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Why take Open ROADS Certification?

Associate Certificate

The Associate Certificate is a knowledge-based certification which ensures a general understanding of digital transformation, the Digital Mastermind framework and the Open Digital Maturity Model.

The certification is intended to become:
  • A foundation for digital transformation projects
  • A globally recognized credential
  • Used by leading enterprises to standardize transformation knowledge
  • A requirement to move on to Consultant certification
Become Certified Sample Exam

Consultant Certificate

The Consultant Certificates are a knowledge-based certification intended to ensure you have the necessary skills to successfully evaluate the digital maturity of an organization against one or more of the ODMM Dimensions.

There are six Consultant exams, one per Dimension:

Strategic Dynamism; Customer Centricity; Digital Culture, Talent & Skills; Innovation & Lean Delivery; Big Data & AI; Technology Leadership.

Each Consultant certificate provides the following benefits:
  • Demonstrates that you have an in-depth understanding of the related ODMM Dimension.
  • The Open ROADS Community acknowledges that you are qualified to perform an Open Digital Maturity Model assessment against the related ODMM Dimension.
Note:

To apply for a Consultant Certificate, you must already have obtained Open ROADS Associate Certification.

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Master Certificate

An honourary award from the Open ROADS Community.

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Associate Certificate

The Associate Certificate is a knowledge-based certification which ensures a general understanding of digital transformation, the Digital Mastermind framework and the Open Digital Maturity Model.

The certification is intended to become:
  • A foundation for digital transformation projects
  • A globally recognized credential
  • Used by leading enterprises to standardize transformation knowledge
  • A requirement to move on to Consultant certification
Become Certified Sample Exam
Target group
  • Open ROADS Community member
  • Recognition in understanding Digital Mastermind
  • Eligible to take Open ROADS Consultant Certificate
Exam details
  • Exam Duration: 90 Mins
  • Open Book: No
  • Questions: 60 questions
  • Total score: 1000 points
  • Pass score: 600 points
  • Available language: English
Exam details
  • Exam Duration: 90 Mins
  • Open Book: No
  • Questions: 60 questions
  • Total score: 1000 points
  • Pass score: 600 points
  • Available language: English
Target group
  • Open ROADS Community member
  • Recognition in understanding Digital Mastermind
  • Eligible to take Open ROADS Consultant Certificate
Exam details
  • Exam Duration: 90 Mins
  • Open Book: No
  • Questions: 60 questions
  • Total score: 1000 points
  • Pass score: 600 points
  • Available language: English

How can I take Open ROADS Certificate Examinations?

Preparing for the exam

This exam tests your knowledge of the basic principles of digital transformation and the assets of the Open ROADS Community. The recommended reading list is given below. Note that the exam is closed book and is taken in a controlled examination centre.

Reading List
Associate Certificate
Consultant Certificates
Master Certificate
  1. ROADS Social Listening - Charlie Lowe
  2. Digital Mastermind Version 3
  3. Open Digital Maturity Model Fast Assessment (Mini-survey)
  4. Open Digital Maturity Model (ODMM) framework V4R3 - Open ROADS Community
  5. Introduction to Open Digital Maturity Model (V4R3)
  6. TreeHouse An introduction to Design Thinking
  7. The next Generation - Enterprise Customer Engagement and Digital Ecosystem - MIT CISR
  8. Sharing Think Series - Mind the Gap - Ogilvy Consulting (Ogilvy RED)
  9. Getting serious About Omni-Channel Experience - CMO council
  10. Data Management - white paper
  11. Niall Richard Murphy - Site Reliability Engineering
  12. TOGAF Version 9.2: Figure 1.1 Structure of the TOGAF Standard

