I was rejected from a scrum master job for not having the certification. As well as the security related jobs (CCNA) which is why I never went that path despite it being my degree.
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#22It helped my company sell me to clients, when I was a consultant. Having a cloud certified consultant, was a big deal for clients who needed help getting into the cloud.
What certification did you have?
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#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
My understanding is (mind you this is from readings years ago) that the cert after the CCNA (i.e. CCNP) are increasingly difficult. Not sure they're particularly useful for employment as a developer, but for Network engineers I imagine so.
Ah yes, now that you mention it, I have heard that the CCNP is hard to get.
I remember a story about what I think was CCNP. Cisco had you come down to their test lab, set up everything they told you to set up according to constraints given, and then go back home. Part two involved them changing things to cause failures or degradations before you came back, then you had to diagnose and fix it to pass part two.
I hands-on practical test like that should be part of every exam, but it's expensive and time consuming.
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ah yes, now that you mention it, I have heard that the CCNP is hard to get.
I remember a story about what I think was CCNP. Cisco had you come down to their test lab, set up everything they told you to set up according to constraints given, and then go back home. Part two involved them changing things to cause failures or degradations before you came back, then you had to diagnose and fix it to pass part two. I hands-on practical test like that should be part of every exam, but it's expensiv…
That would be CCIE. CCNP is your standard Pearson-proctored multiple choice and such.
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#25It helped my company sell me to clients, when I was a consultant. Having a cloud certified consultant, was a big deal for clients who needed help getting into the cloud.
What certification did you have?
A professional certification from GCP: https://cloud.google.com/certification
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#265 x AWS certified here (could be 7x tomorrow because I'm missing two entry level certs), with a background in operations instead of development. The AWS certifications have definitely helped me in my career. My previous (and current) gigs were at consultancies, previous happened to be a smaller AWS APN partner. I know for certain that my certifications mattered at my previous job because there were several thresholds they had to pass in order to become a higher class partner and because they added me to the AWS APN partner portal as proof. The number of certifications (including the number of top certifications) was one such threshold. I also believe that the certifications gave me more legitimacy in obtaining my current job in a different country.