About Business Resilience Fundamentals
Business Resilience Fundamentals Overview
Benefits of Business Resilience Fundamentals
For Individuals
- Involvement in the emerging Resilience Professional community.
- Applicable to all sectors, transferable knowledge.
- Enhances the credentials of anyone wishing to enhance their own performance or take up a leadership position.
- Supports a better working environment for individuals by creating more autonomy, mastery and purpose, thus improving motivation.
- Certified professionals are sought after for roles such as Business Continuity Manager, Risk Analyst, Resilience Officer and Operations.
For Organizations
- It will benefit organisations that use an Investment Committee, Transformation, Development, P30 organisation, Programme, Change or Project Management teams.
- Enables the refreshing of their Product and Service portfolio/s, improve Processes and Practices, and adopt a more professional business culture.
- Be early adopters of a new category of employees with a Resilience Professional qualification.
- Enables organisations to implement the model which improves how to anticipate, assess and address risks across all levels.
Useful links
Useful links
-
BUSINESS RESILIENCE: A practical guide to sustained progress delivered at pace
-
Resilience Professionals
-
PODCAST: Building business resilience
Documentation
Documentation
Study materials
Study materials
Success in 1 2 3
Over 2.6 million people in 192 countries have an APMG certification. Our certifications are used by 80% of the FTSE 100 and a third of the Fortune 500 and S&P 500, and are proven to deliver better outcomes.
Select your certification
APMG certifications can advance your career, build your confidence and help you transition into a new field. Browse our careers section for inspiration or visit our certification pages for details of what you’ll learn and how you will benefit from certification.
Choose your learning style
APMG is not a training provider. Please contact accredited training organization's listed on our website for prices and dates. Alternatively, you can self-study for an exam directly through APMG.
Pass the exam & receive a certificate
When you are ready to take your exam, book an online timeslot yourself with APMG, or your training organization may organize this for you. If you pass your exam APMG will issue you with a digital badge for you to share!
Business Resilience Fundamentals levels
Ready to start your learning journey?
Choose a Training Organization
APMG accredits Training Organizations (ATOs) to make sure they are delivering our products and certifications to high standards.
Buy a training course and exam through one of our Training Organizations below.
Self-study
Buy your book and exam from APMG
Training organizations for Business Resilience Fundamentals
Testimonials
Videos
Videos
SFIA

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.
knowledge
Business Resilience Fundamentals
Generic attribute Influence up to level 7, Generic attribute Competence up to level 7, Continuity Management up to level 6
FAQs
Business Resilience facilitates an innovative, efficient and customer value led culture, achieved through proven practical guidance, tools and models, such as the Progress @ Pace model.
It provides a unique PACE Culture to sustain an organization through disruptive or VUCA conditions; and when merged with RESILIENCE Foundations and the PROGRESS Cycle, a high-performance environment is created where organizations can deliver Progress @ Pace.
The examination forms part of the Business Resilience Fundamentals course. The course and certification are aimed at organizational leaders, practicing managers in project & programme management, and others with an interest in building organizational resilience.
The Business Resilience Fundamentals exam is currently only available in English.
For individuals studying with an accredited training organization, Foundation style 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.
No, the Business Resilience Fundamentals exam is only available as closed book.
The Business Resilience Fundamentals certificate does not expire.
Pass marks for the Business Resilience Fundamentals exam is 25/50 (50%).
- 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.
Candidates will be able to claim their digital badge and electronic certificate from the APMG Candidate Portal within two business days of their exam result being issued.