Qlik Certifications & Qualifications

Validate your knowledge and skills in Qlik products, data analytics, and data literacy

  • Certifications vs. Qualifications

    Qlik Product Certifications are expert-level exams, designed for users with hands-on experience with a variety of Qlik applications or deployments.

    Qlik Sense SaaS Endorsements complement the Qlik Sense Certifications and validate skills in the SaaS-specific features of Qlik Sense.

    Qlik Sense Qualifications are fundamental-level exams designed for users who can demonstrate foundational and applied knowledge.

    Qlik also offers product-agnostic Data Literacy and Data Analytics Certifications.

    View each tab below for details on each exam.

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  • Preparing for your Exam

    For each exam below, attain the experience listed under “Exam Prerequisites,” familiarize yourself with all of the “Recommended Preparation Resources,” and take training to get hands-on experience. Finally, use “Exam Topics” as a study guide - these are the topics used to write the exam questions!

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    Managing Credentials

    All candidates can review their exam history and score reports by logging into Pearson VUE and utilizing the “My Account” menu.

    Qlik is partnering with Credly to provide digital badges. By accepting your Credly digital badge invite, you can download the official certification logo, print your certificate, and share your credentials with a third party or on social media.

Qlik Sense Business Analyst Certification

The Qlik Sense Business Analyst Certification Exam measures your ability to identify requirements, design applications, prepare and load data, and develop applications. This exam is platform neutral, which means that the content applies to both the client managed and SaaS editions of Qlik Sense. This exam has 50 multiple-choice questions to answer in 2 hours.

    • Practical experience developing production-quality applications in Qlik Sense
    • Experience creating dimensions, measures and objects for the master library
    • Understands user experience and design best practices and has experience building visualizations.
  • Identify Requirements (30% of the exam)
    • Given a set of requirements, determine Qlik Sense product capabilities to deliver a solution.
    • Based on business requirements, recommend KPIs, dimensions, and measures.
    • Discuss the needs of the business users and how they will consume information.
    • Apply understanding to interpret results from Qlik Associations.
    • Given a scenario, determine optimal data loading and application development processes.
    Design Applications (24% of the exam)
    • Based on business requirements, determine visualization layout and characteristics.
    • Given stakeholder feedback, evolve and enhance application design.
    • Given data security requirements, distinguish when to use section access and/or access permissions.
    Prepare and Load Data (14% of the exam)
    • Given a scenario, use Data Manager to create a basic data model.
    • Given a set of requirements, enhance and augment the data model.
    • Given a scenario, verify the data model using the data model viewer.
    Develop Application (32% of the exam)
    • Given a scenario, build an application.
    • Given a scenario, refine and finalize an application.
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Qlik Sense Data Architect Certification

The Qlik Sense Data Architect Certification Exam measures your ability to identify requirements for data models, design and build data models, and validate the data. This exam is platform neutral, which means that the content applies to both the client managed and SaaS editions of Qlik Sense. This exam has 50 multiple-choice questions to answer in 2 hours.

    • Practical experience developing multiple production-quality applications in Qlik Sense
    • Ability to write Qlik Sense LOAD scripts and validate data
    • Basic understanding of Extract-Transform-Load (ETL)
    • Create and use connectors to various data sources
    • Understand the QVD layer and architecture of the Qlik platform
    • Ability to architect data to provide optimal performance
    • Familiar with SQL and relational databases
  • Identify Requirements (20% of the exam)
    • Determine primary requirements with business users.
    • Given a scenario, choose stakeholders.
    • Given a scenario, determine metrics and levels of granularity and aggregation.
    • Determine dimensionality and need for slowly changing dimensionality support.
    • Given a scenario, determine the appropriate level of security.
    Data Connectivity (8% of the exam)
    • Given a scenario, determine the data sources and connectors needed.
    • Determine the appropriate method to create connections for data sources.
    Data Model Design (28% of the exam)
    • Given a scenario, determine the measures and attributes from each data source.
    • Given a scenario, identify the appropriate type of data model.
    • Determine the correct method to optimize the data model for Qlik Sense.
    • Determine the correct method to implement data structures efficiently.
    Data Transformations (38% of the exam)
    • Determine the correct method to build data content based on requirements.
    • Analyze and evaluate null and blank data handling required to support filtering.
    • Determine the correct method to document Data Load scripts.
    • Determine the correct method for date handling techniques.
    • Determine the correct method to perform script organization and cleansing.
    • Analyze relevant variables to build scripts for incremental loading for extract layer.
    Validation (6% of the exam)
    • Given a scenario, determine the appropriate method to validate and test scripts.
    • Given a scenario, determine the appropriate method to validate and test data.
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Qlik Sense System Administrator Certification

