Micro certifications are focused reviews which involve a smaller number of review items. For example, a micro certification review could involve review items that violated a certification policy or a data policy. Micro certifications are event driven and are designed to reduce or eliminate the need for full scale access certification processes which require significant time and effort from business users.
A micro certification review inherits reviewer assignments and settings from the specified review definition and follows a similar life cycle as an on demand or scheduled review run. Currently, all review types, except unmapped account review type support micro certification. Multiple micro certification reviews can run in parallel with on demand or scheduled reviews that use the same review definition.
A Global, Review, or Data administrator can view status and run history of micro certifications in the Review definition list area by selecting the number of micro certifications when Micro-certification in progress column is included as a display column. You can include the column in Review definition list area, by selecting the gear icon and dragging and dropping columns to the Available column area. Similarly, in the Review list area you can include Started by column to view if a review was started by micro certification, on demand, or schedule. For more information, about customizing review display, see Customizing Review Display.
NOTE:For information about setting up micro certification as a remediation for policy violations, see Section 3.4.3, Calculating and Remediating Data Policy Violations and Section 17.5.3, Remediating Certification Policy Violations.