Strategic

Dynamism

Customer

Centricity

Digital Culture,

Talent & Skills

Innovation &

Lean Delivery

Big Data

& AI

Technology

Leadership

  1. The Digital Transformation Playbook - 5 Apr 2016
  2. Surviving in an Increasingly Digital Ecosystem - MIT CISR
  3. Thriving in an Increasingly Digital Ecosystem - MIT CISR - 2015
  4. Building A Healthier World Via A Digital Ecosystem - MIT CISR - Nov 2015
  5. Platform Strategy - 28 Aug 2016
  6. Managing Digital: Concepts and Practices - The Open Group - 30 Jan 2018
  7. Measure What Matters - 26 Apr 2018
  8. MIT CISR C-Suite and Board Workshop 2018 - MIT CISR - 22 November 2018
  9. DON’T ALIGN-COEVOLVE! - MIT CISR - Nov 2018
  10. The Changing Rules for Digital M&A - Bain & Company - 10 Feb 2017
  11. Zone to Win - 19 Nov 2015
  12. Venture Capital Strategy - 15 Aug 2018
  13. The Business of Venture Capital - 19 Sep 2014
  14. Introduction to Open Digital Maturity Model (V4R3)
  15. Open Digital Maturity Model V4R3
  1. Open Digital Maturity Model V4R3
  2. Digital Mastermind playbook v3 (EN) - 09 Oct 2018
  3. Introduction to Open Digital Maturity Model (V4R3)
  4. The Ultimate Question 2.0 – Fred Reichheld – 2011 Harvard Business Review Press
  5. Outside In – Harley Manning and Kerry Bodine – 2012 – Amazon Publishing
  1. Employee Experience: Enabling Your Future Workforce Strategy - MIT CISR Research Briefing Vol 18, No. 9, - Sep 2018
  2. Becoming Future Ready Requires Organizational Explosions - MIT CISR Research Briefing Vol 18, No. 8, - Aug 2018
  3. Empowering Employees for Digital - MIT CISR - 22 March 2018
  4. Digital Mastermind playbook v3 (EN) - 09 Oct 2018
  5. Open Digital Maturity Model V4R3
  6. Introduction to Open Digital Maturity Model (V4R3)
  1. Introduction to Open Digital Maturity Model (V4R3)
  2. Your Role in the Ecosystem - Accenture
  3. The Rise of the Digital Supply Network - Deloitte
  4. Evolving a Commercial Model - HCL
  5. The Field Guide to Human-Centered Design - IDEO
  6. The Lean Startup - ERIC RIES
  7. Digital Supply Networks Data Sheet v3 - Deloitte
  8. Open Digital Maturity Model V4R3
  1. Open Digital Maturity Model V4R3
  2. Digital Mastermind playbook v3 (EN) - 09 Oct 2018
  3. Introduction to Open Digital Maturity Model (V4R3)
  4. Data Governance Simplified: Creating and Measuring Trusted Data for Businesses
  5. Non-Invasive Data Governance: The Path of Least Resistance and Greatest Success
  6. DAMA-DMBOK: Data Management Body of Knowledge (2nd Edition)
  7. Information Governance Principles and Practices for a Big Data Landscape
  8. The Six Primary Dimensions for Data Quality Assessment
  9. Practical Enterprise Data Lake Insights
  10. Scalable Big Data Architecture – A practitioner’s guide to choosing relevant big data architecture
  11. Artificial Intelligence for Big Data: Complete guide to automating Big Data solutions using Artificial Intelligence techniques
  12. Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Fundamentals
  13. Data Visualization – How to design charts and graphs
  14. Visual Analysis Best Practices
  1. Open Digital Maturity Model V4R3
  2. Digital Mastermind playbook v3 (EN) - 09 Oct 2018
  3. Introduction to Open Digital Maturity Model (V4R3)
  4. IT Governance: How top performers manage IT decision rights for superior results
  5. Cloud Computing: Concepts and Practices
  6. Site Reliability Engineering
  7. IBM RedBook: Microservices from Theory to Practice
  8. IBM RedBook: Evolve the Monolith to Microservices with Java and Node
  9. White Paper - Huawei Observation to NFV
  10. Integrated NFV/SDN Architectures: A Systematic Literature Review
  11. Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit
  12. Agile Application Lifecycle Management: Using DevOps to Drive Process Improvement
  13. Cloud Edge Computing: Beyond the Data Center
  14. Developing Solutions for the Internet of Things
  15. 5G: A technology Vision
  16. Service Orchestration as Organization: Building Multi-Tenant Service Applications in the Cloud
  17. Learning Robotic Process Automation
  18. From robotic process automation to intelligent automation
  19. The Simple Implementation Guide to Robotic Process Automation (Rpa): How to Best Implement Rpa in an Organization
  20. Market Forecast and the Future of Intelligent Automation
  21. Ethereum: A Next-Generation Smart Contract and Decentralized Application Platform
  22. Huawei Blockchain Whitepaper
  23. Blockchain basics: Hyperledger Fabric
  24. Chaincode for Developers
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Scheduling the exam

1. Register account on PearsonVue page

* Notice: Since December 2018, exams can be scheduled using your verified Huawei account temporarily. Please note that, it is sponsored by Advisory Board Member. The Open ROADS Community PearsonVue page is under construction, and it will be opened in 2019.


a) Visit the PearsonVue (Huawei) website. After the login and application page is displayed, enter information as prompted and submit the information.


b) Activate the account. After your information is submitted, the system automatically sends an activation link to your mailbox which is specified during registration.

