Catch-Phrase Admin Certification

We have developed a simple certification program for Catch-Phrase. We can certify Catch-Phrase Administrators at Basic Remote, Basic Stand-Alone, Intermediate and Advanced levels. The prerequisites, concepts and skills of each of these levels are presented below. (Note these are preliminary determinations that we will probably modify/refine in the near future)

Basic Remote

• Prerequisites: A basic working knowledge of SQL
• Concepts: Understand of all the glossary items
• Skills:
  • S1: Launch Catch-Phrase on your own host
  • S2a: Connect to a remote database and inspect the initial configuration
  • S3: Create an example questions file with both questions and custom constants probes
  • S4: Launch an initial NLI using an example questions file and ask questions
  • S5: Use the explorer, examples and pinned questions in the NLI
  • S6: Add lexical attachments to tables and columns for broader access
  • S7: Specify attributes as primary values for more readable table answers

Basic Stand-Alone

• Prerequisites: A basic working knowledge of SQL
• Concepts: Understand of all the glossary items
• Skills:
  • S1,S3,S4,S5,S6 and S7 above
  • S2b: Define,build and populate a database from a CSV file
  • S2c: Define and build a database using the tree editor and populate it with natural language update commands
  • S8: Load a stand-alone database into a .db_xml file, make a small change in the .db_xml file and rebuild the stand-alone database from the altered .db_xml file

Intermediate

• Prerequisites: Either Basic Remote or Basic Stand-Alone certification
• Concepts:
  • Understand the purpose of every tag and attribute in the XML format
  • Understand the purpose of every NLI parameter
• Skills:
  • S9: Set up https security for your Catch-Phrase host.
  • S10: Build corpus files from logs.
  • S11: Build and run test files.
  • S12: Define virtual columns.
  • S13: Define views to help support ellipsis
  • S14: Define view for performing calculations
  • S15: Define reports
  • S16: Define a cascade for preprocessing

Advanced

• Prerequisites:Intermediate Certification and both Basic Remote and Basic Stand-Alone certification
• Concepts: TBA
• Skills: TBA

Certification Process

Certification starts with administrators watching videos and studying the documentation to understand the concepts necessary to meet the certification. They also launch Catch-Phrase and attempt to develop the skills listed as required in the certification level. We suggest they do this over the domain that they want to deploy Catch-Phrase over. If they feel stuck or feel that something is unclear they can contact us for help. Once the administrator feels proficient in all the listed concepts and skills, they can call for a meeting with us where we will spend 30-60 minutes where we discuss the relevant concepts and give feedback on the administrator's work. If the administrators understanding is judged as adequate and if their demonstration shows that they attained the skills mentioned, we will record them as certified and email them a pdf showing their certification.

Please email us at contact@c-phrase.com to set up a certification call.