iCarnegie's Certificates

iCarnegie offers 10 courses, leading to two levels of professional certification, focused on ensuring highest-quality careers.

iCarnegie’s certification exams ensure an authentic assessment, by requiring the students to demonstrate professional-level competence using the exact tools and techniques they will encounter in real-world situations. Vendor-specific technologies are not the emphasis; instead, iCarnegie certifications focus on core skills that characterize professionals who are vital assets to employers.

Certificate in Computer Programming
Requires five courses (SSD1-5), encompassing skills in object-oriented programming, Java, Visual Basic, user interface design and evaluation, and data structures and programming in C++. In general terms, this certificate holder has mastered the fundamentals in how to learn and use new programming languages, and has applied modern tools to develop a number of professional software systems in an Internet setting. This certificate leads to positions typically titled “computer programmer”, “Java programmer”, and “web developer.”

Certificate in Software Systems Development (SSD)
Requires five additional courses (SSD6-10), adding skills in system-level programming in C, SQL, database and e-commerce design, distributed systems, software engineering and testing methods, and software project management. In general terms, this certificate holder is experienced in developing commercial-grade, larger-scale software systems from the early stages of specifications gathering, through final testing and maintenance, using modern software engineering practices. As such, this graduate is well-equipped to contribute to quality standards in a CMM* software organization. This certificate leads to positions typically titled “programmer/analyst,” “database developer,” “system designer,” “software engineer,” and “software project manager.”

(*CMM = Capability Maturity Model, the leading software process improvement model developed by the Software Engineering Institute of Carnegie Mellon.)


About the iCarnegie Certification Exams
iCarnegie offers a certification exam at the end of each course to determine student certification for that course. Certification in SSD courses 1-5 results in an iCarnegie Certificate in Computer Programming, and certification in SSD courses 1-10 results in an iCarnegie Certificate in Software Systems Development. The pool of exams for a course covers the entire course content. The exams include a multiple-choice part and a practical part. The multiple-choice part primarily tests students’ knowledge of concepts, and the practical part tests students’ ability to use and produce various software artifacts. Students are prohibited from using reference books, the Internet, and prior student submissions during the exam. Certification exams are graded by iCarnegie Certified Exam Graders.