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
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
2 | Certified ScrumMaster
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
3 | AWS Certified Solutions Architect — Associate
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
4| AWS Certified Developer — Associate
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.
5 | CEH — Certified Ethical Hacker
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
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6 |Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP)
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.
7 | Project Management Professional
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.
8 | Microsoft Exam 70–761
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
9 | ITIL v4 Foundation
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
10 | CISA: Certified Information Systems Auditor
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).
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