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OGB-001 is one of the cheaper Open Group exams: a USD $325 booking fee buys one 30-question, 45-minute attempt, and 18 correct answers earn the TOGAF Business Architecture Level 1 credential. It is still sold today, but a newer 10th Edition exam, OGBA-101, now sits beside it at a higher price. This guide weighs the money against what you get back, then covers the syllabus and how long to study.

People who type "OGB test" into a search box usually want three things settled before they spend anything: whether the exam still exists, what the total bill really is, and whether a Level 1 badge changes anything at work. The sections below answer those in that order, using the figures The Open Group publishes. Where a figure comes from a particular Open Group document, the text says which one, so you can check it yourself before you pay.

Is OGB-001 still on sale, and how does it sit beside OGBA-101?

Yes. The Open Group's TOGAF examinations datasheet, whose footer carries a 2023-2025 copyright, still lists the TOGAF Business Architecture Part 1 exam under the code OGB-001, in English, based on the TOGAF Standard, Version 9.2. The Open Group's retail exam fee schedule, applicable from 1 February 2026 with corrections applied on 12 February 2026, still prices it. I read both documents in October 2026, and neither marks the exam as withdrawn.

You cannot book the ServiceNow CIS-HAM exam until you hold CIS-DF, so the first question is not how to study but whether you are eligible. ServiceNow's blueprint, updated in January 2026, makes the Data Foundations credential a prerequisite. After that, CIS-HAM is 60 questions in 90 minutes for USD $450, reported as Pass or Fail, and it rewards people who can keep hardware records truthful.

The full title is ServiceNow Certified Implementation Specialist – Hardware Asset Management, and searchers shorten it to "ServiceNow HAM certification" or simply "CIS-HAM". It is aimed at the people who configure and run the Hardware Asset Management application: implementation consultants, platform administrators who inherited an asset module, and IT asset managers who want to prove they can do more than read a report. The guide below follows ServiceNow's own blueprint, because that document is the only reliable map of what the 60 questions draw on.

Every rule and domain detail below comes from ServiceNow's blueprint page for CIS-HAM, apart from the exam fee and the community post noted in the next section. Where a rule is the kind ServiceNow revises, such as fees or retake waiting periods, the advice is to read the current page before you pay.

Leaders who sit PAL-EBM are tested on one habit above all others. The assessment checks whether you can steer an organisation with evidence instead of opinion: choose goals, measure four kinds of value, run small experiments and decide what to do next. You get 40 questions in 60 minutes, need 85% to pass and pay USD 200 per attempt, so the real preparation is learning to think in measures and hypotheses.

The credential is Scrum.org's Professional Agile Leadership - Evidence-Based Management assessment, and its focus is narrower than its name suggests. Where other Scrum.org assessments ask what a Scrum Master, Product Owner or Developer should do, this one asks what a leader, sponsor or senior product person should do when they want to know whether their organisation is actually getting better. Everything in it traces back to a single short document, the Evidence-Based Management Guide, which makes it one of the more learnable assessments in the Scrum.org range if you read with intent.

This guide walks through what the assessment tests, what the numbers mean for your preparation, how the four key value areas fit together, how an evidence cycle works with a worked example, and a two-week plan for someone with a full-time job. Scrum.org's assessment listing was checked in October 2026, and the assessment is still offered with the fee and format described here.

Myth: the arrival of SysML v2 ended the OCSMP Model User exam. It did not. OMG still sells OMG-OCSMP-MU100, which tests whether you can read a SysML v1.2 model, on a paper of 90 multiple-choice questions where 56 correct answers pass. The fee is US$350. OMG's own v2 page says the two certification series run side by side, and that newcomers may enter either one depending on the SysML version their organization uses.

Which Model User exam suits you, the SysML v1.2 one or the newer v2 one?

This is the question the old advice on this page never had to answer. OMG now runs two entry-level exams with nearly the same name. The OCSMP Model User exam covered here, code OMG-OCSMP-MU100, is built on SysML v1.2. The SysMLv2 Model User exam, code OMG-SYSML2-MU100, is built on SysML v2.0 and is a separate credential on a separate OMG page. OMG describes the v2 series as independent of, and complementary to, the OCSMP series, and states that existing OCSMP certifications will not be superseded.

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