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Digital Information Design (DID) Certification

Business Information Management (BIM) Certification

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About DID Certification

Digital Information Design Overview

  • DID® enables businesses to effectively manage their information, ensuring it meets business needs.

  • Data is constantly coming into and being generated by your business. It can seem overwhelming. What information does your business really need? How can it capitalize on the data it already has? And ensure the quality of its data?

  • At the heart of the Digital Information Design (DID®) guidance is a simple, a powerful model that enables businesses to optimize their data usage. DID provides a business information model, that organizations can use to identify and assess what best practices to use.  Providing guidance on how to build these best practices into a roadmap for your business, while retaining focus on the information needs of your business. The DID model will help you to assess the validity of the best practice(s) you use and identify the strengths and weaknesses in your approach. The model is independent of all other frameworks, including BiSL and BiSL Next which DID elaborates on. DID therefore offers impartial information about well-established frameworks, including COBIT®, ITIL® and TOGAF®, and provides advice on how to use their key features when designing business driven IT services. 

  • While the role of IT is to ensure information is stored and processed safely - effective business information management, which DID facilitates, gives an organization the ability to respond to specific business demands and make data driven decisions quickly. Improving business performance through more effective use of information.

  • DID training and certification will provide organizations and individuals with guiding principles and practices that lead to good business information management – with practical templates and examples.

  • Certify your ability to:
    • Design information services that meet business needs, with emphasis on agility and accuracy.
    • Gain visibility over data and its impact on your business.
    • Manage and control vital information and data.
    • Facilitate a more productive interaction with IT.
    • Help organizations achieve a better return on their investments in business information services.
    • Improve integration of multiple frameworks and best practices.

Pricing options are available through our Accredited Training Organization (ATO) network, or for an exam-only option, via our Public Exam Portal.

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Who is Digital Information Design for?

  • Business information managers, CIOs, information managers, IT managers, and all those involved in business information management.
  • Business managers, business process owners, business architects and those involved in business processes.
  • IT service suppliers and IT service managers.

Benefits of DID Certification

For Individuals

  • Break down into roles/functions.
  • Professional certification in business information management.
  • Knowledge of how to integrate multiple best practices.
  • Career advancement opportunities such as Information Manager, Data Governance Lead, Compliance Analyst, IT Managers and Business Information managers.
  • Transferable, vendor neutral skills.

For Organizations

  • Portfolio and programme management in line with your enterprise strategy.
  • Organizing an organization's digital information needs.
  • Designing information services that meet business needs, with emphasis on agility and accuracy.
  • Management and control of vital information and data.
  • Independent of any best practice or method.

Documentation

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pdf - 2.49 MB - 17 June 2025

Study materials

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Digital Information Design (DID) Foundation
Book, eBook (English / Dutch)
By
Brian Johnson and Leon-Paul de Rouw
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DID Certification levels

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Digital Information Design Foundation

Learn how to effectively manage Business Information.

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SFIA

The SFIA Framework is the global common reference for skills and competency for the digital world.

This APMG certification has been informally mapped against the SFIA Framework to indicate the skills that are addressed and referenced by the certification. Although it is not yet possible to claim this digital badge, the indicative skills can be used to plan your professional development through assessing the skills you have and the skills you need for the role you want.

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Digital Information Design Foundation

Digital Information Design Foundation

SFIA elements this certification confirms (endorsement)

Generic attribute Knowledge up to level 3

SFIA elements this would be useful for (development)

Same as above plus Methods and Tools level 3

FAQs

Digital Information Design (DID) is a business information model canvas, enabling organizations to identify useful and widely used best practices and put them in a roadmap, whilst retaining focus on the information needs of the business. You can choose and use whatever best practice(s) you wish, as the DID model canvas will help you to assess the validity of your choice(s) and identify strengths and weaknesses in your approach.

The Digital Information Design Foundation exam is available in English and Dutch.

The Digital Information Design Foundation book is available in English and Dutch.

For individuals self-studying it is almost impossible to say. As all candidates have different experience and amount of time available for study, it varies from person to person. We suggest you buy the manual and have a look through for yourself before deciding how long you need to spend learning.

For those studying with an accredited training organization, DID Foundation courses are generally delivered over 3 days. It is well worth investigating with individual providers, as some will offer tailored, online or blended learning solutions.

The structure of the Digital Information Design Foundation examination is below:

  • 40 multiple choice questions
  • 40 minutes duration
  • Pass mark: 26 out of 40 (65%)
  • Closed book (no reference materials permitted)

No, candidates are not permitted to refer to the Digital Information Design Foundation book or any other materials during the exam.

The Digital Information Design Foundation exam does not expire.

The pass mark for the Digital Information Design Foundation exam is 26 out of 40 (65%).

  • Provisional results: After completing the Foundation examination, candidates may receive provisional results either orally from the invigilator or on-screen at the end of an online exam.
  • Official results: Once processed, official results, including a PDF breakdown of marks by syllabus area, are available in the APMG Candidate Portal. Results are issued as the total number of marks achieved.
  • Processing time: Exam papers are usually marked immediately after the exam. APMG formally processes and confirms results via the Candidate Portal within 2 working days of receiving completed papers.
  • Outstanding payments: In exceptional cases, results may be withheld until full payment has been received.

Once you’ve been notified that you’ve passed your exam, you will have the option to create a digital badge in APMG's Candidate Portal.

Visit APMG's Candidate Portal, view your exam results and select 'Create Badge'.

This takes you to the Credly website where the digital badges are hosted. You will be guided through the Credly account creation process.

Once you have created an account with Credly, log into the account and accept your pending badge.

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