Product Strategy Certification

The Product Strategy Certification is a free, test-based credential from Science of Apps. It certifies that you can set product strategy — customer and market insight, positioning and differentiation, strategic choices and bets, and outcome roadmaps and OKRs. Pass the 20-question, 30-minute test with 75% or more to become a Certified Product Strategist (SOA-PS). Every question is based on published standards and research — including Obviously Awesome (positioning) (April Dunford), OKR meaning, definition and examples (What Matters (John Doerr)), Good Strategy / Bad Strategy (Richard Rumelt) — and each answer is explained with its source.

Read the four skill domains on this page, study the free guides and sources linked to each, then take the 30-minute test online. There is no fee, course or sign-up. Score 75% or more and you get a Certified Product Strategist 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: Obviously Awesome (positioning) (April Dunford); OKR meaning, definition and examples (What Matters (John Doerr)); Good Strategy / Bad Strategy (Richard Rumelt); YC Startup Library (Y Combinator); Know Your Customers' “Jobs to Be Done” (Harvard Business Review (Clayton Christensen et al.)); Retention (PostHog). The source is shown under each question and linked in the answer review. Science of Apps doesn't copy questions from other tests.

Product strategy is the set of choices about who a product serves, what problem it solves, how it wins against the alternatives and which bets the team makes — expressed as a diagnosis, a guiding policy and coherent actions, and tracked through outcome roadmaps and OKRs.

Yes. The certification 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/.

It helps you stand out: it shows employers, in a form they can check, that you can apply market & customer insight and positioning & differentiation to real product scenarios. Add it to LinkedIn and your CV, and back it with portfolio work that shows the same skills — certifications open conversations, portfolios close them.

We rate it Advanced: assumes years in the role or deep specialist knowledge. It has 20 scenario questions — 5 from each of 4 domains — and a 30-minute limit. You need 75% (15 of 20) to pass and 90% for distinction.

Employers in 2027 want product leaders who can set a strategy, not just manage a backlog: deep customer and market insight, a clear point of differentiation, a few deliberate bets and explicit things they won't do, outcome-based roadmaps and OKRs that connect daily work to the strategy. Good strategy is a set of choices people can act on. Practise writing one and verify your skills with a free 30-minute certification. Our full career guide covers the hiring process, interview loop, pay and a prep plan: scienceofapps.com/blog/product-strategy-career-guide/

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.