About AQSCERT
Our mission
Trusted evidence of professional competence
Employers need a reliable way to know what an IT professional can actually do. Candidates deserve assessments that are fair, relevant and recognised wherever they work. AQSCERT exists to provide both.
We publish clear syllabi, assess candidates through secure examinations built to validated blueprints, and award certification through an independent decision. Every certificate can be verified publicly in seconds.
Vendor-neutral
We assess transferable competence, not product loyalty.
Evidence-based
Schemes derive from practitioner job-task analysis.
Fair & accessible
Reasonable adjustments and a test-centre alternative to remote proctoring.
Accountable
Published policies, complaints and appeals procedures.
Independence
Impartiality is designed in, not bolted on
Optional training, independent exams
Training — online with AQSCERT or in person at an authorised partner — is always optional. Trainers never see live exam content, never mark exams and play no part in certification decisions about candidates they trained.
Conflict-of-interest declarations
Everyone involved in certification — item writers, examiners, proctors and decision makers — declares interests annually and for each case. Anyone with a conflict is excluded from that activity, and the declaration is recorded.
Risk-based oversight
We maintain an impartiality risk register covering commercial, financial and personal pressures. Revenue never influences pass marks, and the Impartiality Committee reviews the register and our decisions.
Governance
Who does what
Certification Manager
Owns the certification schemes and the certificate lifecycle — from application through issuance, suspension and recertification.
Quality Manager
Owns the management system: document control, internal audit, risk register, complaints, appeals and corrective action.
Scheme Experts
Practising subject-matter experts who write syllabi and exam items under NDA. They never train candidates for the exams they write.
Independent Decision Makers
Grant, refuse or defer certification on the evidence. They must not have trained or assessed the candidate and declare conflicts for every case.
Impartiality Committee
A balanced group of employers, practitioners, educators and candidate representatives who review threats to impartiality at least annually.
Scheme development
How a certification is built
Job-task analysis
We survey and interview practitioners to define the tasks, knowledge and skills a competent professional uses at each level.
SME panels
Diverse panels of subject-matter experts review the analysis, draft the syllabus and write and peer-review exam items.
Exam blueprint
Each exam is built to a published blueprint that fixes domain weightings, question types and cognitive levels.
Standard setting
Pass marks are set by a documented standard-setting study (such as the Modified Angoff method), not by commercial targets.
Schemes are version-controlled and reviewed at least every three years, or sooner when practice changes. See the certification schemes for the current versions.
Accreditation
Honest about where we are
Our certification processes are designed in line with the principles of ISO/IEC 17024, the international standard for bodies certifying persons. AQSCERT is accredited by DA, an IAF MLA signatory, to ISO/IEC 17024.
Our programmes are developed by leading experts from industry.
View our accreditation statusAccreditation: AQSCERT is accredited by DA, an IAF MLA signatory, to ISO/IEC 17024. Our programmes are developed by leading experts from industry.
Based in the European Union
Legal name
AQSCERT S.R.L.
Company number
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Registered office
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