IBM Professional Certification Overview

Lay the groundwork for your personal journey to become a world-class resource to your customers, colleagues, and company.

IBM Professional Certification is both a journey and a destination. It's a business solution. It’s a way for skilled IT professionals to demonstrate their expertise to the world. It validates your skills and demonstrates your proficiency in the latest IBM technology and solutions.
The certification requirements are tough, but it's not rocket science, either. It's a rigorous process that differentiates you from everyone else.
The mission of IBM Professional Certification is to:
• Provide a reliable, valid and fair method of assessing skills and knowledge.
• Provide IBM a method of building and validating the skills of individuals and organizations.
• Develop a loyal community of highly skilled certified professionals who recommend, sell, service, support and/or use IBM products and solutions.

The IBM certification categories include:

Software
• IBM Information Management
• IBM Lotus
• IBM Rational
• IBM Tivoli Software
• IBM WebSphere
• IBM Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
• PL/I
• XML

Hardware
• IBM System p
• IBM System i
• IBM System x
• IBM System z
• IBM System Storage and TotalStorage

Other
• Advanced Manufacturing Science
• IBM Infrastructure systems architect
• Innovation enabled by On Demand Business
• Retail Store Solutions