Pentaho Professional Certification Program

Whether you are an experienced business intelligence consultant, solution developer or Pentaho partner, earning your certification is your silver bullet to ensuring a smooth implementation.

Certification Exams

Pentaho Solution Consultant Exam
The Pentaho Solution Consultant exam is an unproctored, 90 minute online examination consisting of 75 questions. A score of 80% is required to pass the exam. Students who have completed either Pentaho Business Analytics for Business Analysts, or Pentaho Data Integration for Database courses are eligible to take the exam free of charge for up to one year.

The exam covers the following topics:

• Installing and configuring the Pentaho Business Analytics platform
• Using xactions
• Implementing security
• Using Pentaho Data Integration to create jobs and transformations
• Creating OLAP cubes using Pentaho Schema Workbench
• Designing reports using Pentaho report designer
• Using the Pentaho User Console tools: Pentaho Analysis, Pentaho interactive reporting, Pentaho dashboard designer

Pentaho Data Integration Exam
The Pentaho Data Integration exam is an un-proctored, 60 minute online examination consisting of 50 questions. A score of 80% is required to pass the exam. Students who have completed the Pentaho Data Integration for Database Developers course are eligible to take the exam free of charge for up to one year.

The exam covers the following topics:

• Installing and configuring Pentaho Data Integration
• Configuring transformation steps and job entries
• Performing extract, transform, load (ETL) operations in PDI
• Maintaining job/transformation portability
• Using Kitchen and Pan
• Clustering and partitioning
• Logging
• Big Data

Prior to taking either exam, it is recommended that students have a minimum of six months experience implementing Pentaho in production and/or Pentaho Data Integration. Students can prepare for the exam using the Certification Exam Study Guide.

Preparation

Prior to taking either exam, it is recommended that students have a minimum of six months experience implementing Pentaho in production and/or Pentaho Data Integration. Students can prepare for the exam using the Certification Exam Study Guide.

Registration

Exam takers who have not enrolled in a Pentaho Training course will need to pay the exam fee of $100 USD and can register online. If you are eligible to take the exam free of charge, email us at training@pentaho.com.

To register for the Pentaho Solution Consultant Exam, click here.

To register for the Pentaho Data Integration exam, click here.

Exam Training

Pentaho offers a variety of courses to assist exam takers. Before attempting the certification exam, Pentaho recommends taking the following courses:

• Using Pentaho Business Analytics I
• Pentaho Data Integration I

For some exam subjects, the following additional courses may also be useful:

• Integrating and Extending Pentaho
• Pentaho Agile BI

For more information about Pentaho professional certification, contact us at: training@pentaho.com.

Note: The Pentaho Professional Certification Program does not cover the products in the Pentaho Open Source BI Suite Community Edition.