{"id":2232,"date":"2016-07-07T01:09:24","date_gmt":"2016-07-07T06:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=2232"},"modified":"2016-07-01T10:14:06","modified_gmt":"2016-07-01T15:14:06","slug":"yac-yet-another-certification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2016\/07\/yac-yet-another-certification\/","title":{"rendered":"YAC &#8211; Yet Another Certification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n<p><strong>I receive yet another certification.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I just passed yet another exam and received yet another certification. Contrary to advertisements, the exam was full of trick questions and didn&#8217;t test knowledge of the subject matter. Nevertheless, that is the certification industry, and it is a big $$$ indu$try.<\/p>\n<p>I find it a shame that these types of things don&#8217;t seek to provide knowledge and learning and improve professional practice. I suppose I am naive.<\/p>\n<p>Which certification? <em>Amazon Web Services Certified Solutions Architect &#8211; Associate level<\/em>. I did learn much about AWS while preparing for the exam. I didn&#8217;t learn anything new about the certification game while taking the exam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips I receive yet another certification. I just passed yet another exam and received yet another certification. Contrary to advertisements, the exam was full of trick questions and didn&#8217;t test knowledge of the subject matter. Nevertheless, that is the certification industry, and it is a big $$$ indu$try. I find it a shame [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[255,105,90,20],"tags":[256,219,207,142],"class_list":["post-2232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-certification","category-competence","category-education","category-learning","tag-certification","tag-competence","tag-education","tag-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2233,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2232\/revisions\/2233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}