Fair, reliable, defensible exams — from development to delivery.
Alpine partners with the world's most trusted credentialing and certification programs to build, manage, and secure the assessments that credential careers.
The full assessment lifecycle — under one roof.
Most programs stitch together vendors for authoring, delivery, and data. We've spent three decades building a single practice where psychometric rigor, platform engineering, and program security work as one.
Peak
Test development & authoring
Modern, collaborative exam and item development. Automate your workflow, authoring, review, and publication in one place.
CM Connect
Candidate & credential data management
The credential processing engine certification programs rely on for eligibility, scoring, badging, and candidate self-service — at scale.
Professional Services
Psychometrics · Security · Consulting
Job task analysis, standard setting, validity studies, data forensics, and program security — delivered by a team with deep domain expertise.
Author items that will hold up in court.
Peak is Alpine's modern test development environment — collaborative authoring, rigorous review workflow, blueprint-driven assembly, and full audit trails. Purpose-built for programs whose credentials carry real weight.
- Real-time co-authoring
- Full audit trail per item
- Bi-directional CM Connect
The work we do compounds — year after year, exam after exam.
Deep expertise, on demand.
Test Development
Item writing, review workflows, job task analysis, and standard setting — built on three decades of psychometric practice.
Psychometrics
Validity studies, reliability analyses, differential item functioning, and IRT calibration by credentialed measurement scientists.
Exam Security
Pre-administration breach detection, live proctoring audits, data forensics, and post-administration irregularity investigations.
Accreditation Support
Documentation, gap analyses, and audit prep for NCCA, ANSI/ISO 17024, and other accreditation frameworks.
Meet the Team
Alice Merritt
Principal QA Engineer
Ben Okafor
Performance Test Lead
Carla Nguyen
Director of Client Services