Earn your QuickBooks Desktop certification

Being certified means you become eligible for the Gold Tier and receive the following valuable benefits:

• Unlimited U.S.-based phone and chat support from 6 a.m.-6 p.m., PT, Monday-Friday.
• Your profile listed on the QuickBooks’ Find-a-ProAdvisor Website, where there are more than 700,000 visits annually from potential unique clients looking for a local expert.
• The ability to distinguish yourself and build credibility by having authorized use of the Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor Logo on your website and marketing materials.
• Eligibility for CPE credits¹
• Benefit from Intuit’s® proactive marketing campaigns to connect QuickBooks users with Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisors.
• The opportunity to gain additional Certifications, including certification in QuickBooks Enterprise and QuickBooks Desktop Advanced.

• With 120 questions, this exam will take most people between three to four hours to complete.
• The exam is broken into two sections of 35 questions each, one section with 45 questions, and a fourth section with 8 questions.
• You can complete the sections in any order you like.
• You must complete each section with a minimum passing score of 80%.
• You have three attempts to pass each section.
• After your first attempt, subsequent attempts to pass any section of this exam will include only the test items that were answered incorrectly in the previous attempt.
• Each question is saved as you progress to the next question. But, if you exit the exam at any time, your progress won't be saved and you'll have to retake the exam from the beginning.
• If you fail all three attempts, you must wait 30 days from your last try before attempting the exam again. Use that time to review the self-paced training modules and practice within the product to prepare for your next attempt.

There are 11 optional modules, and each one is offered for CPE credit¹.

You may take the training modules before the exam, after the exam, in between attempts or not at all — your choice entirely. Certification doesn’t depend on you taking the optional training — they're there to help you learn what you need to learn.

Additionally, these training modules remain in your Certification Center until the following year's Certification is no longer available. You can take them at any time before then.

The certification exam helps you discover what skills you need to brush up on, you might choose to use your first attempt as an assessment (remember, you get three attempts to achieve a passing grade of 80% on the exam).

If this sounds good to you, go directly to your exam and see how you do. If you pass, you are done!

If you do not pass, no worries. If you require subsequent attempts to pass any section of this exam, your re-test will include only the test items that were answered incorrectly. You can then take just the training that you need, and use your remaining attempts to pass the exam at 80%.

Alternately, you could choose to take all the training and then take the exam. The best part is that you get to determine your own learning path, and we let you know where you might need training!

Your ProAdvisor Team is ready to help. If you need a hand in accessing the new certification, chat with us, or call us at  1-888-333-3451.

¹Intuit, Inc. is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. State boards of accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit. Complaints regarding registered sponsors may be addressed to the National Registry of CPE Sponsors, 150 Fourth Avenue North, Suite 700, Nashville, TN, 37219-2417. Our sponsor number is 103311. Web site: http://www.nasba.org