The Qlik Sense System Administrator Certification Exam measures your ability to identify requirements for environments, install and set up Qlik Sense Enterprise, manage environments, and monitor and troubleshoot. Exam content is based only on the client managed edition of Qlik Sense. This exam does not cover the knowledge and skills required to administer Qlik Sense SaaS edition. This exam has 50 multiple-choice questions to answer in 2 hours.

    • At least 6 months experience as an administrator of a Microsoft Windows Server-based environment
    • Experience working with Qlik Sense sites and the Qlik Management Console, to provide data and application governance, library maintenance, as well as user and application security
    • Experience managing the policies and options that run the Qlik Sense servers and apps
    • Experience creating rules and managing the visualization streams
    • Knowledge of networking and Active Directory configuration, proxies, intermediate web servers, load balancers, etc.
    • Familiarity with Windows tools and logs created (e.g., Event Viewer, Services Console, DCOM Console, Windows Registry)
    • Experience using NSLookUp, Telnet, Ping, NetStat, Fiddler, and other browser tools to troubleshoot connectivity, interoperability, configuration, performance, etc.
  • Installation (30% of the exam)
    • Apply concepts to plan the infrastructure for the Qlik Sense Deployment.
    • Determine how to install Qlik Sense Enterprise on Windows using Shared Persistence.
    • Determine the appropriate methods to deploy single and multi-node configurations.
    Configuration (32% of the exam)
    • Given a scenario, create and manage streams and applications based on organization’s needs.
    • Given a scenario, create and manage automated tasks based on different triggers.
    • Given a scenario, create and manage load balancing rules.
    • Given a scenario, create and manage AD connection and synchronize users and groups.
    • Given a scenario, configure nodes to meet business needs.
    Security and Licensing (16% of the exam)
    • Describe the Qlik Sense licensing model.
    • Determine how to configure user license access.
    • Given a scenario, apply Qlik Sense Enterprise security rules.
    Monitor, Troubleshoot, and Maintenance (22% of the exam)
    • Identify how to monitor app issues.
    • Determine the appropriate methods to monitor and troubleshoot typical system issues.
    • Determine the appropriate methods to perform server maintenance.
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Qlik Sense SaaS Business Analyst Endorsement

The Qlik Sense SaaS Business Analyst endorsement is designed to complement the Qlik Sense Business Analyst Certification - 2022. This endorsement validates skills in the SaaS specific capabilities of Qlik Sense needed in the role of business analyst.

Qlik Sense Business Analyst Certification - 2022 is required.

    • Prerequisite knowledge required for Qlik Sense Business Analyst certification
    • Practical experience developing production-quality applications in Qlik Sense SaaS edition
    • Qlik Sense Business Analyst certification
  • Overview of Qlik Cloud edition
    • Differentiate the features and navigation of the Qlik Sense Cloud hub (e.g., navigation menus, Insight Advisor, home, collections, profile settings, catalogs)
    • Given a scenario, determine the appropriate tenant feature
    Creating, publishing, and sharing apps
    • Given a dataset, create an app.
    • Apply the steps to add apps to the cloud environment.
    • Confirm the process of publishing, sharing, and duplicating of apps.
    • Given a scenario, identify parameters for using app action menu items related to app management.
    • Given a scenario, manage organization of analytic content (including interacting with the User In).
    • Build logical models to generate analyses based on queries (Business Logic, Insight Advisor).
    • Demonstrate application of Simplified Authorin.
    Adding and managing data
    • Given a scenario, identify parameters for using app action menu items related to data management.
    • Apply the steps to add/connect data to the Qlik cloud tenant and analyze via Data manager.
    • Confirm the process of sharing datasets.
    • Review datasets.
    • Manage collections.
    • Given a scenario, determine impact of classifications during impact analysis.
    Collaborating with Qlik Cloud users
    • Recognize the collaborative features of Notes.
    • Given a scenario, demonstrate the management of spaces (shared, personal, and managed.
    • Distinguish member roles that access apps and sheets.
    • Apply steps to share app content (including sharing of Notes, Charts, On-demand apps, and subscriptions.
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Qlik Sense SaaS Data Architect Endorsement

