What you earn here, and what it proves.
Three things get called a certificate in this industry and they are not the same. Here is exactly what Fourth Tech awards, what it only prepares you for, and how somebody who has never met you checks it.
Three levels, and the difference is what you did.
The level is not a label anyone types in. It is read back from what the holder actually completed, so it cannot be inflated by describing it differently.
- Level 1
Certificate of Learning
Course material completed. No assessment is claimed.
Marked automatically on our servers. No claim is made that a person reviewed it.
- Level 2
Professional Certificate
Every lesson completed and every module quiz passed, marked on our servers rather than in the browser.
Marked automatically on our servers. No claim is made that a person reviewed it.
- Level 3
Professional Path Credential
Several courses completed end to end, each with every module quiz passed and marked on our servers.
Marked automatically on our servers. No claim is made that a person reviewed it.
Industry certifications are somebody else's to give.
CISSP belongs to ISC2. CISA belongs to ISACA. Security+ belongs to CompTIA. We prepare you to sit those exams, and we are good at it, but we do not award them, we cannot award them, and no Fourth Tech credential is a substitute for one. You sit the exam with the body that owns it and they issue the certification to you directly.
Anyone telling you a training provider can issue you a CISSP is telling you something that is not true.
A hiring manager checks it without calling us.
Every credential carries a public verification page. The holder sends the link, or the code printed on the certificate, and the page states who it was issued to, what it is, and what that level required. There is no login, no form, and nothing to ask us for.
That is the whole point of stating the levels plainly above. A credential that an employer cannot check, or that means something different from what it sounds like, is worth nothing to the person holding it.