The Certified Blockchain Solution Architect (CBSA) exam is an elite way to demonstrate your knowledge and skills in this emerging space. Additionally, you will become a member of a community of Blockchain leaders. With certification comes monthly industry updates via email and video.

The CBSA exam is a 70 question multiple-choice exam that lasts 1.5 hours and is a performance-based evaluation of Solution Architect skills and knowledge.

This exam will prove that a student completely understands:

• The difference between proof of work, proof of stake, and other proof systems and why they exist

• Why cryptocurrency is needed on certain types of blockchains

• The difference between public, private, and permissioned blockchains

• How blocks are written to the blockchain

• Where cryptography fits into blockchain and the most commonly used systems

• Common use cases for public blockchains

• Common use cases for private & permissioned blockchains

• What is needed to launch your own blockchain

• Common problems & considerations in working with public blockchains

• Awareness of the tech behind common blockchains

• When is mining needed and when it is not

• Byzantine Fault Tolerance

• Consensus among blockchains

• What is hashing

• How addresses, public keys, and private keys work

• What is a smart contract

• Security in blockchain

• Brief history of blockchain

• The programming languages of the most common blockchains

• Common testing and deployment practices for blockchains and blockchain-based apps