XcellAcademy|Druva Certifications
Free, short, role-based. Renew every two or three years.
Druva certifies partner staff through the free Druva Partner Academy: foundational, sales specialist, technical specialist and MSP certifications, most under an hour. Admins learn the product in the separate Druva Academy. Here are all 0 certifications, courses and badges, each with format, length, renewal, cost, prerequisites and source, read on 13 November 2026. Then a suggested path for six XcellHost roles, ribbon badges to download and a staff tracker.
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Two academies, one ladder for partners.
The Partner Academy runs from Intro to Druva, through foundational sales and technical certifications, to sales specialist and technical specialist certifications by solution area — with a parallel MSP track. The Druva Academy teaches admins the product, with Level 1 to 3 courses and foundation badges. Click any block to filter the catalogue.
How renewal works
From the Partner Academy FAQ. These are minimums: Druva updates training regularly and asks partners to revisit it.
| Type | Renew every | Examples |
|---|---|---|
| Sales | 2 years | Sales Professional, Sales Plays, every Sales Specialist, MSP Sales |
| Technical | 3 years | Technical Associate, every Technical Specialist, MSC Technical Professional |
| Courses | Not stated | Intro to Druva, Druva Academy courses |
| Academy badges | Not stated | Druva Cloud Platform Foundations, SaaS Applications Foundations |
The tracker below uses these intervals to warn you 60 days before a certification is due.
Checked, but not found
We looked for these on druva.com, the Partner Academy, Druva Academy and Credly on 13 November 2026 and found nothing current. Do not promise them to customers.
- “Druva Certified Professional” proctored examNo proctored, paid Druva exam is listed; certifications are online course exams.
- Exam feesNone — the Partner Academy is free. Customer Academy pages show no prices.
- Credly badges for Partner Academy certificationsThe FAQ mentions downloadable certificates and LinkedIn, not Credly.
- Hybrid Workloads and Endpoints foundation badgesThe Level 1 courses are listed; matching badges were not confirmed.
Every Druva certification and badge, checked at the source.
One card per certification, course or badge: badge, level, track, format, length, renewal, cost, prerequisites, status and source. Where Druva does not state a length, the card says so. Items marked Confirm are listed but not fully confirmed.
Try a shorter word, or clear the filters.
Sources read 13 Nov 2026: partneracademy.druva.com (catalogue, learning paths, course lengths), partneracademy.druva.com/page/faq (certification list, 2- and 3-year renewal, free access, certificates, incentives), the Sales Professional and Technical Associate course pages (modules, question-pool exams, 30 questions), academy.druva.com (Level 1 and 3 courses, SaaS Applications Foundations badge) and Credly (Druva Cloud Platform Foundations: free, foundational, under 20 minutes). Druva publishes no exam codes or fees for these items.
Which certifications, in which order, for each role.
These are XcellHost's suggested internal paths, not Druva requirements. Mandatory means mandatory in our suggested plan; Recommended is optional. Druva's courses are short, so the targets are weeks, not months.
All paths are labelled suggested. Druva's only stated prerequisite is Intro to Druva, the foundational course for the Partner Academy curriculum.
One rosette per certification, coloured by track.
Every item has an XcellHost ribbon badge for internal recognition — the team wall, slides or the staff newsletter. Download any badge as SVG or PNG.
Illustrative XcellHost badge designs — official certificates and digital badges are issued by Druva (some via Credly). These are not Druva or Credly artwork, use no vendor logo and do not prove a certification. Colour groups are XcellHost's, not Druva level names.
Druva Partner+ tiers and the accredited staff they need.
The Druva Partner+ Program for resellers has three tiers — Authorized, Certified and Elite — in Druva's Partner+ guide (Q4 2023 edition). Each tier asks for accredited sales and technical staff, alongside revenue and business-plan requirements. MSPs have a separate MSP programme.
What else the programme covers
The guide's requirements table did not render cleanly: the 1 · 2 · 3 staff counts are read from its icons, and the revenue figures “vary by region”. Confirm the current table in the Druva Partner Portal.
Programme benefits (druva.com)
Zero-touch SaaS selling with no hardware, deal registration, market development funds, campaigns and promotions, a choice of routes (alliances, distribution, MSP, marketplace) and the free Partner Academy. Druva cites a sales cycle under 60 days from deal registration to close (vendor figure).
XcellHost Druva Partner+ tier: confirm*
We are confirming XcellHost's current Druva tier and MSP status, so this page does not claim any. The counts on the tier cards use your tracker only, as an indication.
Sources read 13 Nov 2026: druva.com/partners/partner-program (Partner+, partner types, benefits, Partner Academy), the Druva Partner+ guide PDF (©2023, code Q423-20417: tiers Authorized, Certified, Elite; requirements and benefits) and the April 2026 Druva partner awards release (Partner+ named as current). *Confirm current rules in the Druva Partner Portal.
Who holds what, and what is due next.
Add a colleague, mark the certifications they have passed with the date and their certificate link, and the tracker works out the renewal date — two years for sales, three for technical — progress against their role path, the team badge wall and the Partner+ staff counts. It starts empty.
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Druva certification, answered.
Twenty Partner Academy certifications: foundational (Sales Professional, Sales Plays, Technical Associate), sales specialist by solution area (data, cyber, AI and identity resilience), technical specialist, and an MSP set including the Managed Services Center certifications. Admins also earn Druva Academy badges such as Druva Cloud Platform Foundations.
Not that we found. Each Partner Academy certification ends in a short online exam drawn from a question pool — the Technical Associate exam has 30 questions. Druva does not publish a passing score.
Druva asks for sales certifications to be renewed every two years and technical certifications every three years, as a minimum. It updates the training regularly and recommends revisiting it in between.
The Partner Academy is free through the Druva Partner Portal. The Druva Cloud Platform Foundations badge is free on Credly. Druva Academy course pages show no prices.
With Intro to Druva, a 23-minute course that the FAQ calls the prerequisite for the rest of the curriculum. MSP staff take Intro to Druva – MSP. Then follow the suggested path for your role on this page.
Most are short and self-paced: Cyber Resilience Sales Specialist 15 minutes, Identity Resilience Technical Specialist 24, Data Resilience – Data Center 50, AI Resilience Technical Specialist 72, and Sales Professional under 60 minutes. Druva lists no length for several others.
Yes. After a Partner Academy certification you get an email with a certificate download link, and you can add it to LinkedIn from My Profile. The Druva Cloud Platform Foundations badge is issued on Credly. The ribbon badges on this page are illustrative XcellHost designs for internal use only.
Yes. Each Partner+ tier — Authorized, Certified, Elite — asks for accredited sales and technical staff (read as 1, 2 and 3 of each from the guide). XcellHost's own tier is being confirmed and is not claimed here.
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