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Updated on 8 October 2026. What’s new: the exam fee is US$350 whichever country you sit in, and the pass mark is 51 of 90 correct answers (57%)

You need 51 of 90 answers correct, which is 57%, to pass OCUP 2 Intermediate. That is a lower bar than the Foundation exam asks for, but the questions go deeper into components, activities, interactions and state machines. The fee is US$350, and the time limit depends on where you live. This guide covers cost, topics, the UML 2.5.1 chapters worth reading and a short preparation plan.

The OMG Certified UML Professional 2 (OCUP 2) Intermediate Level certification, exam code OMG-OCUP2-INT200, tests whether you can read and build UML models of larger systems the way UML is used in practice. It sits in the middle of OMG's three-level UML 2 ladder: Foundation, Intermediate and Advanced. Search interest tends to arrive as "ocup 2" or "ocup2", and the questions behind those searches are nearly always the same: how hard is it, what does it cost, what is on it and how long should I study.

Is OCUP 2 Intermediate harder than Foundation, and what score passes?

The pass mark is lower, but the exam is not easier. OMG sets a different threshold at each level, and Intermediate has the lowest of the three: 51 correct out of 90. The Foundation information sheet asks for 60 out of 90 (67%) in 120 minutes for English-speaking countries, while the Advanced sheet asks for 57 out of 90 (63%). Read that as a reminder that each level is scored against its own scope, not as a hint that Intermediate is the soft middle.

Picture a production supervisor who is handed a climbing defect rate and a spreadsheet of last quarter's rejects, with no method for getting from one to a fix. The ASQ Certified Six Sigma Green Belt (CSSGB) exam tests exactly that missing method. It is an open-book, computer-based exam of 110 multiple-choice questions, 100 of them scored, spread over the six parts of ASQ's 2022 Body of Knowledge, and it costs $383 for ASQ members or $483 for everyone else.

This guide is about the exam itself: what each section asks, how the open-book rule works in practice, who qualifies, what the whole attempt costs and how to plan the weeks before your appointment. If you are still choosing between belts, or between certifying bodies, that is a separate decision. Here it is already made, and the task is to pass.

What changes when a supervisor with a spreadsheet learns the Green Belt method?

Go back to the supervisor for a moment, because the way most people attack a defect problem without training is remarkably consistent. The spreadsheet gets sorted by shift, then by machine, then by operator. One average looks worse on the night shift, so the night shift gets the blame. Somebody remembers that a supplier changed in the spring, and that becomes the working theory. A machine setting is adjusted, the reject rate dips for a fortnight, then creeps back, and the spreadsheet grows another tab.

Nobody in that story was lazy. They had data and no disciplined way of questioning it. Every step was a reasonable guess, and none of the guesses was ever tested, so the organisation learned nothing it could reuse on the next problem.

Professional Scrum Developer certification is for anyone who wants to prove their knowledge of building complex software products using Scrum. So participants will learn to apply advanced engineering practices and use the Scrum framework to cope with changes.

Professional Scrum Developers are members of the Scrum Development Team and show knowledge and knowledge of Scrum and develop software using Scrum in real-world situations. The purpose of certification is intimately tied to the demonstration of expertise required to achieve it. By that measure, the PSD I assessment is significantly more expensive than available alternatives for Scrum.

The Purpose of the Professional Scrum Developer Certification

Scrum has helped many organizations to produce outstanding products but many other struggles. If you look precisely at why many have succeeded, you may get to understand that it was not only Scrum but excellent engineering culture. They talk about Extreme Programming practices such as minor releases, whole team, collective ownership, simple design, Test-Driven Development, Refactoring, Continuous Integrations, etc. The Scrum.org Certified Professional Scrum Developer plan introduces all these to the Scrum Team developing Software Products.

Updated on 3 October 2026. What’s new: the exam is 115 questions in 150 minutes across five domains: strategy and planning, identification, analysis, response, and monitor and close

The PMI-RMP is not a project management exam with a risk chapter attached. It is 115 questions in 150 minutes about one job: finding, sizing, answering and tracking risk on projects. PMI's outline gives 68% of the paper to strategy and planning, identification and analysis, and only 13% to response, so candidates who jump straight to mitigation lose ground.

Who is the PMI-RMP written for, and who should look elsewhere?

The credential describes a person whose daily work is the risk register: a project risk manager, a PMO analyst who owns risk reporting, a project manager who chairs the risk review, or a planner who runs schedule-risk simulations. PMI's outline says the exam was built from a role study of practitioners who work in predictive, agile and hybrid settings, and that all three approaches turn up across every domain rather than in one corner of the paper.

That shapes who benefits. If risk is a side task you handle twice a quarter, the broader PMP is usually the better first credential, because it treats risk as one slice of a much wider job. If you spend most weeks asking what could go wrong, how likely it is and who owns the answer, the RMP is the credential that says so in one line on your CV.

Updated on 8 October 2026. What’s new: the ECBA now follows IIBA's nine-domain blueprint with 50 questions in 75 minutes, and needs no work experience, degree or application.

Most ECBA advice online was written for an older exam, so the first step to passing on your first try is to study the current one. IIBA now tests nine domains, drawn from The Business Analysis Standard and the BABOK Guide, in 50 situation-based and standard multiple-choice questions over 75 minutes. The fee is $395, and no work experience is asked for.

That opening matters because the Entry Certificate in Business Analysis is the IIBA credential people most often try to pass with a borrowed study plan. A friend's notes, a forum thread from a few years back or a summary of BABOK chapters can all feel reassuring and still point at the wrong material. This guide is built on IIBA's own documents, namely the exam blueprint (version 1.1), the ECBA Handbook dated May 2026 and the sample questions, all read in October 2026. It explains what is on the paper, how the marks are spread, how to practise, what exam day involves and which pieces of old advice to drop.