In this episode of the Puppet Labs Podcast, I was joined by Greg Larkin, who talked to us about his experience preparing for and taking the Puppet Professional certification exam. I was also joined by two people from the Puppet Labs education team: Jamie Rosa, who runs our certification program, and Brad Hamilton, who recently launched the Puppet Workshop, our new online learning portal.
We started by talking about our various certification exams, which are available at testing centers around the world. Greg became certified shortly after PuppetConf, and while he thinks that the best preparation is real-world Puppet implementation experience, he read a lot of documentation to help prepare for the exam. He also spent a lot of time answering questions on Ask.PuppetLabs.com — a great way to prepare for certification! Jamie also recommends reading the exam objectives and taking the practice exams, linked from the certification page.
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