The Open Group® Professional Certification Program: Accreditation Requirements, Version 1.0

The Open Group Professional Certification Program is designed to validate the existence of those qualities and skills in a professional that enable the effective development, implementation, and operation of business or IT-related specializations. The Program is skills and experience-based and goes beyond validating the mastery of any specific knowledge base.

The Program covers multiple professions: Architect (Open CA), Data Scientist (Open CDS), IT Manager (Open CITM), and Technical Specialist (Open CTS).

This Accreditation Requirements document defines the criteria that a certification program and the organization operating such program must meet in order to achieve accreditation in The Open Group Professional Certification Program.