Awarded for completing Drift Between What Is Declared and What Runs and passing its exam, demonstrating the ability to detect divergence between declarations and a running cluster, normalise expected differences without hiding real ones, classify and route findings to their owners, set reconciliation policy per resource class, operate a safe pause and emergency change path, and produce retained evidence that running state reflects reviewed change.
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.
