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Certification

Prove your skills and become Alteryx Certified
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The Alteryx Product Certification Program
Alteryx is thrilled to release its certification program! The Alteryx Certification Program allows you to receive credit for your knowledge and technical skills!

Posting exam questions before, during, or after the exam, or creating multiple Community accounts to circumvent the required seven day waiting period between attempts is a violation of the Alteryx Certification Policies. Read the Alteryx Certification Policies document for a full list of policies. Please note that you can change your time zone in your preference settings here.

  1. Alteryx Designer Core

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Partner Technical Certification Exams can now be found in the growing Partner Community.

Exam Certification Details
Want to learn more about each exam? Check out the details below and our certification preparation guides!
On-Demand Exam Access
You can now take the Alteryx Designer Core and Alteryx Designer Advanced exams on demand!
  • You must be logged in to your Community account to take an exam.
  • Click on "Take Exam" to begin the exam.
  • If you pass, your badge will be added to your Community account immediately and you'll receive your certificate via email within 24-48 hours.
  • If you do not pass, you'll be eligible to retake the exam again in 7 days. You can retake the exam as many times as you need to pass.
  • The time for your next exam attempt is determined by the time zone that's specified in your Community account. The default value (U.S. Pacific Time) can be updated under My Settings -> Preferences.
  • Once you've passed the Core exam, the Advanced exam will be immediately available for you to take.
  • If you've already passed the Core exam but you do not have a Core badge or access to the Advanced exam, your Core results are not linked to your Community account. To correct this, please email certification@alteryx.com with the following information: full name, email you used to pass the Core exam, and your current Community username.
Alteryx Designer Core
  • Audience: Everyone! Whether you are just beginning your journey in analytics or a seasoned professional, this exam is an opportunity to prove your skills with Designer. This exam is a pre-requisite for advanced level exams.
  • Description: The Alteryx Designer Core product certification exam is intended to test your aptitude around the 'core' toolset in Alteryx. The 'core' toolset was determined by the selecting the most commonly used tools in Alteryx Designer in addition to understanding basic UI/operational elements. The Alteryx Designer Core is exam is the first level of certification.
  • Price: Free
  • Skills Measured: Interface elements, basic workflow building concepts, Browse, Input Data, Output Data, Text Input, Data Cleansing, Filter, Formula, Sample, Select, Select Records, Sort, Unique, Append Fields, Find Replace, Join, Union, DateTime, Text to Columns, Count Records, Cross Tab, Summarize, Transpose, Comment, Tool Container
  • Questions: 80 Questions
  • Question Type: Multiple-Choice
  • Exam Time: 2 Hours (90 sec/question)
  • Exam Preparation: Core Certification Exam Prep Guide
Alteryx Designer Advanced
  • Audience: The Alteryx Designer Advanced exam is for users who have already demonstrated their proficiency on core Designer abilities. This exam may be attempted only after you have passed the Alteryx Designer Core exam.
  • Description: The Alteryx Advanced exam is the next stepping stone in the Platform Certification journey, allowing users to demonstrate their higher-level abilities with the Alteryx Designer. The exam builds on concepts, configurations and tools that are included in the Core exam, and also requires users to be able to understand a wider breadth of tool functionality and apply their knowledge to more complex applications. The exam includes two parts. Part I contains multiple-choice and multiple select questions while Part II includes four (4) practical questions that require you to build a workflow to arrive at the correct answer. NOTE: You will need access to Alteryx Designer to complete this exam.
  • Price: Free
  • Skills Measured: In addition to skills measured in the Core exam, the Advanced exam will also cover functionalities from the following tool palettes: Reporting (e.g., Interactive Chart, Layout, Overlay, Render, Report Map, Report Text, Table), Parsing (e.g. RegEx), Interface (e.g., Action, Check Box, Control Parameter, Drop Down, Error Message, File Browse, Folder Browse, List Box, Macro Input, Macro Output, Map, Numeric Up Down, Radio Button, Tree), Spatial (e.g., Buffer, Create Points, Distance, Find Nearest, Generalize, Poly-Build, Poly-Split, Spatial Info, Spatial Match, Spatial Process, Trade Area), Data Investigation (e.g., Association Analysis, Field Summary, Frequency Table, Pearson Correlation, Scatterplot, Spearman Correlation), Preparation, Join, Transform, Documentation and In/Out. NOTE: This is not a comprehensive list of all tools included on the exam, but should give a general idea of the scope of Designer knowledge that is tested.
  • Questions: 44 Questions
