Trust & Safety Professional Certification

The Trust & Safety Professional Certification is a free intermediate-level, 20-minute skill test from Science of Apps. It tests trust and safety practice — writing and enforcing content policies, moderation operations with human review and machine classifiers, child safety and mandatory reporting, terrorism and violent extremism, fraud, scams and spam, harassment and hate, generative AI risks, transparency and appeals under the Santa Clara Principles, and regulatory duties under the EU Digital Services Act and UK Online Safety Act — written to TSPA, Ofcom, European Commission, NCMEC and GIFCT guidance for 2026 and 2027. Score 70% or more on its 20 questions to earn a verifiable Trust & Safety Professional certificate (SOA-TSP). Every question is based on published standards and research — including Trust & Safety Curriculum (Trust & Safety Professional Association), The Santa Clara Principles on Transparency and Accountability in Content Moderation (Santa Clara Principles), Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism: hash-sharing database (GIFCT) — and each answer is explained with its source.

Science of Apps offers a free Trust & Safety Professional Certification, written for 2026 and 2027. It tests policy design and enforcement, operations, detection and wellbeing, priority harms and transparency, appeals and regulation with 20 original scenario questions in all, each naming its published source; you get an instant score and a verifiable certificate with a credential ID you can add to LinkedIn.

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 Trust & Safety Professional 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: Trust & Safety Curriculum (Trust & Safety Professional Association); The Santa Clara Principles on Transparency and Accountability in Content Moderation (Santa Clara Principles); Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism: hash-sharing database (GIFCT); Regulation (EU) 2022/2065 (Digital Services Act) (EUR-Lex); Artificial Intelligence Risk Management Framework: Generative AI Profile (NIST AI 600-1) (NIST); Online Safety Act: codes and guidance (Ofcom). 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: Policy Design and Enforcement (Writing policies, Enforcement actions and Edge cases); Operations, Detection and Wellbeing (Moderation workflows, Classifiers and hash matching and Moderator wellbeing); Priority Harms (Child safety, Violent extremism and Fraud, harassment and AI-generated abuse); Transparency, Appeals and Regulation (User notice and appeals, Transparency reporting and DSA and Online Safety Act). Every question is an original scenario written to the 2026–2027 standard, with the published source named under it.

Trust and safety analyst or specialist, Content policy manager, Content moderation operations lead, Platform integrity or anti-abuse engineer and Online safety regulatory or compliance professional. It suits students at leading universities, career switchers and experienced professionals who want quick, verifiable proof of Trust & Safety Professional knowledge in 2026 and 2027.

Law, IR and public-policy students at Yale, Georgetown, Sciences Po, LSE and SAIS want practice-ready skills without government or bar exams. Passing earns a founder-signed Science of Apps certificate with a credential ID and QR code that recruiters can verify.

Trust and safety teams protect users and platforms from harmful content and behaviour. They write policies, build detection and enforcement systems, review content, handle appeals and law-enforcement requests, measure prevalence and meet regulatory transparency and risk-assessment duties.

They are civil-society principles for transparent, accountable content moderation, calling for clear rules, notice to affected users explaining what action was taken and why, meaningful appeals, and public reporting on enforcement.

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.