文件名称：Certified Analytics Professional CANDIDATE HANDBOOK
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CAP
About the INFORMS Certified Analytics Professional (CAP®) Program INFORMS is pleased to continue the implementation of CAP® the professional certification program that meets the needs of analytics professionals. The Certified Analytics Professional (CAP®) program was developed in 2011–2012. The first examination was administered on April 7, 2013, at the INFORMS Analytics Conference, April 7–9, in San Antonio, Texas. INFORMS analytics certification program advances the use of analytics by setting agreed upon standards for the profession and advances the profession by providing a means for organizations to identify and develop qualified analytics professionals, by contributing to the career success and continued competence for analytics professionals, and by improving the credibility and visibility of the analytics profession. INFORMS defines analytics as the scientific process of transforming data into insight for making better decisions. Analytics is seen as an end-to-end process beginning with identifying the business problem to evaluating and drawing conclusions about the prescribed solution arrived at though the use of analytics tools and methodologies. Analytics professionals are skilled at this process. INFORMS is the first professional society to develop a professional certification program for analytics professionals. Key components of the CAP® program include the following: 1. Formal credentialing requirements, including a standardized examination and required renewal process. 2. Program content based on the findings of a job task analysis working group, whose members represent a broad background of analytics practitioners (see the section titled “About the Professional Job Task Analysis Process”). 3. Agreed-upon eligibility criteria that consist of academic preparation, work experience in analytics, and an attestation from an employer confirming adequate mastery of soft skills in analytics. 4. Certification program content that is both software and vendor neutral. 5. Successful completion of the certification process enabling analytics professionals (and their employers) to have confidence that they bring a core set of analytics skills to a project team. The CAP® examination measures acceptable performance across seven major areas or domains of practice that adhere to the analytics end-to-end process: business problem framing, analytics problem framing, data, methodology selection, model building, deployment, and model life cycle management. See the “About the Professional Job Task Analysis Process” section for more information about the end-to-end process that is covered by the exam. Because analytics is an end-to-end process, the CAP® examination assesses a breadth of knowledge across the seven domains, but not a depth of knowledge in any one methodology. Those interested in taking the CAP® examination should consider themselves to be analytics professionals or semi-professionals, and not analytics amateurs. They should be interested in adhering to the highest standards of good analytics 2 practice and following a path of continual professional development in analytics. Candidates must have at least three years of experience in analytics depending on their academic degree. See the “Eligibility Requirements” section for more information on qualifying for the CAP® examination. CAP® program development formally began in August 2011, when INFORMS established the INFORMS Certification Task Force to plan and develop this new analytics certification.