  • Question Type: Part I of the exam contains 40 multiple-choice questions. Part II of the exam contains 4 practical questions that require you to create a workflow to determine the correct answer.
  • Exam Time: 2 Hours
  • Exam Preparation: Advanced Certification Exam Prep Guide
Alteryx Designer Expert
  • Audience: Users who are currently Alteryx Designer Advanced Certified. You should have a comprehensive knowledge of Designer and the ability to use Designer to efficiently and effectively perform complex tasks. You must be at least 18 years old (or of your country's legal age, if greater) to take the Expert exam.
  • Description: The Alteryx Designer Expert exam measures your ability to use the platform to solve complex analytics problems. The exam builds on the knowledge and skills assessed in the Advanced exam and widens the breadth of concepts covered to include all aspects of Designer. The exam is a performance-based assessment that allows you to prove your skill level and critical-thinking abilities in real-world scenarios.
  • Price: USD 150
  • Skills Measured: This exam is comprehensive and will test your ability to work with any part of Alteryx Designer
  • Questions: 7 Questions
  • Question Type: Practical application scenarios
  • Exam Time: 3 Hours
  • Exam Registration: Refer to the User Guide for detailed registration instruction
  • Exam Preparation: Expert Certification Exam Prep Guide
Exam Certification FAQ
Q: When can I retake the exam if I don't pass it?
A: You can retake the Core and Advanced exams after 7 days. On Expert and Mastery exams you must wait 2 months between your first and second attempt and 3 months between subsequent attempts. You can retake exams as many times as you need to pass.
Q: When I pass a certification exam, what will I receive?
A: You will receive a digital certificate of completion and a badge on the Alteryx Community. To ensure that you receive the Community Badge, please register with the same email that is associated with your Community Account.
Q: What will I need to take the exam?
A: You need to be signed in to your Community account to access the exam. Alteryx Designer must be installed in order to complete the practical application questions.
Q: What should I do to prepare?
A: The Core Certification Exam Prep Guide and Advanced Certification Exam Prep Guide provide exam details, topics and tools covered on the exams, and a curriculum to help you prepare. See below for additional recommendations!
Q: Will my certificate reflect my exam score or number of attempts?
A: No, certificates will not reflect exam metrics.
Q: What is a 'passing grade' for the exam?
A: You will need to score an 80% or higher to pass the Core and Advanced exams.
Q: When can I take the Advanced exam?
A: You can take the Advanced exam immediately after you pass the Core exam.
Q: If I skip a question during the exam, can I come back and re-visit it later?
A: Yes, you can return to questions that you'd like to re-visit as often as you'd like during the exam. However, after you complete and submit your answers, no changes can be made.
Q: What can I use as a reference during the exam?
A: You may use Alteryx, the Community, and the web. This test is "open book". View the Alteryx Certification Policies for more details.
Q: Will I receive a breakdown of the questions I answered correctly and incorrectly after the exam?
A: Unfortunately, no. We do not distribute answers.
Q: When I retake the exam, will I see the same questions?
A: The questions in this exam come from a question bank. You may see some questions that you'd seen previously, but you'll also see new questions.
Q: How long is my certification valid?
A: Certifications expire two (2) years after the date the certification is earned. The earned date is based on the most recent, highest-level exam passed. For example, if you become Core Certified in November 2017, and then pass the Advanced exam on March 29th, 2018, your certification will expire on March 29th, 2020.

To maintain your certification, you must recertify before the expiration date. Alteryx provides two ways for you to recertify:

  1. Pass the current exam for your certification status. For example, passing the current version of the Advanced exam if you're currently Advanced Certified.
  2. Pass a higher-level exam. For example, if you're currently Core Certified, you could recertify by passing the Advanced exam.

If you do not recertify by the required date, your certification will expire and you will lose the right to use the certification logo or represent yourself as holding that certification credential.  When your expiration date is approaching we will send a reminder email to the email address associated with the certification. It is your responsibility to monitor the approaching expiration date and fulfill recertification requirements even if you do not receive reminders. If you wish to regain your certification status after the expiration of the previous certification, you must satisfy all prerequisites for that certification as a new candidate. If you allow your Advanced Certification to lapse, you will have to pass both the Core exam and Advanced exam to regain your status.

Exam Certification Preparation

Like any exam, preparation will be key in your performance!

For any questions around certification, please email certification@alteryx.com.