Prerequisites

The only formal prerequisite for admission to the Foundation Level Exam is having a valid identity card or passport. Please take your ID document to the exam for proof of identity.
For answering the exam questions correctly, you need to know the content of the defined Foundation Level syllabus.

Having taken a course is not a requirement for admission to the test but is recommended by the IREB.

Preparation

You can prepare for the exam

• By attending a training with a training provider.
  The training should take at least three days and be conducted by a training provider recognized by IREB e.V.

• By preparing individually in self-study; we recommend the official book:
  Basiswissen Requirements Engineering by Klaus Pohl and Chris Rupp

If you want to get familiar with the types of exam questions, have a look at the exam regulations for the Foundation Level. There you can find example questions for the different question types.

The Exam itself

The exam takes 75 minutes. In this time you have to answer 45 multiple choice questions. The questions are of differing difficulty and therefore assigned differing amounts of points. The exam is closed-book, i.e. no materials are allowed to be used. To pass the exam, you must achieve at least than 60% of the total score possible. The exam is overseen by a licensed certification body.

Exam Results

The results will be checked by the certification body. Your results will be dispatched to the personal address stated on your application.
If you have passed the exam, you will receive your certificate together with the results.
If you take the exam online you get your results right after the examination. The certificate will be delivered to you via mail. The certificates achieved via online exam are dispatched within the same period of time the results of conventional exams are sent.