Certification Requirements

This certification is not intended to validate attendance, a familiarity with tools,
or mastery of terminology.

It attests that the practitioner is capable to design, reason about, and defend
systems of information management that continue to produce trustworthy answers as
organizations, platforms, and definitions change.

Certification requirements exist to protect organizations from decision risk not
to merely credit participants with course completion.

What a Certified Practitioner Must Be Able to Guarantee

A CDVP 2.1–certified practitioner must be able to design information systems that:

  • Produce consistent answers over time, even as data sources, business rules, and analytics evolve
  • Preserve accountability, so decisions can be traced, explained, and defended without reconstruction
  • Separate facts from interpretation, preventing analytics, AI, or reporting layers from rewriting history
  • Absorb change without destabilizing outcomes, allowing platforms, tools, and teams to rotate safely
  • Reduce risk exposure during audits, disputes, and regulatory review, by maintaining historical context and intent
See how these requirements are evaluated

What this Certification Prepares
Practitioners For

CDVP 2.1 prepares practitioners to design and govern durable systems of information management that remain reliable as technology, platforms, and tools change.

Rather than optimizing for short-lived technical proficiency, certification establishes readiness to apply sound engineering judgment that protects organizations from technology-driven decisions that introduce long-term risk.
This readiness supports organizational change without destabilizing trust, accountability, or decision continuity.

Certification Evaluation Focus:

  • Decision continuity throughout change
  • Engineering judgment readiness
  • Consistent answers over time
  • Accountability and traceability
  • Risk-aware design decisions

Why Delivery Capabilities Matter in the First 90 Days

Organizations can benefit from certification for years to come,
particularly when certified practitioners stop preventable failures early.

  • Prevent irreversible design decisions made under delivery pressure
  • Stabilize how information is interpreted across teams
  • Eliminate silent changes in reported results caused by shifting definitions
  • Reduce dependency on individual experts by establishing shared reasoning

This is how certification delivers value before organizational churn occurs.

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