Certificates
Every Orivian course builds to a summit: a certificate with your name, the course, the date and an ID anyone can check. Here's what earns one, what it does and doesn't mean, and how to share it.
Earning one
Two things, in this order: complete every lesson in the course (recaps included), then pass its summit exam. What the summit is depends on the track:
| Track | Summit exam | You earn |
|---|---|---|
| Orivian Certify | Any of the course’s full-length practice exams, at its passing line | An Orivian Certificate of Completion |
| Orivian Essentials | The course’s certification exam: 50 questions, 70% to pass | The course’s Orivian credential, like Orivian Certified Excel Specialist (OrCES) |
| Orivian After Hours | The course’s certification exam: 50 questions, 70% to pass | The course’s Orivian credential, like Orivian Certified Trivia Strategist (OrCTS) |
Once both are done, your certificate is issued automatically and appears at the bottom of the course page and on your profile. Checkpoints don't count toward it, but they're the best way to know you're ready. How exams work has the details on each exam.
Orivian Basecamp, the starter course, doesn't have a certificate.
Honors
- With Distinction: 90% or higher on the summit exam.
- Perfect Score: 100%.
- Already have the certificate? Pass the exam again with a better score and it's upgraded in place, with the same ID, so links you've shared keep working.
What it means (and doesn’t)
- It never expires. Nothing you do later, including learning decay, can take it away.
- Certify certificates aren't the industry certification. An Orivian CISSP certificate shows you completed Orivian's CISSP prep course. The CISSP itself is awarded only by ISC2, and the same goes for every other certifying body.
- Orivian credentials aren't accredited. They're Orivian's own proof that you learned the course and passed its exam, and every certificate says so.
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More field guides
- Orivian BasecampThe short starter course everyone takes first: how courses, exams, streaks and learning decay fit together.
- How exams workMini-exams, checkpoints, practice and certification exams: pass marks, timers, retakes and fresh questions.
- How learning decay worksWhy you forget, what retention and frost mean, and how review sessions bring lessons back.
- Streaks, XP and levelsWarm and cold days, every way to earn XP, levels, avatars and badges.
- Privacy and your profileWhat other learners and friends can see, what stays private, and what we store about your activity.