The Certified Professional for Requirements Engineering (CPRE) is a personal certificate aimed at people who work in the areas of requirements engineering, business analysis and testing. It expands your professional knowledge and helps you to become more successful in your job.
The certification scheme is developed by IREB, the content is taught by independent training providers and the CPRE exam can be taken at approved certification bodies. The CPRE certificates are valid for life.
In the IREB® CPRE Foundation Level Training you will learn the methods and techniques that enable you to meet, document, control effectively, and manage your customers' requirements. Maybe you develop the best systems using the best technologies, but are you sure your customers need them? Learn the guidelines with the IREB® training to successfully bring your project to life.
Advanced Level RE@Agile is a way of thinking about product development. Training sessions on "Agile" are offered as part of the CPRE plan. Agile approaches need reasonable requirements practices to deliver successful products and systems. Requirements engineering and agile approaches complement each other when used correctly! In this context, IREB has developed an advanced module RE@Agile to combine the strengths of both disciplines.
This course deepens your expertise in structured requirements elicitation. You’ll learn how to identify requirements systematically, select appropriate techniques, involve stakeholders effectively, and resolve conflicting goals with confidence. Based on the official IREB® syllabus, this training prepares you for the CPRE – Requirements Elicitation certification. After the course, you have the option to take both the Practitioner and Specialist exams.
The CPRE Requirements Modeling module provides the necessary skills to enable you to model requirements visually and thus present complex relationships in an understandable way. Requirements presented in textual form can often be unclear or misleading. This module teaches you techniques for modeling information structures, use cases, and dynamic views to enable you to design your projects successfully.
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In the IREB® CPRE Foundation Level Training you will learn the methods and techniques that enable you to meet, document, control effectively, and manage your customers' requirements. Maybe you develop the best systems using the best technologies, but are you sure your customers need them? Learn the guidelines with the IREB® training to successfully bring your project to life.
After Foundation, CPRE supports deeper specialization via Level 2 (Practitioner) modules. These modules focus on key areas such as Requirements Elicitation, Requirements Management, Requirements Modeling, and RE@Agile. For example, the Requirements Modeling module covers visual modeling techniques such as modeling information structures, use cases, and dynamic behavior, and includes evaluating model quality and integrating different model types.
IREB Level 3 (CPRE Specialist) is the third level in the Certified Professional for Requirements Engineering (CPRE) program. It is intended for professionals who want to prove they can apply Requirements Engineering knowledge in a real project context, not only answer questions in an exam. The Specialist level is available in the same module areas as Level 2 (Practitioner): Requirements Elicitation, Requirements Management, Requirements Modeling, and RE@Agile.
Admission requirement: To pursue a CPRE Specialist certificate for a module, you must already hold the Level 2 (Practitioner) certificate for the same module. This ensures candidates have the module knowledge before moving to the applied assessment.
Assessment format (written assignment): Instead of a multiple-choice exam, Level 3 is assessed through a written assignment based on a real project from your own work environment. You download the current task description for your chosen module, select a suitable topic within that scope, and produce an assignment that follows the required structure and evaluation criteria. The assignment is submitted to an IREB-recognized certification body for assessment. There is no fixed submission deadline, and IREB may update tasks with a transition period, so candidates need to use the current version.
Languages: The written assignment can be prepared in German or English. For the CPRE Requirements Elicitation module, French is also accepted.
What the certificate signals: A CPRE Specialist certificate confirms advanced theoretical and practical skills in the selected module and your ability to use Requirements Engineering techniques in complex, realistic situations. This level can be relevant for roles such as requirements engineer, business analyst, product owner, solution architect, and project or delivery roles that rely on strong requirements practices.
IREB Level 4 (CPRE Expert) is the highest level of the Certified Professional for Requirements Engineering program. It is intended for experienced Requirements Engineering professionals who can demonstrate broad, cross-functional competence and who can support others by advising, coaching, or mentoring, as well as helping organizations improve their Requirements Engineering processes.
Admission requirements focus on both certification background and practical experience. Candidates must hold at least two CPRE certificates at Specialist or Advanced Level, and one of these can be replaced by another recognized RE qualification or a relevant publication. In addition, candidates must have at least three years (full-time equivalent) professional experience as a Requirements Engineer across different roles and projects. ([cpre.ireb.org]
Assessment format for CPRE Expert is not a multiple-choice exam. The process includes a written application followed by an oral examination. The oral exam lasts 210 minutes in total, including time to prepare a case study and time-boxed Q&A segments.
Exam language is English for both the written application and the oral exam. Other languages may be possible on request, but they are not guaranteed.
What the certificate signals to employers is validated capability to assess complex Requirements Engineering situations and to choose and apply appropriate RE methods and techniques based on the context. For organizations, it can be a marker for senior staff who can guide RE practice across teams and projects.
IREB is the developer and holder of the Certified Professional for Requirements Engineering certification scheme, which stands for an elaborated three level certification concept.
The IREB CPRE program (Certified Professional for Requirements Engineering) gives you a structured way to build strong RE skills, step by step.
This is where everyone starts.
You learn the basics of Requirements Engineering: eliciting requirements, documenting them clearly, modelling, validating and managing changes.
After the training, you take the Foundation exam. When you pass, you receive the CPRE-F certificate, which allows you to continue with the advanced modules.
After the Foundation certificate, you can deepen your skills in specialised modules.
IREB currently offers four modules:
Elicitation & Consolidation
Modeling
Requirements Management
RE@Agile
You can complete one module or several, depending on your career goals. Each module ends with its own exam and gives you an individual certificate.
This is the highest level.
To qualify, you need several Advanced certificates plus proven professional experience in Requirements Engineering.
The Expert Level shows that you can lead RE work in complex projects and coach others.
