Operational Resilience Certified Expert (ORCE)

Operational Resilience Certified Expert (ORCE)

Pre-requisites for ORCE

The pre-requisites are:

• Attend and complete the OR-400: Operational Resilience Manager [for those who have completed OR-300]; or
• Attend and complete the OR-5000 Operational Resilience Expert Implementer course
• Pass the Qualifying ORCE examination
  AND
• Have at least three years of Operational Resilience/ business continuity/ crisis management/ IT disaster recovery professional experience and
• Be able to describe at least eight of fifteen OR related Body of Knowledge (OR BoK)
• Send in the SGD 150 ORCE Certification Application Processing Fees

How to be Certified

To become an ORCE-certified professional, a candidate must complete four separate processes:

• Show proof of at least three years of verifiable OR (BCM-CM-DR) experience
• Make a payment of SGD 150 (non-refundable) application processing fee.
• Submit the ORCE application form to the certification team for review by the independent Certification Review Committee member.
• Complete review and approval by the Certification Review Committee member (which may take six to eight weeks)
• Invite to accept the ORCE award

Formal Education

• Sign up for the OR-5000 course and complete the four modules (M1 to M4), or
• Sign up for the OR-400 course and complete the two modules (M3 - M4).
• Pay the Course Fees before starting the course.
• Be assigned login credentials to start the eLearning for Module 1 (for those taking OR-5000) only
• Answer quizzes at the end of each sub-module of Module 1
• Continue to complete Modules 2, 3 and 4 within the schedule.
• Sit for the examination at the end of the course.

Examination

To sit for the Examination, a candidate must:

• Be competent in the Competency Level (CL):
  • Foundation(CL 1)
  • Intermediate (CL 2)
  • Advanced (CL 3)
    including the eight OR Body of Knowledge (OR BoK)
• Attempt the online practice quiz at least once

Certification

To be issued a certificate, a candidate must:

• Pass the ORCE qualifying examination with a required passing score of 75% out of 100- Multiple Choice Questions (MCQ)
• Submit a non-refundable Application Processing Fee
• Submit the Certification Application Form to certification team
• Describe eight (out of the fifteen) OR Body of Knowledge (BoK) as experience
• Select two references for each OR BoK (references may be repeated for all eight of the  fifteen OR BoK

Fee Payment

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