

The Strategic Business Leader (SBL) exam is designed to reflect the actual workplace and presents the student with real-world challenges. Students have to complete a number of tasks and must demonstrate that they have the right technical, ethical and professional skills to add value to the organizations they work in.
The syllabus brings together core areas from governance, risk and strategy, links to other leadership areas such as organizational control, innovation and change management – and uses new technologies and data analytics. All of these elements combine to produce a powerful, unique way of assessing whether a student is ready to hit the ground running when they start their career.
Technical Areas
Technical areas consist of 80 marks out of 100. SBL combines earlier P1 and P3 syllabus (with some exclusions) and addition of few new topics like disruptive technologies, cloud computing, shared services, etc. Following are the core syllabus areas:
Professional Skills
Professional skills consist of 20 marks out of 100. This is a significant portion of SBL paper (representing 20% of the total marks). Professional skills have been properly structured into five different areas:
Upon successful completion of this paper, student will be able to:
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