The Open Group OAA datasheet states the Practitioner exam comprises 40 questions in simple multiple-choice format.
One hour of exam time. The provider typically adds about 15 minutes of seat time for registration, tutorial, and a survey.
28 or more questions out of 40. Each correct answer scores a single point.
USD 375 exam booking fee, or USD 400 for a retail voucher, on The Open Group fee schedule effective February 1, 2026.
What the Open Agile Architecture Exam Actually Tests
Open Agile Architecture Practitioner is a single paper: 40 simple multiple-choice items, one hour, closed book, supervised, with no prerequisites. Passing grants the Open Agile Architecture Practitioner certification. English is OGAA-001; Simplified Chinese is OGAA-C01.
The datasheet frames the paper around delivering Agile architecture in support of digital transformation. Published competency areas include applying the Open Agile Architecture axioms, Agile strategy, business agility, the Agile organization, experience design, design thinking, product architecture, operations architecture, and Agile Security Architecture. It does not publish scored domain percentages.
Additional time may be provided for people taking an English-language exam for whom English is not their first language.
The structural facts are fixed by The Open Group and worth restating as one canonical block: the OAA Practitioner exam (OGAA-001 English, OGAA-C01 Simplified Chinese) runs 40 simple multiple-choice questions in one hour, supervised and closed book, with a 70% pass mark (28 of 40), no prerequisites, at USD 375 to book through Pearson VUE or USD 400 as a retail voucher on the fee schedule effective February 1, 2026.
OnVUE at Home or a Test Center: Same Exam, Your Room or Theirs
The Open Group delivers OGAA-001 at Authorized Examination Provider Test Centers and remotely by OnVUE delivery — that wording is on the official OAA datasheet, and The Open Group is listed on Pearson VUE's OnVUE program catalog.
The OnVUE route makes your environment part of the exam. Plan on a private room, a working webcam and microphone, government ID that passes verification, and a check-in process that photographs your workspace. Pearson charges USD 375 to book the sitting directly by credit card; a USD 400 retail voucher is the other published path.
For candidates on a role or contract deadline, we pick the delivery mode with the sooner reliable appointment, then work the environment checklist until check-in is routine.
The supervision model is worth one plain restatement: OGAA-001 is delivered at Authorized Examination Provider Test Centers and remotely by OnVUE delivery - supervised either way. The at-home route makes your room part of the exam: a private space, webcam and microphone checks, government ID verification, and workspace photos at check-in. The fee is identical in both modes, so the choice is about which environment you control better, not about price.
What the OAA Costs Before Any Service Conversation
The published US-dollar prices on The Open Group retail fee schedule effective February 1, 2026 are USD 375 to book OGAA-001 or OGAA-C01 with Pearson by credit card, or USD 400 for a retail voucher from The Open Group Shop. Prices are in USD; local taxes may apply.
There is no published free retake. A failed sitting means paying the booking fee again. There is also no published second OAA paper — Practitioner is the qualification on this exam.
Accredited training courses include the examination in the course fee via a voucher code. That path is for people taking an accredited course, not a standalone Pearson booking.
Where OAA Attempts Actually Fail
Three patterns account for most failed first attempts we see. The first is pace: 40 simple multiple-choice questions in one hour is 90 seconds per question, and the supervised, closed-book format rewards recall of the OAA competency areas, not lookup skill.
The second is the published pass mark: 70 percent - 28 of 40 questions - with no partial credit for near-misses. Candidates who self-score practice runs at 65 percent and book anyway meet the gap at full fee.
The third is booking the wrong language form. The datasheet lists OGAA-001 in English and OGAA-C01 in Simplified Chinese as separate exam codes at the same fee; confirming which code your appointment delivers is part of a sane plan, not an afterthought.
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How Take-My-OAA Support Actually Works
Send the brief
Your role, your deadline, your testing window, and whether you already hold an Open Group exam voucher — it changes booking versus voucher redemption.
Feasibility in plain terms
We confirm the current OGAA-001 details against The Open Group live datasheet and fee schedule, pick the delivery mode and appointment window, and tell you honestly if the date or setup is wrong.
Environment and identity prep
Room, hardware, ID documents, and the Pearson VUE check-in flow rehearsed until nothing on exam day is improvised.
The sitting
Your Open Agile Architecture sitting is handled end to end by a specialist who works Agile architecture material for a living.
Result, then invoice
The service fee is due only after the agreed result posts. If the pass does not post, there is no service fee.
What You Get
Current-format confirmation
Every format, fee, and policy line on this page re-verified against The Open Group datasheet and February 1, 2026 fee schedule on 29 August 2026 — the version you sit is the version we describe.
Competency-wide coverage
Preparation of the sitting spans the published competency areas — axioms, strategy, organization, experience design, product and operations architecture, Agile Security Architecture — not a TOGAF dump under an OAA label.
Delivery-mode planning
OnVUE at home versus a test center decided on your room, hardware, ID, and appointment availability — not habit.
Check-in rehearsal
The OnVUE photo, ID, and room-scan sequence walked through in advance so exam-day check-in takes minutes, not nerves.
Language-path advice
English (OGAA-001) versus Simplified Chinese (OGAA-C01) picked against the paper you will actually sit, not the language you happen to work in.
Is This Safe, and How Discretion Works
Discretion is operational, not theatrical. Communication stays on your chosen channel, nothing posts publicly, and your Open Group and Pearson VUE details are used for your sitting and nothing else.
If something about your situation makes the sitting a bad risk — ID that will not pass verification, an unusable home setup, a voucher you cannot redeem — we say so at intake, not after.
The scope we verify against is The Open Group's own datasheet: one Practitioner exam, published competency areas rather than scored domain percentages, and no published second OAA paper or Level 2 qualification. That single-exam frame is what makes the sitting plannable, and we confirm the current datasheet before anything is scheduled.
Pay After You Pass
An OAA attempt costs USD 375 before any service conversation begins. Our side is simple: the service fee is due only after the agreed result posts — never before, never in installments that happen to start early.
We do not promise a specific score. We promise the current format, a prepared sitting, and a fee that exists only on a pass.
The exam's own math stays flat: USD 375 per attempt booking with Pearson by credit card on the February 2026 fee schedule, or USD 400 for the retail voucher, with local taxes possible on either. With no published free retake, a second attempt is the same fee again - official fees stay on your card and visible from the first message.
Candidate Feedback
Forty closed-book questions with an Agile architecture role hanging on Practitioner. Sitting handled end to end, pass posted, invoice after — exactly the arrangement described.
I expected a sales pitch and got a feasibility check instead — room, ID, English versus Chinese paper. The sitting itself was the calmest part.
The format facts on the page matched the OAA exam I actually sat, down to the 70 percent bar. Fee after the result, no games.
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