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anyone doing consulting is pretty much required to do certs. If you want to be a Amazon/Google/Microsoft partner you have to have a pretty high number of certif

anyone doing consulting is pretty much required to do certs. If you want to be a Amazon/Google/Microsoft partner you have to have a pretty high number of certified employees, and you need to be a partner to get most of the work in the field. cheating is definitely rampant. I find that when trying to find study material for exams, half the search results are exam dumps

ethbr0 5y ago
Not really my field, so wasn't aware of this. What certs are they typically looking for partners to have? And I do see it from their point of view: certs are a low-effort (on their part) way to weed out obvious frauds and scam businesses. They're borderline useless, but are at least indicative of effort.
- buro9 5y ago
  For a company to be a Platinum Partner you'd need so many points, and the points are calculated by looking at how many of your people have which certs. Which certs were needed varied on which company you wanted to partner with. Microsoft and Cisco were the most common I saw.
- redis_mlc 5y ago
  I'll assume you're just naive, and not trolling ... > What certs are they typically looking for partners to have? In the products they're selling. > certs are a low-effort (on their part) way to weed out When private companies offer cert training, it's mainly a PR and lock-in strategy. It's also to form a registry of graduates for further outreach. Education is on the list, but not as high as you'd think, since certs are "all about the vendor." (A market research firm did a presentation on vendor cert strategy at one of the O'Reilly conferences. Think of cert training primarily like an alternate marketing propaganda arm.) A concrete example is when IBM's top Logical Volume Manager (LVM) trainer retired, IBM offered a free certification for anybody who attended his last class, held for free in San Jose. They emailed me for months later about becoming a partner consultant (sales engineer), which was the whole point of the training from their perspective. Fantastic class, BTW. For a brief moment I was one of the top experts in the world on LVM, used on several Unix-like systems, including Linux. :)

ethbr0 5y ago

Not really my field, so wasn't aware of this. What certs are they typically looking for partners to have? And I do see it from their point of view: certs are a low-effort (on their part) way to weed out obvious frauds and scam businesses. They're borderline useless, but are at least indicative of effort.

buro9 5y ago
For a company to be a Platinum Partner you'd need so many points, and the points are calculated by looking at how many of your people have which certs. Which certs were needed varied on which company you wanted to partner with. Microsoft and Cisco were the most common I saw.
redis_mlc 5y ago
I'll assume you're just naive, and not trolling ... > What certs are they typically looking for partners to have? In the products they're selling. > certs are a low-effort (on their part) way to weed out When private companies offer cert training, it's mainly a PR and lock-in strategy. It's also to form a registry of graduates for further outreach. Education is on the list, but not as high as you'd think, since certs are "all about the vendor." (A market research firm did a presentation on vendor cert strategy at one of the O'Reilly conferences. Think of cert training primarily like an alternate marketing propaganda arm.) A concrete example is when IBM's top Logical Volume Manager (LVM) trainer retired, IBM offered a free certification for anybody who attended his last class, held for free in San Jose. They emailed me for months later about becoming a partner consultant (sales engineer), which was the whole point of the training from their perspective. Fantastic class, BTW. For a brief moment I was one of the top experts in the world on LVM, used on several Unix-like systems, including Linux. :)