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elevate certification to a higher level
Signed-off-by: Marvin Frommhold <depressiveRobot@users.noreply.github.com>
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# Certification
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SCS certificates come with various scopes. See [Scopes and Versions](scopes-versions.md) for details.
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SCS provides a certification framework with various scopes.
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See [Scopes and Versions](scopes-versions.md) for details.
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## Becoming certified
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In order for a cloud service offering to obtain a certificate, it has to conform to all standards of the respective scope, which will be tested at regular intervals, and the results of these tests will be made available publicly. For more details on how to become certified, please consult the corresponding [document](/standards/scs-0004-v1-achieving-certification).
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In order to obtain a certification, all standards of the respective scope must be adhered to.
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This is tested at regular intervals, and the results of these tests will be made available publicly.
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There are various types of certifications, which are described below.
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### Certification of infrastructure
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Cloud service providers can obtain a certification for their infrastructure offerings.
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The standard [SCS-0004](https://docs.scs.community/standards/global/scs-0004) describes the certification of infrastructure offerings in depth.
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### Certification of integrators
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Implementation partners and cloud service providers can obtain a certification recognizing their technical knowledge and experience to provide technical support to other organizations using SCS.
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The standard [SCS-0007](https://docs.scs.community/standards/global/scs-0007) describes the integrator certification in depth.
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## Compliant cloud environments
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# Scopes and versions
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## Infrastructure Offerings
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For infrastructure offerings SCS provides a certification framework consisting of six different kinds of certificates of varying scope.
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SCS provides a certification framework consisting of six different kinds of certificates of varying scope.
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These scopes can be sorted into two dimensions:
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Each scope corresponds to a set of standards. As these standards progress, so do the scopes, and we keep track of this by versioning. Each version undergoes a lifecycle of Draft, Stable, and Deprecated, and we aim to keep at most one version stable at the same time, with the exception of a transition period of 4 to 6 weeks.
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The standard [SCS-0004](https://docs.scs.community/standards/global/scs-0004) describes the certification of infrastructure offerings in depth.
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![Alt text](image.png)
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## Certification of Integrators
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For Integrators and Service Companies the existing framework for infrastructure offerings is used to do a competence and quality assesment.
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Integrators can currently be certified in the _SCS-compatible IaaS_ scope.
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The standard [SCS-0007](https://docs.scs.community/standards/global/scs-0007) describes the Integrator certification in depth.

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