For over 40 years, the Certified Public Procurement Officer (CPPO)® and the Certified Professional Public Buyer (CPPB)® have been respected by public procurement practitioners and their employers. Both designations demonstrate an …

The CPPO & CPPB certification exams are available twice a year on the months/days shown below, unless a specific date is listed. All deadlines are at 11:59 p.m. ET US on the dates specified. 2025 exam results will be available approximately 8 …

Leverage your CPPO or CPPB to bridge to the NIGP-CPP. For persons holding a current CPPO and/or CPPB, NIGP offers the option of a unique bridge exam (Module B) to the NIGP-CPP designation – so earning your CPPO and CPPB reduces the requirements for …

This free self-study tool is designed to assist in your personal study efforts to achieve the prestigious Certified Public Procurement Officer (CPPO) designation from The Universal Public Procurement Certification Council .

Earners of the Certified Public Procurement Officer have demonstrated via an application process and the successful completion of a rigorous assessment, the mastery of the essential skills, knowledge and abilities required for competent performance as a public procurement officer.

5 days ago · This paper introduces Completion Pruning Policy Optimization (CPPO) to accelerate the training of reasoning models based on Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO). GRPO, while effective, incurs high training costs due to the need for sampling multiple completions for each question. Our experiment and theoretical analysis reveals that the number of …

The CPPO BOK will guide your preparation efforts as it provides a comprehensive listing of the content that you will find on the exam as well as the number of questions that will be presented from each of the content domains that comprise the CPPB BOK.

Universal Public Procurement Certification Council. 201 East Main Street, Suite 1405, Lexington, KY 40507. he CPPO program is geared towards individuals in leadership and management positions within a public/governmental entity.

In 1964, NIGP introduced the Certified Public Procurement Officer (CPPO) program. The CPPO program was, at the time of its initiation, the only professional certification offered by a national professional purchasing association in North America.

The CPPO exam is a single, comprehensive assessment consisting of 175 multiple-choice questions covering the 6 content domain areas identified in the CPPB BoK-C (Body of Knowledge & Competency). Each test question presents a candidate with 4 …