Awarded for completing The Paved Road: Making the Secure Path the Easy Path and passing its exam, demonstrating the ability to compose a supported path from template, pipeline, base images, libraries, deployment, observability and secrets access, measure adoption, coverage and drift from artefacts, design an exit ramp that preserves feedback rather than producing shadow infrastructure, version and migrate a road without a mandate, bound its support burden, and address the estate wide risk that standardisation concentrates.
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.
