Awarded for completing Continuous Delivery and Deployment: Shipping Safely, Continuously and passing its exam, demonstrating the ability to design deployment gates, apply progressive delivery as a security control, verify signing, attestation and provenance through release and deployment, and run rollback and incident-time overrides with proper evidence and accountability.
Certificates are designed to be checked, not just displayed.
The credential is valid for 12 months from issue. Its public page states the expiry date, and renewing means passing the current exam again — so the credential always reflects the current material.