OMG Certified Expert in BPM (OCEB)
OCEB is a rigorous, comprehensive, and fair test of a candidate’s knowledge and skills in the areas of Business Process Management and Business Process Modeling. The twenty-five experts from prominent BPM companies and well-known independent consultants who designed the OCEB topical coverage and wrote the questions for the set of OCEB examinations want peers and prospective employers to feel confident about a certified candidate’s ability to participate in or lead real-world initiatives in enterprise BPM. To accomplish this, we test not only a candidate’s knowledge of the domain’s standards (including OMG’s Business Process Modeling Language™ – BPMN™), but also aspects of the application of those standards in the field, and of industry best practices over a wide range of business process related topics.
If you’re a BPM practitioner, an OCEB certification at a suitable level will benefit you by giving you an important credential to present to employers and clients. Should you certify in only one track, or both tracks? For a discussion, look here. If you’re a senior executive hiring a consultant, or a manager making a hiring decision, or awarding a promotion or a raise, you know that the OCEB-certified candidate stands out from the crowd – he or she has studied the material and practiced the skills required for his level, and not only knows how to model and analyze business processes, but also is familiar with the many concepts and frameworks that underlie Business Process Management. For a more detailed listing of the material covered, and descriptions of positions and tasks suitable for each level, see this page.
The exams
There are five Exams – Fundamental, Business and Technical Intermediate, and Business and Technical Advanced. Each exam tests your knowledge of a different subset of BPM and what you can do.
| FUNDAMENTAL |
A productive member ranked in the top half of his or her BPM project team should have the knowledge and skills to acquire this certification. |
| BUSINESS INTERMEDIATE | A BPM Team Lead on the business side, discovering, modeling, and analyzing business processes, should have the knowledge and skills to acquire this certification. |
| TECHNICAL INTERMEDIATE | A BPM implementation team lead, implementing and maintaining BPM systems, should have the knowledge and skills to acquire this certification. |
| BUSINESS ADVANCED | A BPM consultant to high-level management, or practitioner responsible for BPM scope and direction at Director level in an enterprise, should have the broad knowledge and skills covered in this certification. |
| TECHNICAL ADVANCED | A BPM consultant to high-level management working on the technical side, or or BPM practitioner at Director level responsible for process performance and governance in an enterprise, should have the broad knowledge and skills covered in this certification. |
OCEB Training with OperMIX
The OCEB Exams are serious and harder then you probably think they are! Remember only %40 of the exam is BPMN and you need to carefully review all the material. So, don’t expect to ‘wing’ these exams, especially the higher levels. Unless you study OMG’s BMM, BPMM and all the topics listed in on the OMG coverage map, your chances of passing are slim.
The training that OperMIX provides is connected, comprehensive and more detailed than the material covered on the OCEB exams. In this way, students will develop a more integrated understanding of business process management at the examination levels: fundamental, intermediate and advanced. After taking the training and working with the material on the support web site, the exams should be easy!
OperMIX provides two types of training: a self-paced eLearning package and a 2-Day private session for corporations. Get a free sample of our training sessions at the BPM Exchange Social Network eLearning site.
