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The OCEB™ program consists of five examinations, granting five Certifications. Above the single Fundamental level, the program splits into two tracks - one Business-oriented , the other Technically oriented. OMG Certified Professionas Search Directory
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The Exams

There are five Exams - Fundamental, Business and Technical Intermediate, and Business and Technical Advanced. Each exam tests your knowledge of a different subset of BPM and what you can do.

 
FUNDAMENTAL

A productive member ranked in the top half of his or her BPM project team should have the knowledge and skills to acquire this certification.

BUSINESS INTERMEDIATE A BPM Team Lead on the business side, discovering, modeling, and analyzing business processes, should have the knowledge and skills to acquire this certification.
TECHNICAL INTERMEDIATE A BPM implementation team lead, implementing and maintaining BPM systems, should have the knowledge and skills to acquire this certification.
BUSINESS ADVANCED A BPM consultant to high-level management, or practitioner responsible for BPM scope and direction at Director level in an enterprise, should have the broad knowledge and skills covered in this certification.
TECHNICAL ADVANCED A BPM consultant to high-level management working on the technical side, or BPM practitioner at Director level responsible for process performance and governance in an enterprise, should have the broad knowledge and skills covered in this certification.

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OCEB Program

If you're a BPM practitioner, an OCEB certification at a suitable level will benefit you by giving you an important credential to present to employers and clients. Should you certify in only one track, or both tracks? For a discussion, look hereIf you're a senior executive hiring a consultant, or a  manager making a hiring decision, or awarding a promotion or a raise, you know that the OCEB-certified candidate stands out from the crowd - he or she has studied the material and practiced the skills required for his level, and not only knows how to model and analyze business processes, but also is familiar with the many concepts and frameworks that underlie Business Process Management. For a more detailed listing of the material covered, and descriptions of positions and tasks suitable for each level, see this page. 

About the Examinations: OMG certification examinations - for OCEB, and our programs OCUP™ for UML, and OCRES™ for Real-time and Embedded - are administered by Pearson VUE at their world-wide network of secure testing centers. All OCEB exam questions are multiple choice, and require choosing one out of at least four possible answers. While most questions test knowledge, some questions test skills - especially modeling skills - by presenting a scenario as either a small BPMN diagram or a few sentences of text, and asking something about it. Answer options may be presented as either text or small BPMN diagrams as well. Each examination consists of 90 questions. In English-speaking countries, candidates are allowed 90 minutes to take the test; in most countries where English is not the native language, some additional time is allowed. For more information, check the OCEB FAQ page

The Companies Behind the OCEB Program 

The OCEB Program was developed and is run as a joint program of OMG and the UML Technology Institute (UTI). OMG will spread and promote the OCEB Program in the Americas and EMEA, while UTI will promote and administer the program in the Asia-Pacific region. OCEB is one of three Certification Program jointly produced by OMG and UTI; the others are the UML Practitioner certification OCUP, and the Real-time and Embedded Systems specialist certification ( OCRES).   Pearson VUE provides testing sites and services for all three of the OMG Certification Programs. 

About OMG  

OMGThe Object Management Group™ is an open membership, not-for-profit consortium that produces and maintains computer industry and, more recently, business domain specifications for interoperable enterprise applications. Our membership includes virtually every large company in the IT industry, and hundreds of smaller ones. Most of the companies that shape enterprise and Internet computing today are represented on our Board of Directors. Our primary specification in the business domain is the Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN), supported by the Business Motivation Model (BMM), Business Process Maturity Model (BPMM), and additional business domain specifications including SBVR and BPDM. Our Unified Modeling Language™ (UML®) dominates IT modeling, and the MOF™ provides a foundation that makes models useful, by allowing them to be transformed by software, and so used in the Model Driven Architecture® (MDA®). Founded in 1989, the OMG's first well-known (and still widely-used) specification was CORBA®

About UTI 

The UML Technology Institute Co., LTD. was founded to promote the use of open, standards-based modeling technologies through the development of international certification programs that provide formal recognition of modeling expertise. With headquarters in Tokyo, UML Technology Institute was established in November 2002 by PA Co., Ltd. 

 

For more information or questions about the OMG Certification Program, please contact certificationinfo@omg.org
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