On Certifications in IT

I used to wonder why people put certificates like PMP, CASP, SSCP, CISSP, CISM to their LinkedIn names. Until I went and took the most basic IT certification (CC). Not only was that one of the trickiest exams I've taken, it's supposed to be the most basic in this field. 

The issue is not just the ambiguousness of the test. Not only that, just that the exam is adaptive in the sense that the questions keep getting trickier the more correct answer you give. So you can't change your previous responses.

Also, also... a question can have more than one right answer but it wants you to select the one that's most correct for that specific question. Talk about mind games. For this one specifically, I genuinely wasn't confident that I'd scale through up until I got my print out.

And this is meant to be the basic exam. Not to talk of the behemoth that is CISSP and the likes. No wonder people do Hallelujah challenge for those kind of exams. It does take critical thinking to manoeuvre for the most correct answer.

And to add to that, can we talk about the cost of the certification exams? If I write a $700+ certification exam like CISSP, best believe I'd be putting it on my LinkedIn name (even if company sponsored the cost). 

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