Certifications and certificates #

Many learners ask: "Can I get certified in Exponential?" This page answers it plainly, with the sources.

In short Official Exponential certifications are planned. They are part of the project's future plans for the community, for partners, for Exponential developers and for students. They are not available yet: you cannot take an official exam or earn an official certification today. Until then, a trainer may give you a certificate of attendance or completion in the trainer's own name; it is not an official certification.

Contents #

1. What exists today
2. What is planned
3. What the partner program publishes
4. What is not published yet
5. Certificates from trainers
6. What you can show instead
7. Words you must not use
8. How to prepare

What exists today #

What is planned #

Official Exponential certifications are planned as part of the project's future plans for the community, for partners, for Exponential developers and for students. The partner program already names the certifications it will require of partner teams (below). Nothing more is published yet: this help does not give dates, prices, exam formats or levels for them, and you should not rely on any that are not published by the project itself. When certifications are published, this page and Certifications will say so.

What the partner program publishes #

From Certifications, quoting the program pages (read 18 October 2026):

• "For Silver tier and above, partners must hold valid certifications."
• Profile certifications: "Exponential Developer Certification (for technical teams)", "Exponential Design Certification (for design/ux teams)", "Exponential Solution Certification (for content-focused teams)".
• "Certifications: Required for Silver and higher. Types: Developer, WCMS, Solution, Sales. ... All certifications can be earned in 1 day."
• "Silver, Gold and Platinum partners are certified and can use the 'Exponential certified' logo on their website and in their marketing material."

These are certifications for partner companies at Silver level and above. The Student partner level has none (Partner requirements).

What is not published yet #

Certifications lists what is "to be defined by the Foundation (or by 7x, which runs the program)":

• the syllabus and learning objectives of each certification;
• the exam format, the pass mark and the languages;
• the price, outside the Kick-Off Package for Basic;
• the dates and places;
• how long a certification stays valid;
• who may examine, and whether the Foundation endorses the certificates.

So you cannot book an exam today: the certifications are planned, not available yet. The partner team's contact form is https://exponential.earth/partner/contact-us.

Certificates from trainers #

The trainers' material includes assessments: written tests with answer keys, practical tasks with rubrics, and capstones (Assessments and practical exercises). The help is explicit about what they are:

"Everything in this course is the trainer's own assessment, not an official certification; the partner program's certifications are separate and their details are not published."

Until official certifications are available, this is how certificates work: the trainer issues them in their own name.

A trainer may give you:

An honest certificate of completion names the issuer (the trainer or the organization), your name and nothing else about you, the course and its hours, the parts passed, the date, the release taught, and this kind of statement: "This certificate is issued by <issuer>. It is not an official certification by 7x or the Exponential Foundation." It does not show scores.

If a certificate you receive claims more, for example "Official" or "Certified by 7x", ask the issuer to correct it.

What you can show instead #

Words you must not use #

About yourself, on a CV, a profile or a portfolio, until official certifications are available and you have passed one:

• "Exponential Certified" or "Certified Exponential Developer";
• "Certified by 7x", "Exponential Foundation certified", "official certification";
• logos of 7x, the Foundation or the partner program.

Instead, write what is true: "Completed Editors 101: editing with Exponential (trainer's assessment, passed, release 6.0.15)" or "Built and documented a multilingual site with Exponential 6.0.15 (capstone project)". The same care is asked of everyone who speaks about Exponential (Claims you must not make).

How to prepare #

You do not have to wait. The work that prepares you for a certification is the same work that convinces an employer today:

1. Build a portfolio. Collect your projects, contributions and certificates in one place, with honest wording (Building a portfolio).

2. Do the study projects. Ten graded projects, ending with a capstone, on a named release (Study projects: overview, Grading your own work).

3. Follow a learning path. Certifications maps each named certification to existing pages, and the learning paths of this folder cover the same ground:

   Named certification	Learning path
   Developer	Developer
   Design	Designer
   Solution (WCMS)	Editor and administrator

4. Consider the Student partner level, as documented. It is $25 a month and gives quarterly partner meetings, a dedicated page on share.exponential.earth and 20% plus the Kick-Off Package on knowledge products; its requirements list no certifications. It is not a certification itself (The Student partner level, Student level or free community: what to choose).

5. Take a course with a trainer if you want someone else to check your work (Taking a course with a trainer).

Related pages #

• Taking a course with a trainer
• Certifications
• Certification ideas (proposals)
• Grading your own work
• Free documentation: this page is free to copy, translate and improve under the GNU FDL 1.3.