Top 10 IT Certifications To Take While You Are At University in 2020
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Published: 2020-07-05 09:17:04

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Studying university courses are great, but up-skilling ourselves on industry used certifications can add a lot of value to our personal bag of skills once we graduate. Here are 10 certifications you should think about getting while you are still at university.

1 | Google Certified Professional Cloud Architect
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**_Price_:** AUD 285.88

**_Career_:** Cloud Architecture

**_About_:** Ranked #1 top paying IT certification for 2019. Cloud computing is amongst one of the most popular technologies in 2019 because of its ability to make work practices more efficient and less costly. Google’s certification allows individuals to work with the Google Cloud Platform to:

Design and plan a cloud solution architecture

Manage and provision the cloud solution infrastructure

[**_Learn More Here_**](https://cloud.google.com/certification/cloud-architect)

2 | Certified ScrumMaster
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**_Price:_**

Professional Scrum Master I (Fundamental) — AUD 214.41

Professional Scrum Master II (Advanced) — AUD 357.35

Professional Scrum Master III(Advanced) — AUD 714.71

**_Career:_** Project Management

**_About:_** Scrum is a methodology that allows a team to self-organize and make changes quickly, in accordance with agile principles. The scrum master manages the process for how information is exchanged. There are three levels

[**_Learn More Here_**](https://www.scrum.org/professional-scrum-master-i-certification)

3 | AWS Certified Solutions Architect — Associate
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**_Price:_** AUD 214.41

**_Career:_** Software Design

**_About:_** AWS is certainly becoming an industry standard when it comes to cloud, infrastructure and automation technologies. This is why getting an AWS certificate is almost certainly going to help you later in your career path. By learning at least one AWS certificate you will be introduced to popular terms and techniques specially made in AWS rich ecosystem. One of the best certificates is AWS’ Certified Solutions Architect. This teaches you how to architect and deploy secure and robust applications on AWS technologies

[**_Learn More Here_**](https://aws.amazon.com/certification/certified-solutions-architect-associate/)

4| AWS Certified Developer — Associate
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**_Price:_** AUD 214.41

**_Career:_** Software Development

**_About:_** In comparison to AWS’ Certified Solutions Architect, this certificate is specially made for developers who want to write code in serverless applications. This helps developers best practices when writing, maintaining and debugging code modules on AWS.

[**_Learn More Here_**](https://aws.amazon.com/certification/certified-developer-associate/)

5 | CEH — Certified Ethical Hacker
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**_Price:_** AUD 1000+ Price varies depending on your course provider

**_Career:_** Cybersecurity

**_About:_** master an ethical hacking methodology that can be used in a penetration testing or ethical hacking situation. You walk out the door with ethical hacking skills that are highly in demand, as well as the globally recognised Certified Ethical Hacker certification

[**_Learn More Here_**](https://www.eccouncil.org/programs/certified-ethical-hacker-ceh/)

**_Click_** [**_Here_**](https://iclass.eccouncil.org/our-courses/certified-ethical-hacker-ceh/) **_to be directed to an Australian Course Provider_**

6 |Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP)
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**_Price:_** AUD 1000 + Price includes Penetration Testing Training with Kali Linux

**_Career:_** Cybersecurity (Penetration Testing)

**_About:_** For hands-on experience, each student receives access to a virtual penetration testing lab where techniques learned within the course can be practiced The OSCP is among the most respected and sought-after designation within the information security space.

[**_Learn More Here_**](https://www.offensive-security.com/pwk-syllabus/)

7 | Project Management Professional
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**_Price:_**

Member: AUD 578.92

Non-Member: AUD 793.33

**_Career:_** Project Management

**_About:_** This certification is meant for experienced project managers who want to go the extra mile in up-skilling themselves. This certificate signifies that you speak and understand the global language of project management and connects you to a community of professionals, organisations and experts worldwide.

[**_Learn More Here_**](https://www.pmi.org/certifications/types/project-management-pmp)

8 | Microsoft Exam 70–761
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**_Price:_** AUD 235.85

**_Career:_** Database Administrator

**_About:_** This exam is intended for SQL Server database administrators, system engineers, and developers who are seeking to validate their skills and knowledge in writing queries. This would require individuals to learn technologies such as XML, JSON and temporal tables

[**_Learn More Here_**](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/learning/exam-70-761.aspx)

9 | ITIL v4 Foundation
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**_Price:_** AUD 395 Price varies

**_Career:_** IT service management

**_About:_** Focuses on using the ITIL frameworks to provide the best practices for businesses to more effectively manage there IT services. This includes key concepts from Lean, Agile, DevOps, and why these are important to deliver business value

[**_Learn More Here_**](https://www.axelos.com/certifications/itil-certifications/itil-foundation-level)

10 | CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor
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**_Price:_**

Members — AUD 664.69

Non-Members — AUD 850.52

**_Career:_** Information Security Auditing

**_About:_** This certificate is highly valued by recruiters as it gives you an edge if you want to get in the world of IT auditing. However, this certificate is not something you would be getting in university. since this requires 5 years of work experience (or its equivalents).

[**_Learn More Here_**](http://www.isaca.org/Certification/CISA-Certified-Information-Systems-Auditor/Pages/default.aspx)