PagerDuty Certified Certification

The PagerDuty Certified Certification is a free intermediate-level, 20-minute skill test from Science of Apps. It tests PagerDuty, the digital operations and incident management platform, for on-call engineers and admins — fundamentals (incident management and on-call), services and escalation (services, escalation policies and on-call schedules), incident response (triggering, acknowledging, resolving and severity), and integrations and operations (event rules, analytics and postmortems). Written to the PagerDuty documentation for 2026. Score 70% or more on its 20 questions to earn a verifiable PagerDuty Proficiency certificate (SOA-PCZ). Every question is based on published standards and research — including PagerDuty knowledge base and documentation (PagerDuty) — and each answer is explained with its source.

Science of Apps offers a free PagerDuty Certified Certification, updated for 2026 and 2027. It measures fundamentals, services and escalation, incident response and integrations and operations and gives instant results with a shareable certificate.

Read the four skill areas on this page, then take the 20-minute test online — no fee, course or sign-up. You see every answer explained when you finish. Score 70% or more and you get a PagerDuty Proficiency certificate straight away, on screen, as a PDF and by email, with a credential ID anyone can verify.

Yes. The questions are original scenarios written by Science of Apps, and each one is based on a public source you can read: PagerDuty knowledge base and documentation (PagerDuty). The source is shown under each question and linked in the answer review. Science of Apps doesn't copy questions from other tests.

Four skill areas with five questions each, drawn from a bank of 10 per area so a retake brings new questions: Fundamentals (IncidentManagement, OnCall and Alerts); Services and Escalation (Services, Escalation and Schedules); Incident Response (Trigger, Acknowledge and Resolve); Integrations and Operations (Integrations, EventRules and Postmortem). Every question is an original scenario written to the 2026–2027 standard, with the published source named under it.

On-call engineer or SRE, Incident responder, DevOps or platform engineer, Operations manager and PagerDuty administrator. It suits anyone who wants a quick, verifiable way to show PagerDuty Certified knowledge in 2026 and 2027, from students and career switchers to experienced professionals.

PagerDuty is a digital operations management platform for incident response. It receives alerts from monitoring and other tools, routes them to the right on-call responders via escalation policies and schedules, and helps teams acknowledge, resolve and learn from incidents.

An escalation policy defines who is notified about an incident and in what order. If the first on-call responder does not acknowledge within a set time, the incident escalates to the next level, ensuring incidents are not missed.

Yes. The test is online, in English and free everywhere — people take it from India, the US, the UK, Europe, Africa, Latin America and Asia-Pacific. Your certificate is dated with your own local date and can be verified from anywhere at scienceofapps.com/certification/verify/.

20 questions — 5 from each of 4 skill areas — with a 20-minute limit. You need 70% (14 of 20) to pass and 90% for distinction.

We rate it Intermediate: assumes hands-on experience in the role. It has 20 scenario questions — 5 from each of 4 skill areas — and a 20-minute limit. You need 70% (14 of 20) to pass and 90% for distinction.

Nothing. There is no fee to take a test, to receive the certificate, to have it emailed or to verify it, and no sign-up.

On our server, not in your browser. The answers never reach the page until you submit, so a certificate can only be earned by passing. Each certificate gets a unique credential ID stored by Science of Apps.

You see your score for each area and every question with the correct answer and why, with the published source behind it. You can retake after 30 minutes, and the retake draws questions you haven't seen yet.

No. Every certificate is dated, so it always shows when you passed. Retake a test any time for a newer date or a higher score.

Yes. After you pass, Add to LinkedIn opens the Licenses & certifications form with the certificate name, Science of Apps as the issuer, the issue date, your credential ID and the verification link filled in. You can also download it as a PDF or PNG, and it's emailed to you as a PDF.

Every certificate has a credential ID and a QR code. Scanning it, or entering the ID at scienceofapps.com/certification/verify/, shows the holder's name, the certification, the score and the issue date from our records.

No. They are Science of Apps' own assessments of applied skill. They aren't issued by a university or standards body, and they work best alongside a portfolio that shows the skills in real work.