RelativityOne Certified Pro

Since the world is coming to stand still and I am working from home with more time on my hands then I would have liked, I thought I would put it to good use and expand on my knowledge. I have chosen the RelativityOne Certified Pro certification as a starting point.

Before I get back to the topic of this post I want to touch on something else related, after I had registered for the exam Relativity announced that they were giving back to their online community in the way of a free exam and training per user, to be taken between 3rd April 2020 and 10th May 2020:

This is a trying time for everyone, and the health and safety of the global community is the most important thing for all of us right now. For us as a business, we’re grateful and fortunate to be in a position to pivot while maintaining the wellbeing of our community, a continuous positive experience with our software, and our usual levels of support.

We’re hoping we can use that position to offer our community more ways to connect with one another and continue to grow during a period when they may need it most. With that in mind, we’re introducing some free offerings to help our community level up their skills while navigating this period of uncertainty.

Emily Messer on March 24, 2020

I think that this is one of the best commercial decisions I have seen during the current world wide crisis and they will be remembered in a very positive light when we return to some form of normality, however that looks in the future. I hope more software vendors offer something similar because getting up-skilled is a perfect way to use any downtime you may currently find yourself in.

Back to the task in hand, as with all Relativity exams there is a clear information booklet about what you need to do in order to pass the exam. Like the Relativity Certified Sales Pro, this differs slightly to the other specialist exams as all the questions from the bank of questions are in the study guide, you just have to find the answers!

There are seven sections to the exam each with a different weight for the exam:

• Data migration – High
• Data transfer – High
• Security – High
• Data Grid – Medium
• Data management – Medium
• RelativityOne technical operations – Low
• RelativityOne benefits – Low

The study guide for this exam is excellent, my tip is go straight to the questions and work your way through because at the bottom of each question there is a pointer to where you can find the answer, which is either online via a hyperlink or it references the Study Guide page number.

One thing that struck me is how varied your knowledge on Relativity One needs to be in order to pass, the topics contains a lot of information to cover so it is a challenge.

As with other Relativity exams this is proctored online and administered by PSI Online. I have had a few exams with Relativity over the years and until today I have never experienced any problems with the online method, today I had to download a new browser called Vivaldi because Chrome error-ed and the online proctor couldn’t work out how to resolve it. This minor issue aside there were no further technical issues.

The exam itself is very simple, there are 25 questions out of a bank of 72 and they are multiple choice. There is a 25 minute time limit on completing the exam. If you have prepared well, then this won’t be an issue and you should have more than enough time. I will point out that you should not pay attention to how the answers appear in the Study Guide as they could be in a different order in the exam so learn the content not the order!

Overall, this is probably more a marketing exercise than an essential certificate from Relativity. It is worth having a read through the material and whilst the exam is free take the opportunity.