F.A.Q.

On the Denodo Community, all of the available certifications are listed. Once you have selected your certification exam, click the exam title for a more detailed page, and then click on the "Register for this exam" button

After registering, you will receive an email with all the necessary information about the exam.

You can take the exam at any time.

If you have already created a Denodo Community account, click this link to create a new password.

After purchasing an exam, there are no refunds.

There are no prerequisites for taking a Denodo certification exam. However, we recommend that you take the Denodo training courses related to the exam beforehand. Please note that completing these courses is not a guarantee that you will earn a Denodo certification; practical work is also required.

If you need more information about the recommended training courses for every Denodo certification exam, visit the Denodo Certification page on the Denodo Community.

Yes. If you don’t have one, an account will be automatically created for you during the purchase process, and the information related to this account will be included in a welcome email.

Each exam registration qualifies you for one attempt.

The Denodo Community is the place to go for information that will help you learn more about the Denodo Platform, Denodo Express, logical data management, and data virtualization. In the Denodo Community, you have access to the following resources:

• Denodo Express: Get Denodo Express for free.
• Tutorials: Take the first steps to learning about the Denodo Platform.
• Knowledge Base: Explore technical articles.
• Official Manuals: Get deeper knowledge with our documentation.
• Q&A: Connect with other Denodo professionals, reviewing previous questions and answers, or asking new questions.
• Videos: Short how-to videos for help with specific topics.

Finally, we recommend that professionals looking to achieve a Denodo certification start by looking at our Denodo training offering. For more information, visit the Denodo Course Catalog.

Once you have received your welcome email and your Denodo Community account is created, access the Denodo Certification Dashboard and, when you are ready, click on the “Take exam now” button to launch your exam.

Denodo certification exams are available in U.S. English ONLY.

If you live in a country that does not speak English as a native language, you will automatically be granted an additional 30 minutes to take your exam.

A computer and an Internet connection.

For Denodo Certified Professional exams, you will also need a webcam. Before accessing the exam, please check your system compatibility; you may need to update your browser or download a plugin. Before starting the exam, you should give the exam access to your webcam and your screen.

To access the exam you have to enter your name, last name, email address, and company. It is important to use the same email address that you provided during the purchase, or you will be denied access.

Before starting a remote proctored Professional Certification exam, you may be required to hold up your ID documentation (for example, your driver’s license, passport, or other approved form of ID) for identity verification. The platform will take a picture of your face and your ID. This does not apply to Associate Certification exams.

The Denodo Certified Professional program offers exam taking with an approved webcam, through Mettl’s online proctored services.

No. The platform will only take pictures of your screen, and your exam, if it detects any abnormal behavior.

Denodo Technologies offers exam taking through online proctored services, which means you will be monitored over the Internet through your computer via the webcam and microphone.

All the pictures and screenshots taken during the exam will be shared in the final report that is sent to you with your results.

The rules are:

• You must be alone during the exam.
• You must not talk during the exam.
• You are not allowed to wear headphones.
• You are not allowed to use of smart phones or other electronic devices.
• Do not take screenshots of the exam environment.
• Your face must be visible at all times.
• Do not leave the webcam view for any reason during your exam.
• Do not cover the webcam during the exam.
• You are not allowed to navigate away from the exam window during your exam.

If any of the above rules are broken, you will not pass the exam.

Any violation of the rules may be considered fraud and can immediately end your exam. If this event occurs you will not receive an exam refund or be credited for any portion of the exam fee.

All the exams, except the Certified Architect Professional exam, have questions with multiple choices and one correct answer.

The Certified Architect Professional exam has file upload questions, which prompt you to upload a required document to the exam, and video recording questions, which prompt you to record a video of yourself answering a question. Please refer to the exam description for more details.

No. In fact, moving out of the exam window is not allowed, and if you move to another window you will receive a warning message. After four warnings your exam will end.

You can resume the exam if you lose your Internet connection. The Denodo Certification Dashboard will keep a link to your exam available until you have finished your exam.

