How to Apply and Obtain Your Audit Certification with BCM Institute?

Congratulations.  You have successfully completed our certification course and examination and now is the time to verify your experience to match the appropriate certification. 

BCM Institute's certifications are available for all BCM and audit professionals who would like to get their experience and competency validated by an independent BCM professionals serving on BCM Institute's certification committee.

Our certifications are available for all business continuity and crisis management professionals (at the Auditor or Lead Auditor Level) who would like to get their experience and competency validated by an independent BCM certification body.

Here, we able to advise you on ways to obtain your BCM Audit certification.

Attending and Passing the Examination

Upon attending any of our Audit courses we offer, you must pass your examination.

You are required to send in an application form detailing your experience in business continuity, crisis management and BCM Audit, in relation to BCM Body of Knowledge (or what is known as BoK) which you can easily make reference to via our BCMpedia website. Don't forget to pay the application fee before submitting your completed forms.

What Are the Pre-requisites to Obtain Each Certification?

ISO 22301 BCMS Auditor (BCCA)

• You are required to attend and complete the BCM-8030 Auditor course

• Pass the Qualifying BCCA e-examination 

• Have at least 1 year experience in business continuity management (BCM) and/or disaster recovery planning (DRP) auditing and/or reviewing of plans
• Be able to describe your implementation and role in at least 3 of the BCM Body of Knowledge (BoK).
• Send in the SGD 75 BCCA Certification Application Processing Fees

ISO 22301 BCMS Lead Auditor (BCCLA)

• You are required to attend and complete the BCM-8530 Lead Auditor course

• Pass the Qualifying BCCLA e-examination 

• Have at least 1 year experience in business continuity management (BCM) and/or disaster recovery planning (DRP) auditing and/or reviewing of plans
• Be able to describe your implementation and role in at least 1 of the BCM Body of Knowledge (BoK).
• Send in the SGD 150 BCCLA Certification Application Processing Fees

 Submitting the Application Form

• Upon passing your qualifying examination, you will receive an email from our Certification Team that includes a Certification Application form and a Checklist.
• Please ensure to complete the Certification Application form in an editable MS Word document.
  Note: If Application From is sent via PDF, we shall request you to resend as an editable MS Word document as we DO NOT accept PDF format
• Submit your completed Certification Application and Checklist forms to certification@bcm-institute.org.  It is important for you to ensure that the Application Form is signed and dated.
• Make sure the Certification Application Processing Fee has been paid before submitting.

How Long Would It Take for Me to Gain My Certification?

Well, your application form will be submitted to our Reviewer Board Committee which would then assess your form and if once they are satisfied with all the information and that you've met the conditions set, they would then award you with the relevant certification.

Please understand that certifications are then valid for 1 year after which yearly renewals are needed to ensure the validity of the certification.

During the application review process, the Certification Review Committee decides whether the Application is:

• Approved (application, experience and education meet requirements)
• Returned for re-submission (an element of the application is missing or does not meet minimum standards for level and may be resubmitted for a lower level) OR
• Rejected (applicant does not meet minimum requirements for level)

How to Know that You Have Been Awarded?

• Successful applicant will receive the e-Certification award from BCM Institute via email.
• The validity of BCM Institute Certification is 1 Year from the date of issue of certificate.
• BCCA Candidates shall receive their E-Certificates within 7 working days from the day they passed their qualifying examinationor.

Renewal of Certification

Many people came back to us and asks why do we need to renew it on a yearly basis? Why can't we renew it whenever we can?  In order to maintain your currency of your certification, the institute keep an list of active certified professionals as they are often being asked from existing and new employers.