These steps will help IBM TechXchange attendees (and other motivated career professionals) build a certification plan and stay on track.

Step 1: Set your goal

• Review the IBM Certification Catalog 
• Choose the exams you'd like to pursue
• Build a rubric to help you stay on track.

Step 2: Take an IBM Assessment Exam

Like many professionals, you probably already have a great deal of hands-on experience. You may just need a skills tune-up and a plan. That’s where IBM Training Assessment Exams can help. They help you pinpoint your knowledge gaps, so you can focus your learning and head into the certification exam with confidence.

After choosing the certification exams that fit your career and expertise, sign up for and take an assessment exam. Assessment exam results are predictive of how you will perform on the actual certification exam and point out gaps where you can focus your pre-exam study.

• If you’ve registered for a full pass to IBM TechXchange 2025, you have a FREE IBM Assessment Exam via a promo code in your TechXchange attendee portal.
• Use your free assessment exam pre-conference to ensure you are ready for your certification exam when you reach the conference.
• Additional full-length assessment exams are available for $30.  

Step 3: Fill the gaps

Build your study guide using resources from the certification exam’s Exam Prep section. 

• Additional options include:
  • Express Learning Courses
  • IBM reference manuals and study guides
  • Intensive Learning Courses
  • Product documentation
  • Webinars, videos and workshops
  • White papers

Step 4: Schedule your exam

If you are attending IBM TechXchange 2025, it’s easy to add certification exams to your week of fun learning. Look through the certification exams available at IBM TechXchange and click the ♥ to save the exam to your favorites. As you're finalizing your conference agenda plans, identify and add time slots where you will take your certification exams. 

• No appointments are necessary for Certification exams. Exams are given on a walk-in basis at IBM TechXchange. 
• All exams are 90-minutes long.

Exam testing hours:

• • Monday, Oct. 6: 8 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. (The last tester will be seated at 4 p.m.)
  • Tuesday, Oct. 7: 10:30 a.m. - 6 p.m. (The last tester will be seated at 4:30 p.m.)
  • Wednesday, Oct. 8: 10:30 a.m. - 6 p.m. (The last tester will be seated at 4:30 p.m.)
  • Thursday, Oct. 9: 8 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. (The last tester will be seated at 11 a.m.)

If you’re unable to attend IBM TechXchange 2025, it’s still easy to book certification exams. Review the IBM Certification Catalog and schedule an exam. It’s that easy. 

Step 5: Celebrate – and level up

Share your new credentials on LinkedIn 

💡   92% of orgs use certifications to evaluate potential candidates (IDC).

Talk to your manager about how your newly certified skills can help your team shine

💡   When 75% of the team is certified, projects are completed 25% faster and have teams have 74% greater success modernizing enterprise apps (IDC). ✊

Share your certification with your HR team lead

💡   HR will be extremely happy: Certified employees are more satisfied at work and have greater retention (IDC). 🤝

Check out the IBM Certification Catalog to choose your new future-ready credentials!

Ready. Set. Go/ Your future starts today. ⏰