FDC3 Certification

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Marketing

• Set up beta-testing signup form, who they are, relationship to the product, job title, etc. Google forms. (@robmoffat)

FDC3 SMEs

• Planning stage. Be really clear about the audience. Difficulty of
• Collect SMEs. - up to 5 solid, diverse people.
• Draft exam scope into a statement.
• Draft a straw-man for the exam blueprint (domains and competencies of the exam). Chapter headings, subtopics. 5 - 6 buckets. competencies within that.
• Catalog: product page, blueprint.
• Wrangle group of 6-8 SME's including super-SME.
• Job-Task Analysis (JTA). Get SMEs to agree what's in the exam. (they start with the strawman). they come up with the final exam blueprint. 4-hour session, usually. -> Scope, Title, Domains and Competencies. Domains weighted for importance (some get more questions than others)
• Badge designed for passers. Cred.ly
• Badge designed for contributors - also a leaderboard.
• Publish a "coming soon" product page.

Item Writing

• Meet with Certiverse team to set up the SMEs.
• Item Writing. - Even more SMEs.
• Private blueprint - how difficult to make each item?
• Peer Review (on Certiverse) - will help us weed out inferior questions (items).

Beta Testing

• Beta Test - people who write/administer training will take it first! So, beta performance is often weird. You can get a clear idea of the item performance. Need around 100 people for this.Announce at a conference and get sign-ups.
• Psychometrician. On staff at Certiverse. Tweaks difficult questions, drops lemons.
• We figure out the passing score. SMEs look at the beta results and figure it out by voting. Led by psychometrician. Standard Setting

Release

• Publication
• General Availability

[robmoffat]

https://docs.google.com/document/d/16_T5mK8iT0Kll0W1Gbedm-yX584cuXDuaHrmC7DqcHw/edit#

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FDC3 Certified Practitioner

The FDC3 Certified Practitioner exam demonstrates a developers’s foundational knowledge and skills in the FDC3 standard and the wider FDC3 ecosystem.

Who Is It For?

The FDC3 Certified Developer exam is designed for technical business analysts and developers working as FDC3 implementers.

About This Certification

A certified FDC3 Practitioner has demonstrated firm conceptual understanding of the key design considerations and rationale of the FDC3 standard. They have a broad knowledge of the FDC3 ecosystem and the implementation details required to work in the field.

What It Demonstrates

The practitioner will have demonstrated an ability to deploy FDC3 concepts into real-world use cases, as well as understanding of the limitations of FDC3 and where it is not relevant.

Includes

• Online
• Certification valid for 3 Years
• Includes 12 Month Exam Eligibility
• One Retake
• Multiple Choice Exam
• Duration of Exam 90 Minutes

Experience Level

• Medium

Domains and Competencies

FDC3 Concepts (20%)

• What problem is FDC3 trying to solve
• What is in scope and out-of-scope for FDC3

FDC3 Components (20%)

• Desktop Agents
• Context Data and Intents
• Directory
• Apps

FDC3 Standard API (20%)

• Broadcasting and Listening to Context
• Creating and Joining User Channels
• Finding and Raising Intents (and the difference between them).
• Opening Apps
• When to raise intent with context, vs. broadcasting.

Security (10%)

• Bounds of Trust
• Assembling App Directories
• Data leakage scenarios

Community (10%)

• Who runs FDC3 the Standard
• Who uses FDC3
• How to Contribute (Generally)
• Contributing standard intents and context types.

Use Cases (20%)

• Solve use-case based scenarios by applying the following FDC3 concepts:
  • Creating context data
  • Creating intents
  • When to use channels
  • Using standard context data
  • Using standard intents
• Good Context Design Theory
• Good Inversion-of-Control theory

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Completed!