YOUR LEARNING PATH

Systems Analyst

Translate business needs into clear requirements, models and technical specifications for software teams.

A free self-paced learning path with curated external learning resources.

Skills to learn

Build a foundation in the systems analyst role, core artifacts, requirements and solution design.

Learn the fundamental responsibilities, techniques and deliverables of a systems analyst.

Describe actors, behavior, states, components and interactions with focused diagrams.

Learn the purpose and notation of the most useful structural and behavioral diagrams.

Create sequence, use-case, state and component diagrams from text for free.

Build version-controlled sequence, state and entity-relationship diagrams.

Design conceptual, logical and physical models, entity relationships and normalized schemas.

Get a concise introduction to entities, attributes, relationships and data models.

Understand the purpose and level of detail of the three core data-model types.

Learn how to identify entities and relationships and turn them into an ER diagram.

Learn why normalization matters and how normal forms reduce duplication and anomalies.

Create a local database and explore the schema without setting up a database server.

Understand HTTP, REST, JSON, contracts, errors and synchronous or asynchronous integrations.

Understand requests, responses, methods, status codes, headers and browser communication.

Practice API fundamentals with a guided Postman Classroom Program collection.

Explore the standard used to describe REST endpoints, schemas and responses.

Read architecture diagrams, decompose systems and support implementation and acceptance testing.

Describe software architecture at context, container, component and code levels.

Connect requirements to clear, testable conditions for product delivery.

Model a software system with C4 diagrams stored as text.