Get Certified and Get Ahead contains everything you need to know to benefit from the boom in certification of computer professionals. You'll learn how to choose the certification that's best for you, how to earn it, and how to make the most of it once you've got it.
Professional certification can be a powerful tool for career advancement.
Get Certified and Get Ahead provides everything you need to know to put certification to work for you. It brims with sample tests from all sponsors, study, aids, a unique spreadsheet to help calculate certification costs, financial tips for making the tests more afforable, and a database directory of more computer certifications. Reviews From Library Journal Martinez presents a high-level discussion of career certification in areas such as webmaster, Cisco routing, IBM, Java, Microsoft, Novell, PowerBuilder, SAP, and Visual Basic. This is not the book to use to get certified, but it will help readers to consider if certification would be worthwhile. Martinez discusses what certification means in various arenas, the benefits and payoffs, the types of certification and pitfalls in choosing, how to study for certification, and how to stay certified, and she offers a complete list of certification programs.