Is There Any Free recognised IT certifications

Well The Subejct Says it all, im new to the whole certs thing, but can anyone tell me if there is any free thing going on

Nathan-Fader

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johnw02

The only thing that comes to mind is BrainBench. Many of their certification tests can be taken free of charge, but I'm not sure how "recognized" they are in the IT world.

nathan-fader

hmmm never heard of it personally, but im young.. i havent heard of alot of things.. if i google would it help ?

how does it work.. get a certificate and what not ?

Nathan-Fader

seuss_ssues

I have looked at hundreds of job posts and never once has anything from brainbench been mentioned.

nathan-fader

hahahahahha very positive =]

im looking at it now... seems interesting

Nathan-Fader

nathan-fader

after staying up for 2 hours, and registering to find out.. if i want the certificate i need to pay ¬_¬
but i can still download the logo..
but i still have to pay..

back to square on..

any free certs..

anyone ?

Nathan-Fader

stlsmoore

Isn't the Juniper one free for a while? It's difficulty is probably as hard as Cisco because I think Juniper deals with the same type of networking equipment

cisco_trooper

stlsmoore wrote:

Isn't the Juniper one free for a while? It's difficulty is probably as hard as Cisco because I think Juniper deals with the same type of networking equipment

I believe the Juniper will give a CCNA a free voucher to take the JNCIA exam, but I think they have to do it within a certain time period. Heck, I forget the details, I decided to skip it and proceed with the CCNP.

stlsmoore

Oh really I see I wasn't sure how that worked thanks for clearing that up, I noticed your out in the Kansas City area. What's the IT market like out there?

cisco_trooper

stlsmoore wrote:

Oh really I see I wasn't sure how that worked thanks for clearing that up, I noticed your out in the Kansas City area. What's the IT market like out there?

Not nearly as good as it was a few months ago. Sprint just laid some people off, so that isn't helping matters. Back in August with just a CCNA people were banging my door down, I seriously couldn't keep track of all the leads I had. I haven't been searching lately because I'm doing work for Sprint right now, but just looking on dice.com it's definitely died down a little bit - at least for the Cisco jobs. I don't know how the Windows Admins are doing right now.