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Best reply ever.
AWS:
Cloud Practitioner
GCP:
Digital Leader
Associate Cloud Engineer
Professional Cloud Architect
Professional Cloud Security Engineer
Professional Data Engineer
Currently working on Certified Kubernetes Administrator
Depends on what you do - IT is vast. Java developer? No. Network admin? Yes. Sysadmin? Maybe, though I've known plenty who didn't have it. It's been a long time but as I recall the CCNA is TCP/IP 101 + basic Cisco router commands. Plus IPX back when I took it 😄
Nice: https://blogs.oracle.com/oracleuniversity/post/free-certification-oci-and-oca-2023
Finishing up my QwikLabs in a week or so. How hard was the actual exam?
certification of failure
Not bad IMHO, if you have GCP experience. The best advice I give our junior engineers is to make sure to read the questions carefully. Several answers may "seem" correct, but one little detail in the question may differentiate between the options.
This site has a bunch of great sample questions. I'd recommend going through those questions a few times before taking the exam, and be sure to review the current case studies in use.
Depends on what you do.
If you run your own hosting business, no. If you are a developer of some sort, no. If you are employed, no.
The only reason I have it is that I have done a lot of work as a consultant and some customers simply demands that you are certified for whatever you are working on. It does not in any way guarantee that you know what you are doing, but if the shit hits the fan the customer can always say "look, we only hired certified consultants so it's not our fault". This is especially true when you work with government/army/security kind of customers.
Yep...I worked for a consulting company once and there was suddenly a mass push for people to get certified so we could compete on some gov't contracts. It also allowed is to qualify as a "Partner" for the vendor.
This is true. Many vendors gives you better prices, list you on their website or give you "gold partner" status or something if you have your tech's certified.
TELC German B1, LPL Linux Essentials
would love to do English C1/C2 and some other stuff but all shit costs money...
Thunberg is a psyop. Silent on the worlds biggest terrorist attack and release of methane but flew to Ukraine to peddle CIA/White House talking points last week. Jeez.
Experience more useful than paper. Paper just shows you took a test/multiple guessed some answers.
In general I agree with you, real experience is hard to beat. But the problem is how do you prove experience?
I know a lot of people that have worked in the industry for 20+ years and they are still useless, so just having worked with something for a long time proves nothing.
A lot of tests are like you say multiple choice questions and you can basically guess your way trough if you are moderately intelligent, but some of them actually requires both knowledge and experience to pass. I would say that for example Cisco's certifications are pretty good, you cant really just guess and get lucky and pass. Especially on the higher levels like CCIE you will have to have both knowledge and experience to pass.
I say that certified is absolutely not something you have to be, you can be both experienced and brilliant at what you do without a single certification, but it is never a bad thing to be certified at it too.
I was planning on getting a certification in Kubernetes administration and security because I have been working with Kubernetes and securing it for 5 years already and am quite a lot into security, but didn't have the time and somehow I changed mind because these days most people use managed Kubernetes services.
Now I have a bit more time but I opted for a certification strictly about security, specifically in web app penetration testing with Offensive Security.
I have been a web developer for 25 years and am naturally familiar with security concerning web applications, but I want to improve my knowledge about tools and techniques to perform attacks and exploit vulnerabilities, with the ultimate goal of being able to further improve the security of the products I work on.
The company I work for has to hire external pentesters each year since some bigger clients require a certificate that we've been audited by third parties. However it's always good to have pentesters on the inside, which would be me in this case.
I already know how to perform many types of attacks and have actually found more vulnerabilities than external pentesters. But again with the certification I aim to improve knowledge about tools and techniques.
The first certification I am doing is about "black box" pentesting, the OSWA, from the point of view of someone who has limited access to and limited knowledge about the target system, just like a real attacker would.
After this one, I will do the next one which is about white box testing - OSWE, which means having access to the source code etc to find vulnerabilities that you couldn't find with just black box testing.
Later on, time and money permitting (for now the company is sponsoring me) I could do other certs like OSCP in network penetration testing etc.
Anyway I am mostly interested in security for what concerns certifications.
There are at least three certs I know of where they put you in a lab with lots of broken things/things to setup and you have to demonstrate you know what you're doing:
Not enough maybe - like I used to be a manager for a local IT team. We managed about 500 users / machines. I had my bachelors in Comp Sci. Masters in Engineering Management and that seemed enough. A few years later though after I left that gig, it was super hard to get anything in IT management. I wasn't sure if it was because I didn't have CCNA etc. Anyways, I went back to programming and got lucky. I've been coding in PHP and along the way I learnt and then I got stronger at JS which people hate yet it's one of the most forgiving languages.
I'm not saying all of this as a boast but now certs mean little (I hope) because I have a track record and examples to show that I can do things (didn't have that when I was fresh out of university nor two years into work). I don't plan to ever go back into the grind of management unless I'm a CEO but here most CEOs have doctorates which I don't plan to get (5 years and half a million dollars instead of building stuff daily - nope no way).
Anyways certs in my opinion depends on the industry you are in (example let's say you're a network designer for a DC - it would likely matter?) but certs in PHP (I doubt that matters much) if you have a lot of examples to show that you did work.
Good luck in your endevours!
Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect
Google Cloud Certified Data Engineer
Certified Ethical Hacker
Professional Scrum Master I
Certified NLP Practitioner
I am a certified ASS
(Application Security Specialist).
LFCS
I had PMP certification from 2012 to 2022. I let it expire because it didn't help one bit professionally. Money wasted.
The LPIC certs are probably what you are looking for, and are not distribution-specific.
Currently only birth certificate.
I am working on obtaining the Cloud Developer and DevOps certificates for AWS.
Among others (many of which were not really worth the time tbh) , I took a Hubspot Digital Marketing Certification which covered some useful content. I also took some courses from edx where you can also get certifications like cs50, etc. Took another Digital Marketing Professional Certificate from Polytechnic University València (UPV), via Edx. This one was also quite good.
So the most worthwhile ones were cs50 (if you are interested in cs just give it a try it's entirely free), Hubspot DM, UPV DM Cert (via edx).
I don't even have a highschool diploma.
I do have a dip in higher education though, (Associates degree equivalent)
I forged a career in sysadmin just by learning on the job.
MBA (least usefull one lol), CCNA, MTCNA, MTCRE
I have a Intelligent Data Integration and Optimization Technologies certification
I started early
Got a certified job with BTech grad