Altium Designer Expert Certification

The Altium Designer Certified Expert credential is the definitive mark of mastery for PCB design professionals. It validates your advanced proficiency in Altium Designer, encompassing high-speed design, complex rule management, multilayer board optimization, and manufacturing output control.

Experts don’t just design boards; they drive innovation, efficiency, and quality across every stage of product development. This certification positions you as a trusted authority capable of mentoring teams, setting design standards, and delivering results that meet the highest professional expectations.

This certification exam will focus on complex concepts and skills related to navigation, component libraries, schematic capture, PCB designer layout, draftsman, project documentation, customization, and design transfer.

Member Price
$699.00
Nonmember Price
$825.00
Acceso
90 Días a partir de la Inscripción

  • Nivel del Curso: Avanzado

  • Tiempo del Curso

    Exam Time 2.5 Hours

  • Certificado Obtenido

    Certified Altium Designer Expert

  • Seasonal Enrollment

    Acceso durante 90 Días

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This certification exam is intended for experienced professionals who have used Altium Designer software for 3 or more years.

Altium Designer Expert Certificants demonstrate, through the certification process, that they possess a minimum level of knowledge (as determined by IPC Certification program) with regard to their skills and understanding of Altium Designer software. 

Certificants are certified in two-year cycles after satisfying specific prerequisites outlined in the Policies and Procedures document, including the completion of one or more written examinations on the use of Altium Designer. These certification assessments are based on a body of knowledge that encompasses various best practices, requirements, and guidelines specified within the Altium Designer documentation and knowledge base.

 

Exam Content

Domain 1:  Basic Navigation Essentials (4.1%)

  • Set Up System Environment
  • Project Structure

Domain 2: Component Library (15.3%)

  • Library Creation
  • Importing Library
  • Understanding Libraries
  • Library Management
  • Part Choices
  • Land Pattern/Footprint Creation
  • How to Make Sure Library Compiles
  • Adding Models/File Types to a Component 

Domain 3: Schematic Capture (18.5%)

  • Schematic Graphical Objects
  • Schematic Annotation
  • Use of Available Panels
  • Basic Schematic Connectivity
  • Directives
  • Multichannel Design/Hierarchical Requirements
  • Changing Component Values/Properties
  • Validation/Compiling the Project and Understanding Errors 

Domain 4: PCB Designer Layout (33.6%)

  • Classes
  • Rooms
  • Create Board Shape
  • Add and Manipulate Free 3D Model
  • Grids
  • Use of Available Panels
  • View Configuration
  • Set Up Layer Stack
  • Advanced Vias
  • Length Tuning Routing
  • Differential Pair Routing
  • ActiveRoute
  • Embedded Board Array
  • Board Level Annotation
  • Differential Impedance Profile in Layer Stack Manager
  • Test Points
  • Define Advanced DRC Rules 

Domain 5: Draftsman (2.0%)

  • Text

Domain 6: Documentation Outjob Files (4.7%)

  • Outjob/File Generation
  • Active BOM 

Domain 7: Data Management (4.9%)

  • Version Control
  • Design Reuse
  • Making/Working with Templates 

Domain 8: Customization (10.2%)

  • General Preferences
  • Special Strings
  • Custom Shortcuts
  • Project Options
  • Importing/Exporting
  • Variants 

Domain 9: ECO/Design Transfer (6.7%)

  • Update Components
  • Synchronization of Project
  • Project Options 

Altium Designer Certification Programs are offered as Remote Proctored Exams. This exam is monitored by a combination of Artificial Intelligence, live proctors, and video/audio recording and analysis to monitor candidates as they sit for the certification exams. Remote Proctoring Exams do not require a proctor physically present while testing.

This certification exam is intended for professionals who are new to the field and have used Altium Designer for 3 or more years.

The exam consists of 75 multiple choice questions. Completion of the examination with a score of 70% or higher is required.

Review the Altium Designer Certification Policies and Procedures.