The Qlik Sense Data Architect SaaS endorsement is designed to complement the Qlik Sense Data Architect Certification - 2022. This endorsement validates skills in the SaaS specific capabilities of Qlik Sense needed in the role of data architect.

Qlik Sense Data Architect Certification - 2022 is required.

    • Prerequisite knowledge required for the Qlik Sense Data Architect certification.
    • Practical experience developing multiple production-quality applications in Qlik Sense SaaS edition.
    • Practical experience with data modeling, loading data, and creating data connections in Qlik Sense SaaS edition.
  • Overview of Qlik Cloud edition
    • Differentiate the features and navigation of the Qlik Cloud (e.g., navigation menus, Insight Advisor, home, collections, profile settings, catalogue)
    • Given a scenario, apply appropriate data-level permissions and governance
    Data modeling considerations
    • Identify limitations of data model optimization (e.g., SaaS limitations on sizing).
    • Given a scenario, select the appropriate Catalog option for data discovery (e.g. dataset review, details, tags).
    Adding and managing data
    • Apply the steps to add/connect data to the Qlik cloud tenant (both new and existing).
    • Given a scenario, develop an app from a dataset.
    • Determine appropriate data source management (e.g. details, classification, connections, scheduled reloads).
    • Manage membership in managed spaces.
    • Differentiate the use of Data gateway -Direct Access versus Qlik DataTransfer versus Direct Query.
    • Explain the data connection options. (e.g. DataFiles default folder, ODBC…).
    Collaborating with Qlik Cloud users
    • Recognize the collaborative features of Notes.
    • Given a scenario, demonstrate the management of datasets and notes in shared spaces.
    • Distinguish member roles that access datasets, metadata, and apps.
    • Apply steps to share notes, datasets and connections.
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Qlik Sense SaaS Administrator Endorsement

The Qlik Sense SaaS Administrator endorsement validates the knowledge and skills required to plan, implement, and manage a Qlik Sense SaaS environment.

The role of a Qlik Sense SaaS Administrator requires an understanding of Qlik Sense functions and features, Qlik Sense Business Analyst Certification- 2022 is required.

    • 2022 Qlik Sense Business Analyst certification.
    • Practical experience working with Qlik Sense SaaS edition in a production or development environment.
    • Practical experience administering Qlik Sense SaaS edition, along with knowledge of other IT solutions to aid user management and software integration.
  • Planning a Qlik Cloud Deployment
    • Given a scenario, assign administrator and developer roles to users
    • Given a scenario, identify appropriate Qlik Sense SaaS subscription (Qlik Sense Business and Qlik Sense Enterprise SaaS)
    • Given a scenario, identify appropriate data security and governance to a tenant
    Deployment of Qlik Cloud
    • Management of Qlik Cloud subscription.
    • Create and configure the Qlik Cloud tenant.
    • Manage inbound and outbound traffic (allowlisting IP addresses and domain names).
    Administering Qlik Cloud
    • Given a scenario, identify appropriate use case for the Management Console (governance, content, integration, configuration).
    • User management (including identity providers).
    • Email configuration (including email sharing).
    • Management of Qlik Cloud features (Data gateways, on-demand data tools).
    • Manage lineage and impact usage.
    Security considerations for Qlik Sense Cloud
    • Given a scenario, manage Content Security Policy.
    • Configure Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA).
    • Manage and monitor users who generate API keys.
    • Configure the Qlik Data Gateway to access data behind a firewall.
    • Apply steps to configure Qlik DataTransfer and Data Gateway – Direct Access.
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