PECB Certificates are valid for three years. To maintain a certificate active, candidates are required to submit their Continuing Professional Development (CPD) record and pay the Annual Maintenance Fee (AMF).
Continuing Professional Development (CPD) is a portfolio structure for demonstrating, documenting, and tracking the skills, knowledge, and experience acquired by professionals after their initial certification date.
CPDs are important for updating professional experience, acknowledging achievements, and demonstrating professional activities conducted. Depending on the certification scheme, these activities include education, work experience, auditor training, audit experience, implementation, and/or consulting experience.
Other activities related to the certification include training, seminars, conferences, publications, presentations, coaching, private studies, articles, magazines, books, etc.
The Annual Maintenance Fee (AMF) is required to maintain a PECB Certificate and enable PECB to improve its services and certification schemes.
Note: CPD and AMF are not required for Foundation, Provisional, and Transition credentials. Once a candidate decides to upgrade their credential (to a “Lead” level), the maintenance requirement will be applied.
For more information, please read the Certification Maintenance Policy.