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.