The credential

Yes, as a PDF, as many times as you like, from the credentials area of your account. The file is yours and costs nothing beyond the certification exam. Only the holder can download it, so keep a copy, but know that it is never the only one: the certificate can be downloaded again at any time.

The certificate carries your name, the certification earned, the date of issue, the credential code and a QR code leading to the verification page. It is issued in English in all three site languages, deliberately: it is a document usually shown outside your own country. Your score and per-domain performance do not appear on it, and stay in your account only.

It can, through support. The printed name is the one you type before opening the certification exam, and it is fixed there so the document cannot be rewritten later by whoever received it. A legitimate correction, such as a typo or a legal name change, is done by us: write to [email protected] explaining what needs adjusting. Changing your account name does not alter a certificate already issued.

No and no. A PMCert credential does not expire: there is no expiry date, no periodic retesting, no renewal fee and no annual dues to keep what has already been earned. You pay for the certification exam once. The only way a credential stops being valid is revocation, which is an administrative act with a recorded reason, not an automatic expiry.

Through the credential code, at pmcert.org/verify. Whoever enters the code sees the holder name, which certification was earned, the date of issue and whether the credential is active or revoked. No account, no permission from you and no contact with you is needed. The PDF certificate also carries a QR code that opens that same page.

The same verification page has a public directory of certified professionals, searchable by name, email and certification. The email search checks an exact address and never returns anyone’s address in the response. Only profiles set to public appear in the directory.

Your public profile starts switched on, and it shows your name, your credentials and whatever you filled in for job title, location and LinkedIn. Public profiles are listed in the sitemap and may be indexed by search engines. Your score and per-domain performance are never published under any circumstances, and you can switch the profile off whenever you want.

You can switch the public profile off at any time, in your account, and it leaves the directory, the search and the sitemap. What keeps working is the code verifier: whoever holds the code can always check, even with the profile switched off. That separation is deliberate, because a register the holder could quietly erase would be no proof to anyone.

In the credentials area of your account there is a button that adds the certification to the licences and certifications section of LinkedIn, with the name, the code and the verification link already filled in. On a résumé, write the full certification name, the year of issue and the credential code: it is the code that lets anyone check without depending on you.

It can, and the grounds are written on the privacy and terms page: certification exam fraud, publishing the questions, false identity, misleading use of the credential, and administrative error on our side. A revoked credential does not vanish: the code stays checkable and starts answering that it was revoked, because vanishing would make the code look forged to anyone who had verified it before. Administrative error is reversible.