Credentials and badges

No and no. A DPCert credential does not expire: there is no expiry date, no periodic retesting, no continuing education quota (CPE/CPD), no renewal fee and no annual dues. You sit the exam once, and the credential stays valid unless revoked. Revocation is an administrative act with a recorded reason, not an automatic expiry. No renewal fees. No CPE quotas. Many certifications on the market charge periodic upkeep; this one does not.

It is a digital credential in an open standard (Open Badges 3.0) that carries inside it who issued it, to whom, what was earned and when. The DPCert badge is digitally signed by the institution, with a did:web identifier, so any compatible system can check that it is authentic and has not been altered. You receive it with the credential and can keep it in digital wallets and platforms that accept the standard.

In the credentials area of your account there is a button that adds the certification to the licences and certifications section of LinkedIn, with the name, the issuer, the code and the verification link already filled in. On a résumé, write the full certification name, the acronym, the year of issue and the credential code: the code is what lets anyone check without depending on you.

Through the credential code, on the site verification page, or through the QR code printed on the PDF certificate. Whoever checks sees the holder name, which certification was earned, the date of issue and whether the credential is active or revoked. No account, no permission from you and no contact with you is needed. The signed Open Badge can also be checked by any system compatible with the standard.

The same verification page has a public directory of certified professionals, searchable by name, email and certification. The email search checks an exact address and never returns anyone’s address in the response. Only profiles set to public appear in the directory.

Only if your public profile is switched on. It shows your name, your credentials and whatever you filled in for job title, location and LinkedIn, and public profiles may be indexed by search engines. Your score and per-domain performance are never published under any circumstances, and you can switch the profile on or off whenever you want, in your account.

You can switch the public profile off at any time, in your account, and it leaves the directory, the search and the sitemap. What keeps working is the code verifier: whoever holds the code can always check, even with the profile switched off. That separation is deliberate, because a register the holder could quietly erase would be no proof to anyone.

Yes, as a PDF, as many times as you like, from the credentials area of your account. The file is yours and costs nothing beyond the exam. Only the holder can download it, so keep a copy, but know that it is never the only one: the certificate can be downloaded again at any time.

The certificate carries your name, the certification earned, the date of issue, the credential code, the DPCert Global Institute signature and a QR code leading to the verification page. It is issued in English, deliberately: it is a document usually shown outside your own country. Your score and per-domain performance do not appear on it, and stay in your account only.

It can, through support. The printed name is the one you type before opening the exam, and it is fixed there so the document cannot be rewritten later by whoever received it. A legitimate correction, such as a typo or a legal name change, is done by us: write to [email protected] explaining what needs adjusting. Changing your account name does not alter a certificate already issued.

It can, and the grounds are written in the site policy: exam fraud, publishing the questions, false identity, misleading use of the credential and administrative error on our side. A revoked credential does not vanish: the code stays checkable and starts answering that it was revoked, because vanishing would make the code look forged to anyone who had verified it before. Administrative error is reversible.