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OMG’s OCUP™ Program provides an objective measure of your knowledge of Unified Modeling Language™ (UML®) 2.X specification, telling the IT community that you have serious credentials.
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The OCUP Certification will benefit you by giving you an important credential to present to employers and clients. It also benefits companies looking for skilled UML practitioners like you, by giving them a basis for making hiring and promotion decisions.


The Exams

There are three OCUP Exams - Fundamental, Intermediate and Advanced. Each Exam tests your knowledge of a different subset of the UML.

 

 
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FUNDAMENTAL A member of a UML development team should have the knowledge and skills to acquire this certification.
INTERMEDIATE A senior member or group leader of a UML development team should have the knowledge and skills to acquire this certification.
ADVANCED A Technical Manager of a UML development project should have the knowledge and skills to acquire this certification.


Each level has its own examination, testing progressively more complex concepts and usage of the UML 2.X Specification.  All three exams cover the Superstructure; the Advanced exam also covers the Infrastructure. The maintenance updates that yield the point releases 2.1, 2.2, and the forthcoming 2.3 did not modify the language enough to affect examination coverage, so you will be well-prepared regardless of the point version you are familiar with.
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The Companies Behind the OCUP Program 

The OCUP Program was developed and is run as a joint program of OMG and the UML Technology Institute (UTI). OMG will spread and promote the OCUP Program in the Americas and EMEA, while UTI will promote and administer the program in the Asia-Pacific region. OCUP is one of three Certification Program jointly produced by OMG and UTI; the others are the Expert in BPM certification (OCEB), 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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