If you have any technical issues during an Associate Certification exam, you can write an email to training@denodo.com.

For Administrator and Developer exams, all questions have the same weight. Based on that, your score is calculated using the following formula, to get the score as a percentage:

SCORE=(Number of your correct answers / Number of the questions included in the exam) * 100

For example, if the exam has 50 questions, and you have correctly answered 40 of them, your score is: (40 / 50) * 100 = 80%

For the Architect Associate exam, the weight of the answers depends on the technical topic of the answers. The sum of the weight of all the questions included in this exam is 100. So, your score is calculated by using the following formula to get the score as a percentage:

SCORE= sum(correct questions weight)

This score is the one used to determine if you have passed the exam.

For Associate Certification exams, you will have your results a few hours after completing the exam.

For Professional Certification exams, you will receive an email with your exam results, by two weeks after you complete and submit your exam.

The information includes a score summary report that contains the pass/fail status and the final score.

If you have passed the certification exam, you will receive a Denodo badge and a diploma of your certification

Please note that the badge and diploma are delivered by email some hours after completing the exam for Associate exams, and at the beginning of each month for Professional exams. You can access the Denodo Certification Dashboard to get more information about the status of the exam.

In order to protect the value of Denodo certifications, Denodo has provided some guidelines that will help you understand how to appropriately, correctly, and easily use your Denodo badge.

In order to maintain exam integrity, answers are NOT provided.

If you do not pass on the first attempt, you must wait three days after the last failed attempt to take the exam again.

If you do not pass on the second attempt, you must wait two weeks after the last failed attempt to take the exam again.

An individual may take the exam up to four times in one year from the date of their first attempt.

Denodo maintains an up-to-date, online registry of individuals who have earned a Denodo certification. To verify a certification holder's status, simply enter an individual's email address in the search field and a list of matches will be displayed

A 'certification ID' is an Id assigned to you when you have been certified in any Denodo exam. You can use this Id as proof that your certification has been authorized by Denodo.

The certification ID must be used in the online registry of individuals who have earned a Denodo certification; this creates a unique URL that displays a specific person’s certifications. To look up your certifications using the Certification ID, please specify your certification ID as follows:

https://certification.denodo.com/validation/< certification Id >

You will receive the complete URL link with your certification ID when you pass a Denodo Certification exam.

If you want to include your certification ID in your LinkedIn profile, see the section “How can I add my certification ID to my LinkedIn profile?"

Log into LinkedIn, go to your profile page, click on the “Add profile section” button, and select “Licenses & Certifications” under the “Recommended” section. Fill out the form with the following information:

• Name: Enter the Certification name.
• Issuing Organization: Enter “Denodo”.
  • Please note that LinkedIn displays Denodo’s logo for this entry. It is not possible to display the badge image here due to LinkedIn's posting restrictions.
• This credential does not expire: Leave checked this checkbox.
  • Please note that Denodo certifications are product-version specific. You will be certified on this version until the end of the general support date of the Denodo Platform version. For further information, please refer to the details under the section "Does my certification title expire?".
• Issue Date: Enter the date that you earned the Certification exam.
• Credential ID: Enter your Denodo Certification ID.
• Credential URL: Enter the URL to the online registry. You can find more information about this URL in the section "How to use a Certification ID?".

Every Denodo certification is tied to a version of the Denodo Platform. The certification will expire at the end of the general support date of the version of your certification.

For example, if you are a Denodo Platform 7.0 Certified Developer, your certification expired in June 2024. And if you are a Denodo Platform 8.0 Certified Developer, your certification will expire in June 2026

For more information about Denodo Platform maintenance, see the section “Supported Platform Releases” on the Denodo Support Guide.

For this situation, please write an email to training@denodo.com to get more information.

No. Previous Denodo certifications are not compatible with the newer version of the certifications program. To get the new certifications, you would need to take a Denodo Platform 9 certifications exam.

However, if you earned any of the Denodo Platform 8.0 certifications before the release of the Denodo Platform 9 Certification Program, your first attempt to pass a Denodo Platform 9 certification exam will be free of charge.