Honestly I do not do certs to help my career. I find product / vendor based certification helps me round out my knowledge of a product better than just executi

Honestly I do not do certs to help my career. I find product / vendor based certification helps me round out my knowledge of a product better than just execution of a given task I need done at the time. This has helped me understand more of the capabilities of the what I wanted to learn IMO this is more were the value of certs come in. So for example I would not get a AWS Cert to get a Job in Cloud Administration, I would start training learning the cert to understand AWS, the cert is then just the final step of the learning process, the reward if you will. Do I need to cert to learn it, no and sometimes I do not actually sit for the test. I think people that just brain dump to pass the exam do themselves a disservice, that said the short answer to your question, I can not think of any cert that by virtue of just having it has advanced my career, I can say the process of getting certs which resulted in my expanded knowledge and experience has