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Independent professional certification

Mastery Certified: BPMN Process Automation Specialist (Camunda 8)

Shows that you can model executable BPMN 2.0 processes, orchestrate them on Camunda 8, write job workers and use connectors that fail safely, automate decisions with DMN, design human tasks and forms, and operate processes in production with the right KPIs. It is meant for developers, integration engineers, business and process analysts, and IT professionals moving into process automation. You earn it by passing the graded exam and having your final project approved.

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Exam
60 questions
Duration
120 minutes
Passing score
70 %
Final project
Required
Valid for
24 months
Preparation
30 hours

Exam syllabus

The domains the exam covers and their weight. Open each one to see its objectives.

  1. 1BPMN modeling25 %
    • Choose the right BPMN event (type, position, interrupting or not) for waiting, deadlines, business errors, escalations, broadcasts and compensation.
    • Predict token flow through exclusive, parallel, inclusive and event-based gateways, including mismatched splits and joins.
    • Structure models with embedded and event sub-processes, call activities, pools, lanes and message flows.
    • Distinguish executable from descriptive models and apply a modeling style guide (naming, happy path, explicit gateways, outcomes).
    • Identify which BPMN 2.0.2 elements Camunda 8 executes and which it does not.
    • Detect modeling defects that are rejected at deployment versus those that fail or block at runtime.
  2. 2Orchestration with Camunda20 %
    • Describe the Camunda 8 architecture (Orchestration Cluster, Hub, Modeler, Connectors, Optimize), SaaS versus Self-Managed and the license requirement for production.
    • Deploy resources, start instances and reason about versions, binding types and process instance migration.
    • Apply variable scopes, propagation, and input and output mappings, including the local-variable trap.
    • Write FEEL expressions for conditions, mappings, lists, contexts and dates, and predict null results.
    • Correlate messages: subscriptions, correlation keys, TTL buffering, message ids, cardinality, publish versus correlate.
    • Configure timers and multi-instance activities, including completion conditions and output collections.
  3. 3Job workers and connectors20 %
    • Explain the job lifecycle: activation, timeout, completion, failure with retries and backoff, BPMN errors and incidents.
    • Write job workers with the official clients (Java, Spring Boot Starter, TypeScript, Python) and design their registration.
    • Make workers idempotent with business keys, idempotency keys and ledgers under at-least-once delivery.
    • Classify failures into BPMN errors, retryable technical failures and failures that need an operator.
    • Configure outbound and inbound connectors with secrets, result expressions and error expressions.
    • Design REST integrations: synchronous calls, asynchronous callbacks with messages and timeouts.
  4. 4Decisions with DMN15 %
    • Build decision tables with FEEL input expressions, unary tests and output entries.
    • Choose and predict hit policies, including violations and the policies Camunda 8 does not support.
    • Predict the decision result shape and use it from business rule tasks and gateways.
    • Model decision requirements diagrams with required decisions, input data, knowledge sources and BKMs.
    • Test decisions at boundaries and gaps, and version them with binding types.
  5. 5Human tasks and forms10 %
    • Configure Camunda user tasks: assignee, candidate groups and users, due and follow-up dates, priority.
    • Explain how Tasklist visibility depends on authorizations.
    • Link Camunda Forms and design form fields that match process variables and types.
    • Enforce rules around human work with timers and task listeners (for example, the four-eyes principle).
  6. 6Operations and monitoring10 %
    • Use Operate to diagnose incidents and stuck instances, and choose between retry, variable edits, modification, migration, suspend and cancel.
    • Define process KPIs and SLAs, and use Optimize and monitoring alerts, including silent waits.
    • Analyze event logs with process mining queries: cycle time, durations, variants, SLA and conformance.
    • Apply Little's law and flow metrics (cycle time, touch time, flow efficiency) to process improvement.

How to earn it

  1. Prepare

    Complete the preparation course: it covers every exam domain, with practice and a practice exam.

  2. Submit the final project

    Solve the course capstone case; the academic team reviews it with a rubric.

  3. Pass the graded exam

    Taken on the platform, with the stated time limit and passing score, by people enrolled in one of its courses.

  4. Receive your certification

    With a serial number, a QR code and public online verification anyone can check.

Independent certification by Mastery Certifications. Not affiliated with, endorsed by or an official certification of Camunda. Camunda is a trademark of Camunda Services GmbH; BPMN and DMN are OMG specifications.