Learning People’s exclusive Skill Benchmark assessments use a unique criterion-based approach to measure your proficiency and validate your job specific skill sets

Skill Benchmarks are the only skill assessments that are designed to help students build the world’s most in-demand competencies – and are available for:

• IT
• Networking
• Cloud
• Cyber Security
• Blockchain
• Web Design
• Coding
• Software Development
• Data Science
• Data Analysis
• Scrum
• Agile

How does the Skill Benchmark assessment work?

You’ll begin by answering curated questions on specific skills. This measures your current proficiency and assigns your Skill Benchmark score. 

You’ll then receive personalised recommendations based upon your score that include micro-learning lessons, hands-on practice labs, instructor-led training (ILT), and longer-form learning, such as Aspire Journeys.  These will all  enhance and deepen your skill sets.

Every question that you answer is tied to a specific learning objective that has been defined by recognised subject-matter experts. 

When you answer a question correctly, you are demonstrating practical expertise in your field. When you answer a question incorrectly, you’ll know precisely how to close your personal skills gaps. 

When you complete your Skill Benchmark assessment, you will get an official certificate with your score and proficiency level.

Skill Benchmarks are available for our most in-demand tech courses. Here are some examples:

 

Digital transformation:

 

• Business Analyst to Data Analyst Competency

The Business Analyst to Data Analyst competency benchmark will measure your ability to recall, recognise, and understand concepts and techniques applied as a business analyst working with Excel, Tableau, and Power BI. 

 

• Business Analyst to Data Analyst Proficiency

The Business Analyst to Data Analyst Proficiency benchmark will measure your ability to recall, recognise, and apply business analytics concepts and features of Tableau, Power BI, Python, and BigML. 

 

• Scrum Proficiency

The Scrum Proficiency benchmark will measure your ability to recognise key terms and concepts related to core Scrum concepts. You will be evaluated on sprint planning, sprint reviews, quality, and planning.

 

• Agile Methodologies

Agile offers the benefit of iterative approaches such as managing projects or developing new products. Learn how to apply an agile method.

 

• Software Project Management Literacy

The Software Project Management Literacy benchmark will measure your ability to recognise key terms and concepts related to key software project management concepts.

 

Coding and software development:

 

• Web Design with HTML5 and CSS3 Competency

The Web Design with HTML5 and CSS3 Competency benchmark will evaluate your ability to work with images, text, tags, and media in HTML5;

 

• Python Programming Proficiency

The Python Programming Proficiency benchmark will measure your ability to work with advanced functional features of Python. 

 

• Java Web Programming Competency

The Java Web Programming Competency benchmark will measure your practical ability to connect and query

databases with JDBC, build web applications with JSP, and build Java web services.

 

• Java Core Programming Literacy

The Java Core Programming literacy benchmark will measure your ability to handle errors, work with arrays, and the Java collection framework.

 

• Blockchain Smart Contract and Hyperledger Literacy

The Blockchain Smart Contract and Hyperledger Literacy benchmark measures your conceptual understanding of smart contract development, its lifecycle and tools, and the Geth client. 

 

• Blockchain Hyperledger Competency

The Blockchain Hyperledger Competency benchmark assesses your knowledge on artefacts required to build a Hyperledger Fabric network and your ability to work with Hyperledger Fabric Web App and Composer networks. 

 

• Kubernetes Competency

The Kubernetes Competency benchmark measures whether a learner has been exposed to this technology and has some experience working with it and technologies similar to it.

 

Cloud:

 

• Cloud Architect Literacy

The Cloud Architect literacy benchmark measures whether a learner has had exposure to cloud technologies, practices, and principles and can participate at a literate level in meetings and discussions. 

 

• AWS Cloud Practitioner: Cloud Concepts and Technology Literacy

The AWS Cloud Concepts and Technology Literacy benchmark measures your ability to recognise the value of the AWS Cloud. You will be assessed on your skills to describe and position the core AWS services.

 

• AWS SysOps Associate 2021: AWS Reliability and Business Continuity Competency

The AWS Reliability and Business Continuity Competency benchmark measures your ability to create and maintain AWS Auto Scaling plans, caching, Amazon RDS and Aurora Replicas, and loosely coupled architectures

 

• AWS Associate Solutions Architect 2020: Design High-performing Architectures Competency

The AWS Design High-performing Architectures Competency benchmark measures your ability to identify elastic and scalable compute solutions for a workload. 

 

• Azure AI Fundamentals: Natural Language Processing on Microsoft Azure Competency

The Natural Language Processing on Microsoft Azure Competency benchmark measures your ability to recall and

identify the common NLP workloads, and Azure tools and services for NLP workloads. 

 

Cyber security:

 

• Security+: Implementation Competency

The Security+: Implementation Competency benchmark will measure your ability to recognise key terms and concepts related to security implementation.

 

• Linux OS Exploits Competency

The Linux OS Exploits Competency benchmark measures whether a learner has had some exposure in generic Linux operating system distributions, practices, and principles, and some working experience and exposure to common OS exploits

 

• CySA+: Compliance and Assessment Competency

The CySA+ Compliance and Assessment Competency benchmark will measure your ability to recognise key terms and concepts related to compliance and assessment. 

 

• Cisco CyberOps Proficiency

The Cisco CyberOps Proficiency benchmark will measure your ability to recognise key terms and concepts related to key Cisco CyberOps concepts. 

 

• CISSP: Security Assessment and Testing Proficiency

The CISSP: Security Assessment and Testing Proficiency benchmark will measure your ability to recognise key terms and concepts related to security assessment and testing proficiency.

 

• Certified Ethical Hacker Awareness

The Certified Ethical Hacker Awareness benchmark measures whether a learner has basic exposure with the CEH practice, some common jargon, and terminology.

 

• Certified Ethical Hacker Mastery

The Certified Ethical Hacker Mastery benchmark measures whether a learner has mastery of the CEH practice with extensive experience with virtually all CEH scenarios and processes, and is considered a thought leader. 

 

• CySA+: Software and Systems Security Competency

The CySA+ Software and Systems Security benchmark will measure your ability to recognise key terms and concepts related to software and systems security concepts. 

 

Networking:

 

• Networking Awareness

The Networking Awareness benchmark will measure your ability to recognise key terms and concepts related to key networking concepts. You will be evaluated on switches, routers, wireless, IP addressing, and security threats. 

 

• Cisco Core Competency

The Cisco Core Competency benchmark will measure your ability to recognise key terms related to Cisco core concepts. You will be evaluated on Layer 1 and 2 technologies, network addressing, and Cisco operating systems

 

• Cisco Automation Competency

The Cisco Automation benchmark will measure your ability to recognise key terms and concepts related to key Cisco automation concepts. You will be evaluated on network programmability, SDN architectures, API concepts, and setting up Python in a Windows environment.