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About EXIN

About EXIN
EXIN, the Examination Institute for Information Science, is a global, independent and not for profit IT examination provider. It's EXIN's mission to improve the quality of the IT sector, the IT professionals and the IT users, by means of independent testing and certification.

In close cooperation with international partners in the IT industry, EXIN establishes educational requirements and develops and organizes examinations and learning tracks in the field of IT, giving IT professionals the ability to prove appropriate competencies and skills for improved job performance. Every day, EXIN examinations are taken in more than 125 countries on six continents, and in 15 languages. Over one million IT professionals are certified by EXIN. EXIN’s IT Service Management certificates are well known worldwide. In addition, EXIN accredits organizations and training providers in order to ensure the quality of the education programs they provide. EXIN offers candidates the opportunity to take examinations at a time and place of their choice. In organizing examinations, EXIN makes use of high quality, web-based technology.

Based on Practical Experience
All EXIN exams are based on competencies and job roles required by employees, and on internationally accepted standards, best practices and frameworks such as ISO/IEC 20000, ISO/IEC 27000, ITIL®, MOF, ASL, BiSL and TMap®. In addition, EXIN offers qualification programs as IT Service Management according to ISO/IEC 20000, Information Security based on ISO/IEC 27002 and the ITIL® qualification program.

ECDL/ICDL
EXIN also offers ECDL/ICDL exams in both The Netherlands and the South Pacific region. The European Computer Driving Licence® (ECDL) is the internationally recognized qualification which enables people to demonstrate their competence in computer skills. ECDL, which is known as International Computer Driving Licence® (ICDL) outside Europe, is the world's leading end-user computer skills certification program with nearly eight million candidates worldwide.

EXIN's History
EXIN was initially founded in 1984 as an independent exam institute to test candidates who had participated in local IT education programs. At that time, the EXIN Foundation was under the supervision of the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs. IT education was solely in the hands of colleges and universities for which EXIN provided the independent testing. Between then and the mid-1990s, the market saw an emergence of many best practice standards such as ITIL, PRINCE2, BiSL, ASL, TMap®. By the end of the ‘90s, the market was flooded with standards and it became obvious that organizations needed help in navigating these options. EXIN decided in cooperation with other IT organizations to formalize what IT functions were necessary for companies and the competencies that were required of IT employees. From this came the concept of frameworks: a set of IT competencies based on international standards. Since then, EXIN has continued in this role, gradually becoming a leader in the worldwide proliferation of IT Service Management certifications.

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