> If you can pass them, that's great but does it prove you can work and handle complex business problems, probably not. No, but neither does anything else. We

> If you can pass them, that's great but does it prove you can work and handle complex business problems, probably not. No, but neither does anything else. We (as a civilization) have settled on using tests as an objective proxy to measure knowledge. Although I generally agree that software certifications don’t mean much, saying that they’re useless because they’re tests dismisses almost all forms of education. Lawyers have a bar exam that, if passed, tells you a lot about that person’s knowledge of the law. Just because current software certification exams are relatively easy to pass and don’t tell you much about a candidate, that doesn’t mean that a decent test couldn’t be put together.