Building schedules that survive contact with reality — critical path, float, and re-planning when it slips.
A schedule is a hypothesis, and most of them are wrong within a fortnight. The skill is not building the first one — it is knowing what to do when reality diverges from it.
This examination assesses critical path reasoning, float management, and the recovery decisions that follow a slip: what can absorb it, what cannot, and what the honest new date actually is.
It sits in the Specialised Practice track at Professional tier, and is issued with a unique credential ID, a two-year validity period and an independently hosted digital badge.
Planners, schedulers and delivery practitioners who own the plan. Particularly relevant in construction, engineering and infrastructure, where schedule performance is contractual rather than aspirational.
The paper is weighted across five domains. Weightings show how much of the examination each area accounts for, so preparation can be planned against them.
| Domain | Weighting | |
|---|---|---|
| 01 | Delivery planning and scope control | 25% |
| 02 | Stakeholder engagement and governance | 20% |
| 03 | Risk, issue and dependency management | 20% |
| 04 | Schedule, cost and resource discipline | 20% |
| 05 | Closure, benefits and lessons learned | 15% |
Scheduling is a named role in capital-intensive sectors, and it is chronically short of people who are good at it. A credential in this specialism is directly hireable.
Yes. The Professional tier assumes you are already working on live delivery. There is no formal hours requirement, but the examination is written for practitioners who have made real trade-offs on real work.
Online, monitored by a live proctor alongside automated integrity checks. You book a slot after enrolling and can sit it from home or your workplace.
Two years from issue. The expiry date is printed on the certificate and shown on the public verification record, so a lapsed credential is always visible.
A certificate carrying a unique credential ID and verification QR code, plus a digital badge hosted independently by LiveCertification for LinkedIn, a CV or an email signature.
Yes, without contacting us. Every credential ID resolves on our public register, and the digital badge carries its own independent verification page.
You receive a result breakdown by domain so you know where to focus. A retake can be booked from your dashboard at a lower fee than the original enrolment.