Understanding Skills-based Role & Job Design

Topics

The SFIA test 'Understanding Skills-based Role & Job Design' is intended to ensure that those building SFIA-based role profiles have consistent and strong foundation of knowledge and understanding.  The knowledge set covers 5 topics:

• What is a skills profile?
• Role purpose and overall SFIA level
• The number of SFIA skills in a profile
• Skills profiling: organisational context
• Skills profiling good practice

The page on this website that is the basis of the test is the most useful page to study:

• Building SFIA-based role profiles

Take the Understanding Skills-based Role & Job Design test

Benefits

• The test validates your knowledge and understanding of building skills profiles using the SFIA Framework and the use of profiles in managing and developing skills.
• Opportunity to obtain a digital professional certification to share on LinkedIn and other profiles
• Enhanced credibility
• Confirms that you have the knowledge required to be confident when building SFIA-based role profiles.

Test details

• The test follows the knowledge set above and consists of 40 multiple-choice questions
• You should allow around half an hour to take the test
• Currently the test is FREE: Take the test now, pay only for the digital badge if desired.

The test is not designed to catch you out, there are no trick questions. The information needed to pass the test is readily available and familiar to users of SFIA. Here is one of the questions from the test:

• Why is a SFIA skills profile recommended to have no more than 5–7 SFIA skills? (Choose the best answer)
  A.    Because SFIA only allows 7 skills
  B.    To keep the profile focused and usable
  C.    To reduce licensing costs
  D.    To match job titles

Take the test

You must be registered and logged in to take the test
If you already have an account, log in here.
If you are new, register here.
Note: Test results will be reviewed and, from a sample of test-takers, you may be contacted for follow-up validation.