In everyone's opinion, how necessary and how valid is certification.
I may get blacklisted for voicing my opinion, so I'd like to see how you guys feel.
Why? It's a forum.
I haven't looked for certification as I found that many aspects of the Ignition system weren't applicable to my needs and so I would need to spend a lot of time on stuff I don't need to know. For example, I don't work with Vision anymore.
To do your job, not necessary, however it can't hurt either.
To get a job, helpful and sometimes required. A lot of job posts are requiring Gold certs. Perhaps they would overlook not having it, but from the posts they demand it.
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As an end user? Meh, take it or leave it, probably.
As an integrator? Probably more important.
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It is certainly a selling point to say we have X certified Ignition developers at our company when a customer with an Ignition system comes to us asking for maintenance/new feature requests etc.
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I'm with Kevin on this one. As an end user, I would't bother, unless I really wanted it on my 'It's good to be me' wall.
Heh. They'll torch me first, I think:
(That whole topic is interesting. And contentious.)
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I have to say I'm loving all the comments.
IMHO I think to get a foot in the door, certifications definitely help. As a parallel to Kevin's comment, I believe an integrator would benefit by having some certified programmers on staff, is a selling point.
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This is the main reason why I have yet to really pursue it either. That, and the last few times I interviewed for companies that wanted someone who knew ignition, they didn't care if I had the cert or not, but instead asked me some technical questions in regards to ignition.
The main questions I've seen were along the lines of, how would I set up automatic transfer of data from a PLC to a database, or how I would set up a user interface to collect data, or what I would do to troubleshoot a transaction group that didn't appear to always collect the required data.
Mostly stuff to determine that, yes I had worked enough with ignition and knew enough about what I assume they were using it for.
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For those that did get certification did you have to absolutely answer every question and get every aspect of the practical application correct without even the slightest room for error?
In other words, you had gotten every question absolutely, correct?
100% to pass