FREE Professional Certification Exams

Professional certification recognizes your knowledge and experience and enhances your professional credibility. Many students and developers cannot get certified since they cannot pay the certifications exams fees. After a little research on the internet, I found several certification exams available for free by leading tech providers and I liked to share them. I will be grateful for any contribution. And I hope that this will help someone to get a better opportunity.

The following is a list of some official certification exams that are provided at no cost:

• ArangoDB Certified Professional

Taking the ArangoDB Certified Professional exam will prove your ArangoDB expertise to your employer, clients, customers, and peers – showing your skills in the latest multi-model technology.

• DataStax Certified Cassandra Administrator - Free vouchers are available to those who have completed the developer learning path (initial cost is 145$)

The Administrator Certification is designed for professionals who install, configure, manage and tune the performance of Apache Cassandra clusters, such as database administrators, DevOps engineers and Site Reliability Engineers (SREs).

• DataStax Certified Cassandra Developer - Free vouchers are available to those who have completed the developer learning path (initial cost is 145$)

The Developer Certification is designed for professionals that use Apache Cassandra clusters to manage data. This includes roles such as application developers, data architects, database designers, and database administrators.

• MongoDB Certified DBA Associate - Free for students (initial cost is 150$)

Certify your knowledge of building, supporting, and securing MongoDB infrastructure.

• MongoDB Certified Developer Associate - Free for students (initial cost is 150$)

Certify your mastery of building modern applications with MongoDB.

• Neo4j 4.0 Certified

Tests you on Neo4j 4.x features exclusively and focuses on Neo4j in production (RBAC and Fabric)

• Neo4j Certified Professional

Tests you on Neo4j 4.x features, Cypher, and graph data modeling.

• Neo4j Graph Data Science Certified

Tests you using the graph algorithms of the Neo4j Graph Data Science Library.

• Redis Certified Developer

A Redis Certified Developer understands how to use the full breadth of Redis's data structures to store and access data for a wide variety of use cases.

• Microsoft free certifications for students

Microsoft fundamentals certifications are eligible for all students that can verify their enrollment at an accredited academic institution to claim the benefits.

Occasional free certifications

On specific occasions, tech companies offer - mainly every year - free certification. This section lists free certification exams that are offered on specific occasions.

Note: It is OK to add an old offer

• QuerySurge Certfications

  • QuerySurge Holiday Discount 2022 - Free self-paced training & certs thru 12/31/2022 ($99 value)! Learn & get certified in DevOps for Data testing, ETL testing, or QuerySurge specific certs. Use code Holidays2022 & your corporate email.

• Google Professional Certificates - Usually, Financial aid is available for Google official courses at Coursera

  • Google Cloud promotion 2021 - From October 7 to November 6, 2021

• Microsoft Ignite Cloud Skills Challenge - Usually, completing the Ignite Cloud Skills challenge will give you a 50% discount.

  • Microsoft Ignite Cloud Skills Challenge – November 2021: Free Certification Exam - November 2021
  • Microsoft Ignite Cloud Skills Challenge 2020: Free Certification Exam - October 2020

• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

  • Oracle Offers Free Training and Certification for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Starting September 2021 till 28 February 2022

Badges

Badges will serve as proof of your certification. You can display this badge on your LinkedIn profile, promote it on your resume, or link to it from anywhere on the web.

Note: this section is to list the badges of the free certification exams listed in the main section (not occasional free certifications)

• ArangoDB Certified Professional badge - unofficial
• DataStax Certified Cassandra Administrator badge - official
• DataStax Certified Cassandra Developer badge - official
• MongoDB Certified DBA Associate badge - official
• MongoDB Certified Developer Associate badge - official
• Neo4j 4.0 Certified badge - official
• Neo4j Certified Professional badge - official
• Neo4j Graph Data Science Certified badge - official
• Redis Certified Developer badge - official

Resources

• Professional database certifications provided for FREE! - Hadi Fadlallah