About CertSherpa
One engineer, 24 guides, no course to sell you.
A sherpa’s job is simple to describe and hard to do: know the mountain well enough to get you to the top safely, and be honest about which routes are not worth the risk. That is what CertSherpa does for professional certifications.
The certification industry has a trust problem. Most of the “reviews” you will find online are written by the same companies selling the training, and they will tell you every certification is definitely worth it — because they earn a commission when you enrol.
CertSherpa exists to be the other voice: the one that tells you the CompTIA A+ costs more than the sticker price once you count study materials, that some “instant online certification” sites are scams, and that a few certifications genuinely are not worth your money, even popular ones.
The site is funded by display advertising, which is the whole reason it can stay free and refuse sponsorship. Advertisers have no input on which certifications get recommended and nobody can buy a mention. Where a link would earn a commission it is disclosed in the sentence that carries it — the full detail is on the advertising disclosure page.
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What we promise
- Verified numbers
- Exam fees come from official certification bodies. Salary data comes from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics where it exists, and survey-based or self-reported numbers are labelled as exactly that.
- Honest verdicts
- Every guide ends with a clear recommendation, including “skip it” when that is the truth.
- No pay-to-play
- No certification body or training provider pays for placement in our guides or influences our verdicts.
Who writes this
CertSherpa is written and edited by Ammar Tahir, a systems engineer and technology founder with more than seven years of production engineering experience and a Master’s in Computer Technology. He has evaluated and hired engineers across the certification spectrum — so these guides review certifications the way a hiring manager reads a resume, not the way a marketing page sells a course.
You can read exactly how we research and fact-check every guide in the editorial policy, or reach us any time via the contact page.