More recently, Project Management Institute (PMI) also launched an agile certification, called PMI-ACP (Agile Certified Practitioner)11.
In January, the building became the first embassy in Washington to earn a coveted green-building certification, called LEED, short for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design.
With nary a Diet Coke in sight, developers of Lake Nona have ventured into a relatively new type of healthy-building certification called the Well Building Standard, affiliated with the better-known LEED movement.
Beginning Thursday, the group's certification, called e-Stewards, will be based on standards set out by the International Organization for Standardization, and compliance will be independently audited.
Facebook said it was also setting up another level of certification, called the Facebook Verification program, for applications that meet the basic criteria of being secure and trustworthy.
A trio of social entrepreneurs has created a certification system called B Corp. — think of LEED certification for green buildings — and last week started a parallel initiative aimed at investors.
At the heart of it is a certification process called Passpoint, which implements a Wi-Fi protocol known as 802.11u to automate the whole cumbersome process of network discovery, registration and access all of which users have to do manually today.
Also the 'A' certification was omitted.
Apply for the 'A' certification.
