How good are "Free" Online Certifications?

[DBSSP]

I've been looking around and I have seen a few websites that offer "free" online certs. I was wondering just how useful these would be for me (a college student with a huge amount of knowledge and experience, but too little a bank account to get "real" certifications at the moment)? I'll list a couple sites I have seen.

http://www.certy.com

http://www.ncsacademy.com

To get the actual paper costs $24-$66 from NCSA, depending on what options you pick. Certy doesn't even offer that from what I see. Jay
"If the words up and down were reversed, would you trip and fall or trip and fly?"

 

[CharlieJax]

Any non standard certs like these are proabably not worth the paper they are printed on. Brainbench.com offers online exams, but their primary use is companies that want to test your skills.

Being Certy Certified or Brainbench certified will probably not do anything for you, but then again it may not hurt to have the word certified on your resume some place CJ
- If chickens could fly would they egg ugly people?

 

[Guest_imported]

are there any free certs in networking, I am a poor student aslo.

 

[DBSSP]

I imagine you could find some out there, probably using a search engine like google.com
That's how I found my links. Jay
"If the words up and down were reversed, would you trip and fall or trip and fly?"

 

[scheenstra]

I'll make the list of poor students reach three. I was just wondering how much these "real" certs are costing these days.?!

 

[dogbert2]

The cost of real certs from just the exam standpoint is
as follows:

CompTIA (Network+/Linux+/Server+) = $190 apiece
CompTIA (A+ (2 Exams @ $132 apiece)

Novell (CNA/CNE/MCNE) = $125 apiece (CNA = 1 exam
CNE = CNA + 5 exams)
(MCNE = CNE + 2-4 exams)

Cisco (CCNA/DA/NP/DP) = $125 apiece
(CCNA = One Exam
CCDA = CCNA + One Exam)
CCNP = CCNA + 2 or 4 exams
CCDP = CCNP + One Exam)

Of course, this does NOT count money spent on study
materials, etc.

To earn my CCNA/DA cost me $250, my Network+/Linux+/Server+
and A+ cost me almost $900 (counting all the study materials, the actual cost came closer to $3,000)...

 

[DBSSP]

Man! All that money for a peice of paper that has to be renewed every couple years. I guess they know when they have ya over the barrel. Jay
"If the words up and down were reversed, would you trip and fall or trip and fly?"

 

[butchrecon]

Comptia Certifications are for life. They so not need renewed. However you can renew them evry 5 years if you felt like it just to keep up with industry standards. James Collins
Field Service Engineer
A+, MCP

email: butchrecon@skyenet.net

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[CharlieJax]

Certs cost around $130.00 per test, plus any retests and study guides you need to buy.

My suggestion, don't fail any tests ~ CJ
- If chickens could fly would they egg ugly people?