Free/Reduced Certifications - Free/Reduced Training 2014 Edition

fuz1on

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Eston21

Thanks this is a great resource.

fuz1on

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plviet

Thank you guys. But please only post Free/Reduced Certifications - Free/Reduced Training. We should not spoil up the topic.

plviet

Is there any update? Anyone?

plviet

Been long time. Anyone have discounted / free IT exams during this time?

UncleB

I often get my courses from Groupon which so far have been pretty good value to say the least.

I have no connection (other than I sometimes buy their stuff) but as a few people here have asked, I have summarized some of the certification oriented offers below. Note that I just searched for the keyword "certification" and picked the ones that are recognised IT certs.

Also note that this is on the US site - your own national sites may vary but I always found the US site to be the biggest selection.

Finally, buying on the US site needs a US credit card - BUT I discovered that if you complete it with all your normal details with an overseas card but leave the state as Nevada and put in a zip code of 000000 then it accepts it and the transaction goes through as normal. I bought a training course for another member here recently so can confirm it works on UK credit cards at least. Google this option if you are unsure - there are plenty of TripAdvisor references to it.

The list of courses is:

CompTIA training courses (company - Teaching 4 Business, US$19 each or $49 for 4):
https://www.groupon.com/deals/teaching-4-business-716-chicago

CompTIA training courses (company - Simplilearn, $59 for 5 courses)
https://www.groupon.com/deals/simplilearn-185-chicago

CompTIA training courses (company - IT University, $99 for 3 courses)
https://www.groupon.com/deals/it-university-online-72-baltimore
https://www.groupon.com/deals/it-university-online-73-winnipeg

CompTIA training courses (company - Open IT, $249 for 11 courses)
https://www.groupon.com/deals/open-it-172

CompTIA training courses (company - QuickCert, $69 for access to 7 CompTIA courses)
https://www.groupon.com/deals/quickcert-11-chicago

CompTIA training courses (company - Virtual Training Company, $59 for 4 courses? May be each)
https://www.groupon.com/deals/virtual-training-company-497

CompTIA training courses (company - Career Academy, $69 for access to 4 CompTIA courses)
https://www.groupon.com/deals/career-academy-8-chicago

CompTIA training courses (company - LearnSmart, $99 for access to 4 CompTIA courses)
https://www.groupon.com/deals/learnsmart-361-chicago

CompTIA, CCNA and MCSE (company - LearnSmart, $79, 5 options of bundles)
https://www.groupon.com/deals/learnsmart-1578-chicago

MCSE Server 2012 Certification Bundle (company - ITU Online, $99 for 9 courses)
https://www.groupon.com/deals/itu-online-788

Microsoft MCSA Server 2012, Windows 7 (70-680 and 70-687) courses (company - Virtual Training Company, $69 for 5 courses)
https://www.groupon.com/deals/virtual-training-company-11

Linux LX0-101 & LX0-102 (company - IT University , $99 for 2 courses)
https://www.groupon.com/deals/it-university-online-1-150-chicago

Oracle certification bundle (company - GoGo Training, $99 for 5 SQL, PL/SQL, and Database Administration courses)
https://www.groupon.com/deals/gogo-training-1-2-chicago

Cisco CCDA, CCNA, or CCNP (company - Vision Training Systems, $59-89 for 3 courses)
https://www.groupon.com/deals/vision-training-systems-378-chicago

CCNA and CCNP (company - Career Acedemy, $69 for 5 courses)
https://www.groupon.com/deals/career-academy-us-chicago

Microsoft Exchange Server and SharePoint (company - Vision Training Systems, $79 for 70-342, 70-331, 70-332)
https://www.groupon.com/deals/vision-training-systems-754-chicago

MCSE Certification 2012 (company - LearnSmart, $45 for 70-410, 70-411, 70-412, 70-413, and 70-414)
https://www.groupon.com/deals/learnsmart-2688-chicago

Microsoft MCSE private-cloud and server-infrastructure dual certificatio (company - Career Acedemy, $99 for 70-410,411,412,413,414,246,247 courses)
https://www.groupon.com/deals/career-academy-55-chicago

Oracle Database 11g Administrator Certification (OCA 11g) (company - Vision Training Systems , $59 for course)
https://www.groupon.com/deals/vision-training-systems-374

Microsoft Excel 2013 MOS (company - Simplilearn, $29 for course, $129 course + exam fee)
https://www.groupon.com/deals/simplilearn-1025-chicago

Microsoft Office 2013 MOS (company - Career Acedemy, $39 for 5 courses)
https://www.groupon.com/deals/career-academy-45-chicago

Microsoft exams 77-885, 77-883, 77-881, 77-884, 77-882, 77-428, 77-427, 77-420 (company - Simplilearn, $29 for course)
https://www.groupon.com/deals/simplilearn-125-chicago

