Certification Development News

INFORMS  Credentialing Task Force has released the analytics job task analysis outline, which forms the basis of the first exam. Seven domains of practice have been enumerated along with over 35 tasks typically performed by analytics professionals. At this time, supporting knowledge statements are being used to develop items (questions) for the first exam and, as such, are not publicly available. The Task Force anticipates releasing them as part of the CAP Candidate Handbook on INFORMS Online in October 2012. The first CAP exam is scheduled for April 7, 2013 at the INFORMS Conference on Business Analytics and Operations Research in San Antonio, TX. Make your plans now to attend. Read Scott Nestler's article in the September issue of Analytics Magazine.