2. Scheduling an Exam on the Website

After registration, you can schedule an exam on the PearsonVue website using your activated account.


a) Fill in your personal information following the guide on webpage. Please make sure to use your real name. You can double click “Edit” to revise your name.

* Replenish other personal information if possible. This page only appears when you first register with Pearson VUE (Candidates who have already replenished their personal information, please ignore this step).


b) Choose the exam you would like to schedule, select the language you would like to take for the exam. Confirm the exam selection when all information provided is correct.

* Please Carefully check the exam information and language, view the Testing Policies before you click “Schedule this exam”.


c) Select the nearby test centre displayed.

Click here to find the nearby test centre.


d) Set your preferred date and time for the exam.

* On the My Orders page that is displayed, you can check whether the information is correct. To modify the information such as the exam subject, test centre, and date and time, please return to the previous page. If the information is correct, click “Pay” at the lower right corner of the page.

3. Payment of Exam

You can pay the exam fees on the Pearson VUE website in the following ways:

  • Credit card: You can pay by credit card if you schedule an exam on the Pearson VUE website or at the call centre.
  • Cash: If you schedule an exam at the test centre, you can pay in cash.
  • Exam voucher: You can pay using an exam voucher if you schedule an exam on the Pearson VUE website, at the Pearson VUE test centre, or at the Pearson VUE call centre.

4. Coupons or exam voucher

If you would like to apply for the coupon or promotion code, or using an exam voucher, please contact [email protected] for more details.


* How to use an exam voucher sponsored by Open ROADS Community or its board members?

For example, a Huawei e-exam voucher can be used to schedule an exam specified by the voucher. The exam voucher is not registered or refundable and cannot be extended or redeemed for cash. The validity period is for one year (for special exam vouchers, the validity period is calculated based on the original settings). If an exam is cancelled, the exam voucher will be released. You can schedule a new exam, but you need to complete the exam within the original validity period.

5. Re-scheduling / Cancellation


a) Exams must be rescheduled or cancelled at least 24 hours before the scheduled exam time.


b) Exam fees cannot be refunded if you fail to reschedule or cancel less than 24 hours in advance, or if you fail to appear for the exam by the scheduled start time.


c) Change or cancel an exam by:

  • Visiting the Pearson VUE website and change the time of an exam:
  • Log in to the Pearson VUE website
  • View the scheduled exams
  • Select the exam that needs to be changed
  • Update the information (such as the test centre, date, and time, and click Pay)

d) Cancel an exam by:

  • Login to the Pearson VUE website
  • View the scheduled exams
  • Select the exam that needs to be cancelled
  • Cancel the exam as prompted

* For more detailed information, please download the Certification Written Exam Guide


* You can contact us if there’s any enquiries at [email protected]

Taking the exam

You must go to the Pearson VUE test centre to complete the exam at the specified time.

Admission Rules for the Exam


a) Arrive at the test centre at least 15 minutes before the scheduled exam time to sign in. Candidates who are more than 15 minutes late may be barred from the exam and the exam fee will not be refunded.


b) You need to provide two valid, non-expired, and original identity documents (photocopies are not accepted). If you have any questions about your identity document, please contact the Pearson VUE Call Centre.


c) Your English name used for the exam must be the same as that on your identity document provided on the exam day.


d) Candidates shall not bring into the exam room any materials or belongings that could compromise the examination integrity. This includes but is not limited to bags, mobile phones, walkie-talkies, watches, wallets, books, documents, notebooks, notes, and paper.

Contact us

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The exams can be scheduled using your verified Pearson Vue account. Please note that this portal is a temporary measure that has been sponsored by an Advisory Board Member of Open ROADS Community. The official Community PEARSON Vue page is currently under construction and will be available soon.

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Login/Register your Pearson Vue account to schedule, reschedule or cancel an exam

2

Enter “View exams”

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Search “Open ROADS” to find the exam

Become Certified
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The exams can be scheduled using your verified Pearson Vue account. Please note that this portal is a temporary measure that has been sponsored by an Advisory Board Member of Open ROADS Community. The official Community PEARSON Vue page is currently under construction and will be available soon.

1

Login/Register your Pearson Vue account to schedule, reschedule or cancel an exam

2

Enter “View exams”

3

Search “Open ROADS” to find the exam

Become Certified