Project Management PMP, Six Sigma Green Belt, Six Sigma Black Belt, ITIL, Prince 2 (F&P) (company - Vision Training Systems , $99 for all courses)
https://www.groupon.com/deals/vision-training-systems-2

PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (includes 25hours credit) (company - LearnSmart, $89 for 1 course)
https://www.groupon.com/deals/learnsmart-1964-chicago

PMP (includes 128 contact hours) (company - LearnSmart, $99 for 1 course)
https://www.groupon.com/deals/learnsmart-9-chicago

Project management 12 Months of Access to PDU Library for recertification (company - LearnSmart, $79 for access)
https://www.groupon.com/deals/learnsmart-1217-chicago

Microsoft Excel 2013 or 2016 MOS (company - Webucator , $19 for course)
https://www.groupon.com/deals/webucator-6-20

Linux Red Hat EX200 (company GoGo Training, $59 for 4 courses)
https://www.groupon.com/deals/gogotraining-410-chicago

Six Sigma Green Belt, Black Belt (company - Vision Training Systems , $69 each or $99 for both)
https://www.groupon.com/deals/vision-training-systems-363-chicago

Social, Mobile, Analytics, and Cloud (SMAC) (company - Simplilearn, $49 for course)
https://www.groupon.com/deals/simplilearn-563-chicago

I hope it helps someone.
thanks
Iain

wireshark

This could help someone in Crowthorne, United Kingdom. Free microsoft exams.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/free-microsoft-certification-the-telegraph-festival-of-education-240616-tickets-25602518823

wireshark

Some more:


FREE MOS Exams for SQA centres in Scotland till 30th June
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/ukfe/2016/05/20/free-mos-exams-for-sqa-centres-until-june-30th/




Microsoft offers free upgrades for MCSA till 30th June, to all.
http://www.tomsitpro.com/articles/free-upgrade-mcsa-windows-server-2016-sql-server-2016,1-169.html/

bitwire

Hi! Does anyone have discounted CCIE written voucher available? Dying to find one...!

Thanks

iBrokeIT

bitwire wrote: »

Hi! Does anyone have discounted CCIE written voucher available? Dying to find one...!

Thanks

DatabaseHead

https://openeducation.blackboard.com/mooc-catalog/courseDetails/view?course_id=_219_1

VBA for Excel

"Students who pass the course will receive an online badge from Cal Poly Pomona".

wireshark

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javedk82

Hi Buddy,

Thank you very much for starting this thread..after reading your article I've cleared 6 exams...it's awesome to earn a certificate.

Thanks a ton

javedk82

Hi,

can you plz share the link for Palo Alto Networks Academy Cybersecurity Accreditation certification..?

javedk82

can u plz share the link

fuz1on wrote: »

Palo Alto Networks Academy Cybersecurity Accreditation (PACA) Exam v 1.0

If you got the ACE or even the CNSE, go find this in Palo Alto Networks Customer Learning Center and become a PACA!

plviet

javedk82 wrote: »

Hi Buddy,

Thank you very much for starting this thread..after reading your article I've cleared 6 exams...it's awesome to earn a certificate.

Thanks a ton

Hi Javed,

How did you pass tons of exams in 1 day? Any tips?

nemorising

Any news for this year 🤗

tiger95

Hi everyone, Been a while. For any of you out theirs, who are still unaware, the Clounu Certification Is no longer available through Rackspace. It has been discontinued has a free certification. Good job to anyone who took the time to get the cloud in the last four years. Not sure why Rackspace got rid of their open certification program. But I heard rumors of there being a new paid certification track that Rackspace will be offering. Also, any cloud will get grandfather into the new program.

https://community.rackspace.com/general/f/34/t/8135

krokodilo

fuz1on wrote: »

Ruckus Wireless offers the following free certifications:

Ruckus Sales Expert (REx)
Ruckus vSCG 2.5 Sales
Ruckus SPoT Sales
Ruckus SAMs Sales

As previously mentioned here, Ruckus Wireless offers some free certs (can't find the exams though). They also offer free training for them, a list of them is here: https://training.ruckuswireless.com/course/index.php?categoryid=99

I've not completed any of them but I thought I'd at least share it with everyone.

According to this pdf, Ruckus' Introduction to Ruckus Wireless Technologies (ZF101) exam is free. A search at their learning portal brings up Wi-Fi Essentials Online Course, which just happens to be first course on the aforementioned list so one could assume it is that, but I can't find its respective exam.

Getting 70% or better on the Ruckus LAN-WLAN Fundamentals Exam gives you the Ruckus Support Fundamentals Accreditation, which could be the ZF101. Still worth having a go at it, although I imagine most members here would pass without looking at the training though.