The article motivates the need for this system and encourages further reading in in two referenced articles.  Some important aspects of the approach include:
Although a good overview, the lack of details in the article makes it difficult for the reader to know exactly what is intended.  For example, when reading the article I found myself asking these general quesrtion:
The scope of who needs these skills and tests is unclear.  Is the intended audience HPC users
The article lacked depth on details into the topic selection criteria, evaluation and review.  Maybe this is the intention but I was left with more questions so I reviewed the HCPC Certification Forum website.
This is an ambitious project and I would have to believe very difficult to curate.  One the one hand, I am skeptical that there is an inherent hierarchy for which
This type of testing and certification is a form of gate keeping and if successful will give the authors of the certification quite a bit of power.  By having this organization be a