Hi!

Since I couldn’t find much, I wanted ti share my thoughts about the Gitlab Git certification.

My employer paid the 150USS. Otherwise I wouldn’t had spend the time or the money on it.

I must say that as someone who has over 20 certifications, I found this one ridiculously easy.

The exam is based in a 6hour course that walks you around Gitlab and shows you how to basically make a commit and understand how Git works, not much more than that. The course itself is pretty basic /entry level. The most complicated parts are the ones about pipelines and security, where you need to know and understand how to write a basic gitlab-ci.yaml file and remember all kind of security checks that gitlab provides. The most useful parts that the course offers is the labs. Trough the labs you can learn yourself how to navigate in the project, manage issues, solve them, create merge requests, create a wiki, or an epic. Nothing to complicated that can’t be learned while fooling around a bit with the service.

The exam consists in a 15 question multiple choice, that you can google questions in a new tab while answering and can re take if you fail, and a practice exam that requests you to perform certain actions - much similar to the labs.

There is no identity check - anyone with your email account can complete the course (Aws, Azure, Google request identification before the exam).

All in all, is a super easy exam.

If you are a developer, probably the contents and time spending won’t give you much unless you are new to Gitlab and need to understand it a bit. Anyone with enough common sense won’t need this course or exam.

The best user case scenario that I can give to this course is for very junior developers, or product managers. Gitlab itself tries to be a one-stop shop for all the agile management of the project + devSecOps. So, for product managers understanding how everything works might be a little bit more challenging than a nice Kanban in Jira, Trello or Asana. It is more focused on the developers, rather than on the Product team.

So, if you are a developer, don’t take this course. Just look for tutorials in Youtube - there are way more advanced and specific that the content in the course -.

I don’t see why anyone would like to have this certification, it is not challenging, and the fact that a user has a badge could be put in serious questioning.

For me, it will be one more Badge, and moving forward to the next one. A pitty that I couldn’t improve myself much through this cert + course.

Cheers.

Let's ignore for a bit the age-old question "are Certifications worth it or are they useless" and summarize the GitHub Certification program.

The GitHub Certification program was just recently (October 2023) announced by GitHub and will be officially launching on GitHub Universe 2023

At first there will be 4 available certifications, each has a registration fee of 200USD:

1. GitHub Foundations

2. GitHub Admin

3. GitHub Actions

4. GitHub Advanced Security

The exam is a test with single and multiple choice questions. They last 2hours and consist of ~70-75 questions, of which 60 are scored.

To sign-up visit https://resources.github.com/learn/certifications/ and join the waitlist. The program will open to the public in early 2024. Certain individuals (e.g Microsoft Partners) can take this exam already.

To study GitHub created it's own courses tailored for each of the exams.

• GitHub Foundations

• GitHub Actions

• GitHub Advanced Security

• GitHub Administration

In my opinion (after passing the GitHub Actions exam) the course covers too little ground. Practice is definitely the biggest factor. There are very few courses right now as the exams are in very early stage. If You are reading this in 2024 this may be a different case.
As part of my preparation I read a lot of the GitHub's documentation and crafted a large set of mock questions which turned out to be very similar to the actual similar experiance and got me 94% score. I've put them all on https://github.com/FidelusAleksander/githubcertified so anyone can take a look and better yet - contribute Your questions when studying!

Get certified! (or not, 200USD lol)

Going to deep dive on git. Using the chance, i thought to certify if there is any official cert available. Googling finds nothing significant, is there any?