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BCS Foundation Certificate in Digital Solution Development

An introductory professional certification covering digital solution development in an enterprise setting, awarded following its own examination and optionally usable as a module towards the BCS International Diploma in Solution Development.

Licensing authority: BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT · Application information

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BCS Foundation Certificate in Digital Solution Development
Applicability
Current owner page labels the matching syllabus and detailed guidance as latest. No official subject-specific initial effective date, retirement date or replacement boundary was located, so all official date bounds remain null. The 2026-11-25 through 2027-01-31 requested booking horizon remains subject to actual channel availability and later official announcements. The task's stricter retirement exclusion before 2027-03-01 has been considered.
Assessment
Pass the one independent supervised, closed-book multiple-choice examination, standard 60 minutes, pass mark 26/40 (65%); no calculators. Online or paper based according to syllabus; direct BCS and Pearson test-centre/OnVUE channels are described by current official pages.
Award
Successful candidates access/download the certificate through the BCS e-professional candidate portal after BCS emails them; Pearson does not distribute BCS certificates. The certificate's possible use towards the International Diploma does not require completion of that diploma for this standalone Foundation award.
Eligibility
No specific prerequisites and no required software-development experience. Around six months of coding experience on any platform is desirable only.
Language And Adjustments
Only the requested English examination associated with the currently linked English V1.0 materials is submitted. Syllabus: candidates whose examination language is not their native/official language receive 25% extra time and may use their own paper translation dictionary; electronic dictionaries are prohibited. Reasonable adjustments require following the BCS reasonable-adjustments policy.
Registration
Training-provider route: take a course with a BCS accredited provider. Self-study route: book directly with BCS by calling +44 (0)1793 417417. The owner also links Pearson VUE as an alternative. Pearson scheduling requires creating or logging into an account and an accurately recorded individual email address. Actual appointments and seats must be obtained from the selected channel; no seat is reserved or guaranteed by this investigation.
Training
Accredited training is strongly recommended, not required. Candidates may take accredited training (minimum 18 study hours over at least three days) or self-study; the owner's exam-only page says preparation usually takes at least 18 hours.

BCS Foundation Certificate in Digital Solution Development

Provider
BCS; Pearson VUE is an alternative booking/delivery channel.
Format
Supervised, closed-book multiple-choice examination; online or paper based; calculators prohibited. The syllabus permits the stated paper translation dictionary for eligible non-native-language candidates.
Exam questions
Total questions: 40.
Time limit
60 minutes standard; syllabus provides 25% extra time when the examination language is not the candidate's native/official language, with reasonable adjustments subject to the BCS policy.
Passing score
26/40 (65%).
Exam fee
Owner's current public UK price: £200 including the £35 remote-proctoring fee, excluding VAT. International prices vary by region and must be checked with BCS Customer Service; this is not a US price.
Examination outline
  • The context for digital solution development (10%)
    • Digital services, digital solutions and software characteristics
    • Factors influencing investment in digital solution development
    • Digital service lifecycle, SDLC frameworks and development approaches
    • Common constraints affecting digital solution development
    • Enterprise frameworks and their relationship with digital solution development
  • Digital service definition (15%)
    • Requirements engineering: rationale, elements and benefits
    • Sources, types and classifications of requirements
    • Requirements documentation and modelling techniques
    • Requirements management techniques
  • User Experience (UX) and User Interface (UI) (12.5%)
    • Fundamental UI/UX terminology
    • Usability-centred UI/UX principles
    • UI paradigms
    • UI models and techniques for HCI development
    • UI controls: classification and examples
  • Digital solution architecture and design (15%)
    • Architecture, styles, patterns and design properties
    • Elements of contemporary digital solutions
    • Web services, microservices, APIs and service composition
    • Distributed-system issues, trade-offs and solutions
  • Data and information architecture and design (12.5%)
    • Data, information, information systems and processing views
    • Rationale for data architecture and design
    • Modelling data and information
    • Applications, data operations, storage and transmission
    • Data concurrency, transactions and controls
  • Quality assurance and quality control (10%)
    • Quality assurance versus quality control
    • Quality-oriented activities
    • Fundamentals of software testing
    • Testing practices, processes, levels and types
  • Digital solution acquisition, deployment and maintenance (15%)
    • Software acquisition approaches, benefits and drawbacks
    • Software engineering concepts and practices
    • Development practices and techniques
    • Software deployment, automation and DevOps
    • Maintenance, service operations and monitoring
  • Cyber security (10%)
    • Secure systems, enterprise risk, standards and controls
    • Cyber security risks and risk management
    • Security techniques and best practices
    • Platform weaknesses and secure coding practices
    • Threat modelling, vocabulary and techniques
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