Optimizely Certification Exams
Outline
About Certification exams
Optimizely’s certification exams are developed following industry-accepted standards to ensure validity and reliability. Our certification exams assess knowledge and skill requirements that are considered relevant to professional job roles.
Being certified by Optimizely helps you stay up to date on relevant skills needed to be considered successful in your role using our products. Additionally, certification through Optimizely helps you validate your professional experience—bolstering career advancement and recognition in your field.
When you are ready to take your exam
After you have gained experience and prepared for your exam, you will have 14 days to complete it once purchased. With each attempt, you will have 60 minutes to complete 50 multiple choice questions. Failure to complete all questions on time will result in a failed assessment. Upon failing, you are required to wait 24 hours before you can retake an assessment. Failure to pass this assessment within 14 days will require you to purchase a new exam attempt.
Once you pass your exam
You will receive an email notification for a Credly badge. You will retain your certified status for 24 months. If you do not see an email from Credly in your inbox, please check your other, junk, and spam folders. After 24 months, you will need to re-certify by taking the latest exam version.
Prepare for your exam
- Complete the End-user or Developer eLearning by product
- Subscribe to an Instructor-led Training (ILT) Subscription
- Look closely at the appropriate exam guides:
- Familiarize yourself with relevant reference materials:
Purchase your exam
Click on the exam you would like to purchase below. To purchase your exam via contract, reach out to your Customer Success Manager (CSM) or Partner Success Manager (PSM).
Please be advised that exams should be purchased solely by the individual planning to take them. Exam registrations are intended for individual use and cannot be transferred.
Certification exam: PaaS CMS Developer - Core Competency
A CMS developer builds websites that perform, scale well, and enable content editors and marketers to deliver unique customer experiences. Study for and purchase this exam to try your hand at becoming an Optimizely certified developer. About Optimizely Certification Exams Optimizely's certification exams are developed following industry-accepted standards to ensure validity and reliability.
Certification exam: Customized Commerce Developer
A Commerce developer speaks programming language. They build and maintain reliable, secure and resilient websites. A developer works to understand a platform's built-in features so they can install, configure, implement, customize and extend them to meet a company's unique needs. Study for and purchase this exam to try your hand at becoming an Optimizely certified developer.
Certification exam: Configured Commerce Developer
A Configured Commerce developer speaks programming language. They build and maintain reliable, secure and resilient websites. Study for and purchase this exam to try your hand at becoming an Optimizely certified developer. About Optimizely Certification Exams Optimizely's certification exams are developed following industry-accepted standards to ensure validity and reliability.
Certification exam: Experimentation Strategist - Core Competency
The Optimizely Experimentation Strategist Certification exam is intended for professionals who work with experimentation to optimize their Web presence and efficacy, which in turn greatly contributes towards the corporate goals (higher revenue, lower cost, industry leadership, etc.). Individuals that take the Experimentation Strategist exam should have one or more years of hands-on experience implementing all components of Optimizely Web for experimentation.
Certification exam: Experimentation Web Platform - Core Competency
The Optimizely Experimentation Web Platform Expert Certification exam is intended for professionals who are responsible for taking information from the Experimentation Strategist and using this information to implement and manage the experiment in the platform using best practices.
Certification exam: SaaS CMS Administrator - Core Competency
A CMS SaaS Administrator authors, edits, and manages websites that deliver unique customer experiences. Study for and purchase this exam to try your hand at becoming a certified Optimizely CMS SaaS Administrator. About Optimizely Certification Exams Optimizely's certification exams are developed following industry-accepted standards to ensure validity and reliability.
Certification exam: SaaS CMS Administrator - Expert Competency
A CMS SaaS Expert plans and designs websites that perform, scale well, and enable content editors and marketers to deliver unique customer experiences. While an Expert doesn't have to be a web developer, advanced knowledge of the underlying technology and related concepts will likely be necessary to pass this exam.