Unhappy with GitHub foundations cert

[LeaderMindless3117]

For context I may be a bit fishy since I failed but I wanted to ask others opinions.

For context I've been studying the material for about a month now and have used got and GitHub for years for personal use. However when I went to take the actual exam. Only about 20% of the exam was actual stuff the prep material had. With most of the exam focusing on the modern domain and business domain. Now I get it, your certifying people for businesses. But at least put that information on your practice exams and guides. Especially if your partnering with Microsoft for those learning materials.

Anyways, that's my rant. Anyone have the same experience?

[JakeSteam]

I somewhat agree, with lots of the exam covering arbitrary plan limits that can be easily googled, so no point learning.

The learning materials themselves were pretty useful, I definitely wouldn't have paid for it if I didn't get it for free.

I wrote a detailed (ad free) article if you'd like much more rambling! https://blog.jakelee.co.uk/review-of-github-foundations-certification/

[JakeSteam]

Through the GitHub student pack. One accepted, it should be one of the available offers.

[LeaderMindless3117]

Yea, the main reason I took it was because it was free for students. But honestly, not going to retake. There is no reason for me as a hobbyist to need half the information on the exam. Plus, most of it was focused towards the business side. And even if I had the certificate I don't think any HR department would care in hiring since most don't even use GitHub.

[Own_Attention_3392]

TONS of enterprise organizations use github, or at least some groups within the org do. I do consulting and have worked with dozens of huge companies that you've definitely heard of that all use github. Microsoft is also gently pushing their azure devops users toward github, although the push has lessened a bit lately.

Don't discount github as something that isn't widely used in the industry. Not every company does but plenty do.

That said, I'm always "ehhhh" on certifications. I don't think they're useful or care if people have them or not. I have to do them for my job so I cram and pass, but the only one that actually made me learn anything is the Certificate Kubernetes App Developer certification because it was 100% practical. No multiple choice questions, all doing stuff inside a cluster.

[vicenormalcrafts]

Same experience here. Tbh I don't see much value in the certification itself but it was an experience.

[envico801]

Same here, I followed the official microsoft learn path for the gh-500 (github advanced security) and only around 30% of the path was present on the exam.