInteractiveComplexity
Introduction to Better Business Cases and the Five Case Model20%104331.8/10Gentle
The Commercial Case15%83322.0/10Gentle
The Economic Case20%104331.8/10Gentle
The Financial Case15%73221.7/10Gentle
The Management Case10%52212.8/10Gentle
The Strategic Case20%104331.8/10Gentle

How the score is calculated

The formula is fixed and public, so anyone can reproduce these numbers from the same bank.

Every question in the Better Business Cases™ Foundation bank is measured on four signals that can be read directly from the database. Each signal is expressed as a share of the questions in the domain, and the four shares are combined with fixed weights:

  • Multi-select questions (40% weight). Items with more than one correct answer. The candidate has to find all of them, which is the single hardest format in the bank.
  • Scenario questions (30% weight). Questions longer than 150 characters, which describe a situation instead of a definition and therefore test reasoning rather than recall.
  • Interactive questions (20% weight). Items that require reading code or a configuration snippet.
  • Deep explanations (10% weight). Questions whose explanation runs past 300 characters, which signals a concept with real nuance behind it.

The combined share is multiplied by ten to produce a 1-10 score. The exam-level score is computed over the whole bank rather than averaged across domains, so a small domain cannot distort the total. Figures on this page are recomputed from the live bank on every crawl.

Data set: Certilum Better Business Cases™ Foundation Foundation question bank, 50 questions, 6 domains. Published by CERTILUM. This is Certilum’s own measurement of its own question bank and is not an official APMG International statistic.

Questions analysed
50
Exam domains
6
Hardest domain
The Management Case (2.8)
Most approachable domain
The Financial Case (1.7)
Question mix
20 single · 16 multi · 14 interactive
Measured on
Foundation

Frequently asked questions

What our Better Business Cases™ Foundation complexity numbers mean and how they are produced.