There have been more than 600,000 Sun certifications granted world-wide. Are you next?

Sun certification gives you an opportunity to validate your skills and differentiate yourself from others in the job market plus it has been shown to have a significant impact on performance.

• For IT professionals achieving a Sun certification provides hard evidence that you have the technical competency, professional motivation and confidence that employers value. Successful completion of the learning and certification process provides an edge with regards to job placement and career advancement in the highly competitive technology marketplace .
• For IT managers, Sun certification provides an accurate measure of applicable knowledge and skills. Certifying employees by Sun generates competent and productive employees, which directly impacts team performance. This translates into a positive ROI for your organization.

A Point of Differentiation

Sun certification can help you stand out from other candidates by proving that you have skills that are in high demand. Sun's philosophy is that certification is central to the learning process as it provides validation of skill sets for specific job roles. Sun offers role-based certification for:

According to the IDC White Paper, Sun Developer Services Portfolio: The Whole Story: "Sun has set up its learning philosophy wisely, offering a developer a natural progression of courses that culminate in one or more certifications that are designed to closely mirror the needs of real-world job positions.... IDC believes that Sun's learning strategy for developers is impressive. Developers can progress at their own pace along a suggested path, concluding in a certification that validates their abilities in a job role. The selection of content and methods of learning is among the best in the industry." September 2007.

Increased Earnings Potential

According to a recent Foote Partners report, pay for Sun Certified Java Programmers rose 13.5% over the first three months of 2009, and that pay for Sun Certified Network Administrators for the Solaris? OS rose 14.3% over the six month period between October 2008 to March 2009.

The 2008 Certification Magazine Salary Survey also posted the following results for the following key Sun Certifications with respondents from around the world:

• Sun Certified Java Programmer - $74,720
• Sun Certified Java Developer: $86,900
• Sun Certified Enterprise Architect: $95,160
• Sun Certified Solaris System Administrator: $82,080
• Sun Certified Network Administrator: $86,440

Increased Performance

According to recent studies, a Sun certification can also improve team performance and help you earn more:

- Having 50% of a development team certified in Java (Sun certified) can improve performance in application development by more than 40% over teams with no certified team members.

- For system administrators, for example, teams with high concentrations of certified staff had about 20% more of the corporate servers centrally managed, increasing efficiency and reliability.

- Teams with Sun certified system administrators met their deployment commitments up to 88% of the time (30% more often than teams without Sun certified administrators) which is particularly important in high availability or shared services environment.

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