The “Certified Professional for Requirements Engineering (CPRE)” model offers two qualification levels.

The goals of the Foundation Level (CPRE-FL) are to convey the motivation for requirements engineering, to define the terms involved, to convey and present its activities, and to show how it differs from other disciplines. The Foundation Level addresses a common understanding for Requirements Engineering independent of a industrial domain or development process.

The Advanced Level (CPRE-AL) specializes in a module based approach. Each module addresses on a specific issue, activity, domain or process. The number of Advanced Level Modules is not restricted. The content depends on the demand of economy and industry for specific knowledge in Requirements Engineering. The CPRE-AL certificate is conferred as “Certified Professional for Requirements Engineering Advanced Level in [Module Name]“.

The Foundation Level Certificate is prerequisite to acquire the Advanced Level Certificate.

• Requirements Elicitation
• Requirements Management
• Definition of the Requirements Process
• Specification of Delta Requirements
• Verbalizin Textual Requirements

• Motivates to establish a professional Requirements Engineering
• Defines basic concepts and differentiates to other disciplines
• Illustrates common used techniques, methods and practices
• Clarifies elicitation, documentation and validation activities
• Discusses the Management of Requirements

• To pass the examination aligned with a certification level, a person is required to have a mastery of the knowledge defined in the syllabus for this level.
• To confer the certificate of a certification level a candidate successfully must pass the examination.
• The certification levels build successively upon each other. To proceed to the next higher level of qualification, a person is first required to earn certification at the previous level.

The examination of the Foundation Level itself takes 75 minutes and multiple choice questions. The questions are of varying degrees of difficulty and are assigned different points accordingly. To pass the examination, the candidate must achieve more than 60% of the total possible score.

The examination procedure of the Advanced Level modules will be available earliest Q1 / 2010.