Certification exam integrity

The certification exam is individual and closed book. Do not use help from another person and do not sit an exam in anyone else’s place; do not consult material, websites, apps or artificial intelligence assistants; do not copy, photograph or publish the questions, during or after; and do not use automation to circumvent how the exam works. The full rules are on the privacy and terms page.

No. Consulting an artificial intelligence assistant during the certification exam is prohibited conduct, like any other consultation. It is worth saying plainly why the rule matters even without camera surveillance: a credential obtained that way is verifiable by any employer, permanent and issued in your name, and it is your reputation hanging on it. Proven fraud leads to revocation of the credential, with no refund.

We use no camera, no microphone and no screen recording: there is no proctoring, and we would rather say so than imply surveillance that does not exist. What we record during the certification exam are signals such as time per question, loss of window focus and paste attempts, which produce flags for human review. None of those signals fails anyone automatically, because a dropped connection and a system notification are not fraud.