Examinations

Download the Certification Information Details Booklet (pdf) - a two level detailed listing of all examinations - for a more indepth view of the examinations and sample examinations see the Complete Guide to Professional Computing (under products).

The ICCP examinations are norm referenced examinations, that means each examination's "degree of difficulty" is adjusted based on the performance of a "professional sample" group - that is, the target audience.  This is done through a process of releasing beta examinations to the appropriate professional association, academics and employees in industry, then adjusting the scores and difficulties of the questions to the sample group performance and verifying this data every few years.  Each test item on any examination is assessed based on how well it is correlated in distinguishing expert peformers, that is those who achieve 70% or higher on the exam.

ICCP Examinations Available:

• Core - Information Systems
  
• Business Information Systems
  
• Business Intelligence & Analytics
  
• Business Process Management
  
• Internetworking and Data Communications
  
• Data Development (Beta 2010)
• Data Operations & Security (Beta 2010) 
  
• Data and Information Quality
• Data Management CORE (Beta 2010 - correlated to DM Body of Knowledge 2009)
  
• Data Management
  
• Data Warehousing
  
• Information Systems Analyst
• IT Management
  
• IT Consultant
  
• IT Compliance ( study materials link to SOX Institute and enter Code: ICCPROD)
  
• Integrated Project Management
  
• Microcomputing and Networks
  
• Object Oriented Analysis and Design
  
• Office Information Systems
  
• Programming - Advanced
  
• Software Engineering
  
• Systems Development
  
• Systems Programming
  
• Systems Security
  
• Web Development
  
• Zachman Enterprise Framework 2 (for Systems Architects)

Programming Language Examinations

• C Language
  
• C++ Language
  
• COBOL Language
  
• Visual Basic
  
• Java