³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ fast facts

³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ®, business, is the leading provider of certification exam development, delivery, and program management services delivered through an expansive network of over 14,000 ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Authorized Testing Centers worldwide. ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ manages a sophisticated portfolio of leading certification programs including: the official Microsoft Office Specialist certification program, the Microsoft Certified Fundamentals certification program, the Microsoft Certified Educator program, the Adobe® Certified Professional certification program, the Autodesk Certified User certification program, the Intuit certification program, the Critical Career Skills certification program, and the ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Entrepreneurship and Small Business certification program. ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ reliably delivers over three million tests each year throughout the secondary, post-secondary, workforce, and corporate technology markets in 148 countries and 26 languages worldwide.

Company milestones

  • Microsoft® Office Specialist—the official certification program for Microsoft Office—was created and launched by ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ in 1997.
  • ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ IC3® Digital Literacy certification—the world's premier performance-based digital literacy certification—was launched in 2002.
  • ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ launched the Microsoft Office Specialist World Championship in 2002, with more than half a million candidates entering each year from around the world.
  • Adobe partnered with ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ to launch Adobe® Certified Professional certification—the leading certification for validating entry-level digital design and communications skills—in June 2007 into educational markets around the world.
  • In 2011 ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ expanded its certification portfolio to include industry verticals by introducing the Autodesk® Certified User certification program and Intuit® QuickBooks Certified User exam.
  • In May 2012 ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ VUE, the computer-based testing arm of ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ, acquired ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ.
  • ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ launched the Adobe Certified Professional World Championship in 2013, now entered by over 100,000 candidates around the world.
  • In 2015 ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ held the inaugural CERTIFIED Educator Conference
  • The Entrepreneurship and Small Business program was launched in 2017.

³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ by the numbers

  • ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ delivers exams in 148 countries and 26 languages.
  • ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ works with more than 400 subject matter experts in 20 countries to ensure exam objectives are consistent with market needs.
  • Roughly 175,000 exams are administered monthly through a network of more than 14,000 ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Authorized Testing Centers worldwide.
  • That translates into 5,750 exams per day on average, 240 exams per hour, and one exam delivered somewhere in the world every 15 seconds.
  • ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ has delivered more than 10 million exams worldwide.
  • Out of the 26 available languages in which ³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ provides certification exams, the most popular (in order) are:
    • English
    • Korean
    • Arabic
    • Japanese
    • Spanish